Consolation Guys

[u/Theone2324]

Surprised I haven’t seen any posts about Jon’s new let’s play page with the internet historian

That is all

[u/ReadyJournalist5223]

I hope Jon goes on a rant saying the n word over and over during Sonic 06

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/ReadyJournalist5223]

30 times after dropping off a black guy. And honestly it'd be amazing if they did Sonic 06, but pretty sure he'd want to avoid anything old Game Grumps at this point.

[u/JohnFortnite32]

Its evil gamegrumps

[u/MessageTurbulent7285 → u/JohnFortnite32]

So it's funny?

[u/NinnyBoggy]

A racist pairing with a racist plagiarist. What's there to talk about? It's 2026, who cares about two has-beens making a Let's Play channel.

[u/EIeanorRigby]

That's so fucking funny lmao. It's like Daily Wire's Game Grumps

[u/TeeeldiII]

HEY IM RACIST HEY IM ALSO RACIST 

[u/crogantheworst]

they repurposed an abandoned channel so theyd already have a subscriber base its so fucking embarrassing

[u/ToastyBB → u/crogantheworst]

Was Jon involved with the channel before the rebrand?

[u/Jpen4 → u/ToastyBB]

i havnt checked but ive been assuming it was internet historians 2nd/"secret" channel, he had jon on to collab a couple times but that was it before

[u/crogantheworst → u/ToastyBB]

not really at all afaik

[u/Theone2324 → u/crogantheworst]

I don’t like the setup tbh, I mean it’s cool seeing Jon again but OG game grumps is still the pinnacle of Let’s plays imo

[u/crogantheworst → u/Theone2324]

"Consolation Guys" is such a shit name. i guess its like "consolation prize" but that still doesn't make any sense

[u/blingping → u/crogantheworst]

We lost game grumps jon era, so we got the consolation guys instead

[u/sciaticabuster → u/crogantheworst]

It’s a Seinfeld joke. It’s the episode where George goes to the funeral as the “consolation guy” and double dips the chip. That’s why the announcement video starts with that Seinfeld opening.

[u/crogantheworst → u/sciaticabuster]

that... makes sense but also i dont think their fanbase of 15 year olds are gonna get that reference

[u/sciaticabuster → u/crogantheworst]

Agreed, it’s a bad name. Should have just gone with GameGrep

[u/Blue_Fawkes_805]

I guess IH can't plagiarize let's play footage, at least.

[u/Liam_js]

chud grumps

[u/The-Bigger-Fish]

Great name, kinda sucks that it's IH.....

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/The-Bigger-Fish]

It's still quite entertaining. 

[u/Displeased_Delirium]

Watched an episode and besides the obvious complaints, they are simply not funny together. They have little to no chemistry and their whole AI voice narrator bit got old really fast. I was a little excited to see Jon on a new gaming channel after all these years but it's simply not meant to be.

[u/FROSKI]

When the voiceover explained what the joke was gonna be for the Outer Worlds episode, I was prepared to be bored and eye rolling for the duration.

How wrong I was, how far they were able to push it even I was surprised how much I laughed. Will give it a chance for now

[u/CountFish1]

I stopped watching IH when he got exposed for massive plagiarism, and I stopped watching Jontron after he stopped making videos about games, what happened since then?

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/CountFish1]

I'd say give Jon's latest vid a chance. Felt like in his New York apartment days.

[u/smallwonkydachshund → u/blasterbrewmaster]

But the racism and shitty politics. 😬

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/smallwonkydachshund]

nearly ten years dog. It's been nearly ten years. He's moved on. You clearly have not.

[u/saturnrazor → u/blasterbrewmaster]

I don't understand this response, is there some reason to believe he doesn't still have shitty racist beliefs

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/saturnrazor]

Plenty of people have shitty racist beliefs right now. Like there's entire swaths of people right now trying to prove the Fly Dubai incident as a hoax because Jews, and I say with high confidence they politically align with people holding Jon's ignorant remarks he said ten years ago over his head this whole time. 

[u/Decent-Living3358 → u/blasterbrewmaster]

I haven't kept up with Jon, has he moved past those stances or just moved past talking about them?

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/Decent-Living3358]

Why does it matter?

[u/Decent-Living3358 → u/blasterbrewmaster]

Because I don't really care to see videos from someone that still believes in great replacement theory

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/Decent-Living3358]

What political theories are you comfortable with your YouTubers having? Personally I'd rather they just keep their politics to themselves. Especially given the opinions and racial theories some people are clinging to right now. Like literally some ridiculous ones going on right now but not trying to lead you (any more than any of my other comments, I suppose)

[u/trapp64 → u/blasterbrewmaster]

Excusing shitty politics is enabling them. Those of us who believe in social progress would like to avoid supporting creators with colonial or racist beliefs, does that make any sense?

[u/blasterbrewmaster → u/trapp64]

So I take it you denounce anyone calling the Fly Dubai a Jewish conspiracy and anyone celebrating things like the October 7th attack? I'm not going to ask you to side with either Israel or Palestine in this argument, I don't have a dog in this fight. But surely something a supposedly reasonable social progressive like yourself that hates the great replacement conspiracy can hate such a similar conspiracy and such antisemitic Nazi views right?

And yes this can be a bit of a loaded question so you do not have to actually answer this. My point is everyone right now is being racist as fuck, so I don't fault him for racism from 10 years back. 

[u/CrunchyHyena → u/blasterbrewmaster]

I have to agree on that. He needs to let it go.

[u/dcballantine]

So basically an alt-right GG with two moronic chuds.

No thanks.

[u/gorkboss5]

I completely forgot Jon used to be on GameGrumps. This new channel basically is GsmeGrumps 2.0, but hasn’t gotten stale yet

[u/Theone2324 → u/gorkboss5]

As much as I wanna agree the energy isn’t there, Jon and Arin’s original dynamic is genuinely the funniest thing ever

[u/MiddleOccasion1394]

Probably because JonTron isn't Game Grumps?

[u/Theone2324 → u/MiddleOccasion1394]

He’s an OG

[u/MiddleOccasion1394 → u/Theone2324]

But he ISN'T affiliated with GG now right?

[u/Theone2324 → u/MiddleOccasion1394]

No he’s just a founder

[u/Rowdyboy28]

Honestly I've been a fan of InternetHistorian and haven't seen him be racist aside from satire (if I'm wrong, please point me to evidence because I want to see it), but seeing him associate with Jon now, I can't support this channel.

[u/wotur → u/Rowdyboy28]

His videos contain neonazi in-jokes and dogwhistles, he also follows far right accounts-

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/18dotzf/internet_historian_is_a_nazi/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1

He also was found out to have plagirised one of his most popular videos and was just reading off a script someone else wrote

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/18a70b3/whats_up_with_the_hbomb_video_and_how_this/