VideoGameDunkey's "Game Critics" Salt - Dunkey is over, Dunkey doesn't need to be your audience

[Neil]

So, internet funny man, VideoGameDunkey made a video making fun of video game journalists/reviewers.

Now, any average everyday internet autist would go, "Hey, it's a video from some random Youtuber. Okay."

But game developers are not your average everyday internet autist. They're advanced average everyday internet autists with an even bigger ego than your average everyday internet autist.

Twitter quickly became a SALT STORM of epic proportions.

(Side note: I really fucking hate it when these hipster fuck sticks unironically use "NOT COOL" in a sentence despite the fact that these people are in their late 20s and 30s.)

And my personal favorite:

Keep it classy, Jim. Sympathy whoring your way out of criticism while trying to look tough. Nice.

And believe it or not, this shit got Dunkey on FORBES.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insert...uments-about-video-game-critics/#3f182754bc96

Archive: https://archive.md/dcblx

There is a LOT more ladies and gents. Just grab some fries or popcorn, search for Dunkey on twitter, and dig in!

 

[José Mourinho]

Love it when Dunkey manages to get some game journalists in a frenzy.

 

[Kyria the Great]

It wasn't like he was even going after individual games journalists as he was more going after the platform as his big criticism seems to be that the score seemed to be removed from the individuals reviewing them and how they will allow certain critics who have biases against certain genres to review them. Even a cow MovieBob got in on that Dunkey action

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Moviebob was all salty about this too.

 

[GabeRegan]

I don't know who any of these people are, but I think we can all agree that "The Irate Gamer was more famous than you." is probably one of the worst insults you can give someone in the "review" community.

 

[ShinjiIkariFapBoy76]

Jesus, this is the same fucking guy that made a video involving the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Pizza song with Dead Space, and Overwatch shenanigans. Are they really that autistic to take this guy seriously?

 

[TiggerNits]

Dunkey seems like a legit good dude. This is no different.

I hate his girlfriend's mousey ass voice tho

 

[Neil]

NeoGaf: The Gay Tranny King of Salt chimes in:

Spoiler: These people have more salt than the Dead Sea

(Guy who's comment was in the video)

And this guy in particular...

 

[Munchingonfish]

Neogaf has a general thread for this guy's videos. Up until the 8th of this month, there were only 8 pages. Now, there's 15. First, it starts off with people supportive of the video, but it quickly descends into usual gaffotry.
http://archive.md/jDbFA

I gave up on the top of page 11. http://archive.md/iI0sw

 

[TiggerNits]

They're still mad he wouldn't dogpile with them on jontron and pewdiepie, huh?

 

[Y2K Baby]

They should have just turned off the video once they found out he was black tbh.

 

[tehpope]

Dunkey is Puerto Rican btw.

How can you hate on the dunk? He gave SMB2 GOTY 9/11 times running.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Dunkey sure dunked em, eh? Eh?

 

[The Lawgiver]

This is just the JonTron shitshow all over again and I'm fucking laughing my ass off.
The joking insults they left on each other's videos was like a fucking prophecy.

 

[linchan]

I don't understand why they think people's character should be up to standard, but not the game reviews that they are being paid to write.

 

[A Straight White Male]

And this is supposed to be a thing because.... I'll admit that I never heard of the situation till now, and from all the tweets you'd think he said that Trump wasn't literally Hitler or something. Is it really THIS easy to offend these autists?

 

[Accutek]

It must hurt game journalists when they get critiqued by someone with a bigger consistent audience than all of their sites combined

The great part about this is that Dunkey isn't really saying anything that anyone hasn't said already. Rating system is fucked, journalists seem to rush their playthroughs of the game, reviews are filled with buzzwords -- most people know that already.

To say nothing about how some journos and gaffots are trying to connect Dunkey to the alt-right; dude almost never tweets and his videos are borderline absurdist. The fact that Dunkey made a response clarifying his vid and listed journalists who he thought made good points in their critique of his video just makes them look even worse on that front.

All this salt mine just did was further show that game journos know that their field is rapidly becoming irrelevant and that they're insecure that people are more willing to watch youtube reviewers they're familiar with than read something on IGN/Gamespot/Kotaku/Destructoid/whatever.

 

[BadaBadaBoom]

If you review video games for a living you're a whiny faggot.

 

[Terrorist]

again with the anti-knack bias in gaming journalism. fucking disgusting. joey bonzo didn't die for this

(note none of these queermos have even come close to dunkey's success as the first black man on youtube. i wonder why? is it because nobody likes thin-skinned bloviating faggots? people actually want to enjoy things, who knew.)

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Holy shit, all these salty literal whos pretending like Dunkey is some nobody compared to them.

Also this seems to be kind of a cycle. People call journos out on their shitty behaviour, journos react with shitty behaviour (attacking the person who spoke out against them, misrepresenting their points, straight out lying instead of engaging in an honest discussion) and it just repeats. Instead of stopping the shit that got them called out in the first place, they think they can just shut everyone up and continue as they please. They're so salty because they have absolutely no sway over a Youtuber with millions of followers.