RandomGibberish
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Mar 19, 2025
Of course he will lose half his audience.I don't think this is a good plan.
If Karl really wants to save his career he needs to go for broke and double the fuck down. People will tune in for an absolute train wreck, not to watch some legally declared retard talk about speedrunning.
- His fans were invested in the crusade, and the ones that are sticking around are still invested in thinking Billy is a bad guy. Appeasement never works and saying all this was for Karl's ego would drive away the rest.
- People are mad about being lied to, offering refunds will not make them forgive the lying part. Besides my boy is leaking enough money as it is.
- Not going to help because of point 1
- Has that line ever helped a tanking youtuber?
- His most popular videos are about things outside of speedrunners, it is how he grew his audiace. His channel is dead in the water because this drama has made his name toxic outside of speedrunning.
- He ain't making that much anymore...
Of course he will get mocked endlessly and lose his reputation as a "investigative journalist" or whatever.
But do most people really care about Speedrunning drama content whether a Karl Jobst or a Pimple McDoodle is reading off a AI generated script?
People want to watch a YouTube video while eating and they care about the content.
Not the person behind it.
Otherwise no person would want to watch an old movie with Harvey Weinstein anymore.
Hell, I would say most people watching him just get his videos recommended by the algorithm because his viewer retention is high and he has a high views to subscriber ratio.
And they never heard of him before.
Being humble and honest with yourself would make at least *some* people shrug it off and continue watching his videos because they couldn't give 2 shits about him as a person.
But doubling down will increase the number of people saying "Fuck that guy".