I've been pleased to see ProJared very much getting back into the swing of things of late; he's been gradually starting to do more and more things ever since he put all the drama over him to bed last year, but it's mostly been Twitch streams; I'm not a huge fan of Twitch generally because I'm never around at the time the people I might want to watch are streaming, and I find stream archives to be full of obtrusive shout-outs, thank-yous and stuff like that.
Just recently, he's been starting to do traditional Let's Plays again, and I'm really happy about that. He's basically starting over from scratch, though, as he doesn't have an editor or indeed anyone working for him any more after the whole debacle — and fair play to him, he's doing his best to take it all on himself rather than relying on anyone else while he continues to "rebuild". Of course, there's no longer the magical text-based banter from "Miss Editor", but I'm sure once he feels comfortable with what he's doing there'll be some fun stuff in there — and in the meantime, of course, it's nice to just be able to enjoy some games with him again.
Why do I care? Well, mostly because ProJared is probably the reason I actually got into watching Let's Plays in the first place. I came to him via a rather convoluted route that started with Classic Gaming Quarterly, came via LGR and a few other people, and I eventually landed on his main channel. I decided to watch a few videos on his gameplay channel — and I found myself enjoying them a lot, particularly during quiet periods at the day job.
In fact, I found myself enjoying them so much that I decided I wanted to start trying to do them myself. ProJared's older work is a huge inspiration on what I've been doing with YouTube for the last couple of years; I found myself very much enjoying his chilled out, honest, open and conversational style — it was certainly a far cry from the stereotypical screaming Let's Players I'd had in mind before I started exploring YouTube in detail a while back.
Even in the midst of the nonsense that went on with him, I respected his work and how much it had inspired me, so I've always striven to adopt a similar — though not identical — style to what I do with my Let's Play-style stuff on YouTube. It does my heart good to see him back doing this sort of thing again, and I hope he's finally been able to leave all the unpleasantness behind him.
The hate mobs of the Internet are a scourge of the modern age. I sincerely hope no-one close to me ever has to suffer such abuse.
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