I realy can’t judge a person I don’t know personally, but I sure is hell can judge their content. And for Asmonds videos and streams, there’s just nothing there. There is literally zero content. You know those memes that imitate Joe Rogan, well here is one for Asmond.
“Yeah, Yeah”
“They way it is, is actually…” *blanket statement*
“Yeah, Uh Huh, No”
“Well actually…” *other blanket statement*
“What I would do is…” *some nonsense*
“Yeah, Yeah, Uh huh.”
Continues to pause and unpause a 10 minute video over the course of an hour.
That’s basically it, it’s almost an anomaly how content like that can get somebody filthy rich. It ads zero value to the platform or any of the viewers lives. I can even excuse other creators doing their YLYL challange #547, because it at least involves humor and engagement. But if Asmond would disappear over night, I bet not only would nobody miss him, there wouldn’t even be anybody to replace him, because his success is a straight up anomaly.
All these shitty reaction streamers are literally standing on the great shoulders of Filthy Frank, Jontron, early H3H3, early Idubbz, Cinemassacre, Ray William Johnson, etc. But those at least had weight behind their reactions, with bits and actual production behind every video. Those reaction streamers literally sit on their ass watch videos and somehow people pay them solely to hear their opinion, what a sad existence on both ends. To be frank, this is barely a step up of those YT shorts of a guy just staring into the camera while the top half of the screen shows some random video. I know YouTubes moto was “Broadcast Yourself” but some people really shouldn’t take that to heart.
I think he made decent enough content when the competition wasn’t particularly fierce, then kept coasting on the early adopter acclaim.
Say what you will about him, but he still links to the videos he reacts to, allowing me to immediately click on them if a recommendation for his reactions ever pop up. I think our monkey brains still try to look to see the reactions from the group (hence karma scores) to determine how to approach a topic, and they fill in the void that is absent in streaming platforms. So now, we have more personality cults than ever before and the hidden agendas that try to subvert them to their interests (Cambridge Analytica, now Emerdata, only one example because only they were brought to court).
Still, opinions aside, reaction videos should be forced to share revenue with the original content creator. And if its supposed to be criticism, they should learn how to do it without reaction videos. Only the platform can really begin to do this.
Not only ignorant, he’s disgustingly evil. His shocked O face clickbait “reaction” spam content is all over youtube algorithm and it’s impossible to avoid. This is the type of people preteens/teens online look up to and eagerly mimic their opinions.
I’ve been clicking ‘Not Interested’ on all his thumbnails for over a year but Youtube still keeps suggesting his shitty content to me even though I never watch any “streamer X reacts to bullshit” video in my life in first place. It’s the lowest effort and stupidest content on the internet. Unless you were a professor or an expert in such field and were making a weighted statement on given topic, why in the fuck would I care streamer X reacts to bullshit in something he never trained or learned shit about.
This Asmdouchbag, on top of being an ignorant self-absorbed unsympathetic wealthy sociopath making statements such as “Thanks God I’m American because we have the superior culture and the most well-off in the world compared to these third-world peasants,” on top of that he never studied any history degree or have had any life experience related to this. He thinks Palestinians or Muslims are ISIS, the group who have raped, slaughtered, and hurt Muslims more than any other religion, and was fought by Muslims more than any group. HOLYFUCK STFU you uneducated ignorant unsympathetic sociopath and keep scamming your poor kiddy audience for donations playing gamesI hate that youtube lacks any means to block entire channels
edit: i’m dumb, you can block channels
I wish YouTube allowed for blacklisting words in video titles for your feed. I swear if I see another “*insert vtuber* broke everyone by saying *insert mildest sexual innuendo*” I’m gonna loose it. What also sucks is that YouTube shorts got entirely integrated into Twitch, so the clips you see posted of any streamer is most likely some 3rd party clipper channel leaching off the actual streamer. Which means spam goes up, quality goes down. Sure its awesome for the streamer, they get a lot of traction and new followers but at the cost of their content flooding other platforms through reposts.
Yeah, having a way to define certain themes, tags or whatever to be completely blocked off would be great. My first use would be for blocking certain music, but also most roblox and minecraft gaming content. I end up watching mostly english gaming content because pt-br seems completely dominated by roblox and minecraft, the algorithm almost never suggests actually similar channels or videos and there’s a never ending number of roblox shit.
I suspect most of the roblox shit came because of that People Make Games video, which is super ironic.
I had not heard the thing… holy shit that was racist and idiotic. and the apology is useless… what a twat
He’s a self professed degenerate, and wealthy to boot. He doesn’t give a shit what any of us think.
It’s nice his dad called and gave him shit though, since his audience is more toxic than he is and he shouldn’t be feeding them like that.
I’ve seen enough of his content to know he’s usually pretty quick to shut down talk just like what he got in trouble for so I don’t know what got into him that day.
It was a debate so things probably got heated, not about to watch him debate Hasan to confirm lol.
It was surprisingly chill. Hasan was super patient with him though.
“They are not the same as us. They come from an inferior culture that is horrible, it kills people for their identity, and it is directly antithetical to everything Western values stand for, and it is an inferior culture in all ways. It is that simple.”
That santorum extract of a man probably did not see the irony hidden in his sentence. Can we charge this guy ?
Can we charge this guy ?
Financially? I don’t see how…
With clubs and other blunt force objects? I mean, yeah, but is he worth going to jail over?
This coming from the guy that can barely handle personal hygiene and lives in abject filth. Just shut the fuck up and play WoW dude.
well I didn’t know that about him but it kinda completes the portrait in a consistent way
Here might as well complete the whole portrait
TIL of the neologism santorum, thank you for blessing my day
my pleasure, pay it forward !
He joked on his feed that he has a dead rat on his windowsill and when the heat of the sun hits it the smell is what wakes him up in the morning.
This is the guy accusing some folks on the opposite side of the world of having an inferior horrible culture.
i mean hes not a very bright guy. he was complaining about if they made metal gear solid delta(3 remake) political when metal gear as a series is one of the most political series ever.
damn… people complaining about things getting too political bring fatigue into my life
I keep thinking about the guy complaining that Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine got political with that one picture of his guitar, and the reddit comment or whatever asking what type of machine he thought the band was rafing against - kitchen appliances?
haaaa yes 😂
I also hate that guy but when he said that it was a joke, he stated as such in literally his next sentence, hes not THAT dumb
It is the typical ploy employed by those who hold extremist views. Say something radical and wait for the reaction. If the reception is positive you continue on, if it’s negative, you just laugh and say it’s a joke.
Just to be clear. The radical view in this context is “metal gear solid is going political”
In this case, it very much was a joke.
Well that’s awfully antisemitic of Twitch /s
Oh, wait, they have genocide built into their religious books now, do they now?
“From the cities of these peoples which YHWH your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not let anything that breathes remain alive. You shall surely annihilate them (haḥărēm taḥărîmēm) … just as YHWH your God has commanded you so that they may not teach you to do any of the abominations that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against YHWH your God” Deuteronomy 20:16–17
Oh, yep, nevermind, I can see it, carry on.
So is quran read chapter 9
#ThatsThePoint
The problem is at the source of Abrahamic religions, so being only concerned about one particular subset says a lot.
But majority of israelis are secular but muslims are the most religious
Do you know what secular means? Google it, then tell me. Tell me while you sport a religiously obsessed username.
The Israelis will be fine with killing Muslims for more shopping malls.
I miss when WoW streamers, with dead animals stuck in their ceiling would shut up, and play their game, instead of spewing hateful bullshit without any education on the topic
WoW players not spew hateful bullshit they know nothing about? Who would even be left at that point?
Once the dead rat and blood wall were cleaned up, the stream really went down hill
When WoW streamers with… what now?
I seem to have missed something at some point.
Okay but you have to at least know about the gum blood wall
That’s on the list of yes-but-i-wish-i-didnt.
I’m still confused why ANYONE watches the big streamers since they’re all pretty much, at least in so far as I’ve noticed, kind of a group of weird-ass idiots.
Hey now some of them are weird ass intelligents. But yeah a lot of them aint that great.
The real ones have moved on from streaming wow
Now perhaps that goblin finally has time to take a shower and clean his cave.
Step one to not being an asshole is to just stop thinking people should not be alive anymore. That’s literally the easiest thing. Just literally being cool with people being alive.
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G*mer moments used to be private affairs shared between strangers in a CoD lobby, like God intended, now these kids stream them, smh.
Looks like he made a follow up and apology video. Hopefully he’s serious and actually follows up since it sounds like he’s taking the ban and his father reaching out to him as a wake up call.
Hmm… not bad. I only watched 5ish min, but he seems genuine - that is to say, he realizes he fucked up, not that he’ll actually change anything
More interesting, to me, as someone that had only heard about this from headlines, you can clearly see the mental illness pervasive in his community by looking at the comments and even moreso by looking at the guy’s room. Dude is someone we should pity, not hate - granted I understand influencers having massive platforms, and well influence
Still, I wish we could be more like the Palestinians and Arabs he mentions, that checked on him to see if he was ok, instead of the knee-jerk, quick to react Americans we are, that are ready to pounce on a fallen
neighborenemy and eager to find ways we’re different to further divide ourselvesOh he for sure has tons of mental issues and illnesses and so does a portion of his community. The thing is, he’s been a major streamer for fucking ever, at this point it’s sort of his fault he’s like that. He’s had loved ones and family try to help over the years but he just has the money to tell them to fuck off. Usually it’s hitting rock bottom that gets people to change but it’s very hard to do that when you have tons of money and don’t do drugs.
This is far from a one off. He does fucked up shit like this constantly, for years. He’s made millions from the controversy.
I doubt hes done.
Happens a lot with streamers, they sit there rotting to an audience of yes men, if anyone doesn’t agree they can just remove their opinion, while making money. So it just reinforces the behaviour.
I have no interest in his content, but I hope he does change. But maybe you are right that he will just slip back again after fostering that toxic environment for another year.
Yeah, I don’t believe the apology for one second. Hes gonna have to prove hes changed over a looong period of time before I actually believe it.
The comments on this are a shit show
Lots of panicking that he’s “gone woke” instead of being happy that he might improve as a person.
His entire audience is “anti-woke” weirdo conservative chuds. I made the mistake of clicking on a video of his on YouTube talking about a trailer or something, and half the comments were people yelling about how the game was gonna suck because of women or something.
His subreddit is in full cope mode and losing its collective shit right now. People acting like Hasan set him up or something. Like… no, Hasan tried to save Asmon’s racist ass and give him a way out of the controversy, and instead of taking the help he decided to double-down on his bullshit.
He looks so fuckling unwashed and nasty.
Because he is. I went down a little rabbit hole about him over the last couple days and he literally doesn’t clean anything, not even himself.
Here’s a house tour another channel did at his home and it’s… something.
He’s affiliated with that other channel fyi
If you think he has some disgusting viewpoints and personality, wait till you see his wall.
Oh its just Asmongold, not someone who is actually likable. Oh well. Get jebaited loser.
I’ve heard that it’s a two week ban, which for a streamer is huge, since any day your banned, subscriptions do not auto-renew. Guy will lose half his recurring income. Depending on the fan he could get it back of course since they could re-sub after he’s back, but there’s still gonna be a big chunk of folks who will either forget, forgot they were subbed to begin with and thus not notice they were un-subbed, or just use that as their clean break moment.
He makes no income from twitch. You cannot donate or sub to him AFAIK.
After a bit of looking into it: He has an unmonetized alt channel zackrawrr that is his primary streaming channel, but his main asmongold channel is still monetized and can be subscribed/donated to. I don’t personally follow the guy (as the only things I’ve heard about him have been uninteresting at best, and horrifying at worst [e.g. rat alarm clock] and have no interest in WoW.), so I was unaware. As a general statement regarding streamers though, what I’ve said is correct.
