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Streamer culture is one of the cringiest part of modern internet

I've heard that it's a two week ban, which for a streamer is huge, since any day your banned, subscriptions do not auto-renew. Guy will lose half his recurring income. Depending on the fan he could get it back of course since they could re-sub after he's back, but there's still gonna be a big chunk of folks who will either forget, forgot they were subbed to begin with and thus not notice they were un-subbed, or just use that as their clean break moment.

I realy can't judge a person I don't know personally, but I sure is hell can judge their content. And for Asmonds videos and streams, there's just nothing there. There is literally zero content. You know those memes that imitate Joe Rogan, well here is one for Asmond.

"Yeah, Yeah"

"They way it is, is actually..." *blanket statement*

"Yeah, Uh Huh, No"

"Well actually..." *other blanket statement*

"What I would do is..." *some nonsense*

"Yeah, Yeah, Uh huh."

Continues to pause and unpause a 10 minute video over the course of an hour.

That's basically it, it's almost an anomaly how content like that can get somebody filthy rich. It ads zero value to the platform or any of the viewers lives. I can even excuse other creators doing their YLYL challange #547, because it at least involves humor and engagement. But if Asmond would disappear over night, I bet not only would nobody miss him, there wouldn't even be anybody to replace him, because his success is a straight up anomaly.

All these shitty reaction streamers are literally standing on the great shoulders of Filthy Frank, Jontron, early H3H3, early Idubbz, Cinemassacre, Ray William Johnson, etc. But those at least had weight behind their reactions, with bits and actual production behind every video. Those reaction streamers literally sit on their ass watch videos and somehow people pay them solely to hear their opinion, what a sad existence on both ends. To be frank, this is barely a step up of those YT shorts of a guy just staring into the camera while the top half of the screen shows some random video. I know YouTubes moto was "Broadcast Yourself" but some people really shouldn't take that to heart.

I went through a brief Asmongold phase about a year or two ago where I enjoyed just listening to him rant and bitch (mostly) about the video game industry. He was surprisingly articulate at times and not quite how I had perceived him. I watched him take a political alignment test and he was dumbfounded that he was fairly left-wing. I thought that might be a turning point for him, but then election season came around and he went right back to being an obnoxious Trump-supporting Texan. I don't think Asmongold even knows who he is deep down or what he stands for. I think he just spews vomit from his brain and doubles-down on all of it because he's incapable of dropping an argument or admitting he was wrong. It's kind of his shtick, but I'm long since done with it.

I know enough about him to attempt a deep-dive into his psyche in regards to his decrepit home, his mother's death and his unwillingness to seperate from his lifestyle, but at the end of the day his sad circumstances unfortunately don't excuse the abborant shit he sometimes says.

He's a self professed degenerate, and wealthy to boot. He doesn't give a shit what any of us think.

It's nice his dad called and gave him shit though, since his audience is more toxic than he is and he shouldn't be feeding them like that.

I've seen enough of his content to know he's usually pretty quick to shut down talk just like what he got in trouble for so I don't know what got into him that day.

Man, I hope this doesn't come across as me sounding like a doomer, but it's too late. That one rant has most certainly radicalized so much of his audience. A temporary band isn't going to do anything to fix the damage that he's caused.

I had not heard the thing... holy shit that was racist and idiotic. and the apology is useless... what a twat

Now perhaps that goblin finally has time to take a shower and clean his cave.

"They are not the same as us. They come from an inferior culture that is horrible, it kills people for their identity, and it is directly antithetical to everything Western values stand for, and it is an inferior culture in all ways. It is that simple."

That santorum extract of a man probably did not see the irony hidden in his sentence. Can we charge this guy ?

Here's one face I wish I could block. Searching any video game topic on YouTube always pops his drama filled mug in the results.

Step one to not being an asshole is to just stop thinking people should not be alive anymore. That's literally the easiest thing. Just literally being cool with people being alive.

I miss when WoW streamers, with dead animals stuck in their ceiling would shut up, and play their game, instead of spewing hateful bullshit without any education on the topic

I don’t think he actually plays games anymore. He just says x company/person is finished and here’s why. It’s usually a really bad take.

Whatever the topic, it's best to avoid the opinions of videogame streamers/youtubers on matters outside of videogames.

I somehow doubt Hoyt has ever lived in Israel/Palestine, speaks Hebrew or Arabic or has ever read the Talmud, Bible or Quaran (even partially, but in a serious manner; one that provides some context on the "styling" of Abrahamic religious texts).

I haven't seen much of Hoyt's content, but the few clips I've seen seemed very low effort. If you can't even be bothered to make good content around videogames, you should definitely avoid narcissistic outbursts on serious matters.

G*mer moments used to be private affairs shared between strangers in a CoD lobby, like God intended, now these kids stream them, smh.

https://youtu.be/RSI-N-QHNTQ

Looks like he made a follow up and apology video. Hopefully he's serious and actually follows up since it sounds like he's taking the ban and his father reaching out to him as a wake up call.