As of Friday the 10th of October, 2014, thecreatureblog is stopping all activity. No more posts will be made/reblogged onto this blog anymore, so feel free to unfollow it. Nevertheless, the blog page will stay up to keep this message out, and old posts will probably be slowly deleted throughout the coming weeks/months.

The five admins have no longer any interest in being linked with this blog or The Creatures and therefore will not be dedicating any more of their time on running this blog that was for years linked to thecreaturehub youtube and twitch channels.

It’s with great sadness that we came to this conclusion, but we all are 100% sure this is what we want. Under the Read More, personal messages from each of us will be attached (it’s a long read, but a good one if you’re interested) with our experiences and more specific reasons as to why this happened.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all of this time and thank you Creatures for the laughs, but this is the end of the line.

- Julio, Claudia, Kaitlyn, Chloe and Arthur

JULIO:

I’d like to start of by saying thank you for all the support from our followers and friends in the community for all this time, and I’d like to write all of my experiences with the blog since I created it back in May, 2011, but I feel like Claudia, Kaitlyn, Chloe and Arthur summed it up pretty good. We’re all done, we don’t find any joy in being part of this community or many entertainment in watching the group, anymore. Sadly, we all grew up and our eyes opened, our minds and hearts changed, and it all came to this. I knew that this wasn’t forever, and I was right; we feel it’s time to move on with our lives, we don’t have the time to spend watching many YouTube videos, nor the desire to stomach the growing toxicity of the community on YouTube, Twitter and Tumblr. We’re just done. If you feel like you need a new “creature blog” to follow as this one is going away, follow my friends at the creaturegroup, they’re extremely talented and are very friendly. Have fun, and enjoy life.

CLAUDIA:

I started watching the Creatures years ago when James had under 75k subscribers and I knew I was in this for the long haul. Through him I found Kootra, Gassy, and Sp00n and eventually started watching every Creature video that was being uploaded. I’d tell all of my friends about how cool these guys were and how funny I thought their content was, and was desperately trying to call into Creature Talk each week. I loved machinima and for years my favourite combo was Sp00n and Nova. Whenever I was feeling kind of down, I’d just watch their videos and it would be like life was on pause for a bit. I met Julio by posting on tumblr back when this blog was still called ‘little-creature-things’. After we evolved a bit and the blog grew we had a great group of people consisting of the two of us and Kailtyn and Chloe. I met a lot of other great people through the blog including some people I’ve ended up meeting in real life and I’m really grateful for having been able to meet all of these great people who I feel like I can call friends. I think the biggest moment for me in my Creature fan career was when James did his first face cam video. My poor teenage heart was literally about to explode and if anything it only got me more involved with the Creature fan base online, including the old Creature Hub website (which is where I spent a lot of my free time). My favourite Creature Talk was and always will be the Lyle’s Hard Hitting Questions episode. I still listen to it once in a while when I need to have a bit of a laugh. I almost got called into the Creature Talk episode that aired either before or after that one—I forgot— but that was pretty great and it was really cool for me at the time to be able to listen to Creature Talk live since I lived in a country where it would air at the worst time ever and I could only really listen to it live when in the US. I remember once I actually left my friends house early to go listen to Creature Talk. I was like that at the time. When the Creatures all moved in together…that was, like, a huge deal and it was all really exciting. I knew I’d get to see more of the Creatures in real life instead of simply hearing their voices, which was so awesome at the time. I loved the idea up until I heard from the other mods that Junkyard and Chilled were no longer going to be considered Creatures. I think that, for me, that’s where I really started to lose my enthusiasm for the Creatures. Of course, I still watched all of their videos because I wanted to see them interact together and whatever, but it was weird without Chilled and Junkyard for a while. Then when they announced that Gassy was no longer going to be a part of the Creatures, that’s when I really stopped feeling excited. To me it felt like such a betrayal. Such a fucking nasty decision. Like, I’m not Gassy, I’m not a Creature, I have no say in their decisions, but this one really angered me. For the life of me, I couldn’t understand why they were splitting up the group like this. So I stopped watching videos that weren’t necessary for me to keep helping out with the blog. I watched most Creature Hub ones and kept watching some of James’, but that was it. I’d check the tags on tumblr but I knew the Creatures weren’t my thing anymore. Which is okay, right. I mean, we all move on or whatever. Didn’t mean that I stopped caring about them as people, just wasn’t into the content and didn’t always respect all of their decisions. Whatever. Things change. I mean, I got super into machinima respawn thanks to the Creatures. Stopped watching that after it changed as well. The difference was that with respawn, I understood why it was changing. It was from that point until now that I pretty much decided that there are very few fandoms on the internet that are worse than the Creature fandom. If you guys could see our ask box, you’d agree. If you guys checked the tags everyday, I’m sure you understand. There were moments when we’d get an ask that was so fucking awful and nasty that I just couldn’t believe it. I would answer an ask as honestly as I could and get backlash for it from some dickhead anon. All of the mods would. There were constantly messages in our inbox with people criticising us and talking shit about the Creatures and being so downright stupid at times that I literally wouldn’t bother with the blog for days after. I haven’t brought a great amount to the Creature fandom but I’ve seen it evolve from where it barely existed on tumblr to what it is now and frankly I’m done with it. It’s been great to have been a part of running this blog for over three years now, but it’s over. The Creatures have changed and I’m no longer a fan. I wish I were sorry but I’m not. I lost respect for some members a long time ago and have learnt some nasty shit about the others. I don’t support them as a group anymore and I certainly don’t respect the fans. Yes, of course there are exceptions but as a whole I don’t see this fandom as anything but toxic. I don’t want to look at it or be involved with it anymore. I wanna thank my friends Julio, Kaitlyn, Chloe, Arthur, Felix, Hayley, Nic, Janine, Jason, and anyone else I’ve met through the Creatures. I wanna thank people for supporting our blog and finding joy in its existence. Sorry it’s over but change isn’t always a good thing for everyone. I wanna thank the original Creatures for everything they did back when I was a fan. It was really important to me and I loved it a lot at the time. Thanks James for being my teenage crush. That was a tough one to explain to mom. I hope y’all and your families stay safe and healthy. Peace out forever. x Claudia

KAITLYN:

I remember when this blog was little-creature-things and my url was the original whatthebrown. That was about four (five?) years ago, and it was then that I joined Julio, Claudia, and Chloe in managing what we transformed into the Creature Blog.It was the four of us, and we always partook in little games. It was really awesome and amazing to meet these people and be a part of their lives, and have something to collectively work together on. We always had little Skype chats or got together, played games, and enjoyed each other’s company. It was a group of people brought together by just a couple of dudes making videos on the internet. In high school, the Creatures were my main source of entertainment. Every night after class, I would come home, lie in bed, and watch their videos. It was kind of a cathartic ritual for me. But time passes and interests change, and after a few personal matters, my interest in the Creatures had diminished. With the rise of the blog, it was difficult to keep up with these people who were passionate about the group of YouTubers. They showed to me what I was like in the previous years - which, y’know, had its ups and downs. The bad fans know who they are. In a fandom that started as everyone helping each other out, there’s always some idiots to ruin it. My internet diminished during my last year of high school and even though I helped run the blog time to time, I hardly watched a single video in my first year of university. This is no personal dig to anyone who is affiliated to the Creatures, or enjoys their comments, but some of the immaturity levels were off the charts. Like Claudia mentioned, some of the messages we received were just downright ridiculous. I’m glad I enjoyed their content when I did, and I wouldn’t take back the time we had. I remember the Creature Calls, and the first time we got into a huge Skype call with all the creatures. I remember being a nervous caller during the time the Creatures played Monopoly back in what- 2010? Something like that. All in all, it’s been a fun journey. Life’s all about growing up and making decisions that are best for you in the long run - and after some of the situations that have happened recently, this is for the best for the group and us as individuals. And so now, a toast to the Creature Blog and those who ran it because shit, we grew up fast, didn’t we? Cheers. xo kat

CHLOE:

So we’re officially calling it quits after almost 3 years of being “creature approved.” I started to move away from their content and the community around July following the recent changes to the group and honestly because running the blog didn’t give me the satisfaction it used to, there have been times in the past I should have stopped due to certain circumstances but I just couldn’t and it’s stupid to even think this but I thought I’d just let others down and be throwing away such a unique opportunity. I think it’s important to be a critical fan, blindly following youtubers because you think they are “famous” is a terrible state of mind and it’s easy to get caught up in it all. I have been guilty of it, I remember when we first got in a call with the creatures shortly after they found the blog, (I felt like I was dying of a heart attack but) it was so great, it made me so motivated and dedicated and if anyone dared talk shit about them I’d wanna rip them apart, but after time I realised they’re just people, doing their jobs, who happen to have a large audience. It’s this type of blind dedication that’s caused certain youtubers to feel so popular that they can just do what they want, which has caused a LOT of issues for the youtube community as a whole lately. This is another reason why I felt I needed to just stop watching. There has been an increase of “offensive” comments/behaviour from by creatures (one in particular ya know damn well who I’m talking about) and it’s one thing to not realise you were being offensive and apologising for it, but when someone you directly associate with is completely unapologetic and can’t take criticism at all without calling people fat and ugly and blames people for being offended, it just comes across insincere. And with amount of hatred for each other within the community, I didn’t want to be spouting my opinion on here and causing more shit, so we stayed impartial, but it hasn’t stopped how hateful this community has become.. But yea, basically I don’t support this type of behaviour, so I stepped back, which I do honestly believe is the best solution. Anyway thank you to everyone who submitted to this blog, asked questions, replied to posts, and generally kept this blog being as hilarious and annoying as it was over the years. I’m especially proud to have been able to give extremely talented artists the attention they deserve, and I’m so happy I got to make all the friends I did. And obviously thanks to the creatures, you guys got me through some difficult times in my life, I’ll ~never forget you~ I hope this made sense it’s 6am and I gotta get ready for work, if you wanna ask me anythin or discuss something over PMs my personal is here. cheap plug xxxxxxxxxxx

ARTHUR:

I wasn’t a mod here for all that long compared to the rest, but I’ve been a fan of the creatures for about 4 years now and during this time they became a huge part of my life. Like some of you I was there for the earliest creature talks, the ustream days, the first time faces were revealed, the rise of lets plays, the end of machinimas, the original move into the creature house, etc etc. I was there for the highs and the lows. This group of friends quickly became my favorite form of entertainment and escapism. They became my heroes. Thanks to this interest I made many new friends myself, friends who I’ve come to appreciate greatly and who have helped me through some of the shittest times of my life so far.

So for this group of friends that I made within the community, for all the laughter the guys have given me, and the relief they offered whenever things got especially bad, I am grateful. Thank you Creatures. However, being a part of this community for so long I have come to realise that what I enjoyed out of all this has changed. It’s only natural for a group like the creatures to change throughout the years, maybe even unavoidable. But that also means it’s unavoidable for people like me to be put off by such changes. I no longer feel the same way about this community, nor some of the content, as I used to. I can no longer be a mod for the #1 creature related blog if I do not stand behind exactly all of the creatures or can’t objectively share their content. It’s that simple. I will continue to follow and support certain members and hope they do well, but being so close to the action and representing a fandom is more of a burden I’m willing to carry. So goodbye guys and here’s hoping the good times will stick with me for a long time to come.

~Arthur

Goodbye.