There is a use in someone in making dense lore understandable for people to get into the hobby. That’s why Bricky is such a useful resource. He gives a good primer on the factions without bogging them down with unnecessary detail.
Arch, on the other hand, succumbed to his own political brainrot that he once claimed that there can’t be black Ultramarines. It was when that first Dawn of Fire book came out and had a black Ultramarine in the cover. Arch, in the midst of what I am calling niggerphobia, forgot that the geneseed makes some space marines develop facial features like their Primarch. They don’t change everyone’s skin color. All to claim that GW is going woke.
Sure? But it's even dumber than that without even having to discuss what's "woke". His thumbnail for the video puts his icon on the side of the red and orange GW logo, and the other channel icons on the side of the newer GW corporate logo... which is the same as their original logo that they used into the early 80s. I don't know if Arch knows what their "new" logo is, or what he intended for his thumbnail to look like, but it seems to be conveying GW going back to their roots along with most of the "social media community" and leaving him behind? That's probably not what he intended and it makes him seem like an idiot.
And yes, for someone who wants a 20 minute summary on genestealers or something before doing their own deep dive sure there's a use for such videos. The problem is that isn't what Arch does, with multiple hours long series about shit from decades ago that not even anyone at GW gives a shit about and isn't relevant to anything they've done for years even ignoring primaris and whatever else it is that people complain about GW doing while not having touched the shit themselves for ages. He's the equivalent of some D&D grognard still screeching into the wind about 3.5 on youtube when everyone else has moved onto newer editions or different systems.
Don't want black space marines? Then don't fucking paint them black. Where is Arch's army? It's not like he's got a reason to hide it since anyone in his area would know his face and voice anyway. Even his oldest videos discussing WHFB, he's got pictures of armies and minis in the thumbnails but they aren't his.
Meanwhile Lutein, I've seen his knights army. Kirioth, he's shown models he's painted on screen. Baldermort, he was at a 1 day tournament run by a necron channel a while back, I believe he kept his face hidden but he had an army. Valrak doesn't seem to play, but he's got his army and a bunch of other minis painted from over the years. Majorkill has done a video or two discussing painting minis. The only 2 channel icons he has that haven't shown something hobby related at some point other than just their typical gradeschool level book reports, is 40ktheories/remleiz, and Oculus Imperia(the one with the ginger beard) at least that I'm aware of(and I know basically nothing about Oculus Imperia).
Ok, so fine maybe he just doesn't paint. Ok, the guy also never talks about actually playing the game either. Doesn't hobby, doesn't play, doesn't read current shit just complains about other summaries he sees. How the fuck is that a path for growth for a 40k channel? Even if Mark Wells were still running the company like he was over a decade ago(before chapterhouse), Arch's channel would still be fucked. Or even Tom Kirby, it still wouldn't matter if Arch just refused to engage with anything and everyone else has moved on but him. So no, it wouldn't just be current leadership under Kevin Rountree either.
