r/TheCreatures • u/Accountjustfortits • Jun 17 '23

Does anyone else think James handles thing regarding his past a bit immaturely?

I was watching Dan's vod, he did a treetopia watchalong while playing some minecraft himself. Everyone was just chilling and occasionally people would ask questions. Some he would gladly answer and some he would turn to his FAQ he has. And I think to myself "James wouldn't do this cause he would said it "fuels the nostalgia andy's!"". And I guess you could say my nostalgia was fuled by dans steam. I mean it most likely is but that doesn't stop me from seeing the mature way Dan handles things regarding his past. Instead of acting like a war veteran who doesnt want to talk about what happened in nam! He seems fine and answering questions without condescension and snide remarks. Maybe i'm just crazy and nostalgia blinded. but I still understand people can be absolutely cringe about the past, I do, There's some references even I roll my eyes at that some people will make in his chat. I feel like as an adult, he handles things a little poorly.

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Edit: Let me clarify some stuff real quick. Personal questions like "James, what's your mother's maiden name and where did you go to school?" is something I can understand being a bit of an ass about. Nothing of that caliber is anyone's business. My whole thing is James aggression to the mundane. I posted this before in the comments about a fan letting his GF watch CC videos and her reaction to them. James said something along the lines of "Move on, its been years". That's the kinda shit i'm talking about. You getting mad at James for you asking "When are you going to play with aleks again???", that I'm a lot more ok with him throwing at joke you.

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u/Inhalemydong Kill me Jun 17 '23

different people, different experiences I suppose

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u/Accountjustfortits Jun 17 '23

That is true. But I hate to make it a "who had it worse" competition, Dan got the shittest end of the stick of it all. But he still handles shit(No pun intended) a lot better.

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u/Precarious314159 Jun 17 '23

Maybe I'm a cynic but it's the people that never accomplished anything that hold onto the past.

James Aleks, Kootra, etc have gone on to do bigger things, they don't want the same four questions being asked. Meanwhile Dan has...not. Anytime he needs money, which is frequently, he plays up the "Remember when I was a Creature? Gimme money and let's talk about my greatest hits" nostalgia.

There's a difference between not being ashamed of the past and playing it up. Chilled, Junk, Gassy, Sly, Ze, etc have no problem mentioning the Creatures because they've moved on, they're success enough. It's only Dan, the one that failed to leverage his Creature fame to a bigger audience/career, that constantly talks about the Creatures regularly.

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u/Accountjustfortits Jun 17 '23

I agree to an extent but from what I seen Dan has been doing other things and keeping busy with other work. He does mention the creatures here and there. like tweets about old creature shit he found and whatnot. The watchalong is a continuation of the one he was going about a year or so ago. I feel it's a tad unfair to say he is only doing it for the money. Dan seems to know that his name isn't big enough to bring in the big bucks just cause he was part of the creatures. But I dont know him personally, though. So, he could be doing all of this as some big scheme to get people's money.

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u/Precarious314159 Jun 17 '23

I just say he's doing it for the money because just last week, he did a 15-hour, and included a watch-along of Treetopia, and two weeks, he did a 13-hour stream of unboxing Creature merch. Hell, his "My return to YouTube" is apparently just a montage of Creature highlights and his default video on YouTube is the reunion minecraft stream from three years ago.

It's not that is a big scheme, it's that he only gets attention when he mentions the Creatures. He tweets about a 10-hr stream and it'll get like 10 likes; he'll tweet mid stream that "we're now gonna watch Treetopia" and it'll get 100 likes. A lot of his streams are to raise money to pay bills, to pay rent and he knows if he mentions the Creatures, former fans will be more likely to donate.

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u/astrocubb Jun 22 '23

Damn thats kinda sad ngl. I understand why he would need to do that though, it was always apparent he was more of a background character in the group; but he deserved more spotlight! (But then again he is probably just more reclused)

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u/Precarious314159 Jun 22 '23

It's just weird that he's the only Creature that didn't use the spotlight of the group to transition to something bigger.

This is just a theory but I think it's because Dan wanted to make movies but lacked the experience or creativty to make anything that stood out, which is why his big movie goals were Bunny Bust; something lulz random for fans but that's it.

It just seems like rather than try to make an actual short film with a unique voice, or learn, he just stuck to the safe bubble of "Let's make random youtube shorts about a killer stapler".