I still stand a G4 revival could've worked, and actually been better than the original. And, bonus for them, they could've done it without being coomer bait.
People say they don't have anything they could offer than youtubers couldn't, and to that, I say: Budget. G4 had TV money backing their revival, and what did they do with it? The same boring fucking reviews any moron with a screen recorder can do. But they also give Jirard (I don't care if I spelt it wrong, you know who the fuck I mean) God of Work, which, while not phenomenal, was a pretty decent show, all things considered. For fucks sake, it was basically a soy'd up version of ThePunchlineIsMachismo.com, god rest that comic. That's what they had to offer.
Imagine if, instead of just throwing the name Xplay down, they leaned into their advantage being money. Bring back Arena, with prizes. Plenty of loser nerds would love to get on a stage and fight for a couple hundo, or a PS5, or something like that. Players that are good enough to be interesting, but not good enough (or interested) to get into tournaments. Make more shows based on gaming, either as a medium or a culture. A mocumentory series combing through MMOs to 'observe them in their habitats', something like Monster Mazes 'Living as a Bokoblin', more series set in game worlds (or game adjacent worlds). There's plenty of things there that someone even remotely interested in gaming with a third grade level in creative writing could come up with.
Instead, they thought they could rest on the laurels, and pretend like nothing changed, while also removing the TNA, and bringing in lunatics like Frosk, which anyone even passingly familiar with the LoL scene could've told you how that was gonna go.
I know this is all rainbow as fuck, but my point is, G4 wasn't D.O.A. It was killed by letting Frosk open her mouth, and then buried by doing nothing with the money they had.
