Bit late to posting this (was traveling yesterday), but that actually led to some interesting things happening in the meantime.
The Grumps uploaded a new video onto their new channel to discuss common fan complaints and, as always, completely deflect the blame onto their audience.
Now to some of you who might think this title is super clickbaity...well, you're not wrong in assuming that. Some eagle-eyed users on the subreddits have been pointing out that they changed the title to that, after it was originally "What do these people in the office do?", or something to that effect, but was changed to the current title nearly a day later.
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Some of the more interesting points of the video are as follows:
- This is the video where they reconfirm to anyone who regularly watches the Grumps' content that they're moving to a bigger office space, as per the garage sale mishap.
- They admit that their style of humor has changed, but that they can't go back to that lest it feels forced...which is then followed up by a backhanded remark that it's the fans who've changed and not their own content.
- Arin swears up and down that he's not just been hiring friends to sit around for over 5 years, even though he's still being super vague about what roles they actually have or what they actually do.
- We are properly introduced to a couple of the interns, as well as find out that Ike, one of the aforementioned writers for Dream Daddy/Game Grumps has been shifted to being Arin's personal assistant...for reasons.
- Their list of staff members all of a sudden dropped from ~26 to 17, so either they don't consider the Dream Daddy staff a part of their official staff, or they were lying about "not firing their friends".
- They're not making decisions on what to play as heavily as before, meaning less variety than ever is going to be present on the channel, especially barring the NEW new schedule change from before.
- There's an unnamed producer for Game Grumps. Not the producer for Dream Daddy, an entirely separate producer hired specifically for Game Grumps.
- Dan had a black widow infestation in his house, porch, and garage (which is either a smoking gun that points to this being the same infestation he talked about back in July, or it's still ongoing).
As an aside, Dan's house is built entirely on right angles, has an incredibly cheap ceiling, and a custom-built arcade, recording room, and "fuck shower" (basically a shower with a slanted bench inside it). This info can be found in their OoT play through and mentioned for, like, a second in the accompanying TIHYDP, as well as Dan's Instagram.
- Several employees not listed from the previous
26 17 actually "left" Game Grumps in order to work for Real Good Touring...even though that's still a company funded and run by the Game Grumps, so they didn't actually go anywhere.
One other thing that's not mentioned in this video - but rather in the last Q&A video they did - that bears repeating once again: no, it was not out of malice (supposedly), they/Barry legitimately
did forget the password for GrumpOut. Don't remember if someone here ever got around to that but there it is.
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- Taken from RantGrumps/digging around on who this person was, so take this with a grain of salt, but if this is to be believed or can be verified: Arin/Dan's last PA that got fired has been pretty busy lately.
SpecialAmphibian6 said:
Kati was one of Dan's old friends from New York. She moved to LA to try to make it in TV and in theater and Dan basically supported her for like a year or so. She lived with Holly and Ross, sat for Rachel and Brian (Rachel was the lead in a reading of a play that Holly and Dan basically co-funded), worked as a PA for NSP (she's in several NSP music videos - Cookies, Eating Food in the Shower, and 6969), was friends with Arin and Suzy and was on a couple of Holly's streams and LPs.
She ended up getting caught telling false stories about Dan and Holly to impress her new theater friends, at what point, instead of apologizing, she fled to New York in the middle of the night, got a job working backstage at Hamilton and started making Blog and Instagram posts about the subject in oblique ways. She wrote a self-published booklet about it and several plays.
She also went DFE on her social media shortly afterwards, screen caps and archive links could still be floating around if someone wants to try and find them.
During this time, TheGamerFromMars also uploaded a new video on Arin, regarding what happened on Twitter.
I don't really have an opinion on the dude, and I know many here don't really think the guy's a good content creator, but I'd be remiss if I missed out on other people's coverage of Arin's antics, good or bad.
EDIT: Reminder that pretty much all of this was revealed in a
single video, with minimal confirmation/research needing to be done on my part. This isn't stuff that needs deep undercover gay-ops, this shit just
happens or just
gets said flat-out by the Grumps.