The Death of Gaming Youtube: How Money Killed Authenticity

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Showed up on my feed and fitting to dive in.

 

[Hood Critic]

I'm about 20 minutes in but I hope this blows up and gets talked about in the gaming community because its very true that hype has replaced gaming journalism.

 

[Jaguar93]

Remember this and remember reviewers giving positive reviews to an obviously broken Cyberpunk. I lost respect for Yongyea because of that bs.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

The Payday 3 fiasco was enough for me to at content creators. The glazing for that busted broken ass game was gross.

 

[MajesticLion]

I distinctly remember Jim Sterling talking about this ten years ago regarding ethics and Youtube content folks. And I'm pretty sure he wasn't the only one.



It's the same thing plaguing journalism across the board, everybody's trying to cut corners and you get what you get. Either you have one standard of professionalism for everybody or there will be no standard.

 

[Capitol]

I'm about 20 minutes in but I hope this blows up and gets talked about in the gaming community because its very true that hype has replaced gaming journalism.

This is in pretty much every industry. You want to cop anything, look at the reviews,and half of them are people that get the stuff for free and paid to advertise it. If you leave a bad review they can have bots do a couple generic reviews to offset your 1 star.

 

[Neuromancer]

Support indie games.

 

[FlimFlam]

are their sincere reviewers that shyt on corporate nonsense when need be... and still go viral?

or are they buried by the algorithms

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

are their sincere reviewers that shyt on corporate nonsense when need be... and still go viral?

or are they buried by the algorithms

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

This is in pretty much every industry. You want to cop anything, look at the reviews,and half of them are people that get the stuff for free and paid to advertise it. If you leave a bad review they can have bots do a couple generic reviews to offset your 1 star.

Like those fake door dash restaurants

 

[Jaguar93]

SkillUp

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

SkillUp

Im honestly still mad some of these people got me with Dragon’s Dogma 2 this year, then I’m playing the game and finding out they got pawns in them

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Im honestly still mad some of these people got me with Dragon’s Dogma 2 this year, then I’m playing the game and finding out they got pawns in them

Huh? What you thought it was gonna be?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Huh? What you thought it was gonna be?

Idk, i didn’t know there were gonna be Maximillian dood and pokimane pawns in the game. Capcom been greasing these influencers crazy

 

[Styles]

Like anything else, you have to filter out the bullshyt. I haven’t really felt misled by any game imo. Youtubers love to shyt on games just as much as they hype shyt up. Pretty easy to find genuine reviewers IMO