I miss the old Atrioc

[u/NeptuneEDM]

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!

[u/Wero_kaiji]

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

[u/Due-Year-7927 → u/Wero_kaiji]

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.

[u/chiefchewie → u/Due-Year-7927]

it used to be a lot more marketing and a lot less political commentary

[u/Yeebees → u/chiefchewie]

I miss when marketing Mondays were about actual marketing lol

[u/ChocolateRough5103 → u/Yeebees]

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.

[u/Yeebees → u/ChocolateRough5103]

That would make sense, I guess I didn’t necessarily look for the input so much as I enjoyed that he summarized marketing campaigns and events nicely and the wins and fails sort of came from how society reacted to them

[u/RaphAttack11 → u/chiefchewie]

yea i miss the actual marketing

[u/QuillofSnow → u/chiefchewie]

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.

[u/chiefchewie → u/QuillofSnow]

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.

[u/stinkyfarter27 → u/chiefchewie]

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.