Wonathan Joss
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If I was them I'd bring back World Famous for The Grumps. That would be an improvement of their current content
🌟 Internet Famous Arin Hanson / Egoraptor / Grump - "Hey I'm Grump!" of Game Grumps fame, hypocritical SJW doxer, shat himself recording a let's play
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Wasn't that their horrid sketch series? Not even diehard fans liked that one lol.
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So the Adam Sandler route. Makes sense seeing as they already have Rob Schneider on board.
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So I saw this in my recommended, a compilation from the official Grumps Channel...yet they don't even have a proper thumbnail.
"That's weird" I thought. Maybe it was just a really really new video and the thumbnail hasn't loaded yet.
Guess the new thumbnails were becoming so awful that they figured no thumbnails is the best course of action? 5 million sub channel, everybody.
"That's weird" I thought. Maybe it was just a really really new video and the thumbnail hasn't loaded yet.
Guess the new thumbnails were becoming so awful that they figured no thumbnails is the best course of action? 5 million sub channel, everybody.
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Ah my bad then, didn't click on the video since I didn't really wanna give them views lol. It is odd that they keep having this myriad of mistakes and errors since Allie or whoever it is that handles the video titles/thumnails/etc has been on. I'm willing to bet that she just has a boomer level understanding of Youtube and accidentally installs 5 viruses on the work computer while trying to change a title.
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Has there been a boom in vacation content recently? Boogie and the grumps both decided to hop on that trend within a couple of months of each other.
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Nah. People are just lazy.
MahFibro!
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They made an official post about this on their Youtube community tab about needing that 900k in order to go to Disneyland to record a 10PMH episode.
While you still have Lovelies spreading the word or saying they wish they could sub more than once, a good number of those comments are less than supportive (which is rather refreshing to see).
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You know, they're trying to hustle their fans. With how exceptional the lovelies are, I'm oddly fine with this.
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Imagine being so boring and retarded that you're willing to support a washed up manchild and his middle aged yes man in the hopes of getting riveting content.
Those are the real cows.
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Arin's deciding to quintuple down on Soviet Jump Game's marketing not being an absolute failure in the latest episode of Twilight Princess with them trying to badly justify that it's the hater's fault that it sucked and that people got upset.
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You get the idea.
On top of that, Arin also reveals, among other things, that not only does he think words like cuck and thot are dying out (the irony of his friend/colleague getting massively and publicly cucked by ProJared the Sailor Scout is apparently completely lost on him), but also that Joker was a bad film because it celebrates the evilness of the Joker and fits within the "white male rage (WMR) propoganda". No I'm serious: he actually took that article that was posted and mocked in Multimedia a few days back and ran with it as gospel.
r/rantgrumps - More dismissive of “negativity” from SJG/Book by Arin
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A: Also if there's something I've learned from Soviet Jump Game and...uh, Cecil H. H. Mills-
D: Yes.
A: Which are totally real things by the way, let's talk about them as if they're not.
D: Okay!
A: Uh...is, um...whenever there are people that - and I talked about it in the last video that I released for it - whenever there are people that are sort of making the place base, like, tainted a little bit? Like, like, they're sort of, like, making fun of people, or like, teasing people who don't get it or whatever, um, it sorta disincentives people to play?
D: Right.
A: In the space? So, you can sort of apply that to this: to a situation like watching Game Grumps and posting comments, right? Um, so, like...for example: if there's a bunch of people who are, like: "Oh what the hell, this was like, so easy. Y'know, how could you fuck this up?", there are like...a thousand more people that would post, like: "No I had a hard time with this too!", but like, because there are people in the world that are muddying the water a bit-
D: Who don't want to look stupid.
A: -ye, yeah: they don't, they don't wanna...
D: So you're basically saying trolls ruin it for everyone?
A: I mean, not trolls.
D: But negative...?
A: Yeah like negative, negativity, or aggression or something.
D: Yeah.
A: Which is, like, y'know: what are you gonna do?
D: Yeah, it's tough. I mean, online is the place that people go, some people go, to be negative. Y'know? It's like that, um...what was that book we were reading? Was it Alone Together?
A: ...Or The Shallows?
D: I can't remember...it was one of th-one of those books that...we were reading a bunch of books in a row, you and I, about the Internet-
A: About the Internet, right.
D: -And the things it does to people, and one of the books talked about, uh...the second personality that....people start to develop, like, the-th-they...people have their regular personality and the things they would say normally. And they have an online personality where they would say things there. And this online personality, this author argued, tends to be darker, more sexualized, more negative, and um...more impatient. ...I think that was it: "more impatient".
A: Yeah, yeah that's a key one.
D: Yeah, and so the-...trying to take negativity out of the Internet is very difficult because...the Internet is made up, not only of people, but of people that, um, are in a certain headspace because they're on the Internet.
A: Yeah...
A: Interesting.
D: Ain't that some shit? So it's, it's, it's tough, but I mean...what can you do? I mean, like, I remember you were really surprised, uh, at certain reactions.
A: Oh, so like, Soviet Jump Game and stuff?
D: Yeah, yeah...yeah.
A: Well, I mean...b-I guess because there was an assumption that there was some kind of, like, it was, like, mean-spirited or deceptive.
D: Right.
A: Which was, like, you couldn't have been further from th-like, I WANTED people to play along.
D: Yeah, of course!
A: And like, the game's free, so I wasn't necessarily selling anybody, like, it's, it was just like: "Here: come play with us!"
D: Yeah.
A: Because we're...we're havin' a goof!
D: Right.
A: Um, I guess it was just a, a, general misunderstanding of, like, y'know...where the landscape is right now, from my perspective.
D: (Sighs.) I mean-
A: Which I think is, like, important. Y'know, I think it's easy to dismiss, like: "Oh man, times have changed", but it's like...I dunno, the times are the times, and you're either with them or you're not.
D: And, and who knows. Like, I mean it's hard to know, like people...people are getting fucked with and manipulated - us included, cuz we're people.
A: Yeah, that's true.
D: Like, COOOONSTANTLY.
A: I feel like the pernicious nature of advertising or whatever is more prevalent than ever.
D: Right. Right, because I mean: I went to school for advertising; it-it is the act of, y'know, convincing people that they need a product that they might not necessarily need.
A: Yeah.
D: Um, and so i-it's...it's all about your intention but like, it's easy to confuse - for an outsider, an outside perspective I should say - it's easy to confuse your specific intention with the intention of other people that have fucked with them in the past, y'know? So it's...i-it's just hard to know, um, what's going on out there, because like weirdly: you and I are not on the Internet that much. Y'know, lately, we're in our spots-
A: Especially now more than ever.
D: Yeeeah, cuz like: we...we do things that put ourselves out there on the Internet, but it's like, as far as, like, what's going on in online communities: I've never known, really, and I don't know if you're as up-to-date as you used to be.
A: No.
D: Yeah.
A: Certainly not. I mean, y'know, I try to be, but it's-it-even in my own office, like, y'know, Allie is younger than I am and she's a lot more connected.
D: She's very savvy.
A: And - which is why she's so good at her job.
D: Yeah.
A: And, like, she'll tell me stuff that I'm like: "What!?"
D: "Really!?"
A: "I didn't know that", and she's like, "Yeah it's the thing, and it's been goin' on for two months now.". And it's...it's like "Aw geez...".
D: Yeah. Yeah.
A: I feel like an old man.
D: Yeaaaaah, but, I mean, like - and every generation feels that way - but I think now it's more pronounced than ever because things move SO quickly.
A: Oh yeah.
D: Yes.
A: Which are totally real things by the way, let's talk about them as if they're not.
D: Okay!
A: Uh...is, um...whenever there are people that - and I talked about it in the last video that I released for it - whenever there are people that are sort of making the place base, like, tainted a little bit? Like, like, they're sort of, like, making fun of people, or like, teasing people who don't get it or whatever, um, it sorta disincentives people to play?
D: Right.
A: In the space? So, you can sort of apply that to this: to a situation like watching Game Grumps and posting comments, right? Um, so, like...for example: if there's a bunch of people who are, like: "Oh what the hell, this was like, so easy. Y'know, how could you fuck this up?", there are like...a thousand more people that would post, like: "No I had a hard time with this too!", but like, because there are people in the world that are muddying the water a bit-
D: Who don't want to look stupid.
A: -ye, yeah: they don't, they don't wanna...
D: So you're basically saying trolls ruin it for everyone?
A: I mean, not trolls.
D: But negative...?
A: Yeah like negative, negativity, or aggression or something.
D: Yeah.
A: Which is, like, y'know: what are you gonna do?
D: Yeah, it's tough. I mean, online is the place that people go, some people go, to be negative. Y'know? It's like that, um...what was that book we were reading? Was it Alone Together?
A: ...Or The Shallows?
D: I can't remember...it was one of th-one of those books that...we were reading a bunch of books in a row, you and I, about the Internet-
A: About the Internet, right.
D: -And the things it does to people, and one of the books talked about, uh...the second personality that....people start to develop, like, the-th-they...people have their regular personality and the things they would say normally. And they have an online personality where they would say things there. And this online personality, this author argued, tends to be darker, more sexualized, more negative, and um...more impatient. ...I think that was it: "more impatient".
A: Yeah, yeah that's a key one.
D: Yeah, and so the-...trying to take negativity out of the Internet is very difficult because...the Internet is made up, not only of people, but of people that, um, are in a certain headspace because they're on the Internet.
A: Yeah...
A: Interesting.
D: Ain't that some shit? So it's, it's, it's tough, but I mean...what can you do? I mean, like, I remember you were really surprised, uh, at certain reactions.
A: Oh, so like, Soviet Jump Game and stuff?
D: Yeah, yeah...yeah.
A: Well, I mean...b-I guess because there was an assumption that there was some kind of, like, it was, like, mean-spirited or deceptive.
D: Right.
A: Which was, like, you couldn't have been further from th-like, I WANTED people to play along.
D: Yeah, of course!
A: And like, the game's free, so I wasn't necessarily selling anybody, like, it's, it was just like: "Here: come play with us!"
D: Yeah.
A: Because we're...we're havin' a goof!
D: Right.
A: Um, I guess it was just a, a, general misunderstanding of, like, y'know...where the landscape is right now, from my perspective.
D: (Sighs.) I mean-
A: Which I think is, like, important. Y'know, I think it's easy to dismiss, like: "Oh man, times have changed", but it's like...I dunno, the times are the times, and you're either with them or you're not.
D: And, and who knows. Like, I mean it's hard to know, like people...people are getting fucked with and manipulated - us included, cuz we're people.
A: Yeah, that's true.
D: Like, COOOONSTANTLY.
A: I feel like the pernicious nature of advertising or whatever is more prevalent than ever.
D: Right. Right, because I mean: I went to school for advertising; it-it is the act of, y'know, convincing people that they need a product that they might not necessarily need.
A: Yeah.
D: Um, and so i-it's...it's all about your intention but like, it's easy to confuse - for an outsider, an outside perspective I should say - it's easy to confuse your specific intention with the intention of other people that have fucked with them in the past, y'know? So it's...i-it's just hard to know, um, what's going on out there, because like weirdly: you and I are not on the Internet that much. Y'know, lately, we're in our spots-
A: Especially now more than ever.
D: Yeeeah, cuz like: we...we do things that put ourselves out there on the Internet, but it's like, as far as, like, what's going on in online communities: I've never known, really, and I don't know if you're as up-to-date as you used to be.
A: No.
D: Yeah.
A: Certainly not. I mean, y'know, I try to be, but it's-it-even in my own office, like, y'know, Allie is younger than I am and she's a lot more connected.
D: She's very savvy.
A: And - which is why she's so good at her job.
D: Yeah.
A: And, like, she'll tell me stuff that I'm like: "What!?"
D: "Really!?"
A: "I didn't know that", and she's like, "Yeah it's the thing, and it's been goin' on for two months now.". And it's...it's like "Aw geez...".
D: Yeah. Yeah.
A: I feel like an old man.
D: Yeaaaaah, but, I mean, like - and every generation feels that way - but I think now it's more pronounced than ever because things move SO quickly.
A: Oh yeah.
On top of that, Arin also reveals, among other things, that not only does he think words like cuck and thot are dying out (the irony of his friend/colleague getting massively and publicly cucked by ProJared the Sailor Scout is apparently completely lost on him), but also that Joker was a bad film because it celebrates the evilness of the Joker and fits within the "white male rage (WMR) propoganda". No I'm serious: he actually took that article that was posted and mocked in Multimedia a few days back and ran with it as gospel.
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I've noticed that a lot of SJWs criticizing Joker act like the main character of every movie is always intended to be the hero of the story.Arin's deciding to quintuple down on Soviet Jump Game's marketing not being an absolute failure in the latest episode of Twilight Princess with them trying to badly justify that it's the hater's fault that it sucked and that people got upset.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ydFmcRfMsR0:1171r/rantgrumps - More dismissive of “negativity” from SJG/Book by Arin
151 votes and 112 comments so far on RedditYou get the idea.A: Also if there's something I've learned from Soviet Jump Game and...uh, Cecil H. H. Mills-
D: Yes.
A: Which are totally real things by the way, let's talk about them as if they're not.
D: Okay!
A: Uh...is, um...whenever there are people that - and I talked about it in the last video that I released for it - whenever there are people that are sort of making the place base, like, tainted a little bit? Like, like, they're sort of, like, making fun of people, or like, teasing people who don't get it or whatever, um, it sorta disincentives people to play?
D: Right.
A: In the space? So, you can sort of apply that to this: to a situation like watching Game Grumps and posting comments, right? Um, so, like...for example: if there's a bunch of people who are, like: "Oh what the hell, this was like, so easy. Y'know, how could you fuck this up?", there are like...a thousand more people that would post, like: "No I had a hard time with this too!", but like, because there are people in the world that are muddying the water a bit-
D: Who don't want to look stupid.
A: -ye, yeah: they don't, they don't wanna...
D: So you're basically saying trolls ruin it for everyone?
A: I mean, not trolls.
D: But negative...?
A: Yeah like negative, negativity, or aggression or something.
D: Yeah.
A: Which is, like, y'know: what are you gonna do?
D: Yeah, it's tough. I mean, online is the place that people go, some people go, to be negative. Y'know? It's like that, um...what was that book we were reading? Was it Alone Together?
A: ...Or The Shallows?
D: I can't remember...it was one of th-one of those books that...we were reading a bunch of books in a row, you and I, about the Internet-
A: About the Internet, right.
D: -And the things it does to people, and one of the books talked about, uh...the second personality that....people start to develop, like, the-th-they...people have their regular personality and the things they would say normally. And they have an online personality where they would say things there. And this online personality, this author argued, tends to be darker, more sexualized, more negative, and um...more impatient. ...I think that was it: "more impatient".
A: Yeah, yeah that's a key one.
D: Yeah, and so the-...trying to take negativity out of the Internet is very difficult because...the Internet is made up, not only of people, but of people that, um, are in a certain headspace because they're on the Internet.
A: Yeah...
A: Interesting.
D: Ain't that some shit? So it's, it's, it's tough, but I mean...what can you do? I mean, like, I remember you were really surprised, uh, at certain reactions.
A: Oh, so like, Soviet Jump Game and stuff?
D: Yeah, yeah...yeah.
A: Well, I mean...b-I guess because there was an assumption that there was some kind of, like, it was, like, mean-spirited or deceptive.
D: Right.
A: Which was, like, you couldn't have been further from th-like, I WANTED people to play along.
D: Yeah, of course!
A: And like, the game's free, so I wasn't necessarily selling anybody, like, it's, it was just like: "Here: come play with us!"
D: Yeah.
A: Because we're...we're havin' a goof!
D: Right.
A: Um, I guess it was just a, a, general misunderstanding of, like, y'know...where the landscape is right now, from my perspective.
D: (Sighs.) I mean-
A: Which I think is, like, important. Y'know, I think it's easy to dismiss, like: "Oh man, times have changed", but it's like...I dunno, the times are the times, and you're either with them or you're not.
D: And, and who knows. Like, I mean it's hard to know, like people...people are getting fucked with and manipulated - us included, cuz we're people.
A: Yeah, that's true.
D: Like, COOOONSTANTLY.
A: I feel like the pernicious nature of advertising or whatever is more prevalent than ever.
D: Right. Right, because I mean: I went to school for advertising; it-it is the act of, y'know, convincing people that they need a product that they might not necessarily need.
A: Yeah.
D: Um, and so i-it's...it's all about your intention but like, it's easy to confuse - for an outsider, an outside perspective I should say - it's easy to confuse your specific intention with the intention of other people that have fucked with them in the past, y'know? So it's...i-it's just hard to know, um, what's going on out there, because like weirdly: you and I are not on the Internet that much. Y'know, lately, we're in our spots-
A: Especially now more than ever.
D: Yeeeah, cuz like: we...we do things that put ourselves out there on the Internet, but it's like, as far as, like, what's going on in online communities: I've never known, really, and I don't know if you're as up-to-date as you used to be.
A: No.
D: Yeah.
A: Certainly not. I mean, y'know, I try to be, but it's-it-even in my own office, like, y'know, Allie is younger than I am and she's a lot more connected.
D: She's very savvy.
A: And - which is why she's so good at her job.
D: Yeah.
A: And, like, she'll tell me stuff that I'm like: "What!?"
D: "Really!?"
A: "I didn't know that", and she's like, "Yeah it's the thing, and it's been goin' on for two months now.". And it's...it's like "Aw geez...".
D: Yeah. Yeah.
A: I feel like an old man.
D: Yeaaaaah, but, I mean, like - and every generation feels that way - but I think now it's more pronounced than ever because things move SO quickly.
A: Oh yeah.
On top of that, Arin also reveals, among other things, that not only does he think words like cuck and thot are dying out (the irony of his friend/colleague getting massively and publicly cucked by ProJared the Sailor Scout is apparently completely lost on him), but also that Joker was a bad film because it celebrates the evilness of the Joker and fits within the "white male rage (WMR) propoganda". No I'm serious: he actually took that article that was posted and mocked in Multimedia a few days back and ran with it as gospel.
IDK if they already made their minds up before seeing the movie and are trying to justify their anger, or are just that ignorant of basic cinematic concepts, but it's a really tarded take, especially since a lot of them, including Arin, work in the entertainment industry.
MahFibro!
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I'd love to know the details behind this claim.
If Allie is so tech/internet savvy/connected; why is she incapable of doing her job (as a social media manager) properly? And why are the shows she produces/co-produces so boring/lacks in creativity/originality?
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Is it in this video? What’s the timestamp?
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No matter who wins, Mizuno Ami loses.Arin's deciding to quintuple down on Soviet Jump Game's marketing not being an absolute failure in the latest episode of Twilight Princess with them trying to badly justify that it's the hater's fault that it sucked and that people got upset.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ydFmcRfMsR0:1171r/rantgrumps - More dismissive of “negativity” from SJG/Book by Arin
151 votes and 112 comments so far on RedditYou get the idea.A: Also if there's something I've learned from Soviet Jump Game and...uh, Cecil H. H. Mills-
D: Yes.
A: Which are totally real things by the way, let's talk about them as if they're not.
D: Okay!
A: Uh...is, um...whenever there are people that - and I talked about it in the last video that I released for it - whenever there are people that are sort of making the place base, like, tainted a little bit? Like, like, they're sort of, like, making fun of people, or like, teasing people who don't get it or whatever, um, it sorta disincentives people to play?
D: Right.
A: In the space? So, you can sort of apply that to this: to a situation like watching Game Grumps and posting comments, right? Um, so, like...for example: if there's a bunch of people who are, like: "Oh what the hell, this was like, so easy. Y'know, how could you fuck this up?", there are like...a thousand more people that would post, like: "No I had a hard time with this too!", but like, because there are people in the world that are muddying the water a bit-
D: Who don't want to look stupid.
A: -ye, yeah: they don't, they don't wanna...
D: So you're basically saying trolls ruin it for everyone?
A: I mean, not trolls.
D: But negative...?
A: Yeah like negative, negativity, or aggression or something.
D: Yeah.
A: Which is, like, y'know: what are you gonna do?
D: Yeah, it's tough. I mean, online is the place that people go, some people go, to be negative. Y'know? It's like that, um...what was that book we were reading? Was it Alone Together?
A: ...Or The Shallows?
D: I can't remember...it was one of th-one of those books that...we were reading a bunch of books in a row, you and I, about the Internet-
A: About the Internet, right.
D: -And the things it does to people, and one of the books talked about, uh...the second personality that....people start to develop, like, the-th-they...people have their regular personality and the things they would say normally. And they have an online personality where they would say things there. And this online personality, this author argued, tends to be darker, more sexualized, more negative, and um...more impatient. ...I think that was it: "more impatient".
A: Yeah, yeah that's a key one.
D: Yeah, and so the-...trying to take negativity out of the Internet is very difficult because...the Internet is made up, not only of people, but of people that, um, are in a certain headspace because they're on the Internet.
A: Yeah...
A: Interesting.
D: Ain't that some shit? So it's, it's, it's tough, but I mean...what can you do? I mean, like, I remember you were really surprised, uh, at certain reactions.
A: Oh, so like, Soviet Jump Game and stuff?
D: Yeah, yeah...yeah.
A: Well, I mean...b-I guess because there was an assumption that there was some kind of, like, it was, like, mean-spirited or deceptive.
D: Right.
A: Which was, like, you couldn't have been further from th-like, I WANTED people to play along.
D: Yeah, of course!
A: And like, the game's free, so I wasn't necessarily selling anybody, like, it's, it was just like: "Here: come play with us!"
D: Yeah.
A: Because we're...we're havin' a goof!
D: Right.
A: Um, I guess it was just a, a, general misunderstanding of, like, y'know...where the landscape is right now, from my perspective.
D: (Sighs.) I mean-
A: Which I think is, like, important. Y'know, I think it's easy to dismiss, like: "Oh man, times have changed", but it's like...I dunno, the times are the times, and you're either with them or you're not.
D: And, and who knows. Like, I mean it's hard to know, like people...people are getting fucked with and manipulated - us included, cuz we're people.
A: Yeah, that's true.
D: Like, COOOONSTANTLY.
A: I feel like the pernicious nature of advertising or whatever is more prevalent than ever.
D: Right. Right, because I mean: I went to school for advertising; it-it is the act of, y'know, convincing people that they need a product that they might not necessarily need.
A: Yeah.
D: Um, and so i-it's...it's all about your intention but like, it's easy to confuse - for an outsider, an outside perspective I should say - it's easy to confuse your specific intention with the intention of other people that have fucked with them in the past, y'know? So it's...i-it's just hard to know, um, what's going on out there, because like weirdly: you and I are not on the Internet that much. Y'know, lately, we're in our spots-
A: Especially now more than ever.
D: Yeeeah, cuz like: we...we do things that put ourselves out there on the Internet, but it's like, as far as, like, what's going on in online communities: I've never known, really, and I don't know if you're as up-to-date as you used to be.
A: No.
D: Yeah.
A: Certainly not. I mean, y'know, I try to be, but it's-it-even in my own office, like, y'know, Allie is younger than I am and she's a lot more connected.
D: She's very savvy.
A: And - which is why she's so good at her job.
D: Yeah.
A: And, like, she'll tell me stuff that I'm like: "What!?"
D: "Really!?"
A: "I didn't know that", and she's like, "Yeah it's the thing, and it's been goin' on for two months now.". And it's...it's like "Aw geez...".
D: Yeah. Yeah.
A: I feel like an old man.
D: Yeaaaaah, but, I mean, like - and every generation feels that way - but I think now it's more pronounced than ever because things move SO quickly.
A: Oh yeah.
On top of that, Arin also reveals, among other things, that not only does he think words like cuck and thot are dying out (the irony of his friend/colleague getting massively and publicly cucked by ProJared the Sailor Scout is apparently completely lost on him), but also that Joker was a bad film because it celebrates the evilness of the Joker and fits within the "white male rage (WMR) propoganda". No I'm serious: he actually took that article that was posted and mocked in Multimedia a few days back and ran with it as gospel.
Also, I think the term Arin is trying to refer to is a parasocial relationship between a content creator or celebrity and a regular internet person: the internet person knows almost everything about the (e-) celeb puts online, but the (e-) celeb doesn't know anything about a regular internet person.
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Arin's deciding to quintuple down on Soviet Jump Game's marketing not being an absolute failure in the latest episode of Twilight Princess with them trying to badly justify that it's the hater's fault that it sucked and that people got upset.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ydFmcRfMsR0:1171r/rantgrumps - More dismissive of “negativity” from SJG/Book by Arin
151 votes and 112 comments so far on RedditYou get the idea.A: Also if there's something I've learned from Soviet Jump Game and...uh, Cecil H. H. Mills-
D: Yes.
A: Which are totally real things by the way, let's talk about them as if they're not.
D: Okay!
A: Uh...is, um...whenever there are people that - and I talked about it in the last video that I released for it - whenever there are people that are sort of making the place base, like, tainted a little bit? Like, like, they're sort of, like, making fun of people, or like, teasing people who don't get it or whatever, um, it sorta disincentives people to play?
D: Right.
A: In the space? So, you can sort of apply that to this: to a situation like watching Game Grumps and posting comments, right? Um, so, like...for example: if there's a bunch of people who are, like: "Oh what the hell, this was like, so easy. Y'know, how could you fuck this up?", there are like...a thousand more people that would post, like: "No I had a hard time with this too!", but like, because there are people in the world that are muddying the water a bit-
D: Who don't want to look stupid.
A: -ye, yeah: they don't, they don't wanna...
D: So you're basically saying trolls ruin it for everyone?
A: I mean, not trolls.
D: But negative...?
A: Yeah like negative, negativity, or aggression or something.
D: Yeah.
A: Which is, like, y'know: what are you gonna do?
D: Yeah, it's tough. I mean, online is the place that people go, some people go, to be negative. Y'know? It's like that, um...what was that book we were reading? Was it Alone Together?
A: ...Or The Shallows?
D: I can't remember...it was one of th-one of those books that...we were reading a bunch of books in a row, you and I, about the Internet-
A: About the Internet, right.
D: -And the things it does to people, and one of the books talked about, uh...the second personality that....people start to develop, like, the-th-they...people have their regular personality and the things they would say normally. And they have an online personality where they would say things there. And this online personality, this author argued, tends to be darker, more sexualized, more negative, and um...more impatient. ...I think that was it: "more impatient".
A: Yeah, yeah that's a key one.
D: Yeah, and so the-...trying to take negativity out of the Internet is very difficult because...the Internet is made up, not only of people, but of people that, um, are in a certain headspace because they're on the Internet.
A: Yeah...
A: Interesting.
D: Ain't that some shit? So it's, it's, it's tough, but I mean...what can you do? I mean, like, I remember you were really surprised, uh, at certain reactions.
A: Oh, so like, Soviet Jump Game and stuff?
D: Yeah, yeah...yeah.
A: Well, I mean...b-I guess because there was an assumption that there was some kind of, like, it was, like, mean-spirited or deceptive.
D: Right.
A: Which was, like, you couldn't have been further from th-like, I WANTED people to play along.
D: Yeah, of course!
A: And like, the game's free, so I wasn't necessarily selling anybody, like, it's, it was just like: "Here: come play with us!"
D: Yeah.
A: Because we're...we're havin' a goof!
D: Right.
A: Um, I guess it was just a, a, general misunderstanding of, like, y'know...where the landscape is right now, from my perspective.
D: (Sighs.) I mean-
A: Which I think is, like, important. Y'know, I think it's easy to dismiss, like: "Oh man, times have changed", but it's like...I dunno, the times are the times, and you're either with them or you're not.
D: And, and who knows. Like, I mean it's hard to know, like people...people are getting fucked with and manipulated - us included, cuz we're people.
A: Yeah, that's true.
D: Like, COOOONSTANTLY.
A: I feel like the pernicious nature of advertising or whatever is more prevalent than ever.
D: Right. Right, because I mean: I went to school for advertising; it-it is the act of, y'know, convincing people that they need a product that they might not necessarily need.
A: Yeah.
D: Um, and so i-it's...it's all about your intention but like, it's easy to confuse - for an outsider, an outside perspective I should say - it's easy to confuse your specific intention with the intention of other people that have fucked with them in the past, y'know? So it's...i-it's just hard to know, um, what's going on out there, because like weirdly: you and I are not on the Internet that much. Y'know, lately, we're in our spots-
A: Especially now more than ever.
D: Yeeeah, cuz like: we...we do things that put ourselves out there on the Internet, but it's like, as far as, like, what's going on in online communities: I've never known, really, and I don't know if you're as up-to-date as you used to be.
A: No.
D: Yeah.
A: Certainly not. I mean, y'know, I try to be, but it's-it-even in my own office, like, y'know, Allie is younger than I am and she's a lot more connected.
D: She's very savvy.
A: And - which is why she's so good at her job.
D: Yeah.
A: And, like, she'll tell me stuff that I'm like: "What!?"
D: "Really!?"
A: "I didn't know that", and she's like, "Yeah it's the thing, and it's been goin' on for two months now.". And it's...it's like "Aw geez...".
D: Yeah. Yeah.
A: I feel like an old man.
D: Yeaaaaah, but, I mean, like - and every generation feels that way - but I think now it's more pronounced than ever because things move SO quickly.
A: Oh yeah.
On top of that, Arin also reveals, among other things, that not only does he think words like cuck and thot are dying out (the irony of his friend/colleague getting massively and publicly cucked by ProJared the Sailor Scout is apparently completely lost on him), but also that Joker was a bad film because it celebrates the evilness of the Joker and fits within the "white male rage (WMR) propoganda". No I'm serious: he actually took that article that was posted and mocked in Multimedia a few days back and ran with it as gospel.
Arin really encapsulates everything wrong with the modern left. Uninformed yet profoundly arrogant blank slates just parroting everything the media tells them. The only thing you're missing is squawking and asking for a cracker Arin. Nice try though.
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I think Arin is a huge retard who doesn't understand marketing and his whining about the people who told him the whole Brendy thing was shit only makes that more clear.
Now let me first clarify that I think it's a novel idea to market Soviet Jump Game in this way where it's got kind of ARG-ish traits. Only problem is that Arin presented SJG in a way where he tied it in with a real obscure Famiclone and showed all this footage of him trying to get the game to work and calling up severa people to get their opinions about his fake game with a YT clickbait title like LOST PIECE OF GAMING HISTORY UNCOVERED and calling it THE WORLD'S FIRST BATTLE ROYALE.
On the other hand, something like Petscop is presented right away as something fictitious. It presents itself as a game made on the PS1, BUT made by a non-existent game developer with visuals that look just a little bit too good for the hardware and only ever shows the game footage, not some YouTuber talking about the REAL PETSCOP GAME THAT HE GOT FROM A GARAGE SALE AND HE'S GONNA LOOK ONLINE TO SEE IF HE CAN FIND MORE AND CALL UP RETRO GAME COLLECTORS or whatever. That way, it's easier to swallow and play along.
Now let me first clarify that I think it's a novel idea to market Soviet Jump Game in this way where it's got kind of ARG-ish traits. Only problem is that Arin presented SJG in a way where he tied it in with a real obscure Famiclone and showed all this footage of him trying to get the game to work and calling up severa people to get their opinions about his fake game with a YT clickbait title like LOST PIECE OF GAMING HISTORY UNCOVERED and calling it THE WORLD'S FIRST BATTLE ROYALE.
On the other hand, something like Petscop is presented right away as something fictitious. It presents itself as a game made on the PS1, BUT made by a non-existent game developer with visuals that look just a little bit too good for the hardware and only ever shows the game footage, not some YouTuber talking about the REAL PETSCOP GAME THAT HE GOT FROM A GARAGE SALE AND HE'S GONNA LOOK ONLINE TO SEE IF HE CAN FIND MORE AND CALL UP RETRO GAME COLLECTORS or whatever. That way, it's easier to swallow and play along.
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