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Yahtzee shrugs once and the entirety of the Escapist falls apart like a cartoon house

Load-bearing rantsona

I'm surprised Yahtzee isn't the head of that whole operation, because doing anything to lose him is akin to closing the company. He's been the only one consistently keeping that company afloat since I was a wee child.

Man, this is wild as someone who's been watching ZP on and off since 2007. Through how many rounds of firings, near-collapses and changes of ownership has Yahtzee stuck with the Escapist until now?

In the past Yahtzee seemed mostly disconnected from the site and its other content creators, content to receive his steady paycheck even when others complained about pretty severe mismanagement and outright abuse. I got the feeling that he's become close friends with the current team (probably helps that he's moved to the US) and more active with the site overall which probably explains why he finally left this time.

I'm guessing that the management didn't expect he'd quit given his history of sticking with the company, especially now being a married man with children, or perhaps they just don't give a shit anymore.

BRB, downloading every episode of Zero Punctuation

Lmao the Escapist owns the rights to ZP? IP is such bullshit.

Wait why?
Is there any backstory here?
They were basically making him the face of the company and he was showing up in increasingly more non ZP content so without any additional context I'm gonna guess new management and/or management direction forcing him to do more work for the same or less pay?

Edit: Ok this looks to stem from the editor in chief being fired
The other high ranking people leaving appear to have quit because of that rather than also being fired.
Seems like it's the case of the editor building relationships with fellow employees then taking his team with him to form a new venture after he gets terminated.
Which would also explain why Yahtzee didn't care about all the restructuring before but does now.
A) They sacked his friend
B) He can see the ship sinking
C) The sacked friend has a plan to strike out on his own to build a new media entity and wants to take some of the top talent with him he's built a rapport with to help him with the venture
D) Because of a&b, c actually seems like the best option. Which would explain why now when not before.

Good that Yahtzee's finally moving on from a brand that could only really hold him back for a long time now. I'm excited to see what he gets up to next!

The fuck? What happen with the mass firing? Yahtzee basically carried escapist back when escapist is run by skeleton crew.

It's always been a spark of joy to me that Yahtzee somehow never became a chud incel gamer fascist who whines about cancel culture, even though he was precisely the correct demographic at exactly the right time. He even wore a fedora.

He seems like he's become more mellow with age and seems like an overall nice guy. His videos about game design are really thoughtful and well made, more than his rantsona videos would suggest

I've been watching Yahtzee's reviews for more than a decade pretty much every week, and that has been literally the only reason I've ever gone to the Escapist website... these guys are toast without him, this time for good

G!merGate either turned the leadership of The Escapist into cryptofascist chuds or they were already there and the mask peeled away.

Fuck The Escapist.

He has been literally the only thing keeping the Escapist afloat for like a decade, what the fuck is up with that company

Yeesh, he's been the main spring in that engine for years now. Wonder what happens next...

I’m more surprised to hear that The Escapist still exists, honestly thought they went bust like ten years ago.

Their main editor got fired, a bunch of writers too, and others have quit in solidarity

Just like when Jeff left Giant Bomb, what's even left of the website?

God damn, my weekly slop is getting thinner and thinner

"No Grammatical Symbols"

In recent years the channel has built back a more diverse list. Shame they fired the guy responsible.

I'm surprised he stuck around for so long. I guess the people responsible for him quitting are also surprised he isn't sticking around like all those other times.

They just announced on the discord that their new thing is going to be called Second Wind

Yeah the company is a D tier gaming news outlet without him.

Trill-bye's Notes.

I'm wondering what Yahtzee is going to do now to get a steady paycheck while he writes novels and develops games. Make something that's basically Zero Punctuation but call it something different? Will he hire the other guys from the Escapist as managers?

did they have any hits outside him and Jimquisition?

The man is free, chaos unleashed

Good way to go, respect