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This is a thread to talk about Dorkly, a videogame animation channel that once upon a time was one of the best animation channels on Youtube. But over time, it has been a sharp decline in the quality of their videos. There has been talk about them going into bankruptcy a while ago, it has been referenced once in their supposed last animation videos, saying that they can't even rely on Patreon because many of their fans are jobless.
I unsubscribed from their channel a while ago, because I dislike how their videos are now. It shows their disinterest in trying something new given how much are over-relying on Pokémon now. Including the "If Pokedex Entries Were Literal" series, which I consider one of their most lazy and worst series that they've done in their channel, because the majority on the sketches are either shitty parodies or puking how self-aware they are about the absurdity of the trope and overexplaining the jokes, and to be honest, that's literally all of the videos now in the channel when they're doing parodies, but in the past, they had better writers, that could do a charming subversion parody without just spewing exposition on why the premise of a game is ridiculous. There is one entry about how one character shows up on a blank screen and explains why the joke planned for the sketch isn't funny because the Pokémon in question (Seaking) isn't funny.
It is sad their sharp decline in quality because the old videos were truly funny, but it's what happens when you fire your talented staff and replace it with people that can't write for shit. And it shows their lack of money when the channel now relies on compilations of old videos and having the one person they can count on (the VA of Mario, who is in my opinion overqualified and deserves a lot better than being stuck in this channel.) to do videos anymore. They should've stayed in bankruptcy, rather than letting the corpse of the channel be toyed around.
Anyway, what are your favourite Dorkly videos? What is your opinion about their current state?
Sonic for Hire is still the best series done in that channel btw, even though they didn't technically make it.
I unsubscribed from their channel a while ago, because I dislike how their videos are now. It shows their disinterest in trying something new given how much are over-relying on Pokémon now. Including the "If Pokedex Entries Were Literal" series, which I consider one of their most lazy and worst series that they've done in their channel, because the majority on the sketches are either shitty parodies or puking how self-aware they are about the absurdity of the trope and overexplaining the jokes, and to be honest, that's literally all of the videos now in the channel when they're doing parodies, but in the past, they had better writers, that could do a charming subversion parody without just spewing exposition on why the premise of a game is ridiculous. There is one entry about how one character shows up on a blank screen and explains why the joke planned for the sketch isn't funny because the Pokémon in question (Seaking) isn't funny.
It is sad their sharp decline in quality because the old videos were truly funny, but it's what happens when you fire your talented staff and replace it with people that can't write for shit. And it shows their lack of money when the channel now relies on compilations of old videos and having the one person they can count on (the VA of Mario, who is in my opinion overqualified and deserves a lot better than being stuck in this channel.) to do videos anymore. They should've stayed in bankruptcy, rather than letting the corpse of the channel be toyed around.
Anyway, what are your favourite Dorkly videos? What is your opinion about their current state?
Sonic for Hire is still the best series done in that channel btw, even though they didn't technically make it.
