Youtubers teetering on the edge of cowdom - Who is next to fall from grace, and why?

Josh Strife Hayes (The Worst MMO Ever? -series) is a long, long distance away from becoming lolcow. His videos are very watchable, and he has managed to basically stay out of any serious drama. However I ran into this complaint about him, that I stumbled on a while back, stuck to me and I don't know any better thread to share it in.

"The worst point was when Josh Strife Hayes mocked people who use the arrow keys to move in a MMORPG and loudly demanded to know why the devs had coded in that functionality in one MMORPG, when as a lefthander virtually all games come with that functionality and being a lefthander isn't even uncommon. He then bragged about how good a teacher he is. I really hope that if he has any lefthanded folks in his classes, he treats them better than he treated us in his video."
I've never watched this guy. Do you know what video they're talking about? Cause this just sounds like a pretty bog standard "keyboard turner" joke
 
I fear Leon Lush might be teetering on the side of cowdom in the next few years, even though I could be wrong since I actually do like his videos. The thing is, I haven’t watched him in almost two and a half years and these are the last couple of vids that I watched that seemed to show his growth:



I think it’s probably the possible Wojak facial expressions that he makes unintentionally.
 
Why? What is the purpose??? What is his goal? Why is he so retarded?

Watch his videos for like ten minutes. This is a guy whose entire personality begins and end with vidya gaming. He has severe autism in the truest sense; everything can and must be related to his idiotic personal obsessions, and he just happens to be in a position where doing so gets him views and attention. He's the kind of guy who reads something like MovieBob comparing the console wars to 9/11, then sagely nods his head and murmurs 'bro, I get you, I really get you' to himself, before going to bed feeling a sincere sense of philosophical enlightenment.
 
TC is the biggest autist I've ever seen. He can go on an hour about a lamp wick. He's also a troon. I hate when he pauses on himself when he smiles. I don't know how he got so big. He's absolutely fat and disgusting. He literally looks like Satan when he stares into the camera.
He also simply stretches himself too thin these days with topics. While he can be pretty informative on some very specific niche technologies, he appears to prove himself pretty surface level knowledgeable on other topics. I don't know what there really is to learn from his humidifier video that you couldn't glean from a couple minute read of some article about the subject, he stretches that info out massively then disappoints. Him possibly trooning out in a couple of years would not be a surprise.
Schaffrillas Productions is absolutely on thin fucking ice when it comes to teetering on cowdom. Every now and again he'll insert random lefty moments into his movie/show reviews (probably the most egregious being calling Fairy God Mother from Shrek 2 transphobic because she decided to call the Grandma Wolf "gender confused"). I'm not the biggest fan, but I would still tune in to his reviews if it's interesting enough, but really I'm just waiting for the moment when he finally pulls a Quinton and goes on a rant against right-wingers or anyone unsupportive of the woke and then proceeds to act smug when it blows up in his face. I could easily see that happening.
SP has never really seemed to be the most stable and has injected lefty shit into his content since nearly the beginning. His videos were never the best either, just watchable. I think he'll coast on for a while rather than becoming a full lolcow.
I'm starting to believe that byuu really is the real byuu

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Now onto a post of my own. Tantacrul, a music youtuber, randomly came out with a video about a site we've had a small thread on for two years. Said site hosts a forum for suicide discussion that supposedly pushes for people to commit death, you can read about that here rather than watching his 46 minute long travesty, but if you want to watch it here it is.

It was also archived early on page 3 of that thread, so that's good if there have been any edits to it. Not sure if there have been.

The real lolcowness isn't completely shown in the video itself, though he does slip his mask off a bit when he brings in lawmakers from the UK and US and lets them sperg about censoring the internet. What people have dug up and the response from the forum itself whom are similarly potential cows spills the beans. He apparently started making accounts on the forum a bit ago and sperging out on the forum members, each time he got banned he'd make a sockpuppet. None of this necessary for his research as the entire site is public to view. There's a lot more going on here but me and especially @Markass the Worst have dumped plenty of discussion in said thread. Wasn't sure initially about posting here about this but I think tanta is about to be on a downward spiral.
 
It's with great sadness that I bring bad news about someone who I believe is well-liked around these parts, and one of my favorite Internet people:
Tim "Harmful Opinions" Morrison appears to have gone off the deep end.

For those who don't know him, he was in GG, he was one of if not the first to point out the Candid bullshit and unmasked the skeptic community for the snakes they are, was involved in exposing other shady companies like Better Help, etc. He's also cited by Jim as having done the funniest thing he's ever seen, during an IRL livestream, was asked by a waitress to stop recording, to which without missing a beat he responded "I'm a sex offender and I'm obligated by law to record myself at all times". He was booted off of Twitter and Youtube, and his online presence was reduced to Twitch streams (supposedly the main income for his family), and a secondary Twitter account.
He's also an actual autistic, and has severe health problems. This is the important part.

Apparently he's also got other mental issues we didn't know about, and was on anti-psychotic meds; and apparently, he's now off his meds and had a fight with his family, who kicked him out. It's not the first time it happens, there was what his fans call "The Homeless Arc" in 2018. He claims he's safe, apparently staying with his girlfriend or a friend, and claims he may return to stream soon.
According to his sister, he was verbally abusing his parents during a psychotic paranoia episode, and they had to kick him out. They later threatened legal action if he "slandered" them, which she claims he did in 2018.
Tim has not spoken about it beyond saying he's safe, and that he can't discuss the situation.

Akkretion is his sister, Soph, who used to be his main mod in Discord and Twitch, but stopped for health reasons (her health is arguably worse than Tim's).
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At this point, Tim's Twitch displayed this:
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He also posted on his Twitter, HurtfulOnions, which is now gone (more on that later)
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More details from Soph
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An important clarification

Some of the supposed smear campaign from 2018

About what he says in the video
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We make something of a cameo
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About his whereabouts
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Tim updates his Twitch (on the 21st)
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The current legal threats
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Regarding the Hurtful Onions account:
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According to commenters on Discord, the account owner is a relative. I'd speculate it's Soph, and she closed it down after the incident. Tim is currently on his old HarmfulOpinions twitter, which was unbanned by papa Elon.

The last notable thing is that some commenters have some distrust for the family's version of things both now and in 2018
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And the best post of the whole thing
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Anyway, not calling for us to do anything about this, or accusing either side of anything.
Just thought it was worth bringing it up.

Whatever the truth may be, it's sad to see Tim in this state. I hope everything works out alright for everyone involved.

Edit: the post fucked up the images initially, fixed them and added one I'd forgotten which I think is important
 

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It's with great sadness that I bring bad news about someone who I believe is well-liked around these parts, and one of my favorite Internet people:
Tim "Harmful Opinions" Morrison appears to have gone off the deep end.

For those who don't know him, he was in GG, he was one of if not the first to point out the Candid bullshit and unmasked the skeptic community for the snakes they are, was involved in exposing other shady companies like Better Help, etc. He's also cited by Jim as having done the funniest thing he's ever seen, during an IRL livestream, was asked by a waitress to stop recording, to which without missing a beat he responded "I'm a sex offender and I'm obligated by law to record myself at all times". He was booted off of Twitter and Youtube, and his online presence was reduced to Twitch streams (supposedly the main income for his family), and a secondary Twitter account.
He's also an actual autistic, and has severe health problems. This is the important part.

Apparently he's also got other mental issues we didn't know about, and was on anti-psychotic meds; and apparently, he's now off his meds and had a fight with his family, who kicked him out. It's not the first time it happens, there was what his fans call "The Homeless Arc" in 2018. He claims he's safe, apparently staying with his girlfriend or a friend, and claims he may return to stream soon.
According to his sister, he was verbally abusing his parents during a psychotic paranoia episode, and they had to kick him out. They later threatened legal action if he "slandered" them, which she claims he did in 2018.
Tim has not spoken about it beyond saying he's safe, and that he can't discuss the situation.

Akkretion is his sister, Soph, who used to be his main mod in Discord and Twitch, but stopped for health reasons (her health is arguably worse than Tim's).
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At this point, Tim's Twitch displayed this:
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He also posted on his Twitter, HurtfulOnions, which is now gone (more on that later)
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Speculation about his whereabouts
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More details from Soph
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Some of the supposed smear campaign from 2018

We make something of a cameo
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This is about 2018, not about now
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Tim updates his Twitch (on the 21st)
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The current legal threats
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Regarding the Hurtful Onions account:
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According to commenters on Discord, the account owner is a relative. I'd speculate it's Soph, and she closed it down after the incident. Tim is currently on his old HarmfulOpinions twitter, which was unbanned by papa Elon.

The last notable thing is that some commenters have some distrust for the family's version of things both now and in 2018
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And the best post of the whole thing
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Anyway, not calling for us to do anything about this, or accusing either side of anything.
Just thought it was worth bringing it up.

Whatever the truth may be, it's sad to see Tim in this state. I hope everything works out alright for everyone involved.
Poor guy.
As we all know, harmful opinions is god
 
I'm convinced The Act Man is literally retarded.

Remember when he joked about wanting to murder the families of YouTube staff and acted shocked when he was banned?
Act Man has been on my shit radar ever since he went after Quantum and his big brain idea was to use the bullshit intersectionality angle so he could criticize a "B"lack man.

His big brain plan was to seethe all over twitter about it being muh pride month and Youtube wouldn't side with a nigger that says faggot on pride month, wouuuuld they?!?!

I've hated him ever since.
 
It's with great sadness that I bring bad news about someone who I believe is well-liked around these parts, and one of my favorite Internet people:
Tim "Harmful Opinions" Morrison appears to have gone off the deep end.

For those who don't know him, he was in GG, he was one of if not the first to point out the Candid bullshit and unmasked the skeptic community for the snakes they are, was involved in exposing other shady companies like Better Help, etc. He's also cited by Jim as having done the funniest thing he's ever seen, during an IRL livestream, was asked by a waitress to stop recording, to which without missing a beat he responded "I'm a sex offender and I'm obligated by law to record myself at all times". He was booted off of Twitter and Youtube, and his online presence was reduced to Twitch streams (supposedly the main income for his family), and a secondary Twitter account.
He's also an actual autistic, and has severe health problems. This is the important part.

Apparently he's also got other mental issues we didn't know about, and was on anti-psychotic meds; and apparently, he's now off his meds and had a fight with his family, who kicked him out. It's not the first time it happens, there was what his fans call "The Homeless Arc" in 2018. He claims he's safe, apparently staying with his girlfriend or a friend, and claims he may return to stream soon.
According to his sister, he was verbally abusing his parents during a psychotic paranoia episode, and they had to kick him out. They later threatened legal action if he "slandered" them, which she claims he did in 2018.
Tim has not spoken about it beyond saying he's safe, and that he can't discuss the situation.

Akkretion is his sister, Soph, who used to be his main mod in Discord and Twitch, but stopped for health reasons (her health is arguably worse than Tim's).
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At this point, Tim's Twitch displayed this:
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He also posted on his Twitter, HurtfulOnions, which is now gone (more on that later)
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More details from Soph
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An important clarification

Some of the supposed smear campaign from 2018

About what he says in the video
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We make something of a cameo
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About his whereabouts
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Tim updates his Twitch (on the 21st)
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The current legal threats
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Regarding the Hurtful Onions account:
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According to commenters on Discord, the account owner is a relative. I'd speculate it's Soph, and she closed it down after the incident. Tim is currently on his old HarmfulOpinions twitter, which was unbanned by papa Elon.

The last notable thing is that some commenters have some distrust for the family's version of things both now and in 2018
View attachment 4312592View attachment 4312604

And the best post of the whole thing
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Anyway, not calling for us to do anything about this, or accusing either side of anything.
Just thought it was worth bringing it up.

Whatever the truth may be, it's sad to see Tim in this state. I hope everything works out alright for everyone involved.

Edit: the post fucked up the images initially, fixed them and added one I'd forgotten which I think is important
I remember the 2018 drama somewhat, not surprised to hear that he's gotten worse mentally. Tim is really just such a sad reminder of how hard you can get fucked over when you stand on principle, he was the only one in the whole "skepto-sphere" that was actually skeptical and principled enough to look into what was going on when a former Google employee came knocking with a paycheck. Had he just taken the money and played ball, he'd probably have a high several hundred thousand, if not a million, subscriber account today with thousands of pounds from sponsorships.

Instead, he called a spade a spade and his reward was being beaten over the head with it.

 
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Hope this faggot enjoys the Pandora's Box he just unleashed upon himself lmfao, the majority of twitter troons won't care if he throws away even ten grand. Him buying one measly copy is genocide to these lunatics and now they know he'll bend the knee.

Act Man has been on my shit radar ever since he went after Quantum and his big brain idea was to use the bullshit intersectionality angle so he could criticize a "B"lack man.

His big brain plan was to seethe all over twitter about it being muh pride month and Youtube wouldn't side with a nigger that says faggot on pride month, wouuuuld they?!?!

I've hated him ever since.
It's an absolute shame. His reviews on some games that I had played in the past were pretty solid. Quantum TV really broke the guy, didn't he? He's totally infected with the woke holier than thou self righteousness mindset.
 
-Arcades used to have the lever on the left-side and had to change it because the winrates were too high. Arcade levers were always supposed to be on the left, 'southpaw' is actually the natural way to use them and it's a well kept secret in the fighting game and shmup community.
-In terms of 2D games, playing with arrow keys is easier because you have space dedicated just to your arrow keys with the rest of the keyboard available for functionality. Fighting games, platformers, metroidvanias, shit like Maplestory or Dungeon Fighter Online will often make use of arrow keys. The opposite of this for fighting games is WASD and then usually the numpad for spacing (or using space to jump).
-As you said, left-handed people in non-arcade or 2D genres.

Basically, using your left hand to move in games has been the standard for a long time, and continues to be the standard in certain genres. If you grew up through the early 2000's and experienced the boom of flash games, you almost definitely used arrow keys to move.
If you play shmups using keyboard, and haven't moved to Mixbox yet, you'll be using arrow keys and Z/X/C for your controls with maybe shift thrown in there. I don't know of any shmups that doesn't use this scheme. Touhou has done it since PC-98.
For a youtuber who prides himself on 'being around the block for awhile', he's got some really dumb takes like this.
Arrow keys are gay and in any game that doesn't offer key rebinding by default the answer is not to shit your pants and do nothing but instead to learn how to use AutoHotKey.
 
It's with great sadness that I bring bad news about someone who I believe is well-liked around these parts, and one of my favorite Internet people:
Tim "Harmful Opinions" Morrison appears to have gone off the deep end.

For those who don't know him, he was in GG, he was one of if not the first to point out the Candid bullshit and unmasked the skeptic community for the snakes they are, was involved in exposing other shady companies like Better Help, etc. He's also cited by Jim as having done the funniest thing he's ever seen, during an IRL livestream, was asked by a waitress to stop recording, to which without missing a beat he responded "I'm a sex offender and I'm obligated by law to record myself at all times". He was booted off of Twitter and Youtube, and his online presence was reduced to Twitch streams (supposedly the main income for his family), and a secondary Twitter account.
He's also an actual autistic, and has severe health problems. This is the important part.

Apparently he's also got other mental issues we didn't know about, and was on anti-psychotic meds; and apparently, he's now off his meds and had a fight with his family, who kicked him out. It's not the first time it happens, there was what his fans call "The Homeless Arc" in 2018. He claims he's safe, apparently staying with his girlfriend or a friend, and claims he may return to stream soon.
According to his sister, he was verbally abusing his parents during a psychotic paranoia episode, and they had to kick him out. They later threatened legal action if he "slandered" them, which she claims he did in 2018.
Tim has not spoken about it beyond saying he's safe, and that he can't discuss the situation.

Akkretion is his sister, Soph, who used to be his main mod in Discord and Twitch, but stopped for health reasons (her health is arguably worse than Tim's).
View attachment 4312651
At this point, Tim's Twitch displayed this:
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He also posted on his Twitter, HurtfulOnions, which is now gone (more on that later)
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More details from Soph
View attachment 4312661
An important clarification

Some of the supposed smear campaign from 2018

About what he says in the video
View attachment 4312479

We make something of a cameo
View attachment 4312665
View attachment 4312669
About his whereabouts
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Tim updates his Twitch (on the 21st)
View attachment 4312552

The current legal threats
View attachment 4312536
View attachment 4312523

Regarding the Hurtful Onions account:
View attachment 4312564
According to commenters on Discord, the account owner is a relative. I'd speculate it's Soph, and she closed it down after the incident. Tim is currently on his old HarmfulOpinions twitter, which was unbanned by papa Elon.

The last notable thing is that some commenters have some distrust for the family's version of things both now and in 2018
View attachment 4312592View attachment 4312604

And the best post of the whole thing
View attachment 4312626

Anyway, not calling for us to do anything about this, or accusing either side of anything.
Just thought it was worth bringing it up.

Whatever the truth may be, it's sad to see Tim in this state. I hope everything works out alright for everyone involved.

Edit: the post fucked up the images initially, fixed them and added one I'd forgotten which I think is important
I thought he just left the Internet and moved on to do IRL things, but I didn't expect this wild revelation. :stress:
What a shame, I liked his streams where he played poorly made SJW-esque games, they we're comfy background noise.
I hope he gets some help, but I highly doubt it will happen judging from the discord convos.
 
I remember the 2018 drama somewhat, not surprised to hear that he's gotten worse mentally. Tim is really just such a sad reminder of how hard you can get fucked over when you stand on principle, he was the only one in the whole "skepto-sphere" that was actually skeptical and principled enough to look into what was going on when a former Google employee came knocking with a paycheck. Had he just taken the money and played ball, he'd probably have a high several hundred thousand, if not a million, subscriber account today with thousands of pounds from sponsorships.

Instead, he called a spade a spade and his reward was being beaten over the head with it.

I thought he just left the Internet and moved on to do IRL things, but I didn't expect this wild revelation. :stress:
What a shame, I liked his streams where he played poorly made SJW-esque games, they we're comfy background noise.
I hope he gets some help, but I highly doubt it will happen judging from the discord convos.
For what it's worth, he did return to stream on Twitch today. I didn't catch it until just now, and it's been going for around 2 hours. I don't know if he talked about the situation, but I would imagine he didn't. I'll check the VOD once the stream is over and report back with more info, if any.
His audio is noticeably worse, and he mentioned using a laptop now, so obviously he doesn't have his full setup, which is probably still at his family's house.

A female voice has been heard, and there's a cat, so the GF's house theory is likely confirmed.
 
Josh Strife Hayes (The Worst MMO Ever? -series) is a long, long distance away from becoming lolcow. His videos are very watchable, and he has managed to basically stay out of any serious drama. However I ran into this complaint about him, that I stumbled on a while back, stuck to me and I don't know any better thread to share it in.

"The worst point was when Josh Strife Hayes mocked people who use the arrow keys to move in a MMORPG and loudly demanded to know why the devs had coded in that functionality in one MMORPG, when as a lefthander virtually all games come with that functionality and being a lefthander isn't even uncommon. He then bragged about how good a teacher he is. I really hope that if he has any lefthanded folks in his classes, he treats them better than he treated us in his video."

Context: he used to be a martial arts teacher/instructor, something he brings up relatively often in his videos, usually when trashing the tutorial of a MMO.

If arrow keys are somehow the only way to move, that is a genuine problem. While transitional fossil like p1999 Everquest uses arrow keys by default, even it has key rebind support.
If game somehow has no rebind support at all, arrow keys mirroring WASD is the most logical use for them. Left-handed people really need it, right-handed people should not care about it.

This is really asinine thing to complain about if you give it some serious thought.
Josh is good at making videos but I can't get over youtubers who talk to their audience like children. I have no patience anymore for channels that beg you to like, comment, subscribe, and ring the bell that does fuck all for you. Last I watched of him his strategy was "If you did [extremely common thing] growing up you are now legally obligated to like and subscribe". I'd rather play in traffic than listen to you suck of Youtube.
 
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