[QUOTE=nerdster409;52702348]Remember when he used to be good?[/QUOTE]
The videos he made on issues everyone faces everyday were when I really liked his videos. But then he started making videos on YT drama and the videos weren't as relatable. I hope he makes more videos about relatable things, the YT drama videos he made aren't as interesting as his older content.
"I'm gonna go back to my old content," he states, as he proceeds to ramble about Jake Paul and the state of YouTube for ~2 minutes.
I feel a bit petty for having a distaste for his future content because of the era where he became DramaAlert MS Paint Edition, since I liked most of his videos up until that point. But I can't really see myself getting back into his content, unless he completely drops all YouTube drama in his future content.
[QUOTE=BrandoJack;52702376][B]"I'm gonna go back to my old content," he states, as he proceeds to ramble about Jake Paul and the state of YouTube for ~2 minutes.[/B]
I feel a bit petty for having a distaste for his future content because of the era where he became DramaAlert MS Paint Edition, since I liked most of his videos up until that point. But I can't really see myself getting back into his content, unless he completely drops all YouTube drama in his future content.[/QUOTE]
Now that you bring it up, I could have sworn he said he was going back to his old content a long time ago, when he said he wasn't doing Youtube Drama anymore? What happened to that? :pudge:
[QUOTE=BrandoJack;52702376]"I'm gonna go back to my old content," he states, as he proceeds to ramble about Jake Paul and the state of YouTube for ~2 minutes.
I feel a bit petty for having a distaste for his future content because of the era where he became DramaAlert MS Paint Edition, since I liked most of his videos up until that point. But I can't really see myself getting back into his content, unless he completely drops all YouTube drama in his future content.[/QUOTE]
It's too late. People liked him because of what we thought was his shtick. Now we know it's not a shtick - [I]that's how he really is[/I]. And he's already dipped so hard into drama and said so much awful shit about a ton of people without apology.
It's basically the same thing with Maddox, unfortunately. Turns out he's not just playing around - he's actually super deluded and super into himself with no self-awareness. And these people really begin to blur into each other as they shit on their own fans, plug their ears, and blame everyone else for leaving.
Fuck.
[QUOTE=NostalgicBird;52702360]The videos he made on issues everyone faces everyday were when I really liked his videos. But then he started making videos on YT drama and the videos weren't as relatable. I hope he makes more videos about relatable things, the YT drama videos he made aren't as interesting as his older content.[/QUOTE]They are not just not relatable; they are full of lies and poorly researched material, so he was just causing more problems with his drama videos.
[QUOTE=nerdster409;52702348]Remember when he used to be good?[/QUOTE]
If he was good before he can be good again. Give the bloke a chance.
YouTube drama is probably the dumbest shit I've ever seen.
Talk about someone who jumped the shark many times...
[QUOTE=wauterboi;52702408]It's basically the same thing with Maddox, unfortunately. Turns out he's not just playing around - he's actually super deluded and super into himself with no self-awareness. And these people really begin to blur into each other as they shit on their own fans, plug their ears, and blame everyone else for leaving.[/QUOTE]
What happened to Maddox? I don't remember hearing anything about that guy for years.
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This is a pretty good explanation on why GradeA is crap.
Honestly wonder who really cares. All of his content is garbage at best.
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;52702802]Honestly wonder who really cares. All of his content is garbage at best.[/QUOTE]
Even the content that people liked was garbage and not worth going back to.
Not denying I found most of what I did see back then funny, but I mean, I'll look at memes in lmao pics and find them funny.
Remember his job interviews video? I wish he had never drifted away from that type of comedy
[QUOTE=Davoc;52703176]Remember his job interviews video? I wish he had never drifted away from that type of comedy[/QUOTE]
Judging by the kind of person he seems to be, it feels like this was just an inevitability, unfortunately.
Yup, it was the time when youtube drama was at its biggest, with leafy and keem and all that.
Was around then h3 was starting to get huge too wasnt it?
Content Cop on GradeAunderA when.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;52703411]Content Cop on GradeAunderA when.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't be worth it. The shit Grade does is way too boring. There is none of the complexity of Keemstar's cunty machinations, the sheer stupidity of Tara Mongeau or the deep self-issues of Leafy.
thanks OP for reminding me this bellend exists
wish he stayed gone, what an annoying twat
[QUOTE=Slim Charles;52702720]What happened to Maddox? I don't remember hearing anything about that guy for years.[/QUOTE]
Maddox moved to LA from Utah, where he met Dick Masterson. The two became friends and started a podcast together called The Biggest Problem in the Universe. It was all good until around episode 20-something, because Maddox and Dick Masterson went to a wedding. Maddox went to a wedding with his current girlfriend, but Dick ended up leaving with his ex-girlfriend. Maddox lost his shit and from that point on things were extremely tense between the two. Eventually Maddox asked Dick to stay off certain episodes to "test" co-hosts, before ultimately killing the show.
The both split and started their own podcasts. Dick's was "The Dick Show", and Maddox's was "The Best Debate in the Universe" on his new podcast network "Madcast Media". The Best Debate is literally Maddox debating himself. Ultimately, fans enjoyed The Dick Show more, even despite Maddox hijacking the old Biggest Problem podcast feed for new episodes of The Best Debate. Maddox also randomly tore The Biggest Problem website down with little to no warning (which he eventually brought back up completely redesigned in HTML) and started telling confused fans of the old podcast that Dick was a bad person. He was literally telling them, sometimes with the official Biggest Problem Facebook account, that he had the power to ruin Dick's personal and professional reputation, but "didn't want to get into it".
As you might expected, this started a beef between the two until finally Maddox outright called out Dick for lying, stealing, and having a community that maintains a rape list.
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All of this [url=https://www.thedickshowwiki.com/mediawiki/index.php/Episode_18]lying[/url] and implying got Dick kicked out of UCB, but eventually backfired on Maddox as people found in The Alphabet of Manliness jokes about sexual assault and "copping a feel". Maddox's response was to [url=https://imgur.com/a/7Pp2x]completely disavow his book that he repeatedly touted as being a best seller[/url]. Later down the line, Maddox's girlfriend ended up contacting every single school within a specific LA county to try and leave a complaint for Dick's girlfriend, who is a teacher. This ended up in count, with Dick's girlfriend winning a restraining order against Maddox's girlfriend. It seriously went that deep.
In regards to his podcast network, he spent $30,000 on the website and a non-existent phone app. His website has a custom currency called "MADBUX". All of this, while his podcast has lost almost all of its sponsors, his network is comprised of three relatively unpopular podcasts, his subscriber base on all platforms gradually decrease, and he begins making claims like words being the same as literal violence.
He started out like GradeAUnderA - putting up a joke persona whose character has little self-awareness and hilarious nitpicks on life, and then becoming that character while believing that their criticisms are way more important than they really are. And becoming that character is a downward spiral of bullshit. For Grade, it was calling a teenage woman who moderated his subreddit a slut, making fun of Markiplier for his hair, becoming a YouTube Drama channel, and being incredibly incapable of handling criticism from his fans whatsoever. Maddox took himself so seriously that he started a podcast network named after himself, became so full of himself that he began debating himself, and felt so right in his ways that he began attacking his former co-host at all costs while lying to himself about what he's doing. Both people have completely lost sight of where they came from and what material is enticing for viewers. Both people have seriously, and potentially irreversibly changed. Both are doomed to failure, in my eyes. The only way both can survive is if they both apologize and, afterwards, announce a return to their old material without taking themselves so seriously.
[QUOTE=Qbe-tex;52704228]Woah woah woah what the fuck?? I was just the other day watching his Pepperoni Pizza video. How does that turn into...whatever this is? Jesus christ, and Maddox's been around since, what, 1999? What happened in these last 2-4 years that he did a complete 180?[/QUOTE]
Just as a quick note since I don't want to completely hijack the thread: there's people who wonder if his current girlfriend has anything to do with how he's adjusted, or if fame, YouTube, and being in LA has changed him. There's also people who think that he wasn't happy with people liking Dick more than him on the podcast, which intensified with the whole ex thing. Who knows?
I could go on for forever about the whole situation because I personally tried to talk him out of path he's taking, but that didn't turn out so well. :P Just won't do it in this thread because it's a really big tangent away from Grade. I was just trying to show some parallels because they both ultimately suffered the same fate of self-absorption, lack of self-awareness, and forgetting what made them great.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;52704262]Just as a quick note since I don't want to completely hijack the thread: there's people who wonder if his current girlfriend has anything to do with how he's adjusted, or if fame, YouTube, and being in LA has changed him. There's also people who think that he wasn't happy with people liking Dick more than him on the podcast, which intensified with the whole ex thing. Who knows?
I could go on for forever about the whole situation because I personally tried to talk him out of path he's taking, but that didn't turn out so well. :P Just won't do it in this thread because it's a really big tangent away from Grade. I was just trying to show some parallels because they both ultimately suffered the same fate of self-absorption, lack of self-awareness, and forgetting what made them great.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it's a huge tangent but this thread isn't unlike any other Grade A thread on Facepunch.
Caring about youtube drama is like reading gossip magazines on celebs, really who actually gives a shit? I watch for youtubers content, not drama
Honestly, I loved his old content so much that I really, really hope he redeems himself somehow and afterwards go back to his old style, but I know he won't.
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Peak of his content right here. He never got around to his teacher video. Why did he have to turn out to be a huge unlikable dick.
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52705557]Honestly, I loved his old content so much that I really, really hope he redeems himself somehow and afterwards go back to his old style, but I know he won't.
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Peak of his content right here. He never got around to his teacher video. Why did he have to turn out to be a huge unlikable dick.[/QUOTE]
My hypothesis is that a lot of people make content for the fun of it and expect nothing from them. Once they realize they can get a following and people will listen to them, their tone begins to shift and they gradually get bigger and bigger egos. Consider, for example, the measly topics Grade started with before taking on VeganGains, starting #MakeYouTubeGreatAgain, and then rounding it all off by pretty much saying fuck everyone on YouTube.
It's interesting to see people's takeaway from YouTube. Some people do it for the money, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Some do it for ego. Some people do it for fun.
I can say this for GradeA and a couple of other people I know: you shouldn't be putting on a facade that you simply cannot manage - it's ultimately suicidal and goes against your own true self.
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