grapegarden:

I can’t trust Arin. And it’s not because he promised to send me Jon’s signature when I last saw him at MAGFest 2013 (I’d come over from Scotland), and sent nothing (although that was a shame, let’s be real here, I was stupid for thinking I ‘d get anything). He’s more of a performer, and of course that’s kind of what you do for fans, but I felt like I was duped after it finally clicked that it was all a show (especially his reaction to “I’m JerryTerry’s girlfriend.” That was legendary). At least with Jon, what you hear is how things really are, even if he can be insensitive sometimes. I admire Jon’s honesty. Anyway:

I’ve seen so many people (friends included) eat up the “JON AND ARIN ARE FRIENDS NOW CONSPIRACY GRUMPS IS DONE REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD” stuff and I can’t help but scoff. All of the PR business just seems so blatantly transparent at this point so I can’t believe people are actually falling for it. If Jon and Arin are really getting along a bit better now, that’s fantastic. I don’t mean to be a cynic, it’s just that we haven’t heard anything from Jon and it feels like Arin’s put his hand over the former’s mouth and is speaking for him. Like I said, I just can’t bring myself to trust the guy at all.

I’ll be honest in that I don’t really care either way at this point. Yeah, it seems phoney as heck considering every Grumps-related person happened to comment on the exact same picture, just to cement the “LOOK HOW FRIENDLY WE ARE” appearance.



Plus Arin is foremost a businessman, and there’s no way he wasn’t aware how much of a nuisance ConspiracyGrumps were becoming to the show (especially after uncovering the Miiverse censorship). That was why in the first place, he told the Grumps subreddit that Jon didn’t want them talking about him (which wasn’t true at all) - it was damage control in its most obvious form, but it didn’t work when Jon came forward and said it was a lie, and got even worse when he started making hints at Conspiracygrumps with Nicole. This seems like the logical conclusion: reconciling with Jon so that people will finally shut up. Or at least making it look that way.



I don’t know if Arin actually got in contact with Jon and made an apology and tried to be on good terms again, or if he just convinced Jon to pretend that everything’s cool (or just took advantage of Jon’s nature and just approached him and started acting friendly). It doesn’t matter now - either you like Grumps or you don’t, and whether or not Jon and Arin have made up is unlikely to affect that at this point.



A good way to tell if it’s phoney or not is to see what Jon says though. Arin has no problem with putting on a Facade to keep making money, but Jon isn’t that kind of guy as far as I can tell. He beats himself up over disappointing his fans even just for not making enough videos, I don’t think he’d have the stomach to outright lie to his fans without feeling incredibly guilty (if my appraisal of him’s correct, that is. I haven’t spoken to him or Nicole in a long time, I hope they’ve come out of this okay). So if Jon stays quiet on the matter, I’d say it signifies that this has all been a bit of a ruse, and he doesn’t feel too comfortable with the situation. Unless Arin pulled some sort of “pretend to be my friend” contract out of his pants, which I wouldn’t put past him.