-Mutsukki-
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are you surprised? Jon just did an interview with Breitbart ffs.
I didn't know this and I just lost a lot of respect for Jon, wow :/
I mean I'd say I'm on the same team as Arin and Dan about these stuff...but Breitbart? Really Jon?
It's really sad, I used to watch him when his channel just started and he was legit funny. Just a dumb guy talking about games. Now that his production value went up by a lot and he seems to have "matured" his style of humor... I don't find his videos to be that enjoyable anymore. I'm glad I still have PBG which pretty much borrowed his style from Jon at first but didn't actually go insane trying to be Notch #2.
Dan is really a blessing for us and more importantly, for Arin. Not because Arin would give up to Jon's pressure, Arin is actually a lot more open minded than people think, it's just that he seemed like he felt really uncomfortable with a lot of stuff Jon did. Maybe GameGrumps would have just... ended after some time, who knows.
Yeah, I won't deny that the guy has unfortunately cozied up with the "FUCK SJWS!" crowd like Chris Ray Gun and Shoe0nhead. I don't think he's a bad person, I just think he's incredibly ignorant on the subject and just hasn't had to face any kind of minority-related hardships despite being an immigrant. As funny as I found it, his words toward his gay friend (which I'll admit were more a lapse of comedic judgement rather than homophobic) in the Jumping Flash playthrough were definitely a bit off (fortunately he was called out on it though).
It's actually fascinating how "PC" the Grumps keep it when mostly everyone they surround themselves with are definitely NOT in that category. You got the Sleepycabin crew complaining about people being offended sometimes, Jon doing an interview with friggin Brietbart, a bunch of Arin's other Newgrounds friends going straight up alt-right, etc.
I think that sounds a little condescending, Ross is also in the same boat as Oney and they act pretty much the same. I'm pretty sure they just don't agree with that, but they don't seem the type of people to go on an actual crusade against "SJWs"
The thing with his friend is that it's easy to forget that you're broadcasting your talk with your friends to hundreds of people. I don't think Dan and Arin are advocates of PC culture either, they're just not offensive for the sake of being offensive, something that Jon does.