When a YouTuber Unlisted a Hated Review

[@maidenreligion12]

Yong Yea is a master at using a lot of words to say nothing at all. Dude is the KZbinr equivalent of anime titles that tell you the entire plot.

[@Jimmy9298]

I am so sick of that trend in anime. It's god damn obnoxious.

[@merlylvsm]

Feel this way with a lot of Video Game Essays. There's some great ones out there but there's a lot of purple prose bs too.

[@BainesMkII]

@@Jimmy9298 It's annoying with anime titles, but it is a reality of their source material. It is supposedly significantly easier for a web novel to draw readers if it gives away plot in the title. And web novels need readers to land the light novel deal that can land you the manga deal that can finally land the anime deal.

[@Predatorx47]

It's even worse than that, the man has an extremely limited vocabulary. I didn't even realize that could be a problem with videos. I normally have KZbin running on my second monitor while I play games like Helldivers 2, and this dudes abysmal vocabulary was so bad, it started grating on me. I have never before hit "Do Not Recommend This Channel" before for or since for that reason. It genuinely shocking how annoying it can be when you hear the same 6-10 words used in every sentence of a video.

[@tubensalat1453]

"Dude is the KZbinr equivalent of anime titles that tell you the entire plot." I don't know about anime titles, but I often saw a YY video recommendation and thought: "Interesting! But I'm not gonna watch his whole video about it now".

[@b01scout96]

I stopped watching YongYea after realizing he just keeps recycling topics and reads articles. 5+ videos per week tend to be surface level content.

[@WhySoSeriousSenpai]

“Micro transactions BAD” it’s been the same thing over and over again

[@inthefade]

Yeah either his quality went down or I just realized he had no real morals or substance. ...His voice acting is embarrassingly bad too.

[@IHMyself]

Same.

[@CyrusIsnt]

​@@inthefadeI unsub years ago he did 2 videos on a call of duty skin being over priced. AND I thought this already happen 😂 Are you gonna keep doing this everytime and its their game at the end of the day

[@mercenarygundam1487]

@@inthefade Didn't he voice some priest character in bizarre adventure?

[@planescaped]

YongYea is one of those youtubers I used to watch that I just lost interest in. He just really started to come across as a hypocrite who would lambast a thing one week and then praise it later. A Fairweather youtuber.

[@kambion]

I mean, how many hours can you listen to "omg the industry is so fucked up" right next to "OMG GAME IS COMING OMG"... dude sucks, and so does his fake ass voice.

[@seeinred]

He just repeated the most common stance about any subject at any given moment, while having no opinion of his own. Ironically, only madness made him interesting lol

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Just like Jim Sterling.

[@georgehernandez2156]

Yong Yea repeats content a lot. He made a video on anything little update , especially if it's suicide squad

[@cl8804]

japyeah woooooooooooo

[@ironwoodkid9577]

the sooner you realise he's just reading articles the sooner you can stop wasting time watching him

[@angeloluna529]

i dont have an issue with a youtuber reading articles since i work and need someone to read them out. the issue with yong is that he just reads and has one of the most blandest safest takes to ever say. he even says the things he knows his audience will agree with. he doesnt say anything new, nothing risky, just nod to the masses and make that green. i sometimes listen to asmongold since he says some stuff that can anger people when it comes to tipping, issues with the gaming industry and others.

[@k1n63d]

I dont get this sentiment. They are youtubers. They all read articles. They spend their entire day indoors. Their idea of a social life is typing online or teaming up with other unemployed people to be indoors with. They are not journalists with a badge that go out to get the scoop first hand. They get their news just like you. You are an article reader too. Using article reading against them seems poorly thought out lacks a certain self awareness. Most people who have an active life and work, have a family, etc etc.. dont have time to go online and search for news all the time. They might when a topic comes to mind here and there. But what these youtubers do tends to be more of a convenient way to get the news. They can play the videos in the background or on headphones while they go about their day. They not only read the article but they even read other articles, they read comments, they give their own opinions, they tell you how the public has taken the news, they tell you what has happened since the news broke out, etc etc.. some youtubers are better than others some are more trustworthy than others and as time goes on and as viewers find different youtubers they curate who their 'go to' youtubers are for certain news topics and who to avoid.

[@SaekoMantis]

Yea got that feeling from him for the last year now. But like everyone keep saying his content is a bit bland

[@pegeta]

thats legit all he does

[@duel2803]

@@k1n63dthat’s what i’m saying

[@augoosto11]

He was always a hack. He takes the top 5 posts on r/gaming, and regurgitates the popular sentiment with zero honesty or personal investment. He's the lowest of the low effort when it comes to gaming.

[@whydidyoutubeaddthis]

Definitely not the lowest, but down there

[@dsandoval9396]

He was okay in the VERY beginning. I remember about 10 years ago, probably more, watching a video that appeared in my list, and thinking that he looked SUPER worn out. Like he just didn't care anymore. Like he was literally just reading text in front of him, and even that seemed painful for him to do. Every video after that for a few years was the same. I stopped getting his videos so I never saw his videos again or knew what happened with him. ...until now.

[@augoosto11]

@TWDub I'll have you know, I'm a goblin; not a troll.

[@_..--]

Wanna have some fun, watch his "singing" in his VA work in Like a Dragon.. it's a shame he got that role when he has no talent.. Seriously listen to it.

[@HarambeKojima]

​@_..-- man that VA is atrocious...."WE'RE BREAKING THE LAW!!!!!"

[@caliberccxvii]

Yong makes 5 minutes videos but stretches them to 20+ minute videos

[@facerip2222]

And 90% of the videos are him reading Twitter comments or gaming news articles someone else wrote. Also not for nothing, but here's a fun game you can play. Try and count how many times that dude says "optics" in a video. He gets stuck on these certain internet buzzwords and it drives me crazy. Just how I've lately noticed every youtuber suddenly saying "in the weeds".

[@glOckcOma]

Haa!!! Wonderful take. Main reason I stopped watching his stuff. He repeats his points like 20 times to elongate the video. It is incredibly annoying.

[@matturner6890]

It's the Quartering method. Clearly, he picked his name 'cause he should be quartering his videos!

[@yendayo]

You are giving him too much credit. He stretches 2 min video to 20 mins. Just say the same thing over and over and over again.

[@R3TR0J4N]

his getting close to dexterto

[@vonce3219]

I stopped watching his videos after realizing the sheer lack of genuine thought in his videos. He doesn't have his own unique opinion, he just parrots the public perception of a topic as a whole. I noticed it when he ridiculed chris pratts voice as mario, but then buried his head in the sand when he got criticism himself

[@Livvvid]

Back when he posted the review he would wind up deleting I actually called it. It was the first time he accidentally disagreed with his audience and I was like "I bet he apologizes or deletes this". After he deleted the review I refused to watch anything from him ever again. Even before that I had already lost interest as all he does is read articles but that was the final straw.

[@Fuck_Anime]

it beats the dead horse. if a game is being dog piled on, hes right on the pile, making 40+ videos on it

[@Discipline8193]

tbf to him, (and i don't want to be) every genre of talking head is occupied largely by such shills. Sports, politics, movies, most "analysts" repeat the majority opinion. ITs the safest way to maintain a career. He'll never reach the pinnacle of success because he doesn't share his own personality, but he'll always be employed.

[@Martial-Mat]

@@Livvvid So you think it's Yong's responsibility to always agree with his audience?!

[@YoutubeIsDogshitAndJustAdsNow]

sounds like you just dont like people with opposing opinions that coincide with mainstream

[@SuperLuigi1025]

You mean the guy that was blabbing on about Mario was a miss cast in the Mario Movie taking every chance he got to take jabs at it but then turn around start going on a block raid on anyone who said he was a miss cast for a Yakuza game.

[@Canadiansamurai]

That really irks me about him.

[@elen5871]

he wasn't wrong about mario but he also _sucks_ as a voice actor. he thinks having a good radio voice means you're automatically capable of acting but his emoting is actually comically bad. he makes chris pratt seem _great_ and all HE does is act like chris pratt in every movie he's in! YONG. BEING A VOICE ACTOR INCLUDES _ACTING_ NOT READING LINES OFF A PAPER IN YOUR KZbinR VOICE. DILPSHIT.

[@somethingsburning774]

We might as well use IGN

[@eldenvedetta635]

@@somethingsburning774 I'll watch IGN over Yong any day now, surprisingly IGN does have a lot of good, fair reviews, mixed in with their bigoted reviews like pretending RE5 was racist when the reviewer for that actually was. But there's so many people working for IGN that's why there's so many mixed opinions, you can find good stuff there, but watching Yong you'll only ever hear him parrot the most popular opinion, so long as it's not about DEI racism because he probably agrees with that which is why he'll never mention it as a problem.

[@Dw1nna]

Sadly funny cause I remember him crying about Jason Schreider blocking him. We really ended up seeing him live long enough to turn into a villain and its fascinating.

[@datemasamune2904]

You're basically describing the entire KZbin Commentary community. You all would eat each other and talk about each other, if it gets views. They like to pretend they’re spreading awareness, but the fact of the matter is that they’re TMZ.

[@doctorbrown5957]

This

[@cmoney163]

True and real

[@Yajeeb]

The most based factual comment in this entire thread lol

[@nerdjournal]

bro's cooking and it looks like commentary channels are on the grill

[@user-tm8jt2py3d]

TMZ breaks serious stories all the time, the benefit of being shit

[@LordofBroccoli]

Used to watch YongYea a long time ago, until I realized he's just another one of those KZbinrs who does nothing but read an article, similar to LegacyKilla or whatever his name is. They both do nothing but read articles and tweets. In other words, a complete waste of time.

[@myownhome2959]

Most tubers are grifters😆🍻

[@cellamuert]

@@myownhome2959 yup, either big enough to be a paid voice or a capitalist on the dissenting opinion. nothing more.

[@lawjef]

SkillUp, YongYea and Alanah Pearce are all in a snug cohort of political activists who shill for gaming studios when they are not upload videos that focus on their own face way more than any game.

[@chainsawplayin]

pretty much a clone of The Quartering

[@theblackgamer8103]

​@@cellamuertwhat does that even mean

[@burtonthegrape9217]

After that Yakuza thing I stopped watching him, he showed his true colors. He has the audacity to criticize other VAs but when it's him we're being the jerks, lol he's lost it

[@flawed1]

He made a career out of criticizing people, and couldn’t handle it when it was his turn to be criticized.

[@jordandennis6794]

He can't handle it. He's a San Francisco coward

[@kami_oniisama9884]

can you please direct me to the specific video I'm a little outdated since I quit watching him need to catch up

[@lordlundar]

@@kami_oniisama9884 It wasn't a video but social media activity. Yong for some time had been advocating for the "only play VA parts that match your representation" commentary (ie only hire black people for black parts, only hire gay people for gay parts, etc). Then he was considered for asian roles in Yakuza but was prohibited from auditioning for non-asian parts and went on a social media tirade over it which ended up with most responses pointing out that it was what he was pushing for. That, combined with his performance in the game was considered flat at best did not help.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

“We’re breaking the law! Breaking the world!” Gah, months later and my eardrums still haven’t recovered from that Godawful performance that Yong unleashed upon the world. 😂

[@Vert_GreenHeart]

YongYea went from a decent guy to been an absolute fence-sitting shill for pursuing voice acting career in big bright L.A.

[@Banned_and_Redacted]

i watched him from very early in his youtube career and i can tell you he was always a fence sitter the only time he didnt was when the wind was blowing in a very obvious direction

[@mercenarygundam1487]

What fame and money does to a man.

[@namenlosNamenlos]

That same guy sponsor: Soylent. 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@cl8804]

i mean he was always an absolute idiot, to be fair

[@KikyouNeko]

Ever since he went to california to pursue voice acting career, he started to befriend mainstream developers and companies so they can hire him in future, thus leads in turn to not be overly critical of them otherwise they might blacklsit him... Integrity thrown out of the window.

[@cami5173]

bro yong says everything in the first 2 min and then just word salads for the next 18+

[@whydidyoutubeaddthis]

Is that not ideal...? If you just want what the title says plus a little you get it instantly and if you're braindead and just keep watching lol. Something for everyone

[@TimmyJay02]

Just admit it, you don’t like him cus of his skin color.

[@Demiurge13]

​@@TimmyJay02 just admit it, you like him only because of his skin color.

[@dsandoval9396]

Exactly what I realized some years ago. 😂😂😂

[@ge2719]

@@whydidyoutubeaddthis but you don't know when he has actually finished telling you all the important information. maybe he says 2 mins of actual information then repeats himself for ten minutes, and then ends with 10 minutes of new information. You wouldn't get to that part if you stop watching when he starts repeating himself. He needs to learn to say something once, then move on.

[@toshio1334]

Every YongYea video in a nuthshell : According to this Kotaku Article , proceeds to read entire article , anyways that's about it "YONG OUT" .

[@happicheshirecat]

Lol 😂 “YOUNG OUT”

[@JJsiN84]

So true

[@angelsalazar7936]

and twitter, for some reason

[@pandamonium9255]

I stopped watching Yong when I stopped giving a shit about listening to a shill.

[@JagoKestis]

I really like this video. Unless other comments say it’s bad. Then I hate it.

[@epyjacek]

This should be top, thank you stranger.

[@TomGeorgeOriginal]

The comments all hate Yongyea so that's my opinion too, he's a shill and a bad voice actor.

[@R3TR0J4N]

fair and arguably. hope we can pin top-3 comments

[@orkhepaj]

oh you just did a yongye i see

[@jaythomas468]

This is pretty much “the game of KZbin” in a nutshell.

[@stevenfade3537]

Bro and the Yakuza voice over dilema is the cherry on top.

[@inthefade]

He shouldn't have been hired for that role. He's ambitious but he isn't good enough yet as a voice actor. He needs to work hard on it.

[@dmdeign7116]

🎵WE'RE BREAKING THE LAW🎶 🤣🤣

[@riatorex8722]

​@@inthefade Yeah, he was most definitely miscast

[@e3vL1]

Probably why he didn't cover the Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth new game plus controversy

[@wolfandspice]

​@inthefade He also needs to work hard on his self awareness, he's criticized other voice actors for butchering roles, then turns around and does it to a beloved character while not acknowledging it.

[@ThatBugBehindYou]

The only problem with YongYea is that he's a mold of most "honest game reviewers." KZbinrs after they reach a certain status become the same level as most media companies but they still pretend like it's 2010 or earlier where they're still this little guy in a big big world. Just gives them an opportunity to become corrupt without thinking anyone will know what they're doing, heck they might even trick themselves into thinking they're not part of the problem despite doing backroom deals to trick thousands of people into possibly buying a bad game or a scam.

[@asahira7834]

Yea, I agree with this very much. In my opinion it's not even a "if" when you mention opportunity to be corrupt. He is corrupt. When CDPR (or any big corrupt corpo for that matter) offered him a early review copy, while not allowing him to use his own footage, he should have declined. As that is not fair to his viewers. He could have waited for the game to release, then bought it for his own money, and review it a week later. Sure he would get less clicks and free marketing from the publisher, but his fans(sick!) would still be there for him. Instead he took the money, and ran with the propaganda. So yea, in essence he is very corrupt now. He shills for every big corporation/publisher, and is only complaining about something, when it's allowed to do so by the mass media. He is now a part of the establishment, and will do everything he can to stay there.

[@pies-of-pain2877]

It's an issue I've kind of had with a lot of these guys for a while. One thing I never got is why so many of them and the fans in their space go in so hard on "journalists" when youtube is in itself a platform with 0 quality control and any person can upload whatever they want (within legality and even then youtube is HUGE to police). Why are a bunch of dilettantes LARPing as the "true journalists" we all need? It probably doesn't help that a lot of these guys were kind of losers before their channels made it big and you can just sense that desperation to never go back to that W-2 lifestyle. It's as you said like back in the 2010s all of these channels kept calling out gaming journalists cringe or having no integrity while it took until the Xbox360 debacle for people to notice just how often these guys would promote stuff without disclosing it was paid or even heck, being for sale to the highest bidder! How many of these content creators have we busted for taking any and all sponsors their way no matter how shady and it just keeps on happening?

[@TheManinBlack9054]

Its him, Asmongold, ActMan, Mutahar. Its the same ilk. Its the same picture. They and their followers created such a bad reputation of game journalism but instead what they showed is something FAR worse and far less honest, truthful and informative.

[@UnitSe7en]

"I'm still Jenny from the block."

[@eldenvedetta635]

@@TheManinBlack9054 ActMan (ClownMan), Mutahar, and Yong are pathetic, but no, Asmongold is not on their level. Asmongold is absolutely braindead sometimes and pretends he's smarter than he is or feels he can comment on something he knows nothing about, but he's not a shill like those other guys and he wouldn't take money to give an opinion he doesn't actually believe in. He just has a lot of opinions come from literal ignorance and is too pathetically lazy to research even the slightest. But I'll take that honesty in ignorance over the shills ANY day.

[@lupinsensei7456]

Yongyea is an example on how to be successful on youtube despite being devoid of any talent.

[@pegeta]

dead ass

[@Neronova888]

Well i agree he is a terrible youtuber but he is a good voice actor

[@Rollbrand370]

​@@Neronova888He's an awful Kazama Kiryu.

[@Andrink]

@@Neronova888 Good voice actor?. You must be joking... right???... 😦

[@JakenTheGreat]

He peaked when MGSV was still coming out. I originally subscriped to him like a decade ago purely for the speculation and trailer breakdowns. Left once he shifted to dogshit gaming news. Like most KZbinrs, moving to Cali ruined him

[@zdrux]

"Let's see what the prevailing opinion on things is today, and agree with it in my video." - YongYea, Daily

[@jakefoley9539]

It's not just Cyberpunk, Yong has gone through this same cycle for almost every big game he's "reviewed". He spends months hyping a game, releases a glowing review that ignores all of the games flaws, then when negative public opinion sets in he backpedals and acts like he was always skeptical. Dude has the journalistic integrity of tissue paper.

[@scrubzone4367]

I used to watch him back in high school for his MGSV content/theories. Crazy to know he's still doing the same things that made me unsub almost 10 years ago💀💀

[@jakefoley9539]

@@scrubzone4367 Same bro, same

[@orkhepaj]

he has no spine and lacks integrity

[@4of20]

but asmongold watches his videos and buys it all up then shills it to his audience, thats how you win at youtube these days, pander to big streamers

[@orkhepaj]

@@4of20 disgusting

[@notsosmartguy6254]

Yongyea is where i kinda stopped caring about game review youtubers.

[@m1bl4n]

I had that with Dunkey, but for other reasons. Memes aside, the dude is clearly biased towards Nintendo games and cinematic games.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

What's wrong with Dunkey? A majority of his "reviews" aren't supposed to be serious. ​@@m1bl4n

[@planescaped]

@@m1bl4n He is very much biased towards Nintendo, but I have never considered Dunkey a reviewer. He's a shitposter, lol.

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Civvie, Mandalore, Acursed Farms and Seth aren't bad. Synth is super controversial, but the man has too much vitriol to ever be bought. GMan is acceptable, but seems like he has taken the cash.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

@@12ealDealOfficial Synth?

[@adrianr194]

Also…… his voice acting for Kiryu SUCKS

[@XartiXV]

Careful, he is in a few games where "we didn't notice that he was there," like Genshin Impact or Honkai Star Rail (I forgot which gacha game). He was noticeable to us, since, he was miscast in Yakuza.

[@jonnybrello4360]

@@XartiXV And what type of people play those games? Ahem... His type.

[@XartiXV]

@@jonnybrello4360 Ok, I quickly gone to his IMDb and the game was Genshin Impact. He did a few others, like being in an Agatha Christie game, Pokemon Masters, Crisis Core: FF7 and God Of War: Ragnarok.

[@jonnybrello4360]

@@XartiXV Funny, all games I don't care to play.

[@ZerberusKnight]

"The Dogshit of Dojima"

[@deetsitmeisterjd]

All he does is make a negative hate circle. He feeds off of it. Then ruins famous VA roles.

[@personatodo]

If there's one thing I can say about Yong Yea is that he's fake. There's no way he didn't encounter the large amount of bugs at the time of his review even on PC.

[@DarkZerol]

He is just doing it for clicks-and-views and pushing his videos out of the door ASAP to be one of first to do a video review on sites like KZbin. People like Yong Yea and Skill Up are what we call "content farmers" on KZbin, people who just release long winded video essays at least once a week and often times recycle and pad out the same thing over and over again without much if any substance. Basically emphasizing quantity over quality. Honestly, I much rather trust reviewers that take their sweet time experiencing the game and doing a review at least weeks to months later well after the game release than those whom do early reviews just for attention.

[@Anijah2001]

YongYea I've always been a hypocrite because he's opinions are based on the popular Reddit opinions.

[@williamdrum9899]

Well in his business you either have those opinions or lose your job

[@Metalninja89]

@@williamdrum9899 I don't see this as a legitimate excuse, have some integrity and lose your job then. The public will notice these types of people and follow them rather than everyone else who has no backbone and repeats the same talking points and doesn't address the real issues.

[@carlito19934]

​@@Metalninja89 i don't think you understand how much of a downgrade in pay quiting youtube is for these people they don't make minimum wage my guy they make enough to do bullshit like it costs nothing going to a normal job is like an apocalypse level event for them

[@RunePonyRamblings]

@@Metalninja89 "The public will notice these types of people and follow them" No they fucking won't. The internet runs on groupthink, whether that's mainstream groupthink, Reddit groupthink, or "guy with the most clout" groupthink. If you give fair criticism to a game people are hyped for (i.e. showing integrity) you get fucking crucified. Just like what happened when GameSpot gave lukewarm reviews to Skyward Sword, Cyberpunk, and Starfield. If you express opinions counter to whatever the current Gamer(tm) hivemind consensus is, you mocked and torn apart endlessly. @williamdrum9899 is right, if you want to make it as a gaming "influencer" your only option is to read the room, figure out what the current Popular Opinion is, and repeat it back to them. Whether you're perceived as "The Voice of the People" or a hypocritical shill, comes entirely down to how quickly and smoothly you're able to adjust your takes to match the Popular Opinion.

[@Moji55a]

That's basically every mainstream "GamersTM" youtuber, YongYea, Luke Stephens, Asmongold, TheActMan, and probably more I can count. Rather trust reviewer like MandaloreGaming, Civvie11 nowadays.

[@shaggysweetness]

This was horrible, but I can never forgive what he did to Kiryu. Thanks cronyism. He also refused to cover Like a Dragon 8 when it locked basic features behind paywalls, because you guessed it, he was the VA for Kiryu. A youtuber or game site that doesn't have bias when getting swamped with free codes and "press kits" worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars of merchandise is so rare. Most companies punish you or cut you off if you try to be honest too. Access journalism is trash.

[@rus.t]

It would probably be a conflict of interest if he reviewed or covered a game he was part of

[@shaggysweetness]

@@rus.t A conflict of interest for his paycheck and future cronyism hires.

[@shaggysweetness]

@@rus.t Did you even watch the video and how he glazed Cyberpunk after getting royal treatment and a bunch of free stuff? "Conflict of Interest" should be this dude's middle name.

[@yellowcard8100]

@@shaggysweetness I think that's a bit different. Him crapping in a game he's in would get him blacklisted from voice acting. The other is being paid by the company to say good things about it.

[@shaggysweetness]

@@yellowcard8100 and you've described exactly why he can't be trusted to deliver non-biased views anymore, especially with previous incidents.

[@Halfrican-Jones]

Thank you for featuring my comment about BigFry, the dude went berserk on me when I tried to be civil, even with me addressing from his response video he had no idea how bad the launch was gonna be, but no, he just thought I was too stupid to see the nuance, he can rot for attacking anyone with a modicum of criticism.

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Ironic that Joe Angry and Act Man AT LEAST are capable of discussion. Not a high bar but still. Bigfry though? Geez I think he fried his brain somewhere the past few years.

[@bulgarianreaper6587]

​@@mercenarygundam1487Why would that be ironic?

[@planescaped]

@@bulgarianreaper6587 Because his name is "angry" Joe.

[@TheKingerd]

No problem. My channel doesn’t exist to keep prodding creators I’ve already covered but knowing he left calm and understanding comments on my video, while talking down to other people about the situation elsewhere seems so disingenuous. Sorry you were the butt of a content creator’s condescension for raising a simple concern when he was throwing shade at someone else’s sponsorship video.

[@Halfrican-Jones]

@@TheKingerd A fair view, and you have been very objective with your critiques, so no foul on your part.

[@Questionable-Guy0]

Also YongYea is responsible for destroying Kiryu Kazuma, the main protagonist in the yakuza / like a dragon games, by doing an absolutely horible job as voice acting him. And he blocks anyone who dares to criticize his work.

[@charmingpeasant9834]

Yong became game industry's controlled opposition. His reward: becoming a voice actor, despite being sub-par with no range.

[@randomenvelope]

Voice actors dont come out the pussy with crazy ranges. He at least has a easily recognizable voice

[@debishvebishwish4839]

What I hate is he suddenly gets pushed to do these big VA roles outta nowhere while all of these super talented and certified VA are treated like nothing.

[@ZeroCalamityYT]

I'm going to be honest. i think he just might be a industry plant

[@memebump7612]

Out of nowhere? Hadn't he done dozens of roles as a voice actor up to that point?

[@ZeroCalamityYT]

@@memebump7612 prob a bunch of backround voices till jojo /yakuza

[@ZeroCalamityYT]

@@memebump7612 but its just a theory

[@riatorex8722]

Nah, I think he's always pushed for VA gigs himself

[@supereldinho]

His journalistic integrity is on par with his voice acting chops.

[@Brass_Heathen]

Sick burn 🔥

[@gabe_20xx]

Lmao

[@HWJASURY]

Honestly, he has his own place in voice acting and I'm sure it works for certain roles he's done. That said, not everyone has been on board for his Kazuma and he was quick to get defensive on it and he has his right to defend his performance. That said, it does come off pretty rich given how he went after Chris Pratt for his Mario voice.

[@nojuanatall3281]

His yakuza karaoke was the nail that nailed a dead horse to the barn.

[@Ruddy-w3o]

Yong started as a talented Metal Gear content creator. Then he spammed lootbox videos and eventually became a super shill.

[@deadpan2866]

yeah, people forget that his rise was because he just put all the MGS 5 pre-release content all in one place, people watched for MGS5, not him

[@HiDef17]

Yong has the worst takes in gaming. He criticized ff16 for not having a “vast open-world” soooo… he never played any ff besides 15? Because ff because most of them aren’t known for their “vast open-world”

[@casizle377]

It's generous to say that Act Man addressed the Pay Day 3 shilling. Like let's be honest, the dude did the same thing he did before and talked about it very briefly, with all the vigor of a noodle, still deflected responsibility, all in a segment late in a compilation video. How is it ok... to now be ok with that?

[@unknownlogicman9399]

To be fair I think Act Man guessed his fans would either just forgive and forget, not care about the situation, or maybe a bit of both. His initial response to the backlash he got speaks more then what little time he spent to acknowledging and apologizing if you ask me.

[@Moji55a]

ActMan channels are fkn reeks of casual gaming in general, calling Bioshock a "masterpiece" while not talking about System Shock 2 or Prey 2017 makes me believe he only search youtube and search finding the most generic topics.

[@FlyingScott]

​@@Moji55a Or maybe, He just didn't like those games. Woah, wild concept, I know.

[@Moji55a]

@@FlyingScott I mean yeah you're probably correct, but in general I would rather not trust someone who puts Bioshock as this "masterpiece" when games like System Shock 2 and Prey 2017 existed and they're not talking about them. Oh and spreading misinformation about Arena Shooter is a tip of an iceberg, Half-Life is an arena shooter? pls

[@poposterous236]

@@FlyingScott You're right, maybe he has absolutely terrible taste and shouldn't be a trusted voice. Anyone who doesn't like SS2 or Prey 2017 is an absolute loser who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near immersive sims or a microphone It's much more charitable to say he's just not aware of them or hasn't played them. It also makes more sense since those games are better than Bioshock.

[@TheRetroGamerGuy]

After the Cyberpunk fiasco I realized then that he is just a shill. I just stopped watching his videos altogether and blocked his whole channel from my account.

[@seeinred]

He's not "just a shill". Shill implies you're monetary or otherwise rewarded for your behavior. This is worse. His position is to repeat most common denominator's PoV and farm it to the high heavens. If some game is trending, he will metaphorically blow it. If the game is criticized for something, he will harshly voice the same criticisms. It's the most simple, bare-bone form of manipulation that many, many people fall for. Because it relies on "associating with and empathy".

[@ExpertContrarian]

There was literally nothing wrong with his review.

[@g3ar75]

​@@seeinred or you know... he's human too and got dragged along with the hype 🙄🙄

[@seeinred]

@@g3ar75 If that was the only example of such pattern of behavior, i would agree with you. But i was subbed to him for a while, just to find this out.

[@Gehshme]

Yong is 80% made out of soy and 20% out of his delusions that he is Kazuma Kiryu.

[@cj-5426]

man, that VO work was BRUTAL.

[@Unicornpirate]

And that Kojima will collab with him and put him in one of his games.

[@GabAssbreaker]

@@Unicornpirate This. He hyped Death Stranding so damn much and then the game came out and it was just a walking simulator with a movie attached to it. I don't think that Death Stranding is actually that bad but boy did Yong overhype a lot that game.

[@duderdude4831]

What's wrong with soy?

[@Unicornpirate]

@@duderdude4831 Nothing if done in moderation. But Yong reeks of it and gives off major normie NPC consume snowflake vibes

[@nemesissuperhero2078]

I don't depend on review, I watch gameplay, if I like I buy. Only pre order I made was elden ring expansion

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

I don't really follow Yong Yea because the way he overenunciates drives me crazy. That being said, the fact that he put his Cyberbaddie back in the box for the backlash video is hilarious.

[@neonreagan6023]

YongYea can't think for himself. Yong would not be able to operate without Reddit. Also, Yong is the Yoko Ono of voice acting.

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Elaborate on the Yoko Ono, please?

[@neonreagan6023]

@@mercenarygundam1487 She sucks at singing and Yong sucks at voice acting. Search "Yoko Ono sings Stairway to Heaven" It's the first video and search up Yong's voice acting and get a good laugh from both.

[@JohnDoe11VII]

@@mercenarygundam1487 Yoko Ono is a woman who got involved with the Beatles. Her performance and abilities are often blamed for ruining the band, and was considered a well known joke of a performer for at least 25 years. Her fame comes from being attached to the Beatles, in spite of her lack of ability.

[@CeasiusC]

​​@@JohnDoe11VII yeah but why is he being compared to Yoko Ono? lol

[@Kap0wn3D711]

@@mercenarygundam1487 Watch the John Lennon performance with Chuck berry, she randomly starts squealing on the track

[@unholymunk]

I stopped watching Yeong when I realised I had to skip 3 to 4 minutes into his videos to actually get to his content without some lame update on the situation.... especially since he's about 48 hours late to the actual drama

[@planescaped]

I had the same gripe with Anton Petrov too honestly. I like the guy, but damn stretching every single video to 10 minutes by constantly recapping yourself gets tiresome and is not fun to watch.

[@illuminotme825]

Yeah it's always funny to see Yong release a video on some topic that other KZbinrs covered 2 or 3 days prior.

[@SammySam7x]

He reads Jason Schreirer articles lol that was his content for a long time.

[@Deshoda100]

@@planescaped honestly, can blame youtube for having that 10 minute minimum requirement for monetization or whatever the fuck

[@ΛΞΟ]

And he barely even talks about actual drama or mentions the actual issue, because he is afraid of backlash, same like with ass-asin creed, he just mentioned that the price was the only issue.

[@PegLegManlet]

He’s apart of the industry now. You can’t trust anything he says anymore.

[@dtanobo]

Yong is so afraid of an opinion that isn't shared by reddit that he'll delete it. His reviews are pointless since it's a copy paste of what you'll see online. He's just a reddit mouthpiece. I like that he calls out bad business practices but it's all done in such a lukewarm way.

[@Vampireinarm1]

Yong is so boring, just reads articles in the most sleep inducing voice ever and adds nothing. Crazy that people give him money

[@Scitch-et4vk]

Yong and actman are the 2 biggest con artists in gaming in youtube both pathetic

[@SuperHns]

Actman is a douche bag he doesn't even know shit about gaming

[@diegojose4173]

Why, may I ask?

[@bulgarianreaper6587]

I mean say what you want but at least ActMan doesn't milk a topic until it's dried up

[@bungle1521]

@@diegojose4173 Its mostly about how act man called out games for being broken but didn't when it came to Payday 3 being broken specifically since he sponsored by Payday 3 creators. That's what he talking about I think If not then Idk what it is.

[@sterlingdavis8244]

ProzD as well. "Characters should only be voiced by VAs that share their immutable traits." Western Dubbing Industry; "Bet." *He only gets cast as Asian dudes.* "WAAAAHHH! NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

[@hermitcard4494]

This is why: 1- NEVER believe in hype. 2- NEVER pre order nor buy early.

[@eeftankian]

I bet you do

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

unless the collector's edition has a Statue too which you can sell some time later

[@verde5738]

3. Don't take KZbinrs/Streamers seriously.

[@ExpertContrarian]

So who are you going to listen to then? “Reviewers?”

[@KovCapyWizz]

Preordering has always been or bordered on scam.

[@aries4378]

I stopped watching Yong when I realized he was the type of KZbinr that would approach issues from an emotional standpoint, rather than try to view issues with a calm and level head. He's more concerned with getting clicks, then with putting out thought provoking content.

[@CyrusIsnt]

Of course emotional idk, more bandwagoner

[@donaldmccullough38]

Yeah, the 900 videos with emotionally charged language, red arrow clickbait, etc. should have tipped you off to this LONG ago

[@onebear6504]

Pretty much my reason not really a fan of the content.

[@GabrielMarques1]

Same. The amount of anger in his voice was too much for me, mainly because it felt fake. I expected news coverage, and instead I was watching a guy pretending to be angry about a subject... in almost every video he made. It felt like pandering, baity. Idk

[@AverageUser-]

Bandwagoner is the perfect description of YongYea

[@kwisatzhaderach9591]

I still shake my head at how hard Gman ang Yong shilled for Starfield.....

[@mildlydazed9608]

Of course he did... I stopped watching him years ago but didn't think anyone had the idiocy to praise starfield.

[@eldenvedetta635]

@@mildlydazed9608 Praising Starfield or Payday 3 is an automatic unsubscribe from me. Trash games from trash companies with trash marketing tactics. Unsubbed from ActMan (ClownMan), Yong, and most recently I think his name was JuiceHead or something? Just released a Payday 3 shill YESTERDAY, don't even remember his name now, mainly covered Bethesda stuff I think, but I don't even care to check now.

[@cynthiahembree3957]

I mean he's a creator who demonizes live service games and refuses to do the same for single player titles what did we really expect. Also I know why he does it because bringing up single player games that are bad would destroy his narrative

[@paranidherc]

Yong is a hyper-fragile fanboy who will relentlessly hype and shill (especially for himself) and take 0 criticism, no matter how valid. He is really BAD as a voice actor, but anyone mentioning this simple fact will be instantly blocked.

[@whydidyoutubeaddthis]

Idk about bad. Probably avg in the scheme of things. Have you seen the aom stuff in the beta that came out today? Lol or 90% of indie games

[@nick_the_padbreaker]

I actually appreciate his voice, but that alone is insufficient. It’s called a voice actor for a reason, and he simply cannot act to save his life.

[@paranidherc]

@@whydidyoutubeaddthis 90% of indie games aren't expected to have the quality of Yakuza games to begin with. And sure, those games are goofy, but the voice acting was always sublime and fitting the situation. YY can't sing and has a femine voice, so how tf is he voicing such a character??? It reminds of having watched Bleach in ger dub and Chad had a higher pitch than Rukia.

[@pegeta]

his voice is perfect for an AI terminal, thats about it.

[@b.o.4492]

Nice recap of his channel.

[@ergohash2517]

i noticed that lately he started publishing videos on topics that were relevant like a week or two ago, meaning he just waits for what the general opinion consensus is and only then he makes a video that is safe and by that point irrelevant, which is why i barely ever watch him anymore

[@justabearbrowsingyoutube4968]

Honestly, I find his content useful as a convenient hub to see what some general online US users think about gaming topics that are hot online. If someone is looking for critical opinions however, that won’t be found in his content of course.

[@oddy8849]

Yongs titles gives you more than enough information about a news in games. But, manages to stretch that video yapping about the news and repeating the thing over and over until the runtime ends. I don't get how people are able to watch his videos, I got sick of him very quickly.

[@SIPEROTH]

Quite accurate, is like a two hour meeting that could have been an email. His wasting people's time.

[@hiddenmaster6062]

People are slow and stupid. Easily mesmerized by people sounding smart for a long time. No standards or value for time. Zero pattern recognition. And that's not including those who just want some background noise while paying attention to literally anything else.

[@hiddenmaster6062]

Plus I get the feeling half of his audience isn't real.

[@DarranKern]

This, always wild when controversy #289 is what makes people call it quits on watching a guy, but they talk like its scandal #1. No, its the latest in a long, long pattern of behavior. Makes me more disappointed in audiences than channels anymore

[@vibingwithchaos5349]

I stopped watching Yong because of the Kiryu controvery. Blud cries about that Mario sounds like Chris Pratt, in the movie, and then people started pointing out that Kiryu sounds like YongYea. Which sounds god awful. He blocked everyone criticizing him, hid behind his "true fans" and cried about it on twitter. "This is my role!" Oh, yeah? I wonder how he even got this role to begin with. Either he used his clout as a youtuber or did it for half the usual pay.

[@jordandennis6794]

He's a San Francisco coward.

[@R3TR0J4N]

i do noticed him shadow banning everyone.

[@DatAsianGuy]

didn't he himself admit, that he was late for the casting period of Kiryu, but he still got the role? Lmao... Hmm, he definitely didn't use his influencer status or any connections he made to get the role... noooooo... definitely not lol

[@BloodDripss]

@@DatAsianGuy bro literally was hand picked by one of the creators of the game. influence only gets you so far. the creator just liked his voice. you sound like a flat earther

[@ocelot-sensei4384]

​@@BloodDripsslmao

[@jonbaxter2254]

Yongyea the type of guy to take 3 news articles, and pad them out into a 20 minute video.

[@Ashtarte3D]

I totally understand not liking YongYea for various reasons and the dumb shit he has done. But personally I hate him for a more basic reason, ruining Kazuma Kiryu with his inability to act for a damn.

[@afroahmed3989]

YongYea is the Chris Stcukman of videogames

[@fauxhound5061]

Exactly! I dropped both because they're just parrots of the consensus of the people

[@hopelessent.1700]

Correction Chris shills for the studios, his Madame Webb movie review is out of touch and ignorant because he doesn’t want to “hate on creatives”.

[@eldenvedetta635]

@@hopelessent.1700 That shows a huge level of being pathetic, even one of the main ACTRESSES admitted it was a bad movie.

[@mrshmuga9]

That’s an insult to Yong and I don’t even like him anymore. Yong would actually describe the situation, give his opinion, then show some comments from people to give an idea how the broader view is. He would then repeat that process for 15-20mins which was the most obvious problem. Chris says he “enjoys” a movie, but doesn’t give specific examples, or maybe give one short one. His “review” consisted of: a brief synopsis, naming the director and actors, and say “[insert actor] gives a great performance”. He says next to nothing that the viewer could use as a guide to whether they would like watching the movie. And if the defence is “I don’t want to spoil it” then there’s no sense in your review because saying “I liked it” is too vague to be useful as a review to anyone. At that point you’re just vlogging than a tool for viewers to use.

[@drzerogi]

@@mrshmuga9 I would argue that it's an insult to Chris. At least Chris is open about why he neutered his reviews.

[@Genghis_of_Swans]

Hot take but this guy is literally a one trick pony. He literally just reads from articles. And he can’t even voice act, they had to auto tune him for Like A Dragon.

[@bashamd96]

That's a cold take

[@Genghis_of_Swans]

@@bashamd96 In all honesty any KZbin “voice actor” is usually a terrible person

[@kambion]

@@bashamd96 yeah... it's just true.

[@BlakM9]

Brother. He got a role at a pixar movie, if he cant act he does not get it.

[@AmartharDrakestone]

@@BlakM9 Oh, yeah, because Hollywood is such a high standard these days...

[@OldSchoolDudeGaming]

Yong lost me back when Death Stranding. All of the hype and his review showed me he's a shill.

[@sifayun6336]

YongYea always takes ten minutes to read his new opinion by just taking it from someone else on Reddit.

[@MrDeothor]

shame what happend with YongYea. For me ActMan has burned all the bridges and pissed at floating remains.

[@AlexPatterson-co4gh]

Antman was visited and gave in.

[@Jxudo]

Yeong is so pathetic. He's still delusional about being a "good" VA. Lmao

[@spectre3492]

VA?

[@Jxudo]

@@spectre3492 voice actor

[@Dachin55555]

He thinks people went to go see Inside Out because of him lol

[@kambion]

You know, I subscribed at the beginning of the video, but I rang the bell when I realized you pissed off Act Man. Good job sir. Bravo.

[@planescaped]

Act Man is really good at putting his foot in his mouth, lol. He really ought to practice the "sleep on it" rule before posting responses to things. That's honestly rule number 1 for any person with a public presence, though Twitter has made breaking it a lot easier.

[@DoomBowser64]

"Act Ma'am"

[@bulgarianreaper6587]

​@@DoomBowser64 cringe

[@unknownlogicman9399]

I still remember when The Act Man made that rise and fall of boomer shorter video and how he claimed that the flak he was getting for that video was because of “gate keepers” on Twitter. That Quantum drama must have really done something to him.

[@Kap0wn3D711]

QuantumTV really broke that dude

[@graveborne8724]

Cyberpunk was such a weird release. I had literally no issues with it and fully agreed with the positive reviews, and didnt really understand what people complained about, until i saw the bad on youtube. But ofcourse it's a very personal experience.

[@undyne1]

I used to watch YongYea for gaming news, but eventually stopped for the following: - Recycled videos. - Being disingenuous, and sounding like an article, rather than an honest review. - Clout chaser. - Massive hypocrite. - Can't take criticism. Is high on copium. - Retracting statements just to follow the crowd. It's a pattern. The whole Yakuza voice acting mess is a clear example of all of the above. He milked tf out of him being the English VA for Kiryu, online and even in video titles, and was 100% confident that he did an amazing job. It's literally just Yong Yea using his normal speaking voice. He has no range and can't emote. Him saying "I earned Kiryu" was so absurd, it reminded me if the original Bayonetta VA situation.

[@nekovanguard9553]

Unpopular opinion, he's only popular as a voice actor because he's riding the hell out of his youtube fame. His Father Pucci voice acting isn't even as good as people makes it up to be since he over exhales every sentence to sounds smart and majestic which sums up his voice acting skills: being a tryhard. Stopped watching this fool since his CP2077 review fraud, and glad to see he is being lambasted for his garbage performance as Kiryu after months of shitting on Chris Pratt's Mario voice.

[@Missingno0479]

I stopped watching him once he had his meltdown on Twitter when someone criticize his voice acting

[@DarranKern]

That was about six years too late

[@PeaceLove69]

YoungYea is the definition of angry gamer without an original thought. He just follows the hate train cause it gets him views

[@Yoshixandir]

More of a sellout

[@orkhepaj]

this is why to follow sythetic man , maybe he is wrong somethimes but he clearly not a spineless shill like yongi

[@windebiesteultima3317]

Synthetic man is the LITERAL DEFINITION of rage bate angry gamer.

[@kostasspirou1010]

@@orkhepaj synthetic man has his own opinions yeah but the dude hates EVERYTHING, for the stupidest reasons too

[@orkhepaj]

@@kostasspirou1010 imho that is fine, much better than love everything

[@TurboK5]

I relax watching these videos about some youtuber "doing this thing wrong" and it turns out to be a non-problem afterall. Its like escaping from real world, puts things into a perspective. Good video

[@infasis]

I like how everyone watched an anime and then decided CP2077 is the most amazing thing ever. Maybe I just got lucky and it liked my hardware or something, but on PC the game was never bad. The technical issues were there, but mainly consisted of certain assets not showing correctly (street signs floating without the pole, people doing drinking animations, but their bottle not displaying right, etc). Most people just hated on it because it was, basically, an open world immersive sim, but they wanted it to be the next Grand Theft Auto.

[@jonnybrello4360]

Yong Yea ruining the English dub of Kazuma Kiryu is all I need.

[@GrubbJunker]

If there's one thing I know for sure is that he has an unhealthy obsession with Kojima. Man would throw himself on the ground so Kojima wouldn't ruin his boots in mud. If Kojima needs a handy, you know who to call.

[@riatorex8722]

A lot of people do. Which I guess makes him a bit of a sheeple in that regard

[@novarat4089]

this industry in general sucks off kojima like he's the second coming of jesus. he got over ten minutes and a goofy intro to talk about his new """game""" at the game awards last year when people who actually won awards only got 30 seconds on stage. Its seriously cringy.

[@linkfreeman1998]

​@@novarat4089Yeah, and first time I watched the show ever feels like its just bunch of advert nonsense. Which Itself is already cringy, let alone kojima himself. And the guy cant even be bothered to use English it seems.

[@Dachin55555]

Geoff Keighley is the worst when it comes to glazing Kojima he was literally crying for him when he gave him an award absolute joke

[@Adam1991713]

I mean, he tried so hard not to say anything negative about Death Stranding, because Kojima. Game was complete garbage. 😂😂😂

[@nevertrumpfromthejump]

From how he seem to handle the widespread distaste for his Kazuma English voiceover, I'd say he seems a bit sensitive and controlling of his image. Which, for a content creator, doesn't translate to "trustworthy"

[@jokerzwild00]

Blocked this dude years ago. It's like he just browsed reddit every day and found the latest outrage and made video upon video complaining about it. It's all just outrage bait. All negativity. My life is so much better with people like this out of it.

[@GT_V]

One thing I'll say that this channel seems to have in common with the Asian guy's channel is they both use fan-made animated avatar images of themselves that for some reason have chiseled out jawlines when their real faces are round, flubby and with no god damn jawline in sight.

[@TheKingerd]

I’ve finally reached the KZbinr landmark of having my appearance insulted by someone hiding theirs. Thanks for 30k subs y’all 🎉

[@adityathapa844]

@GT_V Hey you dropped this clown 🤡:🧠

[@GT_V]

@@TheKingerd Glad I can start the process of you getting used to it fatty🤝

[@GT_V]

@@TheKingerd Glad I can start the process of you getting used to it flubbo🤝

[@StinkyBuster]

​@@TheKingerdI mean, it is kind of funny to see the chadded-out avatar and then start a video lmao

[@GerardEarthfield]

16:50 -Is that too much shade? No, brother, it is not

[@kukipett]

Well almost the same happened with Death Stranding, he was speaking about it all the time and when the game was released he just made a 30 min gameplay video and forgot about it. He tends to be overhyped by something and when it's not what he expected,.... silence. But with Cyberpunk he was not the only one, there was a girl who even made some voice acting and many others sitting on Cyberpunk chairs telling us how wonderfull this game was untill we all realized that it was absolutely not what it was supposed to be.

[@ShinFahima]

I literally only followed him for Death Stranding content. . . And that game was so rubbish. LOL

[@csabaszabo6859]

He did the same with MGS5 he talked about it for YEARS and hyped up alot of people but when the game came out he just made a single video about it and thats about it, I thought he had real enthusiasm for the games he keep hyping up but it's clear that he doing this for clicks.

[@foreignuser_]

negligence is pretty close to intent when you are in a position of power. this is why negligence can be a criminal act when regarding children

[@TheKingerd]

An excellent point

[@OccupiedMuffins]

YongYea NEVER says anything and just regurgitates other peoples opinion and literally just reads news articles. I never understood why anyone cared for his "opinion"

[@psycholuigiman]

Well, unless that opinion is about the plight of voice actors. He's got a personal stake in that, so you can be sure his opinion on that will always be "Voice actor GOOD! Critics and skeptics BAAD!" The Bayonetta 3 thing was when I officially unsubscribed.

[@Juvenile9111]

hes got a God level of hypocrisy, I cant believe he got to voice Kiryu and still thinks he did a good job

[@JamesScholes]

The bigger the public figure, the compromised they become... Basically, if they want to remain relevant and keep getting all their special privileges, they have to do as they're told or end up being blacklisted from the club they're so desperate to be part of. You see this all the time with celebrities, athletes, actors, singers and now influencers. They'll all sellout their fanbase in a heartbeat just so they maintain their relevance.

[@senoka4638]

People like YongYea and Actman just go after the safe popular opinions. It's easier to trend and you'll be pretty safe from cancelling and hate. That also means it's useless and provides nothing of real value. It's grifting at it's simplest form.

[@PredatoryQQmber]

The sad part about Yong is that he once was a prolific creator of original content. I think he even wanted to make a machinima-style original movie or feature-length series at some point.

[@JakenTheGreat]

​@PredatoryQQmber He made a Machinima Skyrim movie years ago that i actually did enjoy at the time. I dont know if he ever finished it or not, but i think it was unlisted a long time ago

[@DbonnRP]

he didn't take it down until AFTER he got the revenue

[@no8lc7c39]

I remember when the cyberpunk drama happend after the release, I commented on his page how he is equally responsible for the hype since he praised how good it was and even took the font for his merchandise. I stopped watching like other when I realized he never really says anything.

[@These_Old_Engines]

Actman and Yongyea are one in the same.... both get way to high on their own farts to understand that maybe their opinion is not widely held or GASP....MAYBE ITS THEM WHO IS WRONG??!

[@ExtraHecticana]

I've never been able to understand why Yong got so popular. He just spouts what he thinks everyone wants to hear... and he's not very good at it. He's always been this way

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

When the Fallout 76 drama happened, I had his videos recommended in my homepage every day, which I watched while having breakfast before going to work. The drama was juicy and I just ate that slop up. Certainly hundreds of thousands were also fed that video by the algorithm and conversion into subscribers had to happen.

[@JakenTheGreat]

I do believe he used to be passionate when he was still doing theory based videos when MGS ground zeroes and V was coming out. Back then, he didn't really seem to care about popular opinions or ideas and would defend his theories pretty adamantly. Then he shifted i to dogshit news coverage

[@vergil_vt]

3:20 this is why I stopped watching young channel he talks about where ever the masses are saying playing it safe while not forming an opinion of his own on fear of backlash.

[@Halfrican-Jones]

He thought he could get away with it. I love the story and mechanics of CPunk2077, but it should never be ignored how bad the launch and some of the reviews were. EDIT: I think he definitely shows regret, but he definitely cannot make another bias like this saga again.

[@VarenvelDarakus]

i personaly did think its 6+ , i liked more gameplay then story , story for most part felt incredibly weak and badly paced , especialy first act (who going to go by gaming statistics its place most players will see , or quit if they hate it) , the fact that game introduces you to 2 characters , claims they are your friends despite you dont interact with them almost at all , (they are not companions , they dont apear in side missions) game kills them and wraps them up in "emotional moment" and me as player sitting at that limmo where other guy dies i was like "i dont know this guy , and i cant skip this dialogue , if feel nothing" is baffling as for yangyea i stopped watching his content at all due i began to realise what his content truely is , sensational rather then informative.

[@cyberturkey77]

@@VarenvelDarakus personally after the 2.0 update its a 10/10 for me. Including the story. I just loved it. I vary rarely put 100 hours+ into a game but I did.

[@VarenvelDarakus]

@@cyberturkey77 I played it and some things did improve but lots things didn't for me it's 7+ , they needed/removed a lot non lethal stuff for no resson

[@ElectroBooze]

@@VarenvelDarakus “I can’t skip dialogue.” You must be the type that skips most of the cutscenes then goes on Steam and complains the story didn’t make sense

[@Halfrican-Jones]

@@VarenvelDarakus Dude, you hold (or press) left on the D pad if you wanna skip the story (which IDK why you would for an ARPG/Immersive sim but okay)

[@PabloMartinez-di2tt]

Ever since his interview with Jason Schrier and moved to LA, he became insufferable in terms of the gaming industry and stupid takes. He also can't stand criticism for his poor voice work

[@GamingtheOtter]

There was a game review where I kid you not the reviewer out right admitted to not even playing the game on twitter. Shocking I know.

[@LovelessDogg1]

Currently Yong is just another KZbinr that uses their position to get voice acting parts in games and lacks any self awareness. Which is funny, because SphereHunter Suzi is no different but no one seems to want to call her out on the obvious hypocrisy. She gave CyberPunk overly positive coverage, pretended there was no issues, continues to act like they don’t exist to this day and she was rewarded by being put in the expansion for the game as an actual character. Much like Yong, they’re using their position to get voice roles in games, while getting free stuff so they can talk positively about it in return.

[@exysa2798]

CDPR will go bankrupt soon because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk

[@geniusgamerr4517]

I have never heard of her if she was a VA or a celebrity of a kind I probably would know who she is

[@riatorex8722]

I'm talking way out of my own ass here, but it's possible that people won't call Suzi out out of fear for being labeled as transphobic and the likes

[@riatorex8722]

​@@geniusgamerr4517 She's a KZbinr that mainly does videos on DMC and RE stuffs, and she got to voice Trish for that piece of shit DMC mobile game

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

​@@exysa2798It was 4 years ago. Pretty sure they would've went under by now if they were going to go under.

[@thewielder3445]

For me, the real telling thing about Yong's character was the Quantum Error situation from last year. For those of you who don't know. Quantum Error was a terrible asset flip that both looked and played like shit that launched late last year as a PS5 Exclusive. And the only reason that anyone even knows that Quantum Error exists is because the devs promoted the game by console warring on Twitter, claiming that the PS5's SSD was the only thing that could run the game and that's why it wasn't coming to Xbox or PC, and they were also retweeting PlayStation fanboy posts saying things like "This game only got a low score because they didn't have paid Xbox Shill sites supporting it, and this game is way better than Starfield, etc." Despite this being a scummy developer using console wars to spread misinformation to promote their game, Yong refused to cover this situation, despite doing multiple videos on devs who have done far less in the past. Turns out he voice acted for Quantum Error. Not suspicious at all

[@ex_cathedra4237]

While I understand where you're coming from about Quantum Error, he may have been under a contractual obligation not to say anything since he worked on the game. People can face legal consequences for violating that. But, if he didn't have anything like that, then that says quite a bit about him, doesn't it?

[@LaZd-]

@@ex_cathedra4237 Most of the time? Voice actors aren't under contractual obligation to not say anything. They are typically allowed to have their opinions.. Not to mention I have to ask a genuine question if that is your logic. How in the hell can you still want to voice act a product, if you are being told no matter how good or bad the product is, to keep your mouth shut? That doesn't scream red flag to anyone else? So, not only is Yong a hypocritical sellout, but a massive dumbass, if your logic is to be believed. I'm sorry, but that isn't a good look for him, no matter how hard one tries to justify it. Yeah.. Uh.. Just saying? Always read your ToS/Contracts. They flat out tell you how hard a company can and will screw you over.

[@WH250398]

Lmao

[@jordandennis6794]

To be fair, he can't say much since he worked for them and likely had it in his contract he'd face legal action if he said anything negative about the game. But I understand where you're coming from

[@Overonator]

Look I can't trust those reviewers when they have so much skin in the game. They want the early access, they want exclusive preview parties, free merchandise from the publishers, sponsorships and they are only human so it's going to influence their reviews, even when they don't mean it to. It's harder to be honestly critical to someone who wines and dines and you need to be in their good graces to continue to advance in your career. It's almost inevitable that you will pull your punches.

[@Paragleiber]

Personally I don't have any issues with him at all regarding his Cyberpunk review. The reason why I dislike YongYea is because he very strongly focuses on negative topics while claiming to be a general gaming news channel. When I first came across his channel I thought his videos looked quite professional, so I subscribed. But after a while of watching him I was like "wait a second, does this guy only cover negative topics?". So I looked at his most recent 50 or so videos at the time and indeed 90% of them were about negative topics. He doesn't cover gaming news. He covers negative gaming news. He made over 30 different videos shitting on Google Stadia, even though most people quickly moved on from caring about that product in any way. He will jump at any opportunity to make a negative video. But he only rarely covers positive news and mostly just about the biggest AAA releases. If someone doesn't know anything about gaming and looks at his channel to learn about the scene they might think that it's a complete disaster all around. If you instead follow someone like Skill Up you will get a way more balanced impression and also hear about many great games that are coming out every month. Life is depressing enough, so I don't need someone to make it more miserable by specifically telling me about all the negative things that are happening in gaming. That's why I unsubscribed from YongYea and now follow Skill Up instead. He still talks about the negative news as well and doesn't sweep them under the rug but he doesn't focus on them so exclusively.

[@Milliardo__Peacecraft]

This 100%

[@VTown1989]

Cyberpunk has had a crazy cycle of popular sentiment: -From "It's NOT okay to say anything bad about it" before release - To "It's popular to hate on it" after release - To "it's a lot better now" around the time the DLC dropped.

[@Stuntmachine14]

The anime helped ALOT

[@noname-yd3zo]

Still waiting on a video were Young slams Yakuza infinite wealth for selling ng+

[@drzerogi]

Don't hold your breath. Thats a SEGA game, Yea doesnt slam that company.

[@M1N0rZ1rC0N]

Yong, joe and definitely act man have left me with a bad taste over how full of it they are.

[@ABIADAB]

i see a pattern of these youtubers who are really "passionate" or known for their angry take on something usually become the villain as time goes on.

[@fkyfky0208]

​@@ABIADABthat why i stop watching any angry rant youtuber.

[@ΘοδωρήςΣτριμπίνος]

and gmanlives his toxic personality towards criticism

[@WanderingWeenie]

Yongyea was recently shilling for Assassins creed shadows and Dragonage veilguard, bigging them up while completely skirting over the major issues with these games, that's when I realized what he actually was - a shill towing the line.

[@LaZd-]

Glad I saw comments on his channel shitting on him for that, just a shame he was deleting a lot of them, lmao.

[@jordandennis6794]

He gets paid to shill

[@DarranKern]

Took you that long? Kept me waiting, huh?

[@GrandisArcanum]

What are the AC:S issues?

[@WanderingWeenie]

@@GrandisArcanum You're really out of loop huh?

[@therion451]

Yongyea and Luke Stephens are two of the most disingenuous gaming youtubers out there. They just regurgitate popular opinion and have zero integrity whatsoever, they seem fake

[@G4MER28]

Oh this prick lol I remember when he went on a rant about how some companys are charging people high prices for low cost merch that they can get cheaper other places, then i looked at his store and he was selling his OWN merch , pretty much just regular T shirts with his logo on it, for like $40 lol I brought this up in the comments and his fans were like " yeah but Yong is not doing it on a LARGE SCALE so it is ok when he does it " lol

[@MillywiggZ]

It’s this weird ‘Atomic Heart’ syndrome of people refusing to be doubtful about a game from the flashy trailers. Why did I say ‘Atomic Heart’ syndrome? I mean, the game came out after ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. Well, my friends, the first ‘Atomic Heart’ “trailer” of a mechanical worm train came out in 2009 a year after ‘GTA IV’ came out. They deleted every trailer pre-2019, but I remember.

[@planescaped]

I remember all those early "trailers" too, the game looked completely different. Apparently they were just tech demos made with the hope of drumming up publisher interest.

[@judgementkazzy7172]

Atomic Heart was good though.

[@defaulted9485]

Hey, thanks for reminding that exists. Atomic Heart was like "I heard it before but when and where" and you cleared that up.

[@deathtrooper2048]

I didn't even know about the 2008 trailer until now.

[@_ANDRE.]

I will never forgive Atomic Heart. The trailers made it look like such a unique and interesting game. In a sense almost like a spiritual successor to Bioshock. And what we got instead is generic modern shooter schlock. It was such a terrible piece of garbage.