Hey everyone. 

I want to talk about the discourse recently regarding my new editor. This has nothing to do with Robin so please keep him out of it and leave him be.

Some context for those not in the know. Recently I hired someone new to help edit the IRL/Non Gaming content on my channel. Main reasons being that it was a lot for Robin to take on alone and also Robin isn’t up to date on meme culture or actively partakes in it so I brought on someone who is. I also just wanted to create more content and having one person edit all of it is a huge strain, especially with an occasional ramp up into 2 vids a day again when I could.

I will admit my screening process for this person was none at all, that’s on me and I should have done better. People went to their twitter and found a bunch of bad tweets, some were edgy jokes while others were “jokes” that I vehemently disagreed with. I brought this up with the person and they agreed that they were bad and deleted them. They were about 16 when they wrote them which normally I would let slide cos God knows I was a fucking idiot at that age but I think that’s a poor excuse in such a connected and social media driven world we’re in now. I had a huge internal struggle about what to do, I took about a week and ultimately told them that I would keep them on but it could absolutely never happen again. They agreed and showed genuine remorse for the tweets and it was clear that that’s not what they actually believe and agreed they were dumb. I wanted to give them a second chance and prove that they could learn and grow and I wanted to be mature and adult about it. Not just cut and run when things got bad. 

However I have ultimately decided to let this person go and not work with them again. Not because of hyper critical nay sayers and “haters” but because some people in this community were genuinely upset about it. They lost faith in me and felt like they couldn’t trust me anymore because it flew in the face of everything I had morally stood for and preached about before and they were absolutely right. I can reason out everything and debate it back and forth all day but at the end of the day if some honestly great people in this communtiy were genuinely hurt by this, then it’s not worth it. I want my channel and this community to feel like a safe place for you to feel like you can be your true self and connect with other people who feel the same. To build each other up and treat each other with respect and have fun and me hiring this person went against all that. So I wanted to give a genuine,honest apology and say that I am very very sorry. No excuses or anything like that,I was wrong and I fucked up. I want people, especially those in the LGBTQ+ community to know that I truly stand with you, now and alwaty.I’m so very sorry if you lost faith and trust in me over this. 

Another magnificent week comes to a close and the sun sets on another ego!

Thank you for all the wonderful Marvin art. He shone brighter than ever!

Last but not least is the protagonist for our story. Our no.1 Sad Dad™, Chase Brody!

A fan favourite and probably my most requested ego to spill the beans on.

Another week goes by and another ego week bites the dust! 

BUT FEAR NOT!!

We did it, we got through Schneep week! What a week it’s been! The art work everyone was uploading was amazing and I LOVE how alive the tag is with it all.

Up next is our lovable, old school mute man, Jameson Jackson!

[July 10]

Hiyo!

So I’ve seen some people talk about a lack of art and nothing but memes in the tag lately so I thought we could do something fun to change that. I think a big reason why there’s less art is because there’s not a lot to draw inspiration from lately since Summer is the lull season for gaming, so let’s create our own inspiration!

You guys have done this sort of thing before with the egos where you pick a different one to draw each week but it sort of fizzled out a little after a couple of weeks. I loved that idea though and it was amazing seeing all the characters in everyone’s art styles. I genuinely love art work so let’s do a more “official” sort of one.

I can’t promise that it will turn into anything more than just a fun cool thing to do and look at for the community but if I think of something more to it then I’ll let you know :D 

I want to be able to filter through them though without conflicting with other hashtags from before like septicart and lumping non related stuff into it, so let’s tag them with #egoartweek  

This Sunday will be the monthly charity livestream for February. We will be raising money for the Gamers Outreach Foundation, who are a wonderful charity helping sick kids in hospitals play videogames. I hope to see you guys there :D

Here is also the exclusive pin design for this months stream, created by the one and only very talented @spacejellybeans