Let's Players originating from Something Awful - ft. VoidBurger, General Ironicus, Bob Kamoc

[Shaka Brah]

I really don't think RP had to worry about that near the end. The last 5~6 years of their content prove that the goons are just totally fine with people making fun of bad games. And you barely need to hold back on the insults while you're at it, because game devs aren't real people.
They had a pretty comfortable niche going, since there's always hot garbage coming out every year (Just from the last couple of years we have clusterfucks like Crying is not Enough and Left Alive, both perfect targets for riffs), and even when they're feeling too lazy to watch a longplay for a couple of hours they can always just look for easy targets on kickstarter or Newgrounds.

I mean, sure, maybe at some point the collective SA hivemind is going to suddenly decide that bad games are suddenly no longer acceptable targets, but it hasn't happened yet and I frankly don't see that happening in the near future.

Would they tolerate making fun of Brianna Wu's awful game? There are lots of bad games, but some of the funniest funny-bad games are made by protected people.

 

[Tanner Glass]

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266 subs is horrendous.

Don't get me wrong, 266 subs would be great if he was just a guy working his way up in the gaming world and having fun - but Slowbeef isn't that guy, he's semi-famous in those circles and has had exposure on podcasts/much larger channels to a point where him having sub-300 subs is really telling how few people give a shit about his content.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

At least with Slowbeef, I still find his old videos watchable. Unlike most of these people who turned into raving psychos I don't have really anything against him other than good job wasting a potential gold mine.

This will forever be a classic:

 

[RJ MacReady]

266 subs is horrendous.

Don't get me wrong, 266 subs would be great if he was just a guy working his way up in the gaming world and having fun - but Slowbeef isn't that guy, he's semi-famous in those circles and has had exposure on podcasts/much larger channels to a point where him having sub-300 subs is really telling how few people give a shit about his content.

This isn't true. 266 subs and 100~ average viewers is very good for Twitch (top 1% of all streamers) and impressive given how little (2 - 3 hours on average) he streams mostly playing old, irrelevant games. It's also excluding donos and ad revenue which make up a lot of income for streamers, but it seems to me like Slowbeef is doing it as a side hustle and not a full-time career. He also has a $284/mo Patreon.

It's also worth mentioning that not all web careers translate equally to Twitch success. There are plenty of extremely popular Youtubers, for example who pull smaller numbers than most big variety streamers despite having a larger overall platform.

It's pointless to knock beef here. He's making good pocket money for minimal effort doing something he obviously enjoys.

 

[Vivec]

This isn't true. 266 subs and 100~ average viewers is very good for Twitch (top 1% of all streamers) and impressive given how little (2 - 3 hours on average) he streams mostly playing old, irrelevant games. It's also excluding donos and ad revenue which make up a lot of income for streamers, but it seems to me like Slowbeef is doing it as a side hustle and not a full-time career. He also has a $284/mo Patreon.

It's also worth mentioning that not all web careers translate equally to Twitch success. There are plenty of extremely popular Youtubers, for example who pull smaller numbers than most big variety streamers despite having a larger overall platform.

It's pointless to knock beef here. He's making good pocket money for minimal effort doing something he obviously enjoys.

I agree with you mostly, but he pretty obviously misses the old days as well. I think he's partly satisfied while yearning for something better. The randoms he brings on don't have the same dynamic he had with beetus, or even the other old goons he would RP with.

 

[Tanner Glass]

This isn't true. 266 subs and 100~ average viewers is very good for Twitch (top 1% of all streamers) and impressive given how little (2 - 3 hours on average) he streams mostly playing old, irrelevant games. It's also excluding donos and ad revenue which make up a lot of income for streamers, but it seems to me like Slowbeef is doing it as a side hustle and not a full-time career. He also has a $284/mo Patreon.

It's also worth mentioning that not all web careers translate equally to Twitch success. There are plenty of extremely popular Youtubers, for example who pull smaller numbers than most big variety streamers despite having a larger overall platform.

It's pointless to knock beef here. He's making good pocket money for minimal effort doing something he obviously enjoys.

You aren't wrong, but you are treating Slowbeef as a regular "twitch streamer" and a regular "Youtuber". Most of his audience, most of his followers (26k on Twitter, 40k youtube, 19k on twitch) are a video game audience and he produces (or produced) video game content. His stream is video game content - he should be able to regularly convert more than 0.05% of his followers into viewers. Not just his audience, either, but he's also on a Twitch team with other larger draws as well (HerrDekay has ~350 viewers right now during the day). He's been a guest/feature/exposed to several other incredibly large audiences over nearly a decade - he doesn't have "normal" visibility.

Even if he doesn't stream for huge amounts of time - he's a partnered streamer with nearly a decade of visibility, with teams and access to much wider audiences, and a somewhat consistent streaming schedule - he should be able to drive much more of his audience into his content and realistically he doesn't. Go for the side hustle, (266 subs translates to roughly $665 dollars a month, on top of the $284 patreon bucks) but 266 subs is horrendous for him.

EDIT - I don't care if he streams, but having such a low participation rate with such a large audience indicates that most people don't care if he streams either.

 

[RJ MacReady]

You aren't wrong, but you are treating Slowbeef as a regular "twitch streamer" and a regular "Youtuber". Most of his audience, most of his followers (26k on Twitter, 40k youtube, 19k on twitch) are a video game audience and he produces (or produced) video game content. His stream is video game content - he should be able to regularly convert more than 0.05% of his followers into viewers. Not just his audience, either, but he's also on a Twitch team with other larger draws as well (HerrDekay has ~350 viewers right now during the day). He's been a guest/feature/exposed to several other incredibly large audiences over nearly a decade - he doesn't have "normal" visibility.

Even if he doesn't stream for huge amounts of time - he's a partnered streamer with nearly a decade of visibility, with teams and access to much wider audiences, and a somewhat consistent streaming schedule - he should be able to drive much more of his audience into his content and realistically he doesn't. Go for the side hustle, (266 subs translates to roughly $665 dollars a month, on top of the $284 patreon bucks) but 266 subs is horrendous for him.

EDIT - I don't care if he streams, but having such a low participation rate with such a large audience indicates that most people don't care if he streams either.

Big Youtuber "CinnamonToastKen" has 3M+ Twitter followers and YT subscribers, streams almost daily and he averages... 226 viewers. Grammy-award winning rapper T-Pain who streams maybe 3 times per month? 473 viewers.

How well your audience converts to your stream viewership is such an arbitrary and meaningless goalpost to set. Not all fandoms have identical tastes and not all content creators are equally good at or invested into streaming.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Big Youtuber "CinnamonToastKen" has 3M+ Twitter followers and YT subscribers, streams almost daily and he averages... 226 viewers. Grammy-award winning rapper T-Pain who streams maybe 3 times per month? 473 viewers.

How well your audience converts to your stream viewership is such an arbitrary and meaningless goalpost to set. Not all fandoms have identical tastes and not all content creators are equally good at or invested into streaming.

Slowbeef has streamed more in the last week than T-Pain has streamed in the last 4 months, so I'm not sure you could compare them 1:1 - also people aren't looking at T-Pain for video game content. CinnamonToastKen also isn't a video game person by any stretch of the imagination so I'm not sure why we'd be comparing him to slowbeef and honestly CinnamonToastKen should probably also have a better audience conversion rate, but he isn't a gaming youtuber so it's probably fine.

Stream viewership/subscriptions/conversions are the only metrics we really have to go by and it's also (IMO) a better metric than what T-Pain does when he streams rarely or what a youtuber who primarily puts out Dr.Phil/Baby Yoda memes can do on twitch - as those are really unreliable metrics.

I'm just pointing out that slowbeef; someone famous in video game circles for a decade for video game content centered on Let's Plays/Streamers, who consistently streams on a video game streaming website and is friends with other larger video game streamers should be able to put out larger numbers than he does.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Had an old RP going in the background while working and I forgot beefs bizarre obsession with "Mary-o" and "sniper's rifle."

Is this some stupid goonspeak or is slowbeef just autistic?

 

[Vivec]

Had an old RP going in the background while working and I forgot beefs bizarre obsession with "Mary-o" and "sniper's rifle."

Is this some stupid goonspeak or is slowbeef just autistic?

Sniper's rifle is just old school /k/, TFR, or anyone else gun adjacent autism. Slowbeef said maryo because it mad people mad and he liked making people mad, it was mentioned at some point on the podcast I think.

 

[Tonberry]

I know that Chip's half-shitposting, but I still feel like this is retarded enough to be posted here.
I really don't think taking the time to use videogame characters to promote a politician on twitter ironically makes it any less autistic.

 

[Rhysuu]

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I know that Chip's half-shitposting, but I still feel like this is exceptional enough to be posted here.
I really don't think taking the time to use videogame characters to promote a politician on twitter ironically makes it any less autistic.

Any time I see Chip all I can think of is the fact that he's a like 5'4" manlet with a girlfriend bordering on 6 feet tall. What a little bitch.

 

[proteus4994]

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I know that Chip's half-shitposting, but I still feel like this is exceptional enough to be posted here.
I really don't think taking the time to use videogame characters to promote a politician on twitter ironically makes it any less autistic.

Yeah I agree shit like ”would Mario vote for Elizabeth Warren” is cringe as fuck, but idk, this could be a lot worse imo. It’s almost funny, which is pretty good for Chip.

If this was Voidburger she would have made a completely humorless angry 20 post Twitter thread about whatever she’s mad about today.

Edit: To put it another way, I give a pass to anything more clever than RAWR ORANGE MAN BAD! nowadays

 

[0 0]

Any time I see Chip all I can think of is the fact that he's a like 5'4" manlet with a girlfriend bordering on 6 feet tall. What a little bitch.

The jury's still out on that "girlfriend" bit given, uh...

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

So anyone able to suggest decent LPs of the Silent Hill series.

 

[Whatsup bud?]

So anyone able to suggest decent LPs of the Silent Hill series.

Honestly...I liked voids lp of shattered memories. Like she can be good with the right guests. Too bad she seems miserable irl

 

[BlueSpark]

The Retsupurae subreddit has a @proteus4994 theory:

 

[The Grognard]

I'm pretty certain Jim was def around the LP forum circa 2008ish since i've got a vague memory of him appearing in some fairly early LPs with Habermann or Hbomb.

 

[0 0]

The Retsupurae subreddit has a @proteus4994 theory:

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Their voices, while sultry, aren't anything alike.

This reminds me somewhat of when people confused Proteus with Ironicus, despite them having very distinctly different voices.

 

[Tanner Glass]

The Retsupurae subreddit has a @proteus4994 theory:

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This is incredibly unlikely, as @proteus4994 hasn't been posting non stop about the Coronavirus for four weeks stright like a Mister Metokur account would have done.