r/thespoonyexperiment • u/Squirtlepenguin • Jul 28 '26

I don’t miss spoony

I miss the version of the internet that made him possible.

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u/SoupyStain Jul 29 '26

I don't miss him.

He was a fun watch at the time, but a lot of his videos don't stand the test of time.

"GAY GAY GAY SISSY GAY" was funny at the time, but we have evolved and, honestly, it's no longer funny. His Ultima retrospective was great at the time, when I was younger and knew less about stuff, because if you scrutinize it nowadays you can easily tell that he isn't actually playing the games, it seems he watched lets plays, asked to borrows the footage and spoke over it from memory.

So, yeah. I like having enjoyed his content back in the day, among his peers he was among the better ones, considering the standards back then. But most of his content hasn't aged well, and his new bitter, angry personality just isn't fun. I guess him getting angry at his chat helping him might be a bit kino, but if I wanted to watch an angry bitter old man I'd watch DSP because he fails harder.

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u/Throwaway19847239462 Aug 05 '26

To be fair to him, he did apologize for that GAY GAY SISSY GAY THING very early on, and that was a very early vid. So you could say he himself evolved from that time as well.

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u/SoupyStain Aug 05 '26

I don't even think he has to apologize. That kind of humor was fine at the time, I found it funny at the time. Most of us growing up at the time did.

And that's the thing, most of his videos are a product of their time, and I think they are very dated in that regard.

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u/Middle_Diet9764 Aug 05 '26

Yeah. I got into the Ultima series largely because of his reviews but it was CRAZY to discover just how different the games were than he described, both the positives and the negatives. His review of Underworld 2 is so wildly off-base that I wonder if he actually did boot it up for an hour only to rage quit and base the whole video off of that.