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darkknight109 posted...

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.

Never heard of him either and I'm closer to 50 than 40. The Escapist was a vaguely familiar name, but I couldn't even have told you it was gaming related. Generally if I'm watching something video game related, it is probably how to do something in a specific game rather than general video game content.