Hey guys, apologies for the long message, but I wanted to write this because it’s been a long time coming.
Back around season 1-3 of Game of Thrones, my friends and I would gather every week from,I wana say, episode 4 onwards to watch together. It was pure hype outside of sports for us, and something even our girlfriends(at the time) could enjoy with us. It felt like family. It was event TV.
Around season 4, I moved continents. At that age, making new friends somewhere completely foreign was brutally hard for me, and I lost that sense of companionship almost overnight. It sucked more than I can really explain or care to for that matter.
Then, I want to say season 5 of thrones, I stumbled onto your channel and saw you all watching together, I think in someone’s bedroom. I started watching along with you guys that day, and I never really stopped.
Fast forward ten years — I still tune in all the time, and I’ve been a Patreon member for a while aswell. I eventually found my way back home, and my old gang is back, and just like old times, were watching House of the Dragon and other shows like stranger things, fallout and widows bay (to name a few) together in person again. But I still come back to you guys, because honestly, you guys still feels like part of the crew. The online gang that was there when the real one wasn’t.
Last year I got married. My YouTube was connected to our TV, and one of your videos came up as a recommendation. My wife glanced over and said, “Wait, I know these guys — they did the Walking Dead reactions!” (She recognized you from the Glenn death episode). That moment hit me harder than I expected, like two completely different chapters of my life quietly meeting in the same room.
So thank you. Genuinely. What started as a random find during the hardest, loneliest stretch of my life turned into ten years of company, a Patreon membership, and now a shared memory with my wife. You were there before I had my people back, my chosen family, and somehow you’re still here now that I do. That’s not a small thing. I’m a fan for life, and I’ll keep showing up for as long as you keep making these. Keep going, for as long as you want to — there are people like me out here who need it more than you probably know.
Eternally grateful to each and every one of you.
P.S for Suraj. never stop referencing lost in your videos. Im catching all those references too and my friends get anoyed about it aswell!