Lotus wrote:The writing's been on the wall for a long time. I'm surprised they're still going on at all, but I guess it's fine as a 'passion' project (although, that seems to have been missing for a good while now). If I was them, I'd be reflecting on the last few years and thinking what a great opportunity they squandered. I know it's been their job for a good few years now, but it could've still been going strong at this point.
At their peak, when everyone was there, their output was criminally low. Channels with way fewer people put our far more content, and considering this was supposedly their full-time job, it's baffling how little they used to do. There was so much scope for so much more content, and you wonder if the likes of Kyle and Ben would have stayed if everything didn't feel so stagnant. I'm still struggling to see what benefit the studio really brought them, as it certainly didn't up the content output, and it's baffling that they still see that as a worthwhile outgoing, even now.
They had lightning in a bottle for a while, but too many bad decisions, not enough output, and a gradual feeling of complacency and lack of effort has all come to bite them now. It's a real shame, but people have seen it coming for a couple of years now.
Chimes a lot with my own thoughts. There really was such a great energy and enthusiasm in those first 4 years, lightning in a bottle is the right phrase. I regularly go back and watch streams from 2016-2020. The studio wasn’t an inherently bad idea but it’s use has been fundamentally pretty terrible aside from big events. I feel to push on after they got it they really needed to set mandatory hours people had to be there. I’m reluctant to criticise much though because part of me thinks with growing up some of this was just kind of inevitable and the community driven model just naturally doesn’t have that long a lifespan. Also the way the industr has gone since COVID, particularly E3 has hurt the group a lot.
That said I had been starting to re-engage in a lot of their stuff recently and I was really looking forward to some Christmas output and the 2023 GOTY discussions. I still love Huber but he needs someone to bounce off, Gabby has been good at that but that’s the biggest loss in Brad leaving I think, it’s like taking 50% of Huber with him. Huber and Bosman are just dynamite together. Huber Brad and Ben together was super cosy and you got some really cool in depth discussion. Even when it was just Huber and Brad they had that old friends vibe that it was always fun to see. I just don’t think he has that with any of the remaining crew.
The people left all have talent, skills and deep knowledge but I just don’t think they have the crew left for a personality led channel. I’ve supported them for 8 years and was very sorry to end my pledge yesterday.
