Is This the End of Irate Gamer?

I know I just made a post, but Chris finally broke radio silence and dropped a bomb today on Facebook.

"I've been getting questions about the next IG Episode. The character is pretty much semi-retired at this point since the channel didn't see a big enough growth last year. I haven't had enough free time to edit episodes lately that require many man hours so I'm not sure when the next episode will be completed. Thanks for continuing to support the show, I love all the fans!"

 Well... this could be real.

Now I know he mentioned retirement before, and then 24 hours later said "Turns out I'm sticking around haha!" since it was a clear attempt at fishing for praise. "No don't go Chris we love you" and all that. However, this sounds much more serious. The red flag is "the channel didn't see a big enough growth last year", which I imagine was his experimental "three videos a week" phase that only ended up driving people away with terrible style changes (CRAZY videos) and severe selling out.
This does coincide with my discovery that he's no longer part of a Multi-Channel Network (according to Socialblade). 

By the way, this tells me his "technical difficulties" excuse was a lie. Knew it!

This could also mean that he's not completely done. Just that IG episodes will be even slower than usual (which would be impressive considering the "storyline" years saw like 2-3 IG episodes a year). We'll likely see a lot more stupid toy videos as those don't take long to edit. Though I hope this means he's done with all the selling out, no more terrible tech reviews or art books. 

Does this mean I'm done? No. Just that output will be a lot slower to match his. There's still his possible second book (which I doubt will really happen) and his alleged Hardcore Pawn appearance (if that hasn't been cancelled). As he says, the episode he was working will eventually come out, and I will cover that.

If Chris goes through with a full retirement instead of a "semi" one... I called it. Chris, you never tried. You didn't want to try. You never accepted help, you turned away countless people, you tried to take the easy way without realizing that trends change and people change and people get older. You stayed stagnant relying on the same tired jokes and ideas, even when you tried to do your own thing to avoid Angry Video Game Nerd comparisons, you relied on pointless references and random humor. You still showed amateur knowledge of games, complaining about things that are standard, and your attempt to bash beloved classics only showed you had no clue what you were doing. The last year also had you jump on trends far too late, and you didn't understand what made those trends work. I've had many former fans of yours come to me, realizing that you were really only funny when they were 11 or 12 years old, but as they grew older they realized that you weren't funny at all, even on nostalgia. Speaking of, you're approaching 9 years on YouTube (not counting Y2B2006), old enough to be considered "internet nostalgic" and what do you have to show for it? Your channel hasn't even come close to 200k subs. Channels started much later managed to skyrocket past you (Markiplier and The Completionist began in 2012, JonTron in 2010) and you never tried to adapt. When you tried to make a separate Skylanders channel amidst complaints that you were releasing too many videos about them, you lasted a week and came back to your regular channel crying that "YouTube is too different". Not even trying to learn what's changed, or ask someone for help. I imagine Guru Larry, who had spent YEARS trying to help you, would have offered tips. But you never listened, you never took criticism. You hid behind sock accounts to deflect criticism (the most notable being your "mother"), you had your friend Eric Allen do the same early on (Eric, contact me, I've got questions), and after years of avoiding the most common criticism you received, you spoke out about it and instead threw everyone under the bus. You didn't really apologize, you played the victim while crying that James Rolfe is a big bad bully that purposely sabotaged you (without showing ANY evidence of this). You fucked up Chris, you tried to make easy money by stealing an idea, for a hobby you clearly have no clue about, and it got way too big and way over your head and you were forced to keep going, resulting in the position you're in now. Do you even have genuine fans at this point? Even DarkSydePhil somehow has those, and he's in a worse position than you.

I hope you're proud of yourself Chris. Enjoy your fucking ghosts.

Again, there might be more videos so this is not a goodbye post. But it will likely be a while before I post again.

PSA: Beware the Fake Irate Gamer

Still no videos or updates. But I do need to address something.
Recently, I've been getting people telling me that Irate Gamer insulted them. That isn't entirely true. It's someone posing as the Irate Gamer, using his channel name and avatar. Calling people liars, attention whores, cursing at them, doing a lot of harm to Chris' (remaining) image.

This is the fake channel.
Notice how there's nothing there? If you see IG being hostile to someone, click his name and see if it's the fake. Chances are it's the fake.
Why Chris doesn't block this guy I don't understand.
So before you leave a comment here or e-mail saying that Chris cursed at you or called you a name, click the channel.

Another thing to note. I was checking his Socialblade page and I saw that he's no longer part of Collective Digital Studio (or Studio71). In fact, under "Network/Claimed By", it's listed as "None". He's not part of an MCN right now.
Chris, how about telling us what happened. Break the radio silence for once in your life. People want to know.

Did Chris Give Up Again?

Another Friday gone by where Chris doesn't post anything. He's claiming "technical difficulties" but that excuse can only go so far, especially when he won't say what these difficulties are. I get the feeling he's being lazy or something is happening that he doesn't want to bring up.

March has been dead. On the 1st he posted another damn Skylanders video. He can't claim that his Skylanders stuff is popular because the views for that video are crap. Maybe now is the time to retire the toys. I mean, he retired everything amiibo related (including that blog), how about adding Skylanders to that list. Especially when you made it clear that you don't like any of the games after the first, complaining about "gimmicks" and you just want simple & stupid. Maybe that's why views are down too?

Then nothing nothing nothing until March 15th when he posted another art book "review". This one about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. I normally don't cover those because it's always the same thing. Chris looks through the book, says the pictures are cool, says there's text, and that fans of the game would probably like it. It's always obvious that he never actually played the game in question (though in the case of Fable Legends, nobody will play that game).
This is all just Chris selling out hard. He has no content, so he shills products most people likely won't buy. Despite what some people claim, selling out isn't "making money making internet videos", that's just capitalism. Chris making videos to promote garbage, that's selling out. He can't even get brand deals like Audible or Crunchyroll, who work with countless YouTube channels to promote their services, and those people always save the promotion for the end of the video. They don't make separate videos where the sole purpose is to shill the product or service.

Also, Chris claimed in the video that it's "review week" on his channel. .... He only posted one video. That's not a review week! Hell, shouldn't "review week" be YOUR JOB! Posting something every week?! God how dense are you?

The upcoming IG video better be like 12 minutes long. If it's short like the Excitebike video, then I know he's full of crap.