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Topic	Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has resigned from The Escapist, among others.
darkknight109 11/09/23 2:36:30 PM #19:	BlackScythe0 posted... People on the internet frequently tend to think that just because they know/like someone popular that everyone knows who they are because they are popular. There are a ton of huge content creators I never hear of until they get into some sort of controversy such as this. It's not a matter of liking him or not or even the size of his audience (which was massive [proportionally] back when he was one of the only games in town, but isn't particularly big today) - it's that he was basically one of the first online video content creators in the gaming sphere. Dude was hugely influential and basically helped set the table for video content creation back when that was still a new medium online. It's like not knowing who Hideo Kojima is - sure, you may or may not be a fan of his work - or you may not have even watched it at all - but unless you first got into the hobby within the last 10 years (which I doubt describes anyone posting on GameFAQs these days), you probably have heard his name at some point. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:977124506] in Ben "Yahtz... [t:80614305]...</cite> <quote>BlackScythe0 posted... </cite><quote>People on the internet frequently tend to think that just because they know/like someone popular that everyone knows who they are because they are popular.There are a ton of huge content creators I never hear of until they get into some sort of controversy such as this.</quote>It's not a matter of liking him or not or even the size of his audience (which was massive [proportionally] back when he was one of the only games in town, but isn't particularly big today) - it's that he was basically one of the first online video content creators in the gaming sphere. Dude was hugely influential and basically helped set the table for video content creation back when that was still a new medium online.It's like not knowing who Hideo Kojima is - sure, you may or may not be a fan of his work - or you may not have even watched it at all - but unless you first got into the hobby within the last 10 years (which I doubt describes anyone posting on GameFAQs these days), you probably have heard his name at some point. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster.Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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