They tried to get me cancelled and now they're f*cked..

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  • Опубліковано 22 бер 2024
  • Asmongold Clips / Asmongold Reacts To: Kotaku being the absolute worst game publication, spreading lies about Asmongold and Sweet Baby Inc
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    On this Asmongold Clips UA-cam Channel you'll never quit finding all the funny Asmongold Moments with Mcconnell and the best Asmongold Highlights from the most popular games, like: Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield, Blizzard's Diablo 4, Dragonflight & Hardcore Classic WoW, the record breaking MMORPG FFXIV, Path of Exile 2, sneak peeks from Gameplay of the upcoming Riot MMO and playthroughs of many other popular games like Hogwarts Legacy, Final Fantasy 16, Elden Ring and more. Also Asmongold Reacts to a lot of content, such as World Record Speed Run of games, Blizzard Drama, "Asmongold AI", VTubers, and videos of some of the most interesting creators like penguinz0, Internet Historian, Emiru, Dunkey, Linus Tech Tips and more. Asmon is also known for his "The True Story of Asmongold", "Asmongold $2 Pizza" and "Asmongold $2 Steak" videos, the legendary Transmog Competitions and Mount Off competitions, Ban Appeals, Media Share streams, Reddit Recap Reactions and much more.
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  • @N.K.---
    @N.K.--- 2 місяці тому +5646

    Those losers can't cancel the goblin king

    • @FleshWizard69420
      @FleshWizard69420 2 місяці тому +160

      The power of mould and roaches is too strong

    • @WarGhoulKharas
      @WarGhoulKharas 2 місяці тому +18

      There is only one goblin king, and he is Chairman MoMo.
      STAMINA!

    • @jianxianlee5892
      @jianxianlee5892 2 місяці тому +27

      He was already too degenerate that the cancel culture didn't acknowledge him as human but as the goblin king. Yeah, cancel culture don't work on other being.

    • @B1acKBMWW
      @B1acKBMWW 2 місяці тому +2

      There being gay

    • @jimcarrey2866
      @jimcarrey2866 2 місяці тому +9

      bald goblin

  • @skorpers
    @skorpers 2 місяці тому +3571

    Kinda crazy that a man that never cleans his house, and lives off fast food + dr pepper is the most sane man on the internet.

    • @Nanoarciere
      @Nanoarciere 2 місяці тому +83

      so many compliments haha

    • @hakumenx1
      @hakumenx1 2 місяці тому +54

      Thats kinda sad.

    • @jojoh_maliketh
      @jojoh_maliketh 2 місяці тому

      It's supposed to be sad, and it's sad already to know that lol ​@@hakumenx1

    • @georgeghleung
      @georgeghleung 2 місяці тому +9

      Because doign above can be sane in some situation.

    • @shawnsmith2241
      @shawnsmith2241 2 місяці тому +144

      Almost like outward appearance has nothing to do with intelligence, which ironically is the only thing they can go after him with because they can't beat him in arguments

  • @russellsales7796
    @russellsales7796 2 місяці тому +3164

    Asmongold is like penguinz0-levels of uncancellable. It ain't happening, honey.

    • @phantonn5670
      @phantonn5670 2 місяці тому +252

      How can they cancel if he says no. plus he is not even monetized by twitch and twitch knows he will gadly go to yt or kick if they ban him over nothing burgers . he is literally in a check mate position and is hard to cancel him.

    • @betterjustice6697
      @betterjustice6697 2 місяці тому +51

      Was thinking the same thing just the other day, attempting to go for penguinz0 would create such a shitstorm that it wouldn't be worth it.

    • @dannyherbert4482
      @dannyherbert4482 2 місяці тому +89

      Why would moist ever get cancelled? He's like the least offensive guy ever

    • @Elden_Lean
      @Elden_Lean 2 місяці тому +45

      you can only get cancelled if you care enough, if you don't care, they can't do shit to you.
      Two Mad (RIP) spent years having a lot of people constantly try to cancel him, and it never worked. because he didn't care.

    • @chriswihulu
      @chriswihulu 2 місяці тому +7

      It'd be easier to try and get the internet as a whole canceled, at this point.

  • @markkern5310
    @markkern5310 2 місяці тому +1087

    Kotaku has come after me for years and tried to cancel me for years. They didn’t care, and I am certainly not going to shed a tear for them.

    • @mightyfineincredible2252
      @mightyfineincredible2252 2 місяці тому +68

      One of the few good game devs/producers honestly, sorry the industry became like this

    • @BlackCrossCrusader
      @BlackCrossCrusader 2 місяці тому +90

      You probably get this comment alot Mark, but thank you for the wonderful games you helped during Blizzards glory days. I was a proud fanboy of Blizz when I first played Diablo, and its an utter travesty to see it fall from so high.

    • @KoolMeester2
      @KoolMeester2 2 місяці тому +3

      When does ember get released

    • @heikkint
      @heikkint 2 місяці тому +4

      Must be taking a toll though. So pointless all of this. But apparently we just cant get along as someone always wants to be in a position of power. And these people sure abuse any powers they get to the max.

    • @rutoojinn
      @rutoojinn 2 місяці тому +6

      Let me guess it started with Gamergate :D. Those mofo won't stand to take accountability for bad behavior.

  • @chonky2129
    @chonky2129 2 місяці тому +355

    “I’m not locked in here with you…”

    • @nananamamana3591
      @nananamamana3591 2 місяці тому +37

      No one can navigate a room full of garbage like Asmo

    • @SoraFromIndia
      @SoraFromIndia 2 місяці тому +8

      @@nananamamana3591 I'm ded 😂

    • @DragoonPaladin
      @DragoonPaladin 2 місяці тому +10

      "Gimme back my faaace!"

    • @WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe
      @WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe 2 місяці тому +15

      ​@@nananamamana3591That would be a hilarious thing for him to say. "I manoeuvre around bigger piles of trash than you every single day."

  • @thefacts4440
    @thefacts4440 2 місяці тому +501

    the editor is honestly so great no other clips channel comes close to this quality.

    • @fatguy9
      @fatguy9 2 місяці тому +12

      True and real

    • @raptorate2872
      @raptorate2872 2 місяці тому +4

      TobiasFates editor is still goated

    • @HatKiddy
      @HatKiddy 2 місяці тому

      ​@@raptorate2872100% true

    • @specificocean4176
      @specificocean4176 2 місяці тому

      @@raptorate2872 ye most people watch that guy for the edits

  • @rickallen8767
    @rickallen8767 2 місяці тому +305

    No one wants a guide from Kotaku 🤣

    • @dycedargselderbrother5353
      @dycedargselderbrother5353 2 місяці тому +57

      "How to complete Cuphead tutorial stage in four hours or less"

    • @IRefuseToUseThisStupidFeature
      @IRefuseToUseThisStupidFeature 2 місяці тому

      "How to destroy a gaming news site"

    • @BigFx
      @BigFx 2 місяці тому +18

      i suppose it's all chatgpt with extra sprinkle of affiliate links at this point anyway

    • @amazingdany
      @amazingdany 2 місяці тому

      @@BigFxI’m using a text2pic AI generator and it’s amazing while scary simultaneously.

    • @johnliller
      @johnliller 2 місяці тому +4

      This is the overlords working the slaves to death before the mine shuts down.
      They want a large portfolio of game guides as a selling point for when they ultimately fire everyone and put the site on the market.

  • @elementotv2893
    @elementotv2893 2 місяці тому +341

    Simple fuk around find out. They are in the finding out phase.

    • @toof987
      @toof987 2 місяці тому +18

      i dunno, with the upcoming articles and recent tweets, i'd say they are still firmly in the fuck around part.

    • @elementotv2893
      @elementotv2893 2 місяці тому +2

      @@toof987 they are similar to rats when dogging holes, but when time for "finding out" part they will try to throw each other under the bus.

    • @orchirion
      @orchirion 2 місяці тому

      ​@@elementotv2893 Or trip and fall under the bus themselves then the buddy they try to trip also trips over their backstabbing friends too to get under the other wheels. Their side trips up a lot lately 🚌 🤣

    • @elementotv2893
      @elementotv2893 2 місяці тому

      @@orchirion lol

  • @kristopherwillis8075
    @kristopherwillis8075 2 місяці тому +468

    "You can't cancel him" Sgt.Woods

  • @powergi3996
    @powergi3996 2 місяці тому +1706

    Us non-mentally ill people need to stick together and defend each other!

    • @deepSilent0
      @deepSilent0 2 місяці тому +102

      Oh my sweet summer child don’t you know? We’re all mad here!

    • @alittlecreepywhenyou
      @alittlecreepywhenyou 2 місяці тому +13

      I got ya bro. Keep your chin up son. We are holding the high ground.

    • @jira6423
      @jira6423 2 місяці тому +19

      Bruh you are watching the guy who lets cockroaches crawl on his shirt and drinks moldy coke.

    • @danield879
      @danield879 2 місяці тому +62

      ​@@jira6423and? That's sanity in comparison lol

    • @wormybobcat3706
      @wormybobcat3706 2 місяці тому +15

      @@jira6423you talk of the roach he grabbed off of his shirt and disposed of? I don’t think your clothes have nerve ends like your skin does.

  • @Rubycore
    @Rubycore 2 місяці тому +94

    *Someone tries to cancel Asmon*
    Asmon: "Ooo, free content"

    • @grein545
      @grein545 2 місяці тому

      “I can milk you”

  • @d_all_in
    @d_all_in 2 місяці тому +78

    You cannot kill that which has no life

    • @SonOfLum
      @SonOfLum 2 місяці тому +4

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @GermoDante
    @GermoDante 2 місяці тому +135

    I couldn't give half of a fuck if a paid propagandist from Kotaku gets fired.

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 2 місяці тому +15

      Between the two of us, we still won't make half of a fuck then.

    • @Lorenzo_Lucci
      @Lorenzo_Lucci 2 місяці тому

      @@willchurch8376maybe just you, cuz what actual smart person would care about that

    • @orbbb24
      @orbbb24 2 місяці тому +5

      @@Lorenzo_Lucci An actual smart person would realize willchurch was also showing he doesn't care about it. Seems you missed that.

    • @F4c2a
      @F4c2a 2 місяці тому +1

      No guys it's not propaganda it's fighting racism guys pls guys you don't understand ;(( They're not doing it because they want to feel morally superior and have an excuse to bully people, nnnnoooo why would you think that no they are paragons of humanity on a righteous quest on a videogaming site pls guys understand ;(((

    • @gabemyers4516
      @gabemyers4516 2 місяці тому +1

      @@F4c2a alright, you’ve convinced me sir.

  • @MR_ARKANSAS
    @MR_ARKANSAS 2 місяці тому +152

    the 2016 meltdown and subsequent destruction of journalism should be studied. some day kids will read about it in history tablets.

    • @paulj6805
      @paulj6805 2 місяці тому +1

      Journalism has been dying since well before 2016

  • @pixelice6206
    @pixelice6206 2 місяці тому +58

    "How dare you use my own spell against me" vibe lol

  • @SubZole
    @SubZole 2 місяці тому +56

    That Kotaku article being the second most read on the site means nothing when almost no one reads Kotaku articles. It was a rage-bait article and most of the views come from people who thought it was bs and read it so they can comment on it or react to it.

  • @takumifujiwara9181
    @takumifujiwara9181 2 місяці тому +170

    Kotaku also made a hit piece against Chris Raygun and Sacred Symbols (a playstation podcast) owner Colin Moriarty. It was disgusting and like Colin has always said he has thousands of hours of written articles and videos online to site that he was a racist bigot but theres 0 evidence each time.

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 2 місяці тому +14

      Wait, Colin Moriarty the IGN writer? Isn't he like one of the most inoffensive milquetoast people ever?

    • @vallejomach6721
      @vallejomach6721 2 місяці тому +1

      Then he should sue for defamation. Even in America, there's libel laws about what you can publish...

    • @R3_Live
      @R3_Live 2 місяці тому +2

      Colin.... isn't he the guy behind that "entitlement" video back when ME3 came out?

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 2 місяці тому

      @@alyasVictorioDid you just spam this everywhere like a bot?

    • @takumifujiwara9181
      @takumifujiwara9181 2 місяці тому

      @@SeruraRenge11 yes, he runs a playstation podcast called Sacred Symbols now.

  • @Emma_2Banks
    @Emma_2Banks 2 місяці тому +59

    “Overwhelm the writers”
    Buddy, these writers literally crap out words and publish it, the work they do is below the bare minimum.

    • @RobotnikPlngas
      @RobotnikPlngas 2 місяці тому +3

      Just what Id expect from activists 😂

    • @Skaldzerker
      @Skaldzerker 2 місяці тому

      We'll just get more rehashed AI crap lol Chat GPT will be Kotaku's writer now

  • @elpis238
    @elpis238 2 місяці тому +55

    Once again Editor is doing more proper reporting than any of these "game journalists"

  • @gking1022
    @gking1022 2 місяці тому +17

    Of course they can’t cancel him, he lives in his attic. He literally has the high ground.

  • @alittlecreepywhenyou
    @alittlecreepywhenyou 2 місяці тому +93

    Wow, the editor is stepping up his power level in a major way.

  • @anonymousperson1771
    @anonymousperson1771 2 місяці тому +47

    Literally ANYONE but current journalists would be ecstatic at getting paid play and write about videogames all week. I also doubt they expect 50 full, comprehensive guides of an entire game, and more akin of "how to" for specific quest rewards or something, but mountains and molehills.

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 2 місяці тому

      What do they pay? Trash, or north of $25 hr?

    • @npcimknot958
      @npcimknot958 2 місяці тому +6

      Litearlly that was the dream for sooo many people..
      I remeber ign hired flip and people were so happy for him until he F up.. it was a dream job.. play games, talk games..
      And then activist took over and destoryed that entire industiry

    • @13-bit-kitten
      @13-bit-kitten 2 місяці тому +1

      I mean, Hoyoverse get volunteers do this as an unpaid opportunity (avatar frames and primogems are not payment), and there are WILLING PEOPLE

    • @ShaggyRogers1
      @ShaggyRogers1 2 місяці тому +1

      @@13-bit-kitten Just to point out, but those definitely count as legal payment. Payment for work doesn't have to be in cash. If you are given something of material value in exchange for labor, that's paid work.

    • @13-bit-kitten
      @13-bit-kitten 2 місяці тому +2

      @@ShaggyRogers1is it equal though? Is it legal to pay an equivalent of like 20 bucks or less MONTHLY for 4 35 hour work weeks? Even if we're suddenly considering digital rewards "things of monetary value", it's pretty much exploitation of underage work, since a lot of volunteers are students

  • @anthonyreynolds3418
    @anthonyreynolds3418 2 місяці тому +51

    If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

    • @lilbaz8073
      @lilbaz8073 2 місяці тому +1

      A little force ghost with a gremlin mate?

  • @Gabriel-Crandall
    @Gabriel-Crandall 2 місяці тому +265

    Ha ha ha! No one can cancel you!

  • @SomeCanine
    @SomeCanine 2 місяці тому +72

    Kotaku's owners outsmarted them. Good.

    • @RealLifeIronMan
      @RealLifeIronMan 2 місяці тому +7

      The 50 a week requirement is spread across all their writers; which is like 50 salaried writers and 50 contract writers. So per writer, it is more like 1 guide every 2 weeks.

    • @SomeCanine
      @SomeCanine 2 місяці тому +13

      @@RealLifeIronMan Supposedly they have 7ish writers so it's more like 1 per day with the editor chipping in one per week, but it's still very doable. I see youtubers popping out guides constantly. They just need to play one game and churn out simple guides as often as they can. Then when they bank up a few extra guides, switch to a new game and start over. I don't think it's the numbers that do them in. It's moreso the fact that they actually have to play a video game or two.

    • @niggacockball7995
      @niggacockball7995 2 місяці тому

      @@SomeCanineone week is still too little for them, they are "game journalists" after all they cant into gaming

    • @ott6428
      @ott6428 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@RealLifeIronManah so they will learn the joys of communism.

    • @PoorlyDrawnPotato
      @PoorlyDrawnPotato 2 місяці тому +1

      @@SomeCanine Yeah complaining about the number of guides is disingenuous, they just want to write about culture wars all day and writing guides doesn't sound fun, so they're pretending it's some impossible task and people are buying it.

  • @inanimatesum4945
    @inanimatesum4945 2 місяці тому +28

    Her article got a bunch of traffic because for the first time, her own colleagues actually clicked on another Game Journalist's article so they could prepare for that giant circlejerk that happened.

  • @pineappleparty1624
    @pineappleparty1624 2 місяці тому +78

    This made me realize the same thing happened to me at my first job. I had this awful cold hearted manager that was never satisfied with anyone. I was new and she weirdly kept expecting me to run an entire bakery after one shift of training. She gave me a terrible terrible evaluation so I would not get a raise. I could not be fired, but was moved to another department. She had to leave her job due to a kidney disease and she didnt even become nicer closer to death...I got my old position back and had nothing but great evaluations and raises. Knowing now, I could have went straight to HR on her...

    • @stinkymart3173
      @stinkymart3173 2 місяці тому +21

      Fuuuck I had one of those in a shipping job 😂 she wasn't even a manager just one of the lowly pack crew filling boxes but she spent all her time trying to rearrange company files, and there was this poor kid there who was working his first job and who she treated like utter shit. Finally she complained about him to HR about something, and when they questioned him he just said "I don't know what I did, maybe?" So they asked witnesses, then they asked everybody in the building, and before the day's end she was fired 😂😂 last I heard from that place the kid was supervisor 😂😂😂
      ...you didn't happen to work shipping in a worm farm, eh?

    • @pineappleparty1624
      @pineappleparty1624 2 місяці тому +7

      @@stinkymart3173 no lol, grocery store. I'm glad you guys had a happy ending as well.

    • @-Believeinyourself-
      @-Believeinyourself- 2 місяці тому

      @@stinkymart3173I’ve got worms. That’s what we’re gonna call it! I’ve got worms!
      Dumb and dumber

    • @Adam-rz4wr
      @Adam-rz4wr 2 місяці тому +9

      I doubt HR would help. They would just collect evidence and do damage control to avoid lawsuits from you.

    • @traductus3337
      @traductus3337 2 місяці тому +2

      Its sadly a common and rally scummy tactic to make someone go rather then fire them. Like in my country, if you reach civil servant status you can't get fired anymore, so if the institution wants to get rid of you, they change your workplace in order for you to not want to work there anymore.

  • @johnnynotbegood
    @johnnynotbegood 2 місяці тому +205

    That Kotaku graph also represents the decadency of the United States for the past 10 years

    • @Moldylocks
      @Moldylocks 2 місяці тому +46

      The problem for both these things can be summed up into 4 letters
      W O K E

    • @Isometrix116
      @Isometrix116 2 місяці тому +15

      ​@@Moldylocks At this point, I'm convinced no one has a meaning for "woke" beyond "thing I dislike." It's like the word "fascism" all over again

    • @ryanlucas3907
      @ryanlucas3907 2 місяці тому

      @@Isometrix116 Woke is just neo-marxism wrapped in a racist shell. You should give up your left wing politics.

    • @PmReis
      @PmReis 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Isometrix116 Hypocritical, self-righteous stances and morals. Exchanging observable reality, objective quality and integrity for sentimental virtue signaling and social media points, generally appropriating consolidated pop culture symbols and IP's as a way to spread political biases. There you have it.

    • @dszuch1084
      @dszuch1084 2 місяці тому

      @@Isometrix116 Anything that supports the obvious social engineering that has been plaguing America since the 60s, onward. Diversity as a strength - it is not. Racially homogeneous countries are always better than the alternative. Feminism has been a disaster for men, but also for women. LGBT nonsense and transgenderism, likewise, has been a disaster for both genders.
      Essentially, woke is a quick way of saying something, or someone, supports or upholds ridiculous, impractical thinking brought about by these socially engineered movements designed to tear away at the family unit, and all else that is sane and pragmatic.

  • @Arthera0
    @Arthera0 2 місяці тому +15

    I hope she writes that hit piece. It will only do the opposite of what she hopes it will do.

  • @Moonwired
    @Moonwired 2 місяці тому +21

    50 guides is not a lot, keep in mind it’s for the entire staff, not per “writer”. If they wanted to fire staff members they would, they can cite no journalist integrity as a reason, and no judge in the world is going to grant a wrongful termination suit. Wheras assigning impossible tasks would give them an actual case. They’re not that stupid.

    • @georgeghleung
      @georgeghleung 2 місяці тому +1

      "no judge in the world" will be a stretch (looking at Canada's court... oh god.). But you are right about most judge in where Kotaku Headquarted.

    • @ne0nmancer
      @ne0nmancer 2 місяці тому +1

      50 guides is a lot, considering the amount of games they'll be covering. They're not gonna be out there in the trenches making guides for indie games not one's interested in, they'll be trying to milk popular games like Helldivers 2 and honestly, there isn't that much to write.

    • @N4rha
      @N4rha 2 місяці тому

      @@ne0nmancer
      That would depend on what is considered a guide here.
      A guide for the ENTIRE game? Or a guide for a small part of the game that you could write dozens if not hundreds of for a single game?
      "How to summon an Ally Cooperator in Elden RIng" Could be a single guide that would take 10-15 minutes to write.

    • @talkingtakotaco8611
      @talkingtakotaco8611 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@ne0nmancer it depends on what is a guide here. Like for example, I'm playing persona 3 right now. You could get a 100% game guide, but you could also get a guide on how to complete one quest out of like 100 different quests or how to build one of your party members optimally, or even just an article on spoiler free beginner tips and tricks. These ones you can easily do in a day or two. Even if you included playing the game as part of your work hours in the span of a week.

  • @ZenTea
    @ZenTea 2 місяці тому +8

    They won’t hesitate to ruin someone’s life, over nothing. never forget.

  • @garguntoter
    @garguntoter 2 місяці тому +29

    Like I said in another comment on another vid about this, in a year it will be Kotak-who. Keep up the great work.

  • @EddiXP
    @EddiXP 2 місяці тому +12

    Never stop holding their feet to the flame. We've recovered so much the last couple years. In all walks of life.

  • @Apercu
    @Apercu 2 місяці тому +30

    Actually based Kotaku management. Give the idiots enough work so they don't have time to 24/7 troll on social media. They actually have to put their phone down and do work instead of whatever it is they're doing now.

    • @ott6428
      @ott6428 2 місяці тому +5

      They will just copy paste guides from other writers. You don't expect them to play games do you?

    • @RobotnikPlngas
      @RobotnikPlngas 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@ott6428 if they do that. Their SEO will tank down and Google will strike them.

    • @ott6428
      @ott6428 2 місяці тому +1

      @@RobotnikPlngas pretty sure they do that already.

    • @RobotnikPlngas
      @RobotnikPlngas 2 місяці тому

      @@ott6428 Yeah... They're known for stealing guides since Gamefaqs time. They suck ass

    • @AmberJays
      @AmberJays 2 місяці тому +1

      @@ott6428 - They'd need to be careful in doing that lol, it will need to have several hyperlinks going to the original articles otherwise the company will be opened up for copyright theft if they do it against any European-based business lol.

  • @pensive8552
    @pensive8552 2 місяці тому +13

    Yeah. I looked at 1 kotaku article like 10 years ago and had enough lol. Haven't given traffic since.

    • @ravensharpless
      @ravensharpless 2 місяці тому +1

      Last time I returned there (after several years beforehand) was the day the ps4 was announced and immediately saw them complaining about the mathematical ratio of women to men on stage wasn't high enough

  • @notcbt1987
    @notcbt1987 2 місяці тому +24

    Minor amount of trolling

  • @Zexsey
    @Zexsey 2 місяці тому +11

    they hate when their tactics are used against them smh

  • @dtzyYT
    @dtzyYT 2 місяці тому +5

    I like how half this clip is just the editor commentary

  • @HSG4meR
    @HSG4meR 2 місяці тому +7

    Trying to cancel Asmongold is like punching concrete. It's not gonna harm the concrete but your hand will be broken.

  • @cmdrreggit
    @cmdrreggit 2 місяці тому +6

    Melonie Mac laughing at Alyssa Mercante's failed cancellation attempt in 3....2....1....

  • @wever4873
    @wever4873 2 місяці тому +23

    reverse cancel uno card

  • @Zynnix
    @Zynnix 2 місяці тому +57

    Kotaku was cool when they had actual game journalists like Jason Schreier who actually gave us interesting stories and did something approaching REAL journalism. After that though, holy shit, the quality dropped off very quickly.

    • @kosakukawajiri5007
      @kosakukawajiri5007 2 місяці тому +11

      I would gladly take 10 Jason's over anything current Kotaku is pumping out.

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 2 місяці тому +18

      While Jason was an actual journalist because he was like the one guy in the industry that has a journalism degree, he was also a massive prick who your get into internet slap fights all the time.

    • @-Believeinyourself-
      @-Believeinyourself- 2 місяці тому +3

      I must be doing pretty damn good if I have zero clue what Kotaku even is, let alone the people in it. Is that the name of the company?

    • @Zynnix
      @Zynnix 2 місяці тому +1

      @@SeruraRenge11 Sure but if a dude is selling the best pizza I've ever tasted, I don't mind if he yells at me and throws it in my face. You know what I mean? His piece on Bioware after Anthem was an incredible peek behind the curtain at a troubled studio.

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 2 місяці тому +2

      @@ZynnixIf someone throws pizza in my face, I'm not going to care about its taste while I'm trying to get the scalding hot cheese from leaving me second degree burns.
      But I get what you're saying, even if your analogy went off the rails.

  • @Icureditwithmybrain
    @Icureditwithmybrain 2 місяці тому +7

    Asmons editor is the best thing to happen to gaming since TotalBiscuit

  • @dissuede6949
    @dissuede6949 2 місяці тому +2

    It is impossible for one to harvest even low hanging fruit when the tree is dead to begin with.

  • @jpfizzle1
    @jpfizzle1 2 місяці тому +3

    “Actively dangerous” these people are so emotional they think their lives are at stake whenever some guy complains about a corporation’s product

  • @blackstar-genX
    @blackstar-genX 2 місяці тому +3

    These people aren't happy unless they are trying to ruin someone's life.

  • @Epsilonsama
    @Epsilonsama 2 місяці тому +5

    Trying to dox people on a Discord server is disgusting. It's one thing to go against an eceleb who is a professional influencer and a public figure (I still do not agree with that BTW) but going against regular people who do not share your views and trying to get the fired is incredibly disgusting and should be considered an actual harrassment campaign.

    • @renevil2105
      @renevil2105 2 місяці тому +2

      Yet Dev of discard are willing to help them dox.

    • @Dante02d12
      @Dante02d12 2 місяці тому

      The rhethoric behind it is also disgusting as fck. They state that we should all give up online anonymity, they really push the Facebook mentality as much as they can. They think being anonymous makes people more comfortable at being pricks... *ignoring the fact that you ARE anonymous when you are in the streets irl.*
      They push a narrative that "people are anonymous online + people are pricks online = people shouldn't be anonymous", which is a complete logical fallacy, especially when people showing their face and name online are as much assholes as the anon guys (and people are assholes irl too).
      They also like to bash on anime pfp, as if having an image from something we enjoy was a problem somehow.

  • @Ghlain
    @Ghlain 2 місяці тому +4

    Thanks for you investigative work Mr. Editor.

  • @bradleysaito4393
    @bradleysaito4393 2 місяці тому +4

    I stopped going to kotaku a long long time ago. Good luck to asmongold and his team fighting off this cancel attempt

  • @jamesdunn9609
    @jamesdunn9609 2 місяці тому +3

    Claiming someone else is engaged in "a harassment campaign" while actively harrassing others is just delicious.

  • @defaultname7685
    @defaultname7685 2 місяці тому +1

    Patrick Klepek still at it apparently lol. Damn dude was kvetching through the last gamer gate too

  • @Shuttlekilla
    @Shuttlekilla 2 місяці тому +2

    TEN MOTHERFUCKIN YEARS. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • @Kuroganemk2
    @Kuroganemk2 2 місяці тому +3

    How the turn tables.

  • @adastrawill
    @adastrawill 2 місяці тому +7

    AMEN EDITOR! 🙏

  • @_rnzr
    @_rnzr 2 місяці тому +1

    just remember that kotaku has an article about how the best gaming periferal is the apple touchtrack thing

  • @velzaresp8623
    @velzaresp8623 2 місяці тому +2

    We have a quote for this kind of people in my country, "they have iron fists but glass jaw". They love ruining other people's jobs and privacy, but messing with their own jobs and privacy is suddenly very problematic.

  • @nolp2898
    @nolp2898 2 місяці тому +3

    Yeah editor nailed it, DO NOT GIVE THEIR WEBSITES TRAFFIC. THAT IS THEIR GOAL. IT IS OUTRAGE BAIT.
    Let them pump out dogshit articles and get nothing form it.

  • @spaceman_spiph6695
    @spaceman_spiph6695 2 місяці тому +6

    He figured it out?! Boys he did it!

  • @mshake7056
    @mshake7056 2 місяці тому +1

    When you open a door and leave it open like this dont be surprised when people you hate go through that door too. Their tactics being used against them and now they cry about it.

  • @vapegod3659
    @vapegod3659 2 місяці тому

    They should be able to produce that many articles considering the scant amount of information provided by each new article in gaming news

  • @Wormweed
    @Wormweed 2 місяці тому +17

    someone needs to cancel twitter so these losers have nowhere to go

    • @ariaroflcakes
      @ariaroflcakes 2 місяці тому +10

      reddit

    • @AntiRiku
      @AntiRiku 2 місяці тому +10

      the whole reason why they went to twitter in the first place was because tumblr crumbled so be careful what you wish for as they might just come here, its better to keep them contained

    • @VestinVestin
      @VestinVestin 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@AntiRiku > _"the whole reason why they went to twitter in the first place was because tumblr crumbled"_
      Thank you! Let's not go through that again. When will people learn that making others angry and hurting them makes them _more_ motivated threats rather than less?

    • @vlecxius
      @vlecxius 2 місяці тому +2

      No, the website creators need to enforce actual rules so that people like this can't thrive. Reddit is even worse where source quotes are downvoted because some sweaty nerds don't like the source. Can only recommend blocking out anything that has to do with Reddit or Twitter. Nothing good comes off these websites.

  • @polypolar
    @polypolar 2 місяці тому +3

    remember that one time when Kotaku wrote a review on how to hook up a butplug to Animal Crossing ..... a kids game........ please all content creators start doing videos on that article and reminding the public that Kotaku should be shut down .... "it's for the greater good" 😂👍

  • @prolikethat5995
    @prolikethat5995 2 місяці тому +2

    I didn't even know kataku still existed

  • @DagobertX2
    @DagobertX2 2 місяці тому +1

    Also if someone wants to read some hit piece for research, make sure you read an archived one, so the site can't have your engagement.

  • @bavarianwolf3806
    @bavarianwolf3806 2 місяці тому +4

    seeing asmongold as one of the last bastion of based normal internet celebrity who cant be canceled is just great. I will never ever understand how people can take games so serious.. Especially people who dont even play the games they are shitting about

  • @DeoFayte
    @DeoFayte 2 місяці тому +21

    Why does everyone think that 50 "game guides" is impossible?
    You know it's going to be stupid simple single question guides that people often google. Like how to make a crafting table in Minecraft, or how to complete single achievements, shit like that. Especially if you're stealing answers from elsewhere on the internet you should be able to churn out dozens of those in a day. No one expects quality here lol.

    • @octopusmany9984
      @octopusmany9984 2 місяці тому +5

      Exactly. It's not like they're asking 50 game guides from a single person. A whole company? 50 should be the bare minimum!

    • @romaliop
      @romaliop 2 місяці тому +3

      The problem is that they are in no position to guide anyone in how to actually play these games.

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 2 місяці тому

      Impossible? No.
      But goddamn is that soul sucking.

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 2 місяці тому +8

      @@SeruraRenge11To be paid a wage to play a video game and write a guide or two each day? It doesn't have to be a walkthrough of the entire game, it's not like they're asking for Prima level content. What a cushy gig.

    • @angel_of_rust
      @angel_of_rust 2 місяці тому

      puh-lease. the average game magazine back in the day always had guides for different aspects of games. walkthroughs, niche tips and cheat codes were the bread and butter of them. before the internet mind you.
      i would know, because back then me and my cousin were reading k-zone ph magazines (rip k-zone)@@SeruraRenge11

  • @fjfjfjjdjdjdjj
    @fjfjfjjdjdjdjj 2 місяці тому +1

    Patrick Klepek! lol haven’t seen that name in ages. Giantbomb was so great before gamergate 1 era

  • @TomaszJanusz
    @TomaszJanusz 2 місяці тому

    It's something awesome in that Attleborough voice when he says word "disgusting"

  • @blinkin7795
    @blinkin7795 2 місяці тому +5

    it was 50 articles per week for the whole team (supposedly 7 people), so slightly over 7 articles per person. to me that seems like a difficult quota, but still somewhat reasonable. many content creators produce 1 or more videos every day of the week, so i just don't see a significant problem with asking their whole team to make 50 articles.

    • @Sarnatuile
      @Sarnatuile 2 місяці тому +1

      And that's exactly why their articles are complete trash.

    • @danny34574
      @danny34574 2 місяці тому +1

      This quota is a joke tbh. 1.5 articles a day assuming a normal mon-friday whereas youtubers have been making 20+min detailed guides for games like diablo, poe, league, wow, bg3, elden ring ect a day. Just playing through one game you could churn out at least 10 different guides easily, its not that hard. The writers are just lazy and want to shove their opinions down people's throat instead of writing quality game articles. Honestly, being told to write at roughly 1-2 guides a day is a joke. Lets be real here as well, Kotaku is going to copy paste guides someone else did and pass it off as their own. Look at bg3, most of the top guides are already well documented on reddit and youtube, all they have to do is rewrite the entire thing. BG3 alone they can churn out 20-30 articles from pre-existing popular builds. In fact Kotaku already did this when they did cover some bg3 guides talking about the most popular builds in bg3 at the moment. Im all here for the downfall of kotaku

    • @Miragexe
      @Miragexe 2 місяці тому +1

      @@danny34574 Having to rehash existing guides and taking information that already exists is also an entirely pointless activity and not beneficial to the platform.

    • @blinkin7795
      @blinkin7795 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Miragexeit is still better than the garbage they were producing before.

    • @thebrognator3524
      @thebrognator3524 2 місяці тому

      @@danny34574writing 2 guides in a day, even when taking inspiration from others takes time.
      They generally are dozens of pages long, they need constant verification, format and most importantly, they need to be SEO.
      Not back breaking work, but it takes time. If you people had a job you would know

  • @Lin-ij9vk
    @Lin-ij9vk 2 місяці тому +5

    it's 50 articles a week for the team, not an individual and form what I recall, with 7 staff members is do-able. especially considering that (supposedly) they were told to basically scalp off other articles to make content. It's effectively impossible for them NOT because the process is hard but because these sorts of people won't even bother doing the work in the first place.

    • @VestinVestin
      @VestinVestin 2 місяці тому +2

      > _"(...) these sorts of people won't even bother doing the work in the first place."_
      At which point you can fire them and be in the clear. You gave them a perfectly reasonable task at work and they've refused or otherwise failed to deliver.

    • @Lin-ij9vk
      @Lin-ij9vk 2 місяці тому +1

      @@VestinVestin depending on how the company's employment work, it's within the company's interest for the employees to quit vs firing. It's also possible that they may have to prove legally that said employees failed to do their work before firing them. Considering how vitriolic these people act, they'd most certainly sue for unlawful termination.

  • @theelvis654
    @theelvis654 2 місяці тому +1

    The thing is someone added them up, and in a previous 7 day period. Kotaku wrote 52 'news' stories. Yes, a game guide might take more time (I really don't know, but in theory a proper news story would take some decent research normally) - and also consider the time they spend on social media. 50 guides is not impossible at all imho.

    • @Canaris3
      @Canaris3 2 місяці тому +2

      Dont forget it doesnt need to be a full game guide, might be just a simple "how to get best ending in X" or "how to full romance someone in Y" type of short guide.

  • @Rageouz
    @Rageouz 2 місяці тому +1

    Its like that one scene of the simpsons of those people watching two monkeys fight

  • @Rofel_Wodring
    @Rofel_Wodring 2 місяці тому +6

    Interesting how the google trends starts going downhill around 2015 or so... hmmmmmm I wonder

  • @codygranrud6212
    @codygranrud6212 2 місяці тому +4

    Karma is a beautiful lady.

  • @RayTX1337
    @RayTX1337 2 місяці тому +1

    Where is the info from that they were expected to write 50 guides each? I read that as 50 guides total for the whole team of writers, which I thought was perfectly reasonable given the size of the team.

  • @oli9881
    @oli9881 2 місяці тому +2

    a great man once said: "Apparently they dragged me on Twitter. I don't give a fuck, because Twitter is not a real place."

  • @dannyd.9932
    @dannyd.9932 2 місяці тому +2

    Almost like kotaku was running out of money and no money is coming in from their godawful website

  • @NiteSaiya
    @NiteSaiya 2 місяці тому +12

    For the record, it is almost always ILLEGAL for employers to arbitrarily make your job more demanding, difficult, uncomfortable, or otherwise intolerable in order to force you to quit or to manufacture a reason to fire you. It's called a Constructive Dismissal. If you think it's happened to you, look up some local labor attorneys near you and reach out to see if they think you have a case. Even if they don't think it's worth going to court, you should still report your employer to the National Labor Rights Board. Sometimes the government will look into a case and decide to take action even when an attorney wouldn't.

    • @TehRubberMoose
      @TehRubberMoose 2 місяці тому +1

      Not entirely sure if it is that expansive, at least in New York where Kotaku is headquartered. Doing a cursory Google, it seems that Constructive Dismissal/Discharge revolves around hostile work environments. Hostile meaning actually hostilities physical/verbal against protected categories (race, gender, etc), not just assigning work. That being said, it also seems like there is a provision that states the workplace needs to have conditions that a reasonable employee would not quit over. Not sure if the sample size is the organization being sued itself, or the greater NY workforce.

    • @pylotlight
      @pylotlight 2 місяці тому +1

      There certainly needs to be provisions going the other way for awful employees that you need to get rid of despite employee protections where I am. e.g redefining the role and making them reapply for it which of course they wouldn't match.

    • @OcAizen
      @OcAizen 2 місяці тому

      Here's the thing Kotaku makes 50 articles a week attacking people, they need to stop doing that and focus on games instead

    • @NiteSaiya
      @NiteSaiya 2 місяці тому

      @@TehRubberMoose Being burdened with an extreme workload can count as a constructive dismissal in many states. I dunno about NY, though.

    • @NiteSaiya
      @NiteSaiya 2 місяці тому

      @@pylotlight No there doesn't. Because employers already have all the power to fire employees for any reason in most of the US.

  • @alexshtyn6336
    @alexshtyn6336 2 місяці тому +1

    Don't mess with the goblin unless you want, sir David to read your obituary.

  • @chri5wyd367
    @chri5wyd367 2 місяці тому +1

    Dude huge shoutout to Upper Echelon, the underground creator of the content Asmon reacted too!

  • @psycho6199
    @psycho6199 2 місяці тому +4

    let them cry

  • @bigd8924
    @bigd8924 2 місяці тому +8

    Kotaku used to be an amazing site, back when Brian Crecente ran things, everything started going downhill after Stephen Totilo took over... :(

  • @ravensharpless
    @ravensharpless 2 місяці тому

    This is the final part of the anime boss battle where the main characters finally solve the secret and figure out that giving the boss attention is what gives it power

  • @JohmyFarel
    @JohmyFarel 2 місяці тому +1

    Why did asmon not get access to dd2 earlier btw? I was always curious about this..

  • @goldiegolderman1842
    @goldiegolderman1842 2 місяці тому +6

    *ASTHMACOLD DID NOTHING WRONG*

  • @cropathfinder
    @cropathfinder 2 місяці тому +17

    LOL "50 guides" across the entire staff is "impossible" , there are solo channels that have and do produce that many in a week. Also guides are some of the best steady source of revenue you could make and have been for quite some time(years even) after its release so in a business sense yes its a good financial move
    Hell most guides for the last couple of decades have been just copy and pasted from other guides, forums, etc. Its not hard LMFAO, some requires as little as a couple of minutes of footage if you do a video and don't just do a screenshot one.

    • @johnwong5317
      @johnwong5317 2 місяці тому +6

      The problem is they have to play the games to write guides.

    • @8bitchiptune420
      @8bitchiptune420 2 місяці тому +1

      @@johnwong5317 Yep. Which is they don't.

    • @cropathfinder
      @cropathfinder 2 місяці тому

      @@johnwong5317not even, again. Most guides for a while now have just been copy and paste without even verifying information. Fandoms "wikis" are great example of this copy and pasting.

    • @johnwong5317
      @johnwong5317 2 місяці тому

      @@cropathfinder You are right, but to make your guides stand out, you have to play the game and make post videos on your character. Or at least that's how I search for guide because at least I know they put some efforts into it.

  • @JohnSmith-vk9ds
    @JohnSmith-vk9ds 2 місяці тому

    0:12
    Changing the requirements of a job to make it impossible to complete and then use that as grounds for termination is also super illegal.
    It's called a "constructive dismissal," and you can file a wrongful termination lawsuit over it with the NLRB.
    Among the many actions employers can take that qualify as creating a hostile work environment to encourage resignation or to build grounds for termination are the employer unilaterally making substantial changes to an employee's job duties or work requirements.

  • @XxMETALJAREDxX
    @XxMETALJAREDxX 2 місяці тому +4

    Canceling you doesn’t work. You have millions of dollars and you don’t spend it. It’s not like you have crazy expensive habits that require you to keep the wheel churning. If everything stopped for you, you would just keep on streaming regardless of how many people watched. You just like to do it and they can’t take that away from you.

    • @mandowarrior123
      @mandowarrior123 2 місяці тому

      He has starforge for one, to cancel it they'd have to advertise what it is and simultaneously cancel all other affilliated streamers. Even reddit and twitter at the height of their power probably couldn't do it.

  • @craigs71
    @craigs71 2 місяці тому +3

    I don't think its a wierd grudge against Melonie Mac its simple jealousy, I mean look at her for gawds sake then look at the androgynous thing (can't get me for misgendering 😉) and it becomes apparent (that and MM knows far more about the gaming landscape than the Kotaku person)

  • @jfeeezy8418
    @jfeeezy8418 2 місяці тому +2

    Asmongolds Editor goes hard, bro deserves a medal

  • @n8doggy733
    @n8doggy733 2 місяці тому +1

    the editor knows we are here for him, i love it 😂❤

  • @Sturmavk
    @Sturmavk 2 місяці тому +4

    I think the big take away is the fact that there are a lot of empty kitchens and a lot of sammiches not being made by the "ladies" at Kotaku. Such a travesty.

  • @UltimaKeyMaster
    @UltimaKeyMaster 2 місяці тому +15

    Going after Asmon trying to call him a bigot when he has flat-out said he's an ally to the people they say he's bigoted against is one thing.
    Melonie Mac, however, celebrates churches being burned down, so she's fair game.

    • @CTomCooper
      @CTomCooper 2 місяці тому

      Melonie Mac being called a bigot for calling out a church that wasn’t a church by conventional Christian standards seems fitting from the twitter sphere. I wasn’t surprised. She got called a theocrat when her stance was that a sin was a sin. People have their vices, and that shouldn’t be accepted into long standing tradition as if it’s suddenly a virtue.
      For what it’s worth mentioning, the gay community has a high degree of physically abusive relationships, something that people never talk about. Normalizing abusive behavior is awful. While I am Christian, I don’t find myself taking a stance like hers that’s more adamant in attitude although I’d get having a lot of zeal if she is more than less recently a Christian convert. But I do think that there’s behavior that’s clearly wrong that shouldn’t be celebrated or normalized through validation seeking in order to hide ugly details under the rug.

    • @malakianknight
      @malakianknight 2 місяці тому +4

      Source cuz the second part of your post sounds sus

  • @kippy657
    @kippy657 2 місяці тому +1

    When someone has this much of a grudge against others it's only a matter of time before libel is committed.

  • @Crusading
    @Crusading 2 місяці тому +1

    Thumbnail got that Rick Sanchez stare

  • @rrmackay
    @rrmackay 2 місяці тому +2

    Game journalism is so infantile, its like high school !

  • @BlazingMarauderDCUO
    @BlazingMarauderDCUO 2 місяці тому

    If it aint have "Jason Schreier" as the byline then who is going to Kotaku for articles of any sort

  • @65firered
    @65firered 2 місяці тому +1

    You wouldn't need to use such tactics like overwhelming your employees with neigh impossible tasks if your company had standards. You could fire them for legitimate reasons, but no Kotaku doesn't have standards.

  • @puffinsmurf3749
    @puffinsmurf3749 2 місяці тому

    Initially saying the video title in my head made me actually laugh audibly lmao

  • @aimson
    @aimson 2 місяці тому

    Most games already have amazing guides and information from players and independent content creators. I don't remember the last time I felt any desire to go to any mainstream website to get information or help. Then again, I mainly play ARPG and 4x games...