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Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson is a Newgrounds animator turned youtube let's player who hosts the channel Game Grumps. Arin likes to think of himself as an expert of politics and game design, constantly spouting on about how woke he is and even starting a series on youtube called Sequelitis to talk about how he knows what makes a piece of vidya fun. Peeling back the layers of fat, however, Arnold is a hypocritical blowhard who's ammassed an army of children to give him ass pats whenever he does something wrong. No one has really covered his endless controversies due to his status as "non-problematic funny youtube man" that's made his SJW fanbase stick to him like velcro, even if that entire persona is faked by him.
To deconstruct Arin's personality, his "Ego" if you will, we have to break it down into three points: his deviancy, his hypocrisy and his DSP levels of tard rage.
1. Deviancy
Arin is a very professional man, he'd have you believe. He claims to run a company, not a youtube channel, and will go on about he's made it and such despite screaming at video games being the easiest thing to make money off of. So you'd think he'd maintain a squeaky clean image and avoid all controversy? No of course not, this is the same guy who sucks up to his wife's cunt to the point where he helps white knight her Etsy scams [archive] (more info in his wife's thread [archive], yeah these are married cows!). Which isn't the only thing he sucks up to.
This wasn't the last of Dream Daddy's controversy, as up next the GG fanbase would go after a woman who drew genderflipped fan art of the DD cast with them as the opposite gender and the worst part was they were backed by gaming press! [archive] This art was bad and problematic because one of those "Daddies" is trans, therefore... you're supposed to keep them as a man? I don't know why the Grumps fanbase shat their pants over this, genderflipping a trans man into (pressumably) a trans woman is a progressive thing to do, no? Anyway, the point is Arin Hanson has cultivated this kind of fanbase by having his company make games that sexualise real people, endorsing the #Polygrumps tumblr tag to the point that fans making rule 34 of the people on Game Grump have a reddit page dedicated to it [archive] and still has the nerve to suggest he runs a professional and "clean" business.
2. Hypocrisy
Arin is a very progressive man, so he'd have you believe. Sure he used to make edgy jokes on Game Grumps [archive], but maybe that was due to the influence of former co-host and BFF Jon "Aryan" Jafari AKA JonTron putting subliminal nazi ideology in Arin's head. Good boy Arin couldn't possible be a massive edgelord who is now trying to cover himself up by playing SJW? Well, fasten your seatbelts this is juicy as fuck.
In an old animation livestream Arin has admitted to having to "scream Nigger" after meeting a black person to "get it out of his system". Because that's what all normal people do, right? [archive] This is extra ironic after Arin stated he wouldn't want JonTron back on Game Grumps because of harmful opinions [archive], and after he stated he hates Twitter for not deplatforming enough pRoBlEmAtIc PeOpLe [archive] yet shouldn't he be the last person to talk or even be on these platforms because of shit like this? Keep in mind, he was hardly young and careless, the guy's pushing forty. Nor was he young and careless when him and current co-host Dan Avidan doxed a guy.
Yes, the Game Grumps doxed a guy. Isn't that our job? For such proud SJWs Dan and Arin can't keep their mouths shut. On a playthrough of Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast Arin needed a walkthrough read out to him (lol), during the Knuckles stages the walkthrough begins to frustate Ego because it doesn't tell him where the collectables are [archive]. This is due to the locations of the emerald pieces needed to beat the stage are randomly decided, Arin doesn't understand this and begins insulting the walkthrough maker because he didn't predict in 2004 that some retard almost a decade later would need help beating a fucking Sonic game. Dan then reads out the IRL name of the guy that made the walkthrough, then tells the people watching Game Grumps to send messages to him right after both of them talk shit about this walkthrough he made when he was twelve. [archive] You can imagine, when your fanbase is consisted of twelve year olds that thirst after Dan because he's in a band, that the Game Grumps audience took it upon themselves to find out about the guy's family and then harass them. Progressive, right?
The funniest part about this is that despite Dan making an apology [archive], turns out they weren't actually remorseful at all because in a recent playthrough of Skyward Sword the Grumps admit that they didn't think they did anything wrong [archive]. So not only are these guys SJWs, they're not even good at being SJWs.
3. Arin can't play video games
Arin considers himself a game design expert, nay, a game design scholar! He started a career in game journalism with his series Sequelitis, providing video essays of sorts comparing and reviewing sequels of games to their precursors. People who love Arin will always point to his 'Mega Man X vs. Classic' [archive] video as being a masterpiece of game design analysis, despite all its points being really obvious beginner grade shit like "tutorials iz bad" and "when an enemy is coming towards you your instinct is to jump". [archive] Shit like that.
The University of Houston actually showed this shit in class! And no, that's not shopped, it's from an r/GameGrumps thread. [archive]
The most infamous episode of Sequelitis however, was 'Ocarina of Time vs. Link to the Past.' [archive] A video that split everyone down the middle, some gay followers of Arin like the youtuber Caddicarus view it as an excellent video because it goes against the grain and disses a game people (like real critics, for example) consider a masterpiece. Because contrarians.
This video by Arin actually has more hate and responses than a JonTron controvery. Never underestimate angry nerds.
People who actually pay attention will see it's just some guy waxing nostalgic about how his favourite game is good because muh childhood and Ocarina isn't as good because it isn't like the game from muh childhood. Then he complains that people gave Skyword Sword good reviews, like it matters. However, after the dust settled there was a Game Grumps playthrough that came out where Arin goes back to Zelda: Ocarina to reinforce his points and maybe illustrate what he meant when he made that video. The result?
Arin hates Ocarina of Time because he's really, really bad at it.
The curtain was pulled back and turned out Arin didn't make his conclusions based on FACTS and LOGIC but rather because he was asshurt that the game kept killing him. Stuff like not ever using the shield, needing a walkthrough to get through the puzzles and equipping boots that negatively affect traction throughout the whole game absolutely demolished Arin's pretensions and it was hilarious. There's an entire compilation of him reaching DSP levels of incompetence and having tantrums on easy shit like the Gerudo fortress. Turns out the expert on Game Design is shit at video games. Hey, guess he really is a games journalist!
In fact, there's multiple 'This is How You Don't Play: Game Grumps Edition' compilations of him being really bad at video games while trying to save face. Some guys made a little trilogy out of the Zelda ones, where if you add up the run time of all the videos combined, Arin's tard rage is supercut and it still somehow reaches up to fourteen hours. Yet they're probably the best Game Grumps content since Jon left and the show became PC, but in a so bad it's good way. Usually GG's editing is so shitty there's literally 90 seconds of silence due to editing mistakes and constant filler to make it to fifteen minutes, but with these videos it's condensed so you just see a pretentious fool making an ass of himself and being obnoxiously unfunny for the whole thing. It's like a hilarious highlight reel of someone being a dumb shit, made extra funny because people actually look up to this like he's the Roger Ebert of vidya shit.
The supreme highlights of these compilations is the fact that Arin doesn't even finish Majora and Skyward. With the former he dies on a MINIBOSS, and then goes on a long screed because a shop in-game is shut where he says "you're allowed to like this game I have no problem with that" and then immediately after "I hate that people think this game is fantastic". It's hilarious.
Keep in mind this guy thinks he's a video game design scholar, yet can figure out you need to put a shield up to block attacks during combat.
In Conclusion
Arin Hanson is a pretentious, fat degenerate who constantly digs himself into controversy. By it with his old incel-tier videos about his wife [archive] or his new controversy like making bank on a meme then getting angry when people quote it. [archive] His tantrums about how he's right about politics or game design are way more hilarious than his dumb, badly aged cartoons or his let's plays where he jokes about farting. His popularity is on the decline and I think part of him can't handle it, eventually his toxic little fanbase will grow up and leave. Then he won't be able to ride the social justice gravy train. Then his co-host will leave to get a proper career and he won't be able to ride the gravy train of a man much more interesting than him. His decline may not be evident yet, but GG's views are stagnant and it's only a matter of time before the best meltdowns of his career come to fruition.
GG used to get millions of views an episode in a matter of hours. Now it takes months for an episode to hit a million, it's a slow decline but a sure one.
Also he shat himself while recording a GG episode. [archive]
Links
Youtube [archive]
Twitter [archive]
Game Grumps youtube [archive]
Game Grumps twitter [archive]
Old, shitty, locked thread [archive]
Cow Crossovers
Arin has associated with a lot of cows over the years, guess he has a talent for surrounding himself with people so exceptional he makes himself look better. So just who does Arin, professional businessman and Wile E. Coyote-level genius, choose to associate with?
This is a section for people considered Arin's friends, or people he has at least promoted with knowledge of who they are and chose to associate with them. Also his wife.
- Suzy Berhow / Mortem3r / KittyKatGaming - Arin's wife, literal butterface, SJW, Yoko Ono of Game Grumps and etsy scammer. Thread Archive here.
- Maddox / George Ouzounian / George Schnoz - Collaborated with the King of Cuck himself on Maddox's shitty podcast to talk about Italian food. Thread archive here.[archive]
- Shmorky / David Kelly / Daisy Kay - Literal pedophile, diaperfur, Something Awful member, abuser and now a recluse that tries to come back on the internet under various aliases. The cow crossover comes from him being a friend of Arin's and did not one but two Game Grumps Animated videos for him that are still up on the channel. Thread archive here. [archive][archive]
- Dan Harmon - One of the most prolific of Arin's cow crossovers is with the co-creator of Rick & Morty and the man who put his wiener on the doll of a baby "for a gag", Dan "slap a female writer till she looks like a ham" Harmon himself. Not only has Harmon appeared on Game Grumps as a celebrity (lol) guest. Not only has Arin appeared on Harmontown with his co-host Dan Avidan. Not only has Arin voiced in Rick & Morty. Harmon even WROTE a show for the Game Grumps, or at least starred in it and produced it. The horrible, unwatchable Youtube Red (I know that seems redundant, but even by their standards it's bad) series Good Game. I've stuck an upload of the first episode below, I'd recommend having adblock on, but you can watch a review of it further down and save yourself the second hand embarrassment. The show feels like Harmon and Hanson had their grubby little hands on the writing side, with a villain saying unironically "did I trigger you?", but this could just be the result of having loud and obnoxious youtuber Jesse Cox on board. In short: Bad Show.Thread archive here.
Acquaintances and cows that have brief stints of drama with the guy. People that aren't really Arin's friends, but he has brushed with them regardless. Him knowing of their crazy behaviour is way less likely in cases like these, because he hasn't chose to buddy up with them multiple times or cover their ass. Cow cameos, if you will.
- Christopher Lee King / PingPongCall / Blergatron9000 - Fat loser game journalist who pretended to have cancer to scam money out of people. Guilted the Grumps into giving him a shout out, resulting in his fake cancer fund getting even more revenue from GG's drones. Thread archive here.[archive]
Shit I missed
- JonTron leaving Game Grumps is a whole debacle that could make its own subsection, for those wondering about his departure and the drama surrounding it there's a video made by The Gamer From Mars which covers the ordeal and the rumours that came out of its poor handling. Another testament on either how shitty Arin is with PR or how he can't hire people who can handle PR correctly.[archive]
Thread updates
Any new drama and announcements of corrections or edits will go here.
- Thread added, can't get rid of islamic crossdressing attachment because I'm a tard. Bah.
- Added cow crossover section for any GG-related cows.
-Fixed miscellaneous errors.
- Added cow crossover section for any GG-related cows.
-Fixed miscellaneous errors.
-Aaaand we're out of proving grounds. Good shit.
-Added Maddox info.
-Added a more specific clip for Arin sharting himself like a pig, originally it linked to the full episode. [archive]
-Fixed miscellaneous errors.
-Added Maddox info.
-Added a more specific clip for Arin sharting himself like a pig, originally it linked to the full episode. [archive]
-Fixed miscellaneous errors.
-Added aptly named 'Shit I missed' section.
-Started new section off with adding That Gamer from Mars' video on JonTron's departure from Game Grumps.
-Added Shmorky to cow crossover section.
-Added Chris Lee to cow crossover section.
-Added bullet point formatting for cow crossover section.
-Added spoilers for differentiating major and minor cows in Arin's life.
-Added Dan Harmon to major cow crossovers.
-Fixed miscellaneous errors.
-Started new section off with adding That Gamer from Mars' video on JonTron's departure from Game Grumps.
-Added Shmorky to cow crossover section.
-Added Chris Lee to cow crossover section.
-Added bullet point formatting for cow crossover section.
-Added spoilers for differentiating major and minor cows in Arin's life.
-Added Dan Harmon to major cow crossovers.
-Fixed miscellaneous errors.
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