Not So Grump

[Bells]

And in one of those lovely internet debacles, just yesterday Mr JonTron left Game Grumps.

Almost 1 year, over 1 million subscribers. 630 videos, and the dude called quits.

Jon's reasoning is that the show took so much of his time that he could not focus on anything else, nor his own show (which is actually pretty successful for a one man fun-and-games show with sporadic updates) nor any other projects.

I guess when you make a living out of this stuff there is always the fear that you can't survive forever doing just this one thing... a guy in his late 20's playing video games and making jokes for a living gotta have a plan B somewhere...

Weirdly enough, his plan B is just to go back to his original show... which is 1 guy doing comedy about games... so there you go.

That's not the weird part though... the weird part was how it was all handled... it was pretty much out of left field, no warning... no nothing. Just... gone. And not only gone, but immediatly replaced.

Game Grumps goes on with Arin and a new dude i never heard of before... and a in-channel spin off called Steam Train with that one dude and ANOTHER dude i never heard of.

Supposedly this is to allow Arin to have time to create his own content too...

Fanbase, as you would expect from a show on the internet with over 1 million subscribers, is going nuts. and in just 24 hours they lost over 10k subscribers.

This show was born in overdrive. 2 Videos a day everyday? 600 videos just short off a year in? that's NUTS. But they did it... all in all working out of celebrity power from Arin and Jon, an active fanbase that made over 500k videos of songs and animations of the grumps... and charm. BEcause more often than not, you would tune to game grumps because of Arin and Jon, not because of the games they played...

So, this happened... i'm bummed. I understand, but i'm bummed. Cause i really liked their show... the new guys aren't bad... but they are not grumps. Now... it's just another "2 dudes playing games" show, and it lost a lot of its charm with me.

Also, i just have to say that this was handled really poorly... like, really badly. I don't blame their fanbase turning rabid and vicious on them for it... you watch a whole year of a show, and then one day you come to watch a new episode only to found out they changed a main character and created a spin off with 2 characters you never heard of?

No previous warning? No hints? Foreshadowing? Not even rumors? That's rough to take in... specially when you come to like these guys and care for their chemistry on the show.

Nobody would really be cool with that. Not at first at least...

So, that's that then... the intertubes are ablaze and drama is manifest if you want to check it out.