• YouTube Star TotalBiscuit Seeking Professional Help
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[QUOTE=Gustafa;43947633]In my experience of TB, I haven't really noticed him being an asshole. Just very brutally honest in his critique.[/QUOTE] In his videos, I've noticed that he usually has very cogent arguments with very sound reasoning. He was the one to convince me that maybe DLC wasn't Hitler after all. Outside of videos, however, I've seen him act like a huge asshole. I distinctly remember a fan wanted to start a discussion on the subreddit, so the fan asked very specific questions with exact quotes from the video, supplemented with time stamps so that you could see his exact words for yourself. TB responded, told him to "stop putting words in his mouth," and explained how he wasn't going to respond to such nonsense. He deserves criticism for that because he does stuff like that a lot. He's too damn stubborn. I'm not saying he deserves to have his hair fall out from stress at 30, I'm just saying that we should all remember that he isn't a saint either.
Hopefully he'll be able to enforce ijyt's banana break. I do think he could do with a good ol' fashioned potassium party.
[QUOTE=ironman17;43949371]Hopefully he'll be able to enforce ijyt's banana break. I do think he could do with a good ol' fashioned potassium party.[/QUOTE] We'll see in the refugee camp if he's truly the banana hater I think he is. Fuckers dissing potassium! In other news; I find it insane what stress alone can do to the body.
[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;43949304]I hope we won´t lose TB too soon.[/QUOTE] What makes me really worried/sad is that when JewWario killed himself a couple weeks ago, I'm sure it had quite a bit to do with this kind of thing.
[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;43949304]I hope we won´t lose TB too soon.[/QUOTE] He's had a good run. If it's between his mental health or making videos about videogames, he should absolutely stop.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;43949369]In his videos, I've noticed that he usually has very cogent arguments with very sound reasoning. He was the one to convince me that maybe DLC wasn't Hitler after all. Outside of videos, however, I've seen him act like a huge asshole. I distinctly remember a fan wanted to start a discussion on the subreddit, so the fan asked very specific questions with exact quotes from the video, supplemented with time stamps so that you could see his exact words for yourself. TB responded, told him to "stop putting words in his mouth," and explained how he wasn't going to respond to such nonsense. He deserves criticism for that because he does stuff like that a lot. He's too damn stubborn. I'm not saying he deserves to have his hair fall out from stress at 30, I'm just saying that we should all remember that he isn't a saint either.[/QUOTE] I definitely agree with this but it always sucks, for anybody, for things like this to happen. Only a handful of people in the world would I wish this kind of stress on (like everyone that works at King).
I'm thick-skinned as fuck but I can't imagine holding out for years of people going after you for no good reason other than disliking your videos. I feel sorry for TB having to put up with this shit.
[QUOTE=Kite_shugo;43949407]We'll see in the refugee camp if he's truly the banana hater I think he is. Fuckers dissing potassium![/QUOTE] Actually I have a confession to make, I don't really eat bananas (I'm finicky about texture and consistency). It's mostly oranges that I get my fruit on with, though those still have plenty of potassium in them.
[QUOTE=jiggu;43949507]I'm thick-skinned as fuck but I can't imagine holding out for years of people going after you for no good reason other than disliking your videos. I feel sorry for TB having to put up with this shit.[/QUOTE] That's what pisses me off when people say he needs thicker skin. It doesn't matter how thick your skin is, this shit makes it thinner and thinner over time until you just can't take it anymore.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;43948125]Pretty much, yeah. But that doesn't mean it isn't an issue.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Skyward;43948167]You say this like it's a non-issue. You do realize that people struggle with this in ways you don't understand, right? That not all minds are totally impervious? As in things like this have driven people[I] to suicide[/I]. It's not as simple as "lol get over it". It never fucking is.[/QUOTE] Actually, if you look closely, you will see that Kendra never actually even remotely hinted at anything to that effect. You're flying off the handle over nothing. [editline]17th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=l337k1ll4;43949539]That's what pisses me off when people say he needs thicker skin. It doesn't matter how thick your skin is, this shit makes it thinner and thinner over time until you just can't take it anymore.[/QUOTE] It raises a good question, though; what is the "x" factor that enables politicians and celebrities who have far more exposure and far more abuse from fans to put up with it when a YouTube celebrity can't? I mean, there's clearly a discrepancy there.
I wish my job revolved around video games
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;43949549]It raises a good question, though; what is the "x" factor that enables politicians and celebrities who have far more exposure and far more abuse from fans to put up with it when a YouTube celebrity can't? I mean, there's clearly a discrepancy there.[/QUOTE] Many things, first of all, to be honest, they don't. Look at every president ever, within 2 years of presidency they start looking like absolute shit from stress. And they don't even do it alone, they have an entire cabinet helping them with their job. Then there's also the fact that many celebrities use drugs to take the effect away. Not only that, but celebrities can just completely ignore the internet, hell most celebrity twitters are run by people they hire to do it for them and filter out the shit. Whereas YouTube celebrities rely on reading comments and forums and such because those are the only people who watch their content, so if they want any feedback at all, they need to go to toxic places to get it. Additionally, celebrities don't work alone, no movie star writes their own script or edits their own movie, etc. So when someone says x was shit, it's never one person's fault, it's an entire group of people making it happen.
I binged on TB content when I was very down and it was actually the first I had heard of him. I've turned to it ever since for quality and informative content. Now very much his streams for more laid back stuff. Both recent iterations of the podcast have kept me greatly entertained over long periods of time - and as it evident when he isn't on it, it's down to TB. I really hope that any help he seeks is effective, but if he should reach a point where he doesn't feel comfortable going forward at the same pace, I also he he cuts back more - but not enough to compromise his living without proper support. I obviously don't *know* the guy - but I wish him well. His service has been well recieved on this end. I'm very sensitive and can't hlp but engage in negative stuff too - so I imagine being in his position would destroy me if I couldn't block it out.
Man, I remember when I first heard of the guy. It was many many years ago, back when I was still in college, and I'd ended up becoming interested in Sam & Max thanks to the TellTale adventure games (they really should do another Sam & Max one day, probably in the style of current TellTale). Anyways, Poker Night comes into the picture, and I end up surfing the YouTubes in search of the dialogue between the characters of that game. In my surfings I come across something called WTF Is... Poker Night at the Inventory. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xExNW36WpFs[/media] That's what introduced me to his stuff, and I haven't stopped since. Strange that I have Steven Purcell and TellTale Games to thank for leading me to TotalBiscuit's work, and through him I discovered all sorts of other TGS personalities (back when Polaris was called TGS) like Jesse Cox and Dodger, back before she became the face of Daily Byte on Polaris. It's been a long road...
All i Could say is that the internet is not a safe haven for innocent people, the internet is filled with millions of trolls that have sadistic tendencies, and very bad behavior, spiraling downwards towards the path of no common sense and several lack of empathy. As trolls and internet bullies has gone unchecked, it spreading rapidity without consequence, and now we see it almost everyday during our gaming time, and possible other things as well. I don't know what causes this to happen now that we see this rising rampent of these awful people, probably teenage mothers, the introduction of no sportmenship with the rise of MOBA games that popped up, such as DOTA, League of Legends, Dota 2, and other moba games that has a great amount of "toxic" players, probably even greater then mmo's such as World of Warcraft. I don't know what the causes of such great influx of trolls, bullies, and other negative mongrels of society popped out from. as far as I know, Total Biscuit has been quite famous for his reviews, he points out what is good and what is bad on his own opinions, he points out the weakness among game development which probably good and bad. Good because if the developers noticed this, it's possible that they will fix it in the near future to improve game quality. It can also be bad, as if total biscuit himself found something bad, and pointed it out, the developers who don't plan on fixing it in the first place, will become edgy and leads towards some short of animosity towards him, just look up day one: Garry incident, and Guise of the Wolfe Developers as they attempted censorship among him which leads to severe PR damage, and also leave a negative impression, probably enough to not cause the game to sale well due to their actions, that is if the consumer actually spend time doing research,and not buying the game for the sake of buying and playing. Also If I'm not mistaken, since total biscuit is not really an employee of a company that does professional game reviews such as IGN and such, i've have a hunch that there is some animosity among professional game reviewers, and non-professional game reviewer. they that I see it, one is bind by contract and penelties, and the withholding of the truth, which is corporate professional game reviewers, while the others, such as total biscuit is unbounded by contract, and has the freedom to expose EVERYTHING about the product and tell people about the truth by no consequence, and does his own damage control if something gone wrong, like he takes this as a massive responsibility and an life-time goal.
[QUOTE=BananaMed;43947635]I have one question that's bugged me forever. Why didn't he just shave his head? People who are bald but have beard look good. People who have a beard but are balding? Not so much.[/QUOTE] Ah, shaving one's head, the perfect cure for stress and other psychological problems. Really?
I think TB is a total cunt, but he doesn't deserve this. :/ Nobody does, and he deals with a lot of stress.
Welcome to the Wild Internet everyone, even the best of us fall because everyone wants to be anonymous to be douche bags(Which has been proven.) And the people sit there and say that people who kill themselves or harm themselves due to trolling are weak. Trolling is not a good thing, it never was. It might've started out as a good thing but its now being used to excuse everything from sexual harrasement, to death threats to ruining people's lives and exposing them on the internet to let others harrass them. Trolling was, is and never will be good and the moment you even think that it can be good you go stick your head outside for a moment and remember how close the excuse for trolling is to beating your spouse, child, friend, victim. How close it sounds to a bully trying to excuse his actions to a teacher.
[QUOTE=BananaMed;43947635]I have one question that's bugged me forever. Why didn't he just shave his head? People who are bald but have beard look good. People who have a beard but are balding? Not so much.[/QUOTE] It's the complete opposite imo Ben Bernanke looks much more appropriate than Vin Diesel
Brutal honesty is much better than sugar-coated lies. He's a good man, but no good deed goes unpunished and I feel terrible that he has to go through this.
doesn't this guy make like 6 figures a year by posting internet videos? I mean any "profession" comes criticism you learn to ignore or deal with it.
People act like dickheads online, if he can't handle it, it's time for him to take a break and come back when he can. That being said, it is pretty sad that he has to put up with commenters saying he's shit and everything about him is shit.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;43948042]Alot of "real" celebrities go mad and abuse drugs.[/QUOTE] Yeah but that's usually because of underlying problems they had before or unrelated their fame, and in any case very few celebrities have to put up with the shit TB does.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;43947670]Well maybe if you weren't a dick to your fans you wouldn't get a lot of hate. How does he have a thick skin? He through a guest off a podcast because the guest's roommate called him an ass after he said something rude.[/QUOTE] You really need to get that head stuck in ass thing checked out by a doctor mate. [editline]17th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=mc lovin;43951113]doesn't this guy make like 6 figures a year by posting internet videos? I mean any "profession" comes criticism you learn to ignore or deal with it.[/QUOTE] You really need to consider not posting for a while. Maybe take that time to understand why everything you say is completely wrong. I mean, you've only been here for three months now, there's still hope. [editline]17th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=The golden;43951181]No, it's not six figures. And having money isn't an excuse for people to hunt you down and harass you constantly. Get fucking real.[/QUOTE] You get really small amounts of dosh from youtube ads. IIRC it's like a penny for hundred views or something. You really don't get much at all, TB makes just enough to get by and he's a major content producer.
I mean for gods sake not only does he have to deal with all of that shit, he works hours upon hours pretty much everyday a week, a job that may not seem demanding but I doubt it's a healthy job and he's not exactly rich, besides that he's got a kid to raise. I really hope he manages to find a way to cope with and reduce the stress and start enjoying his life again because we need critics like him, he [I]is[/I] making an impact on the gaming industry for the better after all, but if quitting doing what he's doing and getting another job is what's best for him and his family then that's what I hope he does.
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;43947670]Well maybe if you weren't a dick to your fans you wouldn't get a lot of hate. How does he have a thick skin? He through a guest off a podcast because the guest's roommate called him an ass after he said something rude.[/QUOTE] TB didn't kick the guest off because his room mate was being mean to him. He kicked him off because the podcast has a certain level of quality to it. The guest had no contributions to discussion other than shitting on the games talked about. The room mate was annoying and interrupting. And he didn't really even play too many games. Kicking him off was to make the show more enjoyable for the viewers, not to save TB's feelings. If you watched it you'd know that. [editline]17th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Kendra;43948093]This is TB: [img]http://i.imgur.com/XCCmzww.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] That's everyone to some extent. We all weigh negativity more than positivity. [editline]17th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=EcksDee;43948460]Where are you getting these residual checks from? I don't get it. The amount of money he makes from old videos getting views is negligible at best.[/QUOTE] Depends on the content. Residual content certainly is a big benefit to online content because you can skip a week and still do alright. TB has a massive library of content on various channels which all trickle in revenue. But on the other hand, you can't deny the incredible income made from launch day videos with 100k-400k views per video in the week. [editline]17th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=frozensoda;43948504]I understood that the average pay from youtube is $3,300 per million views overall. Of course this depends on demographics and clickthrough ratio and all that, but a view/click on an old video is just as good as a new video, is this not the case?[/QUOTE] That number might have been true 3 years ago. YT's average CPM's keep dropping and you need good ad teams to get it going. So the answer is that no it's not 3300 per million because it varies per video, per day, per month, per quarter, and on the content itself. Some advertisers won't spend much on a video of a game, but might for a news video. It varies. It also depends on how long people watch, ad blocks, et cetera. [editline]17th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=EcksDee;43948521]You make money off of views on videos. Video views follow a plateau, they have a quick burst and then level off with maybe a few dozen views daily. He can either upload a video for 200 000 views netting immediate money or wait for his old videos to make enough to even be eligible. I'm not sure either how it works but just use some logic from time to time.[/QUOTE] You make money off monetized views/ad impressions and click-throughs. A video could have a million views but only maybe 5,000 monetized views and might make barely anything.
[QUOTE=draugur;43951298] You really need to consider not posting for a while. Maybe take that time to understand why everything you say is completely wrong. I mean, you've only been here for three months now, there's still hope. [/QUOTE] Good counter point on the topic of the OP! [QUOTE=The golden;43951181]No, it's not six figures. And having money isn't an excuse for people to hunt you down and harass you constantly. Get fucking real.[/QUOTE] I dunno I'd take 6 figures for some people on the internet calling me silly names and playing pranks. Besides his rant is on things that come with popularity; regardless you get the fanbase that hates and harrasses and the others that enjoy.
[QUOTE=Swilly;43950479]Welcome to the Wild Internet everyone, even the best of us fall because everyone wants to be anonymous to be douche bags(Which has been proven.) And the people sit there and say that people who kill themselves or harm themselves due to trolling are weak. Trolling is not a good thing, it never was. It might've started out as a good thing but its now being used to excuse everything from sexual harrasement, to death threats to ruining people's lives and exposing them on the internet to let others harrass them. Trolling was, is and never will be good and the moment you even think that it can be good you go stick your head outside for a moment and remember how close the excuse for trolling is to beating your spouse, child, friend, victim. How close it sounds to a bully trying to excuse his actions to a teacher.[/QUOTE] We need to stop being Anonymous, it's just becoming an excuse now. Even on the whole we are Anonymous thing. I'd rather the Government see my face, rather than a simple mask to represent one group.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;43951555]We need to stop being Anonymous, it's just becoming an excuse now. Even on the whole we are Anonymous thing. I'd rather the Government see my face, rather than a simple mask to represent one group.[/QUOTE] It always [B]WAS[/B] an excuse. That was the excuse used by the people running reddit not to shut down the r/jailbait and those other subreddits that clearly VIOLATED people's privacy but those douchebags didn't care because 'lol, its the internet' until the reality that they could be exposed as well came to light. Then they all started getting mad about privacy this and that. The internet is a wasteland now, filled with landmines of old fake viruses websites, spams and people looking to make themselves feel better by ripping apart others. Any form of intelligent discussion has long since been lost because we now get excessively defensive and live in our little echo chambers.
I found this on the Cynical Brit subreddit. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CKQGb3MnR4[/media]
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