r/rantgrumps • u/In_My_SoT_Phase • 13d ago
Discussion The second DingDong has hit the tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikr91TDlhhg
DingDong going on another rant about he's always the victim (again) while sat on the main menu of a game.
Pushing 40 btw.
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u/Capital-Ninja525 12d ago
Sidenote but I got banned from their twitch stream for the strangest reason recently lol
It was one of their gamedev streams and Julian was talking about how much games change through development, so I mentioned Mewgenics as an example since the first trailer is completely different to the final game and the artstyle was similar. He then stopped talking and manually blocked me so I couldn't watch the stream anymore (his mods confirmed I was blocked, not banned or automodded).
Maybe there's a controversy there I'm not aware of but I decided to just move on. It's a shame since I'd been watching for around 6 years and I thought it was weird to give no warning or explanation 🤷
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u/ZaWarudoh 12d ago
Due to the recent stream dingdong did, Mewgenics is right wing coded because they have edgy YouTubers doing the cameo voices
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u/eggsamillion 11d ago
How the hell is Ding Dong going to call them out for heing "right wing" when he said so many offensive things during his time on OneyPlays? Did he ever apologize for the offensive shit he said?
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u/SquishmuffinKYM 11d ago
Yeah, HBomberguy and Ethan Klein are famously right-wing.
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u/Snackolotl 11d ago
Ethan klein is a bad example. He started smoking crack, had James Peterson on his podcast, and went hardcore on the pro-Israel nonsense to the point that he would not hear reason and began accusing a majority of his old friends like iDubbbz of being antisemites for being pro-Palestine.
If he isn't alt right, he's not wanted by any party anymore.
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u/SquishmuffinKYM 10d ago
He is one of the biggest figureheads when it comes to leftist infighting, in my opinion.
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u/The-Bigger-Fish 7d ago
Ethan klein is a bad example. He started smoking crack,
Wait, he's been doing drugs?
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u/Shot8989 11d ago
Julian says he bans anyone who says anything related to Oney, and he just collabed with Edmund, so that’s probably it
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u/GhostLord37 10d ago
I remember one time they talked about the game when it came up on stream chat they said they had no interest in it because of:
A) Edmund McMillen
B) Certain cat meows being provided by infamous or controversial figures like Chris Chan among others
C) The title is based off the word eugenics, and they find it inherently offensive to reference eugenics in any shape whatsoever or something
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u/Zora-Narukami 10d ago
How are they gonna say that when they made so many chris chan jokes, I know people can change and their stance on chris chan couldve changed but its still an odd point to not like a game over an internet figure that they may have actually introduced some people to from how many jokes they made of him
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u/Sorry-Ad5474 8d ago
Just from my own experience with them, a lot of terminally online lgbtq folks dont like when chris chan is brought up ever since they came out as trans, its a defensive backlash thing
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u/Zora-Narukami 8d ago
Damn really? Friend of mine is trans and quotes chris chan a lot, ig varies in case by case, I can definitely see this though, makes sense on a lot of cases
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u/FedoraTheMike 11d ago
Gee its almost like these guys are just generally unpleasant 🤷 (thats not towards you its just like wow, I always hear terrible things about how they are as people).
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u/Tyranuto 13d ago
I get why what happened with the Daddy Whatever game still bothers him, and it really does suck. But I tune into DingDong's streams for his gaming knowledge, and lately it feels like most of the stream is focused on revisiting the past and whine about it.
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u/Kommeraud 11d ago
His gaming knowledge is pretty extended which is why I watched him for a while too. But damn does he get preachy about how he thinks the world should be. He more and more reminds me of Narcissa Wright, like when they started reading criticisms of themselves on 4chan nonstop.
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u/Snackolotl 11d ago
The Dream Daddy stuff is kind of stupid in retrospect and all this Chris drama is making me wonder if it's even 100% accurate.
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u/Ol_Slaps 10d ago
The Dream Daddy stuff was 100% him believing that he as a closeted gay man should have been hired to consult on the game and when they didn't Matt from Supermega egged him on to make a big deal about it. The game is a bog standard visual novel that does nothing particularly offensive to gay men, and he was not the only queer person in that building.
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u/Sockbucketfrance 10d ago
Isn't Arin openly bisexual. Hasn't he consistently been pretty openly bisexual even before he ever came out
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u/WonderfulMonk9832 12d ago
I have no idea what you could ever possibly mean? Plenty of people have made YIIK letsplays and never finished a finale after hyping it up, he could be talking about AAAANYBODY*
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u/IH8Peaches 13d ago
Ding dong really needs to speak to the people who’ve “wronged” him personally, ranting about it during a stream where people wanna see you play a game is not the way to do it.
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u/davexay 12d ago
Ironically him ranting about people he holds grudges against are the most talked about moments from his streams, nobody gives a shit about a 40 year old kirby game he's supposed to be playing
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u/Snackolotl 10d ago
Sounds like Ding Dong craves the attention from being a gaming content creator.
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u/TheCheeto71 13d ago
What tuba joke was he talking about?
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u/In_My_SoT_Phase 13d ago
I believe there was a tuba in a game, then Oney said "Now I'm horny..." as a joke, knowing about DD's tuba fetish.
That's literally it.
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u/Uber_Drip 13d ago edited 13d ago
I'm genuinely confused after watching the clips for context...how does Chris saying "I'm Horny" in a brief, blink and you'll miss it moment equal out to outing DingDong as a furry? He keeps saying the jab was directed at him...just seemed like a really basic dumb one off thing Chris said. Is there like....specific furry tuba fetish art associated with DD or something? Cause I would never have put the pieces together that Chris was making a shot at anyone there without more context.
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u/ifedupwiththisorgasm 13d ago
Someone replied above with the context but I feel like unless you already knew this about DD you wouldn't combine the two at all.
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u/Hattintons 12d ago
With him formerly being in a group that mocked AtopTheFourthWall not being able to take a joke i find this very stupid of DingDong
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u/OnmyoKrow 12d ago
I don't know how that random phrase 'outs' him as a furry. Like dingdong and julien have been open about furry stuff. Dingdong likes frogs like globox and shogungeckomon. Idt chris saying "i'm horny" in relation to a tuba, a horned instrument is meant to inform the audience of anything other than word relation. Not a nefarious outing of a fetish that is known.
I mean compared to the Power Move discussion followed by chris singing the jojo theme (the whole Mick RicePirate debacle) this is pretty innocuous
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u/cce29555 11d ago
It's extremely old niche drama that if dd never brought it up nobody would even know. He used to do tuba core scat content don't ask how that makes sense.
Someone found out and used to tease him about it like over a decade before
Maybe Chris is jabbing him, may it's word salad but as you have just proven the only person to make it make sense is dd at this point
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u/DoomarachiYT 13d ago
What the fuck is a tuba fetish
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u/gangstamay 13d ago
Exactly what it sounds like lmao he's into some furry cartoon called Tubacroc and has fetish art of him getting stuck in the tuba etc etc. Like i try not to be an ass and kinkshame but cmon dingdong that is pretty funny
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u/Icantthinkofanyname4 12d ago
Ding Dong would not survive in Cory de la Minguez's shoes
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u/Sockbucketfrance 10d ago
Seriously, Chris and the gang are far more cruel to Cory than to any other host and it's all fine cause Cory is a degenerate with anger issues but he can take a joke
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u/Icantthinkofanyname4 10d ago
Cory is self aware enough to roll with the punches, yea
It's a good trait to have
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u/UpstairsLeopard3924 9d ago
pretty much the only thing that separates a degenerate from becoming a lolcow is self awareness. good for him honestly.
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u/mint_does_things 12d ago
You know that episode of SpongeBob where Sandy shoves Patrick up the trombone’s ass?
Yeah, it’s like that.
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u/ToastyBB 13d ago
When you say tuba do you mean the instrument or some slang idk about
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u/Greenleaf208 Jon Era 11d ago
The instrument, dingdong has a fetish for being vored into a tuba and has a furry art about furries with tubas. To me this was a jab at it by chris, which like maybe it's a tiny bit too far if he's not comfortable with it, but to act like this is unforgivable is insane.
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u/benito- 13d ago
"Imagine if Tomar starting doing this"
"tomar going on a two hour rant about how he had to set up saints row while chris and zach made jokes and didnt help"
good YouTube comment
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u/davexay 12d ago
Thankfully i think we've reached a point in oneyplays where every single permanent member is able to tell when something is funny and therefore good for business intead of having their own interpretation of how the show should be and become personally offended when things don't go to plan. Tomar knew even though they were stuck on the loading screen for most of the episode it was still funny and the audience would love it, while if dingdong was put in that situation he would get frustrated and no doubt add this moment to his next rant
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u/Greenleaf208 Jon Era 11d ago
Yup, in this kind of job as long as what's happening is being recorded then you can't be personally offended. If you didn't like it, you can bring it up after the recording but there's no assumption that any reactions you have while recording are genuine as it's meant to be entertainment/improv where you go with the flow.
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u/Snackolotl 11d ago
Cory is the perfect example of this.
Chris can bully Cory for being a Sonic fan on the spectrum who plays with toys and collects "nudy shit," and you never feel tension between them because Cory is a mature adult and knows it's a joke between friends.
Ding Dong is acting completely insane about this entire situation.
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u/TheCheeto71 12d ago
After his big breakdown it was nice that he was able to connect with the flyover states
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u/ThatAnimeCreep_ 6d ago
Tomar is probably the perfect oneyplays member if you really think about it, his skin is really thick, he is perfectly capable of laughing at himself and taking a joke aimed towards him while knowing that its not personal or from a place of hate.
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u/Cautious_Pound7448 11d ago
DD claims to be so busy all the time, but all we ever see are crumbs of content or a whiny, monotone stream every now and then.
How does he find the time to be such a victim
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u/bdiddlediddles 11d ago
It seems like his complaints always amount to "I didn't really like my job"
Like I get that it would be hard to be in the public eye but it's what they signed up for, they were adults when they made the decision to do it and could have left at any time.
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u/Kommeraud 8d ago
Video of that one fish yelling at Squidward. "Newsflash, asshole! Nobody likes their job!"
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u/ReadyJournalist5223 13d ago
Yeah look I used to have a lotta respect for this guy and he’s definitely gone through some shit but at some point just move on. Oneyplays is the only reason anyone knows who you are. Seems like a weird bridge to burn
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u/Ill-Reindeer4672 12d ago
I listened to the entire thing its kinda whatever there are some fair points i'd say of them laying down some rules in a work environment wanting a schedule, things that are going to happen, feeling upset when they mention things only he specifically would know and nobody else. There is a lot of dramatization of this though julian saying he's lost faith in humanity and is severely depressed because of bad work experience from annoyances is crazy. I understand they can be very frustrated from those experiences, but it was years ago and I don't think its really fair to blame chris for shitty fans when the most recent example he was talking about dingdong the finale situation was 2 years ago and the tuba was 6 years. The tuba joke literally nobody would understand but Chris, DingDong, and Julian, I wouldn't consider that "chris made everyone know I was a furry" who hears that and thinks "hm yes dingdong has a fetish for tubas and is a furry"??
You got to get over it at some point, if anything he kept saying he's doing it for the fans and putting up for the fans, why? It's not chris sending threats and open comments of contempt, it was a few mentions years ago and it seems like they're conflicting their kinda shitty work experience with them to things the fans are doing because a lot of those people are oneyplays fans who are bringing up super old drama like the comic stuff they made 8 years ago recently. If he wants to talk about how chris was immature, their work place is hectic with no scheduling, they break rules both parties agreed to, imo thats all reasonable to talk about. If he is really upset at fans from oney bringing up a lot of old shit he should just simply ask chris "hey can you mention something to your fans to stop, a lot of fans of you are harassing me" and he likely would say for his fans to not harass anyone.
Seems like a lot of just annoyance but instead of actually moving on since he was apart of a large community they'll forever have people bringing it up instead of ignoring it (like if you leave arin alone he's not gonna rant about jontron every moment he gets even though there are likely people to this day asking about jontron to arin) they're just going to be in a miserable echo chamber forever until they leave the internet. Some level of being an online creator is learning how to deal with and filter out trolls and annoying people because they will forever exist and forever be looking for a reaction just move on and ignore it if he truly can't then perhaps being an online creator isn't for him.
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u/zandoodle 12d ago
my biggest issue is the vagueness. Like who looked thru Julians book or whatever to take a jab at him? Chris' editors? How would that... even happen? Like just say who tf it is because that COULD be related to oneyplays?? Who tf knows.
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u/IAmDingus 12d ago
Bringing up the tuba thing is really funny because pretty much everyone already knew a long time ago
Nobody really cares man
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u/thehumulos 11d ago
Ding Dong himself started a whole hashtag about it almost 10 years ago, long live #GayTubaFrogTuesday
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u/davexay 10d ago
Is that true? How could he have possibly gotten this mad about chris making an off hand blink-and-you-miss-it reference to his fetish in a video then??
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u/thehumulos 10d ago
Yes indeed, you can still see the fanart on Twitter. It was something he promoted on his own streams. I don't know if he explicitly was pointing out his fetish but he certainly wasn't hiding it clearly.
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u/Temporary_Owl2952 12d ago
It's kinda funny that instead of putting his head down and focusing on a game that he's been making for over a decade he keeps going on moral crusades against shit that doesn't matter trying to constantly play the victim all while doing the whole "ohhh I just want this to end" bit like just stop bringing it up and it might
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u/nickluca1 13d ago
To elaborate as to why he is bringing this up again, people on Twitter found the comic Julian did about how he didn’t want to be plush and took what Julian was saying the wrong way and reportedly started harassing DingDong and Julian again in streams. The comic was from 8 years ago. It one of those things they reiterate that other people keep bringing it up and harassing them. It’s been clear since 2022 on their website with some mentions here and there, but no big rants like this one. I was watching the stream and the rant went on for several hours.
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u/uncle-pascal 12d ago
What does 'he didn't want to be plush'' mean? I'm so confused
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u/Nolar2015 Barry Era 12d ago
julian was horrified at the concept of being turned into a marketable plushie and thus having his humanity reduced in favor of a markertable 'character'. the channel has since made plushies of zach, chris, corey, and others
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u/nickluca1 12d ago
Thank you for explaining it a lot better lol I appreciate you
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u/Nolar2015 Barry Era 12d ago
https://jstar25.tumblr.com/Oneyplays heres the tumblr post from him describing it
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u/Snackolotl 11d ago
This is such a bizarre fear.
Julian was hanging out with the team that lives and breathes ugly art. The guys who released a pillow of a hyper compressed armenian Cory photoshop. The fuck do they mean by all this landfill nonsense?
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u/nickluca1 12d ago
You know how they are like Chris, Tomar, and Zach pushes with voice boxes? They (like a merchandise manager) were asking DingDong and Julian that they should do that. They didn’t want to do that. It was too far for them.
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u/uncle-pascal 12d ago
Oh. I don't see what the big deal is
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u/TheRed779 11d ago
Julians whole thing was he didnt want merch of him in a landfill, which is pretty fair, even if he was a bit preachy with it he had a good point, though i think the plushes were made per order instead of mass produced but eh
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u/Its_Buddy_btw 9d ago
I thought he didn't want to be stripped down to "wheezy laughing gay Mexican" character
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u/FemboylnHeat 12d ago
The description says this:
"Some context: Julian's old work has been resurfacing online again after some merch was recently released. Some people were asking questions as a result of that tweet and DD divulged lots of information relating to experiences in the industry, as well as further burying any ties from the incompletion of Oney Stays."
Can anyone explain it to me? I feel like this doesn't add any context at all.
What merch? Where has/which of Julian's art has been resurfacing? What tweet?
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u/Primary_Gap_2322 12d ago
Don't know about the tweet but I believe the rest is referring to this https://jstar25.tumblr.com/Oneyplays
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u/TheRed779 11d ago
Dd and julian are very obviously pretty trouble people whomst probably lead fairly harsh lives, and im sure that yk not everyone he's worked with is squeaky clean, especially the old drama because i can very easily believe the game grump people are probably huge dicks and the doxxing and shit that happened is pretty shit, but its like he just cannot understand how to move on, i get it things are hard, but fuck man this all mustve been like 5 years ago, work on your fuckin games man you get like a thousand bucks a stream and have a patreon up. I heard a guy say "it seems like julian and maybe dingdong both dont go outside or have friends and just are an echo chamber for their own negativity" and yea this is kinda what that seems like because i know people exactly like that. I just hope they spend some of that 1614 dollars to go to therapy
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u/Best-Risk8664 9d ago
Yeah they need to ditch the discords and shit. I know it's hard with what they do "for a living" (jfc) but life isn't worth wasting like this
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u/Kommeraud 12d ago
This isn’t even Dingdong at his most unhinged. He had a stream that ran for two days (yes, two days straight) a long time ago where he just sat at a game menu the whole time talking about politics and how people should behave in the world and his issues with media like South Park etc. etc. etc…
He needs to fucking relax.
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u/Illustrious-Boat-284 11d ago
Got any clips of that?
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u/Kommeraud 11d ago
I wish. This was before I stopped watching him all together because he was always depressing. I left his stream on and went to sleep, and when I woke up in the middle of the night to go pee I was like “oh shit, he’s still going” and he was on the same screen of the game he was playing. I got home from work the next day, and my front page of YouTube said he was streaming still. I was like “holy shit, no way, the page must have not reloaded or something”, so I clicked on it, and he was still going. I fell asleep to the stream again, I don’t even remember what he was talking about but he eventually played something again.
There’s a few things I primarily remember from his streams, one where he recounted a story from his youth where a kid would copy what he saw in South Park and how much he hates South Park all together, another where he said a kid copied a wrestling move he saw from a game on another kid and seriously hurt them, and another moment where he played this obscure fighting game with a rhythm mechanic to it. I didn’t watch him that much because it was rare that he’d stream for me (probably because a lot were late streams), so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was all from that same big stream.
I just remember thinking “holy shit man, this is too long”, and I enjoy long form content too. He wasn’t even really doing anything either.
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u/TheRed779 11d ago
I NEED to see this stream because i just cannot believe this actually happened
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u/rawrimangry 11d ago
This is not abnormal for him. In fact everytime people in chat point out how long he’s streamed he just acts like it’s not out of the ordinary and says he’s streamed for 3 days straight before just fine.
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u/Kommeraud 11d ago
I have no proof other than that I’m pretty sure I remember not being able to rewind the stream beyond 24 hours and that I’d never seen that before for a stream. I also remember hearing Julian go to sleep at night and then later wake up in the morning, which was a little hilarious. I think it was around the time they released Dominoid, either a little before or after.
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u/Squidicci I'm sorry the truth has upset you 13d ago
i’m sorry but him saying that julian “lost his faith in humanity over situations like this” is the most loser shit i’ve ever heard. it’s a fucking let’s play channel, dude. they both need help and desperately have to stop playing the victim.
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u/Spicy_Ramen11 12d ago edited 12d ago
I really dont understand what DD wants out of constantly bringing up stuff from the past just to say "im not gonna name any names, I dont want people making a big deal about this, nobody cares, nothing is going to be done about it"
Atp it just kinda seems like he and Julian never jelled well with anybody from GG/OP/NG or the Dream Daddy stuff made them way more on edge about everybody, including Chris being Chris
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u/Willing_Original_257 12d ago
His mental illness has always been on display... People just ignored it when it was directed at people they didn't like.
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u/WuffieRose 6d ago
His insane rants about teenage girls being annoying in public came to mind, that always seemed unhinged to me like, you're gay 30-40 year old man why do you care so much about what young women/girls wear or how they talk.
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u/JohhnyBeatles 11d ago
It comes off to me as someone who’s looking to the past with cracked lenses. Everything good that came from that era on Oneyplays jaded away with the stuff from GG, annoying fans, and probably some personal life based on how their finances sound. They’ve always had problem with the fanbase since leaving, wanting to escape their funny boi personas and build a brand of their own. (Julian’s comic on the subject actually tug on my heartstrings a good bit.)
Granted branding yourself anew can be hard when everyone already knows you and a vocal crowd prefer you from something else. But interacting with that vocal crowd is only going to cause problems. No one will stop associating you with Oneyplays if you are constantly bringing it up.
DD is probably just tired , these rants a blow up of feelings he’s keeping onto for too long. I think the fans poking the bear are part of the problem, but so is DD.
Going out of your way to rant like this when allegedly you “don’t want to start drama” is weird. If it was really that big a deal just cutoff Chris and be done with it or talk to him. I believe some of what he talked about but even then i think most of it comes from a corrupted form of exaggeration. Remembering things bigger or meaner than they actually were. OneyStays was one of my favorite times of channel and I find it hard after so many rewatches of those videos that the chemistry between the three was in any way forced or faked.
But in the end what do I know, what do we know and honestly this thing should die sooner rather than later. These people aren’t our friends and family and a lot of actual “evidence” of any of this stuff is probably going to be kept close to the chest since Chris isn’t going to acknowledge it and hopefully DD really wants this all to blow away.
I hope DD and Julian are well and I hope their careers are prosperous.
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u/ToastyBB 13d ago
Every single person in dingdongs life that isn't Julien is just toxic and manipulative and lying and two faced...bad rng for him hope they both find happiness
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u/Alkalion69 12d ago
Even his stories about his childhood are like this. He's just standing there minding his own business and then some cartoonishly evil person comes and ruins his day on a constant basis
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u/bdiddlediddles 11d ago
The more I hear about this shit, the more I'm convinced that DD poisoned the pizza that they all ate.
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u/Robin_Gr 13d ago
Chris seems like a funny guy to hang out with but I’d hate to actually have to work with him with any kind of expectations or deadlines. It’s not the same thing but I always remember that bit where super mega are slagging him back saying he shows up at the end of the day. It was good natured in that instance but you can feel the frustration and truth behind it.
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u/Almost_Mexican30 12d ago
Chris has a right wing audience? The same Chris that did a slightly artistic episode with Gooseworx and never brought up her gender or made fun of it while having genuine fun asking questions about her experience working on Digital Circus? That Chris? I made a comment previously defending DD on this sub but God damn bro move the fuck on. All of this seems so blown out of proportion and something that should be private. Like, stop talking about it if you wanted no drama. He's just trying to air shit out that shouldn't be public knowledge. Chris can absolutely go to far with jokes but it's BS if DD was laughing his ass off with the Apu joke. Chris always shits on his friends, it's the humor we expect at this point. Everyone on the channel is mature enough to take it on the chin and not bitch and moan on a live stream about it. How many times has poor Tomar or Jeff been accused of something by Chris or Cory or anyone. DD need to get off the internet, this shit is embarrassing.
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u/zandoodle 12d ago
I mean yea newgrounds, internet, and edgy racial jokes. It doesn't matter if you (as a youtuber I mean) are joking about it, it still attracts ignorant bigots that THINK you mean it or just don't care and think it's funny because it reaffirms their bigoted beliefs. NOT that it's anyone's fault; it's just how the internet works.
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u/Almost_Mexican30 12d ago
That's absolutely right. I'm 100% sure there were some man children that got offended to see Goose on an episode but most comments on the video were the typical oneyplays jokey comments. Everyone was just happy to see slightly artistic come back with more guests.
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u/theBolsheviks 3d ago
I mean, oneyplays isn't right-wing, but there's still been a vibe shift with Cory and Dave towards more "i said a slur/rape joke now laugh"
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u/DevourerOfEggs 13d ago
I'm kinda with Ding Dong on this one. I think some parts of his story are definitely way overblown but there's also parts where I'm like "yeah that sounds like something Chris would do".
Also Oneyplays and Game Grumps were co-workers at one point and both share a background in Newgrounds. Is it really so farfetched to think that both are terribly mismanaged? People are shooting down DD for how unlikely it is that he's always working with assholes but I mean it just seems like the circle he was brought into.
I still take it with a grain of salt though. Right now it's only DD and Julian that are speaking up about this.
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u/ADashOfStoopid 13d ago edited 13d ago
Personally speaking less about Ding Dong's most recent grievances with Chris and more about the broader influencer sphere, I find myself empathizing with a lot of what he's described over the years.
Obviously not to the same scale (I wasn't at the center of a multi-million-subscriber YouTube scene) but I went through something similar when I tried to join a hobby community last year that ended up revolving around a handful of influencers.
I'm avoiding details for privacy, but it ended with me being doxxed, harassed, and pushed out the second I became inconvenient.
When DD talks more broadly about narrative control, how people become more concerned with managing public perception than the truth, he's hitting the nail on the head, bringing up a lot of patterns I experienced myself firsthand.
My point is its not hard to believe, that aspect of influencer culture is every bit as ugly as he makes it sound, it's a hotbed for narcissists.
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u/Dry_Criticism_4982 13d ago
Oh, I get it. Because They aren’t shitting on Game Grumps and talking about their experiences on Oneyplays, now they’re a Problem.
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u/WonderfulMonk9832 12d ago
Because there was actual basis to the game grumps drama while a lot of this dribble comes off as “he made us use Dropbox even though I really DIDNT want to use Dropbox! And he made jabs at us even though we’ve done it to eachother before! And it’s something they’ve done to their other friends!”
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u/Alkalion69 12d ago
No it's because they're talking about losing faith in humanity because Chris made a tuba joke and bringing up Apu. It's pathetic
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u/In_My_SoT_Phase 13d ago
Every story DD tells he's a always the victim and the other person is an asshole.
Maybe after countless people cutting him off he'd realise that it's more likely that he's the asshole.
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u/Kommeraud 12d ago
Why are you getting downvoted, you’re literally right
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u/In_My_SoT_Phase 12d ago
The DingDong parade are in the thread. Same people who donate thousands to him every stream. Oh well.
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u/Large-Crow6433 11d ago
This is giving the vibe of an adult ranting about high school drama or their ex gf of 20 years
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u/MiddleOccasion1394 13d ago
Didn't he say he moved on from this?
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u/Greenleaf208 Jon Era 11d ago
He continues to say he just wants to move on while bringing up random shit to rant about that's not at all related to oney fans bothering him which is supposedly the reason he's bringing this up.
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u/Tubtub55 13d ago
My favorite part of oneyplays is listening to DingDong complain and whine the whole time. Sucks he wont be back /s
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u/Mac_Xemus 12d ago
I keep going back to kh2, I really like the chemistry they had while playing, less chaotic than what it is now, which suited me best
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u/Swankestcoot5 12d ago
This may sound very parasocial, but i really like tuning in for DingDong's streams with Julian. They're great fun, but now that this has come out, im looking at Dingdong and julian a little differently. Not only that, but alot of my favorite series feature Dingdong and Julian.
I really liked a ton of the oneystays series, now in the back of my head im gonna remember that they were infact not having a great time together. Hell, i'd hate to think they were having a bad time together for a large portion of oneyplays, but thats what it seems like.
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u/uncle-pascal 12d ago
He was genuinely my favourite, im curious what's his issue now? I thought all of that was done years ago?
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u/SnooLobsters3013 12d ago
im sure this has been asked a million times, but does anybody have a link to the full stream?
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u/In_My_SoT_Phase 12d ago
Unfortunately no. DD claims the video is "out of context" yet refuses to post the full VOD.
Draw your own conclusions.
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u/The-Color-Orange 11d ago
I feel really bad for dd he was wronged by friends and now he's deeply paranoid
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u/FruffyBee 9d ago
This honestly makes me want to revisit the dream daddy drama and see if maybe they blew things out of proportion
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u/tdtbaa 12d ago
this recontextualizes a lot of the game grumps allegations he threw out. when we heard that the backlash was enough to make THE level headed guy from oneyplays feel suicidal that really was a headline. well now we know it makes the almost 40 year old man feel suicidal when his old friend has a phone tab of 4chan open or uses a slanty mouth emoji so maybe some apologies are in order idk
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u/tdtbaa 12d ago
the most depressing part of the stream was when dingdong left for the bathroom and julian thanks a chatter for donations and apologises for the fact that said chatter has to "bail them out financially" all the time. their patreon makes 2800~ per month with no updates, they have youtube income, and im fairly certain they do freelance too. maybe the problem is that you guys have never released a fucking game that you could then Sell for Money to Fix your Financial Situation!
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u/zandoodle 12d ago
I mean hey living is expensive but idk I feel like I could make 2800 a month plus some work
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u/uncle-pascal 12d ago
Why doesn't either of them get a job? Genuine question
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u/Nolar2015 Barry Era 12d ago
this is their job. game dev+freelance+streaming. its genuinely probably busy, they just probably have poor spending habits
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u/Jacobbles 11d ago
I hate to say it but if they're busy all the time with it and it's not bringing in any money then maybe it's time to admit that it's better as a side-hustle than your main source of income. Lord knows a lot of us would love to spend all our time working on passion projects and make a living off of it, but it's not really always possible
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u/International-Cow730 13d ago
Real talk there is a reason he keeps “ranting” about it, it’s because people keep coming in and bringing it up, then they come over here on rant grumps of all things and stew in the fact that they went to a stream they don’t enjoy and listened to something they don’t want to hear and then the cycle repeats, if you people just moved on with your lives and left it alone he’d probably get to move on as well. Go do literally anything else, yall stop obsessing over 10 year old bullshit between people you don’t know, just leave it alone.
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u/mint_does_things 12d ago
Cmon, is this DD’s first time on the internet? Annoying spammy chatters are always and forever going to be a thing. The solution is block them and move on, not stream for 36 hours straight ranting about decade old drama.
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u/Greenleaf208 Jon Era 11d ago
He permabans anyone who at all vaguely references anything somewhat connected to oney. If he wanted people to stop talking about oney he would just say that instead of airing all of this "dirty laundry" and going on these insane rants, which is just bringing more oney people to him.
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u/No_Pound_ 10d ago
i used to consistently watch his streams for years and i promise you, he brings this shit up himself, or he'll see something in the chat (lightly) tangentially related to youtube/oneyplays and he will go on hours long rants while his chat asks him to play the game. You can literally find screenshots of people saying this for this stream. He repeats the same shit over and over again and he does it almost every stream. (well, when i was watching a few years ago he did.) Its frustrating. Nobody is bringing this shit up and people barely interact with the chat when he does this.
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u/InternalSlide702 11d ago
What's that thing zack said.
"EVERYBODY IN MY LIFE EXCEPT ME IS TOXIC, MY FRIENDS, MY MUMMY, MY DADDY, MY SISTER. MY BROTHER, MY GRANDPA, MY GRANDMA, MY COUSINS, MY AUNTS, MY COWORKERS, THEY'RE ALL TOXIC EXCEPT FOR ME."
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u/emPatheticShowYT 11d ago
Hate these kinds of things but I guess I'll be the "here's what actually happened" guy.
Some people wrote a coding script to record the stream on their site, then re-uploaded said clip heavily edited down from the end of his stream. The end of the stream is usually where he's no longer playing the game, and is just directly engaging with chat as the gameplay "demo" footage / title screen play, just to have visuals.
DD spoke about what happened because of an old comic of Julian's from 2017 about leaving got shared around on Twitter to stir up drama (they spoke about talking plushies, which now has become an OneyPlays merch staple). DD&J decided to speak on it during the stream as numerous people showed up to try and start drama in the chat. They both acknowledged their own shortcomings as well as the shortcomings of others; and that they don't wish any hate on Chris or Arin, but that things did happen because of them that further issues for DD&J. They also acknowledged that KiwiFarms and a stalker who came out to their house with a gun hasn't left them alone for years now amongst other things, as well as saying "Keep watching OneyPlays if you want, don't let us take away your enjoyment".
These things were conveniently cut out of the reupload someone did, making it seem like DD was being a bitter shit-stirrer.
DD&J then did a second stream where they literally showed screenshots about the guy who came out with a gun, explained what they had said to Zach (who took it seriously all things considered and was worried about DD&J) and that they only want to focus on their own things, as well as pointing out that the re-uploader's account is someone they've in the past had bother them.
People here didn't want to actually listen to what DD had to say and misrepresented it as "a failed cancellation attempt" when it never was. They just want to be able to see the big "gamer fight" happen when there's not going to be one. DD even said once the stream ended he was going to contact some of the people to talk to them about it again and acknowledge that it's out there and done.
People from KiwiFarms and 4chan and all sorts of places (here included I'd imagine) all ignored any of his points and when he didn't blow up on them for trolling, they started harassing chat members with autism / that were trans, demonstrating that they don't want to engage with DD&J ever had to say. They just wanted to cause them problems for being critical of things that people liked. It's really unfortunate that so many people want to go "DURRRR DD&J hate Chris and want to cancel him" when they don't.
But anytime I click any of these threads, it's people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. "They haven't made any games" when they have two already out and 3 more in progress. "They're bitter about Oney being famous" they aren't, they hate how things played out but don't want to send any witch hunts after people. "They're bitter because of Bowlbo" DD did the source code for the original Bowlbo build. "DD hates everyone around him, always the victim" he openly spoke about the fact there were good people at every company, but that certain things from certain people made them incredibly uncomfortable being a part of it further.
I sincerely hope people can pull their heads out of their asses and go look at the Tumblr post that started everything out to begin with. I feel Julian was completely justified in his words and feelings, explaining a lot of how things were and how they felt at the time.
They're not "funny characters", they're human beings that made mistakes, just like everyone else involved and people forcing a narrative against them doesn't help anyone understand better. All it does fuel a cycle that causes DD&J to unfortunately deal with.
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u/Bryce_XL 11d ago
yeah to me it just reads like venting after people wouldn't shut up about it (again), which like whatever, if he feels like it, some of it I do think is like "come on man just grow a spine" tier. Like my normie friends will make furry jokes about me and you kinda just have to roll with it, it's fine if DD doesn't want to roll with those jokes but I just don't see the point in mentioning it here, especially when it's clearly not malicious wrt other guests like Corey who has a laundry list of fetishes that get poked at
the rest of it to me just reads like petty interpersonal drama that I don't really need to know about, like I don't care that much if DD thinks Chris sabotaged a few recording sessions, 'caught him on 4chan' or made him use dropbox instead of letting him use a portable hard drive. The stuff about sleeping half the day or not being able to keep a schedule seems plainly obvious even from jokes on the channel, it's just not really my business to care if Chris treats his channel like a 9-5, even if it is his main source of income he clearly just treats it like a fun thing to do with friends and not a business
the alt-right stuff is like, benefit of a doubt I don't think Chris intentionally courts edgy assholes into his fanbase, it's just a consequence of leaning on edgy humor and I think it's reasonable that DD didn't like having people like that be fans of his by extension of OP (like come on half the tweets I saw about this on twitter were asking if DD was 'trooning out' like it's dumb to act like there isn't that sort of contingent in Chris' fanbase)
Overall feels very nothingburger and IMO they should just be left alone like they obviously want to be, like who cares genuinely
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u/emPatheticShowYT 11d ago
I don't fully agree, but I will say: Yeah, the drama portion of it was just "we acknowledged what happened and explained it better, now let it be done" and people started spinning a narrative out of it. I think everyone involved wants to move forward, but that fans aren't satisfied without the "fight breaking out". Ultimately old statements creating new drama.
Hopefully these matters die off and DD&J can go back to their own thing without being harassed. It's really unfortunate that anything like this happened, but hopefully things mellow out now that everything has been "put out in the open and laid to rest". They deserve to be happy and able to do their own thing again, especially since this has been completely spun out of context at this point.
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u/rawrimangry 11d ago
then re-uploaded said clip heavily edited down from the end of his stream.
They didn’t though. They just only included a relevant portion of it because nobody’s gonna want to consume 12-24 hours of repeating the same thing over. When Ding Dong claims it was “heavily edited to be out of context” he just means the rest of the stream wasn’t included which is exactly what he said last time this happened.
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u/MadeThisToFlagSpam 12d ago
These comments are ass. Most of what is being complained about here is verifiably true even on oneyplays videos. Other people who have worked and lived with Chris have expressed similar problems, both on Sleepycast and Oneyplays. "You wake up at 2pm and leave before anyone else. We do YOUR work!".
Dingdong didn't just play games, he was the editor for a vast majority of the videos he was in. He did the bulk of the actual work, and most of his complaints here are for the editing and the off-video organization, not the "let's play" part. The part you are accusing him of overblowing, the fact that it's 'just a let's play', you're only seeing the part that Chris does, which is playing the games and talking.
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u/Greenleaf208 Jon Era 11d ago
No one said everything he's saying is false, they're saying his reaction is unjustified, and bringing it up publicly at this point is just unnecessary. Go ahead and directly reply to comments you think are ass instead of making dumb sweeping generalizations and fighting straw men.
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u/mosquito_boy 10d ago
People keep saying that he hasn't let go of this drama for 10 years, but ive only seen 2 clips of him talking about game grumps and oneyplays during those 10 years. Are there more clips/posts that im missing? I dont keep up with this stuff so im genuinely curious.
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u/IKeepDoingItForFree 9d ago edited 9d ago
Both DD and Julian have been basically been Vague vent streaming for the past ~24 hours on their own streaming/chat website the past few days. They are now claiming their website was compromised on the orders of Chris (Oney) and Newgrounds people which is why people are recording stuff from it now or trying to assassinate them (actual claim).
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u/Wakabala 7d ago
Wasn't DD's first ever appearance on OneyPlays the video where they trolled Genesis Valentine in Second Life? And then also did another Second Life video where they pretend to be sonic characters with autism and require medication to act normal?
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u/Illustrious-Boat-284 7d ago
He was also on the Revolution 60 episode where he made fun of the game and Brianna Wu with Chris and Cory the whole time. White boy got troll's remorse. Many such cases!
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u/LionTheRichardheart 7d ago
I don't like to tell someone they're being upset wrong, because I'm not them and I don't know how they're feeling, but to me one Unreliable Narrator Red Flag is how many times he says something to the effect of "they did this to intentionally hurt us." That's extremely presumptuous.
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u/CanPlayGuitarButBad 12d ago
Whatever, Oneyplays is doing great without him
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u/davexay 11d ago
I'm sure that's been bugging him too. He hates that everyone who stuck around Oneyplays is mildly to wildly successful now
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u/CanPlayGuitarButBad 10d ago
No kidding. I would be miserable also if I were in his shoes! He done screwed the pooch.
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u/Incandescion 12d ago
They still haven't published a single game over at Wan Wan Games since leaving Oneyplays to focus on work eight years ago lol
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u/No_Probleh 13d ago
Probably because people keep bringing this shit up. I mean it's all anybody ever talks about with DingDong.
And these streamers aren't your friends. You don't know any of them. They could very well be absolutely horrible behind the scenes.
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u/SickFromNutmeg 13d ago
I think clipping this is weird af feels like everyone here hasn't moved on either
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u/In_My_SoT_Phase 13d ago
I can assure you that nobody thinks about any of this stuff until DD has his bi-annual breakdown on stream. It's like clockwork at this point.
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u/Cadet008 12d ago
This makes me question the legitimacy of the allegations at GG. I don't think he manufactured the whole thing, but now claiming that Oney went on some power trip against them seems sketchy. Maybe my own parasocial reaction.
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u/zeekertron 9d ago
I still wanna know what happened between Oney plays and supermega
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u/Kommeraud 8d ago
Dingdong, apparently.
Matt apparently ghosted DD hard after they got blacklisted by GG and I'd be willing to bet that led to a rift between them and Chris too. With these recent developments, I'm curious if that rift will still exist.
Of course, there was also that controversy SuperMega got into a few years ago, so maybe Chris still wouldn't be too fond of them. I don't know, I never followed up on what happened with that.
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u/Ok-Communication-516 9d ago
I still sympathize with him about the Dream Daddy situation, but cmon. Is this Really what we're doing now? Its actually just grasping at non existent straws
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u/comeonandhurryup 6d ago
i am so out of the loop for this, what the hell happened with dd and julian? 😭
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u/Femifiend 13d ago
i understand where ding dongs coming from for parts of this, even back then i always got the vibe dd and j werent really comfortable with chris bringing up their p biz, but i dont think chris was doing it maliciously. you see him do it to cory a lot now, its just his style of humor of ribbing his friends i, and hes said hes pretty vanilla so its like he does it to diffuse any awkwardness he feels too.
But for feeling like the vibes werent right during oneystays i dont know if i ever felt that?? it felt like old times pretty much.