"But a blocklist does that automatically anyways by following the account to make sure you don't see it! I don't see what the big deal is if it's done manually!"
- Some Lovely, probably.
Speaking of Twitter, Arin made an announcement yesterday that he's going to take a break.
An...indefinite break. From
all of YouTube, including streaming on Shuffle Master and including Game Grumps.
Which is a bit weird and out of the blue since the Grumps apparently just went on Christmas break, and because this would be the time where they need to make the most videos due to this being the worst financial month for YouTubers. So I took a look on RantGrumps to see if people were talking about it, and while nobody was, one person brought up this little piece of news.
As we've talked about before, a lot of Lovelies (including NotBlarg in his 2020 summary post) have gone through the records of the Healing Horse Therapy charities they run, and have found that all of the money being donated isn't seemingly going into the charity itself, there's no paper trail for where it's been going instead, there's been little to no actual reviews or interactions with this business from the supposed clientele they've got, and that the company is based in North Carolina despite the fact that Arin's family lives in Florida. This has lead people to suspect that Healing Horse might be being used as a shell company to funnel money gained from the charity into Game Grumps; that this was the potentially corrupt financial thing Arin's been doing that MasterSword, a former GG remixer, talked about on his livestream last year. And with the veto and subsequent ban happening, and not 6 hours afterwards, Arin says he suddenly needs to go dark, not even saying it's due to burnout or anything, just that he's
gotta do it...
Either that's one
hell of a coincidence, or Arin finally got caught with his pants down and needs to rectify shit pronto before the cops show up at their door...again.
I would hope that Arin wasn't using his mother like that but, then again, he did try to claim she was complicit in a three-way abusive relationship with his fake uncle, so YMMV.