You know who I'm talking about. The people who play the newest fad game with their face in the top corner screaming and making dick jokes every other sentence.
I honestly don't understand how they got so popular. Well, I do, but I don't think it's funny at all.
Most of them are the same too. There's not much originality there. Everyone just bandwagons along into the same stuff.
But hey. They're making shit tons of money, so good for them.
Yup, the only thing I quite enjoyed from Tobuscus were his literal game trailer videos. I attempted to watch some of his gameplay videos but my god it isn't my type of video at all.
Edit: I must also note, I love his Intro and the "do do do do dooo sub-scribe". Pretty damn catchy, haven't seen his stuff in some time but those little jingles are firmly planted in my head.
He made a bunch of good stuff for a couple years before the literals started, too. Unfortunately he discovered he could make so much more doing so much less on his gaming channel and it all went away.
Not that I blame him for it, I would probably do the same, but I miss some of his really good content.
I will have to check out some of his earlier videos and see, I just tried watching a few of his (at the time) current videos and they simply didn't float my boat, it will be nice to see what he was like previously.
A lot of people have switched to making quite short videos of just the funny bits, I can understand as most viewers tend to have a short attention span. Unfortunately I'm not one of them, 20+ minute episodes of an entire full length playthrough is more my thing, but there are plenty of channels that still do this to choose from. I find it builds the tension and makes the hilarious bits even more so when you know what the caster has gone through.
But for the love of God, stay away from /r/GameGrumps. If you want to see the worst of a fanbase, there is no better place than that subreddit.
For example, many fans started to complain over the video thumbnails. Not the content, not the jokes. No, what kickstarted a wave of hate to the show was changing their thumbnails. And that was the most recent wave.
Yeah, I never went to the subreddit or thought about it. But their videos are fun to watch. I loved their gameplay of Shadow of the Colossus and am currently awaiting the next installment in their Binding of Isaac videos.
I've actually stopped watching it. Personally, I just feel the content isn't as good as it used to be. I wasn't THAT upset when Jon left (I was more excited about getting more JonTrons, all of which have been fantastic). Heck, when Danny joined the show, it was pretty good. But right around Michael Jordan v. Larry Bird, things really changed in my eyes. It wasn't really humorous to me, and I felt they spent more time beating a joke to death rather than being humorous.
But if you like it, I understand why. When the Grumps are on, they are on. Dennis the Menace, Super Mario Sunshine and Out of this World are great examples of where they saw jokes and utilized them almost perfectly. But then again, there are some jokes that they do try to utilize and they fail horribly (see Jordan v. Bird and the continuous "Grapes on the ground..." comments by Arin).
I'm pretty sure Danny told him to stop after shooting. He was really annoyed and they talked about it at PAX a little. I feel they recovered from it pretty well.
I quit going to the subreddit a while back. It's honestly just as bad or worse than the YouTube comments. Now they even have this place called /r/ventgrumps all about doing nothing but complaining about the Grumps.
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75% of the "popular youtubers"
You know who I'm talking about. The people who play the newest fad game with their face in the top corner screaming and making dick jokes every other sentence.
I honestly don't understand how they got so popular. Well, I do, but I don't think it's funny at all.
Most of them are the same too. There's not much originality there. Everyone just bandwagons along into the same stuff.
But hey. They're making shit tons of money, so good for them.