Damn

(3:48 timestamp)

A bit of grifting is fine, you gotta make a living, it’s a fucked up system might as well “get yours”. But holy shit did this moment on FNT come off as fucking low right off the bat of last weeks shit show of an episode.

The sphere of geeks and gamers is going to have some neckbeards. There are going to be incels and smarmy know it alls that are insufferable and say annoying shit in the audience, and they’re going to be overbearing and they’re going to sometimes bring the show down and the mood down of the general fun for the hosts.

But holy shit guys, this is the audience that supports your livelihoods, they are fiercely loyal, put their faith and hard earned money into your shows and this is how you repay their loyalty? These are the guys you have  blown smoke up their ass for years on end and told that you were fighting this culture war for and cultivated.

After all these years of grifting, after all the hollow attacks on Kathleen Kennedy, after waxing poetic about the need for quality, wholesome entertainment that provides optimism for everyone. You lot sided with a toxic intersectional feminist calling your entire chat incels over your loyal fanbase and laughed about it to their face.

Damn that’s scummy.

It’s a free country, you don’t have to be nice to annoying neckbeards, but you went out of your way to bring them on board and tell them you were in this fight with them.

Do you have the SLIGHTLEST bit of respect for you audience that you pander to and grifted towards week after week? Holy shit this was shameful.

My stomach turned the way I saw Gary fucking applaud like some high and mighty shit and Jeremy laughed at the audience for being a sea of incels.

Let me try to put this in perspective. Imagine Taylor Swift, who grifts her audience too. She preys on her audience in a similar way, feeds into their hates and builds a bit of a cult following blowing smoke up their asses, she has her own fervent “Fellowship”. Is her audience a bit insufferable in the same kind of way? Full of hate and spite and geeks of a different variety? Absolutely, but from a certain vantage point it’s noble what she does, she fosters a sense of community and sense of belonging within her fans who don’t have much else in this crazy world. A lot of them are outcasts, a lot of them sadly give a damn about that silly little facade of community they’ve built.

It’s cringe, it’s exploitive, it’s sad, but it serves a purpose, it gives some lost souls a purpose and Swift takes on that role seriously and respects her fans.

You would never see Taylor Swift get up in front of a stadium, have a guest on that calls all her fans a bunch of insufferable incels, and then have her laugh about it and insult her own audience. For one it would just be terrible businesses, but beyond that, it would be an ultimate betrayal and expose her as a fake piece of shit, even if she is one. It would expose it to everyone.

Like holy shit, how fucking little respect do you guys give your own rabid fanbase and your own means of making a VERY good living? How little self restraint do you have to not expose to your paying customers that you actually think so little of them?

And shout out to Rippa here. That dude respects his fans, it’s not an act, he’s actually appreciative of his followers as insufferable as they may be. The dude wants to do right by them and values making them happy. It’s the absolute #1 reason he had such a fantastic start with the Rippaverse, the dude gives a fuck and respects his audience that put their faith in him. So as much shit as he gets for his other shortcomings as a creative, as a figurehead for Rippaverse, hats off for respecting the fans, no joke.

This was hard to fucking watch, I used to think Jeremy was a real one with SOME genuine respect for his awkward audience of geeks and gamers and that there was some heart in this sphere, but the small amount of success has really gotten to their heads. It’s hard to watch now.

“Hail to the chat, the chads of the internet”. The look on Gary’s face while he does that clap, god damn. You guys truly are a bunch of grifting fucks that have conned a legion of insufferable viewers. I dunno, maybe you guys deserve each other.

I’m not going to say the viewers are worthy of respect, but I used to respect this scene for being a safe haven for the outcasts that once had a home in nerdom, this place was a refuge. I respected that you guys put up with the neckbeards and the insufferable fans who would bitch and moan about the stupidest shit. It was often cringe, but it was noble in a way and heartfelt.

The mask has really slipped.

You guys used to genuinely believe in all this stuff, were genuinely fighting to try to bring back meritocracy and better entertainment. These days you seem more interested in railing your own audience for luls who send you their hard earned super chats and burning through good faith.

I think I’m just about over this entire scene, first all the Rippaverse bullshit, now the Rekeita stuff. No one has any respect for one another, or the audience, this scene has no human element left, it’s all about the griftings and $$$ now. Year and year of grift has sucked all the humanity out of everyone in this sphere.

It’s sad the racket this has all turned into as an audience of easily exploited incels get taken advantage of by a group of ungrateful shits that acted like leaders of a movement for money.

Oh well, it is what it is.

With all the decay and increased grifting and people’s lives falling apart and the animosity between everyone ramping up to 11. I think it would do this scene a lot of good to do a little soul searching. To think about what their motives are, what their ambitions are. Is this all just hollow grifting for money? Empty panderings and petty politics? You guys are going to shit REALLY fast. Jeremy, The Quartering, Rippa, Gary, this whole scene is doubling down on this petty horse shit grifting and politics and bullshit. There’s nothing of substance here, there’s no principle, no drive to do anything of value.

You guys are really starting to look like those smarmy, back scratching, do nothing, hack Hollywood elite you used to talk shit about.

Rekieta isn’t the only one in need of an intervention in these parts.

“You either die a streamer, or live long enough to see yourself become the content”