Fuzzy Pickles! wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 5:08 pm
I remember being around this community. So glad to have washed my hands off of it. I can't say that I missed Hellsing, he brought his early death on himself.
These are the lulziest group of people I have ever been across and all for the wrong reasons. Especially TheDarknessthecurse with his early reviews being him screaming at games he hates to compensate for his miserable life as well as his rants (I will always remember his Swine Flu rant). I don't think there will ever be an Internet community I laugh harder at if mostly because they were my first source of Internet drama.
DarknessTheCurse's stuff was some of the worst I've ever seen. I can't believe I ever used to watch that shlock. He would scream his guts out at a game, and apparently that was funny back in 2007. It must have been, because it did quite well for him back then. Kinda funny too; his "heyday", as small as it was, only lasted maybe around 2 years or so at the most. BigAl sort of lasted for around four years, at the least.
As for StanBurdman, you'd be surprised. It's not that he hasn't changed, quite the opposite. He's actually had a ton of different stages, and never seemed able to settle on one thing. He made game reviews for years and did a lot of sketches too. Then, in 2010/2011, he did nothing but Minecraft let's plays. He also used to do these weird non-Let's plays, where he'd play an open-world game (Red Dead Redemption and Just Cause 2 come to mind, which shows you just how long ago this way) where he would play a game without any real sense of direction, and then give up on it after a few videos. They were pretty funny back then, but in hindsight just seemed like him trying to figure out how to make a video which would get him views while putting in as little effort as possible.
When the Minecraft vids continued, I eventually gave up on him. Checked his channel a year later to find it a bit better; a lot more retro game reviews, as well as these "gaming memories" vids which were endearing if not necessarily great. Like James Rolfe, he's the kind of person who can be quite interesting if he's talking about something he legitimately likes or has fond memories of.
For years after that, for some reason, he'd do these reviews of web games. These shitty web games which no one would ever want to play. I have no idea why he did them too, unless he was just far too cheap to buy games. Which wouldn't surprise me, with that big nose of his.
He also went on long, unannounced hiatuses for months upon months at a time, with no forewarning in the slightest. In fact, he's on one of them right now. It's no surprise how little his views to subscribers ratio is. Lastly, he even tried his hand at being a hack political commentator for a while there, around six months ago or so. He kept this up for (I kid you not) five whole videos in total. I guess once he realised he wasn't going to be a Miscarriage of Acchild or a Jim he just gave up and went back to what he knew, proving his hackery once and for all.
I remember Kugel saying a while back that Stan never found his niche, and was just sort of always "there". It's the best way to sum it up, really. Him, Archfiend, and all those less-than-nobodies types always seemed to want to mooch off of the success of others and put it in as little effort as possible, not to mention never improve in any way. To this day he remains a bit of an enigma to me.