This is part 2 of a two part post. If you have not read part one yet, here is the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rantgrumps/comments/kofpsa/game_grumps_2020_summary/
Arin makes a statement on Ben
After almost two months of people asking Arin to make a statement about Ben and him
blocking people on Twitter who ask about it, as well as
banning people or
mumbling and skipping the question for people who ask about it on his streams,
Arin finally made a statement, stating that the silence was because Ben lost a family member and that he wanted to give him time to grieve. Arin told Ben that his behavior was not appropriate as long as he works at Game Grumps, and he is still editing for them.
When someone asked about the
video that gave a fan a seizure thanks to Ben's edits, Arin stated that he did not know about it,
despite emails being sent, and a disclaimer added to the description a few days later. The video was taken down, and Arin has deleted the tweet saying that he did not know.
Ben previous had privately contacted someone on Twitter and after Arin's statement,
issued another apology where he explained that his actions were wrong, that he understood that now, and that his twitter was originally the voice of his character in Buckwheat Groats (
his band that appears to have ended in 2014) who is known for posting edgy humor. While this apology was enough for some, for others,
it was not.
Ben has stated multiple times that the tweets he made were "old" and that people took things out of context months later. While several tweets are indeed months old, the Reddit post was created on May 17th and Ben's last tweet was on May 8th, a difference of nine days.
It appears that Ben did not think he did anything wrong until after Arin spoke with him. In his own words, "Eventually, Arin became aware of the complaints, had a discussion with me about it, and it was during this time I realized that even though my tweets were indeed “just jokes,” that did not in any way make them okay." In the timeline of events he provided, this was after he had deleted the first and second batches of tweets found and issued and deleted his first apology.
A few days after Game Grumps deleted a few videos that included jokes about sexualizing children including the fan favourite
Sad Hoshi in Journey to Silius, and
a therapist hypnotizing and having sex with a little girl in Disney Princess (
Something that Arin knew about). However, people were quick to point out that Arin and Dan had made plenty of sexual jokes about children over the years including Misty (10) from Pokemon, and Medli and Zelda (both around 14) in the The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and many many more.
Sonic Shuffle Playthrough
Part 2 was uploaded early with the title and thumbnail as Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 instead
They were not playing with the Dreamcast controllers so they could not see their cards which had numbers on them indicating the spaces you could move
In Part 3 the game crashes so they watch someone else's playthrough and start the game all over
Arin's browser history shows a link to
YouTube user smokemymarc, who had two playlists on his channel titled "Videos of my feet!" and "My teen giant videos!". (All videos went private in Sept 201
In his About Page, the page Arin's history showed, it says
he does $4 a minute camshows and
links to a dominant bodybuilder blog where he describes himself as "I am the intimidating college wrestler and bodybuilder of your fantasies. Master to slaves, dominating weak f*ggots and s*ssies with ease. My fetishes are master/slave, giant, feet, findom and more. Whether draining your pockets or putting you in your f*g place, look no further for complete domination." (Censored for obvious reasons)
Finale ended early so they started story mode
The return of the return to Majora's Mask
Two episodes lost between episodes 79 and 80
Arin Appreciation Day Twitter, a holiday celebrated every three months on the 18th all about Arin Hanson, gets shut down due to violating Twitter rules
Cameo
Arin starts a Cameo. 80 per request and 4.99 to chat and then increased to 99 and 9.99 a few days later. Then increased once again to 125 and removing the chat.
Dan and Brian soon followed.
Dan is 99 per request and no chat, but increased to 125, while
Brain is 75 per request and 9.99 to chat, but eventually reduced to 50 per request
For comparison, Nolan North (Drake from Uncharted) cost is 70 per request
At the time of writing, Dan has 768 reviews, Arin has 402, and Brian has 46
Game Grumps Face Masks
Game Grumps releases their own personal face masks
Multiple people have reported that even though they are advertised as "One size fits most" they are on the small side, and that material does not hold up after a couple of washes (one person reported just one wash ruin the mask) as well as not being made from "Covid safe" material.
Hollow Knight Playthrough
A playthrough that was hyped up several times in the community tab (
One,
two,
three)
Dropped after four episodes because it was "too slow for the channel"
The password for the Grump Out Channel was found
A large amount of Grump Clips (Game Grumps moments) were uploaded at once, complete with new Dan and Arin Mustache Grumps
The result was losing over 17K subs in less than a week
Suzy went to a garage to get her car fixed and noticed that a conversation had been recorded on her phone
The conversation was an argument between two people, so she called the garage to report it and went on Twitter announce what had happened
Turns out the conversation was the ending to the song "Daddy" by Korn, which is apparently one of Suzy's favourite songs, and when she learned this, she quickly deleted the tweets
Even more Dan accusations
Another person has come forward and privately shown proof to the mods as well as myself (the deal was that we would not be sharing what we saw and I intend to honor that agreement) and it was the best proof shown so far. The person was 17 when they started talking in 2013 and they met up when she was 21 in 2017. They continued to sext until 2018 which overlaps with Dan's current girlfriend who he publicly announced in Jan 2019. (
And it is likely her he admitted dating in Oct 2017)
That same day, I was messaged by another person who privately provided proof as well in the form of pictures of them together and screenshots of Dan offering to pay for her plane ticket and picking her up from the airport, as well as another who claimed that not only do Arin, Brian, TWRP and Planet Booty all know about Dan's behaviour, but they have special rules for him to not being girls back to the tour bus or backstage anymore.
Among us Playthrough
Several guests including Jacksepticeye, Ross, and Markiplier
No one was allowed to stream the game and any uploads had to match the Grumps. When Markiplier didn't read the email all the way through and released his footage two weeks earlier, another message was sent reminding people not to do that.
Several videos do not have links to the guests in the description and while others had some in the title and the put the rest as "etc".
Danganronpa Playthrough
Arin uses the same voice for three different characters
A toy blocks some of Arin's screen so he can't see all the dialog and he refuses to move it
Arin was convinced that a character was trans and gets upset at the other characters for assuming the person's gender and misgendering them. When the character's backstory is revealed and this was not the case, Arin skipped over the dialog and claimed that the character was "not fully trans", but the character is not trans at all and instead just a crossdresser who wanted to avoid bullying, so the person who misgendered them was Arin himself. Afterward, some Lovelies went on Twitter and repeated Arin's claim that the character was trans and that the game was transphobic.
On Shuffle Master Arin stated that he loves Dagrapona but "
it is a fucking horrible game" and "it's a fucking visual novel, it's not a game".
Ghoul Grumps
New intro, old audio, with wolf Dan and bat Arin
Grump heads on thumbnail were Ghoul Grumps heads for one episode before never being seen again
Some kills in Dead by Daylight were censored (
9:54,
13:37,
44:09,
44:58) and
Alien Isolation had deaths censored as well. Both were criticized by fans as other playthroughs of the game did not censor anything.
"Slithering tentacle excites the furry in Dan" is an actual title for an episode
Old Game Grump clips are censored in "We watch ourselves get SCARED playing horror games!!!" compilation
PS5
Arin asks Sony on Twitter for a PS5 so he could play Demon Souls on Game Grumps. He received no response.
Seeing this, a fan sent Arin a PS5 and Arin gave him a shout out which netted him about 60 subs
It is unknown whether or not Arin paid the fan for the console or simply took it, but people were quick to point out that this is not the first time Arin accepted rare or expensive gifts from fans (Philip's CDI) and it isn't the first time he asked fans to send him things. (Pokemon cards in 2019 and expensive games in 2018, one of which being the Flintstones NES game worth about $500.)
Total games played with the PS5 on Game Grumps - 0
Mario Party 4 Playthrough
First instance of removal of episode numbers and Grump heads from thumbnails
Dan is the BOY OF THE HOUR! uploaded out of order as the previous day's episode. Then reuploaded as the next day's episode with an ad in front, before finally being fixed and uploaded as the right episode later in the day.
Due to playing on an emulator, Dan had massive input lag which Arin was unsympathetic about
Mario 35 Playthrough
After years of having a band focused around sex,
encouraging PolyGrumps (
Another), selling hypersexualized merch like Grump body pillows and rule 63 titty mouse pads, and allowing fans to put him in House Party, a literal sex game,
Dan asks not to be in anymore fan made sexual content like fanfictions and asks for all of that to be taken down.
The next day, Game Grumps restocked the body pillows and Dan's sold out within a couple of minutes
Phasmopobia playthrough
In Part 1, the game crashed right at the end before getting an answer to the ghost type
Someone tells the behind the scenes story of the impromptu Wendy's meet up Arin did a few years ago
(The staff were tired and angry because) "how big of a rush it was, how scared the shift manager was about the city or cops coming by to shut it down/ cause a scene because you know, 500 people swarming a Wendy's breaks A LOT of ordinance codes. The workers who handled that day were champs, but it should not be brushed off how much they were screwed over that day. There was apparently trash everywhere, multiple complaints, and not to mention the cooks had to just keep shuffling out burgers because they didn't know how many people to expect or how massive it was going to be. None of it was city approved and it was a huge rush of customers that came in out of nowhere and a lot of employees weren't even prepared for it."
Game Grumps donates $7500 to Matpat's fundraiser for St Jude Children's Hospital
Arin complains about not getting a Wendy's gamer box
The box was for "Never Stop Gaming" a Twitch stream event and says so right on the box. Arin does not stream on Twitch nor was not part of the event.
Jingle Grumps
Another year of no Nightmare Before Christmas Grumps
Jingle Grump heads appeared in the thumbnail for one episode, the rest had either no Grump heads, or Arin and Dan's real faces
First three videos are labeled, Jingle Grumps 1, 2, and 3 respectively, but then stop at 3 and was later removed from the title.
Healing Horse Charity Stream
Arin streams Kingdom Hearts 2 for his mother's charity, healing horse charity. (The stream cuts off at the 12 hour mark thanks to YouTube limitations. When Arin was told about this, he ignored it, but
someone was able to record the rest.)
The stream was advertised to be the entire game all in one sitting, but Arin stopped after 17 hours and said he would continue in January. The stream is still labeled as "IN ONE SITTING!"
Over $86,000 was raised
After some people raised questions about the legitimacy of the charity, people went looking on several charity checker websites to ensure that everything was in fact legitimate. The results came back inconclusive as the charity reportedly makes less than $50,000 a year, so it does not get a rating on most sites. However, when people searched for reviews of the charity, no one was able to find any reviews on any website, despite Healing Horse being open for 9 years, opening in 2011 and Arin claiming that they have helped hundreds of people. The one exception to this was their
Facebook page which has received a total 15 reviews.
Questions were also raised about whether the charity was lying on their taxes, and/or that Game Grumps was pocketing some of the money donated. Currently, these claims can not be confirmed or denied. (WARNING: This gets very technical, but I'm going to lay out all the evidence.) 2016 is the year with the biggest paper trail, so that's the year we are going to look at. In 2016,
Healing Horse Charity filled out Form 990-N stating that they made less than $50,000 in their Gross Receipts). According to the IRS, Gross Receipts are defined as
the total amounts the organization received from all sources during its annual accounting period, without subtracting any costs or expenses and because Healing Horse is a non profit, over three years of age, according to the IRS, in order for the charity's gross receipts to be $50,000 or less, it needs to have
averaged $50,000 or less in gross receipts for the immediately preceding 3 tax years (including the year for which calculations are being made), so 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. The gross receipts for Healing Horse Charity are confirmed
$6,780 in 2013, and
$45,006 in 2014. In
2015 Game Grumps raised over $70,000 and in
2016 raised over $65,000 (
with Vernon stating over $68,000) and
the actual number being $68,221.71. Added altogether this equals a little bit over $190,000, which is $10,00 shy from $200,000, as $200,000 divided by 4 would get an average of $50,000. However, this calculation only includes Game Grumps' donation and no other donations for the years 2015 and 2016, and going off the tax forms, they received
$2,800 in 2011,
$5,557 in 2012, and
$6,780 in 2013, which averages out to more than $5,000 a year, and with two years in question, would put it over $200,000 and thus the $50,000 average mark. If this is the case, it would mean either that Healing Horse would be ineligible for Form 990-N, which is what they filed, or a portion of the money raised by Game Grumps is not making it to the charity (And without a receipt, just like the Real Good Touring fundraiser earlier in the year, it is impossible to know whether or not this is true. Not to mention that last year, someone who worked in the Grump office claimed that Arin has done illegal things with money.) If this is not the case though, then everything checks out. While the difference between more than $50,000 and less may not seem that big, other than the potential legal issues, the biggest difference is that any charity that averages over $50,000 must release their records to the public.
Game Grumps Animator talks about behind the scenes
An animator came forward and talked about some behind the scenes stuff working as a Game Grumps animator. According to them, every animator is given a one and a half month deadline per video, regardless of length, and for a two minute animation are paid $800 flat rate if they are new, and $1000 flat rate if they are returning, meaning they get none of the ad revenue. When they mentioned the price they were paid to their animator friends, every single one of them stated that this was way too low for the amount of content being produced, which collaborates with what someone revealed in their behind the scenes experience last year.
Year Ends
Throughout the year
Another year of fans asking for the Grumps to start a Patreon to no avail
Fans complaining about the poor quality of Ben's edits and constant uploading mistakes
Another year of not thanking fans for sending in games
Click Bait Titles and Thumbnails followed by the removal of "Game Grumps" from episode titles and Grump heads from thumbnails
Constant Ads for Raycon, Skillshare, Nord VPN, Etc
No make up or mention for the Game Grumps Garage sale despite promising something bigger and better
No more information on
Starbos Cawffee or the other game they teased in 2019 (They announced three at pax 2019, Soviet Jump Game was one)
Constant complains with Playlists
that got so out of control with missing, out of order, and deleted videos, they Game Grumps community was asked to help.
Constant Upload and Editing Errors
Multiple Title and/or Thumbnail changes for Game Grumps content. Sometimes more than once.
Sakura Santa Part 3 - Uploaded two days early, then set to private. Because of this, when it was re-released, it did not show up in people's sub box
Sakura Santa Part 3 - Censoring does not cover the first and last couple of frames
Twilight Princess Part 71 - Section that was supposed to be edited out was left in (25:58-28:09)
"Looking at a DECADE of photos of us" changed to "Looking at a DECADE of photos with my best friend"
January 23rd - No upload
Unpacking our show in OUR NEW OFFICE, We summon a ghost GF for Valentine's day, Making the FASTEST Hot Wheeels Car Possible, Making Nintendo-Themed PANCAKE ART, Playing DARE UNO with our own RULES, and Testing our PSYCHIC Abilities - All have video glitches in areas
Best of Undertale Part 3 - No thumbnail. This is apparently YouTube's fault, but was later changed
Chrono Trigger Part 1 - Released six days early with a thumbnail that says "Needs Thumbnail" and wrong title
Best of House Party Part 3 uploaded before Part 2
Scarlett Mysteries Part 4 - Asked for an edit at 11:38, but no edit
Trival Pursuit: Live! - Outro offsync
Sonic 2 Part 3 and 4 - Audio offsync
House Party Part 5 - Uploaded out of order as Part 4
Assasin's Creed Valhalla - Audio offsync
Link Between Worlds Part 16+ - Audio lost so post commentary
Sonic Shuffle Part 2 - uploaded early with the title and thumbnail for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 instead
We watch popular Game Grumps Animations - Audio balancing issues at starting around 40 minutes (animations volume too low)
Majora's Mask Part 67 - uploaded as Part 4 - fixed three days later
Majora's Mask Part 72 - Audio offsync
Majora's Mask Part 73 - Fast Forward edit asked at 0:20 but no edit
Sept 11 - Double upload Super Bunny Man Part 7 and Magic Part 1 which was probably the upload for Sept 12 as nothing was uploaded that day
Mario Galaxy 2 Part 16 uploaded as part 4 - "Fixed" four days later where it was changed to part 13 eventually fixed to part 16
Mario Galaxy 2 Parts 16-18 uploaded before part 13
Stephanie get Inspired - over 6 minutes of footage that was supposed to be cut left in
Dan is the BOY OF THE HOUR! uploaded out of order as the previous day's episode. Then reuploaded as the next day's episode with an ad in front. Later fixed.
Danganronpa episode uploaded early spoiling a major plot point (Character death in chapter 2)
Game Grumps Employee's in 2020
Arin - Grump
Dan - Not so Grump
Ross - Gameoververse
Brian - NSP/Starbomb
Suzy - Arin's wife/Psychic Circle/Merch (Quit)
Ben - Game Grumps Editor
Tucker - Ten Minute Power Hour Editor/Cameraman
Allie - Social Media Manager/Assistant Producer
Brent - Office Manager
Ike - Writer/Assistant
Kris Boruff (Borf)- Stream Technician/Production Coordinator
Vernon - Creative Development/Dream Daddy/Real Good Touring
Stella - Real Good Touring
Gia? - Real Good Touring
Leighton - Dream Daddy Creator
Jory - Dream Daddy
Evan - Dream Daddy
Sina - Dream Daddy
Greg - Bootleg Dan/Dream Daddy/Head of game development
Eric - Animator/Merch
Tyler - Dream Daddy
Thom - Soviet Jump Game
Kero - Soviet Jump Game
Quade - Soviet Jump Game
Barney - Soviet Jump Game
Thomas - Soviet Jump Game
Harrison - Soviet Jump Game
Alex L- Soviet Jump Game
Rami - Soviet Jump Game
Nick B- Soviet Jump Game
Darvell - Soviet Jump Game
Barney - Soviet Jump Game
Daniel - Soviet Jump Game
Sam - Soviet Jump Game
Bafe - Soviet Jump Game
Bryan - Soviet Jump Game
Amanda - Soviet Jump Game
Alex H - Soviet Jump Game
Rob - Social Media
Micheal - Editor
Eric - Merch Creative Director
Laura - Merch
Alex Y- Soviet Jump Game Music
Lindsay - Merch
David - Merch
Dexter - Merch
Terri - Merch
Juliet - Merch
Ellen - Merch
Samantha - Merch
Daniel - Merch
Sam - Merch
Jules - Merch
Darin - Merch
Steph - Merch
Laura - Merch
Amber - Gameoververse/Merch Design
Rachel - Artist/Merch
Paul - Ghost Hunter Adventure Club
Megan - Personal Assistant
Michael N - Animation
Lettie - Cleaner
Andreas - Power Hour couch warmer
Sarah(Nails and ASMR) - ???
Dean (Best MRE) - ???
??? - Dan's personal assistant
Numbers are fun
Top 5 Highest Monthly Views 2012-2014
- 55.53M (December 2014)
- 51.02M (August 2014)
- 47.16M (July 2014)
- 45.64M (November 2014)
- 45.33M (September 2014)
Top 5 Lowest Monthly Views 2012 -2014
- 11.98M (October 2012)
- 14.72M (September 2012)
- 15.10M (June 2012)
- 15.63M (August 2012)
- 18.21M (April 2012)
Top 5 Highest Monthly Views 2015 - 2020
- 104.43M (March 2016)
- 97.05M (January 2016)
- 95.78M (August 2016)
- 95.53M (April 2016)
- 93.81M (August 2015)
Top 10 Lowest Monthly Views 2015 - 2020
- 40.50M (December 2019)
- 40.70M (November 2019)
- 43.18M (December 2020)
- 43.24M (March 2020)
- 43.51M (Febuary 2020)
- 44.09M (October 2019)
- 44.54M (September 2019)
- 44.85M (January 2020)
- 53.83M (June 2020) - Added 50M for removed videos
- 54.65M (February 2019)
Top 5 Highest Monthly Subscribers of All Time
- 166.39K (March 2013)
- 128.27K (April 2013)
- 118.24K (December 2012)
- 99.68K (Febuary 2012)
- 95.78K (August 201
Top 10 Lowest Monthly Subscribers of All Time
- ~-12.17K (November 2019)
- ~6.00k (September 2019)
- ~8.21K (September 2020)
- ~8.40k (October 2019)
- ~9.39K (December 2019)
- ~10.15K (October 2020)
- ~10.89K (February 2020)
- ~12.78K (January 2020)
- ~13.00K (November 2020)
- ~13.42K (August 2020)
(The numbers for December 2020 can't be found accurately right now, but would currently take the number 8 spot if it could.)
2020 Overall Stats
Highest Monthly Views - 59.71M (May)
Lowest Monthly Views - 43.18M (December)
Highest Monthly Subscribers - ~23.10K (April)
Lowest Monthly Subscribers - ~8.21K (September)
Total Views - 658.81M (Down by 43% compared to 2016 and 21% compared to 201
Total Subscribers - ~181.42K (Down 80% compared to 2015 and 32% compared to 2019)
"
We've reached the golden era of Game Grumps"
", with the confirmation that Arin as a cock hungry butt slut they could even include a golden ticket with his address inside every 3 boxes.
