tyig said:
What is this channel? Contextualize me. What happened and why? |
Hmmm okay. So, Kinda Funny are a group of former IGN guys who broke off to do their own thing on Youtube. They do content mostly about video games and other forms of pop culture and media.
A couple of weeks ago one of their founders tweeted out a joke that some people found to be in bad taste, it was honestly a pretty benign joke, but some people didn't take it that well, and he didn't really handle his reaction to that very well. This led to a big fight between people who supported him and people who didn't. Some people got pretty nasty in their defense of Colin, which propted another member of the group (Tim) to say that those weren't the kind of fans KF wanted.
Eventually, Greg Miller (another founder, and majority owner of KF) had to put out a statement. In it, he basically said that he personally thought the joke was in poor taste, but they had all made worse jokes in their content, and that the lack of context on Twitter made things way worse than they would have otherwise been. He wrapped up by saying that friends don't have to agree all the time, that Colin understands the consiquences that his words may have, and that they will try to do better at fostering a positive community going forward.
Fast forward a few days, and Colin announces that he's leaving KF. He's on their daily Twitch stream for a bit that day and they talk about him wanting to break off and focus more on politics and history with his content (which is the direction he had been moving in for a while. He had just recently been on Glenn Becks show, as well as the Rubin Report) and that him leaving was mostly not because of the twitter thing.
People don't take it that well. There are a bunch of people who say he was forced out, and that they threw him under the bus, and that KF gave in to PC SJW's and whatever. They claimed that Tim wanted him gone and that they didn't want anyone who didn't agree with their political beliefs around...
Over the next few days Colin does the Rubin Report, and the Joe Rogan Show where they talk about it and he mentions feeling like people he's known for a long time didn't have his back (all but calling out at least one person who he helped get started at IGN) and his supporters take this as him having a falling out with the guys at KF.
Greg and the other KF guys insist that this isn't the case and claim that they're all still friends (Colin says that they're still friends on the Twitch stream, but hasn't said much about KF since) . It's also worth pointing out that he's going to be back on one of their main podcasts on tuesday (though it won't go up until next week I think) to promote his new venture and talk about his time at KF and say goodbye and such.
It's a big mess, but it will die out. Oh, and I can give you sources for most of what I posted here if you'd like.
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