- Joined
- Jun 30, 2019
Got myself unbanned now, so all's good. Turns out it really was because of "being mean".Damn dude, you gotta pick your SN's better. Tho it's not like you can't make another account. But Vin is good on getting ppl who got banned for stupid/petty reasons unbanned,
I doubt that's gonna happen. We're all overestimating how big the Vinesauce audience and their importance is. Even if Vinny doesn't send the epic trans spammers home, his chat can't get any worse than it already is – because at this point it's already your classical Twitch hivemind with occasional zoomer topics and the unfunniest meme of the week. We already were at a point where some people thought Vinny was doing shady stuff with women back then when someone dropped that apparent leak of a chat conversation between him and a female moderator, but that quickly turned out to be fake (for obvious reason, anyone who's ever chatted with Vinny knows he doesn't write like that at all).That has a pretty fair chance of happening right now. I'm even willing to say about 50/50. The thing is, if he waits any longer, I think the chances will creep up and up until its pretty much a guarentee that he'll lose the majority of his audience altogether. Additionally, the more and more unstable Tumblrites exist in his fandom, the more likely it is that people will dogpile him with fake threats. #MeToo has a bit of a half-life. If not enough people accuse someone, or there's not quite enough evidence, then people will just bitch and moan about it and it'll die down after awhile. But if people smell blood in the water and sense they can turn en masse, that's when you're in deep shit.
The days of a random hit piece based on a random #MeToo accusation ruining someone's career are kind of past unless you work in a really kid friendly industry or something. You'll get some heat for sure, but people are just sick of it. There needs to be more complexity to the scandal now or you need to have made quite a few enemies along the way to back up the allegations.
So, as much as I agree that he should do something about the spam problem, would that really be of benefit to him? After all, the ratio is currently something like 85:15 of his audience being Tumblr/Furry/Transkids and people from back then/an older audience. I doubt he wants to lose the ability to live comfortably in an expensive city like NYC while being able to afford his nerd stuff AND follow his passion just because a small amount of his audience (rightfully) gets pissed off at the truly exceptional new generation that took a liking for his streams. The last time I ever felt his audience was still "his audience" was late 2013, ever since 2014 they've been slowly replaced.
With Joel we know he lives in a rather secluded area somewhere in Sweden and has the typical drunk metalhead lifestyle, so he gets away with still being rude sometimes and annoying some of his fanbase.