So when did Vinny fall off?
His heart hasn't been in it since the cancellation attempt, I'd say. Or at least, that's when I thought things started getting kind of dull. Not 100% immediately though, but slowly. Until it got to the point of being more uninteresting than interesting around 2022 or so.
Viewer submissions rarely hit, and frequently devolve into repetition. Commercial chaos for example started out great. Then it devolved into just Japanese commercials that aren't very interesting, and auto-poops sent in by the people making the compilations, that are clearly not just automatically generated, but fairly edited, or at least choreographed. The times Vinny himself generates them, there are too many unrelated and not very funny meme-clips thrown into the pool. But that's safe, if boring, so that's what goes. Corruptions. Need I say it? I wish vetters were more aggressive with cutting out generic stuff. Not everything can be San Andreas corruptions, but it probably shouldn't just be clown vomit stuff in 2025.
The lackluster variety doesn't help, or selection I guess. There's too much of a cycle between Mario/Zelda/Half-Life - Mario/Zelda/Half-Life mod - random Nintendo game/flavor of the month/nostalgia remake - repeat.
But even the variety segments just aren't as interesting as they used to be. I think. Going back to old gettin weird with it segments, it's not too hard to come across stuff like Prosperity Path or Goblet Grotto, or in just other one-offs stuff like that Spud Christmas game, the doodle dip shit, or crap like the edutainment stuff.
These days, games with that very specific type of quality are pretty far apart compared to how comparatively common they used to be. Now it's mostly just pretty boring mobile bootlegs, or god forbid a walking simulator horror game that passes for gettin weird.
Only thing that comes anywhere near the old feel for me recently is the Winky stuff, and that's basically just watching a video, with the input Vinny had mostly being annoying loud noises. Thankfully based Wabu put a stop to that. Horsemen are great, though. Hope they start doing more.
I don't know, I think the game selection recent years has just sucked. It's funnier when he's out of his comfort zone. But all of this is very subjective, so maybe he hasn't fallen off at all, I don't know.