These are posts from the James Rolfe topic that I figured felt more appropriate here, so excuse the cutting and pasting.
Spoony is just too lazy to even produce lolcow content.
Honestly I never thought it was laziness. The guy spent YEARS being basically abused by literally everyone, and any time he reacts to it, no matter how thoroughly in-the-right he is, HE gets blamed for "not being a good sport" about it. It's the standard "the bullies aren't bad for picking on you, you're bad for trying to do something about it" mentality that America is just enamored with.
Anyone who has ever been to high school has seen it and should empathize with Spoony, but for some reason, the internet doesn't.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna defend his Twitter Pity Party While Refusing To Actually Do Anything era.... I just don't really blame Spoony for falling into that rut. He was essentially railroaded into it.
It's like, I had a friend years back, who had to live with his parents.... because his mom was in a wheelchair, see, and he was helping caretake for her. But he was an adult man, so of course a lot of people heard the "grown man who lives with his parents" part and not the "because he's taking care of his invalid mom" part and just assumed he was some lazy slob.
That's not exactly Spoony's situation, but its similar in that people judging Spoony tend to only hear the part that makes him sound like the asshole without checking to see if he might in some way be justified.
EDIT: I'm actually now reminded of something similar regarding the author of Yuyu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter. I forget the guy's name. Story goes around that Yuyu ended because the dude locked himself in a room and threatened to commit suicide if he wasn't allowed to end it. First time I heard this story, it was presented as a story about the terrifying level of control Japanese publishers have over authors that he would even
need to do this. Nowadays whenever I hear this story told, it's presented as "wow, so the author of this manga was a nutcase, huh?" Same deal with Spoony--people who don't know the larger context just tend to take what they hear at face value.
NOTE: The quoted text here was in response to what I said above.
How much Patreon money did Spoony take from his fans while giving zero content? What did Spoony do when his movie goal was reached? Oh yeah, nothing. Spoony got to where he was because of his own actions. It's been about a decade since these events and he is just there, doing nothing.
He has had more than enough time to fix his life after "falling from grace". "Muh depression" isn't an excuse. He is like DSP and every other lolcow who couldn't take any form of criticism and threw hissy fits at his fans or blamed them, which is what James Rolfe did when talking about the trolls though not to the extent which Spoony did.
Like I said, I'm not here to defend his streamer/twitter-addict period. I've just never liked how literally everyone frames the story as "he got big but then the fame went to his head and he started being lazy" (which is literally the story you will get if you look up "what happened to Spoony?") when the full story was that Spoony was getting crap from literally all corners and so his burnout was probably understandible.
That's why I made the analogy to that manga author--similar case where people hear only one part of the story out of context and conclude the guy was an asshole.
James is so boring now people talking about Spoony in his thread.
It's weird. James for me is basically a guy I have some sort of nostalgia for because his videos were from a period where the internet looked wide and open and full of endless possibilities and anything could happen and if I click enough links it'll take me to the gumdrop kingdom..... But I never actually was that huge an AVGN fan.
It's the internet equivalent of when you have a cartoon you didn't like that much as a kid, but you have way more interest in it now specifically because its something you remember being part of your childhood. Except that I would've already been in my late teens or adulthood at the time AVGN premiered.
If I had to compare them to classic cartoons, AVGN would be The Simpsons. Spoony would be Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates--a show that had something intangibly special about it, that wasn't quite perfect, but everyone who saw it loved it and wants it to come back.... except with an added element that people keep thinking that if they rage hard enough that'll convince the creator to make new episodes (which we will inevitably then lambast for not being as good as we want).
.... Hell, didn't that actually happen to Spoony? I recall hearing he reviewed The Force Awakens but everyone hated it because he was a "pussy-whipped SJW." That just kinda tells you everything, doesn't it? If Spoony did make a new video, we would all just be bitching that its not as good as his old stuff. The only way he would get a positive reception is if a Mega Man 11 situation occured.
