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[bork]

He doesn’t care about d celebrity drama and JonTron is still a popular YouTuber with a strong fanbase.

There's a contradiction here..

Popular youtuber with strong fanbase != an actual celebrity in any form of the word.

It's a different world now dude;  5 million subscribers is a lot. 

That's more subscribers than plenty of people we consider "celebrities" have ever had viewers of TV shows they've been on.  They just don't have the same level of media supporting them (gossip shows, magazines.)

I'm old and out of the loop so it's hard for me to declare anyone a non-celebrity.

Subscribers =/= viewers

I don't think he's worried about a lack of viewers.  Checking his channel, pretty much all his uploads from after all this shit went down have 2+ million views or higher.  The flextape video went viral and has 41+ million views.  Nobody cares about the shit he said on whatever podcast(YT show?) apart from REEEEEEEEEE- that shit went down like two years ago already.  People have moved on to being outraged at Projared now.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Who the fuck googles every potential employer / employee / date / client / whatever in case theres 'bad optics'?
Fucking psychopaths, thats who.

Googling prospective employees has been rather normal for at least a decade;  hell I remember in 2001 being asked to google anyone we interviewed at the company I worked with.  It's just kind of assumed now.

One guy had a blog about his obsession with guys with long hair. 

I really wanted to hire that guy but they said he wouldn't "Fit in" lol

Thats breaking all kinds of data protection and employee discrimination guidelines in europe.

[Momo]

Yoorup are a bunch of poosays.

[Boredfrom]

He doesn’t care about d celebrity drama and JonTron is still a popular YouTuber with a strong fanbase.

There's a contradiction here..

Popular youtuber with strong fanbase != an actual celebrity in any form of the word.

It's a different world now dude;  5 million subscribers is a lot. 

That's more subscribers than plenty of people we consider "celebrities" have ever had viewers of TV shows they've been on.  They just don't have the same level of media supporting them (gossip shows, magazines.)

I'm old and out of the loop so it's hard for me to declare anyone a non-celebrity.

Subscribers =/= viewers

I don't think he's worried about a lack of viewers.  Checking his channel, pretty much all his uploads from after all this shit went down have 2+ million views or higher.  The flextape video went viral and has 41+ million views.  Nobody cares about the shit he said on whatever podcast(YT show?) apart from REEEEEEEEEE- that shit went down like two years ago already.  People have moved on to being outraged at Projared now.

Oh yeah, just saying because is to me a weird metric to compare (YT subscriptions vs tv viewership). Also, after the FlexTape2 video it was clear that he wasn’t lepered outside of the gaming stuff.

[HaughtyFrank]

from thebore dot com poster and portman aficionado fistfullofmetal

His desire to just be the goofy oaf that smiles isn't really working as well in the current climate. His professional image needs to grow the fuck up.

  GROW THE FUCK UP about playing kideo games on camera

Yikes, why is this guy who works for a videogame site being a goofy oaf that smiles. Not a good look giantbomb

[BisMarckie]

Dan's "both sides of wrestling" newsletter sure makes me think of someone else. (Image removed from quote.)

There it is.

[BisMarckie]

Would be really swell if Dan could spare a thought over executed journalist Jamal Khashoggi too, and the WWE still going ahead with the Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia despite it.

What kind of lunatic wants political commentary on foreign affairs from their video game website?

[Great Rumbler]

I mean that JonTron idiot seems like a pretty clear cut white nationalist.. what am I missing here.

Why him having a 30s advert on YouTube actually makes a practical difference in anyone's life? He's a D grade YouTube celebrity who, unlike some other more popular YouTubers, doesn't flirt with or espouse White Nationalism adjacent garbage on his main channel. Justin Roiland (more accurately, the ad people who work with Roiland) tapping him for a commercial does not in any way advance white nationalism or even make JonTron more popular. It's literally nothing against the great vacuum of content on YouTube. 95% of the posters grousing about it on ERA will forget all about it by lunch on Thursday BECAUSE IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY MATTER.

I don't think JonTron had said anything at all political in nearly 2 years. He had the two interviews and a couple of tweets back in 2017. Then the backlash against him. Then...nothing. But Peter Cetera doesn't wanna let it go.

[Momo]

Dan's "both sides of wrestling" newsletter sure makes me think of someone else. (Image removed from quote.)

There it is.

[BisMarckie]

I am really interested in hearing Dan Ryckert's opinion on Boris Johnson becoming the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.
His silence on this issue says more than a thousand words.

[Joe Molotov]

I am really interested in hearing Dan Ryckert's opinion on Boris Johnson becoming the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.
His silence on this issue says more than a thousand words.

Has Boris Johnson ever even been married in a Taco Bell? He's a nobody, fuck him. I'd throw a nacho fry at him if I saw him, but I wouldn't want to waste the nacho fry.

[marrec]

All I'm saying is that we haven't heard Jeff Gerstmann say ANYTHING about the continued proxy war in Yemen why do you think that is?

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/giant-bomb-ot-14-bigdickdaddydom.115512/post-21382214

Surreal, no one on the waypoint discord gives a shit about the newsletter stuff, while I usually find them to be at least as progressive as Era.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/giant-bomb-ot-14-bigdickdaddydom.115512/post-21382218

Nothing on the GB forums either except one post in their wrestling OT describing the newsletter as "Talking about AEW"....

WHY WILL NO ONE GET OUTRAGED WITH ME

[BisMarckie]

tfw not even waypoint wackos give a shit.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

please dont even joke about boris johnson becoming PM

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/giant-bomb-ot-14-bigdickdaddydom.115512/post-21382214

Surreal, no one on the waypoint discord gives a shit about the newsletter stuff, while I usually find them to be at least as progressive as Era.

Surreal, just surreal!

One has to wonder how they don't tire from being perpetually outraged

[SmokyDave]

Can someone get excelsiorlef's take on the WWE being besmirched by Era? Or has excel Enzom'd out of there?

please dont even joke about boris johnson becoming PM

Ah, relax. He'll only have a three month tenure before Farage replaces him. It'll be fine.

[BisMarckie]

All I'm saying is that we haven't heard Jeff Gerstmann say ANYTHING about the continued proxy war in Yemen why do you think that is?

I guess you haven't followed the news from the Balkans recenetly. There are new tensions between Serbia and Kosovo a part of Serbia.

[marrec]

Can someone get excelsiorlef's take on the WWE being besmirched by Era? Or has excel Enzom'd out of there?

please dont even joke about boris johnson becoming PM

Ah, relax. He'll only have a three month tenure before Farage replaces him. It'll be fine.

God this is dark

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/giant-bomb-ot-14-bigdickdaddydom.115512/post-21382214

Surreal, no one on the waypoint discord gives a shit about the newsletter stuff, while I usually find them to be at least as progressive as Era.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/giant-bomb-ot-14-bigdickdaddydom.115512/post-21382218

Nothing on the GB forums either except one post in their wrestling OT describing the newsletter as "Talking about AEW"....

WHY WILL NO ONE GET OUTRAGED WITH ME

that's the second post I've seen about the GB forums

why don't they just make a fucking thread if they care so much

[nachobro]

Can someone get excelsiorlef's take on the WWE being besmirched by Era? Or has excel Enzom'd out of there?

my guess is the entire wrassle thread is shitting on wwe and raging at anyone who posts wwe stuff in there and will continue to do so until Raw starts tonight and they all start hate posting about how awful it and wwe are as they watch all three hours on a pirate stream.

[BisMarckie]

why don't they just make a fucking thread if they care so much

Way to be considerate of those with crippling thread starting anxiety.

[VomKriege]

But still.. what the fuck is the Rick and Morty guy thinking?

I mean, did he think anything or was the ad handled by an agency ? If Roiland is indeed familiar or even an acquaintance to JonTron, did they ever talk about that ? Did JonTron had a mea-culpa on private (I'm not assuming he had one but it's not impossible either) with Roiland or any other acquaintances (like Ethan Klein, who may not be the sharpest political pundit but is probably not a Nazi) ?

There's so many assumptions in every of those ERA threads to fuel the guilt by association hunger. Per se I don't mind that people make a stink about it and by all means do not buy, boycott or call for some public explanations of why he was employed despite that rather large mark in his past. Assuming the worst of everyone associated with it is not very rational, sensible or healthy however.

[Uncle]

Dan's "both sides of wrestling" newsletter sure makes me think of someone else. (Image removed from quote.)

There it is.

I was going to say that I could have imagined Dan becoming a Boogie like character if he didn't fall in with a decent crowd but I thought it was a little too mean. Bless your love for that gif making the point I was too cowardly to.

too cowardly to accuse someone of being a centrist 

[thetylerrob]

Make a thread about it on Reespaghettiera -> Get Dan Fired -> Get Klepek Hired -> Giant Bomb dies

Centristbomb.com is born

[marrec]

But still.. what the fuck is the Rick and Morty guy thinking?

I mean, did he think anything or was the ad handled by an agency ? If Roiland is indeed familiar or even an acquaintance to JonTron, did they ever talk about that ? Did JonTron had a mea-culpa on private (I'm not assuming he had one but it's not impossible either) with Roiland or any other acquaintances (like Ethan Klein, who may not be the sharpest political pundit but is probably not a Nazi) ?

There's so many assumptions in every of those ERA threads to fuel the guilt by association hunger. Per se I don't mind that people make a stink about it and by all means do not buy, boycott or call for some public explanations of why he was employed despite that rather large mark in his past. Assuming the worst of everyone associated with it is not very rational, sensible or healthy however.

They get mad at the idea that Justin Roiland may not have personally involved himself in the decision because it's the responsibility of everyone who works on everything to look into the history of everyone who works on everything.

[bork]

Make a thread about it on Reespaghettiera -> Get Dan Fired -> Get Klepek Hired -> Giant Bomb dies

Centristbomb.com is born

Wasn't he already part of Giant Bomb before?

[thetylerrob]

Make a thread about it on Reespaghettiera -> Get Dan Fired -> Get Klepek Hired -> Giant Bomb dies

Centristbomb.com is born

Wasn't he already part of Giant Bomb before?

They can  hire him

[thisismyusername]

Make a thread about it on Reespaghettiera -> Get Dan Fired -> Get Klepek Hired -> Giant Bomb dies

Centristbomb.com is born

Wasn't he already part of Giant Bomb before?

Yes, and nobody liked him or Austin while they were there.

[BisMarckie]

Austin was fine on GB, he was just one of the guys and his "smartest guy in the room" shtick was not as prevalent.

[bork]

https://twitter.com/mombot/status/1135586518548881408

[thetylerrob]

He wasn't feeling himself as much but he still brought up his college degree in almost every episode.

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-dog-a-cat-and-a-baby-are-in-house-fire-who-do-you-save.120629/

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-dog-a-cat-and-a-baby-are-in-house-fire-who-do-you-save.120629/

Twist: It's baby Hitler or the dog that did the Nazi salute.

[BisMarckie]

Or Benji.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-dog-a-cat-and-a-baby-are-in-house-fire-who-do-you-save.120629/

This seems highly unlikely to produce good discussion.

yes however it seems highly likely to be mildly amusing until it runs out of steam naturally

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/at-t-coca-cola-walmart-eli-lily-pfizer-and-aetna-all-reported-to-have-donated-money-to-politicians-that-advocated-for-and-enacted-abortion-bans.120625/

what's with all the downplaying in this thread?  the lack of guilt by association?

I suspect they've mostly all given loads of money to pro-choice politicians too. I doubt Coke have a stance on abortion, they just want friends in legislative places.

I honestly think those companies donated for the tax breaks, rather than for the abortion ban. The latter is something they merely got on the side. Corporations donating to republicans is nothing new.

Megacorporations donate money to Republicans, news at 11.

Yeah. Narrative is strange here. They donated because the GOP is hyper pro business. The abortion stuff just comes with the meal. But they care more about the business benefits.

The dollar amounts aren't high enough to have any real conviction behind them; this looks like standard pay to play.

 

[Momo]

https://twitter.com/mombot/status/1135586518548881408

parody accounts are on thin ice, wouldn't be surprised if this one is banned by the end of the week

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/at-t-coca-cola-walmart-eli-lily-pfizer-and-aetna-all-reported-to-have-donated-money-to-politicians-that-advocated-for-and-enacted-abortion-bans.120625/

what's with all the downplaying in this thread?  the lack of guilt by association?

I suspect they've mostly all given loads of money to pro-choice politicians too. I doubt Coke have a stance on abortion, they just want friends in legislative places.

I honestly think those companies donated for the tax breaks, rather than for the abortion ban. The latter is something they merely got on the side. Corporations donating to republicans is nothing new.

Megacorporations donate money to Republicans, news at 11.

Yeah. Narrative is strange here. They donated because the GOP is hyper pro business. The abortion stuff just comes with the meal. But they care more about the business benefits.

The dollar amounts aren't high enough to have any real conviction behind them; this looks like standard pay to play.

 

Forget it Jake, It's ERA town.

[HaughtyFrank]

That Trover game is sold on both Epic Games and Steam. Maybe Epic and Valve could do something.

If Roiland is a friend of JonTron, then Valve could remove the Dota2 Rick & Morty announcer pack, entirely voiced by Roiland.
Apparently, Roiland is also involved in Valve's game called The Lab, so something could also be done there by Valve.

Actually, there are many VR games (Job Sim, Accounting, Virtual Rick, and Trover), and VR is very important to Valve, so...

And one free non-VR game: Dr. Langeskov.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/justin-roiland-has-a-trover-saves-the-universe-commercial-made-starring-jontron.120520/post-21383566

Reading this you'd think Roiland had actually done something absolutely abhorrent that goes beyond "let's guy star in commerical"

[stufte]

That Trover game is sold on both Epic Games and Steam. Maybe Epic and Valve could do something.

If Roiland is a friend of JonTron, then Valve could remove the Dota2 Rick & Morty announcer pack, entirely voiced by Roiland.
Apparently, Roiland is also involved in Valve's game called The Lab, so something could also be done there by Valve.

Actually, there are many VR games (Job Sim, Accounting, Virtual Rick, and Trover), and VR is very important to Valve, so...

And one free non-VR game: Dr. Langeskov.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/justin-roiland-has-a-trover-saves-the-universe-commercial-made-starring-jontron.120520/post-21383566

Reading this you'd think Roiland had actually done something absolutely abhorrent that goes beyond "let's guy star in commerical"

They get so excited at ANY opportunity to ruin someones life over the most trivial shit. It's creepy.

[marrec]

That Trover game is sold on both Epic Games and Steam. Maybe Epic and Valve could do something.

If Roiland is a friend of JonTron, then Valve could remove the Dota2 Rick & Morty announcer pack, entirely voiced by Roiland.
Apparently, Roiland is also involved in Valve's game called The Lab, so something could also be done there by Valve.

Actually, there are many VR games (Job Sim, Accounting, Virtual Rick, and Trover), and VR is very important to Valve, so...

And one free non-VR game: Dr. Langeskov.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/justin-roiland-has-a-trover-saves-the-universe-commercial-made-starring-jontron.120520/post-21383566

Reading this you'd think Roiland had actually done something absolutely abhorrent that goes beyond "let's guy star in commerical"

They get so excited at ANY opportunity to ruin someones life over the most trivial shit. It's creepy.

The endorphin rush associated with cancel culture is addictive. Any little bit of feedback they get from peers or from employers is worth however much time wasted.

[Uncle]

That Trover game is sold on both Epic Games and Steam. Maybe Epic and Valve could do something.

If Roiland is a friend of JonTron, then Valve could remove the Dota2 Rick & Morty announcer pack, entirely voiced by Roiland.
Apparently, Roiland is also involved in Valve's game called The Lab, so something could also be done there by Valve.

Actually, there are many VR games (Job Sim, Accounting, Virtual Rick, and Trover), and VR is very important to Valve, so...

And one free non-VR game: Dr. Langeskov.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/justin-roiland-has-a-trover-saves-the-universe-commercial-made-starring-jontron.120520/post-21383566

Reading this you'd think Roiland had actually done something absolutely abhorrent that goes beyond "let's guy star in commerical"

the best thing about this is Soulstoner was disingenuously trolling with calls to action on how to shut everyone down within radius (so unsubtly that even era was able to tell and I'm shocked he's not banned)

but now it seems there are people spurred on to genuine crusade tagging in jschreier for his support

Saying he’s cancelled on Twitter isn’t gonna do shit, but we can affect actual change by getting big voices like Kotaku and Polygon on this - either he’ll double down and we can write him off entirely, or he’ll realize what happened and take steps to make it right.

jschreier , I know you’re a busy man, but maybe have a looksee when you get a chance?

maybe we can get Imran involved in this also, he seems eager to put in the work dogging game companies and individuals endlessly until he gets answers

[Momo]

I'm in the process of ruining all of your lives for merely not agreeing with the idea of ruining Roiland's life over this JonTron mess.

And good golly am I excited.

[Nintex]

Ah yes, well known member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei *checks notes* Jon Tron is at it again!

Better shore up your borders Poland 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

so this is the part where we find out who she is and completely ruin her career ect.

so this is the part where we find out who she is and completely ruin her career ect.

The best part.

Time to fuck this woman life over. You can’t get away with racist remarks like that. The problem with society today is that there is no consequence when someone says something stupid like this. I m fortunate that no one has ever said anything racist to me(most likely because I m feared like Al Capone), but if they do, they are sure to get a roundhouse or capoeira kick to face to knock the stupid right out.

Saying that shit while you are looking at two dudes filming. What an idiot, get deleted

Her life is absolutely ruined and that’s a good thing. I hope she loses everything, including that house.

so this is the part where we find out who she is and completely ruin her career ect.

The best part.

(yes, 2 people echoed with an identical post)

I mean, good for you guys that you've even given up a pretense of wanting 'justice', you just want to see someones life ruined in disproportionate response I guess.

Hey, did anyone yet call her a c-

Wow. She’s a fucking cunt

ah, okay, there we go.

Ah, she's one of those types of Asians who secretly hate themselves and and worship whiteness. Now that she's with a white man, she feels as though she's achieved whiteness and perceivably shed her minority status so she decides to lord it over other minorities with mildly subdued racism.

This kind of racism coming from other minorities is even more detestable than racism from white people.

 

[Jenkem]

marrec just cant help himself.
 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

That was pretty cunty of her though.

[ZombieSupaStar]

97% of people who drop capoeira in a sentence, only know about it from Tekken when they were mashing X and O as Eddy Gordo.

[james]

Who the fuck googles every potential employer / employee / date / client / whatever in case theres 'bad optics'?
Fucking psychopaths, thats who.

Googling prospective employees has been rather normal for at least a decade;  hell I remember in 2001 being asked to google anyone we interviewed at the company I worked with.  It's just kind of assumed now.

One guy had a blog about his obsession with guys with long hair. 

I really wanted to hire that guy but they said he wouldn't "Fit in" lol

I recently did the screen for a batch of prospective employees.

One of them was a lovely young lady who had just graduated from college.

Google result number 3 was her Instagram, in which she uses her full name.

Nice tiddies, would hire.

[Nintex]

Who the fuck googles every potential employer / employee / date / client / whatever in case theres 'bad optics'?
Fucking psychopaths, thats who.

This is common now.

Which indeed is super creepy and why I'm the same person online and offline.

[Uncle]

 

[james]

Speaking of new hires, at what age (for a guy) does it start being creepy to fuck 18 year olds?

Im thinking 45?

[cosmicblizzard]

But still.. what the fuck is the Rick and Morty guy thinking?

I mean, did he think anything or was the ad handled by an agency ? If Roiland is indeed familiar or even an acquaintance to JonTron, did they ever talk about that ? Did JonTron had a mea-culpa on private (I'm not assuming he had one but it's not impossible either) with Roiland or any other acquaintances (like Ethan Klein, who may not be the sharpest political pundit but is probably not a Nazi) ?

There's so many assumptions in every of those ERA threads to fuel the guilt by association hunger. Per se I don't mind that people make a stink about it and by all means do not buy, boycott or call for some public explanations of why he was employed despite that rather large mark in his past. Assuming the worst of everyone associated with it is not very rational, sensible or healthy however.

They get mad at the idea that Justin Roiland may not have personally involved himself in the decision because it's the responsibility of everyone who works on everything to look into the history of everyone who works on everything.

You're kind of underestimating the circle Roiland runs in.  He is legit friends with Jontron, Pewdiepie, and several other edgelord Youtubers, so there's a pretty high chance that yeah, he did personally ask Jon.  The chance that Roiland is unaware of the controversy surrounding these people is super slim.

[BIONIC]

I'm in the process of ruining all of your lives for merely not agreeing with the idea of ruining Roiland's life over this JonTron mess.

And good golly am I excited.

You already ruined riotous sr.’s life by being born. Is that not enough for you, you monster?

[nachobro]

Or the site focuses on videogames and purges everything regarding wressling. And anime.

If you ignore ignorance it just starts to get worse.

I always say - a real fan needs to be able to critisize his beloved thing and call out dumb shit. Otherwise you are a blind puppet and tool.

Remember Ryan immediately writing a piece when he did wrong.
Yeah, won't happen with Dan I bet.

Maybe he should change industry then.

derFeef continues to be outraged that wwe was mentioned in a newsletter that you have to go out of your way to opt-in to. i might be able to take the outrage from this dunce seriously if he didn't have a HP Lovecraft's face as his avatar. talk about your ultimate "problematic fave"

luckily giant bomb has no need to fear from this spineless whiner

Why do you need to unsubscribe to voice your disappointment?

[VomKriege]

But still.. what the fuck is the Rick and Morty guy thinking?

I mean, did he think anything or was the ad handled by an agency ? If Roiland is indeed familiar or even an acquaintance to JonTron, did they ever talk about that ? Did JonTron had a mea-culpa on private (I'm not assuming he had one but it's not impossible either) with Roiland or any other acquaintances (like Ethan Klein, who may not be the sharpest political pundit but is probably not a Nazi) ?

There's so many assumptions in every of those ERA threads to fuel the guilt by association hunger. Per se I don't mind that people make a stink about it and by all means do not buy, boycott or call for some public explanations of why he was employed despite that rather large mark in his past. Assuming the worst of everyone associated with it is not very rational, sensible or healthy however.

They get mad at the idea that Justin Roiland may not have personally involved himself in the decision because it's the responsibility of everyone who works on everything to look into the history of everyone who works on everything.

You're kind of underestimating the circle Roiland runs in.  He is legit friends with Jontron, Pewdiepie, and several other edgelord Youtubers, so there's a pretty high chance that yeah, he did personally ask Jon.  The chance that Roiland is unaware of the controversy surrounding these people is super slim.

But is it as relevant to know they're friends as Era seem to think ? That was my point. We're not privy to any discussion they might have had privately or to Roioand's state of mind. It's not uncommon to have acquaintances with terrible opinions but to whom you're bound by other ties (family, friendships, jobs) that may not be easy to just cut. Or that you just put up with, rightly or wrongly.

I guess it's possible that Roiland is a bigot. Or that he turns a blind eye. Or that they had a talk and JonTron was apologetic. Or that it was a favor called. I mean who knows ?

[stufte]

I mean who knows ?

I mean, WHO CARES?

Honestly, who in their right mind gives a fuck about this kind of shit, let alone trying to ruin someone because of an association. It's pathetic.

[EightBitNate]

They turned on NakeyJakey too

[stufte]

http://www.twitter.com/NeoGAF/status/1135450451766382592