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Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo

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So, how many "lovelies" do we have on this here forum? People who are fans of Arin (Grump), Our Lord and Savior Danny Sexbang (Not So Grump), and Jontron too (He used to be Not So Grump).
 
exball said:
The early ones were good. Arin turned into a tremendous faggot after Jon left.
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It's like, Arin was the straight man to Jon
Once Jon left and Danny came in, Danny being much more laid back, I guess Arin became Jon.
 
I guess you could say I'm a cumfaggot lovely; I was a fan of Jontron before, and I've been watching it since it started, but I certainly skip more episodes as time goes on due to the drop in quality/effort. I like Dan fine, and I like Ross even more, but Arin is insufferable a lot of the time and he's in every fucking series.

I'm actually a little astonished a Game Grumps thread was posted on Kiwi Farms without the focus being the recent Suzy/Etsy drama. Should I go into that here, or is that more suited for Lolcow General?
 
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Ohoolihan said:
I guess you could say I'm a cumfaggot lovely; I was a fan of Jontron before, and I've been watching it since it started, but I certainly skip more episodes as time goes on due to the drop in quality/effort. I like Dan fine, and I like Ross even more, but Arin is insufferable a lot of the time and he's in every fucking series.

I'm actually a little astonished a Game Grumps thread was posted on Kiwi Farms without the focus being the recent Suzy/Etsy drama. Should I go into that here, or is that more suited for Lolcow General?
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What happen?
 
I'll start with a little background info. Suzy is the wife of Arin and long-time manager of the show (though, I'm not sure if she still does that). She has her own makeup channel on Youtube called Mortem3r, but has no background in improv or comedy like the rest of the cast does. She was on very few episodes in the early days, usually relegated to gimmicks like Valentine's Day, but has shown up in more series over time and even got a spin-off called Table Flip based on board games. A lot of fans aren't particularly fond of her, though, because, well, she's just not funny. It's not like she does it on purpose, but she violates several rules of improv and constantly shuts down other people's jokes. Arin completely changes personality around her, going from bubbly to reserved, and shies away from making racy or juvenile jokes in her presence. The entire tone of the show suffers for it, and fans have made that known. Suzy has publicly attributed all the complaints about her to sexism, and has said that being funny is a not a requirement to be on Game Grumps, a comedy show. Naturally, she has a bit of a chip on her shoulder with regards to the fans and vice-versa.

Enter Ventgrumps. Ventgrumps is a subreddit for people to air complaints about the show without getting dogpiled by the more rabid fans in the official subreddit for the show. Usually this just involves people whining about lazy editing, poor gameplay, or boring episodes, but recently someone found something more sinister. Recently, Suzy had opened an Etsy store to sell jewelry. The stuff she was selling were necklaces or amulets made with jewels, metal charms, and taxidermized bugs. They were going from 80-100+ dollars each. Presumably, she was finding things in local shops and crafting them into new works, but people did a bit of internet sleuthing, and found out she was just buying other things from Etsy for a few dollars, adding a chain, copy-pasting the description (which often made pseudo-science/homeopathic claims), and marking them up to $100.

Expose Part 1
Expose Part 2
Expose Part 3

Suzy initially denied that she was doing this when the first two came out, but by the time Part 3 came out, it was indisputable. Once someone crossposted the information to the official subreddit where it became more visible, Suzy admitted and apologized for it, but it wasn't well received as she didn't really apologize for wrong-doings as much as make excuses ("I didn't tell you my real sources because I was scared people wouldn't like it") and call out the internet detectives for being creepy. Arin later showed up to let everyone know how disgusted he was with them, and tell everyone how sad they were making Suzy. The official subreddit soon after banned the topic and did their best to hide the thread. Shortly thereafter, Suzy posted a video to Youtube about being bullied online, complete with a thumbnail of her fake crying (seriously, there are cartoon tears drawn on her face).

As far as I know, that was the end of it, but everyone is still pretty salty about it.
 
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I enjoy watching them from time to time. Usually only when they're playing a game I like or interested in.

The Sonic 06 playthrough was comedy gold I feel.

To this day though, I still wonder what happened that made Jon leave? Hopefully it was something as simple as better opportunities, financial reasons, ect. But a part of me wonders if something happened between him and Arin.

Regardless, I prefer Danny overall.
 
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I watch 'em every now and then, especially when I'm playing an old-school game on my PC's emulator & get stuck.
 
Ohoolihan said:
I'll start with a little background info. Suzy is the wife of Arin and long-time manager of the show (though, I'm not sure if she still does that). She has her own makeup channel on Youtube called Mortem3r, but has no background in improv or comedy like the rest of the cast does. She was on very few episodes in the early days, usually relegated to gimmicks like Valentine's Day, but has shown up in more series over time and even got a spin-off called Table Flip based on board games. A lot of fans aren't particularly fond of her, though, because, well, she's just not funny. It's not like she does it on purpose, but she violates several rules of improv and constantly shuts down other people's jokes. Arin completely changes personality around her, going from bubbly to reserved, and shies away from making racy or juvenile jokes in her presence. The entire tone of the show suffers for it, and fans have made that known. Suzy has publicly attributed all the complaints about her to sexism, and has said that being funny is a not a requirement to be on Game Grumps, a comedy show. Naturally, she has a bit of a chip on her shoulder with regards to the fans and vice-versa.

Enter Ventgrumps. Ventgrumps is a subreddit for people to air complaints about the show without getting dogpiled by the more rabid fans in the official subreddit for the show. Usually this just involves people whining about lazy editing, poor gameplay, or boring episodes, but recently someone found something more sinister. Recently, Suzy had opened an Etsy store to sell jewelry. The stuff she was selling were necklaces or amulets made with jewels, metal charms, and taxidermized bugs. They were going from 80-100+ dollars each. Presumably, she was finding things in local shops and crafting them into new works, but people did a bit of internet sleuthing, and found out she was just buying other things from Etsy for a few dollars, adding a chain, copy-pasting the description (which often made pseudo-science/homeopathic claims), and marking them up to $100.

Expose Part 1
Expose Part 2
Expose Part 3

Suzy initially denied that she was doing this when the first two came out, but by the time Part 3 came out, it was indisputable. Once someone crossposted the information to the official subreddit where it became more visible, Suzy admitted and apologized for it, but it wasn't well received as she didn't really apologize for wrong-doings as much as make excuses ("I didn't tell you my real sources because I was scared people wouldn't like it") and call out the internet detectives for being creepy. Arin later showed up to let everyone know how disgusted he was with them, and tell everyone how sad they were making Suzy. The official subreddit soon after banned the topic and did their best to hide the thread. Shortly thereafter, Suzy posted a video to Youtube about being bullied online, complete with a thumbnail of her fake crying (seriously, there are cartoon tears drawn on her face).

As far as I know, that was the end of it, but everyone is still pretty salty about it.
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Da fuck? That's really sketchy of Suzy. Assuming this is true of course. It's a shame, she seemed like a nice person.
 
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To this day though, I still wonder what happened that made Jon leave? Hopefully it was something as simple as better opportunities, financial reasons, ect. But a part of me wonders if something happened between him and Arin.
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IIRC, it was two reasons:
  • He wanted to pursue a singing career, and felt New York held the best opportunities for that.
  • He wanted to be with his girlfriend.
I think (more accurately, hope) he and Arin are still on good terms. It's anyone's guess as to how often they stay in contact with each other though.
 
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Didn't Suzy also get some shit a while back for calling the fanbase dog shit? Yeeaahh.. I didn't dislike her at first, I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, thought it could just take a while for her to get comfortable with the video format and everything, but she really does shut down a lot of jokes. Acts annoyed when the grumps are goofing around "too much", even.

I preferred the Jontron era overall, I think they had a better dynamic. Jon being louder balanced out better, Danny's cool but he's also pretty ridiculously passive and chill and just goes along with Arin being obnoxious probably a bit too often. But Danny era grumps has had some gold and I'll still watch occasionally.
 
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I stopped watching after they started putting "trigger warnings" on their vids (over material like pedophilia jokes or suicide). They started catering to the tumblr crowd and went SJW I recall. Arin himself is supportive of Anita Sarkeesian's work, which should say a lot right there. I think I recall him saying in an episode of Shadow of the Collossus that the words "cunt" and "bitch" are inherently sexist, or something along those lines (when in actuality it's only sexist if you think all women are bitches or cunts, some women are bitches and cunts. Some guys are bitches and cunts. It's not sexist to call a spade a spade).

Also I saw a blog (here: https://archive.today/J8fTD) where Suzy accused any fan who disliked her as being misogynists, when in actuality people don't want her on the show because she's unfunny and contributes nothing of value. At least, that's what I remember her being like, I doubt she's improved since.

Oh yeah, and the fact that they stopped being funny. Oh well, into the trash they go.

Also, for lulz:

 
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Ohoolihan said:
I'll start with a little background info. Suzy is the wife of Arin and long-time manager of the show (though, I'm not sure if she still does that). She has her own makeup channel on Youtube called Mortem3r, but has no background in improv or comedy like the rest of the cast does. She was on very few episodes in the early days, usually relegated to gimmicks like Valentine's Day, but has shown up in more series over time and even got a spin-off called Table Flip based on board games. A lot of fans aren't particularly fond of her, though, because, well, she's just not funny. It's not like she does it on purpose, but she violates several rules of improv and constantly shuts down other people's jokes. Arin completely changes personality around her, going from bubbly to reserved, and shies away from making racy or juvenile jokes in her presence. The entire tone of the show suffers for it, and fans have made that known. Suzy has publicly attributed all the complaints about her to sexism, and has said that being funny is a not a requirement to be on Game Grumps, a comedy show. Naturally, she has a bit of a chip on her shoulder with regards to the fans and vice-versa.

Enter Ventgrumps. Ventgrumps is a subreddit for people to air complaints about the show without getting dogpiled by the more rabid fans in the official subreddit for the show. Usually this just involves people whining about lazy editing, poor gameplay, or boring episodes, but recently someone found something more sinister. Recently, Suzy had opened an Etsy store to sell jewelry. The stuff she was selling were necklaces or amulets made with jewels, metal charms, and taxidermized bugs. They were going from 80-100+ dollars each. Presumably, she was finding things in local shops and crafting them into new works, but people did a bit of internet sleuthing, and found out she was just buying other things from Etsy for a few dollars, adding a chain, copy-pasting the description (which often made pseudo-science/homeopathic claims), and marking them up to $100.

Expose Part 1
Expose Part 2
Expose Part 3

Suzy initially denied that she was doing this when the first two came out, but by the time Part 3 came out, it was indisputable. Once someone crossposted the information to the official subreddit where it became more visible, Suzy admitted and apologized for it, but it wasn't well received as she didn't really apologize for wrong-doings as much as make excuses ("I didn't tell you my real sources because I was scared people wouldn't like it") and call out the internet detectives for being creepy. Arin later showed up to let everyone know how disgusted he was with them, and tell everyone how sad they were making Suzy. The official subreddit soon after banned the topic and did their best to hide the thread. Shortly thereafter, Suzy posted a video to Youtube about being bullied online, complete with a thumbnail of her fake crying (seriously, there are cartoon tears drawn on her face).

As far as I know, that was the end of it, but everyone is still pretty salty about it.
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These faggots make a fuckton of money off of their channel and merchandise (split between the 5 of them, but still), and then there's Egoraptor's channel itself, and Starbomb videos/albums, and whatever else they do for money, and yet they still resort to scamming people.

They really are greedy scumbags.
 
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