After having a week to ruminate on Polygon/Giantbomb...I'm still very upset.
All of the loudmouths on YouTube/Twitter etc..that make money on takes and clicks continue to celebrate "Game Journalism Dying" like it's a good thing.
It's not only terrible, it's especially terrible for content creators.
All of the loudmouths on YouTube/Twitter etc..that make money on takes and clicks continue to celebrate "Game Journalism Dying" like it's a good thing.
It's not only terrible, it's especially terrible for content creators.
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It's a much bigger issue than what these idiots do with their time lol
For people like Asmongold to come up with a thousand things to complain about..They look for actual games journalism to pick and choose headlines.
They don't do investigative journalism.
Just like AI, the real words come from humans
A large portion of content creation does the same things as him... Because that's what gets clicks
None of the people pictured in my original post are games journalists lol
Sure, there are crappy websites like Listicle and The Gamer that make bad games media, but there are also very real journalists still writing elsewhere
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How many content creators can come up with their own prompts and ideas to make videos... To continue getting the clicks... To maintain their lifestyle?
I like to see positive stuff in my newsfeed for sure but I also don't like that negative stuff will innately garner more clicks.
I think it's less political and more straight up stupidity, though sometimes both
These guys are hardly the only ones who take other people's work and research and turn it into clicks
Gaming "discourse" on twitter is still a source for that shit so they can pretend like they have anything valuable to add.
I remember even one of *my* tweets was the main topic of an Asmo clip at some point (kms)
I'm not on twitter anymore because I hate the culture of "discourse" there.
So people who depend on their blue check mark paying for this that and the other thing... Or their Twitter popularity sending people to their YouTube page are losing that money already
Not because games arent making tons of money, but because its not making MORE than what was expected, and AI was promised to do so.
Now, the gaming community is losing a big part of what helps drive the medium's legitimacy.
Meanwhile, this guy seems to have problems of his own, here’s what the AI overview told me…
It is a huge part of gaming content creation to cannibalize work from people doing actual journalism
So soon the bottom is going to fall out without people doing real writing
I wouldn't know some of my absolute favorites (including Quest 64) even existed back then.
Think of how many TikToks and YouTube shorts you've seen that are just reactions of people talking about stuff that they read elsewhere
There are hundreds of thousands of content creators that only know how to read other people's work
What a PATHETIC LITTLE JERK.
I purposely picked the lowest common denominators of this space because these are the people that have ZERO foresight into the future and deserve to be hurt in their pocketbooks the most
He keeps getting banned from things but I'm pretty certain he's alive
It doesn't take very long watching a video to know whether they actually researched and did investigation themselves or if they just clicked a couple articles
All gaming youtubers have is all the clout and none of the standards, training or responsibility.
None of what I'm saying is to defend gaming YouTubers.
And even opinion based games journalists still do real investigative journalism to back up their opinions as opposed to just reacting to other people's videos
We're on the same page?
He doesn't live in a dirty rat house because he can't afford a cleaner, that's for sure.
These guys only have clips because they read somebody else's investigative journalism
These idiots are not journalists, not even the smallest tabloid publications would bother with them because they don't understand the way this works.
Investigative journalism is far more in depth and broad than just "preview the most hype game coming up"
Game history, development, lawsuits & the fallout....all come from outside of PR departments
I'm pretty certain you can still find articles up saying that the physical games are $10 more lol
And it's hard to repair that
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They will likely just move on to making content about other people's content about other people's content as opposed to doing actual real world stuff
If I had too much money, I'd subsidize a quality games writing site as a nonprofit.
So that's where I go for a lot of my current video game news intake.
There are people who are likely a lot better humans than him that still do the exact same cannibalism of other people's work for their own profit in this space
Content creators who don't cite/credit, and don't add any analysis to an item are a huge problem