Here's a new one that's been going on for a while. Meet
Volound, a videogame youtuber from Scotland who has recently been making a very long series of videos analysing the Total War strategy franchise in incredibly autistic detail. To his credit, I imagine his opinions hold some weight as he is actually quite good at videogames.
Yes, that is an hour and 20 minute video talking about the Roman tortoise formation in a video game. For those who can't be asked to sit through them all I'd like to summarise, but I can't really remember a single point he made outside of 'Warhammer Total War bad' in spite of his own admission that he hasn't played it. The general tone of the videos is an overwhelming sense of smug intellectualism and comes across as very 'Reddit'.
So as you'd imagine, the retarded drama kicks in in the TW franchise Reddit. You see, V-man's criticism of the TW games didn't go down well with the community and V-man doesn't like it when people disagree or even ask simple questions, normally reacting over
twitter and comments on his channel quite angrily. For example:
On twitter, V-man is a vegan waging war on 'carnism', a leftist, bitcoin enthusiast and a China shill. He also has his own
subreddit, for a band of sycophantic 'Le Enlightened High-IQ Gamer' fans to sit around and suck his and each other's dicks.
I got prompted to write this post after '
The absolute state of Total War in 2020'. A half hour of screeching about reddit drama and smug put downs of people who didn't agree with him. The salt is immeasurable. He's already done a
much shorter video focused around the featured TW reddit post, crying about being banned and throwing around an angry whataboutism regarding edgy jokes made a couple of years ago on a stream by another TW youtuber, LegendofTotalWar.
If he continues to throw chimpouts like this, he might be worth a thread as he's certainly a bit exceptional. The guy's fragile ego makes him overreact to any potential badmouthing and criticism, and the smug redditor attitude is quite cowish. Come to think of it the whole TW youtube community is an exceptional little niche with various characters and dramatics.