Since there's some comments I'll address a few things In case you're wondering why I didn't talk about jontron saying bad things on a stream its because I would have nothing original to contribute (99% of people who clicked on this knew what happened) and also charity fraud is just 10 times funnier than racism. Jirard bragged so much about how he contributed to charity that it wrote itself. I Could have made a joke about jontron loving white people. But I didn't. Oh well! Again with projared, you know he had grooming allegations, I can't really add anything original except making a throwaway joke that I didn't make. There have been video essays about that specific topic, if you care about that part of him, it's out there. Like I said in the beginning, this isn't really about a history of normalboots, I just wanted to talk about what I wanted to with normalboots, and I didn't feel like talking about racism or grooming, and yes, charity fraud is hilarious. You have a moral compass, I don't have to tell you that racism or sexting your fans is bad. I trust in your own decision making abilities! Anyways go on all your alt accounts and subscribe to me and play my videos on loop on repeat!!!
Yeah it's easier to look at jontron and be like yeah he's an idiot bigot but makes funny videos, while TheCompletionist it's like- oh thats just not as funny to laugh at him for that.
"The normalboots retrospective"....how about a title change? Since you didn't say anything about that stuff you cannot be THE anything....at best this is A normalboots retrospective....and not even really that
I left a comment about jon and regretted it a few hours later. I thought "NoMad never engages in drama, but this is pretty important to be aware of" but I see that conversation derails into hostility very fast on this topic. thank you for taking the time to write this, I have massive respect for you and your channel
@@nikanikani1out of self loathing I still watch jontron in hopes he hits his stride again; he hasn't. And mostly uploads when the coffers are running low.
@@Greendawn-di3dl that's fair! i still watch some classic jontron durong the holidays, it is a tradition i made for myself, usually I try to at least get Food Games 1 and 2, Home Alone Games, Plug-n-Play Consoles, Zoo Race and Christmas With the Kranks.
I got in trouble for watching peanutbuttergamer as a kid because my mom walked in on me watching a scene where he was stranded in the middle of the ocean drinking a beer
@@anth636 i don’t get why caddy don’t like his old videos when they feel like they’re both the same. Were they small-minded at times? yeh. But not all the time.
@@Mae4EverI can help with this. When a creative person get better at what they do they’ll sometimes hate what they made previously. He just views his stuff not really good anymore. Many still like his older stuff, but for him he don’t view it since he grown so much then.
If you ever decide to do a followup, it should absolutely be about Hidden Block (Balrog, Brutalmoose, Caddicarus, Jimmy Whetzel, Space Hamster and Yungtown). I remember watching them as much as, or even more than Normal Boots, and the fact I don't think any of them have gotten into any major controversy is surprising.
Caddy has gotten some flack for some questionable jokes from time to time but he usually tries to explain the context. (Prime example being a cut/replaced joke from his Disney PS1 games video) If it just doesn't land, he replaces it with a different joke. Otherwise he's just creating massive hour to 2 hour videos with zany out of context humour.
@@bigotbently9612 What parasocial shit? NoMad made a disclaimer about Jirard being a terrible person, but didn't bring up how JonTron made being afraid of white people becoming a minority his personality for a hot minute and never really renounced anything he said. It's not like NoMad is being deceptive or anything, but people are going to find it weird.
@@bigotbently9612 I mean the fact he even slightly alluded to the ProJared situation while having zero references to Jon's makes the lack of inclusion a lot more noticeable here
@@D3V0R4H.how I see it. Jared and Jirard both lost views/subscribers from their controversies. Jon wasn’t affected long term and his quality never dipped or stagnated. Or the maker of the vid is biased
My god people sleep on Continue crazily. They have insane knowledge and skills with content and equipment, a vast knowledge of film and are absolutely hilarious. And the fact that they’re so far from drama yet respectful of their fans and people who interact with them, Paul Nick and Josh deserve it all.
Fun fact: I started being a caddicarus fan because of normal boots. I had never heard of him and didn’t know he existed until he appeared in Madness season 3 (the best “newer” normal boots show) so yeah, weird way to find the Cash Banooka guy
@@Mae4EverIt absolutely did. For a lot of us, we straight up watched JonTron try to justify eugenics. It was inexcusable on Jon's part, and he never really came back from that.
Hey put some respect on our boy, Grant Kirkhope! He isn’t just a composer for games. He did the soundtracks for Banjo Kazooie 1 and 2, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, and has even won multiple awards. Dude’s a legend! 🤘
You're sleeping on Hidden Block, man. Space hamster is just as funny as PBG, if not more. Caddicarus is booming these days, and Brutalmoose has found a really nice niche of old media and obscure foods.
"-the Game Grumps to go out of their way to doctor footage in the same vein as Stalin with the infamous Moscow Canal photograph." Truly one of the lines of all time
These guys were in their prime when I was in high school and I remember this is when I felt like I had officially outgrown the “nostalgic game review” sub genre that I had been watching since AVGN and Screwattack. Now I’m watching someone who grew up watching them as a child look back nostalgically on them as a childhood memory. Jesus fuck I feel old……
Much love for talking about the hardcore series I was glued to that series when I was younger I would get so hyped when new episodes and seasons would drop wondering what other creators would show up in future seasons
got a few laughs outta me, well done. i definitely feel you on jontron, his videos have quality but they lack... something now. i think the post-game grumps "season" was a golden age of sorts.
I would never have been able to join NormalBoots because I don't like or care about video games and also I would have been 7 or something at the time it started
Hearing that old Normal Boots intro hit me like a fucking train, and the y'all don't understand how religiously I would watch gameplay videos of that goddamn dating sim. This was nostalgic in a great way!
Thank you for bringing up Jirad’s bad deeds and how comedically bad it has aged the dating sim but if you’re gonna call him out for it you miiiiiiight wanna consider at least mentioning that one thing with Jon. It’s was a preeeeeetty big moment I think. Outside of that I think this video has been pretty good! I knew of the lesser known normal boots members but I didn’t have much interest in them back then. After hearing you talk about them I kinda feel like I missed out on them, especially Satch!
a lot of that was that was shown to be not accurate or just exaggerated to sound like it was only him I remember way back his ex was so aggressive towards him online her replies wanted basically to kill him sounds like a two sided woops we should just part ways time
@@Hawkatana Jared was a universal polyamery break up made public which no one had the right to attack them for and the second was shown with proper logs to have been a bit of for thought lapse that was used by the supposed victim to start accusations before fleeing via deleting account
I have been a fan of Continue since like 2011. They are still a favorite to go back to -- it feels like they are alwaya around. Lots of in jokes. Their podcasts (especially the one Josh did called Fantasy Fiction with Dom where they told stories) got me through so many days at the factory I worked at.
you look like a guy who would get killed by a werewolf during your trip to England and then haunt your buddy afterward it's mostly the jacket NormalBoots was a big part of my 13-16 period- PBG, DYKG, Jon, and Greg on the Completionist. The ones I watched and the amount I watched them were very much like your own (including the "guess I gotta watch Jon's old videos instead" thing). Thank you for updating us on this subject that most of us now only care about enough to watch this video 👍👍
fuck i miss when i watched all those british minecraft youtubers. they were all so quirky and funny because their personality was that they're british while they played minecrap.
Honestly PBG was the only NormalBoots member besides early JonTron I watched every upload of. The G-Files series is what originally got me hooked and I've been a fan ever since!! I either watched some of the channels mentioned for a small bit before moving on, never did or they had drama attached that repulsed me from trying them again. The whole Did you know gaming mother's day 6 hour video drama was what stopped me from watching them besides growing out of the content they did at the time. Out of the newer/ revived NormalBoots I only watched Chadtronic and that was only semi regularly as his videos were a hit n miss for me especially when he started the commercial review series, which I find enjoyable now but I didn't when they first came out. It was truly an era and I still think about the original Normalboots logo everytime I click on an old PBG video to rewatch.
I was the same. PBG and Jon could make any topic interesting to watch, whereas I didn't really want to watch a completionist episode of a game I didn't really have much interest in. It wasn't till I was quite a bit older that I would start watching ProJared, and I think that's because I became mature enough to want to listen about all the old obscure games he would make videos on. DidYouKnowGaming was entertaining way back in the day, but going back to those old videos now you can tell how poorly researched a lot of them were. Their modern content is much better. Continue was just, like, there i guess. They never interested me as kid, and still really don't today. From what I can tell it seems like it's just unedited let's plays. Out of the newest batch of creators, the only ones I ever watched were ProtonJon and Chadtronic. ProtonJon is hardly even a youtuber anymore, and Chad seems to have moved mostly away from gaming centric content, sort of similar to JonTron. Also Chad strikes me as a somewhat morally bankrupt person, just from what I've seen on twitter.
21:02 I glad I'm not the only one who noticed the voice overs, it always felt off when the person narrating it didn't sound like themselves. I guess the guy who the videos made the person narrating do 100 takes to make it sound like a professional voice over he how highly edited the way it sounds.
Man the old ScrewAttack music hit me like a truck. PBG is just about the only creator from NormalBoots I still watch, his old and new videos have a special place in my heart. A new Minecraft Hardcore or another series like it would be awesome! Maybe if I can gather enough people to try it maybe I'll start something.
OMG I WAS JUST LOOKING BACK AT EVERYONES CHANNELS this video will nourish me thank you OMG THE SCREWATTACK MUSIC TOO??? we literally had the same childhood
Excellent retrospective. I watched a ton of PBG and JonTron in college, never got into Continue because it was just a let's play, ProJared was a charisma vacuum, I watched a bit of The Completionist but he wasn't very funny either. Then, I got into HiddenBlock, which was like a low rent NormalBoots and Space Hamster was like a low rent PBG, watched a bit of BrutalMoose until he started doing weird food reviews, I think there was another ugy there called YungTown that did really off-the-wall humor?
The Gamer and the Mouth thing was actually kind of a wild find on your part lol. Looks like Jeremiah Watkins was there as a host from the short clip you found. I’d bet he might indulge some information about the event if someone asked him, he’s a pretty nice down to earth dude for the most part.
The dude had a full-on neo-nazi rant during a debate. I'm not using the term neo-nazi lightly. Look it up for yourself if you don't wanna take my word for it.
im not even gonna watch the video, i just want to say that i love that the thumbnail has that picture of Cory instead of any image of Jirard at all. thats just really funny on its own.
I do miss Satch. I still follow him on Twitter, where he is completely rebranded since his NormalBoots days, but dude always seemed like the most chill guy this side of a video essayist. He seems to be doing fairly well outside of the internet.
Take me back to when my biggest worry was when the next season of PBG hardcore was. I was devastated after he took them down because of ProJared shenanigans
PBG was always my favorite growing up so I’m happy to see he’s still going strong. But I was a fan of Jared, Jirad, and Jon so it’s sad to see what happened to them
That does not make you stop many creators have been screwed over after any sort of action an then moved past it like what if your current fan tuber got canceled for 3 days would you burn every memory of them
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 I never said I was going to throw out all the memories I had watching them while growing up. I just don’t watch their videos anymore because they barely upload nowadays, and the controversies surrounding them didn’t turn me away from their channels.
@@tanmanstudios uh neat one bummer part of following channels for so long is finding how much you love sn era but the creators change styles or retire gone are many gaming groups replaced with commentary or retirement etc
Since there's some comments I'll address a few things
In case you're wondering why I didn't talk about jontron saying bad things on a stream its because I would have nothing original to contribute (99% of people who clicked on this knew what happened) and also charity fraud is just 10 times funnier than racism. Jirard bragged so much about how he contributed to charity that it wrote itself. I Could have made a joke about jontron loving white people. But I didn't. Oh well!
Again with projared, you know he had grooming allegations, I can't really add anything original except making a throwaway joke that I didn't make. There have been video essays about that specific topic, if you care about that part of him, it's out there.
Like I said in the beginning, this isn't really about a history of normalboots, I just wanted to talk about what I wanted to with normalboots, and I didn't feel like talking about racism or grooming, and yes, charity fraud is hilarious.
You have a moral compass, I don't have to tell you that racism or sexting your fans is bad. I trust in your own decision making abilities!
Anyways go on all your alt accounts and subscribe to me and play my videos on loop on repeat!!!
Yeah it's easier to look at jontron and be like yeah he's an idiot bigot but makes funny videos, while TheCompletionist it's like- oh thats just not as funny to laugh at him for that.
"The normalboots retrospective"....how about a title change? Since you didn't say anything about that stuff you cannot be THE anything....at best this is A normalboots retrospective....and not even really that
Wait JonTron did what 😭
I left a comment about jon and regretted it a few hours later. I thought "NoMad never engages in drama, but this is pretty important to be aware of" but I see that conversation derails into hostility very fast on this topic.
thank you for taking the time to write this, I have massive respect for you and your channel
the charity fraud is objectively hilarious lol, I appreciate you keeping it fun
Pbg is the last man standing you know that image of skips from regular show sitting with his friends and then they're all dead that's pbg.
Projared is still around, doing better than a certain event
PBG is coincidentally one of the few I still acrually watch, the final boot..
@@nikanikani1out of self loathing I still watch jontron in hopes he hits his stride again; he hasn't. And mostly uploads when the coffers are running low.
@@Greendawn-di3dl that's fair! i still watch some classic jontron durong the holidays, it is a tradition i made for myself, usually I try to at least get Food Games 1 and 2, Home Alone Games, Plug-n-Play Consoles, Zoo Race and Christmas With the Kranks.
@@nikanikani1 his old stuff is gold. I often look back on old UA-cam fondly.
An unrelated Armenian Cory in the thumbnail is instant click.
What part of they video do they talk about him he’s the only reason I clicked
@@Hibublub Why? He doesn't, it's just for a joke
@@Adjudicus I don’t wanna watch a fucking video about normal boots in 2024 lmfao
@@Hibublub then don’t
@@Hibublubthis is fucking unhinged.
It’s so uncanny seeing PBG’s style in a modern TikTok format. It’s like if I saw my dad say gyatt skibidi rizz
I got in trouble for watching peanutbuttergamer as a kid because my mom walked in on me watching a scene where he was stranded in the middle of the ocean drinking a beer
Jirard is not reacting well to the LA air, poor guy.
Armenian Jirard
Another poor soul succumbed to LA air
Tbh he does kinda look like Armenian cory
All your favorite reviewers here, including JonTron, PeanutButterGamer, and Cory Beck!
Cory Delaminguez*
@@PrizrakNOCory Borry Allus*
He’s not reacting very well to the LA air
ARMENIAN COREY! 🎶
they call meh cory
Scott the woz owes his entire career to jontron not doing video games anymore and filling the void he left behind
I’d argue that Scott would have gotten popular regardless. He’s funny and is, in a sense, a spiritual successor to JonTron/PBG (to me anyways)
I mean this in the nicest way possible you have no right to comment on projareds appearance with that yee yee ass haircut
moms were still really strict when youtube was at its NASTIEST. my mom had beef with chuggaconroy. great time to be alive.
to be fair a lot of people now have beef with chuggaaconroy
@@FilthyTeaa lot of tard people but people nonetheless
wait what for i don't remember anything happening with him@@FilthyTea
@@jurt2761 don’t worry about it it was stupid
Beef WITH chuggaconroy?
PBG Minecraft Hardcore is the best Minecraft content to be released
Yes
True!
Pbg can play anything and it's the best. He's genuinely actually funny. self aware. He has skill and common sense. He's just good at what he does
I rewatch that shit annually
JeromeASF hunga games with mitch
Bro didn’t even mention the GOAT Brutalmoose smh
He was part of hidden block. I remember him and caddy being rivals all the time
@@g-forcefgt323i miss old brutalmoose and caddy. I really hate when Caddy trash talks his old videos.
@@anth636I mean their not great so I see why
@@anth636 i don’t get why caddy don’t like his old videos when they feel like they’re both the same. Were they small-minded at times? yeh. But not all the time.
@@Mae4EverI can help with this. When a creative person get better at what they do they’ll sometimes hate what they made previously. He just views his stuff not really good anymore. Many still like his older stuff, but for him he don’t view it since he grown so much then.
I didn't know L.A cory was a normal boots member
If you ever decide to do a followup, it should absolutely be about Hidden Block (Balrog, Brutalmoose, Caddicarus, Jimmy Whetzel, Space Hamster and Yungtown).
I remember watching them as much as, or even more than Normal Boots, and the fact I don't think any of them have gotten into any major controversy is surprising.
Caddy has gotten some flack for some questionable jokes from time to time but he usually tries to explain the context. (Prime example being a cut/replaced joke from his Disney PS1 games video) If it just doesn't land, he replaces it with a different joke.
Otherwise he's just creating massive hour to 2 hour videos with zany out of context humour.
Space Hamster went on the immediate defense for Jirard and talked sh about Karl Jobst.
@@hyrulehero2773because they were friends, you stand up for your friends. He has since cut all ties
Tfw PBG turned out to be the only normal one on Normal Boots 😭
2:16 sometimes pbg's hair looks like that one lego haripiece
i found it its 87991
Your work to find the exact piece is not unappreciated
@@Parzivle they took my limbs
True
i wouldn't say jontron has aged well given, you know, everything
imo the PBG MC Hardcore series was the genuine peak of UA-cam that shit felt like Endgame
I'm still scarred that space hamster never beat the dragon.
Feel like a major detail was left out during the Johntron section
@@bigotbently9612 lmao
@@bigotbently9612 What parasocial shit? NoMad made a disclaimer about Jirard being a terrible person, but didn't bring up how JonTron made being afraid of white people becoming a minority his personality for a hot minute and never really renounced anything he said.
It's not like NoMad is being deceptive or anything, but people are going to find it weird.
@@bigotbently9612 I mean the fact he even slightly alluded to the ProJared situation while having zero references to Jon's makes the lack of inclusion a lot more noticeable here
@@D3V0R4H.how I see it. Jared and Jirard both lost views/subscribers from their controversies. Jon wasn’t affected long term and his quality never dipped or stagnated. Or the maker of the vid is biased
@@paulvillerius848lol he did not make that his whole personality your lying through your teeth
PBG is the first "video game reviewer" that I binge watching. Maybe 2011-2013. Glad that I still watching PBG today...
The biggest robbery ever is SatchBags not getting the credit he deserved
My god people sleep on Continue crazily. They have insane knowledge and skills with content and equipment, a vast knowledge of film and are absolutely hilarious. And the fact that they’re so far from drama yet respectful of their fans and people who interact with them, Paul Nick and Josh deserve it all.
PBG is a Gamer among men. He's the PBGoat and I'll never say otherwise
Fun fact: I started being a caddicarus fan because of normal boots. I had never heard of him and didn’t know he existed until he appeared in Madness season 3 (the best “newer” normal boots show) so yeah, weird way to find the Cash Banooka guy
I'm surprised the destiny interview didn't come up in JonTrons arc
My theory is the guy who made it is biased. Or that incident didn’t effect his views/subscribers in the long run
Because the debate really didn’t effect much?
@@Mae4EverIt absolutely did. For a lot of us, we straight up watched JonTron try to justify eugenics. It was inexcusable on Jon's part, and he never really came back from that.
@@spaceshipnayib you’re right :0
He’s still making videos that brings more views than gamegrumps and got invited by Oneyplays.
@@Mae4Ever If views and subscribers matter more to you than values, there's nothing I can say to you that will make you a better person.
"JohnTron is JohnTron" is kind of a wild statement considering some of the opinions he's become known for having.
being a kid is watching pbg, projared, jontron, etc.
being an adult is knowing the pissed off angry video gamer is better
The Nintendo shitcube review is a classic
It looks like a fowking chocolate chip cookie
@@FilthyTea Stares longingly
Are you talking about Angry Joe? I watched him a lot when I was a child.
Real Chads bow down to Mike Matei
Hey put some respect on our boy, Grant Kirkhope! He isn’t just a composer for games. He did the soundtracks for Banjo Kazooie 1 and 2, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, and has even won multiple awards. Dude’s a legend! 🤘
You're sleeping on Hidden Block, man. Space hamster is just as funny as PBG, if not more. Caddicarus is booming these days, and Brutalmoose has found a really nice niche of old media and obscure foods.
Brutalmoose is great, I love the new direction he has taken
Brutalmoose's editing style is fucking high art
Too bad SpaceHamster doesn’t upload anymore
@@huskycashewdrums6171 real
armenian cory
Felt like a certain part was left out when you talked about jon lmao
”I don’t play dating simulators.”
*peppers video with the soundtrack of a game in which gay lawyers romance each other the whole time*
Objection!
"-the Game Grumps to go out of their way to doctor footage in the same vein as Stalin with the infamous Moscow Canal photograph."
Truly one of the lines of all time
These guys were in their prime when I was in high school and I remember this is when I felt like I had officially outgrown the “nostalgic game review” sub genre that I had been watching since AVGN and Screwattack. Now I’m watching someone who grew up watching them as a child look back nostalgically on them as a childhood memory. Jesus fuck I feel old……
Normalboot’s MC hardcore series is underrated as hell.
I remember binging 2 seasons of that in a few days. The one where they're on the snowy mountain was tense.
NoMad, if you keep it up, you’re bound for success. Your videos are well edited and entertaining. The blow-up is imminent.
Much love for talking about the hardcore series I was glued to that series when I was younger I would get so hyped when new episodes and seasons would drop wondering what other creators would show up in future seasons
PBG doing Tiktok food reviews feels like parody
Because it is
@@n50409 yaa
They're just re-uploaded clips from his personal 'Peebs' channel
got a few laughs outta me, well done. i definitely feel you on jontron, his videos have quality but they lack... something now. i think the post-game grumps "season" was a golden age of sorts.
15:24 I love how you cut Jirard off right when he was about to say he had a strong moral compass.
I think Jirard's reacting badly to the LA air
I would never have been able to join NormalBoots because I don't like or care about video games and also I would have been 7 or something at the time it started
same but that didn’t stop me from praying to god every night to let me join them
Armenian Cory just hanging out in the thumbnail like a computer virus
That guy comparing miiverse censorship to Stalin legitimately killed me when I watched that video.
I love how jaded you are and how much you have to say, thats my favorite combo right there, those two elements
Normal boots: lame
Giga boots: that's where it's at
Join me at the Big Think Dimention
you said exactly what i thought about myself in that intro within 20 seconds. this is probably the fastest i've liked a video, bravo
1 view in 30 seconds, Nomad is reaching new peaks.
212 views in 47 minutes, NoMAD is getting bigger day by day
@Xegit Nomad don’t know you lil bro
Nomad? Two?
Hearing that old Normal Boots intro hit me like a fucking train, and the y'all don't understand how religiously I would watch gameplay videos of that goddamn dating sim. This was nostalgic in a great way!
the completionist being labeled as FRAUD in the beginning is PERFECT
Guy on the far left looks like the type of kid to spaz
Good lord I just got a massive nostalgia hit just from seeing the thumbnail and title!
6:34 I have never heard this articulated so well. Nailed exactly how I feel about them.
Thank you for bringing up Jirad’s bad deeds and how comedically bad it has aged the dating sim but if you’re gonna call him out for it you miiiiiiight wanna consider at least mentioning that one thing with Jon. It’s was a preeeeeetty big moment I think.
Outside of that I think this video has been pretty good! I knew of the lesser known normal boots members but I didn’t have much interest in them back then. After hearing you talk about them I kinda feel like I missed out on them, especially Satch!
Yeah it’s kinda insane that Jirard keeps getting dogpilled while Jon was friends with Sargon of Akaad and Richard Fucking Spencer
a lot of that was that was shown to be not accurate or just exaggerated to sound like it was only him I remember way back his ex was so aggressive towards him online her replies wanted basically to kill him sounds like a two sided woops we should just part ways time
Or Jared. Basically nobody in NormalBoots with a J in their name was a good person.
@@Hawkatana Jared was a universal polyamery break up made public which no one had the right to attack them for and the second was shown with proper logs to have been a bit of for thought lapse that was used by the supposed victim to start accusations before fleeing via deleting account
I have been a fan of Continue since like 2011. They are still a favorite to go back to -- it feels like they are alwaya around. Lots of in jokes. Their podcasts (especially the one Josh did called Fantasy Fiction with Dom where they told stories) got me through so many days at the factory I worked at.
I clicked on this video to experience nostalgia and instead I found a hidden gem of a UA-cam account. You’re awesome dude!
Not saying you had to go into much detail on his controversies, but you went a bit too easy on Jontron
Seriously is no one gonna talk about pro jared??? Did something happen to prove he wasnt a pedo? Like?
When I was a kid I just thought the normal boots intro PBG had was just some shit he made up, I didnt really care about the other members lmao
Big props to PBG and Brutalmoose, those guys never became raging racists or kiddy diddlers. All they really do these days is review junk food lmao
There’s something so real about “I’m gonna move out here in two months.”
24:41 I broke my neck with the whiplash I had seeing my drawing of Jontron I did back in high school
Strange of you to omit a very important detail about Jontron, especially since it's related to why he left NormalBoots
gr8 b8 m8
you look like a guy who would get killed by a werewolf during your trip to England and then haunt your buddy afterward
it's mostly the jacket
NormalBoots was a big part of my 13-16 period- PBG, DYKG, Jon, and Greg on the Completionist. The ones I watched and the amount I watched them were very much like your own (including the "guess I gotta watch Jon's old videos instead" thing). Thank you for updating us on this subject that most of us now only care about enough to watch this video 👍👍
5:15 pvz ultimate battle song is playing for those who were wondering
fuck i miss when i watched all those british minecraft youtubers. they were all so quirky and funny because their personality was that they're british while they played minecrap.
Honestly PBG was the only NormalBoots member besides early JonTron I watched every upload of. The G-Files series is what originally got me hooked and I've been a fan ever since!! I either watched some of the channels mentioned for a small bit before moving on, never did or they had drama attached that repulsed me from trying them again. The whole Did you know gaming mother's day 6 hour video drama was what stopped me from watching them besides growing out of the content they did at the time.
Out of the newer/ revived NormalBoots I only watched Chadtronic and that was only semi regularly as his videos were a hit n miss for me especially when he started the commercial review series, which I find enjoyable now but I didn't when they first came out. It was truly an era and I still think about the original Normalboots logo everytime I click on an old PBG video to rewatch.
I was the same. PBG and Jon could make any topic interesting to watch, whereas I didn't really want to watch a completionist episode of a game I didn't really have much interest in. It wasn't till I was quite a bit older that I would start watching ProJared, and I think that's because I became mature enough to want to listen about all the old obscure games he would make videos on.
DidYouKnowGaming was entertaining way back in the day, but going back to those old videos now you can tell how poorly researched a lot of them were. Their modern content is much better. Continue was just, like, there i guess. They never interested me as kid, and still really don't today. From what I can tell it seems like it's just unedited let's plays.
Out of the newest batch of creators, the only ones I ever watched were ProtonJon and Chadtronic. ProtonJon is hardly even a youtuber anymore, and Chad seems to have moved mostly away from gaming centric content, sort of similar to JonTron. Also Chad strikes me as a somewhat morally bankrupt person, just from what I've seen on twitter.
21:02 I glad I'm not the only one who noticed the voice overs, it always felt off when the person narrating it didn't sound like themselves. I guess the guy who the videos made the person narrating do 100 takes to make it sound like a professional voice over he how highly edited the way it sounds.
That Thumbnail is so great. It loos like the world's dorkiest knock-off Avengers team possible. And you even used Armenian Corey 😂
Honestly, I like that PBG went on with his stuff normally without controversy. It's like he was the one that got away.
I used to Binge Jontron, ProJared and PBG..
I should rewatch their vids.
I was such a normalboots fan 🙏❤️ I also hyperfixated on hiddenblock a LOT
Using the Armenian Cory image for The Completionist is really funny.
the normal boots theme then hearing pbg's voice gave me some serious nostalgia
Man the old ScrewAttack music hit me like a truck. PBG is just about the only creator from NormalBoots I still watch, his old and new videos have a special place in my heart.
A new Minecraft Hardcore or another series like it would be awesome! Maybe if I can gather enough people to try it maybe I'll start something.
OMG I WAS JUST LOOKING BACK AT EVERYONES CHANNELS this video will nourish me thank you
OMG THE SCREWATTACK MUSIC TOO??? we literally had the same childhood
Pbg and jeff were like the older brothers i never had as a kid.
Excellent retrospective. I watched a ton of PBG and JonTron in college, never got into Continue because it was just a let's play, ProJared was a charisma vacuum, I watched a bit of The Completionist but he wasn't very funny either. Then, I got into HiddenBlock, which was like a low rent NormalBoots and Space Hamster was like a low rent PBG, watched a bit of BrutalMoose until he started doing weird food reviews, I think there was another ugy there called YungTown that did really off-the-wall humor?
Man I fucking love continue? Idk something about their humor just gets to me
I rewatch stairfax temperatures regularly
my father LOVED normalboots.
The Gamer and the Mouth thing was actually kind of a wild find on your part lol. Looks like Jeremiah Watkins was there as a host from the short clip you found. I’d bet he might indulge some information about the event if someone asked him, he’s a pretty nice down to earth dude for the most part.
23:09 lol bro the hits silvermania gave us Justin is such an underrated legend with the OG videos before youtube went soft
Something about the normalboots dating sim being your first (& prob last) dating sim is beautiful
15:26 "But I would like to think I'm someone with a pretty strong moral compass."
OOF, DID THAT NOT AGE WELL
Chorizo sauce and ricotta!?!?! That sounds baller
isnt jontron also a racist now tho or am i trippin
He is
Extremely.
The dude had a full-on neo-nazi rant during a debate. I'm not using the term neo-nazi lightly. Look it up for yourself if you don't wanna take my word for it.
Nah you're tripping. Mr Jafari loves all colours of the rainbow.
@@TastefulGorilla So long as the only colour in that rainbow is white.
im not even gonna watch the video, i just want to say that i love that the thumbnail has that picture of Cory
instead of any image of Jirard at all. thats just really funny on its own.
Continue mentioned RAHHHH 🦅 an underrated channel. love those guys
I do miss Satch.
I still follow him on Twitter, where he is completely rebranded since his NormalBoots days, but dude always seemed like the most chill guy this side of a video essayist. He seems to be doing fairly well outside of the internet.
I've never forgotten Greg, I loved him so much.
5:03 Jon also collabed with the Completionist in the Star Wars Kinect video
Take me back to when my biggest worry was when the next season of PBG hardcore was. I was devastated after he took them down because of ProJared shenanigans
Proton Jon is also still on TheRunawayGuys with Chuggaconroy and NintendoCaprisun which they’ve been doing since 2010 -ish
Oof
Dude, i remember every episode of that first season of hardcore just thinking PBG might die in his own series
Back then I thought Peanut Butter Gamer was the biggest goober...
He was actually the most based individual of all.
Jesus christ. Armenian Cory returns.
I miss balrog, hope hes living his best life out there.
PBG was always my favorite growing up so I’m happy to see he’s still going strong. But I was a fan of Jared, Jirad, and Jon so it’s sad to see what happened to them
That does not make you stop many creators have been screwed over after any sort of action an then moved past it
like what if your current fan tuber got canceled for 3 days would you burn every memory of them
Jon was my favorite out of the bunch.
Boy am I regretting that one now.
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 I never said I was going to throw out all the memories I had watching them while growing up. I just don’t watch their videos anymore because they barely upload nowadays, and the controversies surrounding them didn’t turn me away from their channels.
@@tanmanstudios uh neat
one bummer part of following channels for so long is finding how much you love sn era but the creators change styles or retire gone are many gaming groups replaced with commentary or retirement etc
Jared was screwed over by the girls on twitter, leaving a huge stain in his career vn when he had the recepits
Nahh who invited cory lmao bro think he part of the team 💀
I had completely forgotten about MCH. Memories flooding back. Wild