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Volound has only been mentioned a few times here, and that honestly isn’t surprising. On the surface, he isn’t really that exceptional. He used to make multi-part let’s plays of Shogun 2 and various other TW titles. Within the last year, he started doing long-form videos on his problems with modern TW titles. He actually is a decent player, so his opinions aren’t entirely uninformed. Aside from the videos being long, and occasionally nitpicky at times, they aren’t really bad. He is generally soft spoken, and backs his claims with actual gameplay footage.
This is where the story should end.
However, Volound suffers from a massively inflated ego. He is completely incapable of taking any kind of criticism, however minor it may be, and frequently spergs out at his audience.
I think his channel’s description puts this into perspective pretty well:
That link at the end is an FAQ page that he made, it’s lengthy: https://archive.md/Dq6O7
To get an idea of how he generally handles criticism, here are a few choice examples:
The Reddit Drama
His behavior online has been pretty consistent over the years, and has resulted in real world consequences. In September of 2020, CA officially severed ties with him, removing him from their content creator program, citing “Harassment” as their reason. As explained in this video here:Archives to the original reddit posts about him:
https://archive.md/8faLQ
https://archive.md/ESpbH
His pinned comment:
Volound also made another, much longer video 4 months later talking about the same stuff:
He also seems to think that his tiny, unknown subreddit (r/volound) had some kind of influence over the decisions made by the mods on the larger r/totalwar. Truth is, since that original 10k post, the mods pretty much lock/delete anything and everything about him, including posts that “smear” him. He also believes that the mods have it out for him, which is odd given that they removed the so-called “smear post”.
For context, this is a response from an r/totalwar mod:
He also goes after a few other TW YouTubers in this video.
At 3:37, there is a clip of Legend talking about Volound on stream. This is what provoked Volound's racism accusation.
The Remaster Spergfest
The Reddit drama was pretty much over about 4 months ago, and is old news at this point. Volound went mostly quiet as far as TW drama is concerned. He went back to making long form videos and lets plays after this. Of course, his behavior toward his own community did not change even slightly.This has culminated recently in his reaction to the ‘new’ total war game, Total War: Rome Remastered. Volound played it for about 2 hours, and decided it was a “complete trainwreck”. Granted, the game actually did release with bugs, in true CA fashion. The UI changes were also generally panned. These were not his main problems with the game though, his major gripe was that he couldn’t change some of the controls. He apparently refunded the game because of this. He released a community post not too long after, which was ratio’d pretty hard:
His community seemed to generally disagree with that it was an unplayable wreck, as per a third poll that he did:
His response to criticism from his community is predictable. These are from the first poll. They are long and autistic:
HOW FUCKING DARE YOU CALL ME THAT!
One commenter noticed that there was not a “No” option:
More responses, more sperging:
That first image is from here. He gets really upset with this guy:
More sperging:
After this, he made a follow up poll. Again, he didn’t give an option for people who liked the game.
Much like the last one, he makes an ass of himself:
After that, he made the aforementioned third poll, and two other community posts.
One going after MELKOR, another TW YouTuber:
Surprisingly enough, MELKOR actually responded, and Volound was only slightly pissy with him:
Volound released his final community post about Remaster about a week ago. He didn't really sperg at his audience, but it was still generally smug:
I have no doubt we will see more sperging from his YouTube channel in the months to come. He will respond to pretty much anyone, and takes criticism and trolling as "coordinated attacks" against him.
Twitter
Aside from his YouTube, he also has a Twitter. He posts pretty frequently and gets next to no responses on anything. Most of it is just him ruminating about random things, it’s pretty boring, but there are a few examples of him being him:As mentioned in the title, Volound is a vegan, https://archive.md/CGObm
He doesn’t like the US very much, https://archive.md/jjrQa
He’s also not a fan of vegetarians, https://archive.md/cr1Di
His Ancestry.com results, https://archive.md/MvX9A
More veganism, https://archive.md/VBcbt
His opinion on “content creators” and “influencers”, https://archive.md/4d4T5
That last image is obscenely long:
Volound also has a Facebook. Here he posts even longer walls of text. There honestly isn’t anything particularly interesting. There are a handful of posts about veganism, but not much beyond that. Like his twitter, he gets next to no responses on any of his posts.
Discord
Volound’s Discord is about what you would expect. Here, he circlejerks with his “cultists” (his words, not mine). His personality on Discord is exactly the same as his personality on YouTube. I apologize in advance for screencapping my phone for these. Also, the ones without proper timestamps were taken early in May:He is still talking about the Reddit drama from almost 8 months ago.
He is apparently proud that he was banned from the TW subreddit:
He has apparently been “exposed” to hundreds or thousands of philosophy majors, which I suppose is why he is so talented at debating and at not being hyperbolic:
He is really, really upset by the fact that people bought the Remaster:
He also reiterates his distaste for the subreddit:
He also does not like that people enjoy Total War’s campaign map:
Volound really hates the TW community in general, especially the redditors:
He apparently doesn’t like Remastered mods:
More of him getting upset about trolls/critics/anyone who mildly disagrees:
To be fair, you have to have a pretty high IQ to enjoy Total War:
Volound being melodramatic:
More sperging about veganism:
Misc
As shown above, Volound is a vegan. Or as he puts it, “waging war on carnism”. Below is an extremely long and extremely autistic “debate” that he had with another YouTuber. I’m not kidding, it is fucking long; so long that Firefox couldn’t take a proper screenshot. Read at your own risk:This one is significantly shorter if you (understandably) don't want to read the long one:
Volound is also an amateur slinger. He doesn’t look half bad at it either. He apparently practices pretty consistently with a variety of different slings.
The Dox
Finally, here are the dox:Name: Conor Sweeney
Age: 29-30 (born 1991)
Location: Somewhere around Glasgow
Here is a picture of him:
Links:
Volound https://www.youtube.com/user/volound
VoloundExpounds https://www.youtube.com/user/VoloundExpounds
VoloundShorts https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzd6QVt5a_wiArryRFsI9rQ
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Volound
Twitter https://twitter.com/Volound
Linktree https://linktr.ee/Volound
Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHQ6AOXKVFYSBHORQS3VJY5DKG5Q?ref=exp_prof_v
Discord https://discord.gg/cjWJfgM
Google Docs FAQ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rwFvGdP3mCx4xPaud1u94wLx1A6X9MoKBOtok-wl7Sc/edit
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