Why is TGK popular?

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I guess it's the combination of a guy who acts like he's this incredible genius even though he really doesn't know shit. I mean, it took him what, 18 or so years to realize that work and play have to be balanced? Erst die Arbeit, Dann das Vergnugen....
 
Not a fan, just been following his bullshit for a long time and I still get surprised. Didn't know about the Xmas journal (which really explains a lot but is still pretty disturbing). Didn't know how he treated his ex (although I knew it couldn't have been good knowing even a little bit about him). Expected him to find the forums, didn't expect him to get trolled immediately (Cassandra's reveal was one of the sickest burns I've ever seen).

Don't care for his streams. It's more entertaining to simply read his posts and journals knowing the true face and voice of the spaghetti lord; when he's on camera getting bombed by really obvious questions, he loses any confidence he gains by hiding behind words on a screen, and withers into another socially inept fucktard. IMO it's waaay more interesting when he's full of big words, stupid bullshit, and enough ego to say anything to anyone without thinking about it first.

He's in the PPG fandom so it's sort of like he's part of my "community" and I like paying attention to my surroundings. Also, I consider him a good frame of reference. I'm waiting for a thread about my deviantart to pop up in lolcow general, but I know that even if I really tried, I couldn't even dream of touching this guy's tism level.

One more thing: I can't fathom how someone could have his opinion on animals. To me that's a sign of just...real-life, pure evil. But that's another thing about him--the irony of it all. He has a college degree with a good GPA and he's clueless about computers. He says he stands for good, freedom, justice etc but his actions and other philosophies completely contradict this. Everything about him is ironic save for his attitude, and I think that's funny as hell. I've never seen anyone less self-aware (if that's the right term).
 
Lefty's Revenge said:
I think thats what makes GK not as interesting to me. Because Tyce and Jace make him look like an amateur by comparison. But I think its like someone already said in the thread Hes new.
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He has "potential." It's just that he literally gives up on everything.

By potential I mean the stream has potential. Of course we shouldn't expect someone to be good at something like this when he quits a job after like two weeks.

On top of that he isn't an intellectual like Jace.
 
Idling said:
In the beginning he just seemed like the perfect lolcow. He failed at every aspect of his live, be that his job, his art projects , his romantic relationships, basic social interactions and so on, while still being absolutely full of himself. That coupled with the fact that he kept falling for every ploy thrown at him, seemed to make him a great target for ridicule.
But by now I guess it is showing more and more that his extremely passive-aggressive personality just won't let him live up to that potential. He doesn't show any interesting reaction to anything. The seemingy biggest setback in his recent years, his breakup with Heather, just lead to him making some whiny journal entries, before just switching to the next best target. Once his initial weidness has worn off in another month or so, he'll be forgotten forever again.

For a someone who so desperately wants to be anything but ordinary, Jay is more and more turning out be be one of the most boringly sub-standard persons on this planet. He's neither the great hero he claims to be, nor the circusfreak the trolling public would enjoy. Don't think he really needed a subforum.
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I agree with this completely, aside from what you said about the subforum. I think that the subforum was going to become necessary sooner or later, because the original thread was getting convoluted and bloated with too much content to find and keep up with without reading through multiple pages of responses. I could see both Golden Knight and Moleman's subforums being archived and made read-only if both of them become inactive for longer than Chris and Jace ever have or move on from the internet.

I personally think Golden Knight's had his funny moments here and there, particularly with his extreme lack of a social filter and how he immediately greeted littlebiscuits by mentioning that he had a huge boner and wanted to have sex with her. I also like how he's blurred the line between a lolcow and a horrorcow from time to time. I think that after the shock of all of that stuff wore off though, a lot of people, including myself, thought that he was just a weird, disgusting creep who's also potentially dangerous but at the same time isn't weird, crazy, or notable enough to be entertaining. That's just my thoughts on the matter.
 
Seahorses said:
He has "potential." It's just that he literally gives up on everything.
By potential I mean the stream has potential. Of course we shouldn't expect someone to be good at something like this when he quits a job after like two weeks.
On top of that he isn't an intellectual like Jace.
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I give the streams another week before he gives up on the idea altogether, for the reason you stated. He's not getting the results he would like and it's too much effort for him. Maybe if people kept feeding his delusions like with the first stream he'd continue a while longer, but since people are actively upsetting him I expect him to quit soon, and after that I imagine interest in him will begin to wane. Even when they do I'll probably continue keeping an eye on him, purely because creepy fucks like Jay need to be kept under scrutiny.
And it's not even fair to make comparisons with Jace. His streams are a performance, they're on an entirely different level.
 
atm said:
I give the streams another week before he gives up on the idea altogether, for the reason you stated. He's not getting the results he would like and it's too much effort for him. Maybe if people kept feeding his delusions like with the first stream he'd continue a while longer, but since people are actively upsetting him I expect him to quit soon, and after that I imagine interest in him will begin to wane. Even when they do I'll probably continue keeping an eye on him, purely because creepy fucks like Jay need to be kept under scrutiny.
And it's not even fair to make comparisons with Jace. His streams are a performance, they're on an entirely different level.
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He'll give up on streams, but he's going to keep trying something. He's had a taste of having a lot of fans, there's no way someone like him who's dependent on attention can go without it for long, whether it be making content or just an ass of himself.
 
I see it as more of a case of "love to hate." Not quite circlejerk, but it's obvious no one here is all that fond of him.

There's also this... I believe it's called "bile fascination" with Jay.

Chris, Jace.... There's an element of this tragic figure and they have qualities about them that, despite how much of an ass either could be, makes you feel a little sorry for them despite how entertaining they are.

Not Jay.

I think it's the fact that here's someone -- autistic or not -- that lacks anything that really makes you feel sorry for him, like his hatred of animals. (Even Chris likes dogs.)

And that's what makes him so fascinating. That someone so sadistic with such a warped world view with seemingly no redeeming traits actually exists.
 
Dr. Teem said:
I think its because he's probably the only lolcow on here who doesn't have an ED page, and so people are scrambling to get info from him and trying to be the next Clyde Cash
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I always assumed he had an ED page. GK will never have a Clyde Cash because he can hardly even stand reading criticism. He wants to avoid any confrontation so while he will talk shit around his "minions" he'll just vanish once a challenger actually appears. When GK got angry on the minecraft stream he didn't really care to pursue the whole Deagle Nation thing. Instead he spawned some friendly wolves and killed them to help vent his frustrations. Any blatant trolling attempts will most likely cause him to retreat from the internet and go to video games to get out his aggression because that's the only place he isn't powerless.

I think inflating his ego might cause some interesting results. I don't think anyone should try to plants ideas in his head like people do with Jace. Just see what he does when he's riding the high from all his fans. See what he does when he's not feeling so powerless.

Gullik said:
I just wish he would've reacted with little more than meh when people started blowing things up with TNT when we were playing Minecraft. I kind of want to see him rage.
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I couldn't stop looking at his face as he watched his monument explode and it was interesting how little of a reaction there was. For a guy that's so loud and has no problems talking about how his dick won't get hard until his fake girlfriend comes back he just became quiet and looked at the screen. The lack of reaction was really damn interesting because you knew he was pissed. I don't know what it means though. Is he used to shit like this when trying to socialize offline? Did his brother tease him growing up and so he learned to internalize things? It could mean so many things and we'll probably never know. It's just clear that basic trolling won't lead to a chimp out. His coping mechanism is to get quiet and go beat up on something in his vidya.
 
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Foulmouth said:
I hope to everliving fuckery you're being sarcastic.
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No, Jace really is an intellectual...in comparison to GK. They're still brain dead rocks compared to Forest Gump, who ironically manages to succeed in comparison to them in every possible way despite being purely fictional and an exceptional individual (albeit both the implied and best ways possible) because - get this - he's the nicest guy ever.
 
There's been a few comments above along the lines of "people want to be Jay's Clyde Cash/get in the GK inner trolling circle". Personally I don't really see that has happened so far - for two reasons.

Firstly, and most importantly, the interaction with Jay has been very light-touch, comparatively speaking. Yes, three sweetheart sagas to date - but none of them have done anything particularly nasty to Jay. No sex tapes, no Emily dates, no trips to Ohio, no chases round every Starbucks in Maryland, no asking him to cut off his mullet or send them his Blossom doll. Also, despite his dox taking approximately two clicks to find, he has yet to receive crank calls, ricin pizzas or Qu'rans.

Secondly, there has been no closing of ranks. One of the really good things about this place is that there's a general sense of community. We're all Kiwis, and I've not seen anyone start posting on the GK threads or the subforum who's been told explicitly or implicitly to GTFO newfag. Even when other platforms have been started for GK content like the wiki or the Steam group, there's been an open invitation left here.

Linking the two points together, I don't think we'll see a small group of "GK handlers" emerge, at least not on these forums, because no-one who is currently Knight Watching seems inclined to pull the level of prank that would require this. It seems at the moment that your access to Jay is determined by your level of interest, not by who you know or when you became aware of him. For me it'd be nice for that to continue.

It's natural for people who take an interest in lolcows like Chris and Jace to want to interact with a cow themselves. As long as he's not being challenged, Jay is very open and contactable. You don't have to call in on Skype and risk being humiliated by a lolcow, or shell out money on eBay. Finally, there's a wealth of archived content. Finding Jay's dA trove of fail felt to me like when I first discovered the CWCki. You don't need to wait for a livestream or vlog or actually contact Jay at all for him to make you laugh or cringe.

That's just my opinion on this site.
 
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There's a fun appeal to him when you first discover everything. But he repeats himself like a broken record. Nothing new ever happens, he's too sheltered.

I joined this forum because of him but yeah I just find him boring now.
 
I'll go ahead and throw my two cents in.

I didn't used to like TGK and still don't really follow him (I occasionally read some going ons) but I can see how people would for two reasons.

One, and probably the majority of why people like him, is because he's so ridiculous he basically transcends being a real person and becomes, essentially, a living character like Jace or Chris. He draws shitty comics which are nonsensical and make Sonichu look like something published by Marvel. He's a pseudo sadist wannabe who wants to sting a girl's feet with jellyfish. He has a bizarre plot in life where he wants a golden suit of armor and has thought out everything from the challenges of weight to design, and yet never really questions just how absurd the idea is. He's a mullet having stringbean of a creature who is easy to laugh at.

Then there's the second type of people. I can't really say much about them except they're the kind of people who only like a lolcow that they can 'touch' or push to do something. You know, basically the trolls. The kind of people who find absolutely no sort of faggotry or inner irony in the facade of acting like a girl to trick someone. If a lolcow is active, you'll have these people pop out of the woodwork with their EBIN WEEN.

And that's basically what I think
 
He's popular because not only is he very accessible, but he is always constantly spewing out new, interesting content each day, and his ultimate goal of buying power armor is as absurd as Chris wanting to make Sonichu a huge hit. Plus what other lolcow has a fanclub that you can join on Steam?

GK was bound to get a subforum because of all the different material coming in through the original thread.
 
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I observe the Rusting Squire for the same reason I post on the Golden Wiki: Because there's something different about this particular lolcow.

With Chris, or Jace, or Moleman, we see they're capable of bad things. Nay, terrible things. And yet, there's an element of tragedy which allows us to lock onto the fact that at the core, they're still human. That's what makes Chris' autistic antics so interesting to watch. As has been stated before, if someone like Chris actually recognized the issues he has, dealt with them like a responsible adult, and moved on, he'd receive a standing ovation from us here on the CWCki and many a fuzzy-wuzzy. If Jace unfucked himself (and maybe dragged Eli back from Israel), he'd recieve less of a standing ovation, but he'd at least recieve some patent acknowledgement that he done good and maybe could aspire to something greater.

You don't get that with the Jaundice Princess. There is no tragedy. There is only Dot.

Jay is completely detached from the world writ large, to an extent that Chris can only dream. He is completely insolated from doing anything he doesn't want to - he doesn't work, he doesn't socialize, and yet he somehow has enough money to throw at his vanity press literary toilet-training. We facepalm over how incredibly inept as parents Barbara Chandler or Gail Connors are, but I seriously wonder if they have anything on Gay Jeis' mom basically denying him nothing. The Christmas Journal was horrifying in and of itself, but accounts from Heather and others strongly suggest that Jay is a sick motherfucker, and only his laziness and fear of repercussions keeps him from doing something absolutely dreadful. Ignore his sadism, the implied pedophilia, and his bizarre tendency to hold grudges over the most ridiculous shit. Look at his reaction to the CWCki crew accidentally his statue. It's nothing like a normal reaction to anger or stress. It's completely internalized, and Jay remains.... Frankly terrifyingly calm.

I watch Jay because there's every bit of evidence that if the stars align in precisely the wrong way, I'm going to see his ass on the news, but there's also the fact that there's some genuine lulz to be had by analyzing his works and their deeper meanings. I could write a fucking treatise on what the fuck might be wrong with Jay's mental state from Pilot Epic 1 of Myth of the Legendary Warrior alone. This is worthy of being chronicled in and of itself, but it's the hilarious shit, like his pretending to faint to get out of going on a Roller Coaster or inadvertently commenting on Heather's tits - that makes it all worthwhile.

Also, Jesus Fucked-Up Christ, Heather is a fucking saint for putting up with the Copper Coprophage's shit as long as she has.
 
After reading through a few pages, I guess it's because he's a sperg who has a god complex, stalks women, and writes journals on DA. That's really all I've got so far. Don't get me wrong, he has potential to be a full blown lolcow, but until he posts videos or does something completely lulzy, he's nothing major on my radar.

Wouldn't hurt for him to have a ED page either. :p
 
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