For anyone who isn’t aware you can also block channels, click the three dots on the thumbnail and hit the ‘don’t show channel’ button. I tend to block channels that even talk about him cause I’m just not interested in dramatubers either.
A year back he started invading my feed and I took the bait for a bit. Ended up blocking all his channels I came across though. My mental health has thanked me.
Really can’t stand his dumbass face. The fucking epitome of click bait and reaction faces on thumbnails. Usually just riding whatever negativity hate-train is active for his free clicks and internet points. It’s honestly baffling how this goblin garnered such an army of followers.
“I don’t give a fuck, they’re terrible people who have genocide baked into their laws”
Okay, assuming any of that is true, how is what the IDF is doing any better? Fucking moron. Take a shower, you sweaty talentless hack. Leave the political commentary to people who actually understand current events.
“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 ?
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.
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.
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 raging against - kitchen appliances?
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.
Not only ignorant, he showed his true colors to be 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 games
The problem is also how YouTube compartmentalizes the content. I like the Alveus Sactuary Channel, Maya Higa has probably one of the most noble causes for streaming. But because she’s related to OTK, YouTube thinks it’s fine to blast me with the full dose of their cringe drama. No amount of “not interested” or channel blocking is going to solve that, because there’s always gonna be copycat clipper channel reposting the same twitch clips over and over.
It’s funny how YouTube killed early short form animation channels (which was arguably peak YouTube content at the time) in favor for long form content, but then introduced Shorts. But those barely pay anything so people either rehash their 10+ minute video into 20 YT Shorts or spam AI generated garbage en masse. There’s also apparently no copyright enforcement on those shorts, since you can essential watch the entirety of a 2.5 hrs movie in segmented shorts with shitty music layered on top.
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.
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.
I went through a brief Asmongold phase about a year or two ago where I enjoyed just listening to him rant and bitch (mostly) about the video game industry. He was surprisingly articulate at times and not quite how I had perceived him. I watched him take a political alignment test and he was dumbfounded that he was fairly left-wing. I thought that might be a turning point for him, but then election season came around and he went right back to being an obnoxious Trump-supporting Texan. I don’t think Asmongold even knows who he is deep down or what he stands for. I think he just spews vomit from his brain and doubles-down on all of it because he’s incapable of dropping an argument or admitting he was wrong. It’s kind of his shtick, but I’m long since done with it.
I know enough about him to attempt a deep-dive into his psyche in regards to his decrepit home, his mother’s death and his unwillingness to seperate from his lifestyle, but at the end of the day his sad circumstances unfortunately don’t excuse the abborant shit he sometimes says.
Personally I think he actually wants to be a decent person deep down, but the environment he built for himself has led to a self-reinforcing manifestation of the macro-scale social problems that are plaguing young men in this generation. For that reason I don’t hate Asmongold because I believe he is still reachable, and has the opportunity to have a moral arc that could potentially help a lot of people if he was willing to do the work of real self-actualization.
I’m my experience, that’s most right-wingers in Texas. They’ll bitch about corporate power, the consolidation of megacorps, the little guy getting fucked over and then just be completely unable to process that the last 40 years of Republican rule are why that’s happening. They’ve decided their identity is Republican and questioning that is something they’re not willing to do, even if their ideology runs counter to it.
I really think it all boils down to the regressive thought prison that permeates religious culture, and anything that is adjacent to it. Asmongold himself has stated on many occasions that he was raised in a Roman Catholic environment even though he personally rebelled against it.
However, when everyone you are around in society still uses the same flawed logic pathways, lacks critical thinking skills, and perpetuates the hegemonic in-group dynamics that surround that religious world-view you are still personally psychologically affected by it even if you don’t subscribe to the religious component of it.
That’s the even more nefarious, pernicious, and hidden damage caused by promulgating religious culture is that it makes being willfully ignorant not only permissable, but REQUIRED in order to conform to the group identity. I can see how that influence has literally broken his brain in ways he appears to not even be consciously aware of yet.
We’ll see if this wakes him up, or drives him further into his echo-chamber in an attempt to avoid the painful process of overcoming cognitive dissonance. Only time will tell, but I will admit the deck is stacked against him when he has such a massive financial incentive to resist developing a more mature, nuanced worldview.
Whatever the topic, it’s best to avoid the opinions of videogame streamers/youtubers on matters outside of videogames.
I somehow doubt Hoyt has ever lived in Israel/Palestine, speaks Hebrew or Arabic or has ever read the Talmud, Bible or Quaran (even partially, but in a serious manner; one that provides some context on the “styling” of Abrahamic religious texts).
I haven’t seen much of Hoyt’s content, but the few clips I’ve seen seemed very low effort. If you can’t even be bothered to make good content around videogames, you should definitely avoid narcissistic outbursts on serious matters.
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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.
Here’s one face I wish I could block. Searching any video game topic on YouTube always pops his drama filled mug in the results.
Need to work on your algorithm… I watch almost exclusively gaming stuff and I never see him.
Go through your history and delete any history with him in it, and you won’t see him ever again.
For anyone who isn’t aware you can also block channels, click the three dots on the thumbnail and hit the ‘don’t show channel’ button. I tend to block channels that even talk about him cause I’m just not interested in dramatubers either.
On Firefox there is also the BlockTube extension that lets you block videos or channels entirely. You’ll never see them again.
A year back he started invading my feed and I took the bait for a bit. Ended up blocking all his channels I came across though. My mental health has thanked me.
Really can’t stand his dumbass face. The fucking epitome of click bait and reaction faces on thumbnails. Usually just riding whatever negativity hate-train is active for his free clicks and internet points. It’s honestly baffling how this goblin garnered such an army of followers.
Fuck that dude, not even surprised
Yeah, super shocked he took a break from saying dumb regressive shit about gaming to say dumb regressive shit about Palestine.
Well that’s awfully antisemitic of Twitch /s
He dropped an excuse video saying he went too far but also he still believes Palestinians have an inferior extremist culture.
Yep.
He looks so fuckling unwashed and nasty.
If you think he has some disgusting viewpoints and personality, wait till you see his wall.
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
Yeah I just figured that out today after watching him try to eat fruit on Emiru’s channel and seeing a big neon OTK sign on the wall
Oh its just Asmongold removed, not a good streamer, or person at that. Opinion discarded.
I don’t think he actually plays games anymore. He just says x company/person is finished and here’s why. It’s usually a really bad take.
“I don’t give a fuck, they’re terrible people who have genocide baked into their laws”
Okay, assuming any of that is true, how is what the IDF is doing any better? Fucking moron. Take a shower, you sweaty talentless hack. Leave the political commentary to people who actually understand current events.
It seems pretty consistent that any time I hear somebody mention Sharia Law, I am in for some horrible takes.
No anomalies detected in this case.
“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 ?
TIL of the neologism santorum, thank you for blessing my day
my pleasure, pay it forward !
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That’s his plan allegedly
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
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.
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.
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 raging against - kitchen appliances?
haaaa yes 😂
Financially? I don’t see how…
With clubs and other blunt force objects? I mean, yeah, but is he worth going to jail over?
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.
Not only ignorant, he showed his true colors to be 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 games
The problem is also how YouTube compartmentalizes the content. I like the Alveus Sactuary Channel, Maya Higa has probably one of the most noble causes for streaming. But because she’s related to OTK, YouTube thinks it’s fine to blast me with the full dose of their cringe drama. No amount of “not interested” or channel blocking is going to solve that, because there’s always gonna be copycat clipper channel reposting the same twitch clips over and over.
It’s funny how YouTube killed early short form animation channels (which was arguably peak YouTube content at the time) in favor for long form content, but then introduced Shorts. But those barely pay anything so people either rehash their 10+ minute video into 20 YT Shorts or spam AI generated garbage en masse. There’s also apparently no copyright enforcement on those shorts, since you can essential watch the entirety of a 2.5 hrs movie in segmented shorts with shitty music layered on top.
I hate that youtube lacks any means to block entire channels
edit: i’m dumb, you can block channels
I make pretty liberal use of the channel blocks
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.
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.
I went through a brief Asmongold phase about a year or two ago where I enjoyed just listening to him rant and bitch (mostly) about the video game industry. He was surprisingly articulate at times and not quite how I had perceived him. I watched him take a political alignment test and he was dumbfounded that he was fairly left-wing. I thought that might be a turning point for him, but then election season came around and he went right back to being an obnoxious Trump-supporting Texan. I don’t think Asmongold even knows who he is deep down or what he stands for. I think he just spews vomit from his brain and doubles-down on all of it because he’s incapable of dropping an argument or admitting he was wrong. It’s kind of his shtick, but I’m long since done with it.
I know enough about him to attempt a deep-dive into his psyche in regards to his decrepit home, his mother’s death and his unwillingness to seperate from his lifestyle, but at the end of the day his sad circumstances unfortunately don’t excuse the abborant shit he sometimes says.
Personally I think he actually wants to be a decent person deep down, but the environment he built for himself has led to a self-reinforcing manifestation of the macro-scale social problems that are plaguing young men in this generation. For that reason I don’t hate Asmongold because I believe he is still reachable, and has the opportunity to have a moral arc that could potentially help a lot of people if he was willing to do the work of real self-actualization.
I’m my experience, that’s most right-wingers in Texas. They’ll bitch about corporate power, the consolidation of megacorps, the little guy getting fucked over and then just be completely unable to process that the last 40 years of Republican rule are why that’s happening. They’ve decided their identity is Republican and questioning that is something they’re not willing to do, even if their ideology runs counter to it.
I really think it all boils down to the regressive thought prison that permeates religious culture, and anything that is adjacent to it. Asmongold himself has stated on many occasions that he was raised in a Roman Catholic environment even though he personally rebelled against it.
However, when everyone you are around in society still uses the same flawed logic pathways, lacks critical thinking skills, and perpetuates the hegemonic in-group dynamics that surround that religious world-view you are still personally psychologically affected by it even if you don’t subscribe to the religious component of it.
That’s the even more nefarious, pernicious, and hidden damage caused by promulgating religious culture is that it makes being willfully ignorant not only permissable, but REQUIRED in order to conform to the group identity. I can see how that influence has literally broken his brain in ways he appears to not even be consciously aware of yet.
We’ll see if this wakes him up, or drives him further into his echo-chamber in an attempt to avoid the painful process of overcoming cognitive dissonance. Only time will tell, but I will admit the deck is stacked against him when he has such a massive financial incentive to resist developing a more mature, nuanced worldview.
Whatever the topic, it’s best to avoid the opinions of videogame streamers/youtubers on matters outside of videogames.
I somehow doubt Hoyt has ever lived in Israel/Palestine, speaks Hebrew or Arabic or has ever read the Talmud, Bible or Quaran (even partially, but in a serious manner; one that provides some context on the “styling” of Abrahamic religious texts).
I haven’t seen much of Hoyt’s content, but the few clips I’ve seen seemed very low effort. If you can’t even be bothered to make good content around videogames, you should definitely avoid narcissistic outbursts on serious matters.
Thank you for saying something common sense. Streamers of all kinds are probably not the ‘experts’ we need to listen to.
Streamer culture is one of the cringiest part of modern internet