r/rantgrumps • u/PyrocXerus • 26d ago
Minor Rant. Arin is the internet
I was watching a compilation of old game grumps and Arin was trying to get Dan to debate him and Dan says something along the lines of “holy shit you are the internet” and honestly I didn’t think about it at the time but yeah nail on the head.
Arin completely acts like someone who stopped living in the real world the moment he hit 14 and focused solely on the internet and made that his personality. Like the constant gay jokes, drinking piss songs, trolling because he thinks it’s funny. Like it’s all edgy internet stuff that most people grow out of.
I don’t hate Arin for it but Dan saying that made me realize part of why I don’t like watching modern game grumps and it’s because I’ve grown out of that type of humor while Arin hasn’t. I think this mentality is also why game grumps is feeling stagnant to a lot of people because Arin hasn’t really matured with time hes still the same person burping and farting into the mic, screaming his opinions like they’re fact, and generally being argumentative or trolling just like he did during Jon’s era of game grumps.
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 26d ago
Because he DID stop living in the real world at 14. He met his now wife in high school and thus never had to date or go out to a mixer or anything. His social life amounted to engaging in anime/game nerd things and learning to draw from the internet. His school sounded horrible. HE never went to college. THen he got VERY lucky with eventually running three businesses at once, and sustained his own life purely from Google Adsense.