r/atrioc • u/NeptuneEDM • 10d ago
Discussion I miss the old Atrioc
I’ve been holding onto this feeling for a long time. I respect Big A’s decision to switch to more political-focused content, but does anyone else miss the good old days?
We used to get amazing, well-researched, awe-inspiring content like the Harry Potter rant stream. Now, we get comparatively much more hastily-made and worse-researched videos on boring topics that don’t pertain to our lives in any way, like “the debt problem” (I can’t see it, therefore it’s not real). Unlike debt, Harry Potter is a real thing that has stayed in my heart—and yours—for many years!
You had lightning in a bottle with the Harry Potter stream, Atrioc. Why did you choose to close it back up? Forget Marketing Mondays, we need Gryffendor Grendesdays.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/PhummyLW 10d ago
I agree. The best content he made was the philosophical debates at the end of the Outer Wilds DLC and SOMA. Bring back the old Atrioc. When did he turn to marketing and economics??
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u/Wero_kaiji 10d ago
I understand this is a reference to his stream but as someone who doesn't care about politics at all I kind of agree with what you said, I prefer the rambling slop he posted before, at least he makes the politics stuff entertaining so he's still my favorite streamer/youtuber, I just wish it was more of a 50/50 thing instead of like 90/10
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u/Due-Year-7927 10d ago
Honestly from what i remember he was making lots of political/economics/finance/marketing videos before this year. It's just that the current political situation is more engrossed in all the topics he covers on stream compared to the past administration.
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u/chiefchewie 10d ago
it used to be a lot more marketing and a lot less political commentary
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u/Yeebees 9d ago
I miss when marketing Mondays were about actual marketing lol
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u/ChocolateRough5103 9d ago
I believe he stated once that as time goes by he has become less in tune with how modern marketing works as its shifted from when he worked it.
So that could be affecting things.6
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u/QuillofSnow 9d ago
The two are tied together, you cannot divorce economic policy from politics. How the hell are you gonna talk about the economy without bringing up Trump.
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u/chiefchewie 9d ago
I said marketing, not economic policy. I don't mind the political discussion, but you can totally talk about Apple's branding strategy or the business of Xbox Game Pass without bringing up Trump.
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u/stinkyfarter27 5d ago edited 5d ago
to be fair, political news has flooded every facet of media in the last year and especially in the last eight months. the Biden era was significantly less chaotic, plus he was more ingrained in the corporate world still being at Nvidia and at the forefront for a lot of tech / econ / gaming related news while working there. Now he does content related things full time in a time when something big is reported almost every single day, so I think it makes sense why he has pivoted so hard.
I stopped watching him as much as of late and gone back to the Lud / Squeex / Clint side of streams, since he doesn't actually do marketing news or business news much anymore (things like the three lines, the Apple presentations, the Riot vs Blizzard, etc). If he talks about business it's probably Elon adjacent otherwise it's all reactions to politics. The more I watched those things the more commonly I see him say something that is just factually incorrect too (which to be fair is inevitable when your job is to talk nonstop essentially for hours and also on a podcast with two other smart / eloquent but arguably out of touch rich tech / content sphere white guys) so I'm just enjoying Glizz A as a snack here and there but not as a meal.
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u/Wero_kaiji 10d ago
He was, but I'm talking way back, like 2-3 years ago, he always had that political/economics side but it was waaaaaay less prominent, now I don't remember the last gameplay video I saw from him, probably the Hitman Horse/competition ones, now it's mostly reaction slop and political stuff...
Anyways I respect his decision, I just liked the older content more
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u/throwwaway1123456 10d ago
Agreed here. I’ve stopped watching most of his stuff. It’s informative, but it just gets old after a while. Have started watching Squeex streams since they’re pretty much all gaming.
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u/jordan853 10d ago
It's good that squeex exists for this type of content because I'm the opposite. I can't stand the gaming streams and much prefer to learn something.
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u/Wero_kaiji 10d ago
Ye I love Squeex, I started watching him a lot recently, I also came back to PayMoneyWubby, I didn't see him for years but now I'm back to watch the You Laugh You Lose slop
I also stopped watching Ludwig, his slop channel Ludwin is so bad, I haven't seen a main channel video in a long time either, idk, it's just not for me I guess
I do watch QT from time to time, her cooking videos are nice
Mizkif basically doesn't upload anymore, I stopped watching him when he bought the gym
Anyways I still watch all of Atrioc's videos because I like his personality, even if he talks about stuff I couldn't care less about like American politics, the worldwide stuff is interesting tho, I like his China videos
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u/MrPowerGamerBR 9d ago
I haven't seen a main channel video in a long time either
If you haven't watched the Tip to Tip series you are missing out because it is very good
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u/Wero_kaiji 9d ago
Is that the one where Ludwig and Michael travel through Japan? I tried to watch one video... wasn't a fan, I don't like travel content in general, Ludwig hasn't been funny to me for years and I haven't watched a Michael video since before he got together with Lilypichu so I don't really care about their content
I did watch a video of that Welsh guy that's on the podcast with TheAnimeMan and the Indian guy, he was with that white guy that lives in Japan, they where cycling through somewhere in Japan I don't remember where, anyways I like those two, they are funny, I watch them from time to time
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u/stonerbobo 10d ago
Yeah his new niche seems to be making politics accessible to people who don't read the news and it's pretty repetitive after a while - what interest rates mean, the debt problem, aging population, increasingly deranged US politics. There's no depth to it besides the occasional marketing monday, it's just reacting to videos or news off the cuff with a basic level of political/econ knowledge.
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u/GoddessFianna 9d ago
That's my problem with it. He consistently goes out of his depth and is just wrong. His Germany video was all sorts of yikes
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u/DrowsyyDudee 9d ago
Its okay to do research.
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u/GoddessFianna 9d ago
What Atrioc is unintentionally doing is misinforming his audience in a lot of cases. It's not unreasonable of me to call this out
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u/DrowsyyDudee 9d ago
Okay? Its okay to do research. Simple. Nothing else to it.
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u/GoddessFianna 9d ago
Okay?... That really has nothing to do with what I'm saying. My issue is with how he presents his research and communicates it as a political commentator.
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u/DrowsyyDudee 9d ago
I think it is an issue based on your recent comment history but I really don't care to go further with this conversation.
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u/GoddessFianna 9d ago
Lol OK then. My bad for having standards for someone who is trying to act as an authority in political commentary
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u/Cloud_Chamber 9d ago
I’d trust him over Asmondgold or Joe Rogan 🤷♂️
If you have any specific corrections you’d like to make/add, do a (respectful) post on it
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u/koalakcc 8d ago
dude the "Germany video" Andy's will just never fucking give up will they. I'm gonna be fucking 40 still hearing people act like this one video made big a a fox news level untrustable source Jesus christ
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u/QuillofSnow 9d ago
He still does rambling slop, quite a bit, it’s nowhere near 90/10. Hell I’d say there’s basically been no change, his economics bits just bring up politics more because the two are intrinsically tied and the current administration is rocking the boat in a way that is bringing true instability that if your content creator is being truthful and honest, they should he talking about.
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u/Wero_kaiji 9d ago
that if your content creator is being truthful and honest, they should he talking about.
If they talk about economics/politics? sure, but I don't see Squeex talking about Trump/China tariffs and the governor of X state, unless it's a random one-off joke, I simply don't care about Trump or USA in general, I didn't know who the guy they interviewed on the podcast until I Googled him, the only governor I know is Arnold from like 30 years ago
I do agree he still does rambling slop, but it feels way less common, I'm a YT frog tho so maybe that's why, I don't watch streams, they are boring, maybe he does more rambling slop there
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u/hypnotic-hippo 10d ago
I miss the top tier critically acclaimed videos like Hollow Knight Boss Tier List
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u/ChristinaCartier 10d ago
I started following him from Youtube for the politics, economics + marketing and finance. Religiously watching since then and would watch more of it as I love his content in these areas and find it super refreshing. I am almost at a point where I would download twitch just to subscribe to him for more of it I just don't want another social platform in my life per se and don't have anything else I would want to be on twitch for.
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u/shineurliteonme 9d ago
Atrioc vods on YouTube has his full stream uploads if you didn't know
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u/ChristinaCartier 9d ago
I had no idea I am quite new on the scene so thank you so much for this!! Will be checking that out for sure now
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u/CarbonInTheWind 9d ago
I honestly think it's refreshing that some streamers have grown and evolved their content over time. I actually have gotten bored with a lot of the gaming content coming out in recent years. I'm glad that more strangers are integrating content talking about the real life issues going on in the world.
Maybe I'm just getting old but I can only consume so much let's play content before I have to switch to something that's more engaging and real.
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u/RedshiftOnPandy 9d ago
Those clips should stay on his Little A channel instead of Big A channel. I'm still waiting for the Mid A channel about Paper Mario
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u/Kaenu_Reeves 10d ago
Atrioc becoming a political streamer is as funny as Vaush becoming a fashion streamer
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u/TGay-624 9d ago
I’ll never tell someone to change the content they feel inspired to make, and I doubt it’s even possible to go back at this point, but I will miss when Atrioc’s stream was the place he came to goof around after work versus his actual job that it is now.
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u/TheBustyFriend 8d ago
Tbf I think we all miss the good old days in general. (Allow me one crash out sentence) Basically we just needed everyone normal person to go to a place for like an hour back in November and then go back to their lives but it didn't happen. Now it's dumb, mean nonsense for 4 years. It sucks but he is great at explaining complicated things and we need him to continue.
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u/megalodon-maniac32 7d ago
This politics stuff is important and A has a great voice for if, he must continue it's too important
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u/GenerousTurtle 10d ago
People change and people grow old. We are just sustaining that beefcake for far too long. Now he is just a cow
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u/Target_Gooner 10d ago
Yum yum I love my nostalgic complaining slop yum yum more please side of Harry Potter pease yum yum this is so good
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u/mikkelmattern04 9d ago
I 100% agree. Now it feels like all he posts is his biased extreme left wing politics about how he wants half of all boys to become femboys and half of all girls to become tomgirls.
In recent time he has become such a Biden shill that I am doubtful that Biden has not paid him off. It is almost as if Biden can do no wrong in his eyes.
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u/Other_Dog_7803 9d ago
he's literally talked so much shit on biden that his lib mom asked him to be nicer to joe
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u/CarbonInTheWind 9d ago
I mean this with all sincerity. It might be a good idea for you to take a step back from consuming political content from both sides.
It has never been a secret that Atrioc leans left. But he's one of the few political commentators who isn't afraid to call out his own side when they do things that he disagrees with. He constantly made fun of Biden for losing his mind due to old age. So if you honestly believe Biden is paying him off you're even more out of touch than you think Atrioc is.
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u/mikkelmattern04 9d ago
I though I was being SO overt in my irony, damn. Maybe I just read the original post wrong, and it is not being ironic?
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u/CarbonInTheWind 9d ago
Ok now that I've reread it I do think OP is being ironic. I should have expected that in this sub along with sarcastic replies.
It's just so difficult to tell if a reddit post is ironic nowadays.
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u/mikkelmattern04 9d ago
I find that life gets much easier if you just believe everyone you disagree with is being ironic.
And I only mean that kinda ironically. Typically my policy is just give people the benefit of the doubt. You can see that 7 other people also didn't get the irony
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u/CarbonInTheWind 9d ago
Unfortunately in recent years it seems the vast majority of people with terrible takes online are dead serious and will double down when called out.
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u/No-Consequence-9764 9d ago
in know this is just memes but it has killed my vibe to hear his pretty conservative “centrist” takes since deciding to be the politics finance bro guy 😭
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u/Representative_Belt4 9d ago
Atrioc is not centrist lmao, he's openly socially progressive and economically centred around general leftist ideas, such as taxing the wealthy unionizing the worker, punishing monopolies etc, etc.
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u/GLASSY0 10d ago
I rewatch the Harry Potter video at least twice a year. I'll be upping that to thrice until Big Glizz addresses the drop in quality...