 Alright everyone, this is it. My final video about the GameXplain situation. Obviously I've covered this situation extensively, and as such I feel like you have to have an end point to the coverage at some point. I think the end point has now arrived after Andre Seager's last night yesterday released a tweet longer that was an actual apology, but it still could be lacking for some people. But here's the thing, there really isn't anything else that's going to happen at this point. At least from the side of good vibe gaming, the side of John Cartwright, the side of Andre, we're not really going to get anything else resolved out of it. We are at the point now where we've gotten out of this situation about as much as we can. We've gotten all the complaints and we've gotten all the responses I think Andre is probably going to give. The thing is the only thing that would ever make a new video on this situation possible it would be if the current staff of GameXplain came out and unveiled I guess more details of bad things happening. That's probably not going to happen, because Andre said that he is currently treating those staff much better, he's paying them much better, he's paying them on time, he's basically actually taking on the role of manager, paying attention to how much people are working, where projects are at, having set deadlines, all that jazz. I don't know if that's going to maintain moving forward, but that is what he's currently doing, and obviously the current staff are too new I think that really have any true complaints. Most people when you get a new job and you're really excited about it you're not going to complain about it for a while, so I don't think we're going to hear anything from those new staff even if there was some bad stuff happening for years. So I think we are at an inflection point where it's time to instead of focusing on man what do we want Andre to do, what do we want GameXplain to do, is GameXplain cancelled, we should focus instead on the next steps, which is essentially the healing process and or the moving on process. There are some things that happen throughout all of this that are never good. I didn't explicitly tell people not to do this, but that's because I knew it didn't matter if I said anything about it and I knew it didn't matter. I feel like when other people say things about it they do it mostly to save face and they are to actually prevent it, and of course I'm talking about telling people not to go harassing Andre, not to go harassing the GameXplain channel, and goodbye games that said not to do it, John Cartwright said not to do it. I didn't say not to do it because I knew it was inevitable and there really is no point to saying not to do it besides patting myself on the back and making myself feel better, like I'm not contributing. I know by covering it I already contributed to it. Good vibe gaming, John Cartwright by saying anything knows that they contributed to what was going to be harassment and backlash, and I think that you know as much as I know Andre tried to make us feel bad for him and I'm sure many of you guys do, I will say that sometimes you reap what you sow and with how the other employees felt and some of the manipulative actions of Andre throughout the years in a way sort of had it coming, at least to a certain extent. I sincerely hope he hasn't gotten death threats or anything like that, and sometimes we have some unreal expectations of what we wanted out of this situation. A lot of you people were demanding that Andre make lump sum payments to these people, but also make sure the current staff are being treated better and paid to higher salaries and all this jazz. How can we expect Andre to pay current staff more money, but then also make huge lump sum payments to the former staff? Andre isn't super rich or anything, we're not talking about a PewDiePie situation or a Mr. Beast situation, there are barely over a million subscribers, they're not just sitting there rolling in the money, I mean you watch Beat'em Ups and he's very well off, but would you call him rich? Maybe rich in life, but I'm sure he's not rolling in the millions of dollars sitting in the bank. So we can't sit here and expect Andre to both pay former staff a bunch of money, but also pay current staff a bunch of money, it's just not a realistic expectation and I never was an advocate for that solution. I don't think there really is a clean solution to any of this, I think what needs to happen now is you have to make a decision for yourself, if you're done with GameXplain, if you can never want to support or give any benefit of the doubt or trust back to Andre, then I think it's just time to move on for you. I think going and following good vibe games, if you were really into that crew is a good idea, following Nintendo life is a good idea, maybe you became a new subscriber of my channel and now you're going to follow my content. There's also numerous other content creators that cover Nintendo news you might not even be aware of. I'm not even going to say you're going to be like oh you could just stay here for Nintendo news, you can go follow SwitchForce, you can go follow SwitchStop, you could go follow PlayerEssence, you can go follow Spawnwave, you can go follow RGT85, you can go follow numerous other YouTubers out there, most of which I feel are better than me anyways. I don't think that I'm like this grandiose awesome amazing YouTuber at the top of the pile that does things better than anybody else. I think there's a lot of YouTubers that are way better than me and if you want Nintendo news I just gave you a whole list of YouTubers that at least I know of and am aware of that cover Nintendo news quite extensively. Obviously I do as well and if you choose to get your news here awesome I really appreciate it, subscribe, all that jazz, yeah I have a giveaway going on for a Switch, a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series X, details on that down in the description or to the pinned comment but if that's the only reason you're subscribing please maybe look elsewhere. I want people to subscribe who actually want to watch my content. Now some people have been tuning into me quite frequently because they view me as the foremost person talking about this game explain situation and I understand. I've looked around the internet at various websites and YouTubers and Omni I think is the only other YouTuber that has regularly covered this but I've been more I guess on top of the ball as they say about it and it's mostly just because the situation is near and dear to my heart but my thing is if after what Andre said you don't want to give GameXplain another chance then leave GameXplain alone. Tris, Chris, Tom, Joey and whoever else is working at GameXplain is not deserving of the videos they make getting the backlash that it gets. I know what's going to happen anyways and this extends way beyond my YouTube channel we've got Kotaku and Vice and Reset Era and a whole bunch of places covering this. Twitter it's to this point where obviously I'm small time in comparison to the overall crowd that's complaining about this but I do think at some point you need to let it go and let the people that are there be. I understand there are those of you that will never let it go. People who didn't like Andre before this and now will never let this go and will try to burn GameXplain to the ground and try to get them completely canceled off the internet and to that I say I understand it but isn't there a better use of your time and a better use of your energy? We're only on this world for a finite amount of time. Do you really want to waste you know days, weeks, months, years of your life trying to cancel a channel that when you could instead go support channels that deserve your view more maybe you know good vibe games just throwing that out there like support other content creators more you know if you the number one thing you can do to cancel GameXplain if that's what your ultimate goal is is to stop clicking on their videos even if you have ablock on and all that it doesn't matter if you click on the video technically you're helping their channel. Just like with the Phillip Musin situation a while back for those that don't remember he was a Nintendo YouTuber that got hired by IGN and then got busted for plagiarism and then it turned out he had a ton of plagiarism all over his YouTube channel and he tried coming back a few times and the fans just wouldn't have it. I'll say this it's kind of like that situation at some point you just move on you got to let it go. You don't ever have to trust that outlet again. Now on the flip side of the coin there are going to be those of you that want to give GameXplain another chance even fans of them forever just like I have been you are trying to be more sympathetic towards Andre after all he started out his quote unquote apology which only one line out of the entire thing was an actual apology so a bunch of paragraphs of stuff one line was an apology I just noting that just to let you guys know he didn't when you read the twit longer I know some people will look at it I'll link it down below some people will look at it as you know the whole thing's a giant apology but if you read through it he doesn't really apologize for anything until right at the end. So it's not really an apology it's more so an explanation of his side of the story and he starts it off by trying to get sympathy you know because the internet is really you know attacking him and twisting his words and all that jazz and I understand if you want to be sympathetic towards that most of us will never be understanding of that situation because most of us don't find ourselves in a situation where a majority of the internet's coming down on us. I've had people come down at me before as a public figure in certain communities but I've never had it to the degree that Andre is so I can't even I can't even understand it fully but I'll say that even if you are sympathetic towards it and want to give Game of Thrones a chance then do that don't run around to my channel other channels defending them people you know calling me out saying that oh hey you know you're just you're part of the problem you're you're just I messaged Andre yesterday I sent him a message a sincere honest to goodness message don't know if you'll read it don't know if you'll ever respond he hasn't to this point hasn't read it or responded but I sent him a DM and I simply gave him some friendly advice actual friendly advice to help GameXplain moving forward if I wanted GameXplain to burn at the stake and be canceled I wouldn't be offering this advice to Andre and the advice was simply hey take your tweet longer make a standalone video about it put it out on GameXplain right and let all of the people that are seething at the mouth frothing and just ready to pounce on you give them a video with your voice with your words for them to pounce on because if nothing else this takes the pressure off your team right now he only put it out on Twitter on his Twitter with only 35,000 followers he's got a 1 million plus on YouTube is what he said is not going to reach a majority audience that is bitching on YouTube he needs to put it on YouTube so everyone can direct all of their focus to that one video and start to let the rest of the stuff be alone when Tris makes a video and Chris makes a video and Tom makes a video when Joey makes a video and their voices are heard people will be less apt to attack those videos because there's a separate video where Andre is addressing the issues and they can feel like anyways they are directly talking to him that's what I told him to do and I did you know tell him I apologize in a way I literally said I'm also sorry for any undue stress you know that I caused you I apologize for that um because obviously I realized that covering this there's always going to be you know Andre's a human and he's obviously going to be impacted by me covering it and I was one of the first YouTubers maybe even the first YouTuber to talk about it now I know a bunch of other YouTubers have at this point uh most of them really tiny YouTubers uh all smaller than me I think only Omni was like the big YouTuber bigger than me to talk about it I think uh it it's time to begin that healing process whatever that healing process is for you I don't I can't speak to what works for you I can only speak to what works for me and what works for me is look all I wanted from Andre ultimately out of everything was to know that what he did or what he contributed to the issues that his former staff dealt with was no longer happening with the new staff I think the number one thing we can ever ask of anyone is to learn from the mistakes they have made even if he's not going to fully cop to him even if he's not going to fully apologize even if he won't say their names even if you won't advertise their outlet and you know make a bunch of good faith gestures you know with giving him money or whatever the case might be bare minimum we want to see change we want to see someone recognizing faults and improving upon them because we're all flawed humans many of us would like to think we would not make the same decisions if we were in Andre's shoes but none of us have been in his shoes to know what kind well how we would have reacted what decisions we would have made we could say oh in hindsight we would have done this or we would have done that but we don't know because none of us experienced what he experienced and went through what he went through in the growth of game explain so and we're not going to know a lot of details we're not going to know why Derek and Andre are on non-speaking terms right Derek put out there I don't foresee anything that could ever happen that will make him and Andre talk again clearly something happened I don't know what but it's also none of my business it's personal clearly when you're at that point it's personal it's not just about a professional situation it's a personal one so none of my business none of your business and the thing is good vibe games wants us to move on John wants us to move on John Cartwright Andre obviously wants everyone to move on I'm not saying you have to move on but I am saying that we need to find some peace within ourselves there is a lot of hate out there a lot of things that you could argue deserve to have some hate here's what we know about everything at the moment everyone that feels slighted by game explain that work there is happy today they are happy today with their current jobs their current careers their current projects and their current in some cases youtube channels so at the end of all of the game explain stuff they landed on their feet and are doing well for themselves in fact goodbye games has gained like 30,000 40,000 subscribers since all of this so even through the drama they ended up gaining a bunch of fans too so they landed on their feet and are doing really really well it's not like they have this all happen to them and they're still sulking in the corner now you might say well if that's the case and things were going so well why did this stuff even come out in the first place and speaking as someone who has some my own pent up frustrations with some prior employers that I worked for sometimes when you're so passionate about something you put so much time into something and you're so frustrated by it and you've been keeping your mouth shut publicly for so long and then a casual conversation comes up such as talking about Final Fantasy 7 in terms of being one of the best games of April of last year and it could just trigger something and that's what it did with Steve it triggered him into a whole yeah man I remember like what I did and what I went through and like it just triggered him to mention something and then obviously in him mentioning some of the stuff that he went through it led to other members mentioning stuff as well and then obviously you had Steve's wife who was at his side through all of it being like look it's out there now I'm gonna let loose because if we're honest Steve's wife is what added a lot of ammunition to all of this because she's clearly angry about the situation she's very angry about the situation as she probably has a right to be because she saw what was happening to her husband right in front of her eyes he probably lost himself to be completely honest for quite some time he saw you know she probably saw onsets of repression and the crying and everything else in between plus the sacrifices she made for him to try to chase this dream that didn't seem all that realistic so I understand that she just viewed this as oh Steve finally talked about it so now I can just unload and so she unloaded all of her stress about the situation and it is what it is when you have that pent up stuff inside and you just haven't gotten it out yet sometimes it's going to come out now that it's out I feel like it's almost therapeutic for them they finally have this stuff out in the open the air has been cleared everyone has voiced their frustrations and their experiences and now it's just kind of time to move on to the next chapter whatever that is for them and whatever that is for you guys I can't tell you to stop hating Andre if you don't like the guy and you still don't like the guy you're probably never gonna like the guy again if uh you don't want to watch game explain ever again don't but there's just no point in harassing Andre anymore there's no point there was never a point by the way in mocking and harassing the staff at game explain that are currently there you know you see people you know going into the comments of me and like oh man how's that one dollar you know McDouble tasting for you which I don't think you can get a McDouble for a dollar anymore like even a cheeseburger is like a dollar dollar oh nine or whatever I think McChicken might be the one thing still on the dollar menu maybe I knew you can get a large soda because all soda prices are the same at McDonald's I don't know I don't really eat that stuff anymore but used to work there a long time ago back when McDouble was a dollar I'm just saying that making comments like that to to like current employees or contract you know employees that are obviously being paid more or at least Andre saying he's paying them more it's just they don't need to deal with that you know why they put out those videos despite what's going on why they've been still putting out content despite what's going on because they want to they're passionate about this and what you guys are doing in going to their videos that doesn't have Andre in them and you know just voicing all of this frustration and backlash and mocking this is you're kind of ruining their passion for all of this you're making it unenjoyable for them to cover games and I don't think that's what we want we don't want the current staff at game explain to feel unwanted we don't want the former staff at game explain to feel super super guilty about affecting the new staff what we wanted in the end it I can't speak for everyone what I wanted in the end it's just Andre to acknowledge what he did Andre to work I'm never doing it again which he claims that he has obviously I can't know I don't work for him but you know Joey Faris is the one employee that was really outspoken about it and he described a situation that is kind of backs up what Andre claims he's been doing some people feel like Joey was coerced some people don't like Joey and I understand why some people don't I know some of the things that have happened with him over the years some things he's done some political stances he might have you guys don't like I get it I'm not gonna sit here and defend him either who you like and who you dislike is your own is your own problem but we need to heal we need to heal one way or another we can't it's not healthy for us to just focus on hatred so if there's anything else I could say for this final video it's regardless of of if you forgive Andre if you don't forgive Andre if you want to give game a second chance or you don't want to give it a second chance we need to move forward we can't just keep living in the past and I feel like that's what this is mostly about and why it's almost good for everyone that this came out it's good for goodbye games it's in and all the other people the part timers it's good for John Cartwright and everyone else this stuff came out because they got to kind of take a weight off their chest they got to empty their mind almost in a therapeutic kind of way and just say look we're just gonna put it all out there and like just kind of a relief that they could finally talk about it and and just be done with it also obviously there's the benefit of the drama helped them grow then there's also the side of Andre who has probably been dealing with pressure and questions about how and why all of the original staff at game explain just up and left at once and nobody bothered to say anything like why did they leave Andre didn't say anything the people who left said stuff but if you weren't already following them on social media platforms you would have no idea where they went so it was a weird situation for Andre as well where he probably also had to deal with these same questions from the new staff like hey like why are you hiring us what happened to the old staff you know and I'm sure there was a some word said about that behind the scenes but Andre also needed to know that what he did was unacceptable and he might have already knew that by the you know just the mere fact that he lost his staff probably already taught him lessons but I think it coming out publicly teaches him additional lessons it teaches him what is acceptable and what's not acceptable because maybe he thought he thought that hey the only thing was that you know I didn't keep track of people's time and I didn't you know I didn't pay people on time and maybe he just thought that's what he needed to improve on without recognizing some of the manipulative things he was doing like not letting Derek stream on his own twitter or on his own twitch account if he did he could no longer be a be a full you know a full-time staff a game explain for some odd reason or John needing more money game explain not offering him more so he starts up a second youtube channel to try to make money on the side and then you know Andre deciding he's going to give a more and more work the moment that youtube channel springs up so John doesn't have time to do anything on that youtube channel it's a sticky situation where that stuff needed to be called out so he could do some self inner reflection and realize yeah man I shouldn't have did that that wasn't right and I don't think if this stuff comes public he would have ever even thought about those situations and I think now he is he's at least thinking about it whether or not he's remorseful for it I have no idea only Andre could know if he's truly sorry if he's just sorry the things came out or if he's actually sorry for what went down only Andre knows no matter what he says publicly only he knows what I know is I never unsubscribed from game explain I'm still subscribed I am still going to check out their content here and there now I never really watched a lot of their content over the last year once John and all the stuff it just I you know the the heart of game explain to me left so I've been watching goodbye games today's news tonight I've been watching Nintendo live content but I still checked out game explain here and there and I probably still will check out game explain here and there one just out of more big curiosity of how they're doing and two because hey I still support the current staff that's there I think there's a real chance that out of this game explain could become stronger it could become a place of reform it could show that shady practices don't always have to keep being shady practices we have seen too many game studios we've seen too many games media continue to do shady practices even after being called out for them if game explain is truly doing better that's nothing but good for the whole of the Nintendo YouTube community now that's it that's what I got hopefully um you got something out of this video if you want to go out of the comments and call me a piece of shit that's fine I can take it um I just passionately care about the Nintendo community and here on YouTube where I am part of that Nintendo community game explain is a big part of that so when stuff like this happens it's not personal like I don't have to forgive him I'm not the one he slighted I don't really I don't feel like he needs my forgiveness I don't know if you think I did a great job cool that's cool as well um you know I don't know that's it this is the final video guys done finito no more talking about this at my channel we are going to move on to getting back to talking about games even though we still talk about games this whole time but we're gonna keep talking about games and more and more and more all right folks that's it done game explain bye