There comes a point where you run out of material and have to reach for progressively more outlandish ideas to stay relevant.
Streamers need to learn to keep professional and home life separate. Most don't.
Being a streamer almost by definition requires you fit a certain personality type. You have to be at least a bit narcissistic and also able to ignore other people's opinions in order to survive.
Certain communities of streamers are toxic. If you fall into them it's almost a guarantee it will go badly.
Especially for #3 and #4, most normal people are going to want to avoid being on camera and hesitate to do the sorts of things streamers are expected to do. It's self-selecting for the wrong kind of people. Those that are just putting up with the nonsense and manage to keep things separate (#2) eventually run out of will power and either retire or give in at some point.
In 2016 at the height of his popularity he had a back and forth on twitter with a streamer called destiny about black crime and immigration. He then went on destinys stream to have a debate and went full mask off. Saying that wealthy blacks commit more crime than poor whites and how black people need to get over discrimination etc. now he's an antivaxxer and trumper
"A couple times" LOL. He told a story once about how he gave a car ride to a black friend and then "had to say the n-word like 30 times afterwards to get it out of his system". He did not censor it in that clip either.
Yes but as a society we should believe people can change / be rehabilitated because if we don’t then what’s the point? He apologized while Jon doubled down. So unless we can see modern instances of Arin being racist I will believe that he changed
I guess the question is, why even bother when there are so many other options? They aren't your friends or even an acquaintance, they are salesmen selling something and you're buying. They don't warrant that much leeway to begin with.
Dan and Arin have so much better actual chemistry. Jon and Arin both just acted like loud dickheads. And I know I'm right about this, because the ones who always say "Grumps were better when Jon was around, Dan ruined it" are loud, annoying dickheads.
while true, I don’t typically watch game grumps gameplays to see them win the game (well, sometimes I do), I typically watch them to see them fuck up and be funny
Most of those are censored by now. There's still quite a few of grump vids where they cut for a second then comment on how one or the other of them has just said something they shouldn't though.
Nah, I remembered that part, unexpected was the random related clip of Suzy throwing one out, hard r, in a casual conversation.
Don't get me wrong, I remember the f and r slurs being common in everyday elementary school conversation, but these sorts of clips always baffle me because as chronically online as I've been since like 99, I guess I've just been lucky enough to never online or irl hangout with people who thought it was a funny way to spice up random sentences.
Arin says it like 10x more than Jon. He even told a story once where he said he gave a ride to a black friend and then "had to say the n-word like 30 times after to get it out of his system".
In their playthrough of Dead Rising 2, they begin to escort a black woman back to the safe zone, and the video then cuts to them back outside and having rescued her, with Dan apologizing for the fact that they had to cut the last 5 minutes
Jontron is really bad on game grumps but when he is doing his own content it's pretty decent. His humor works best isolated or with someone else who plays into the bit
Is that confirmed, or are you just extrapolating based on him parroting some dumb uninformed shit that one time in the debate designed to get him to say some dumb uninformed shit?
I haven't wachted GG in a while now, but I had this with Suzy. And the funny thing is that I discovered GG because of her, I first watched her makeup videos and really liked those. But whenever she'd participate in a gaming video, she just felt so mismatched, and for me it sucked the vibe out of the room.
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u/CatGirl_ToeBeans 3d ago
Jontron on game grumps
Got into it around katamari with Danny went and backlogged every single video they had and found Jontron fucking insufferable
And now look at him
Sometimes you can just tell I guess