Damn

@Vknid I think I get it now, and in blathering in this thread and being honest about rippa being faithful to his fans, and holding these guys to account, I kinda opened my eyes to what Rippaverse is first and foremost, and that’s a place where people can enjoy something with their community which is the same thing that attracts me to this sphere.

I probably watched a few too many trashcasts and it tainted my vision a bit.

This world is large and complex and there are so many facets to the interactions of business and the personalities in this sphere that it can become very easy for us to lose track of important things and lose sight of the human element.

Recently watched Mr. Metokur on this situation and it was hard to watch, but it shined a lot of light, especially with all the other nasty shit that’s been revealed about nick, it calls into question a lot of these attacks on Mr July.

https://x.com/ExwarSaing/status/1794552987819340163

It’s a hard time being a geek or gamer. Our financial systems are broken to shit. Our schools are pumping out communists, game companies and entertainment only hires communists, and what little refuge there is for us is being torn apart as we fight over the scraps and attack each other.

It’s been rough for everyone for so long that people are all on edge and it becomes this terrible downward spiral.

It kinda feels like this all ties together, all this decay in so many areas snowballs and it ends up with everyone at each others’ throats as people are pushed to having to engage in lowly acts just to survive.

It’s easy to say “there should be more principle in YouTube and in entertainment” when you’re in the outside, but the truth is, in this mad world, only the people willing to be two faced and play these games survive.

My bad for shitting on this sphere so damned hard in regards to Rippaverse, there’s a less toxic way to voice criticism. It’s easy to let little jabs spiral out of control and before you know it everyone brings the conversation down to the most vile, shit flinging level.

I don’t know if anyone from FNT or Geeks and Gamers reads these threads, but it feels like this community needs to have an adult conversation, and not the usual kind that chat has about X-ray girl (she’s married you assholes). It feels like we need to try to appeal to our better natures, and try to make this more than just neckbearding out and attacking people, trying to grift and make tons of money, trying to talk shit about stuff.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s room for all that stuff, but a lot of the sentiment has been lost over the years the “may the wings of liberty never lose a feather”.

This scene needs a bit more aspirational positive elements, too much decay, too much negativity. It’s about finding the right balance of negativity, cuz don’t get me wrong, I know negativity and drama sells, I sure as shit tune in for that trash. But it’s reached a level of vileness and toxicity that it’s starting to drive people away.

I dunno, just shit to think about.

Here are some big goals that might sound retarded but it would be awesome to work towards:

1 Come out and be totally up front, tell each other painful truths that might be painful but will bring back some level of authenticity back to this sphere. End the NDA’s, let people talk their minds and stop astroturfing who’s allowed to be on who’s shows and exiling certain people.

2 Start fostering quality talent, writers, artists, short film makers, make them mini stars and if they do consistent good work, pay them and sell their products to the fans. QUALITY PROVEN PRODUCT. Make the first couple efforts free, develop pipelines. Foster an audience, turn some heads, then start raking in well earned and big $$$ while growing and giving back to talented creators.

3. Show some damned respect and appreciation for your audience. Not this fake smoke up our ass patronizing “chads of the internet” shit.

4. Try some new formats, get some great personalities together and show off some cool new innovative stuff. Maybe a short sketch comedy with Jay and Ryan written by disparu and Az or anyone who fancies themselves a writer or performer, you could play these during FNT sorta like EVS plays his puppet shows, this would be a huge draw and most importantly, just put a fire back under your guys’s ass. Find someone who can use green screen to composite everyone together to make this easy to produce.  Find what sort of writing/ sketches/ scenarios/ AI tech allows for producing really funny easy to make content. Trick is to start small find what works and not burn out. Shit, here’s an idea: create a new forum here on this site, and invite the chat to come here and write their own sketch ideas and you guys could pick your favorites and make them reality, that would be awesome content that everyone could enjoy.

Thing is, this scene is just going through the motions, everyone’s gotten fat and lazy and just shows up, pressed the button and eats up super chats and that fire to produce things of quality is gone, and the respect is gone, and the excitement is gone in many ways.

Ok, probably too much, but just wanted to put some thoughts out there. I don’t like to just criticize without offering potential solutions or trying to not take in criticism myself.

Edit: I think I might have just figured it out, I imagine these guys strike financial deals with their guests to take a % of the profits of the products they sell (in this case that gambit sweater or whatever that shit was) and with that comes an NDA, No discussion of this financial arrangement, no trash talking about the guest, no trash talk about the host. But what they forgot to add to said NDA was no trash talk about the audience, and Danica or whatever the fuck her name was took that opportunity to just go ham on everyone, knowing full well the hosts couldn’t talk shit about her. Just a theory…

Migrating comment to the rippaverse thread