Like damn, it was only 10 years ago and they’re doing racist accents for like every type of asian you can think of.
I will never forget that GGs studio fucking outed a gay furry to their conservative family because they dared to point out problematic stuff in Dream Daddy.
Whats the problematic parts of dream daddy, the game was too boring for me to finish
it sometimes treats relationships between gay men as a funny haha joke rather than anything resembling a typical relationship
honestly I don’t know what was pointed out specifically, but a gay member of the staff (the only gay staff member) apparently brought up some complaints regarding the writing/representation and he was resoundingly ignored, and then outed to the family. No one quite knows what happened, but the gay developer guy attempted suicide, so it seems like it was something serious
also it’s not clear how much the game grumps themselves were involved or if it was mainly the studio staff. Who knows. There’s not a lot of open information about it
Yeah the whole incident is just awful and made me thoroughly hate lets playing as a business model.
At least Arin has openly apologized for the things he said, talked about how he didn’t understand why what he was saying was actually wrong. Unlike literal ethno-nationalist JonTron.
Oh that takes me back and their shit did not age well.
I gotta admit, I sometimes still go back and watch early Game Grumps just because 2012 and 2013 were a happier years for me. I was finally on my own back then, I had a cat who loved me, and I had a moderate amount of financial independence.
I had friends too, and we all enjoyed the same type of internet content, so I probably mix together that type of nostalgia. All blended together. We’d watch Game Grumps and then we’d also play terrible games on a couch together.
I know nothing like that has necessarily changed, I can still find people to play video games with, but so much of my brain has changed. Even knowing how Game Grumps turned out doesn’t dissuade me from enjoying the older stuff somehow. I never liked Dan. I got sex creep vibes from him Day 1 and I wasn’t wrong.
I’m very much in the same boat, I absolutely agree there are problems with the attitudes. But that Grumps era just holds a special comfort for me.
Isn’t the JonTron guy just an open nazi now?
I didn’t even know that. I am a casual viewer of JonTron for many years. Has he made some sketchy videos or tweets?
Yes and it will never stop blowing my mind that people took a video of him saying “I didn’t convey myself very well” as if it was an actual apology.
Personally I thought it was very clear what he was conveying when he insisted that “wealthy black people are statistically more likely to commit violent crimes” than wealthy white people.
