The Spoony One has been ejected from That Guy With the Glasses.

[AlphaLackey]

I don't get this
the original joke tweet was aimed at JesuOtaku, right?
and from what I've seen, for the lack of responce from her (from what I've seen, remember =P) she didn't mind it
so...
why the fuck did Lupa jumped her shit at it?

If I had to guess? To whip her white knights into a fervour, so as to vanquish a co-worker that she found vexing to her.

What should never be lost in all this is the hypocrisy of it all. She digs up a long-passed joke that ARGUABLY makes light of rape (it's just as easy, if not easier, to interpret it as a simple BDSM reference) and gets stereotypically internet-feminist indignant about it, yet when Spoony does the same to her regarding her long-passed explicit animal cruelty joke? Now, "oh there's a difference", the context-free nature of Spoony's off-color joke does not reply to her context-free off-color joke, and so forth.

If there's anything that needs to be taken out of this, it's the truly staggering proportions that internet white-knighting and victim-card-playing have evolved into. The interpersonal hissing match between co-workers is almost a red herring.

 

[The Great JT]

I still think Spoony just got into Charlie Sheen's drug room.

 

[I_am_acting]

I saw this video on the subject
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDmjz8I0lxM

The guy's voice is a bit grating, but i think he summed up what happened pretty well, the video he linked was also made by one of spoony's former idols, Armake21, as well

 

[Azaradel]

/vg/ has been monitoring the shitstorm for quite a while and there's been a few attempts at making some kind of summary of what's actually happened. This is pretty much as coherent as it gets atm:
<url=http://i.imgur.com/r60gc.png>Anonymous 06/23/12(Sat)14:51:
>Spoony makes a bad joke about JesuOtaku, she's not amused but doesn't take it hard, Spoony realizes it was stupid and apologizes, JO accepts and nothing was lost.
>A month later, Lupa brings it up again, telling Spoony how she feels offended by it and he's scum, Spoony is perplexed but apologies to her as well anyways.
>Lupa isn't satisfied, she writes a huge blog post where she shits all over Spoony and spreads it around the web, plus she brings this up to Holly.
>Holly is the highest authority in TGWTG right now as Doug is on his honeymoon, and his brother is on a vacation, plus Holly is supposedly a rape victim so Spoony found himself suspended for 4 weeks, telling him he's forbid to insult fans and his cooworkers during this time.
>At this point Spoony takes it and barely contains his rage, he's yet to explode until he notices Lupa's blog spreading around the web.
>He proceed to switch on full irony as he wonders what do they want from him, should he cry blood, should he burn in hell forever, etc etc
>Lupa continues to poke at him while taking a neutral side on LordKat's live stream even complimenting Spoony's professionalism during cameos, Spoony starts to get drunk.
>A drunken Spoony lashes on everybody on twitter, at this point Lupa is starting to get some backlash as well so she fades out as Spoony destroy himself.
>Because of this he gets fired from TGWTG.

Some say is conspiracy, some say it's coincidence, it doesn't matter at this point, Spoony is officially off TGWTG and he's migrating his hompage to another server.From what I've seen, Anon seems to be pretty spot on.
There's been stray Twitter screencaps floating around but no-one seems bored enough to compile them yet.

Also, LordKat is supposedly in risk of being shut down because of his comments about wanting Noah to kill himself.

Joe has proven himself to be a pretty cool guy by shooting down assumptions of him never working with Noah again, saying that Noah is his friend and he thinks this "shit got ridiculous".

 

[Xerosch]

If anyone wants to see LordKaT do a Spoony rant here you go: http://www.twitch.tv/lordkat/b/322255491 (Spoony stuff starts at around 36mins)

Could you specify in which video? All I'm getting is an overview of LordKaT made stuff.

OT: Well, I don't know what exactly was going down, but I enjoy Spoony's videos for what they are. He's got one of the websites I check regularly and always enjoy seeing new content. Even his bad stuff is better than most shows on the Internet, including TGWTG. I used to be a big fan in their early days, now I'm skipping most of the videos on the site. Some people's segment has become too stale for my taste.

And could it be that the parties parted ways after filming the next Anniversary Special? Should be coming to TGWTG, soon.

 

[zidine100]

/vg/ has been monitoring the shitstorm for quite a while and there's been a few attempts at making some kind of summary of what's actually happened. This is pretty much as coherent as it gets atm:
<url=http://i.imgur.com/r60gc.png>Anonymous 06/23/12(Sat)14:51:
>Spoony makes a bad joke about JesuOtaku, she's not amused but doesn't take it hard, Spoony realizes it was stupid and apologizes, JO accepts and nothing was lost.
>A month later, Lupa brings it up again, telling Spoony how she feels offended by it and he's scum, Spoony is perplexed but apologies to her as well anyways.
>Lupa isn't satisfied, she writes a huge blog post where she shits all over Spoony and spreads it around the web, plus she brings this up to Holly.
>Holly is the highest authority in TGWTG right now as Doug is on his honeymoon, and his brother is on a vacation, plus Holly is supposedly a rape victim so Spoony found himself suspended for 4 weeks, telling him he's forbid to insult fans and his cooworkers during this time.
>At this point Spoony takes it and barely contains his rage, he's yet to explode until he notices Lupa's blog spreading around the web.
>He proceed to switch on full irony as he wonders what do they want from him, should he cry blood, should he burn in hell forever, etc etc
>Lupa continues to poke at him while taking a neutral side on LordKat's live stream even complimenting Spoony's professionalism during cameos, Spoony starts to get drunk.
>A drunken Spoony lashes on everybody on twitter, at this point Lupa is starting to get some backlash as well so she fades out as Spoony destroy himself.
>Because of this he gets fired from TGWTG.

Some say is conspiracy, some say it's coincidence, it doesn't matter at this point, Spoony is officially off TGWTG and he's migrating his hompage to another server.From what I've seen, Anon seems to be pretty spot on.
There's been stray Twitter screencaps floating around but no-one seems bored enough to compile them yet.

Also, LordKat is supposedly in risk of being shut down because of his comments about wanting Noah to kill himself.

Joe has proven himself to be a pretty cool guy by shooting down assumptions of him never working with Noah again, saying that Noah is his friend and he thinks this "shit got ridiculous".

i was under the impression that lordkat was constantly in risk of being shut down, with all those copyright complaints and the like anyways.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I don't watch LordKat after he left TGWTG. From what I heard he told Spoony to take his brother Miles' gun and shoot himself. For those of you who don't know, Miles, being a member of his local police departments, was forced to shoot and kill a perpetrator in self defense sometime in the last year.

Do you see in how many ways this is the most fucked up thing to say to a person suffering from clinical depression? That is possibly the worst thing I have ever heard one person say to a fellow human being.

I honestly hope that where I heard that is wrong, but if someone could clarify that for me, I would be grateful.

I used to be neutral toward LordKat (I enjoyed the D&D campaigns with Spoony and others, but I never watched his shows), but if he actually said that (and it looks like he did) then he can fuck off and I'm now actively rooting against him.

 

[Rigs83]

This is sad Spoony was the one that brought me TGWTG.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

I don't watch LordKat after he left TGWTG. From what I heard he told Spoony to take his brother Miles' gun and shoot himself. For those of you who don't know, Miles, being a member of his local police departments, was forced to shoot and kill a perpetrator in self defense sometime in the last year.

Do you see in how many ways this is the most fucked up thing to say to a person suffering from clinical depression? That is possibly the worst thing I have ever heard one person say to a fellow human being.

I honestly hope that where I heard that is wrong, but if someone could clarify that for me, I would be grateful.

I used to be neutral toward LordKat (I enjoyed the D&D campaigns with Spoony and others, but I never watched his shows), but if he actually said that (and it looks like he did) then he can fuck off and I'm now actively rooting against him.

I wish I could confirm this, but it's only something I heard (regardless, in multiple places) since I'm not really willing to spend my time sifting through his live videos to find it.

If it is true, yeah I'm with you. He can go straight to hell.

 

[Rednog]

If anyone wants to see LordKaT do a Spoony rant here you go: http://www.twitch.tv/lordkat/b/322255491 (Spoony stuff starts at around 36mins)

Could you specify in which video? All I'm getting is an overview of LordKaT made stuff.

OT: Well, I don't know what exactly was going down, but I enjoy Spoony's videos for what they are. He's got one of the websites I check regularly and always enjoy seeing new content. Even his bad stuff is better than most shows on the Internet, including TGWTG. I used to be a big fan in their early days, now I'm skipping most of the videos on the site. Some people's segment has become too stale for my taste.

And could it be that the parties parted ways after filming the next Anniversary Special? Should be coming to TGWTG, soon.

It looks like LordKat has been trying to purge evidence of him saying it, he took down the videos and some of his tweets. I'm guessing he's put himself in a pickle with his statements.

 

[Rednog]

Snip

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Straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.lordkat.com/see-you-hell-my-friends.html
Yes, telling Noah that he should take his own life was a terrible thing, but that's not what I'm apologizing for right now. I'm sure I'll be on my hand and knees begging for forgiveness sooner or later on that one. No, there's something bigger that needs to be addressed.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

If it is true, yeah I'm with you. He can go straight to hell.

Straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.lordkat.com/see-you-hell-my-friends.html
Yes, telling Noah that he should take his own life was a terrible thing, but that's not what I'm apologizing for right now. I'm sure I'll be on my hand and knees begging for forgiveness sooner or later on that one. No, there's something bigger that needs to be addressed.

"See You In Hell, My Friends"...?

........ Eerie... Anyway.

Hmmm... I don't know what to make of this. Seems to me like a measure of serious quality control within his own community on LordKat's part. He doesn't really apologize for telling Noah to commit suicide, but he does admit it was a terrible thing. Hell, he even says maybe he's just a huge asshole.

Yeah, I got nothing on this. I might just still be mad over just how utterly personal that attack he made on Noah was, but I guess he is sorry over the situation as a whole.

Don't expect me to start watching his stuff any time soon.

Not that I have in the past.

EDIT: Just realized something:

Yes, telling Noah that he should take his own life was a terrible thing, but that's not what I'm apologizing for right now. I'm sure I'll be on my hand and knees begging for forgiveness sooner or later on that one. No, there's something bigger that needs to be addressed.

Tell me which is ethically the bigger issue to address and which issue is more likely motivated by personal gain?

Acting like a huge asshole to his internet fandom, which no doubt resulted in a huge financial loss for LordKat as a result...

or

Telling a clinically depressed man to take his life with a gun owned by his cop brother (who had recently came back from a bad place after having shot someone in self defense)?

Yeah, I take it back, Jason can still go straight to hell.

 

[PureChaos]

can I take his place?

 

[zefiris]

As expected of the escapist.

A guy that stalks a woman for a year is a-ok.
The woman is blamed for causing him pain when she flirts with people not him 1 year after the break-up. After all, women need to be 100% chaste after they break up with a guy, even one year later.
And other women who don't like rape jokes and dislike stalking ...are also evil, and just want attention/white knighting. But a guy stalking someone is totally fine!

Typical, really. Again, the escapist shows how deep it's stuck in the slimy echo-chamber of dudebro "culture".



LordKat can screw off, though. That was a jackassy thing to say. Thing is: The guy hates Spoony, he'd have used anything to attack him, mostly because Spoony was an idiot at a E3 and ruined LordKat's interview chance. That, dear LordKat, doesn't make oky what you said.

Hope he loses his show, just like Spoony should lose his

 

[tehweave]

Why is this happening? Seriously it says "after recent events", what events?

This is information I too, would like to know.

Well, this thread is full of them. But to make it short, Obscurus Lupa dug up Spoony's rape joke that he made on Twitter to JesuOtaku. Then Spoony started getting angry again. Also, Spoony apparently unintentionally prevented LordKat from getting an interview with the X-Com team because of Spoony's "BETRAYAL" thingy.

Wow... Maybe I don't watch Spoony enough, but he doesn't seem like the type to go so far as to make a rape joke about another person.

 

[Noxogz]

Straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.lordkat.com/see-you-hell-my-friends.html
Yes, telling Noah that he should take his own life was a terrible thing, but that's not what I'm apologizing for right now. I'm sure I'll be on my hand and knees begging for forgiveness sooner or later on that one. No, there's something bigger that needs to be addressed.

It's basically him realizing what he said in the long run would hurt him more than it would ever hurt Spoony as he could just ignore whatever bile he was spewing but his fans that have half a brain wouldn't forget it as easily.

Considering he lives off of fan donations and add revenue I'm not surprised he would rather apologize to them than to the actual person he was insulting.

 

[random281]

I hate to point this out guys, but this is pretty much exactly what spoony wanted. He wanted to say and do whatever he wanted, so he did it. Getting fired is the foreseeable and inevitable result of abusing your friends, co-workers, your bosses and customers for six months straight. He wanted to be free of those constraints and burn every single bridge he could, now he's got and he's done exactly what he wanted.

Hope this is the guy you like, because he's here to stay now. Enjoy spoony fans!

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Why is this happening? Seriously it says "after recent events", what events?

This is information I too, would like to know.

Well, this thread is full of them. But to make it short, Obscurus Lupa dug up Spoony's rape joke that he made on Twitter to JesuOtaku. Then Spoony started getting angry again. Also, Spoony apparently unintentionally prevented LordKat from getting an interview with the X-Com team because of Spoony's "BETRAYAL" thingy.

Wow... Maybe I don't watch Spoony enough, but he doesn't seem like the type to go so far as to make a rape joke about another person.

In case if it eases your mind, JesuOtaku wasn't offended by the joke.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

As expected of the escapist.

A guy that stalks a woman for a year is a-ok.
The woman is blamed for causing him pain when she flirts with people not him 1 year after the break-up. After all, women need to be 100% chaste after they break up with a guy, even one year later.
And other women who don't like rape jokes and dislike stalking ...are also evil, and just want attention/white knighting. But a guy stalking someone is totally fine!

Typical, really. Again, the escapist shows how deep it's stuck in the slimy echo-chamber of dudebro "culture".



LordKat can screw off, though. That was a jackassy thing to say. Thing is: The guy hates Spoony, he'd have used anything to attack him, mostly because Spoony was an idiot at a E3 and ruined LordKat's interview chance. That, dear LordKat, doesn't make oky what you said.

Hope he loses his show, just like Spoony should lose his

Don't generalize, please.

Most of the people I've been discussing with only have bones to pick with LordKat and Lupa.

Personally, I think Scarlett should have just stayed out of this to begin with. She really has no direct involvement.

 

[zacattack14]

Spoony's been in a bad place for awhile now, if you ask some of his fans. He shouldn't have made the joke, and Lupa shouldn't have brought it up a month later just to egg him on. Both parties are at fault in some way here, no one is in the right.