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 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.

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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.

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I’d watch anything similar if I could find it. Two goofballs goofing around with SNES games on a couch is what I like. Reminds me of when I had friends. Everything is twitch streams and vtubers now and it just doesn’t hit the same.

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Fair enough 👍

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21 points

That’s worse than I expected as someone who casually watched a decade ago.

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6 points

Holy shit dude, what the hell

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lmao hearing jontron saying the n-word just sounds so natural. its like “yeah this exactly lines up with expectations”

fucking g*mers. the worst.

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Come on guys, its not fair to hold people responsible for saying the N word 10 years ago. Those were different times

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Oh that takes me back and their shit did not age well.

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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.

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Whats the problematic parts of dream daddy, the game was too boring for me to finish

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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

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Yeah the whole incident is just awful and made me thoroughly hate lets playing as a business model.

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That’s horrible.

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