According to the Grumps, it looks like Lovelies are back at it again. Danganropa 2 is said to have been "the most requested Game Grumps game of all time" (by who, I'm not quite sure), and it seems that any video that isn't Danganropa is being disliked bombed. This caused the Grumps to make a statement about how disliking bombing them is bad for everyone, but actually really just them because of the almighty algorithm.
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Now this isn't anything new. The Lovelies have been known to do stuff like this in the past. The most notable was when Jiggle Grumps interrupted Doki Doki Literature Club a few years back and Arin had to make a statement about it.
But after doing a little digging, it seems what the Grumps are saying is untrue. So I'm going to do something a little unprecedented here and actually defend the Lovelies.
Unfortunately, YouTube took away the ability to see the actual dislikes, but I was able to find
some percentages for a couple videos on Social Blade. (If anyone can somehow get the actual numbers and either prove me wrong or back up me up, that would be much appreciated.)
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RATING% is what we're looking at, and luckily it's colour coordinated, so as you can see by the green, there is in fact a couple videos that did get a little more dislikes. And by a couple videos, I mean a total of three. I did some quick calculations with the lowest percentage, the 94.2%, (I'm not writing the title as I have at least a little dignity) and with a total of 9.4K likes on the video, you get about 650ish dislikes. It's definitely a little higher than normal, but with 94.2% being the worst one, 9.4K likes to 650 dislikes is not something I would call "Dislike Bombing".
However, if you look back at the numbers, there are plenty of other non Daganronpa videos that aren't affected by this so called "Dislike Bombing". It's only those three videos. So do those three videos have some sort of common factor? Yes. Two in fact. 1. They are all Roblox videos. And 2. They guest star a person I never heard of named Flamingo.
So instead of the Lovelies "Dislike Bombing" every video that isn't Daganronpa, what is actually happening is that the Lovelies didn't like the Roblox series, didn't like Flamingo, or both. Then instead of the Grumps admitting that either the series or guest just isn't working out, instead decided to blame their community. Good job guys.
If you want my theory, it's probably Flamingo, as the Grumps also released this statement saying "Be lovely to our guests! OR ELSE" a few days prior, meaning that the Lovelies were probably giving him at least a little shit. (He did a couple of other videos with the Grumps, so if anyone can get the dislikes there to prove or disprove this that would be great).
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Always remember, it's not the Grumps fault for putting out bad content or having bad guests, it's yours for not liking it.