You put very accurately into words something I've been thinking for a long time now. His low energy/laziness is worse than it's ever been.
The funny thing is, even that highlight-video thing could be a lot easier and he could save some money by doing some work himself.
There are local stream markers that you can attach to OBS as a plugin, meaning just hit a hotkey and it'll make an excel spreadsheet of anything you want to clip with a corresponding timecode. It's simple and it's brilliant. With that, each highlight video would take maybe 30-60 minutes of work at best, and with him only releasing 1-2 videos a week, that 1 to 2 hours of work per-week on highlight videos. It's quite literally the easiest job I can think of in the world, alongside VODS which is just editing out any dead-air intro and making a thumbnail.
I was just complaining about Clemps and Super Butter Buns and ValkyrieAurora being lazy fucks in another thread lol, but it's like a contagion.
These ecelebs are so out of touch with reality and a normal work day that they're insufferable. You're right about the work ethic thing.
Even in his early days his editing was the bare minimum. His MGS3 video used the most basic text edits and it was still a great video. Well, mostly. Some jokes made me cringe, but that's just comedy. But to come up with enterprising ideas like this you have to do things yourself, and Vinny's always coasted off being one of the OGs, streaming when barely anyone else was, and a few viral videos.
It's amplified now by him delegating everything outside of eating, sleeping and shitting to a crack team of mentally ill people while he fucks his fans. I won't begrudge him the success that facilitated that (or getting laid; get in there, Vinny), but you'd think that, over time, he'd wake up.
I saw him on Reddit, maybe a year back, replying to someone saying his new titles and thumbnails were cringe and he referenced the algorithm and his struggling channel, but he still does top-1% numbers, and if revenue is an issue, firstly he needs to live within his means, and second, maybe stop paying these retards to do the bare minumim for you and put some work in yourself. These editors are about as useful as DEI consultation firms.
You're right about Joel. I honestly think he's good
because of his haphazard nature lol. He's just naturally very funny, I think, at least on his day. His car-fucking album made me smile, and I still rewatch the AIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!! clip.
Also it's petty but since I'm sperging, I wish Vin would try at least one heavier song instead of being a Nirvana / Radiohead knockoff. His band is good in short bursts, but the saminess gets exhausting after a while. Also collab with Geega more.