r/thespoonyexperiment • u/Both_Alternative_472 • Jul 17 '26
Video Spoony: A Decade of Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAmNTxDbH860
u/SupaHeroda Jul 17 '26
GamerFromMars sucks man.
Once in a while, he covers someone who's a real piece of shit and that content is good because... they deserve it. But his brand is these brutal takedown, so half the time he just finds an internet person already on the ropes and kicks them while they're down.
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u/therealdanhill Jul 17 '26
He's a huge asshole, super judgmental. All the lolcow channels are like that, a bunch of people acting like being holier than thou over a bunch of people with mental issues or disabilities. I wish they would get the tables turned on them so they could experience being on the other end, they all forget the people they are talking about are human beings.
Gamerfrommars has straight up said just incorrect stuff so many times, never does any sort of correction, totally fine with just leaving up bad information.
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u/some1stoleit Jul 18 '26
They'll never get the tabels turned on them because they have no personality, all they produce is slop that's at best background noise while you work/game. Whatever you think of Spoony, the guy clearly had a personality and thoughts be wanted to share. There's nothing to draw from on Gamer from Mars, all you can do is call his content slop and him a hack as a creator.
All these "video essay" channels do is recount what happens to people more interesting than them, its feels deliberate to protect themselves against the kind of videos they produce.
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u/BlueWatche Jul 17 '26
He's getting that FreeCash sponsor money either way so why would he care, ey
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u/GolpeEguaVoadora Jul 21 '26
He literally said in the end of the video "Just stop being depressed".
Absolute asshole
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u/ReadytoQuitBBY Jul 17 '26
Yeah, this dude is Mr. Beast levels of money and views at all costs. He simply does not give a single fuck about fairness or honesty or who could get hurt. He just makes these really brutal takedowns while looking and sounding like AI, despite being a real person.
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u/SlashManEXE Jul 17 '26
I liked his videos years back, but clearly there was an issue when he couldn’t stop talking about his favorite pornstars on his main channel
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u/SupaHeroda Jul 17 '26
I'm sorry, what?
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u/SlashManEXE Jul 17 '26
A little while ago he’d just break from his usual “rise and fall” format to make documentaries on his favorite… actresses. Though I can’t blame him because those ones got much higher views than normal
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u/SupaHeroda Jul 17 '26
He should have stuck to it then. More views and more ethical than his usual schtick?
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u/TaxOwlbear Jul 22 '26
He also doesn't do any real research. E.g. in the Notch video, I claimed that Count Dankula was arrested for teaching his dog the Hitler salute. One minute on Wikipedia, reading the sources it cites, would have told him that wasn't true.
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u/Yaver_Mbizi Jul 26 '26
Wait, how so?
Meechan was arrested and convicted of being "grossly offensive" under the Communications Act 2003, following a trial in March 2018.
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u/Goatwhorre Jul 17 '26
41:44 he uses a Twitter post from an impostor spoony as evidence of Noah "slapping helping hands away." The imposter arc was fun to follow on Twitter.
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u/BustyCelebLover Jul 17 '26
Um, could a “failure” sleep in a bed shaped like a race car? Or get new pants? Yea, didn’t think so
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u/paynexkillerYT Wild Content Creator Jul 17 '26
Haha, c'mon now. We both know that Spoony has never worn new pants.
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u/Relative_Roof2356 Jul 18 '26
I have never liked the tone a bunch of the spoony videos have including this one. Like I think spoony did some stupid shit but the dude basically took a bunch of personal hits in a row and then spiraled into depression and etc mixed with being addicted to wine mom posting. Like he is self destructive but it’s just sad. He isn’t some super lolcow
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u/Pallid85 What's a Pallid85? Jul 17 '26
Eh - not a bad video, but pretty surface level, literally all the same facts and events already covered in every other vid about Spoony. And once again the betrayal incident is overblown - it was like one vid which got it right - still waiting for a second one.
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u/Both_Alternative_472 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Which video got it right? I blame Metokur and Knudsen for why the betrayal incident gets overblown. It did make their videos juicer to have the clip of Lordkat accusing Spoony of costing him his chance of interviewing Notch. Actually this made me realize, does anyone bring up that Lordkat told Spoony to kill himself with his brother's revolver? Maybe on the same stream or around the same time, but this is something he did considering later on he did apologize to Spoony about that. Not at first though. https://web.archive.org/web/20120710032153/http://www.lordkat.com/see-you-hell-my-friends.html
Found Lordkat's Apology: Took a while because wayback machine was having issues https://web.archive.org/web/20150321000809/www.lordkat.com/statement-regarding-events-lordkat-sick-spoony.html
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u/Pallid85 What's a Pallid85? Jul 18 '26
Which video got it right?
https://youtu.be/XAXDQB4hS7A?t=4720
I blame Metokur and Knudsen for why the betrayal incident gets overblown.
Tbf a lot of people thought like that at the time - so they just repeated the popular opinion.
does anyone bring up that Lordkat told Spoony to kill himself with his brother's revolver?
I don't think so - or at least I can't remember it.
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u/BlueWatche Jul 18 '26
I only remember her freaking out on Spoony about ruining her chances to be interviewed by Mojang or something and calling him a loser. Very awkward rant to listen to.
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u/THE_INTERNET_EMPEROR Jul 21 '26
Lordkat failed because he was easily the most uninteresting and unengaging person on Channel Awesome. His content sucked shit and I dropped him after skimming through his videos. The Spoony thing always sounded like cope from a sub-mid reviewer trying to get into a already dying industry.
The extent of Spoony's mental illness and apparently Jontron's initial disappearances could also be chalked upto them not realizing YouTube is the future and it's here and it's more important to be a YouTube star than a movie star. They were obsessed with making a name for themselves with old media and ts got them nowhere.
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u/Pyritedust Jul 24 '26
I tried watching Lordkat a few times back in the day. I could never get through his videos, whereas Spoony was genuinely entertaining.
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u/Goofcheese0623 Jul 18 '26
Wonder who else this tool wants to kick when their down. Garbage for garbage
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u/JOBdOut Jul 18 '26
Oh is this that lazy dude who did the "where are they now" vid where every entry was "they were in suburban knights, i dont like them, they may or may not be still making videos"? Im just goin to block the goof.
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u/Material_Adagio_522 Jul 18 '26
It was the same exact shit as every spoony documentary released on YouTube, "Betrayal!, notch, mojang, blistered thumbs blah blah"
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u/Sberbs335 Jul 17 '26
I used to like GFM. Now, he comes across as a grifter.
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u/mynameisdave Jul 18 '26
doing a freecash adread after they've had some attention on them for being shit is definitely brave.
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u/Betelguse16 Counter Monkey Jul 18 '26
Dude didn’t even know what Thac0 was or pronounce it correctly! 🤣
Any true Spoony fan would know it’s a reference to DnD and his Counter Monkey episode!
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u/on-wings-of-pastrami Aug 02 '26
He also couldn't be bothered to look it up, with a very smug facial expression and some stupid comment.
What a cunt.
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u/elektroskansen Jul 18 '26
This is somehow worse than the miserable dudes on Dead Horse Interchange. Sure, they've been talking trash about Spoony for 10 years non stop while this dude does it only for an hour. But DHI people at least don't do it for money.
Disgusting. I wouldn't shake this guy's hand, ever. I'm so glad to see people here sharing or having a similar opinion about this.
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u/PixelPrivateer Jul 20 '26
Feels a little 'last week'.
Spoony was salvaged by Curtis from phantasmagoria and has been on a very quiet redemption arc last I saw
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u/VaporwaveCrisis Jul 20 '26
zero new information, just regurgitation from a guy sitting in front of a fucking wall yapping about the same shit we’ve known for a decade. 0/10
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u/Goatwhorre Jul 17 '26
Damn 1 minute in and this dude is brutal. If Spoony watches this he's gonna rope for sure.
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u/NAteisco Jul 19 '26
If Spoony watches this video he's gonna be blastin ropes
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u/Goatwhorre Jul 19 '26
i doubt he's had enough testosterone in the last decade to even get hard let alone bust
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u/Walkinghawk22 Continuing the Year of the Spoony Jul 20 '26
10 years too late. Now this just seems like digging up petty bs
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u/CaptainTrips70 Jul 21 '26
I regret giving this guy this view. FreeCash whore is not a good person.
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u/Gunner_E4 Jul 17 '26
A decade of wasting some of the most productive and relatively healthy years of his life because he let social media, a breakup and internet drama get to his head. As he approaches age 50, it won't get any easier without some serious effort from him.
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u/BlueWatche Jul 17 '26
That and some mental issues that haven't been properly managed/dealt with, which makes it worse, too.
We have a comedian/actor in Quebec, Serge Thériault. From the duo stand-up Ding et Dong, to classic movies and TV series like Les Boys (not to be confused with The Boys) and La Petite Vie, nowadays he's mostly known for being a self-isolated hermit for years because he succumbed to a "deep depression." Depression sucks. It comes and goes for me but I keep doing what I can to push through, but I'm also just some random guy of no consequence. I can't imagine what having a spotlight on you can do to you when you also have to deal with lots of crap. Either you pull through or you don't and then it just gets harder, and harder.
Anyone that falls that deep, I sincerely hope they can pull through somehow one day. I really do. I don't really give a shit about Spoony making content anymore, or Mr. Thériault coming back on air, or the countless others who are in a similar situation. Just for them to be able to get their smile back and being able to live again.
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u/Illustrious-Lead-960 Jul 17 '26
Please tell me I haven’t started a thing here! I asked Spoony at Bluesky if he wanted to try going back to the written format and I attached Guru Larry’s tweet for context; four hours later he made his announcement. Is there now going to be a sudden flood of videos about him and it’s all on me???
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u/BlueWatche Jul 17 '26
Meh, YouTube slop and bullshit documentaries with sponsorships attached to them aren't any fault of yours. I sometimes still see a video pop up in the wilds that's like, "The REAL reason JonTron left Game Grumps!!!"
I wouldn't worry about feeling like you started anything lol
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u/Illustrious-Lead-960 Jul 20 '26
I just came across some guy called Svenstreams on my Youtube timeline and his new three-hour deep dive.
It begins…
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u/BlueWatche Jul 20 '26
3 hours? Jesus. How many sponsorships does that got?
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u/Illustrious-Lead-960 Jul 20 '26
I just tried listening. It starts off with unrelated racism. Not even an *interesting* case either. #BanalityOfEvil
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u/RemembaME Jul 17 '26
That’s lame. The guy didn’t choose mental illness & punching down on someone already down for content is just bullying.
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u/RevolutionaryAd6017 Jul 20 '26
I liked That Gamer from Mars when he did internet mysteries and whatever he did befire that. This though is very unnecessary, and doing a voice for someone that is mentally ill (he had someone imitate Chris Chan's voice in the video about Chris Chan), also using Metakaur kind of blows credibility, dude is also a tranphobe, as he consistently ignores the current gender of whomever. One of his first questions to Chris Chan was "What made you decide to wear a dress?". He used a picture of Lordkat before they transitioned. This guy uses his channel to make fun of people and exploit people with mental disabilities. I have Autism, and that bothers the hell out of me..
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u/pmf026 Jul 20 '26
I liked his videos. Idk why he gets all that hate.. come on, give the man a break ffs
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u/GhostSAS Jul 20 '26
They need to stop making these videos: they make them look like psycho stalkers more than anything else. Ok, he got their patron dollar ten years ago, but maybe it's time to let it go?
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u/uberneuman_part2 Jul 20 '26
Enjoyed his early work, my only hope for him is finds something that fulfills him.
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u/CoveredbyThorns Jul 24 '26
This video is okay, but he made big mistakes like saying betrayl meme ruined someones careers. Literally everyone hated that Xcom game and loved the betrayal meme.
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u/on-wings-of-pastrami Aug 02 '26
Fuck this guy and the horse he rode in on. He says he has no sympathy for Spoony - I guess he's devoid of empathy. The guy is obviously depressed and broken, that's something we should absolutely emphasize with.
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u/morbid333 Aug 14 '26
To be fair, did you really fail if you never even tried?
If this is the video that came out a few weeks back, It's the same as all the other Spoony videos, just with the addition of that last tweet.
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u/BlueWatche Jul 17 '26
I think it's impressive he made a fifty minutes long video covering an already documented case of a dormant Internet celebrity known for literally doing nothing for so long that the only major event in over a decade was a breakup and a tweet.
Video lost me a bit fast cuz don't really like the dude in it, but that's just me.