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I remember when this board was just starting, he was alongside James Rolfe and Arino as one of the 3 pillars of /vr/.

What the fuck went wrong?

>> No.7790843
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7790843

>>7790832

>> No.7790849

>>7790832
The state of Game Room reflects /vr/'s pretty damn well if you ask me. Now excuse me, I have to play some Dead Angle on my Sega System.

>> No.7790852

>>7790832
He became a huge faggot.

>> No.7790854

>>7790832
People donated money and he bought stuff for himself and then ended up the channel.

>> No.7790856

>>7790832
Sadly CGR couldn’t support itself when the YouTube bubble popped. Always liked Mark and Derek.

>> No.7790863

Ecelebs were usually discourages in old /vr/ (arino isn't eceleb)
I'd say the 3 pillars of /vr/ were the aversion to memery (this board was proud of being the anti-/v/), the enthusiasm for real retro games and, yeah, the ggcx threads.
Over time, more and more low quality posters came in (australiakum, the /vg/ rejects, etc), more and more memes kept being spammed and forced, some regulars started posting less or stopping altogether, and then ecelebs threads started getting made unironically. Then the rules changed and you know the rest... the current absolute state of this board. RIP

>> No.7790872

>>7790832
He was an asshole rich kid who threw multiple temper tantrums over nothingburgers until he drove away his audience. There's no big mystery here and it's hardly a unique story.

>> No.7790874

Always felt to me like his downfall was his own greediness and starting to lock content behind a paywall on his own website.

>> No.7790896

>>7790852
how so?

>> No.7790902

>>7790863
Hearing how you talk about it, golden age /vr/ must have been quite the sight. I mean, let's be honest, right now this board is among the comfiest place I know of. Lots of posters still are passionate and knowledgeable about retro games, shilling is sparse and easily recognizable, and our boomers are men of experience and wisdom

>> No.7790904

>>7790832
what a chad...

>> No.7790907

>>7790832
He got tired of video games, started focusing on art and selling t-shirts.

>> No.7790910

>>7790896
Paywalled most of his content, constantly shilled his comics (to the point that his channel is now only about comics), had a brief stint in Instagram that went nowhere, and then just decided to start selling cheaply-made shirts with whatever dumb design came to his head, all while constantly shilling them to no end on his (now non-vidya) videos.

>> No.7790912

>>7790863
Building your culture based on "not being /v/" is as gay and brainless as basing your board on /v/. Like what you like, hate what you hate.

>> No.7790919

>>7790872
CGR was also completely unsustainable. He hired several employees and rented that huge warehouse space. Then the golden age of YouTube money ended and there was no way to keep paying for all that shit.

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>>7790832
Man, I just get sad thinking about what happened to CGR.

>> No.7790923

>>7790902
I guess I was spoiled with old /vr/ and can hardly find anything good here anymore, but yeah maybe it still is one of the less shitty boards on 4chan, although thanks to australiakum this board is also known for having the least funny, most retarded memes, so there's that for nu-/vr/.
Old /vr/ just had minimal (if any) shitposting or memes, and often had good OC from various posters, from people who dumped actual rare games to scanning whole japanese artbooks. It was a really good quality board up until 2016/2017.

>> No.7790928

This thread was moved to >>>/trash/38919641