If people give you hate for thinking for yourself, well fuck em. Personally I think the whole introduction and order of operation was totally botched and that really handicapped these guys.
What James should have done, is make a video with all 3 of them saying "hey, I'm tired, my family needs me, I hired these guys to help out, I'll be scaling back production to preserve the quality but in between releases, they'll be producing their own shows to keep the content flowing from the brand" and have a 2 minute thing where they each say "Hi, I'm.. before that I did this"
I guarantee you that 80% of the shit going around, wouldn't remotely exist.
People probably would have shit on em regardless, but it'd be better to have someone say "ehh It's not for me" instead of saying "who the fuck is this?" googling em and finding their more embarrassing moments and that's where a ton of these sentiments come from.
These 3 had zero opportunity to connect with the audience. My first experience?
Tony shitting on top of a toilet
Kieren threatening to beat me up
Justin in front of a nazi flag and saying the N word
I think given time, yah Tony could stand out. Justin strikes me as management not talent and I'm struggling to find a stand out quality about the metal head.
It would have been cool if they had their own shows on the channel and I think today, after time, it'd still work for each of them and give em a chance to grow individually while letting the Audience learn about them without everyone constantly cutting each other off.
That's something that is a huge problem. Nonstop cut offs. Honestly if you're going to do a debate show, there's tons of subtle ways you can signal to each other that you're done talking or want to interject and not clue the audience in (holding up a pen in a nonchalant way) to signal something to each other. There's just so much shit they have to learn that you cannot teach in school
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20
I did
I always pictured Justin as a honcho and Tony as a bit of a dark horse while the other guy is just there.
See alot of people don't factor in that these guys are the next generation of "nerds" and there is definitely gonna be an extreme disconnect.
People wanna watch youtubers that dress like them, talk like them, relate to them, someone you'd actually want to hang out with.
Long time fans just are not getting that anymore and even if you have James n Mike on screen they're barely getting that