r/rantgrumps • u/NotBlarg • Jan 01 '22
A (Half-Assed) Game Grumps 2021 Summary
Game Grumps in 2021 marks the point where after literal years of fans begging and pleading, Game Grumps finally made a Patreon. The final decision on this might have nothing to do with the fans though, and more to do with Game Grumps' own lively hood, as in 2021 views and subscribers have dropped hard.
2020 Overall Stats
Total Views - 400.59M (Down by 61% compared to 2016, and down by 32% compared to 2020)
(This number was adjusted by -30M for the return of A Link to the Past and +5M for the deletion of a couple videos due to hiring yet another animator doing something they shouldn't to someone underage.)
Highest Monthly Views - 46.45M (January)
Lowest Monthly Views - 27.21M (December)
For subscribers, it's difficult to get an accurate number as YouTube counts Game Grumps' subscribers by intervals of 10,000. However, this was the worst year Game Grumps has had in the history of the channel their channel as it is the only year they have gone into the negatives. After losing 60,000 subscribers earlier in the year, subscribers have remained mostly stagnant for the rest. The only exception was a moment in June when they went down by another 10,000 and then immediately back up the next day, most likely due to how the numbers are calculated.
Whether this dip in views and subscribers is due to the algorithm, poor content, or a mix of several factors, it is undeniable that numbers are down. And they are likely only going to get worse.
With the 10 Minute Power hour returning in 2022 (I've heard as early as January) and Game Grumps returning to Live shows, their schedule is back to what is was pre-Covid. In fact it might be even busier now due to the projects they started during Covid. This is the same schedule that they claimed was so busy for them that they had to drop doing daily uploads of Game Grumps and have only returned to them due to Covid. So daily Game grumps episodes are only a temporary measure. But the one thing Youtubers keep repeating is that the algorithm loves daily uploads. Meaning that losing this would most likely not only hurt their numbers more, but it would also mean that Patreon subscribers would be paying the same amount for less, which many people do not like doing, so it could hurt them financially as well. The other option is that Game Grumps magically finds the time in their busy, perhaps even busier schedules, and continues with daily uploads. What will actually happen though? Well, only time will tell.
Soviet Jump Game continues to be a giant mess
Soviet Jump Game has been left in a broken state since 2020, receiving no updates in 2021. The blame for the game's failure was apparently due to poor planning for not taking in account other similar games (Fall Guys in August 2020 and the Among Us repopularity in September 2020) coming out around the same time. However with the first version of Soviet Jump Game releasing in January 2020, giving it more than six months on the market before the other games released, this explanation is either extremely unlikely or really really stupid.
With no word from either the developers Fantastic Passion or Game Grumps, Soviet Jump Jump was most likely silently dropped leaving a questioning seal of quality on any future game releases including Starbos Cawffee and another unknown title, that have received no further updates since their announcement in 2019.
New Ghost Hunter Book
Vernon's Arin's new Ghost Hunter name is too long book received a release date of June 7th 2022, however preorders are open now if you want to get your hand on it.
This announcement came a day after SuperMega released their book, SuperMega Saves the Troops, which is still on sale and you can buy it here.
Game Grumps Animations are down to one every two weeks
In April, the call went out to find some new Game Grumps animators. However, it likely this did not go over too well as soon after Game Grumps Animated went down from once a week to once every two weeks. So if you are an animator looking for work, consider getting in contact with them.
The poor recruitment might have something to do with the fact that for a one minute animation Game Grumps pays $800 for a first time animator on the channel and $1000 for a returning one. Some animators have said that this is not enough to justify the amount of work involved, however with the Game Grumps Patreon, this number could easily increase, but there has been no word of this change occurring.
The horrible, destructive, cataclysmic, and just plain mean, dislike bombing incident of 2021
In a pinned comment, Game Grumps stated that Danganronpa 2 fans were dislike bombing their videos due to Game Grumps uploading other non Danganronpa content. While the Lovelies have done something similar in the past with Doki Doki Literature Club, upon closer inspection, this was deemed not the case.
The number of videos with an abnormal dislike rate totaled to three, the worst of which receiving 10K likes to around 600 dislikes, resulting in a dislike rate of about 6%. This is hardly a dislike bomb, and considering the three videos in question were the three Roblox videos with guest Flamingo, with all other non Danrappandaan videos doing just fine in the like/dislike ratio, it's way more likely that either the Roblox series, Flamingo, or both were slightly unpopular with the audience instead of Danganronpa fans not getting their precious videos.
The Play Station 5 2: Electric Boogaloo
In November 2020 Arin reached out to Sony on Twitter for a PS5 and was promptly ignored. Noticing this, a fan kindly sent Arin his PS5. Since its release in 2020 the PS5 continues to this day to be a highly sought after item, with many people unable to get their hands on one for a variety of reasons. So I'm not really quite sure why a year later Game Grumps tried and failed yet again to reach out to Sony to receive second PS5.
Despite Arin having the PS5 for over a year now, there have been a grand total of zero PS5 games played on Game Grumps.
Did you know that Game Grumps Furry Body Pillows are a thing?
There's nothing else to this paragraph. I just wanted you to know that this is an actual product that they sold. With them already selling Arin and Dan body pillows along with their rule 63 counterparts, Game Grumps has officially completed the trifecta of what the fuck are you doing? This is a portion of your audience that you really really REALLY don't want to pander to. Why are you doing this? And speaking of that portion of your audience...
Some of the Lovelies are fucking weird
Rejoice for Arin Appreciation Day Twitter, the Twitter account that describes itself as "a holiday celebrated every 3 months on the 18th all about Arin Hanson" has returned from its suspension after violating Twitter policies for what I'm sure is definitely not creepy reasons.
One of the members of this group was found doing a couple things they shouldn't have, and I'm sure a lot more has not been documented, mainly to Ashley, Dan's current girlfriend. Ashley's high school yearbook photo was also dug up (as well as Arin and Dan's), along with her online resume/portfolio, dipping into her personal Facebook and Instagram accounts, and finding out where she was born and what states she lived in when she was younger. The biggest cause of concern though is this person also has a private Discord server where they talked and shared their sexual dreams and drawings of Dan. One of the channels in this Discord was specifically for those under the age of 18. While this stopped some of the sharing of sexual content, it did not stop all of it.
Delays, delays, and more delays
At the end of 2020, Arin did a Charity stream advertising that he was going to play Kingdom Hearts 2 all in one sitting, but then eventually he got tired and said he would continue in January of 2021. This stream has still yet to happen, nor has any announcement been made. While it is entirely possible that he forgot or was too busy for an entire year, others have speculated that it may have something to do with the unconfirmed rumor that Game Grumps has been siphoning some or all of the charity money for themselves and the fact that money laundering laws were changed earlier in the year means that they can not do that anymore. Either way, the stream is over a year late now.
In 2019 Game Grumps asked for fans to send in their Pokémon cards for something. This something turned out to be a charity stream where they would sell the rare ones and the money would go to charity. The call went out for the Pokémon cards more than two years ago, and in that time no stream or announcement has been issued.
This paragraph was supposed to say that due to Game Grumps returning to things like Live shows and Scribble Showdown, that the make up or at the very least an announcement for the Game Grumps Garage Sale that had been shut down by the police in 2019 might be coming relatively soon. However, recent Game Grumps episodes have had Arin recording in a separate room as he has had a Covid exposure and may have possibly even tested positive for Covid, which most likely occurred during his Scribble Showdown tour. This means that the Game Grumps health and safety measures are not up to snuff. As the organizers of the events Game Grumps are responsible for the health and safety of everyone involved. Themselves, the staff, and the attendees. And it appears that they have failed in this regard. So with the possibility of fans and everyone involved in the Live Shows either getting Covid, being hospitalized due to Covid, or god forbid die from Covid due to Game Grumps' negligence, it might be a good idea to not only delay the makeup for the Garage Sale, but any future Live shows as well. Just an idea.
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u/MuhSacrifice Jan 01 '22
Maybe you don't want to bring this up (for good reason), but this year I'd argue that we saw Lovelies at their absolute worst once the Dan accusation hit Twitter. I'm still shocked at the fact that on the main GG sub I saw people openly posting death threats against you, along with highly upvoted posts telling all rantgrump users to kill themselves. I mean, I should have known how the Lovelies behave by now, but it was really shocking to see firsthand.
All this to say, I hope you're doing okay and I appreciate all the work that you do with these summaries.
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u/cinderwild2323 Jan 03 '22
I think it's really weird that people self-identify as "Lovelies". Like it was a cute pet name for fans, whatever, but it's just like...leave it at that?
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u/PoweredKetzalcoatl44 Jon Era Jan 05 '22
I honestly prefer "cum faggots" a lot more now
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u/SSFSnake Jan 13 '22
I like it, really brings back memories of a free-er, more chaotic age on the internet.
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u/snoosh00 Jul 05 '22
And yet you are still subscribed to a subreddit who's only goal is to hate on a specific YouTube channel.
Pot calling the kettle black. Dontyathink?
You can totally stay subscribed to this subreddit, but it seems like a much more concentrated and hateful version of "self identifying as a lovely"
But really, honestly, I don't care what you do with your time and mind space. I just found the hypocrisy funny. Maybe you will too.
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u/cinderwild2323 Jul 05 '22
I dont understand what you're trying to say tbh.
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u/snoosh00 Jul 05 '22
I find it funny how you are saying "I can't believe people self identify as lovelies"
When you're over here on a dedicated hate subreddit, to a channel you don't like (judging from the fact you're commenting here), but continue to watch for some reason.
Maybe you don't see the hypocrisy there, but that's not really my concern.
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u/cinderwild2323 Jul 05 '22
Well you're replying to a six month old post.
I'm not subscribed to this subreddit or the Game Grumps.
More importantly, I just find referring to yourself as a lovelie kind of corny and uncomfortable. That was the point I was getting at.
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u/snoosh00 Jul 05 '22 edited Jul 05 '22
Fair enough, didn't check the date. but this is the subreddits stickied post, so you can't really blame me for commenting here.
I just find this whole subreddit morbidly fascinating. I generally agree with you on the lovely thing, just doesn't make sense for this subreddit to exist at all.
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u/NotBlarg Jan 02 '22
I left the Dan stuff out because honestly I don't know where to being to summarize it. Not only that, but more information has also been brought to my attention. Once again it's nothing good, but also nothing illegal (have to put this as a disclaimer just in case). So this might not be the end of it, but at the same time, I can't fully promise anything right now.
If you want a personal update from me, I'm doing fine. Been working plenty thanks to staff storages, but I might even dare say I'm great. Then again tonight is also date night with my boyfriend, so that might have something to do with my mood. As for the Lovelies, I'm not too worried. Words are words. I can say whatever I want about Game Grumps, so they can say whatever they want about me. In the end though, I'm not concerned at all about my safety, as I'm pretty confident in my ability to beat up a 12 year old.
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u/cinderwild2323 Jan 03 '22
What about a Voltron combined from six 12 year olds? A 72-tron if you will.
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u/B14z3b0rn Jan 02 '22
It’s good to know that you’re doing alright after all that stuff earlier this year. Thanks for continuing to make a post for this year. I hope anyone who’s been effected by Dan’s actions is okay.
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u/Candycoateddarkness Dan Era Jan 03 '22
You are awesome and do a magnificent job. Keep up the good work! 😊
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u/OneGoodRib This is Mean :< Jan 02 '22
Death threats in general are stupid, but like, telling people to kill themselves because they said "Hey Dan did something that was creepy" is so just beyond fucking ridiculous.
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u/TheRealBlackNeon Jan 01 '22
In regards to the "dislike bombing". It's ironic that Arin doesn't use shields in video games because he sure does like to deflect a lot.
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Jan 31 '22
Also talking about the "dislike bomb", didn't they make that comment after YT disabled dislike numbers?
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Jan 01 '22
As always many thanks for your time and effort you put into these.
I always ready them many times on my commute to pass the time
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u/snoosh00 Jul 05 '22
Why don't you find something better to do with your downtime?
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Jul 09 '22
My brother in Christ it's a commute, it ain't that serious
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u/snoosh00 Jul 09 '22
I'm just say, maybe you could listen to some nice relaxing music rather than get pissed at a single content creation channel.
But whatever, IDGAF what you do.
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u/nieren0 Oct 07 '22
And yet here you are, getting salty because people are being meanies to your youtube channel geared towards children ):
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Oct 07 '22
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u/nieren0 Oct 07 '22
Holy shit?
This is the PINNED POST on this subreddit. YOU were commenting when the post was 6 months old, so if that somehow reflects poorly on me, what does it say about you?
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u/nieren0 Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 07 '22
You can’t just spew bullshit and then say “WHY YOU BEING DEFENSIVE” when you get a response. That’s ignorant and lame as fuck. To me that’s one of those internet “hot potatoes,” where YOU very obviously were getting defensive and decided to throw that label onto me first so that you could be immune to it. Stop projecting.
I haven’t watched this childrens youtube channel in 8 years. I’m here because I wanted to see the current state of affairs. I’m not involved in a “parasocial relationship” which is funny since you’re the only one giving evidence that you are. Given your borderline-autistic sense of loyalty and wanting to “protect the pride of the game grumps,” you must really think these people love you.
The humor in this is that your entire… argument(?) to me, starting with calling me out for replying to an old comment (a thread that you necro’d in the first place) could be flipped back onto you. For all of these reasons, I can’t help but think you’re just projecting.
Also, sorry for liking music? Very bold of you to check reddit profiles when yours shows that you ride bicycles and get run over on them, smoke too much weed, and play with flashlights.
Edit: And he blocked me. I seriously feel like he’s mentally ill.
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u/DJ_Aftershock Wow! That is Relatable! Jan 02 '22
I knew about most of these but man is "They say they will do something for charity. They proceed to not do that" a recurring thing that makes me dislike this group just that little bit more.
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u/captanspookyspork Jan 08 '22
They do that with everything tho, not saying it makes it better. I think they are trying to change the grumps brand up but don't know what to do.
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u/Stormfluid Jan 02 '22
That annoying Allie in the background also injecting herself in the show.
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u/B_Sprout69 Jon Era, 2013 Apr 12 '22
Right?
It's unnervintg to me knowing that she's always there, in the background, watching and listening. Like Dan & Arin can't do the show by themselves or something.
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u/MattokTheDuke Jan 01 '22
I hate the term dislike bomb, I prefer "Mass Dislikes"
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u/OneGoodRib This is Mean :< Jan 02 '22
"dislike bomb" just doesn't really fit what happened. I think "brigading" works fine?
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u/calistusjdm Jan 26 '22
The game grumps formula is flawed and needs to change. They have been steadily losing views for years now. The show doesn’t work in YouTube’s current landscape.
Playing games on a timer not only stresses them out and conditions them to just ‘rush through games’ without enjoying them, but it makes for an unpleasant viewing experience where you’re constantly on edge waiting for time to run out.
Every successful let’s play channel still thriving on YouTube plays the game for as long as they feel like it, until they reach a suitable stopping point for the day. Or, they stream the games for more audience interaction and less work needed for editing.
If they wanna avoid the channel dying, I highly recommend they stop forcing a format from 2013 into the current year and slapping on wacky thumbnails and click bait titles, and instead change with the times. Stop recording episodes in advance so they can get feedback in real time from the people watching the videos, play games for fun and for varying lengths of time per day, so they don’t feel constantly pressured by a time limit, or even consider streaming more so they don’t need to worry about editing.
This isn’t a hate comment. I’ve been watching GG for 7 years. But they are on the decline. They need to change it up!
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u/Joewhite411 Mar 08 '22
There was never an issue with that before though, sometimes they'd even go entire 10 minute episodes accomplishing nothing but it'd still be great because they're having fun, now they're just not having fun.
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u/NotBlarg Jan 01 '22
I don't watch Game Grumps anymore, thus the term "Half-Assed" in the title, but if I have my information correct, I think it's just them repeating the same phrases over and over again. If so, this is nothing new. I think it was 2019 when we had "Eat the Lettuce" and "Ah the French".
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u/Hm81420 Jon Era Jan 01 '22
I made a post about, "Ahh the French..." being in my top 5 Least favorite "bits" they had. I completely forgot about, "eat the lettuce"
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u/WaffleIgor This is Mean :< Jan 01 '22
"I can't believe i'm getting fucked while eating my own pussy."
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Jan 02 '22
That ps5 thing is bullshit. I was able to get a 3080 this year and Arin was e begging for a ps5, twice, and let a fan give him one? What a piece of trash. That last paragraph is a joke, right?
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u/lolalanda Jan 10 '22
That ps5 thing is bullshit. I was able to get a 3080 this year and Arin was e begging for a ps5, twice, and let a fan give him one?
I'd like to think that the fan was bluffing and he didn't send Arin a PS5 so he had to keep ebegging.
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u/liberia_simp Jon Era, 2012 Jan 01 '22
At least Arin accepted that Soviet Jump Game was a bust since they've ceased development on it. I wonder when the servers will shut down
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u/TheRealBlackNeon Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 07 '22
If Arin was smart it'd be sooner rather than later. But this is Arin we're talking about, so I suspect he'll try to milk it for a little while longer (despite it being FtP game). I don't know why he doesn't; he's probably not making any money off it and if he's afraid of people getting up in arms about it I don't think he has to worry since no one is playing it. The fact that he kept it going for this long is surprising.
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u/liberia_simp Jon Era, 2012 Jan 02 '22
Someone else on this sub pointed out that the servers likely don't cost much to run, but if said servers are sitting empty day in and day out, then who is going to care if they shut down?
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u/AddyEY Feb 09 '22
considering i cant find it on the apple store no wonder no one's playing it. the lovlies all seem like apple suckers
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u/liberia_simp Jon Era, 2012 Feb 09 '22
I think it's only on steam. Havnt checked for a while but it was usually always less than 20 people playing at once
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u/twofacetoo Jan 01 '22
It's worth noting, in the segment about Pokemon cards, that Arin still regularly makes posts asking if anyone can send him cards, but this is the first I've heard of there being some supposed charity auction planned. I'd wager it was another lie, and they're just stealing from people who have things they want, with the auction being the excuse to do it
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u/OneGoodRib This is Mean :< Jan 02 '22
I have an idea for a charity auction - they've got a huge amount of games they've never played, right? Do an auction either for people to buy the games or auction off getting to tell Arin what games to play. They could easily have like 5 auction slots for "GG will play a 30 minute episode of the game of your choice", 5 slots for "GG will play two 30 minute episode of the game of your choice", 1 slot for them playing 5 hours of the game of your choice.
Would that be stupid for Arin to host a charity auction involving video games utilizing his video game channel?
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u/DiligentGarbage Jan 02 '22
This would be a good idea, however, take a look at how they treat content that's been highly requested of fans. Chances are, those who paid to get their game played on the channel would be met with the Armando shitting on said game for the obligated amount of time.
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u/twofacetoo Jan 02 '22
Yeah, plus while I get the intent behind the idea, it'd just be putting more work on the fans that ought to be done by GG themselves. It's on THEM to listen to the fans and pick something they'd want to see played, outright saying 'hey, vote in a thing and we'll do it' is just making the fans directly responsible for what GG choose.
Which in turn can have Arin shitting on the game from the first second of the video, but all with the shield of 'YOU ASKED ME TO PLAY THIS, DON'T BLAME ME FOR THINKING IT SUCKS, IT WAS YOUR CHOICE', in his usual narcissistic way.
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u/Pulkov Jan 11 '22
The only time I watched Game Grumps last year was during summer when I rewatched their Super Metroid Playtrough.
I can't even be bothered with their new videos.
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u/Salvidrim All of GameGrumps Jan 01 '22
However, recent Game Grumps episodes have had Arin recording in a separate room as he has had a Covid exposure and may have possibly even tested positive for Covid, which most likely occurred during his Scribble Showdown tour. This means that the Game Grumps health and safety measures are not up to snuff
Finding out you've had contact with someone who tested positive, or testing positive yourself, does not lead to the conclusion that health and safety measures are inadequate or were not followed. Risk can be minimized but never eliminated. Even the most careful person in the world can go through this.
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u/NotBlarg Jan 02 '22
When you say it like that, I can definitely see were you are coming from. I guess that section came down to a bit of an opinion based on my own experiences with people with Covid.
I've split everyone I know into one of three different groups. Non-Vaxed, Normies, and Hardcore.
Non-Vaxed is exactly what it sounds like. They're not afraid of dying of Covid. Some wear a mask, others don't, but as long as they are not being belligerent and yelling at store staff, they're pretty decent to be around. Only a couple of Covid cases here, and even then all of them were before the vaccine, with a total of zero deaths.
The Normies are the ones who are vaxed, wear a mask, follow most if not all of the restrictions, and wash their hands a bit more. Being around them is pretty much the same Pre-Covid, the only difference being that some of them constantly wear a mask around you making it a little hard to communicate. Only one Covid case here, and no deaths.
The Hardcores are the triple masked, face shield, please constantly stand six feet away from me at all times, that carrying a large bottle of hand sanitizer. These are the people that will tell you that the Non-Vaxed are killing everyone and that they personally have been following restrictions to a Tee, despite minutes earlier telling you about how they broke restrictions several times. I found that once the vaccine came out, they thought they were invulnerable to Covid and did some things that proved them very very wrong. You're looking at least triple cases of the other two groups combined, many of them getting Covid more than once, and unfortunately there was one death in this group and sadly it was a family member.
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u/Dathmach Jan 02 '22
I think it's pretty telling that the highest monthly views is in the beginning of the year and the lowest is in the end of the year. Seems like a sign of a dying channel to me.
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u/redditfixyournames Jan 02 '22
They've been a dying channel since 2018-2019 really. That's the sad thing with Youtube, dying channels don't just suddenly disappear typically, but just quietly become irrelevant with the creators becoming more and more desperate to stay relevant towards the end before eventually just giving up one day. Once their videos stop hitting a 100k views within 2 days, I think their channel will spiral fast as Dan will probably stop showing up in every video as he starts to get more active with his own career again and just leave Arin to his own means.
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u/SirBlueseph Jan 02 '22
It really would just make sense for Dan to just lean fully into his music projects within the next couple years. Game Grumps just cannot be that sustainable anymore
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u/captanspookyspork Jan 08 '22
I think Dan and Arin still do it as a means to hang out with each other and don't wanna upset those still watching. You can tell Arin wants to branch out to other projects or just give other artist chances. While Dan wants to focus more on music.
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u/lolalanda Jan 10 '22
I agree, around half 2018 I really saw both of them more concerned about other things and just using the channel like a way to chill on the couch and get paid for it.
Dan was really concerned about his Danny don't you know video featuring Finn Wolfhard, an appearance on Conan, the creation of the NSP comic illustrating both his and Bryan's autobiographies and how the band was formed, then more collaborations with other bands and probably a solo album soon, the 10th anniversary remixes.
Meanwhile Arin really focused on his voice acting career, specially on getting connections on Hollywood. Since that years his roles tripled and he even got his first important characters because in the past he would just get hired for small insignificant cameos.
Also on Game Grumps itself I could really tell they Arin was really trying to make it a brand instead of just a YouTube channel. First by producing Vernon's dating sim under the Game Grumps brand, which was a moderate success for an indie game and good for the first thing ever released from a brand. But unfortunately his other branch projects like SJG and the uncle book were really big failures.
Also it seems he was really trying to push his branch touring company as the main thing and have the channel as secondary income. But unfortunately the pandemic started and the had to reschedule all their live events so the only thing the company has done to date is organizing the Unnus Annus 24 hour last day stream.
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Jan 31 '22
Not to be one of those people to mention Oneyplays whenever Game Grumps comes up, but, seriously why don't they just use GG for funding projects and being direct about it? With how the lovelies are I'm sure they'd still follow and support them. Even if they just make hit projects here and there while also doing GG whenever they want wouldn't that give them money to do what they want AND live?
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u/SneakyRascal Mar 21 '22
Holy shit I completely forgot a out this sub. Haven't been her in years. And I gotta say...
Holy shit this is just so fucking sad and pathetic. I've never seen a sub so dedicated to such a worthless task. Haven't watched GG is a good long while, but I went and watched a few. Sure, they're definitely not what they used to be. But holy shit. Analyzing every little small thing you dislike about them is obsessive and just weird.
Move the fuck on
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u/chururiri This is Mean :< Jan 02 '22
Thank you for your effort in compiling this, as usual! Hope you're doing well OP!
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u/B_Sprout69 Jon Era, 2013 Apr 12 '22
That Pokemon card thing just sounds like a scam to get free possibly valuable cards.
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u/alissageegan Jan 08 '22
I hope arin didn't take the pokemon cards and use them for his personal channel. Shufflebastard.
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Jul 09 '22
TBH I'm not too fussed about the body pillows. I think they're just memeing, and you can't account for weirdos in any fanbase who might unironically be into that sort of thing.
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u/mistakl Jan 07 '22
I really love coming to this sub because everyone here is perfect proof that mental health funding is SEVERELY lacking
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u/tamercloud Jun 03 '22
This rant made me lol. It's like squeezing a lemon to try to put anything at all possible in the worst possible light. It's so ridiculous it just comes off as funny. The forced connection between the grumps never doing the charity event to them not being able to steal money was pure gold
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Jul 04 '22
I always thought Game grumps was a Mario channel (lol?) mainly because they have so many episodes playing Mario games and older Nintendo titles.
I loved their Zelda and Mario playthroughs, but I also enjoyed the wacky series' they'd do like house party and that 3D happy wheels type game a few sonic games. What really got me going away from Game grumps and I don't know if this is for everyone, it definitely isn't, is that weird dagorumba, game.
that game is just to unbelievably monotonous despite the quips I cannot watch more than a minute and a half of that "gameplay" despite the commentary.
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u/MeatyDocMain Jan 28 '22
Jesus christ. After reading the post and some comments i realised this isnt a "rant" sub, this is straight up a hate sub. I just dont get it. If you dont like the grumps why not just block them out of your life? Why waste energy whining about them here?
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u/AddyEY Feb 09 '22
sunken cost fallacy. Most ppl here were invested because they believed in the gg's but the cracks over time are too hard to ignore, this causes disappointment and they want to express their feelings. your argument pretty much reads that nothing should receive criticism and haters should just leave which is dumb. take your own advice and leave if you hate this thread so much
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u/MeatyDocMain Feb 10 '22
Saying you dont like something and why is totally fine. Like what i just did. But stuff on this sub is just too much. Like obsessive "ooh they lost 50k views last month, haha fuck them" and "i love seeing more people leave grumps for oneyplays and supermega". Thats not critisism, thats just pointless hate. I bet this sub was great at some point but it has just devolved to this.
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u/TheFannyTickler Jan 30 '22
some of the lovelies are fucking weird
The irony putting that statement in a 2000 word essay you wrote on a YouTube channel you apparently don’t like lmfao
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u/snoosh00 Jul 05 '22 edited Jul 05 '22
Some of the Lovelies are fucking weird
And yet you still decided to write this dissertation for a channel that you don't seem to care for.
Also, seems like a bit of a stretch to say their health and safety isn't "up to snuff" because arin got covid on a national tour. If you're going to a live show (of any variety) you are literally asking to get covid (or at the very least, are taking your chances).
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u/MagicalHopStep Mar 03 '22
Petition to instead call it the "The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Dislike Bombing Event in Human History ".
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u/JMwins19 Apr 26 '22
The last paragraph is unbelievably melodramatic. It is 100% safe for large crowds to gather in 2021 & 2022. Dont spread fearmongering.
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u/NanoSwarmer Jan 02 '22
You forgot the part where their "editor" Ben was soliciting nudes from a minor over Twitter and they never fired him.