The videos end with Blippi’s theme song: “So much to learn about / It’ll make you want to shout: Blippi!”
I’ll bet it will!
The result is a uniquely millennial hybrid of Mister Rogers and Jake Paul.
While I don’t see the appeal either, unless I want a more in-depth look at a game before buying it, you can’t deny that it has an audience.
Hah! Great point.
ETA:
“Beneath the surface, Blippi and Steezy Grossman share two traits: a willingness to debase themselves — be it clownish antics or taking a literal dump — for entertainment, and a methodical, calculated effort to use social media and its algorithms to reach as many eyeballs as possible.”
The fact anyone would conflate that with Mister Rogers is just shameful. Fucking shameful.
I’m currently following some incredibly tempest-teapot YT drama that revolves around people who have pasts or associated with people who have pasts, etc. etc. Don’t wanna come across as vague, but I don’t want to spread the stupidity by attracting more eyes to it, and I don’t care to get into the twisty turns of it.
My conclusion after following all that is: I don’t care what people have done in the past, including criminal acts unless I have reason to believe that they are in a position to cause harm and are also likely to cause harm. Gross dudebro humor in someone’s twenties is not a disqualifier of anything, in itself. Otherwise, it’s all gossipy noise that contributes nothing to society and actively distracts people from working on the project that is themselves.
Think of it less as “watching someone play a video game / watch a trailer / etc” than “being social with people all over the world while watching an entertaining personality be funny while doing something you can relate to”. Sort of like watching a cooking show: sure, I can cook stuff myself with a cookbook. But it’s fun to watch someone lively and interesting and engaging cook something and get tips and hints and learn how to do it better myself. Add in streaming chat and tons of people tune into Let’s Play videos all the time. It’s not my thing, personally, but I understand the appeal.
This is how I see it. I actually watch some of these, usually they’re games my BF plays that I don’t play. It reminds me of going over to kid’s houses and having to share the console with their siblings. I never minded because it was always kind of fun watching kids who could play games I couldn’t play very well. It also helps me relate when he wants to chat about it without investing much time or effort.
I thought Let’s Play videos sounded like the dumbest thing ever when I first heard about them, but talking to my 7/8/9 year old nephews has been super interesting. They watch them more than regular TV, and idolize YouTube personalities like DanTDM as they watch him play Minecraft… and some of these kids have never actually played Minecraft themselves. For them it isn’t a substitution for playing a game, it’s time spent listening to someone tell stories and do funny stuff while playing something visually interesting.
I get it. A lot of youtube’s appeal comes from making you feel like you’re actually hanging out with a popular friend. Streaming even moreso… hell, sometimes you actually are… if you’re friends with any streamers.
based on my alcoholic, drug-addicted parents watching football and yelling at the very physically fit experts in the game playing as to how they could improve their performance I’m going with ‘extremely stupid’
Ok, thats funny to me, but only because it was unplanned. I make a lot of fart jokes in front of girlfriend. Im mature with an immature sense of humor, but planning to duece on someone else, aside from porn reasons, is incomprehensible to me.
And the writer who did Animorphs did a ten part set of gross out books ostensibly aimed at children but at times indistinguishable from certain niche usenet groups.
Authors lead multifaceted lives just like everyone else
I’m sure if he’d been born in a different time his icloud would have leaked vids of him plowing mrs rogers or old texts about those damn trade0unionists (he was a republican).
it’s hard to fairly judge people who grew up in an era before the panopticon against those who did.
Disagree. Everyone who ever knew Fred Rogers has said the kind, gentle man we saw on screen was the real deal. He’s one guy we’ll almost certainly never see in old photos of people wearing blackface or in connection to #MeToo allegations.
He always struck me as more of the “smaller government” kind of Republican of old - which is kind of ironic given his advocacy for government-funded PBS.
There was a time when the Republican party was on the right side of major civil rights movements. I never lived in that time, but Fred Rogers certainly did.
