There was a channel I used to really enjoy called
Astartes Anonymous. Basically it was four retards shooting shit about a topic for an hour, but they were pretty entertaining and bounced off each other well since they were actually friends in real life rather than just a bunch of people on the internet. They would mostly do the podcast but they also did more interesting original content such as suggestions on how to make homebrew
chapters,
warbands, etc. They even once (and sadly once) reviewed a rather interesting homebrew
Warband that basically combined Iron Warriors and World Eaters. If you've ever seen this image:
Then you might have heard of the Iron Butchers before as this was done commissioned by the creator of the homebrew, among
others (not sure how much is done for the homebrew or the
official yet hilariously lesser known one).
What I particularly enjoyed was at the beginning of each episode, they'd showcase art and models their fans did (or just generally) and give a shoutout to them, which was pretty nice and something I hardly ever see from any other content creator I personally watched. Hell one of the hosts is a pretty talented artist themselves so they even contribute to the community with their own art.
Rarely they would made more generic "X for dummies" for people new to the hobby but those were relatively short, not often, and entertaining to a degree, but again they were still generic. They would also bring in guests that also flowed well with their dynamic so rarely would there ever be a bad guest (even if there was a bad guest, haven't seen
all their episodes, the hosts bounced off eachother well enough that it was bypass this). The best host imo was Red, the guy whose avatar was that of a Night Lord, because some of the better moments of the podcasts were started by him.
Nothing good ever lasts of course and eventually shit went south, starting with the
potential troon. For whatever reason, Red would appear less and less, which would be fine even if he was the best host (imo) because the other 3 and often times the guest would do pretty well without him. That was until they brought...I'll just refer to them as
It as I'm not 100% sure they're a tranny, 95% at most.
It was just...awful. Annoying voice, retarded opinions, added nothing to the podcast, and was a complete degenerate. Not to say the other hosts were pure, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad and it was entertaining.
It however was...just gross, they were usually and at the time
rarely brought up on the podcast, and that was only when
It wanted to do an episode on who they wanted to fuck/marry/kill and who the most "kissable"
male character was or some shit. Needless to say, it was terrible and having to listen to
It's voice going over what disgusting creatures (yes,
creatures, as in mostly animal or Eldritch creatures) they wanted to most definitely rape them (because this is Warhammer) was a massive turn off.
At the time, they very rarely made an appearance and the video contents were not too interesting to me to begin with whenever they were on (I don't find the prospect of wanting to fuck Dante, Marry Abaddon, or whatever the fuck other madness
It brought up to be appealing), but you know it's bad when some of the
normie audience started noticing their odd behavior. Sadly, this marked a sign of the end times, funny considering they were a Warhammer (mostly 40k but sometimes Fantasy) channel. Red would make less appearances,
It would make more,
It was increasingly unfunny and even the better guests couldn't salvage some of the episodes, and it might just be me but Red seemed to not really like
It all to much anyway so that might have started his eventual departure from the channel. Speaking of which, eventually Red would quit entirely because he became a Fed or some other government slave or some shit and
It became a full time host. Didn't help that the quality strangely went down even without
It making an appearance, though that could also just be me. I also noticed an increase of "fagflag in profile picture" users making gay little comments so that's a red flag too.
At this point I rarely kept up with them, and when I checked back with them after a while I noticed they slowed down their podcast (their bread and butter) in favor of cooky cutter lore videos that every 40k channel that wasn't dedicated to the tabletop has done for the past however many fucking years. Did we need a video talking about
every single fucking Dreadnought or Guilliman lore video #40000? Sadly this did better than their podcasts at the time but only slightly better, with the occasional bigger than average views. Eventually they made an announcement that basically just meant they were switching things around, I think it's just a layout change and probably some other shit but at that point I just...stopped caring. And good thing too, they almost completely shifted to basic ass, generic, dime a dozen lore videos talking about shit that's been covered a million times already, which only barely do better than the podcasts. I can't imagine it being a worth it with all the extra research and far more editing they need to do as opposed to the unscripted content which was far more entertaining (once) and fun for how low effort it was.
Worst part was, they've been doing lore content in the form of their shorts for the longest time, they were significantly better since they got to the point and actually did voice acting, but now making
worse lore content than what you were already doing for a barely bigger payoff (than the podcast episodes, shorts will obviously always get more views) that probably isn't even worth doing.
And what I liked about them in the first place and what got them to where they are now is not only taking a back seat but is
worse on top of that
? Yeah, no, I'm not interesting in that retardation.
