This is a far deeper dive than I took into what is wrong with Asmongold, Endymion, and SmashJT by reference. For me, Asmongold immediately turned me off with using "Jesus Christ" as an expletive.
Instant dismissal.
SmashJT and Endymion both used "Jesus" and/or "Christ" as an expletive and I unsubbed to those after listening for a week or two.
Simple? Certainly. And reading your article about them confirms my simplistic low-IQ method of finding something I like and prefer.
While subbed to Endymion, I often riled him for milquetoast responses and positions. Well, that also confirms on a more basic level what you are exposing.
Nice article. I cut out most of these people a while ago. Still nice to read this! These videos to me always felt off to me. I almost completely cut out social media. I suppose places like this might still be technically? I dunno. Anyway I was a believer of this crap for a while.
I did notice even the “good” ones like nerdrotic or hvb still heavily exaggerated, but also they come at it from a different lens than I do I suppose. I’ve been working on looking at things more and more through the biblical lense since I love Jesus.
I've always had a bad vibe about EndymionTV that I couldn't put my finger on. Many times I've had to correct his lies about best selling games; he always lists the Ubisoft games in the incorrect order choosing what games he likes best and claiming those are Ubisoft's best selling games. Here lately his content does feel a bit exaggerated and or pumped up.
I think the greatest offense Endymion with his videos is how boring and tired the formulas used in his videos are. The people with the actual insider information actually can't say it without legal on top of personal repercussions. Everyone else, including me especially me, has no idea, but it's fun to speculate, but at least admit there's no position of privileged information and authority that you point out.
Excellent analysis of the Sloptube machine. I admit to being wrong on saying Ghost of Yotei was not selling as well as Ghost of Tsumshima did on Twitter, how hard is it to be motivated by the truth and issue a correction? It's a moral and reputational imperative for someone with a large audience to straighten out the record in my opinion. It wasn't that long ago that people got shellacked for spreading "fake news".
Why is Endymion, SmashTV, and many others spreading "fake news"? Your essay/article explains quite well.
I was wondering why Endymion was being pushed by the algorithm on Youtube. Like other commenters here I too was finding his videos have started to be boring and formulaic.
Thank you for the article. It's a data point that even the low level and mid-tier content creators can be fake and manufactured.
Yeah, I stopped following EndymionTV when I realized he never took a strongly principled stand on anything. He would always hem-haw and say something like, "I don't care if you want to wear diapers in public. You're an adult. Do whatever you want. I just don't want Master Chief in diapers as a Halo skin."
I definitely get that, but it's not explicit. I would not be surprised if we find out that it was meant to be that in some dev interview. It's definitely not KCD2 levels of woke where its explicitly in your face and they paid people to act it out and animate it.
"But for someone like, EndymionTV, this is insufficient. Like so many Grummz followers and mimickers, he needs the tea leaves (Steam charts, wishlist spikes, refund rumors) all to validate his discomfort. He needs numbers to prove his side is winning. He needs tribal metrics to make the moral unease feel like victory."
But isn't metrics like these actually needed to assess something success or failure? I'm not claiming EndymionYV doe sit correctly but that this statement makes it sound like as if your arguing these aren't valid in such an analysis.
Numbers alone don't tell the full story, they need context to explain why they're moving. Steam charts, wishlist spikes, refund rumors can all can signal a lot of things, but interpreting them as moral vindication is a leap. It feels like you're trying to make the metrics say what you already believe, rather than considering the range of possibilities they might represent.
I wasn't arguing that metrics alone did it only that are they not a part of a greater whole? Yes you can still manipulate the data but you can also manipulate that which has nothing to do with the data/metrics as nothing is lie-proof.
This is a far deeper dive than I took into what is wrong with Asmongold, Endymion, and SmashJT by reference. For me, Asmongold immediately turned me off with using "Jesus Christ" as an expletive.
Instant dismissal.
SmashJT and Endymion both used "Jesus" and/or "Christ" as an expletive and I unsubbed to those after listening for a week or two.
Simple? Certainly. And reading your article about them confirms my simplistic low-IQ method of finding something I like and prefer.
While subbed to Endymion, I often riled him for milquetoast responses and positions. Well, that also confirms on a more basic level what you are exposing.
So, plus for the reasoned article.
Nice article. I cut out most of these people a while ago. Still nice to read this! These videos to me always felt off to me. I almost completely cut out social media. I suppose places like this might still be technically? I dunno. Anyway I was a believer of this crap for a while.
I did notice even the “good” ones like nerdrotic or hvb still heavily exaggerated, but also they come at it from a different lens than I do I suppose. I’ve been working on looking at things more and more through the biblical lense since I love Jesus.
I noticed no comments about the WDW Pro and gang who often feature EndymionTV on panel talks.
I've always had a bad vibe about EndymionTV that I couldn't put my finger on. Many times I've had to correct his lies about best selling games; he always lists the Ubisoft games in the incorrect order choosing what games he likes best and claiming those are Ubisoft's best selling games. Here lately his content does feel a bit exaggerated and or pumped up.
I think the greatest offense Endymion with his videos is how boring and tired the formulas used in his videos are. The people with the actual insider information actually can't say it without legal on top of personal repercussions. Everyone else, including me especially me, has no idea, but it's fun to speculate, but at least admit there's no position of privileged information and authority that you point out.
Excellent analysis of the Sloptube machine. I admit to being wrong on saying Ghost of Yotei was not selling as well as Ghost of Tsumshima did on Twitter, how hard is it to be motivated by the truth and issue a correction? It's a moral and reputational imperative for someone with a large audience to straighten out the record in my opinion. It wasn't that long ago that people got shellacked for spreading "fake news".
Why is Endymion, SmashTV, and many others spreading "fake news"? Your essay/article explains quite well.
I was wondering why Endymion was being pushed by the algorithm on Youtube. Like other commenters here I too was finding his videos have started to be boring and formulaic.
Thank you for the article. It's a data point that even the low level and mid-tier content creators can be fake and manufactured.
This is why nothing changes in media. These people only diagnose. Never cure.
Yeah, I stopped following EndymionTV when I realized he never took a strongly principled stand on anything. He would always hem-haw and say something like, "I don't care if you want to wear diapers in public. You're an adult. Do whatever you want. I just don't want Master Chief in diapers as a Halo skin."
Endymion playing Softball with any of the controversies surrounding Helldivers 2 was what made me start to question his credibility.
Never trust a Twitch Thot. Especially not a male Twitch Thot.
Honest question here, for those who have played through Yotei (I haven't): is the ending really lesbian-coded? That would be a "no purchase" for me.
I watched the ending. Nothing in it indicates that. The MC raises her niece with one of the bad guys who converts.
Now, it's possible its meant to be super subtle, but it appeared innocent to me.
I'd say it is woke. Two women raising another man's baby? Definitely.
I definitely get that, but it's not explicit. I would not be surprised if we find out that it was meant to be that in some dev interview. It's definitely not KCD2 levels of woke where its explicitly in your face and they paid people to act it out and animate it.
According to some commentary, it is. But I can't verify from experience. The dev issues, politics, and Industry drama turned me off from it.
On the other hand, Digimon Time Stranger is half a Digimon anime and half Persona, so that's got my attention alongside SRW Y.
"But for someone like, EndymionTV, this is insufficient. Like so many Grummz followers and mimickers, he needs the tea leaves (Steam charts, wishlist spikes, refund rumors) all to validate his discomfort. He needs numbers to prove his side is winning. He needs tribal metrics to make the moral unease feel like victory."
But isn't metrics like these actually needed to assess something success or failure? I'm not claiming EndymionYV doe sit correctly but that this statement makes it sound like as if your arguing these aren't valid in such an analysis.
Numbers alone don't tell the full story, they need context to explain why they're moving. Steam charts, wishlist spikes, refund rumors can all can signal a lot of things, but interpreting them as moral vindication is a leap. It feels like you're trying to make the metrics say what you already believe, rather than considering the range of possibilities they might represent.
I wasn't arguing that metrics alone did it only that are they not a part of a greater whole? Yes you can still manipulate the data but you can also manipulate that which has nothing to do with the data/metrics as nothing is lie-proof.