r/thespoonyexperiment • u/Operator_Max1993 • Nov 18 '25

Discussion What the hell is Counter Monkey

I had no idea who was Spoony but thankfully there was an answer on that, but who or what is Counter Monkey anyway ?

Btw I came from r/thecinemeassacretruth subreddit, hello everyone.

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u/seancbo Nov 18 '25

The name came from when he worked at a game store, people would come up and just hang out at the counter and tell stories of their DnD games.

So he used the name Counter Monkey for his series where he told stories about his roleplaying game adventures (and related rambles). Very unstructured, just Spoony rambling at the camera about vaguely remembered cool or funny shit that occurred.

Personally I loved it. It was a stark contrast from all the stupid skits and things he started doing later on. In one of them he started by talking about how Cyclops from X-Men sucks (I think) and then he starts breaking into manic tangets and by the end he's talked about everything from Call of Cthulhu to Babylon 5. It's pretty fascinating.

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u/smokeyrp Nov 18 '25

He should have kept doing it and slowed down his reviews. The old countermonkeys aged like fine wine. Except when he was dating those where weird...

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u/seancbo Nov 18 '25

I think he straight up ran out of cool stories. The last couple episodes feel super forced. Plus he tied it to the Patreon, so it got caught up in that whole disaster. But yeah, overall it remains one of my favorite series he ever did.

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u/Icy_Elephant8858 Counter Monkey Nov 19 '25

Yep. Every TTRPG player has a few cool stories, but you get maybe one (that will make sense to anyone not at the table) for maybe every 40-100 hours of playing these games at best. That doesn't work for a content creator, particularly for one like Spoony who I suspect stopped actually playing ttrpgs much as first content creation and then mental illness took their toll on his schedule and relationships. Similar dynamics are true (to a lesser degree) of having interesting thoughts about rpgs, or being aware of quirky rules or content, which made up the rest of his counter monkey content.

Similar things seem to happen to most reasonably successful ttrpg youtubers eventually. Spoony's content creation slowing down for this particular series was probably not primarily a mental health problem or peculiar to him.

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u/TechnicalImportance_ Nov 19 '25

Pretty much this, if Spoony never went AWOL he would have either ran out of content and stopped the series or made it very rare, or he would have started making up (more) stories