This is what I like to call the "DSP" effect that most of the let's players/streamers have. You do something like let's playing as a hobby on the side while focusing on bigger projects -> ( early game grumps ), then you start doing it solely to make a living because you kinda enjoy it. Then over the years you start getting sick of it but are now stuck in a position where you can't leave or else your fucked. So now your forced to do something you dislike, and only growing more hatred for it by the day, while any joy you once had doing this activity is gone. You may try different things to keep it fresh but that all depends on the audience you've garnered.
Agreed, if they make for an interesting enough thread. I don't honestly think there's too much lolsy meat on those bones but maybe it's still on the slow cooker, waiting to spoil a-la ProJared.
honesty you'll be surprise how incestuous a lot of these youtube companies
All I’ve noticed is that a lot of well-known youtubers come from California. I guess I wouldn’t really be that surprised if there’s a corporate entity that buys up upstart Youtubers for a low risk/high return profit
Exactly These fuckers have some shady shit to them. You can tell by how much they detest any form of scrutiny and cry in front of a camera when things don't go there way.
I’ve noticed that most youtubers that move to California all experience a burnout/self imposed controversy. Projared was from Wisconsin, Arin was from Florida, Bobby Burns I believe was from the midwest, the Pauls are from Ohio. Something in nonnatives just snaps when they get exposed to California air or something.
This is probably the first time I've seen someone reference Code Lyoko. Thank you for the nostalgia
They catch the big gay
I'd guess it's because there's the view that you've made it when you move to Cali, because you now live in the same place as those big Hollywood guy's and thus on the same level as them. But of course that only really appeals to those with large egos, a sane person would look at what you have to pay in those big cities and stay the fuck away, thus only the crazy fuckers come.
To be fair they do need to have someplace to host the time and places of their tours, and if you need that you might as well host your merch there as well. Granted it's basic as shit, in particular the about section seems too short, and I feel that the tour section should really be laid out better. But overall I'll say it's probably necessary for their needs, and I don't think it would be that expensive to make or maintain as long as they didn't do something stupid like hire the makers of whitehouse.gov for it.
it's a fifth wheel to selling garbage merch. Penny Arcade figured it out eventually, selling lots of collectible pins and clothing, and occasionally plugging other people's games and their own little side projects. Most other e-celebrities don't quite "get it."
Culture shock, then? I can’t tell you how many native Californians are trying tonget out of the state, or just the state’s hotspots just to get away from all the nonnatives coming in and jacking up the price of living here.
ProJared, his soon-to-be-ex-wife and current/soon-to-be-ex(?)-girlfriend(?) all live in the great metropolis of Seattle.
