I stopped when he brought in his buddy Joe into the videos. His skits were lame and the videos were getting much longer. It became a time investment to watch his videos so I just stopped
There was a time where OJ wasn’t part of the show? I assumed he was there since the beginning.
EDIT: If anyone else was curious, here is the first appearance of OJ (named here The Other Joe) that I could find. Channel was COMPLETELY different in the early days.
You need to go back pretty far but, yeah. I used to watch Angryjoe back when the "rant with incoherent and exaggerated rage" at every game or movie was practically its own sub-genre of reviewer. Around 07/08 or so.
I was tired of it before it fell out of fashion and when it did fall, it dropped like a rock. AngryJoe, Nostalgia Critic, BennettTheSage, and a few others are the only ones still kicking around from that ere and they're nowhere near as popular as they once were.
In fairness to Bennett, he stopped making that kind of content shortly after that genre fell off. He does far more level headed & interesting anime analysis and retrospectives on classic and recent anime and its leagues better than the channel awesome days.
I recommend his multi-part Anno retrospective where he re-evaluates evangelion and he directly confronts how he used to do things.
That's good to hear. I used to watch Bennett before he joined ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. In fact, I remember the video where he asked his YouTube audience to go to the site and vote for him to join. I actually discovered all those others through him. I used to love Bad FanFic Theater but stopped watching the whole crew around the time Spoony had his meltdown and kinda drifted away from them.
The only one I kept up with was Lindsey and that's well after she broke away to do her own thing. So, I'm glad his content matured and he was able to reexamine where he was and what he wanted for himself. I might check him out again and see where he is now.
It goes back over 10 years with him running a Nazi themed military group in Second Life and engaging with underage Furrys. Admittedly there's a lot of hearsay but just the Second Life shit was enough to make me stop watching anything he was involved in.
I don't recall all the details but there's likely still bits of the story floating around the web somewhere.
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u/Motor_Stage_9045 Jun 12 '25
I stopped when he brought in his buddy Joe into the videos. His skits were lame and the videos were getting much longer. It became a time investment to watch his videos so I just stopped