TotalBiscuit's very strange behavior in this Vlog video....

[SweetShark]

So TotalBiscuit loaded a new Vlog video talking about the new videos took from PAX2013. See it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEzlKZZGZg

To be quick about this video, TotalBiscuit openly said he just created this video to just to say to the viewers he is very disappointed that don't have a lot of views in these specific videos about the PAX's Videogames like Battleblock Theater, Apotheon, Divekick,etc.

Totalbiscuit said many correct things in the video, but I must say he was very........"serious" and "aggressive" about this subject.
Even if TB told the reasons why he is disappointed and asked help to understand what kind of videos must make in the future to have more views, but the way he express himself about his problem made a little angry I must say....
He spoke to us like we ALWAYS MUST all his videos must have 100.000+ views to feel "secure", and if he don't see these high numbers, it is our fault for his low views and we must feel guilty about this!

I must say I am a big fan of TB, but this strange behavior just made me curious why he think like this...

What do you think about that?

EDIT:

It seems I did overeacted somehow with the whole thing...
I don't know, all of you have right, but it seems I didn't released how I get affected when he speak negative for specific things.

Sure, when he tell his opinion for a game or in some gaming news, I don't mind, I like the style he have, but now I don't know....

So I am very sorry If my point doesn't make sense....

 

[BloatedGuppy]

How long have you been watching TB for? This is his personality. He's a prickly guy. He takes criticism...or perceived criticism...to heart, and tends to lash out in response.

 

[The Madman]

It's literally his job, people watching his video is how he makes money. No surprise then when after an unexpectedly slow week he's wondering what's going on with the lack of viewership.

 

[josemlopes]

This guy... yeah, he has this idea that if everyone was like him the world would be filled with rainbows and lolipops.

He can be right about some things but the way he says them are usually very hipocrital, like "I dont like this and you are an idiot if you do, you are hurting the industry by giving money to whoever did this, etc..."

 

[SweetShark]

How long have you been watching TB for? This is his personality. He's a prickly guy. He takes criticism...or perceived criticism...to heart, and tends to lash out in response.

Indeed, I already knew that he is serious about his job he have and I understand that. I also know at some point stopped to watch the comments from Youtube I think because the comments made TB nervous and anxious.

Also I understand that he needed a lot of effort and money to get at PAX and get footage from many different and interesting games that coming soon or later.

But I wanted to handle this "misfortune" with a lot more care and talk about this problem with the knowledge that not ALL viewers are interesting for many different games. He must had expected that this will happen.

 

[SweetShark]

It's literally his job, people watching his video is how he makes money. No surprise then when after an unexpectedly slow week he's wondering what's going on with the lack of viewership.

Yes, I agree with this as well. He have any kind of right to be nervous why he didn't had many views in the first place.
But this doesn't give him right to literally [not really] point at the viewers and say:
"You watch the videos and I get money from the advertisements. This is the law of my channel!!!!!! Why don't you watch the videos? HA? HAAAAAAA?".

Did you ever saw someone if he/she didn't went well with his/her views of the videos, to act like that?
A simple announcement from him for his lack of views and for advice should had been fine.

 

[Andy Shandy]

I wouldn't call this behaviour strange. He wants to know why people aren't watching his videos when they were previously. Especially when he thought at least some of them would be things people would definitely be interested in - for example the Transistor footage.

Plus this footage cost him shitloads (relatively) to make. If I remember it was at least $10000 for everything (travel expenses, new equipment). He needs to know whether it's worthwhile him doing this stuff. This is his livelihood he's talking about here. Course he's going to be serious, and being the type of personality TB is, aggressive about it too.

 

[Danceofmasks]

I'm not sure there's even a problem.

It's the easter holidays.
How many people take trips, or visit family, or whatever, and therefore do without their daily dose of youtube videos?
Even if they do, are they more likely to take 5m to watch a comedy show or whatever, then get back to their thing, than 20m on a game they've never heard of?

If he's thinking of it like a job, hello, I didn't get any work done over easter 'cos all my clients are closed.

 

[BrotherRool]

So TotalBiscuit loaded a new Vlog video talking about the new videos took from PAX2013. See it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEzlKZZGZg

To be quick about this video, TotalBiscuit openly said he just created this video to just to say to the viewers he is very disappointed that don't have a lot of views in these specific videos about the PAX's Videogames like Battleblock Theater, Apotheon, Divekick,etc.

Totalbiscuit said many correct things in the video, but I must say he was very........"serious" and "aggressive" about this subject.
Even if TB told the reasons why he is disappointed and asked help to understand what kind of videos must make in the future to have more views, but the way he express himself about his problem made a little angry I must say....
He spoke to us like we ALWAYS MUST all his videos must have 100.000+ views to feel "secure", and if he don't see these high numbers, it is our fault for his low views and we must feel guilty about this!

I must say I am a big fan of TB, but this strange behavior just made me curious why he think like this...

What do you think about that?

I think you can take his question as an honest question rather than criticism. His job is to provide us with things we like watching and he's provided us with a load of stuff that he thought we'd like and for some reason it doesn't seem like that happened. So he's wondering if people don't like it and he should stop doing it and explaining why he wants to know

 

[alphamalet]

What do I think?

Never seen one of this guy's videos before. Just got done watching the video you posted. Not going to start watching this guy any time soon.

 

[Scrustle]

I'm not really seeing any aggressiveness or sentiment of "you should be watching my videos" to it either.

TB's always pretty blunt. Sometimes arrogant, but as fair and honest as you can reasonably expect anyone to be. I don't really get this criticism that people often make of him that he thinks he knows better than everyone else and should do what he says. If there's anything unusual about the video it's that he sounds kind of confused. Whenever he makes videos he always tried to make sure he knows what he's talking about. So it was kind of odd to hear him come out and say he doesn't know what's going on.

As he's made clear many times, he doesn't care much for the specific opinions of commenters. I personally think he goes too far in that. Although there are obviously a lot of stupid people commenting on Youtube videos, I think when he does lash out at people, they're not entirely deserving of it.

But I don't begrudge him deciding to create content that he thinks is good, instead of trying to pander to his audience. So it's really strange to see him actually do what he has basically said he is against doing. That's not something TB would do if he understood what was going on. Also the reason he did it was something that I think would confuse somebody. I personally can't see why so many less people would watch the PAX videos compared to the regular content. If I was in his position I would probably be thinking a similar thing.

 

[BrotherRool]

But I don't begrudge him deciding to create content that he thinks is good, instead of trying to pander to his audience. So it's really strange to see him actually do what he has basically said he is against doing.

From the sound of it, expos are expensive and a lot of work. I guess there's a difference between producing quality content even though some people may not like it and losing a lot of money producing something that maybe people don't like.

Also he's got employees and a family, that always makes the situation of pandering more complicated

 

[DustyDrB]

What's odd? He spends a lot of time and money (and travel, which takes away from his normal channel schedule and also gives him a bit of anxiety due to an issue he has with planes) to go to events and make videos. These videos get less than expected views, so he just comes out and acts his viewers if they really want that kind of content. He's basically just trying to see if this is a fluke, or if going and filming at conventions is really not worth it. I don't see whining or anything, just an honest question.

 

[Neverhoodian]

It's literally his job, people watching his video is how he makes money. No surprise then when after an unexpectedly slow week he's wondering what's going on with the lack of viewership.

Yes, I agree with this as well. He have any kind of right to be nervous why he didn't had many views in the first place.
But this doesn't give him right to literally [not really] point at the viewers and say:
"You watch the videos and I get money from the advertisements. This is the law of my channel!!!!!! Why don't you watch the videos? HA? HAAAAAAA?".

Did you ever saw someone if he/she didn't went well with his/her views of the videos, to act like that?
A simple announcement from him for his lack of views and for advice should had been fine.

Actually, TB may have gone with the video format so that he wouldn't sound like an ungrateful prick, actually taking time out of his schedule to address his dilemma on a video instead of tossing a quick blurb on Twitter. To be honest, I thought he sounded genuinely concerned and sincerely wanted to hear some feedback from his viewers. They're the man's bread and butter, after all. I suppose a sharp drop in views like that is the equivalent of getting a big pay cut in a standard 9-to-5 job.

Truth be told, I don't care much for game expo footage. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that I care far less about them now than I used to. I find that, as I get older, I find it more difficult to be excited about upcoming games. Perhaps it's the result of being too busy with the various responsibilities adulthood demands. Perhaps I've become more perceptive of the often misleading hype-a-palooza the industry churns up for these things. Perhaps it's the first signs of becoming a crotchety old man yelling at those dern kids to get off his lawn. Most likely it's some combination of these factors.

 

[Clobersaurus15]

He's asking for customer feedback in order to improve his product, simple as. We've just done a very similar thing where I work because we've had a very quiet weekend, we opened over Easter weekend and it wasn't worth the expense, so we're considering weather or not to bother next year. TB said that the PAX coverage required considerable investments of time and money, so if it isn't working it's something he needs to figure out quickly in order for it to remain profitable.

As for the tone, as someone who's watched a lot of his videos, he didn't come across nearly as prickly or arrogant as some people claim he usually does, he just sounded a little perplexed and disappointed to me.

 

[xefaros]

Considering the footage he had from last pax he covered he assumed that having a better setup would score him more views.However my opinion is that those will score the views but in the long run.Those games havent even built a hype to get people curious.Also those games might not appease his viewership.

He got my views on the project shield test he did since he was the only one doing it correctly or at all.

Even the mighty shall fall(sorry seemed appropriate to say that)

 

[TrevHead]

I went into that VLOG expecting TB to have blown a fuse which wasn't the case, he was just been honest in his own blunt mannerism.

As for how I watch his channel, apart from the odd WTF I go there for his content patch and lately he has been too sporadic with that show so I stopped checking on his channel daily until he puts more. I have watched expos in the past but there was more content patches at the time to keep me visiting the channel.

He really should get a co star to help out presenting the channel that or clone himself .

 

[Judgement101]

TB complains about his subscriber's over zealous fanboy-ism yet whines when his videos don't get enough views. I really cannot stand him anymore, I used to be a fan, I really did, until his crusade on FOV. I tried getting back into his videos with his The War Z video, but of course 5 minutes in he complains about the FOV. In all honesty, this is how he always acts.

 

[Auron]

He's being factual and sincere, traits western society lost a while ago. I didn't see any aggressiveness at all by the way. In fact he's doing what we ask every game industry figure to do, he's asking his public what they want.