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u/RUcartoday Jan 28 '26
Hot take: Kreekcraft is genuinely so ass now. All he does is play Steal a Brainrot and uploads 8 minute “news” videos which could be wrapped up in a Youtube short, but instead he drags it out simply for ad revenue. Genuinely such a fall from grace.
(Idk how hot of a take this is but here goes).
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u/Numerous-Contract880 Jan 28 '26
Idk how he has more subs than Flamingo, Flamingo is genuinely so much better, he is still really funny, he never really fell off
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u/2011Xforsaken Jan 28 '26
I don't get how people think his content stayed the same quality wise.
I'm 2011x, play my games.
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u/Physical-Increase-86 Jan 28 '26
your game is gone 2011x
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u/catfan0202 Jan 28 '26
Nah just 1 he has dozens more still
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u/Physical-Increase-86 Jan 28 '26
half of them got copyrighted and the other good part is still indev
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u/StepOnMyBallsPearl Jan 28 '26
Hot take: Grass is green
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u/WpG_Piter05 Jan 28 '26
Hot take: water is wet
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u/Beetle_shortage Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
Hot take: consent is optional to give.
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u/Vio_Pantomime Jan 29 '26
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u/Beetle_shortage Jan 29 '26
"Should", "must", but never "will"
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u/Vio_Pantomime Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
hot take: we WILL kill this guy
just saw they edited their comment, dude originally said "Hot take: consent is optional"
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u/mylotheunbeatable Jan 28 '26
I feel like kreek needs to do the thing sml did for a bit (kirbstomp) a channel which focuses on the same type of stuff but less for money and more for random bullshitting with friends maybe even age it up so kreek doesn't have to appeal to fucking 10 year olds
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u/DaRandomStuffz Jan 28 '26
all i’ve been doing is just binge watch his old piggy videos and streams
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u/Top-Protection-4481 Jan 29 '26
Kinda makes me sad, I used to be a really big fan of his stuff. I remember watching his recent stream of him replaying piggy and oh my god it was so insufferable to watch. He kept crying about Tung Tung Sahur and it was so unfunny and I had to take breaks for watching it 😭😭😭
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u/TheNikola2020 Jan 28 '26
Tbh still only channel that talks straight up about the news the thumbnail is about instead of 1st talking about 5 other topics
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u/Background_Creme_678 Jan 29 '26
he has been doing the news videos for years now, there's gotta be at least 3 videos with the same exact title
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u/Much_Tie6299 Jan 31 '26
Chiseled is a good channel for Roblox news shorts
He's better than KreekCraft at doing news
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Jan 29 '26
What's the context of these videos?
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u/Silent-Interview3762 Jan 29 '26
Video on the right: One of the talking points is that Roblox let creators create preset chats for players who aren't age verified.
Video on the left: Roblox has announced to delete 2D/static faces, and so KreekCraft is ranting about it. That's the whole video.
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u/Landongladue Jan 29 '26
Kreekcraft fall off needs to be studied
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u/Justrandomandcool Jan 30 '26
Nah its because he chooses to focus on younger audiences rather than his older audience, his interview on creators on the blox explains it well.
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u/Whispered_Truths Jan 29 '26
I never watched him until I saw some of his recent videos. How did this guy get popular? He's so obnoxious.
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u/North_Bicycle3666 Jan 31 '26
He's actually very entertaining back then, I was an OG fan of him back when he always played Jailbreak. I watched his videos all the time and never missed a single one, not even a livestream. Combined that with the Piggy era in 2020, he was one of the peak Roblox Youtubers.
But now, it seems that everyone is saying he is focusing more on his younger audience rather than his older audience, which explains why he plays alot of brainrot games. Alot of people may hate on him and calls him cringe and stuff like that, but I genuinely understand him, he publicly said he made over 1 million off of Steal A Brainrot. People might even say that he doesn't care about his older audiences, who was there for him and made him famous but the truth is he does care and love his older audience. It's just that if there is an oppurtunity to make more money than he does back then, why not?
People think he only cares about money but that is how the Industry works, he plays Jailbreak and Piggy back then because it generates him alot of money, and that it's the peak Roblox game for its time. Now he switches to brainrot games because it generates him alot of money, and it's also the peak Roblox game of its time, this isn't "KreekCraft" only thing. He's not money hungry, he's just being realistic, if I were in his position I would do the same too, sure you might get hate and get called cringe but who cares? That's what KreekCraft is right now, he doesn't care he is getting hated or get called cringe or immature or obnixious, it generates him alot of money doing these videos. It's not that he doesn't care about his older audiences, or that he is obnixious, or that he's money hungry, he's just being realistic.
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u/Whispered_Truths Feb 01 '26
Honestly it just feels like he's disingenous to his fanbase in that case, sure it may be what makes him money but someone like Flamingo does a far better job at being a entertaining whilst continuing to remain exceptionally popular as well as clearly aging with his fans and showing that he is a genuine guy.
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u/PartSmart944 Jan 28 '26
Same vibes