We’ve more often than not seen bitter disputes erupt on Twitter with some of our favorite creators, like Laci Green and Philip DeFranco, or Gunnarolla and Matthew Santoro. Sadly when these very public arguments or bashing occurs, audiences tend to get caught up in the fray, taking one side or another.
Well, that’s not what happened this time with gaming YouTube creators Yogscast Simon and TotalBiscuit. The first shot was volleyed by Simon, who pointed out in a less than stellar way that he was tired of hearing people complain about the female Thor comic series. He then directly called out TotalBiscuit.
Crying pissbabby https://t.co/Fbub3L2wbs
— Simon Honeydew (@SimonHoneydew) March 19, 2015
Now this tweet was inevitably seen by TotalBiscuit himself, who then proceeded to discuss both his point, and respond in the most respectful way he could.
Oh and for those asking no we have no working relationship with Yogscast anymore as Simons petty tweets should make clear.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) March 19, 2015
That’s a bridge they burned themselves. I can say no more because some of us actually respect our network disparagement clauses.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) March 19, 2015
Not that anyone would want a relationship with someone who unironically uses the word “pissbaby”
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) March 19, 2015
As with many “former friends”, they used my promotion to get ahead then conveniently forgot who their friends were later.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) March 19, 2015
TotalBiscuit added later that another member of the Yogscast team would be welcome on his podcast, despite the jab:
If it makes you feel any better Sips will still be on the podcast in a couple of weeks. There is no beef there.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) March 19, 2015
So far, this is on par with a lot of things we’ve seen happen on Twitter. Like I mentioned before though, unlike with previous and far more passive aggressive situation, TB’s audience stayed on the sidelines. As far as Yogscast Simon’s audience…
@SimonHoneydew Your supposed to be professional, didn’t expect this from you at all.
— Jacob. (@AngryMun) March 19, 2015
@SimonHoneydew cmon now dude, you’re better than this. He was simply criticizing the writing of a comic. He wasn’t attacking anybody.
— NotANerd (@WobbuffetMC) March 19, 2015
@SimonHoneydew At least when you put “hole digger” in your bio you were telling the truth. Keep burning those bridges.
— Shaister (@Shaister) March 19, 2015
While I may disagree with some of TotalBiscuits views, it does go to show, that keeping an audience at bay may not be as difficult as some have claimed, and that it is possible to respectfully disagree with someone without using them in the process.
Simon is a fat little piece of trash. He stopped being a good person years ago.
Talk about a biased-as-fuck article.
And then he had heart surgery. TotalBiscuit has always sucked but that reaction is going a bit far!
“TB’s audience stayed on the sidelines.”
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Funniest thing I heard since “it’s actually about ethics in gaming journalism”
No.
Just no.
TB has one of the most toxic audience around. I know it, you know it, they know it. If TB called for an extermination of all jews, they would all follow in his steps. Saying that his audience “stayed on the sidelines” in any case, and especially in this one where they very clearly didn’t, is ridiculously laughable. What a biased text.
See, people like you are the reason this whole situation is as bad as it is. Not the issue this article is talking about, the situation as a whole. You make no attempt to understand anything that you don’t like, no attempt to understand both sides of the argument. We’ll never reach a favorable outcome so long as people like you still exist. You’re no better than a monkey flinging it’s own shit at people.
Yes seeing as just about every video in gaming had something from the TB brigade writing up about it
Simon used to be the funniest person on the internet. He pretty much single-handedly made the Yogscast famous with his humour and everybody in it owes him a great debt.
Simon is a very intelligent individual. Much more intelligent than he often portrays himself to be. If Simon was being serious with his insults here then I am willing to bet he had good reason.
But TotalBiscuit is deluded if he thinks the Yogscast needed his promotion to get ahead. If anything it was the other way round. Maybe the Yogscast thought they had earned a bit more loyalty from TotaBiscuit and didn’t expect him to start waffling in podcasts about their shady dealings.
Do you have a link or a video title to the podcast(s) where TB hinted at the Yogscast’s shady dealings. If you do it would be greatly appreciated. 🙂
I don’t think I can post any links as my comments keep getting removed.
The two podcasts where he goes after the Yogscast are:
‘Yogola – Nope, that’s the cleverest title I can come up with’
and
‘Indiecent Exposure: talking steam discoverability with a panel of interesting people’ at about the 1 hour 40 minutes mark.
There’s also his tweets attacking the Yogscast e.g.
“I personally think Yogscast could do a better job with disclosure of sponsored content, especially since they do so much of it”
Hope that helps 🙂
It does indeed. I’m sure other people reading this will find the information helpful too. Many thanks. 🙂
Yes, Yogscast’s success is thanks to their content and personalities, but in the beginning TB was the one who gave them access to a legitimate platform and network on Youtube, enabling them to become the massive hit that they became.