A page in the history of the Internet in France seems to have definitely turned on Monday. The Golden Mustache YouTube channel, where dozens and dozens of humorous videos, short films and sketches were published between 2012 and 2021, has been renamed “M6”.
Owned by the M6 Group, the YouTube channel with 3.5 million subscribers has seen its iconic logo replaced by that of the TV channel. Excerpts and previews of the program. the traitors they were also published there.
A change of brand and editorial line that did not go unnoticed by many Internet users this Monday.
From the summit to the dissolution
A channel that has always “competed” with Studio Bagel (owned by Canal+), Bigote Dorado has hosted for almost ten years many actors and authors who have sometimes had flourishing “solo” careers. This is particularly the case for the McFly and Carlito duo.
The names of Freddy Gladieux, Raphaël Descraques, Florent Bernard (FloBer), Aude Gogny-Goubert, Justine Le Pottier, Vincent Tirel, Monsieur Poulpe, Audrey Pirault, Adrien Ménielle, Eleonore Costes, David Salles, or even Simon and Alexandre Astier, are just a small portion of the many talents that have appeared in the channel’s videos over the years.
In addition to sketches viewed millions of times, Golden Mustache manages to “break the internet” ahead of Cop21 by welcoming Nicolas Hulot for a video aimed at raising awareness among the public and leaders on climate issues.
The golden age is undoubtedly reached a few weeks later, on November 24, 2015, when the Suricate collective (Raphaël, Julien Josselin, Vincent Tirel and Florent Bernard) publishes a feature film on the Golden Mustache YouTube channel: The Dissociated.
A film put online for free on the internet, at a time when the level of video production on YouTube is still far from that reached in recent months by the new generation of content creators.
In 2017, Golden Mustache was integrated into the Golden Network, which brings together all the digital brands of the M6 Group. A few months later, Anis Rhali became the channel’s artistic director in 2018. The older ones are gone, but videos continue to be uploaded.
If the publication rate is slower, some videos, such as The new Don Juan, The best day of a life either A world without raphave had some success.
But the best stories also have an ending. Following the closure of the Golden Mustache site in 2019, the Golden Network company is dissolved in the summer of 2021 in the various branches of the M6 group, he explained. The world in a long format that gave voice to the actors and actresses “who played a central role in the adventure”.
“It is sad to see that money and financiers have completely ruined so much potential”
Epilogue of this epic of the French internet, the name change of the YouTube channel on Monday was harshly criticized by hundreds of Internet users.
On Twitter, comedian Julien Josselin said he “had passed the message on to those responsible for M6 to explain the disgust it aroused among viewers and people who participated in the project.”
“I loved being a part of Golden’s golden age, it gave me a lot and I’m grateful for that,” writes for his part Lucien Maine, it is also seen in many sketches.
Towards the disappearance of old videos?
By bringing back the Golden Mustache channel to become the official channel of M6, the Neuilly-sur-Seine-based group can now enjoy a large audience (almost 3.5 million accounts) on YouTube.
But this “rebranding” also runs the risk of scaring off many fans, who have subscribed above all to short films and humorous videos.
Above all, what will happen to the dozens of sketches published between 2012 and 2021? Many of him also shared the fear of removal from him, seen in many sketches. For years, videos that were freely available on YouTube, Dailymotion, or the old Golden Mustache site became inaccessible.
Faced with the risk, some did not hesitate to download them, to archive an important stage in the history of French audiovisual creation on their computer or on their phone.
Source: BFM TV
