Some Sick Fuck wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:15 am
somehow, he found audience that's willing to put up with his bullshit.
It's actually not even that uncommon, sad as that is. I do some Youtube stuff and I had a guy once tell me to "not push yourself too hard" when I mentioned I was ill at one point. Push myself too hard. From making gaming videos. Figure that one out.
He was a nice guy by all means, which makes me worried because it's another example of that kind of person who is blinded by perspective bias and so easily manipulated by people they like. You know, the remaining part of Spoony's fanbase. Perspective bias is like a drug which blinds people, and they don't break out of it until they finally spent some time away from the object of their obsession. With Spoony's "fans", they still continued to follow him on Twitter even if he wasn't streaming, so they never broke out of their infatuation with him. We should rename the Spoony Experiment to the Cult of Spoony by this point, because that's what it is. It's (appropriately) like one of those crazy Vault experiments from the Fallout series.
I actually get Spoony with the whole bitching about having to cover a particular game thing. Covering a game you don't like because others want you to can be a bit debilitating, particularly as games are supposed to be a fun past-time. The difference, of course, is that Spoony is such a cunt that he would actively insult his own audience for something like that, rather than just gritting his teeth and keeping it to himself like most people would. If he doesn't even want to cover a certain game, than why does he put it up there in the first place? He HAS to be desperate by this point or he wouldn't even bother.
A bit problem with Youtube in general is that people don't really care about videos, and they rarely ever have. What they want to a human quality to relate to. Building an audience nearly always requires some kind of personality that viewers can cling to; a lot barely even care about what's being covered so long as its "their guy" doing it. Objectivity isn't really there. Why did people want the AVGN to cover Sonic '06, when it's been done (better, I might add) a million times before it? It's more they end up much more in love with the person than with what they even do, whether they realise it or not. There are some exceptions to this, like Peeved Pedro, but a lot of the early Youtube personalities in particular had more cults of personality than true fanbases, and Spoony amongst others is a remnant of that.
It's a bit demoralising when you're trying to do one thing and people latch onto something else, but that's just the way it works out I suppose. People need a humanistic element to be able to relate to something. There's a reason why corporations spend so much on advertisements trying to make themselves look like they're not a faceless, unaccountable, money-grubbing business.