Team Four Star - Creators of a bunch of stuff to make people laugh trying to figure out what to do after a decade of comedically retelling Dragon Ball Z.

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This is just the lifecycle of parody youtube-channels, their usually composed of nerds who really like a specific thing so much they make more content relating to it having genuinely humorous takes on the media that hits off well because of their intimate knowledge of the product, these nerds over the years with their easy occupation and terminally online-ness usually because of how out of touch they become fall into degenerate left wing circles that create a feedback loop on their perception of reality and when the product runs out of episodes to parody or steam their thrown into the wild and produce their own content it usually falls flat or is discordant with the audience because of their humors are now reflective of their current echo chambers of what is allowed to be funny and brought up. They also tend to grow big chips on their shoulders believing after they start putting in some production value into their videos that their genuine artists and start to bring in likeminded sycophants and mediocre production members that goon to the same shit they do and start overly chiming in towards the direction of their content.
This is also seen in the most recent successful parody-youtuber BruvaAlfabusa, his early success was humorous raunchy short warhammer 40k videos parodies that when they started to have production value they started weaving a story on top of it and dropping most of the prior humor that made them big even going back and "re-doing" them so they fall in line with their modern narrative basically drop kicking their initial raunchy mildly edgy premise. Another common theme is their head honcho seem's to be a very amiable but also very weak willed man lead by the nose of his production contributors basically utterly driving the direction of his content to fit in line fanfiction fags and blue sky trannies.
The first half was word for word what I was going to use as an example of what BruvaAlfabusa had become and then you beat me to it. God is Haunter not fucking good.
 
It really feels like TFS is on its last legs.
Their newest update video is an ad to "please go watch their old videos and check us out playing DnD. Sorry about no content for half a year"

It reminds me of Rooster Teeth in a way. They made it big off of abridging and riffing on another well established IP.
Their original content they're sinking money into isn't going anywhere. Horrendous "Anime Inspired" garbage.
The constant political sperging creating even more division in their dwindling fanbase.
And its obvious to everyone that they're running on borrowed time and a supply of good will they've accumulated from a decade ago.

Can't last forever.
This is what happens when you don't have a plan for the future. I imagine when they were first starting to take off they envisioned being able to abridge so many other anime and parlaying their success with the DBZA into real industry jobs. Maybe turn TFS into a real media company.

Instead none of that occurred and they are now left holding empty sacks. I don't even understand why they still have a Patreon considering that they aren't even putting out content anymore on a regular basis.

I give hbi2k credit for having the foresight to see that the writing was on the wall for them and leaving when he did.
I think they only vaguely remembered Bojack from watching the movies ages ago and forgot what he was like in the footage until they actually rewatched it and realized "Oh, shit, he's nothing like what we had in mind."

From stuff they've said, they didn't rewatch the episodes or movies until it was time to do them for Abridged. In their commentary, Lani mentions rewatching the Frieza saga for DBZA and being surprised that one episode was just flashbacks of the fight while Goku and Frieza stare each other down and nothing else happening, so they didn't even watch the seasons ahead of time to get an idea for where they were going, which makes some of the delays make sense if they had ideas for where to go, realized they couldn't do them, and then had to come up with a new script.
In their defense, I feel like a lot of the fans suffer from this. You don't realize until you rewatch the series just how much useless filler there was. Our memories all got fogged up in a way by the popularity of the show.

It is weird though because they did use footage from Bojack when doing the Lord Slug adaption. They had to have had some inkling that the Bojack film wasn't exactly what they remembered to be.
I think whats an extra kicker, the only one who aint ready to give up is Kaiser, but thats because he cannot drop his daddy issues. Im pretty sure he'll burn down the studio, before he admits to his dad that the abridge thing ended already.
I don't understand what he has to feel ashamed about. Him and his friends did build something that was really popular for well over a decade. This is akin to building a successful business and selling it: you have just decided it is time to move on to the next chapter of your life.

For him though, he can't fucking admit that he hit the ceiling and refuses to attempt to transfer into the next stage of his life.
 
I don't understand what he has to feel ashamed about. Him and his friends did build something that was really popular for well over a decade. This is akin to building a successful business and selling it: you have just decided it is time to move on to the next chapter of your life.

For him though, he can't fucking admit that he hit the ceiling and refuses to attempt to transfer into the next stage of his life.
Well that and I said, huge daddy issues. Apparently, Kaiser DID show his former dad his Abridge/youtube stuff and his dad said how he doesn't get it and doesn't feel like it's super sustainable. That shit got Kaiser REALLY fucking pissed, hence why he doesn't wanna admit his dad was right.
 
Not sure if this has been posted before or if I’m late or both but fuck it.
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Scott crying nazi again.
 
Well that and I said, huge daddy issues. Apparently, Kaiser DID show his former dad his Abridge/youtube stuff and his dad said how he doesn't get it and doesn't feel like it's super sustainable. That shit got Kaiser REALLY fucking pissed, hence why he doesn't wanna admit his dad was right.
Wait, going by the story, he just lost touch the second his father was too based for his leftoid ass to handle. When did he show him TFS kek?
 
Wait, going by the story, he just lost touch the second his father was too based for his leftoid ass to handle. When did he show him TFS kek?
From what I recall, at some point Kaiser tried to get back with him, showing him the whole TFS thing and thus hoping he'll be proud of him or some crap.
 
From what I recall, at some point Kaiser tried to get back with him, showing him the whole TFS thing and thus hoping he'll be proud of him or some crap.
That's the thing that's confusing me actually. See, as per the actual story, his biological father is the polar opposite of him (aka a normal human being), making Kaiser not even wanting to approach him first.

More importantly, he said in a comment on that post that "he probably doesn't know I even exist", which is why I'm thinking when did he show him TFS, until it was his 2nd stepfather later on (he's a bastard-child, his mother cheated on her man with like 5 other men, including Kaiser's father).
 
That's the thing that's confusing me actually. See, as per the actual story, his biological father is the polar opposite of him (aka a normal human being), making Kaiser not even wanting to approach him first.

More importantly, he said in a comment on that post that "he probably doesn't know I even exist", which is why I'm thinking when did he show him TFS, until it was his 2nd stepfather later on (he's a bastard-child, his mother cheated on her man with like 5 other men, including Kaiser's father).
Its hard to tell, I do def recall Kaiser mentioning one time, how he did show his TFS/youtube thing to his biological that and the latter didnt really get it. So, kinda seems at one point Kaiser did try to get his real dads acknowlegment of how he achieved something, after that flopped I guess he started sulking how his dad doesnt even care about his existence.
 
Its hard to tell, I do def recall Kaiser mentioning one time, how he did show his TFS/youtube thing to his biological that and the latter didnt really get it. So, kinda seems at one point Kaiser did try to get his real dads acknowlegment of how he achieved something, after that flopped I guess he started sulking how his dad doesnt even care about his existence.
Like most people crying about parental issues online, it seems to me that Kaiser is just making things up inside his head to fit in with the rest of the weirdos online. I imagine his father actually gave him somewhat decent advice on doing YouTube: it is nice if you can find success, but it likely isn't going to have maintainable stability overtime.

It is like being a professional athlete: even if you somehow manage to play for 18 seasons, it still at the end of the day is going to be an opportunity. Not a career. You have to have a plan for what comes next. But for Kaiser his father not completely delusional praising him was inexcusable in his eyes.
 
Like most people crying about parental issues online, it seems to me that Kaiser is just making things up inside his head to fit in with the rest of the weirdos online. I imagine his father actually gave him somewhat decent advice on doing YouTube: it is nice if you can find success, but it likely isn't going to have maintainable stability overtime.

It is like being a professional athlete: even if you somehow manage to play for 18 seasons, it still at the end of the day is going to be an opportunity. Not a career. You have to have a plan for what comes next. But for Kaiser his father not completely delusional praising him was inexcusable in his eyes.
Lets say for sake of argument that his dad didnt get youtube thing and doesnt think it has long staying poer. I mostly dont get why is Kaiser so desperate to get his dads approval and praise.
 
It really feels like TFS is on its last legs.
Their newest update video is an ad to "please go watch their old videos and check us out playing DnD. Sorry about no content for half a year"

It reminds me of Rooster Teeth in a way. They made it big off of abridging and riffing on another well established IP.
Their original content they're sinking money into isn't going anywhere. Horrendous "Anime Inspired" garbage.
The constant political sperging creating even more division in their dwindling fanbase.
And its obvious to everyone that they're running on borrowed time and a supply of good will they've accumulated from a decade ago.

Can't last forever.
Funny you mention RT, because it seemed RWBY had charm and promise to be something before Monty died and everything about RWBY started taking itself way too seriously. And then all their material dropped in quality, even Red vs Blue.

So it seems just like TFS.
 
Lets say for sake of argument that his dad didnt get youtube thing and doesnt think it has long staying poer. I mostly dont get why is Kaiser so desperate to get his dads approval and praise.
Some of it is mentally-stunted. He genuinely might not mentally view himself as an adult. Always seeking the approval of the parent because he is stuck mentally in the role as a kid. Lashing out in a childlike temper tantrum when he doesn't get what he wants out of them.

Some of it might just be a natural desire to seek wisdom from those that are older and might have some life experience under their belts.
 
It really feels like TFS is on its last legs.
Their newest update video is an ad to "please go watch their old videos and check us out playing DnD. Sorry about no content for half a year"

It reminds me of Rooster Teeth in a way. They made it big off of abridging and riffing on another well established IP.
Their original content they're sinking money into isn't going anywhere. Horrendous "Anime Inspired" garbage.
The constant political sperging creating even more division in their dwindling fanbase.
And its obvious to everyone that they're running on borrowed time and a supply of good will they've accumulated from a decade ago.

Can't last forever.
I think it was 2015 or 2016 they said that they wanted to be like roosterteeth and grow their company similar to them. Glad to see they are still sticking to that plan.
 
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