Chased the algorithm too hard. All the fun videos went away in exchange for a near constant stream of videos about how bad the industry is. It got stale fast, and you can only hear so many versions of the same content before it just stops being worth checking in.
This is the reason I stopped watching Karl Jobst but keep watching Summoning Salt on repeat. I can only watch the same video about Billy Mitchell being a big meany cheater cheater bad dumb man so many times before it gets old.
Sterling is the epitome of "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole"This. The pessimism became insufferable. I get the industry has problems, but they're basically just doomposting at this point.
Don't see the appeal of YouTubers that just complain about shit constantly in the first place.
Maybe I'm wrong and guys like YongYea aren't as popular as well. I don't see him linked as much as before either.If you listen to one of YongYea's more recent videos, the one for the Suicide Squad DLC pack, even he's tired of making this kind of stale content. You can hear it in the half-hearted delivery.
it all started with the AngryVideoGameNerd enjoying popularity then a lot of copycats wanted in on the accentuate the negative for entertainment genre. Some are still around, but several are long gone like the Irate Gamer.AVGN was playing a character who only went after specific games, James Rolfe was actually very positive. You can't blame him for people deciding that every popular game that came out should be treated like LJN NES games.
it all started with the AngryVideoGameNerd enjoying popularity then a lot of copycats wanted in on the accentuate the negative for entertainment genre. Some are still around, but several are long gone like the Irate Gamer.There's a difference between "angry" gamers who pretend to act like that for laughs, and the ones who are clearly genuinely pissy.
Happened with PhilosophyTube too
This is the reason I stopped watching Karl Jobst but keep watching Summoning Salt on repeat. I can only watch the same video about Billy Mitchell being a big meany cheater cheater bad dumb man so many times before it gets old.I mean in Karl Jobst's defense, Billy is actively trying to ruin his life with bogus lawsuits
I'm like 1 more billy video away from dropping him too. Even the "speed runner caught cheating" vids are getting stale.
People get tired of content when it's the same thing every time. "Person bitches about things they don't like" can only go so far. I know I personally am not interested in watching something so negative all the time
I mean in Karl Jobst's defense, Billy is actively trying to ruin his life with bogus lawsuits
So it's a lot more understandable. If Karl didn't have a successful Pateron, his life would have been destroyed. Lawsuits are expensive.
Agreed. I remember when I was getting into speedrunning videos I thought it was super juicy and interesting. Unfortunately outside of the occasional cheater in a game I care about, it just isn't engaging.
"This person spliced/peeked/hacked X game to get Y time" and that's the whole video. I don't really care about the reasoning, I just care they stopped. Which, clearly, they did.
SS stays King because I can feel his passion for Speedrun Communities in every video.
This kind of outrage content gets stale fast.
If you listen to one of YongYea's more recent videos, the one for the Suicide Squad DLC pack, even he's tired of making this kind of stale content. You can hear it in the half-hearted delivery.
People get tired of content when it's the same thing every time. "Person bitches about things they don't like" can only go so far. I know I personally am not interested in watching something so negative all the timeThis. I agree with pretty much everything she says, but how many times do I really need to hear Capitalism bad, AAA bad?
I'm still subbed to them, reality as a whole isn't really getting better so the complaint that the "negativity is too great" strikes me as people thinking the gaming industry never getting better is some isolated situation & not the world as it stands. Welcome to 2024 I guess."The world is horrible and getting worse in every way but if you have the completely rational reaction to that of your mental health getting worse that's actually your fault, and avoiding things that make you feel worse is also wrong."
Their content is still decently funny & supporting good trans/NB creators is still important, especially with how Anti-LGBT the US is as a whole. They're in the UK now, but we know TERF Island or thereabouts ain't much better.
Just because content is negative doesn't mean you let it affect your overall mental health either
Karl is the "law and order SVU" to SS's "forensic files." Karl is too into the drama whereas SS is all about analysis. It's like comparing TMZ to Wikipedia.
"The world is horrible and getting worse in every way but if you have the completely rational reaction to that of your mental health getting worse that's actually your fault, and avoiding things that make you feel worse is also wrong."That's such an abjectly weird quote that isn't in anyway paraphrased from what I said you might as well have just made it up. I'm not going to sit here & make an entire list of all the negative shit happening every single day, but most people realize that life is about finding the small things that bring enjoyment or fulfilment to your life. Not all of Sterling's videos are this "doom & gloom" parade that people pretend they are & as an avid viewer, I can immediately tell at a glance that the people complaining about the style don't watch them actively.
And no, the world isn't constantly getting worse, but it isn't going to move in a positive direction in all areas every day, so it's very easy to make it seem like it's getting perpetually worse if you ignore positive changes and hyperfocus on negative ones. Which is what content like Sterling's does.
Every video is the same. The industry is bad and getting worse. Yeah we know.