I'm done, for real this time

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I've had talks with (actual) friends lately about things that they enjoy doing in life, and it's become increasingly obvious that I don't enjoy making videos for Gnarsies anymore. And Gnarsies for the most part has never really been a single person effort, sometimes I was just the mouth piece although I did have a large input on a number of videos. This is something that has eluded people for the longest time. However, at this point in time, there's just no interest in continuing this channel from any of the parties involved. I have a full time job which I do a lot of overtime on, and I haven't even made enough with Gnarsies to pay a month of rent, unlike some other people who like to believe I live off of Youtube.



Thanks to the people who have stuck with the channel for this long. I've met tons of great people, had tons of fun interactions with people. I usually like having discussions with people, and therein lies the main problem.



Whenever I had a bad thing to say about Riot, even if it was completely off the wall, Riot employees that communicated with me would always take it with a pinch of salt. I've done quite a bit of that, but there's only so much of that I can do, and the channel has more or less gained a reputation for lambasting content creators, even though a majority of the channel's videos have nothing to do with content creators. Whenever people recognize the channel, they know it because of WTFast and UberDanger drama, which happened... 9 months ago? People come on the channel expecting big investigations and the epic dramuhs.



Thing is, it was more fun when Gnarsies was a small channel with 5000 subscribers and with none of this bullshit. What would I give to get that back?



I don't enjoy lambasting people. However, I believe it is sometimes necessary. I am absolutely an asshole, so you know what's coming next in this text odyssey that you might try to read in my voice, like it's some sort of creepy fanfic.



I've met tons of great people in the League community, but holy shit, some people are entitled cunts with tremendeous egos, especially content creators (which I suppose you could call cuntent creators, haha, funny joke right?). It's almost like when people get past a critical point in subscriber numbers, that their viewers become statistics, and that suddenly, they build up this huge ego and have this extreme sense of entitlement where they believe they should be paid full time because they make videos about a video game, and that they're above any kind of criticism when it comes to their own behavior. It goes as far as some of them making up sob stories to get people to donate to them through Paypal or Patreon.



I think that's something a lot of people aspire to; sit at home playing the video game and get paid for it. But I think that somewhere along the line, especially for League of Legends content, content has lost its identity, and it has become akin to cat videos on Youtube; nobody wants to pay for cat videos, because they're everywhere. As such, a surprising amount of people decide to opt for shady sponsorships, and cheating communities out of exposure to get extra mileage out of them to pay their rent. Talking about cheating communities, I've seen so many content creators take to Twitter to whine about Reddit mods and not go through modmail, instead sending their fans to sandbag the moderators. All this is also why a certain method of becoming e-famous in the League community has become popular.



I like to call that method "Putting oil in the joints so that the engine can run more smoothly", but that's way too long, let's give it a better name, I know, "Dick sucking", that has a really nice ring to it, doesn't it? If I were to give anyone advice on how to run a successful League of Legends channel in 2016, it would be to suck as much tiny manhood appendages as possible, after all, they really need that super ego to compensate. Other than Reddit, which more often than not, ends up being a one-hit-wonder for most people making videos unless you cheat, the most reliable way to get subscribers is promotion from big Youtubers. It's the same thing with Twitch really. Take for instance Valkrin, he is an excellent League of Legends player, but didn't get that much traction until Imaqtpie gave him a shoutout.



Youtube and Twitch are, for the most part, an incestuous moshpit of nepotism. It is very much the same as gaming "journalism"; the scene is so small that everybody knows each other and has each other on Skype. Sometimes they'll even drum up drama between each other in order to generate controversy to get views. When looking at any Youtube drama, you need to ask yourself who gains from the drama, and not necessarily look at the message, but rather how biased the person giving the message is. And typically, if you're not "in" the group and attack anyone "in" the group, you'll suddenly get attacked from all sides by people you never heard of, never spoke to, and that have never talked to you.



But back to League of Legends, because that's what you're here for, right? Back when the WTFast video was done, some people were straight up and very professional like Voyboy, props to him for that. Sadly, the answer that you typically get from putting Youtubers on the spot as a small channel are usually threats, bribes, and them sending their legions of drooling fans to harass you. This culminated into the "Youtubers vs Standards" incident, which was entirely retaliatory. That was absolutely a below the belt hit. People seem to like to think Vortic, the Youtube troll, was the hero of Reddit, but there was also another source than him who I won't name.



Thing is, you can't stand the flow of time very well against these people, once they've made up their minds that they want you out of Youtube. They'll act like retards when accused of something, pretending they don't know what's going on, they'll spend the next 9 months making "memes" about you, or make hit pieces by people like Foxdrop who was involved in the vote brigading, which by the way, that video looks like it wasn't even written by him. Whenever these people get called out, they raise the drama shields, as if it's some kind of protection. Oh no, this guy over there's calling us names, better get those drama shields out, like the drama isn't about them being cunts, but rather about the person making a ruckus about it in the first place. These people will make absolutely certain that you do not go anywhere, that your channel stops growing, they'll go as far as dragging you on shows like Drama Alert to cry about their problems, and if you've ever watched any of these Drama Alert "debates", it's very obvious the host already has a parti pris. If you don't show up on their "debates", you'll get bashed for 15 minutes.



And because of that, it also becomes very difficult to investigate anything because nobody will talk to you, even though people expect you to bring up investigation pieces. Or rather, they won't talk to you because the scene is as cutthroat as it is. A reason why a lot of these Youtubers are "friendly" with each other is that they'd rather not deal with PR problems, even when they get one upped by plagiarists like Keyori and Blakinola. People in the long run won't always care.



Talking about Blakinola. He is easily one of the worst content creators I've had the misfortune of having to deal with, if you are a content creator, fair warning, do not deal with this guy. He is a sellout, unethical, ruthless, and will fuck you over if it puts him ahead of the game. Every single time I've had to deal with him, or me putting in a negative comment about him, he was either incredibly disingenuous, tried to bribe me with voice lines or some other shit, or acted like a complete manchild on social media. Someone called you unethical? Better make fun of what they look like and call them "haters"! That's something I had to deal with recently when I commented on why people don't like Blakinola on Reddit when someone asked. This is what you have to put up with when dealing with content creators. It's almost as bad as dealing with 3rd wave feminists and social justice warriors.



A journalist called Richard Lewis put him on blast a while ago in a video called "Be Yourself: A Tribute To Blakinola", if you're not familiar with the video, Richard calls out Blakinola for going to bat with journalists over his shady sponsor that was being criticized. That was far from the first time Blakinola talked shit about journalists on social media, yet all he does is "videos with black man voice". On top of giving advice he doesn't follow himself ("Focus on yourself and make content that is representative of you, don't copy the biggest thing"); people propose to collab with him, he claims he's too busy, but strangely enough, he just takes their ideas and rolls with them shortly after. Or he just downright copies what other people do. It's not like they can complain though; don't get pieces of shit on your bad side.



He also uses his subscriber count as a pole to poke people with, claiming other people are irrelevant (Again, compared to him that makes black man voice videos, super relevant). That's something I just can't stand. It's almost like subscribers serve as this base to build up these assholes' egos, waving it around like it's some sort of giant phallic shape.



And to put the cherry on the shit sundae that is Blakinola, he has no qualms promoting absolutely anything. You could ask him to promote dog shit, and as long as you pay him, he'll do it. He won't disclose properly, because that'll "alienate viewers", and he doesn't seem to have any issue with advertisers paying for no disclosure. As much as I dislike people like Keyori, and that I think he's a massive cunt, at least he cares about what he promotes to his fans and discloses it proper, that's something I can respect.



He said I should do everyone a favor and "disappear". So I guess he gets what he wants, but they say karma is a bitch ( http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/blakinola ). His channel ain't doing so good, but shitty people usually have ways to get to the top, no matter how shit they are. TL;DR Fuck Blakinola.



As for the Vortic guy. A lot of people assume I'm friends with him for some reason, or that I saw him as a friend, as he likes to claim. If there's one thing I'm going to do here, it's going to dismiss that. That is not the case at all. I've had a lot of chats with him, I've helped him with things, but that about stops there, he's never been a friend. One of the first things you learn about Youtube celebrities is that most of them barely have any real friends to begin with, mostly people who want to leech off their popularity or want to take advantage of them. I'm pretty surprised he decided to continually go ham for me after I told 30 twitch viewers on a stream that I don't like his newer content, that it's repetitive and that I find Twitter fights boring. We're a far way from "Gangplank making gold" and "Sandals for gamers". He claims that I should just "deal with it" like UberDanger, but him bashing me gets UberDanger's dick hard (ew) and he doesn't need to care as his own channel is growing and he probably sits on piles of cash. Meanwhile I do this shit almost for free and I get shit on constantly because Mr.Bortic is mad. So for anyone wondering about that, there's your answer.



Oh, and despite what I say or put forth, I think Sky Williams is a pretty okay guy. If you're gay, go give him a hug. If you're not... Go give him a hug anyway.



I'm going to make all of my videos private and leave the channel to die, same for the Twitter account. I won't be replying to any of your comments on either. Maybe I'll be back in 6 months under another channel and name, but I likely won't be talking about League, and if I do, it won't be anything negative. It's not worth it to do muckraking in the League community.

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