Wow, the year is almost over. Where did the time go?
As the title said, there will not be a Year End List. I just feel there's not enough to talk about.
Like all his previous comebacks, this one ended in failure. He may have gotten a view boost from working with James Rolfe, but clearly people didn't stick around as his views cratered. Hard.
Following up the big crossover with a video on cereal was a massive mistake.
This year showed he still had no idea what to do. Following up a video on Godzilla vs Kong (his highest viewed video of the year) with a retread on Kool-Aid flavors just screams "I don't have much knowledge of anything. Please let me keep doing the same shit over and over".
It's been three months since he posted a video, and he has given zero indication that he's going to keep going. Other than a Facebook post about a "custom Arcade cabinet" that hasn't been followed up on. Maybe someone convinced him that this midlife crisis shit isn't worth the hundreds of dollars he's spending?
He's still doing Puppet Steve, and the views have cratered there too. Though a video he posted earlier this week managed to score a lot of views. A video on... Squid Game toys. Oh yeah, that very child-friendly Netflix phenomenon. The series that opens on a brutal game of Red Light Green Light where over 200 people are gunned down all for a chance to pay off their crippling debt. Fun for the whole family!
Yes I know that a lot of channels are talking Squid Game, and kids know about it through cultural osmosis, basically the same way as kids in the 80's and 90's knew about Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger or Rambo or Mortal Kombat, despite all of that not being appropriate. Still though, if Chris is trying to make this a channel for kids, shouldn't he stick with stuff for kids?
And to those wondering if there are actual Squid Game toys? No. He bought them off Etsy, meaning they're fan-made. I doubt Squid Game would actually get toys as it would go against the show's scathing criticism of capitalism. ... *remembers The Lorax movie* Fuck...
Anywho, I think that's enough. Who knows if we'll even be back next year. Chris seems content just vanishing off the internet, hiding behind his puppets and his eBay store where he makes money off bootleg Letter People DVDs and CDs. While also lying about the toys he's selling as "Brand New" when they're clearly out of the box (and somehow more expensive than legitimate new toys).
Oh yeah, go see Spider-Man No Way Home. It is that good.
Happy 2022 in a fortnight, everyone! Yeah, I had a hunch there wasn't going to be a list compared to last year...
ReplyDeleteBTW, haven't really watched a lot of Spider-Man movies, to be honest.
I agree in a way that following up the crossover with those cereal videos was a fatal mistake and one that he never recovered from. I think in Chris' mind it was 2008 again after he did that video with James and that he was back on top and didn't have to try which was a mistake he made in his peak.
ReplyDeleteHave a happy 2022 everybody!
I'm just bringing this up since this is the latest blog post you made but could we get a forum discussing Irate Gamer and Chris Bores? Sometimes I think the discussions should be made. There are plenty of free build your own forums out there and honestly we don't need anything fancy just a place to actively make threads and topics.
ReplyDeleteThere would have to be moderators for forums like that. We wouldn't want Chris' fans or critics of Batdan going into the forums to harass us for "not moving on."
DeleteI'm not making a forum. You guys want one, go ahead. I don't care.
Deletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/irategamer/ already exists, but hasn't had new content in about a year. Also identifies itself as a "fan page."
DeleteWhat about a Facebook group?
DeleteWhy don't we make a discord group about irate gamer calling it irate gamer sucks just like the name of the blog
ReplyDeleteI have a Discord server so I guess we could start with that. Here's the invite link (though my server will not exclusively be Bores discussion).
Deletehttps://discord.gg/w78TNRXF
OT: Is it me, or does Vic Mignogna have one of the most cultish fanbases for any single voice actor, let alone one who works on anime dubbing?
ReplyDeleteI think it stems from how he's been unfairly lynched by the people he thought were his friends for two years.
DeleteI really don't follow the guy nor have I met him in person. So if anything, my stance is neutral here. One thing I'm aware is though is that Marzgurl, amongst other people, apparently became hell-bent in destroying his career. Not sure what her motive in all this is.....
DeleteYeah what could one motive be for not wanting a creep who sexual harasses people who is unrepentant of what he done to continue having a career that gives him access to more victims. It such a hard question but I am sure someone as smart as you will figure it out.
DeleteHard day?
DeleteOkay.
DeleteEver since Chris Bores was kicked out of Collingwood Arts Center it seems he's become really desperate on these haunted investigations. It seems to now border on fraud now. If you check on his previous ghost haunting investigations he hardly got a response but now he's getting a lot more on the Oliver House. Makes one wonder, is he becoming desperate to get this shit off the air and get someone to pay him for this shit? I'm beginning to think Chris' ghost hunting is becoming more fraudelent now.
ReplyDeleteThis year, people were accusing James Rolfe of being a plagiarist, and even claiming that it vindicates Bores.
ReplyDeletePeople also thought James in a video of Chris' vindicated Chris but there is much more wrong with Bores besides plagiarism.
DeleteHe relies way too much on humor even Seth MacFarlane wouldn't find funny (hell one of my friends who is a massive Family Guy fan didn't find Bores funny), he constantly gets information wrong to this day and never acknowledges it, and he tried to get a video that truth bombed his opening up video taken down as recently as 2018.
If Chris really wanted to be vindicated he should at least address his other most common criticisms as I don't think Bores is aware on how many fans he has cost his channel.
Which it doesn't. Same with how mocking JewWario's suicide, even if JewWario turned out to be a piece of shit, doesn't vindicate Bores.
DeleteLJN Wrestling and Other Games (#200 Part 3) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)
ReplyDeleteAre there actually 67 LJN games in total? Curious.
DeleteThat episode was shite, and didn't even feel like a true 200th episode.
DeleteThank you for the highs, James, and fuck you for the lows (which you have shared with the Screencunts).
Under the FB-Post from 30th April is a New comment
ReplyDeleteRandom Guy:
You were gone for a while, it’ll take some time for people to find you again. All your new review videos are in the tens of thousands, some in the hundreds of thousands.
CB:
Unfortunately my time is very short for projects like these. Maybe I should do a stipulation where I won't do another one unless the last video reaches 40k views haha
Translation: I'm too busy with toys and ghosts so piss off.
DeleteOh, hogwash. Bores has plenty of time on his hands to continue doing projects like Irate Gamer!
DeleteI think this should be a message for Chris' fans that read this blog or ones that want more Irate Gamer videos.
ReplyDeleteChris only cared about video games when they gave him a shot at money and fame. I do believe he could have played a few NES games here and there growing up but he only took gaming seriously for fame.
Now that video games no longer give him views, he has admitted numerous times that he doesn't want to do them and he even admitted to selling off a lot of his game collection after he stopped in 2016.
Probably selling them to make a buck no doubt. There must have been troubling times.
Deletesame could be said about james. James has admitted he's not a gamer (beyond the small collection he had as a child). He's only doing the nerd for money (thus hiring slobwave).
DeleteIs James a casual gamer at least? I know James has always been more of a movie nerd than a gaming nerd, but he does at least play video games for fun right?
Delete@Silent Spring He's still more of a gamer than Chris is. He can tell from what's good and what's bad and James only uses Game Genie as a last resort unlike Chris who uses it in almost every review.
DeleteI will admit though, post SNES James can come off as completely clueless, examples are spending the whole review bitching about Majora's Mask's 3 day system.
@PrinceMario
DeleteYeah, I couldn't stand the Majora's Mask review. Most of that was just pure nitpicking. Especially when he whined about the bank (did anyone really have that much of an issue talking to the banker? I sure didn't).
James mentioned in the latest podcast he plays GTA V (but just to drive around the city), and he has vids of him playing mario maker.
DeleteIn terms of gaming Chris and him are probably in the same league. Not really are either gamers.
and LOL believing James is playing any of those games he's reviewing (so your Game genie comment is void, but anything to defend James, right?). He hasn't played a game himself in years. The last ones might have been Earthbound and MM.
I'd argue James is more of a gamer than Chris. There are years worth of James & Mike Mondays which shows that James is quite skilled at retro games.
Delete@EdgeXL Plus he's beaten Castlevania I and II, Ninja Gaiden II, Ghosts N Goblins, and can beat Contra with ease. he is definitely more skilled at NES games than Bores is.
DeleteMerry Christmas to all who celebrate it.
ReplyDeleteAnd a very happy & prosperous new year to everybody. Even you, Chris.
New FB-Post:
ReplyDelete"I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas. I know I've pulled back this year and it's because I've been working on a few BIG things for the future that I hope come to fruition. Only time will tell. 2022 is going to be amazing if things pan out."
Sounds like huge expactations, but no outcome for 2022, we heard that so much from bores, but he never talks about his projects, he's just padding out time like in his reviews.
"2013 will be my year."
DeleteOh wait, maybe Chris meant 2022?
So! Thoughts on the situation with Lindsay Ellis? Yes what she said was shady but it makes me aggravated that she has to quit YouTube over this where other content creators have said worse and gotten away with it.
ReplyDeleteA part of Lindsay is angry that some people will always think of her as the Nostalgia Chick, and even worse, they would prefer to watch the Nostalgia Chick videos over her current ones.
Delete@Deepthroat Ghoul That Game Grumps incident with the Sonic Adventure Walkthrough was worse because Arin and Dan basically doxxed the person that made the walkthrough all because the guide wasn't holding their hand enough.
DeleteI'd also argue that Chris' JewWario comments were worse because the line where he says "the universe does not take kindly to ending your life before your destiny has run it's course" implies he thinks ALL people who take their own life their spirits will suffer in the afterlife (and Chris' defenders still don't get that). Also Chris has demonstrated he has not learned his lesson from past mistakes and could say the same thing again after another content creator does the same (though he said nothing about Apollo Legend because he'd have no clue who that was).
I don't think Lindsay was being racist when she made those comments about Raya and other stories that adopt the Avatar structure. If I say that the first Iron Man movie is basically The Mask am I being racist about Caucasians? Of course not.
DeleteWhat I disagree with is how Lindsay compared herself to a Trans woman who wrote a short story and was defiled for ages on social media. Lindsay was unaware of her privilege when she did that.
I can only imagine how much it sucks for the internet to gang up on you for several months and I can understand if Lindsay snapped. That wouldn't excuse what she did and Lindsay would definitely need to make an honest apology. But I think her brand is strong enough that she could return to YouTube if she wanted to.
I just wonder if Chris thinks the backlash against him was similar to what Lindsay experienced.
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DeleteI stopped watching Lindsay's work a while back, but I never thought the hate for her was this big.
Delete@PrinceMario Lindsay should know there's no shame in accepting reality for what it is, even if it means admitting that she failed to achieve her dreams. But she just won't accept it. She makes Internet videos. That's her profession. That's who she is, and that's what she's good at. That's what got her famous in the first place.
DeleteClearly, Lindsay has forgotten that she started 2008 as a nobody, and ended it as a celebrity when she became the Nostalgia Chick.
Bottom line, Lindsay will never be a real author for as long as she lives. No-one will finance another Lindsay Ellis book ever again, because she destroyed her reputation making those two shitty fanfics disguised as novels!
Ellis is being melodramatic. She reaped what she sowed. Saying her situation is worse than Britney Spears is laughable. She was never canceled, other than in her head.
ReplyDelete@the notorious phantom. No, it's not. She truthfully "cancelled" herself twice. She's said far worst things on twitter than the raya comment, such as her Harriet Tubman comments, which were all but forgot after their initial tweet, but only remembered again because she brought it up herself in her mask off video. After those raya tweets she laid low, did mask off, then laid low again...and here we are. She says she doesn't read YT comments and has a SM manager moderate her page, so the biggest critics are probably on twitter. That's easy enough to remedy by not bothering to engage or tweet, but she's a self admitting addict. I bet she'll be back in 6 or so months.
ReplyDeleteNew FB-Post (he also added a pic):
ReplyDelete"For all my ghost fans out there, I've been working on a few ghost projects lately that have caused me to update my ghost classifications list. I now have 7 classes instead of 6. In my book I addressed how hungry ghosts can manifest extreme levels of 'psychological hunger' and left it at that, but this mindset has come up so many times in recent investigating, it really needed to be its own class, Parasitical. Amazing how these things are often hidden in plain sight. I previously labelled these guys on my demon classification list and I've come to realize that some ghosts are one in the same. So here it is, the old and new ghost mindset flowcharts side by side for comparison. A big step forward in my ghost studies!"
Chris updated his spirit classification chart. He now has seven types of ghosts whereas his book only had six.
ReplyDeleteBetty White passed away. Her & John Madden in the same week.
ReplyDeleteBetty White just passed away days shy of her 100th birthday.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year! And also fun fact! Today is Al Alcorn's 74th birthday (Nolan asked the head engineer of his company Al Acorn to help design Pong).
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DeleteHe actually did type "Al Acorn at the bottom of his post which I think means he and Chris are soulmates.
Delete@EdgeXL I intentionally typed in "Al Acorn" to reference what Bores said in that video.
DeleteNo you didn't
DeleteSo did anyone see that DSP just went on a rant on stream about him thinking his infamous anti semitic jokes from 2010 was the reason he got banned from Twitch where it's been proven countless times that Phil has used hateful slurs on stream?
ReplyDelete"SQUID GAME LEGO's?! Mini Figures Toys Netflix Show Unboxing - Puppet Steve"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr2sj3JiIUg
He admits halfway through that he hasn't actually watched Squid Game yet, but it's so painfully obvious from the first minute or so.
It was obvious from the first Squid Game video. He really shouldn't be talking about it though, it's not for kids.
DeleteBut yeah, he doesn't even make the effort to look up the character's names or what their role is.
Since I've trashed Game Grumps countless times, a new low for them is that Arin tested positive for COVID and normally I would feel sympathetic but Arin felt he HAD to keep up with the content so he still showed up at the Grumps office and he is recording his parts in an isolated room.
ReplyDeleteHow fucking hard is it for Arin to record his parts from home like how TRG do now?
New FB Post @ ghost behaviorist.
ReplyDelete"Saw a dang shadow person in my house the other night, dang things are always so unnerving to witness and how they slink around without sound Ugg. Cleansed my house in the morning after that!"
Plot twist: it was really footage of Shadow Overlorf from the Irate Gamer "movie".
DeleteBob Saget passed away.
ReplyDeleteSo far Chris has made one Puppet Steve video in this year. The last time he updated was nearly two weeks ago prior to this new video.
ReplyDeleteIf all of a sudden Chris has the mindset of "I have 900k subscribers I can post whenever I want" it shows Chris hasn't learned his lesson as it was a mistake he made on the Irate Gamer channel in 2013.
on irate gamer it started much earlier, 2010/11, as the 7up and the robocop episode were 8 months apart. You can't do this to your channel with your main series, and yeah i dont count HOVG to his Irate Gamer Epsiodes.
DeleteIf Chris were smarter and adapted with YouTube's changing landscape instead of fighting against it he'd still be making a living off of Irate Gamer.
DeleteChris refuses to use Patreon or channel memberships and only live streamed once. As a content creator myself, if you want to make a decent living in 2022 off of making videos you HAVE to find secondary sources of income. Making a living solely through ad revenue is no longer possible unless you're a ridiculously large channel.
New Stuff from the doctor:
ReplyDelete"Not sure why I've sat on this clip for so long, but here's a great interaction I used to repeatedly have with the ghost at the Collingwood building where I was a ghost tour guide at. We came up with a vaudeville act that used to knock the socks off the people who went with me down into the basement. The first of its kind! "
Someone informed me in the comments on The Rise and Fall of The Irate Gamer that Chris has written a second book and it was released back in November. It's called Sandusky Mail A History.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.amazon.com/Sandusky-Mall-Landmarks-Chris-Bores/dp/146714956X
Holy,
DeleteThat is something.
I didnt expect him to write another book.
Thanks prince for this Info. :)
=== The Sandusky Mall was the iconic shopping hub for locals who grew up in the 1970s and '80s. Kids visited the Circus World toy store, shopped for local amusement park souvenirs at Cedar Point Gifts, and fawned over the kittens and puppies at Petland. Teens scarfed Scotto's Pizza or a tasty treat at Baskin Robbins before taking in the latest feature at the Mall Cinema. Many others pumped quarters into the games at Goldmine or browsed the collection at Musicland.
DeleteGathering more than 200 images, the original floor map, and the history of every store at every location, author Chris Bores delivers a trip down memory lane as well as never-before-told stories of the scandals and struggles--and the triumphs--that made the Sandusky Mall the place to be. ===
You can tell it's Bores -- "iconic", food references, and "scandals"
"Iconic" and "scandals"... he keeps using those words. I do not think they mean what he thinks they mean.
DeleteSince Chris reads this blog and the comments I have no clue who Chris is going to blame if the book gets bad attention, Dan for addressing it in a future post or me for bringing it up to everyone.
DeleteSince there isn't a free way to read it, if anyone is brave enough to buy the book you can inform us in this blog or inform me on my YouTube channel on problems with it. I don't want to give Chris money.
I don't want to outright defend the mall book, but this might be a better project for Chris to be involved in than claiming fucking ghosts exist. I trust he's smart enough not to expect a million-dollar payday from a regional history book, and if he actually went to this mall a lot (safe assumption), and actually put in the research time (less safe), I say why not?
DeleteThat said: his other books, and projects that involve writing, don't specifically give me optimism. I'm curious how much hyperbole the word "scandals" carries.
Just for shits and giggles I checked the LadyBuggin777 account because I always thought after a certain period of time Chris just retired the LadyBuggin persona.
ReplyDeleteI found favorited videos on that account from Mark Dice dating to 2021 so it's proof he still logs into the account but he probably realized the whole yelling at critics wasn't doing any good right after "she" tarnished his reputation.