But, if that's who Craig was back in the day I can see why Phil is PMS'ing so fucking hard over this shit
Stuttering Craig created Screwattack.com with his then best friend Handsome Tom. Their gimmick was “something original every freaking day” but this really just meant new content Monday - Friday. Which was admittedly a new concept as this was the early YouTube era where people still had their own sites.
They had contracts with Gametrailers.com to publish their weekly “video game vault” series which was like a mini-review of old games(starting with Link Faces of Evil which predated YouTube poop by about a year), they funded AVGN’s videos from 2008-2016, they held their “Iron Man of gaming” contest every year, usually at Magfest but sometimes at their own convention, which had notable events such as the first time Sonic 4, Killer instinct 2013, Rayman Origins and others were playable to the public, and gave a lot of current big names their start.
A common joke back in the days was “That Guy With The Glasses/Channek Awesome is just Screwattack rejects” as many of the staff were originally from Screwattack or failed to gain traction there, including Handsome Tom who created BlisteredThumbs & Game Heroes for TGWTG after Craig literally stole his share in Screwattack.
Moviebob; Mattpat, Pro Jared, Completionist, Game Hunters, BrentalFloss, Razorfist, Extra Credits, Death Battle, and a lot of others got their start with Screwattack. Craig had this brilliant scheme of letting people post their own content to the site and featuring the stuff that got popular, with the option of contracting them to be officially on staff, which lead a lot of people trying to make video game content to gravitate towards Screwattack. A lot of his doichebaggery was on display in the skits, podcasts, and other videos that featured Craig. For a time they were one of the largest video game entertainment sites. They even started doing a daily live streaming show before twitch was even a thing.(including a moment where during a 24 hour stream in 2010, Jared was about to beat mega man X when Craig turned off the snes before the final hit).
They sold out to some random company, then RoosterTeeth bought them a second time. Only when RT bought them, they shut down everything except for Deathbattle(made since because by this point RT was basically just more successful screwattack). There was no way DSP did not remember what Screwattack was, or who Craig was. So I do believe he saw this as a big get for him, probably not realizing that he’s now a nobody