he’s quite fun on the podcast, this is a shame
2x mandatory, but that’s all podcasts
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i feel like theres a big parasocial element to tim’s public persona, so people wanting to be like him or friends with him.
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i cannot blame him for this
that discord fucking sucks ass. like i dont know how to handle being a public figure, hence me not being one, but god i would just rag on my audience all day if i was him. i think continually cultivating a personality that caters to a specific type of videogame guy is just catching up to him. its time for tim to be Old IMO
like i would say give up on clout and post in the shadows on SB but i would have to ban so many of the people that would inevitably follow him here hahhaah
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The sense I’ve gotten of Tim’s audience these days is, there are a lot of people just like the young posters on Insert Credit and SB in the 00’s – pretentious kids who like games and want to think critically about them and want to elevate the discourse around them – but transposed onto the current internet landscape, where YouTube criticism and parasocial discords are (unfortunately) more popular than blogs and message boards.
I thought he was funny on the IC podcast and I’ll be sad to see him go, but it also sounds like he was being insufferable to them.
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Yeah I can’t imagine wanting to watch a six hour video about Doom nor having to make one as a livelihood. Seems like a meat grinder.
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omg daphnnekee we’re old
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yeah but that also means we get to say ‘were old friends’
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ive seen him mentioned by unrelated people far more in the past few years (like, since he started his action button longform video essays) then since ever? for me anyways. his videos have millions of views and he has a large patreon following. like, its a wide swath of people discovering and following him now. its a new age of tim and tim enjoyers.
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yeah i tried to create a discord for one of my podcasts and i immediately realized i didn’t like it and it kind of fell into disuse and just sits there inactive now. i don’t think i’d ever create another one again. i don’t know how people can operate stuff like that. Tim has always attracted this kind of weird energy around him and his stuff for whatever reason. sometimes that just happens, esp if you are very forward and share a lot of stuff in your writing. the intersection of affable game dork and people who are too forward must be weird to have spent the last 20 years dealing with. i have way less of the following he does and i still frequently feel weird and depressed about the way people engage with my stuff.
anyway i try not to care about this sort of thing anymore and i’m like trying not to weigh in on the soap opera parts of this on here much because i’m not sure it does anything. but he does sound like he’s being a dick here. i don’t know the whole situation whatsoever but the way he responded to it seems pretty immature. i hope he sees the light sooner or later, i dunno. i think he’s probably capable of that. i’m kind of done trying to read his thoughts tho, or really the thoughts of anyone i’ve known over the years who i’ve been friends or acquaintances with who is in that kind of position. i went through a similar process with another pretty well known internet Videogame Figure friend of mine i won’t get into here. that particular person just kinda fell off the map and i have no idea what they’re doing now but they don’t seem particularly interested in letting me know, so it’s not my job to pry it out of them. i have my own shit to worry about. they kinda have to figure it out for themselves. it’s just sad though. you want people to figure out whatever they need to figure out and move forward. i’ll just keep it to that.
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i get the feeling lots of people engage with tim rogers as a ‘content creator’ more than as a critic now
popular youtuber Super Eyepatch Wolf when recommending his tokimemo review
Currently, Action Button has 50K subscribers, and while that is absolutely a following to be respected, I can’t help feel that just the sheer originality of this kind of video deserves way more. So, come, my [fanbase]. Let’s do what we do and boost the shit out of a much-deserving creator.
i think about this a lot
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yeah just existing in that ecosystem is soul sucking and would probably turn a lot of people into sour assholes
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Insert Credit has a podcast?
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Yeah, sad about all the Tim stuff. There is a handful of folks out there that I wish could just make more of what they want and be on more stuff (that aren’t twitch streams) and he’s one of them. Just a little bummed and hope they can work out whatever personal issues, because they are obviously friends of a sort
I have one IRL friend who idolizes him a bit, bought the William Gibson jacket and nice jeans and everything. A little silly but he looks damn good in that outfit. I remember him reverently referring to part of the Boku no Natsuyasumi review. Like Tim, my buddy moved a lot when he was young. The part where Tim describes seeing his father randomly meet a friendly associate he had worked with in another city. They seemed like strangers now and Tim describes realizing that they had known each other when they were from that other place. Not exact wording but it was a significant thing for my friend. Even though I think my friend is a silly guy it’s still neat that he got there thanks to the Action Button Rubrick or whatever.
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a lot of people on this forum would be embarrassed to admit the degree to which Tim’s work got them into doing one thing or another. it very much serves that function for a lot of people. it’s not surprising his youtube videos have a similar effect on younger people now, esp in a pretty creatively bankrupt youtuber space. it’s also just not, it turns out, the end-all-be-all… and people have a way of being super intense about that sort of thing. basically what i’m saying is that personality cults = bad!!!
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Woof, timely for other reasons.
If only youtubers could figure out how to make the good kind of cults.
I just randomly checked my Patreon thanks to this news and it turns out I am still paying him. OOPS! There is a long article explaining why there is no new video from 8/30 and an Action Button Episode 0 podcast from 9/27 with Ben Starr. I guess that’s “a couple fat doobies for daddy”
am I doing it right? Maybe I can be the new Tim with material like that. Who’s got Jaffe’s number?
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I spent a few hours looking into importing a Korean 360 because Tim said that was the best way to play most US/Japanese/Korean Xbox 360 games because of sorta inconsistent region locking.
I didn’t wind up doing it, but I did DM him way back when and he was nice enough to take a little time to explain it to me.
That’s my Tim story.
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Well folks look forward to my Fukubukuro at the end of the year!!
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Tim’s work got me into posting on video game forums, so thats one good thing
he was always a content creator
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oh my god this sounds exhausting.
Tim is still funny even though his haircut is bad and the way he sounds like he forces his voice to be deeper than it should be is still a little endearing but it says a lot about his moral character probably.
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