Why is this guy popular again?
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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I watched some critikal back into he day when he all I knew about him was that he was a former quake competitor. He would talk his way through deep depression in a way that was pretty familiar, just a voice over a video of some game (usually ironically speedrunning those types of 100-in-one pack games on a disc sold at Wal-Mart).
Everyone assumed he was a schlubby gamer dude (like myself at the time) and then he did a face reveal and people were impressed that he was a good looking guy who was in shape, and his career kinda exploded because now he was an inspirational gamer dude and not one of the gamergate blobs.
That's fine for him, he's pretty inoffensive and doesn't really produce "takes." But on a personal level I cannot stand the almost smotheringly positive parasociality of his community, they write these long essays about how his stream makes their life bearable and it makes me uncomfortable.
I watch YouTube videos that are like editted streams sometimes and those kinds of donation messages make me cringe so hard. He is just a white guy who plays an RTS pretty good, calm down.