Let's Plays and their consequences have been a disaster for the gaming community.
>>722827231oh yeah?
>>722827231Let's Plays haven't been relevant for like 8 or so years now.
>>722827231>Hey everyone, this is ManlyBadassHero and welcome to Shitty Visual Novel that keeps making references about me N°493732020>Woops, the color red, better censor this before Youtube cuts my funds.
Chuggaa board.
>>722827231Why?
>>722827667>The thing outsideAn emoji keeps tapping window sometimes but not always
>>722827231Are you Manly?You have missed so many interesting horror games in the past few months..
ANIME!
Let's plays are fine, I'd say a way bigger issue is the entire industry of fake human beings pretending to be interested in videogames shilled by talent agencies and changes to youtube and its move away from a video sharing platform into an influence peddling one.Like there's something huge to be said that likeLITERALLY FUCKING NOBODY actually likes the ENTIRE fucking TF2 youtuber scene and basically all of them actively hate TF2 in turn.Or if you're into niche shit and you know for a fucking fact that youtube's metrics are total bullshit for the shit you're watching, more than usual.
>>722827231I like manly because he at least plays different, obscure stuffits not like radbrad, the definition of quantity over quality
>>722828408Too real.I forget the specifics but something like 70% of all streamers are tied to a single talent agency. Its kinda what happened with DND. Outsiders have made a coll thing for themselves and then normalfaggots POURED IN because nothing of theirs is as fun
>>722827231this guy sometimes plays things i never even heard of which is a nice way to find out about new obscure gameshe is however quite annoying and very retarded
>>722827231He might be the most inoffensive LP in the platform
I like Manly, he's one of my go-to cozytubers. He should upload more though. And play fewer shitty VNs aimed at girls. He also has a bad habit of playing a demo for a promising horror game but never getting around to playing the full version when it releases.
>>722827231OP's thread.Empty, like my soul.
>>722827231I wish he did silent longplays since he picks out some interesting stuff sometimes between the complete and utter garbage click bait games but he himself honestly drags it down for me.
>>722828801>he is however quite annoying and very retardedEh, he's usually alright, at least compared to most other Youtubers/Streamers.But I've noticed when he starts to get tired/burned out he gets sloppy and memey.
>>722827231how is he today? used to watch this guy a few years ago
>>722829085plays only demos and itchio slop nowadays
>>722827231He brought Coffin to my attention so he's all right by me!
>>722829085All his video titles now are schizobabble in hopes of gaining clicks>A SCARY LADY come here WILL CHASE skin ME IN MY house HOUSE AND IT'S fine SCARY????
>>722827231I like MBH, he's got a soothing voice. I put him on in the background when I go to sleep
>>722827231This guy's saved me so much money on shitty horror games so I'm okay with him.Welcome to the Game 3 is coming out this month and that's what I'm waiting for.
>>722829338Nikke mindrotting another victim...Grim.
>>722829414>Welcome to the Game 3 is coming out this month and that's what I'm waiting for.Wait, it's already this close? Hope it's as mindrapingly hard as the second game.
>>722829302I started watching Manly back when he was playing Fantasy Maiden's Odd Hideout, Witch's House, Ib etc a long time ago and voluntarily shilled his stuff because I wanted him to succeed. Later he posted a vid talking about his struggles so I felt vindicated even if I was just in the shadows doing my own thing. So I'm glad he's still truckin'. Plus a lot of games he plays are overlooked by others. There's also that one channel that plays the same game Manly does but without voice overs that I get in my recommended sometimes.I wish Deep Sea Prisoner games would have gotten more popular but you can't monetize their games so I get why let's players don't touch those games in the era of making a living off of playing vidya
>>722829162>>722829338
I've tried more games because of manly than I would have without him.If I make a game he will be someone I give a code to.
>>722827231like hrt but for gamers
>>722827667>manlybadasshero>picks a manly bad ass avatar ala Spike Spiegel>sounds like a mush-mouthed lispy deep voiced faggot.What was i expecting.
>>722829338add the typical first comment from him:hey, how skin me in my house are you today?
>>722830178Post your voice.
>>722829085He is doing great and more popular than ever
>>722827667>Woops, the color red, better censor this before Youtube cuts my fundsThis is what killed my interest in him, he used to post suicide, gore, and nudity without fear.
Funny how this thread is almost completely identical to Vinny threads in that the whole premise is>this guy who I had a parasocial devotion to decided to change after doing the grind for a decade, and I hate change so I will now cry that he’s no longer appealing to MY tastes
>[ANIME]I have been trying alternative platforms to find let'splayers who can say "fuck" and show tits and blood on their videos. Everybody on youtube is deadly scared of demonetization
>>722830178You honestly sound like hater anon millions of people like his voice
>>722830468Hearing his old voice when I set his big ass playlist to random is always amusing.
>still the best
>>722830409>ParasocialYou realize people who were in the vinesauce threads back in 2011 very likely were actually friends with Vinny back then>Hurr I retarded and I think parasocial mean when u frend online and not the very specific situation of streamers pretending to be friends with thousands of people they never really interact with
>>722830437I like watching Jap women because they curse like sailors and aren't afraid to be horny for vidya women. Also they cute
>>722827231This guy uses "they" a lot even when characters have an established sex/gender, and it annoys me
>>722830805>actually friendsYou can't possibly be this delusional
>>722831258Operative word there being "back then" my man.Or you know you're doing the "you can't be friends with people online" bullshit in which case I'm very sorry for the lonely life you live.
>>722830409Reminds me of people bitching about northerlion
>>722830437The fact that he's managed to make a living off obscure indieslop and occasionally viral fotm for over a decade is impressive, but it is a shame how his content has to suffer with jewtube policy changes as a result. Especially when he does completionist playthroughs and editing by himself.
>>722831960Yeah, it's a shame and I know he does that only because he has to.Still, I don't want to watch censored videos just like I don't want to play censored games.
>click video>ELLO YOUCHEWB>close videoThere are so many british fags churning out slop content, you'd think they were the same size as the USA
Did he ever play Fear and Hunger?
>>722832210ELLO YOUI'M GURU LARRY
>>722830250Why so you can jack it to my manly voice?>>722830468His voice is faggotry.
>>722827231that's just the dude from getter robo
>>722830437Anyone trying to make a living/'career' off of videogames will most likely not blow their foot off from the get go by locking themselves out of like 99.5% of the potential audience who are on Youtube.It's a massive shame but what can you really do besides upload alternate/uncensored versions on other platforms like E;R did before he got sucked into the podcast vortex
Why would you bitch about Manly who is only popular on his niche and not on the ones that actually popularized them like PewDiePie or Markiplier? Hell, why would you shit on let's plays to being with when they are completely inoffensive
>>722827231you need to elaborate you fucking retard
>>722830707I have discovered so many games because of these guys
>>722828801>Anon is such a casual he can't open steam and itchio to see the current fotw horror indie game
>>722830409>VinnyI will take this chance to say that I find it really funny how much he seethes at Nickelback because clearly he wanted to be that kinda shitty but ok rockstar guy who made millions with music while looking like his unwashed hair stinks a bit.
>>722830391He now censors the word cunt and recently cut out an entire dialog piece from his Coffin playthrough about Andrew fucking Ashley raw.>>722830707This lad showed me FUMES, I'm forever grateful.
>Thing does something you like>Enjoy thing>Thing stops doing something you like and starts doing something you dislike>Don't enjoy thingThis breaks the AGPoster >>722830409
>>722827656Just because they are called V-Tuber streams doesn't mean a talking head isn't doing a let's play for you
>>722830391As someone that dabbled in YT for quite awhile let me tell you, even the slighest edgy shit gets you dropped like a bag of shit. I am talking modest 50k views dropping to 25-100 views per video. Making videos is a second job in itself and if it doesn't bring in money, to cover the costs at least it ain't sustainable. Also it really kills the fucking passion after you spend 40+ hours editing + drawing art + recording voice. Shits ridiculous.
>>722830707Man, silent let's players are so underated
>>722830178Pictures of him confirm that.The worst is him trying so hard to maintain this "character" of him being a "manly badass" when he thinks being a prick is being a manly badass.>I don't have anything funny or interesting but I can tell you totally real and true story of my dad.Then why don't you get your fucking dad to stream then?
>>722827231i like him
>>722827231Only because they were the progenitor of streaming and streaming culture. Otherwise, not really.
>>722828887This. He's completely inoffensive, chill and unpolitical. The only people mad at him are just people who would be mad at a rock if it didn't have a shape they liked.
For me it's ninomae ina'nis
>>722827231He's fine because he has a golden voice and a chill personality. >>722827667>>Woops, the color red, better censor this before Youtube cuts my funds.That's just the reality of it. I think very few people love self-censoring because of stupid website policies.
>>722830707>>722836781He's been narrating his shorts and he has a pretty sexy Scottish accent. I wouldn't mind a narrated let's play by him in that case.
He's a fun dude. Met him and Vinny at the hololive concert last month.
>>722827231LPs made for love of the hobby were fine, all the stuff made for a career are pale imitators simple as.
>>722827231Let's Plays have been a disaster for shitty games, you mean. At this point, I pretty much always watch the first little while of a game's lets play before I think about buying it. You just can't take trailers and reviews at face value, given how fake and gay everything is.
>>722837979I have not bought a single indie game because a let's play is enough
>>722838214This is why you need to find reviewers. Unfortunately 99.99999% of it is pure slop, so good luck finding it. Of that miniscule amount that do exist, I've managed to try maybe 3 games that looked interesting and turned out to be pretty decent.
>>722837653Why they touching tips in front of my daughter?
>Letsplayer play so badly I end up buying the game just for the sake of being able to play it normally
>>722827231pic unrelated
>>722838423>he thinks he can play better than the KingFoolishness, he has no equal.
>>722827231Maybe in early 2000 they would be negative for sales. But these times where so many games are being made, I felt that I purchased more games because I saw it on a play through especially if the streamer is playing it badly
>>722837653Oh yeah WOW such a manly badass. Is he hiding badass nuts in his badass mouth?
>>722830391No one wants to deal with YouTubes dogshit automated system that’ll kneecap you instantly if it even thinks it sees gore or a tiddy, the only people that can reasonably fight back have to have a large dedicated fanbase that’ll essentially annoy the support staff till they give in
>>722838423Do you also fall for those phone game ads by any chance?
>>722837653Not even trying to be mean or racist but he looks like a muslim
>>722827231This guy's voice is absolutely insufferable. The dramatic lilt he puts on even when he's not narrating ruins every video.
Know what real disaster is? PLAYABLE DEMOS!Maybe if devs made more Demos for their games I wouldn't have to watch faggots on YT to see what a game is like. That or use Steam's Refund policy like a Blockbuster video rental by trying and refunding a game every couple weeks.Miss those little 360 demo disks I believe you could get with some gaming magazines. Discovered a lotta games that way.
>>722838982What's absolute cancer is Youtube retroactively censoring shit.I was watching a bunch of old videos and noticed a bunch of them have large part with no sound because of "copyrighted audio".
>>722839256I was happy back when I didn't know what he looked like..
>>722839407You must be pretty new to him since he'd do face recording summaries at the end of games instead of using an image back then.
>>722827667>Woops, the color red, better censor this before Youtube cuts my funds.That's not his fault, that's the fault of Youtube being run by Jewgle and the moralfaggots funding them.
>>722830409Just like artists and actors, the moment a youtuber or streamer becomes too old to continue doing the thing I like, in the way I like, is the moment I stop enjoying them. It's just that simple.
>>722839256I've seen video of him and he looks a bit different from that photo. I mean it's still the same guy but I think it's probably not an accurate representation. We all take weird photos sometimesNot that it matters to me personally
>>722839881NOOOOO you must worship them and support everything they do forever!
>>722836975Well that's the gimmick, like how AVGN is just a polite guy, it's just a character.
>>722829162Thank god he does, because I want to know the news about indie slop, but I don't wanna go dumpster diving myself.
>>722827667>Woops, the color red, better censor this before Youtube cuts my funds.What? Qrd please
>>722830468This it's statistically impossible to not like him it goes beyond all logic and reason it literally makes zero sense it's unfathomable
>>722829085His popularity has climbed and the quality of his content has suffered for it.He started streaming occasionally with the usual sellouts (Vinny, etc)He takes these fairly large breaks between uploads now, when he used to posted daily or every other day pretty consistently.He covers a lot of the "niche" stuff now after everyone else already covers it.He appears to have had some IRL problems at some point here in the last year.
>>722827667Youtube has been getting worse about that. I think they just want to thin out how many people they pay.
>>722830707This guy is still good, thank god.
>>722827231>and streamers/ personalities/ like & subscribers in general >and specfagging, realistic visuals and outsourcing >and GaaS, gacha, subscriptions, and season passes/ over usage of dlc>and QTEs>and game sizes so bloated because diminished return visuals and open world shit>and moviegames>and achievement/ trophyfagging>and all the normies and casuals that reshaped gaming since gen 7>and all the shills, corpos, and shareholders ftfy
>>722840692He self censors his videos now. It's one of the biggest reasons why I stopped watching him.
>>722837653this picture is odd.his face is darker than the rest of his skin for some reason?
>members onlyyour reaction?
>>722828446He plays a lot of shit with interesting stories but horrible gameplay so I prefer just skipping around through his videos than actually playing those games.
>>722841252Which is retarded given the sheer amount of gory clickbait thumbnails people use for their videos. Christ, while looking up police bodycam videos I saw one video with a really shitty AI generated thumbnail of a kid covered in cuts and bruises with a bomb chained around his neck
>>722841497he posts weird uber niche stuff there, like that old game about some fantasy dudes wife and daughter being raped and turned into demons by the demon king or whatever.
>>722841797Not him but I don't think you're getting the issue here.It's not that the videos are banned but that they're demonetized. The ones with gory clickbait thumbnails and this and that are either demonetized or aren't actually as gory as you imagine them to be.
>>722827231True. Can't believe we are in an era where people are making games for YouTubers and streamers.
>>722842086>Can't believe we are in an era where people are making games for YouTubers and streamers.Well, in Manly's case it seems to be more of the fact that he tends to actually have a fair few followers making their own games, shoehorning in a few references.The only 2 devs the seemed to be fixated on making games for him specifically were that horror hospital mini-horror series game and that dude who made the horror game set in the brothel with vampires and cross dressers.
>>722827667Does he censor blood in his videos? I've watch his videos every once in awhile and haven't noticed it yet
>>722827231maybe
>>722827231I like him, he plays those "games" that are not even games so I save a lot of money watching him and his commentary is not annoying at all. Some of them are fine storytelling wise but the gameplay is non-existent.He likes Yukari tho, shit taste.
>>722839998I mean, I don't care if he's ugly because we never see his face during the videos but I still find funny that he looks nothing alike his profile pic
>>722827231RETVRN
There isn't anything wrong with lets players or streamers.They've become invaluable for garnering an understanding of games you're interested in. They're also a good source of entertainment should you be interested in something but don't want to play through it yourself, like the Andy and Leyley series Manly did.At this point I suspect all the people hating streamers and vtubers are irony-poisoned zoomers.
>>722837653when mutts collide
>>722843417she stealthiest vtumor apologist
>>722843586Literally every streamer mentioned in this thread is either a vtuber or has collabed with them.The only ones making the distinction are you retards which is ironic because the ones who love them do the same thing.
>>722839256He is some SEA-mutt hapa supposedly
>>722840601the shit he plays are literally games that some 8 year old yugoslavian boy made for its first gamethey are horrendously bad
>>722844093heysome of them are actually goo- , alright ,okay. ish
>>722844465and god forbid it's not like he would ever run out of games to playactually good games too
>>722842773this video seems to be stellar
>>722842773THE ASTERISKS
>>722844093>the shit he plays are literally games that some 8 year old yugoslavian boy made for its first gameMega based, giving him 8 million dollars as we speak
>>722827231he allows me to not pay for interesting but 1 hour long games that I can get the same experience by just watching him tho
>person plays game How does this effect you exactly?
>>722841497This what you asked for when you installed AdBlock.
>>722846614Zoomers can't understand why people like watching games. They didn't grow up with the culture of watching their siblings.
>>722837653This image is so fucking bad, he looks like a such a mut chud, literally pic rel.Also, hot take but I think the only difference between him and pirate software is just the absence of controversy. That faggot was literally awarded best streamer award couple years back and now everyone is on his ass all of the sudden when he was clearly a faggot from the beginning, same as mr.beast. When you see a certain person you just know. I wonder if this guy is just like that. I don't see nothing in particular to hate about him but literally EVERYTHING checks out. >Chud appearance.>Voice impression.>Fake ass name.
>>722846734But I did?
>>722842773Huh? Why is the word "medical" censored? Actually, looking at this image further, it has a lot of words here that don't need to be censored. Please tell me this is a shitpost edit, and not the actual screenshot. This is ridiculous.
>>722847459He's basically futureproofing himself in the event Youtube gets even more draconian with its demonitization qualifications.Did you know showing a body bag is enough to get your video fucked up nowadays? A body bag, a tool designed to censor corpses and gore so that you can give the folks at home an idea of what's going on and have something to show on TV or in the news articles? Censorship is unironically so bad that they have to censor a censor now.
>>722842773Still, better than "grape" or "unaliving"
>>722847907At this point, I just click off a video when I hear those words. I'm so fucking sick of this dumbed down, censored baby language being pushed by these corporations.
>>722827231Besides him an Vinny, who else still frequents this shithole?
>>722847907are people seriously using grape as a substitute
>>722848082I understand that Youtube is gay and that they would shadowban them to high ends if they said those words but man, you can't expect me to take this seriously when someone says "He unalived himself" or when they use the fucking grape emoji, just use a beep sound or censor one letter bro, it's not that hard
does anyone here knows where can I pirate the coffin of andy and leyley?
>>722848417You can find it in the usual places.
>>722848197https://emojipedia.org/grapes
>>722848197>>722848391Problem with "just bleep it" is that the algorithms are getting scarily good at picking up on context clues due to how commonly those terms are bleeped or otherwise covered up through other forms of audio distortion, while the concept of "graped/unalived" are new enough that they've still got a few years of mileage before the AI slop systems get a true understanding of them, and using them instead of the actual word or a bleep is kosher because of it.Same goes for other ways to express the general idea of rape or suicide, remember these algorithms have an immeasurably vast wealth of reference points to know when terminology is almost assuredly referring to no-no topics based on association frequency.
>>722847907>unalivingPersonally I'm more of a "sewerslide" type of person
>>722827231Nah, live streams have done much more damage. Every game has to be clippable at every nanosecond just to try and go viral and achieve FOTM status.
>>722837653wtf he didn't look like this in that ao oni video
>>722827231Lets Plays were better in the original text format before it just became streamer screeching at random bullshit on youtube/twitch.
>>722848940Maybe he suffers from Toby Fox syndrom and he changes ethnicity depending on the photo
>>722846816could have said he looks like a weeb
>>722849129lol
>>722848446I'm asking because it's not in my usual places nigga
>>722827231Streaming did more damage to the gaming community. Let's Plays are soul.
>>722850272Let's Plays lost soul when parasocial retards flooded the internet en masse and latched onto facecammers.
>>722850272>soulUnderaged zoomer detected
>>722841136>He takes these fairly large breaks between uploads now, when he used to posted daily or every other day pretty consistently.He is a one man team and he goes for all endings while also cutting out large parts of gameplay for the viewers sake. Guy deserves it, hes got like months of content in his backpocket to watch anyway.>He appears to have had some IRL problems at some point here in the last year.Yeah its because hes dumb enough to live in Florida. Out of all the fucking places in the US Florida is the 3rd worst place to live in after New York and California. Its overpriced because its seen as a vacation state and is subject to major weather hazards which also influences the price of it as well.>>722827231Manlys more of a completionist than a Lets Player but semantics. I like the guys work though but he should try a less restrictive pay platform than Youtube.Hes been doing so many sponsorships lately because I can tell Youtube has been absolutely fucking him.
>>722827667ManlyBadassHero would never swear (on YouTube).
Was watching a guy reminiscient of what Manly used to he but he hasn't posted in like 2 months, I thought he was doing pretty good, channel name is @Sleepchosis
>>722828408>>722828535How much longer until this ends and we get more authentic content?>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iful8OGI7lk&t=300s
>>722851804>Shilling your own channel>>722851994>Mr Beast gets mentionedOnly 3rd worlders and other content creators care about that guy.
>>722851994>see channel>just fountains of gen-z outrage slop combined with fucking wojaksWatched 10 seconds + disliked + hit "Don't recommend"
>>722853209gigabased
>>722830707this, this one actually play obscure games and does a lot of demos, most of the time any game that Manly plays ABG already played weeks before. the guy is always ahead of the curve
>>722827231>ManyBrownassHombreYou're brown
>>722853961lol wut?
Unironically how fucking subhuman do you have to be to watch a let's play or a streamer? I don't get this at all.
>>722853864>>722830707Does he play to 100% and edit his videos?
>>722837653>this guy was the highest rank whale on a Nikke serverhow?
>>722854270Based brocken clock tranime poster.Imagine being dunked on by weebs who are trooping out.
>>722854381I'm not trans, I've said this many, many times
I'm going to alice
>>722848679Are you implying that the censors don't just go after explicit depictions of graphic violence, but even *implications* of and allusions to graphic content? What the hell?
>>722854821Try risperadol instead
>>722854950you sound somewhat delirioushere, take this
>>722854328Not sure, but I notice he replays and choreographs certain things like camera movement and reactions. It's probably to compensate for mute gameplay.
The problem isnt lets players but communities like youtube that encourage creators to make a living out of it therefore encouraging mass producing of garbage just to be able to get paid and recognizedI imagine plataforms that could succeed without encouraging stuff like that could have much better content rather than >"Hey watch me play this new indie horror game from itch io thats low poly like you babies love!"
>>722839293good news retard there's an event going on just for you https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest_oct25_press/
wheres banban 8i need my mascotslop
>>722846825Then you're just retarded.
>>722854270At first I thought the ones posting this anime while speaking against streamers were being ironic but I'm beginning to suspect they're serious and aren't aware that Ina worked on the anime they're posting stills from
>>722827231this guy is brown
>>722856247Aren't we all?
>>722854869Correct. As was pointed out earlier in the thread, even body bags are too verboten nowadays.
>>722827667I love the niggah so much
>>722855390The communities aren't the ones that are doing that retard, if anything os Youtube themselves
