OH my god! Lore has just done something stupid, AGAIN!
Alright recap: Lorerunner is a youtuber who used to do this youtube series called Ruminations, in his own words where he deliberately overanalyzes a work usually focusing on character motivation or theories about ofc. the lore in order to deepen an appreciation for the work whether it's good or bad. Ruminations also review the work itself, and they were enjoyable for someone like me because they were good background noise because it was just him talking and discussing something with no clips, skits, music or editing and credit to him he was extremely good at talking without a script. He'd remember stuff really well, wouldnt lose his train of thought and didnt stutter much. I am aware that's incredibly autistic
Lore has been discussed in this thread for various reasons, namely accusations of pedophilia and domestic violence which I have recently posted him saying how these accusations are false. I'll let you to decide if he's innocent or guilty, but whether he's a diddler or not he's actually done some stupid, lolcowish youtube career-ending stuff these past few months completely divorced from that which will kill his channel unrelated to these accusations
First up, I'll explain the system he used to review games and movies. If you were a patron of his every year you could suggest a movie during a stream called the Floodgates, it gets enough votes and he will Ruminate on it. His Rumes are then recorded in bulk and published thruout the next year. So in 2021 people suggested all the Pixar movies, in 2022 we got all of those as a dripfeed with Soul closing it in December. This leads us to his first mistake, he's ending movie ruminations. Despite his most popular videos being movie ruminations he's ending them. Too much work and he's lazy, I guess
Now, onto his games. Essentially his games are crowd-funded. You donate an amount of money and tell him what game you want, if it isnt on the veto list (yes a guy taking your money has the arrogance to have a veto list:
https://lorerunner.com/veto) it will get added to this giant list here:
https://lorerunner.com/the-list - Where now depending on the length of the game, how many people have donated to it, how much money is donated to it and whether Lore personally wants to play it the game will require different amounts of money to be played and when it gets up to that amount he will play it. Yes, this is a massive grift. Now what used to happen is that after a game is streamed he reviews it on stream, creating these bullet points of positives and negatives then releases a Rumination fleshing out these points and it also acts to summarize the stream and to promote his general monetization scheme. It was a good system, until he stopped doing Ruminations because a half hour out of his day post-stream to talk about a game he just played was too much for him. He says he does too much work but a lot of the work he does is shit no one needs
Anyway so now Ruminations are axed, despite them getting from 1k to 30k views per vid and being way more popular than his other videos they're gone. So now Lore's youtube is tanked. He's tried replacing Ruminations with stream highlights but month old Ruminations are reaching 1k and a Stream Highlight only gets about 500 if it's a game like DMC3. The reason his other stuff isnt popular is because his streams are only for a specific cult of personality, he's not a charismatic streamer but they gave him so much money that he thinks he can live off of his paypiggies forever. So no need to cultivate a wider audience with Ruminations, so bye bye structured content. But now, with his views in the toilet he's dropped a giganuke on his audience
He promised that no matter what his List system would eventually get every game on it played. Even if it took him until he dies he'd play everything on that list. Because if he manages to stream everything in his streaming queue before anything gets funded he adds the most funded games onto his queue so by that system he could concievably play something that only has one dollar added to it. Not anymore tho, because with this stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv52hoDZQhg - he has revealed he's going to be getting rid of games from the list people have donated money towards and offering a system where you need to donate again in order to get three votes to save stuff from being removed from the list and not being played. This also includes these insane spreadsheets (1:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NZ6O9ItjV3wmv5FWC9CHleqMU8540SXW2LUVflS-CU8/edit#gid=0) (2:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KClLfOrV-hly2GSLJ5AP327UP5ihyRY39PCSQI9kDg/edit) where you can see just how much is donated to him, how these games with as much as 500 dollars are going to be nuked if he doesnt get more money and how insane the system is of having to "save" games via donations. The past six months a guy who has said his audience has saved his life and saved him from homelessness post-prison is now showing the biggest amount of contempt for his audience. I'm shocked at how this is how he ends his career