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I'm really concerned about the video game influencer to right-wing TikTok grifter pipeline.

Don't you dare to click away. Why not click on another short? Why not comment on a video? Why not engage some more with the content so our advertisers see that they are seen?

True. I guess my question is just, how many folks have just disengaged from games content altogether? Like, personally, I'm at the point where if a video is about a game, and it's not from a creator I follow, or something I'm specifically looking into, I'm basically never clicking on it.

Never expect coherent or logical thought from these guys. "Reactionary" means what it is.

Bots and people vulnerable to Jedi mind tricks like them 😬

like straight up, most of those have less than 50k views. nobody's watching these

📌 Really hate these type of channel 😒

we exist in a market of infinite controversy as people become more desperate to find anything to mine for cash. A kirby game could be released tomorrow with him wearing different shoes and it'd be 2 weeks of clickbait videos on how the franchise is permanently ruined.

I suppose a Trojan horse approach to giving people a slightly more nuanced story can work...

the funniest part is when you look at their channel pages and videos in chronological order and it's just this

I take some solace in the fact this is the level of free marketing companies get to "take advantage" of these days.

I feel like we're on different Youtubes. Mine mainly shows me movie fight compilations, easy cooking videos with all of the prep and cleanup steps conspicuously removed, and Better Call Saul clips

I hate this hobby so goddamn much. Well anyway back to playing Revenge of the Savage Planet and looking at Steam sales.

Where they basically admit their entire experience with Japanese games is Square Enix and Nintendo, and ignore the swaths of non-Squenix jrpgs that have been released to critical acclaim

Ok, other people DO see it, hahaha.

Honestly after a week of racist culture war chaff against JRPGs I’ll take regular grifter culture war chaff that points their knives at AAA industries.

It’s hilarious that out of everything, it’s video games, where experience of the critique consumed the experience of engaging with it.

especially with movies suffer from this especially now. even smart people I do respect really have to talk about how low to middle brow big budget movies are saving cinema like fucking top gun or whatever. everyone are gamers now, the 21st century culture and art is on the same level of gamer shit.

Been said many a time before, but boy it sucks that one of the the major end results of GamerGate was basically a complete /v/ cultural victory in determining the tone of online video game discussion across the board

To be fair Bellulars and Night Sky Prince has nothing to do in this list. They don't engage in Culture war.

they optimized for the youtube algo so that's all that can survive anymore

Last Wish all over again Renoire’s a hoe for cutting off Lucien’s head, he coulda filtered these creeps

This doesn't even challenge the abuse and corruption in the game industry. As a matter of fact, it enables it. Why call out the actual powers that be when you can declare a war on woke and solve nothing?

🎶🎵grifter gotta grift🎵🎶🎶🎵

HURM…

Yeah, and fuck the haters of Assassin's Creed: Shadows

Video game journalism has fallen hard, man...

really fun that all discourse and discussions for my favorite medium will forever be ruled by only he-said-she-said nonsense with no real research and "What I like > What You like"

I'm so tired of this I am just happy a new studio from my country made a good game but when you go on internet it's just people using this game as a weapon in any sort of debates/discourse. I would be so sad if a game I put hours into making ended up like that.

usually by misrepresenting facts to feed his personal narrative though

“New game soon” what on Earth about lmao

I'm baffled at this kind of stuff for multiple totally unrelated reasons, honestly. Why does anyone want this kind of content and, if they do, why would they want it as a video instead of text?

Whatever happened to “(blank) didn’t die, it was murdered” guy

tabloids for gamers

But apparently they’re “Free thinkers” Lol

It's weird, like- we have done nothing but reward over-the-top sensationalist thumbnails and yelling screaming angry people with yelling screaming angry takes on youtube videos for the last 15 years with both attention and money, and somehow it ended up like this.

I like Lady Decade content, that thumbnail though 😅

Listen I'm okay with 33 getting some hate but it has to be based in reality, like the ugly art style, boring enemies, and terrible combat. But these videos are beyond stupid