That is true, but I think he also considers that if he drops all these people, it will be a bad look for him. He will look selfish and egoistic. He has done a lot of livestreams with these people and they are friends (or at least project that image).I got the impression that Yahtzee is allergic to any kind of admin/ management stuff and just wants to focus on content production, which I can sympathise with but at some point he's got to realise that he could probably outsource all the stuff he doesn't like to some third party for 10% of the current cost of carrying an entire studio's worth of deadweight.
It is funny how they just copied the old structure from The Escapist where they have Yahtzee and then a bunch of completely talentless morons making throwaway content nobody watches. Even in Yahtzee's videos you get a hard cut to a low audio quality puff-piece because these mouthbreathers cannot do even the most basic things like audio recording correctly.
I guess Yahtzee is too much of a limp-wristed fedora redditor to actually take matters into his own hands and just part ways with these losers and do his own thing.
Yahtzee is to Second Wind (and Escapist before it) what Vampire: The Masquerade is to the World of Darkness. Sure he's not the ONLY thing that makes them money, but he's the biggest cashcow by far.Looking at the view numbers on their channel, seems that Fully Ramblomatic pulls 200-300k per video, while Frost's Cold Take was around 100k, so he must have had some popularity there. Not much else gets above 100k, at least not consistently.
Sure, I mean I also only subscribe for yahtzee and only watched a few of those cold takes if the topic sounds interesting. Just saying, losing Frost is a bigger loss than losing some of the others.Yahtzee is to Second Wind (and Escapist before it) what Vampire: The Masquerade is to the World of Darkness. Sure he's not the ONLY thing that makes them money, but he's the biggest cashcow by far.Looking at the view numbers on their channel, seems that Fully Ramblomatic pulls 200-300k per video, while Frost's Cold Take was around 100k, so he must have had some popularity there. Not much else gets above 100k, at least not consistently.
Looking at the view numbers on their channel, seems that Fully Ramblomatic pulls 200-300k per video, while Frost's Cold Take was around 100k, so he must have had some popularity there. Not much else gets above 100k, at least not consistently.
If I understood the video in the post above yours correctly, this wasn't true. They fired everyone except Yahtzee, Frost and one other...Remember that this is the guy whom a fair chunk of the Escapist staff resigned for in solidarity and followed off the site.
Fucking YIKES. Dude kept receipts.
Yeah this is classic start up behavior. Shits rampant throughout the games industry.
KC Nwosu Frost and I spoke at length after his resignation (upwards of 6 hours) in the hopes of reaching an understanding as to why leaving was his only option.
I suggested and organized the moderated call between Nick and Frost in the hopes that they could come to a meaningful understanding with one another before parting ways with the pie in the sky chance of forgiveness and resolution (another 6 hours).
The majority of that talk went well, but sadly Frost used that call as fodder for YouTube drama. A lot of what Frost has said since has been a skewed version of the truth which I told him myself I found very disappointing. For example Frost is the one who called for the informal vote to fire Nick after the team met and agreed that we put Nick on probation for his social media behavior. Frost then went on to say in a Twitter post the vote wasn't representative of the entire group…(then why did you call for it??)
He has ignored all of the internal changes we've been making to address our complaints about leadership and direction, some of which he specifically came up with and we began to implement. Frost didn't want to wait around for us to do better; he doesn't believe we can. I find that upsetting but it’s within his rights. However the continued focus on Second Wind is unwarranted and baffling to me, it strikes me as his way of forcing us all to do what he wanted in that vote. Nick is not without fault.
Internally, I was one of his loudest critics, but I support giving him the chance to correct his mistakes which I can confirm he has been trying to do. Nick does right by the team for the most part and the picture Frost paints is one sided, inaccurate, and worst of all harms the group as a whole while claiming to be a defender of us creatives.
Looking at the view numbers on their channel, seems that Fully Ramblomatic pulls 200-300k per video, while Frost's Cold Take was around 100k, so he must have had some popularity there. Not much else gets above 100k, at least not consistently.