The Game Awards Drama Affiliated with Tencent
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The Game Awards: Highguard’s Tencent Reveal Sparked Backlash

Alright. Let’s talk about the mess. For years, Geoff Keighley has positioned The Game Awards as gaming’s big night. The Oscars, but with fewer tuxedos and more world premieres. Sometimes it works. Sometimes we get genuinely cool announcements. And sometimes we get whatever just happened with Highguard. If you’ve been anywhere near Twitter, Reddit, or YouTube lately, you already know the vibe...it's not good. Let’s break this down before we put on the tinfoil hat. The Highguard Reveal That Didn’t Land Highguard was positioned as the final reveal of the show. That slot is sacred territory. Historically, it’s where something massive lives. The kind of reveal that makes chat explode and YouTube clips hit a million views overnight. Instead, viewers got what seemed like a half-assed hero shooter. Not an unplayable disaster. Not a scam. Just a fairly bleh-looking, free-to-play […]

Aftermath Journalist Connections Just More of the Same
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Aftermath Isn’t New Games Media – It’s Rebranded Irrelevance

Every few years, games journalism announces its own rebirth. A new website or publication launches. Some generic mission statement promises readers independence. Subscriptions replace ads. Corporate influence is supposedly left behind. And we're told that this time will finally be different, more honest, more authentic, and more connected to the people who actually play games. And then you look at the bylines. Aftermath Collection of Recent Ideological Bylines Aftermath, the latest “independent” games media startup, is trying to position itself as some sort of "clean break" from the failures of legacy outlets like Kotaku, Polygon, Vice, and The Verge...but scratch the surface for about five seconds and you might find that a different picture starts to emerge. This is not a revolution. It's more like a reunion tour. Same rejected writers. Same cringeworthy worldviews. Same self-aggrandizing echo-chamber social circles. Same […]

Shock Collar Hearts Does Hasan Love Asmongold Music Video Song
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New Hasan and Asmongold Music Video: Shock Collar Hearts

Enjoy The Love Song Nobody Asked For Report AFK is back with something truly unnecessary but deeply inevitable: Shock Collar Hearts, a satirical parody music video inspired by funderful streamer culture, endless crashouts, and Hasan Piker's heroic inability to stop talking about Asmongold. This isn’t journalism. This is therapy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM-_nGYCjeY Video: Shock Collar Hearts | Report AFK The Origin Story of This Unholy Music Video If you’ve spent any time watching any liberal-leaning livestreams over the past year, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: Stream starts on random topic Streamer brings up Asmongold or Trump Everything collapses Rinse. Repeat. Good times? Shock Collar Hearts was born from that loop. Not from one clip, not from one meltdown, but from the ritual itself. The crashout isn’t a bug anymore. It’s the content. The song is written from a purely fictionalized first-person perspective from […]

More Chinese by the Day Hasan Music Video Song
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More Chinese by the Day | Can’t Meme in Beijing Hasan

Some songs arrive fully formed, others are born from pure, concentrated irony. "More Chinese by the Day" is very much the latter. After seeing a tweet on X from Hasan Piker that literally said “we are becoming more Chinese by the day” after posted in the wake of an on-stream incident in Tiananmen Square where the toxic streamer was briefly stopped while showing a meme  -  I couldn’t not turn the whole ridiculous vibe into a song. we are becoming more chinese by the day pic.twitter.com/zwAypxYQ7t— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) November 13, 2025 The Making of the song "More Chinese by the Day" The track started as a single sarcastic line in my notes and quickly snowballed into a full parody: a globe-trotting “passport bro” character (Hasan, of course) who preaches revolution on camera, lives in a mansion off donations, and somehow rubs shoulders […]

Too Many Miztakes Mizkif Diss Track Song
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Too Many Miztakes: How the Mizkif Drama Became a Diss Track

How the Cringe Streamer Saga Became a Song If you’ve been watching Twitch from the sidelines (or deep in the chat spam), you know when internet drama hits, it hits hard. The story of Mizkif, his ex-girlfriend Emiru, and a barrage of scandal is exactly the kind of combustible content that demanded a soundtrack. Hence: Too Many Miztakes. Here’s the timeline, the key moments, and how it all inspired a funderful diss rap you’ll want to blast in your headphones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTuRGK9SHw Video: Too Many Miztakes | The Mizkif Diss Track | ReportAFK Prequel & Background info on the Mizkif Drama Mizkif (real name Matthew Rinaudo) has long been a major player in the Twitch/creator scene - cofounder of One True King (OTK) and a streamer known as much for his personality as his controversies. There were already past whispers: cover-up accusations, […]

Pupwig Unleashed Jellywig Music Video Song Behind the Lyrics
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Pupwig Unleashed: Who’s a Good Boy Now | Behind the Music

Why a Ludwig Music Video? Howdy gamers! Ayefkay here, bringing you the story behind the absolute fever dream of a song we just dropped: Pupwig Unleashed: Who’s a Good Boy Now? It’s part parody, part vent session, and fully inspired by the never ending circus that is streamer drama - starring everyone’s favorite gelatinously-challenged content creator, Ludwig. Buckle in for some funderful storytime! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xqpa39uU_0 The Pupwig Origin Story Before the dog collar madness ever barked its way into the timeline, we had the streaming vs. 9-to-5 saga. Hasan Piker claimed that streaming was harder than a regular job (a take that aged about as well as milk in the sun). Ludwig, to his credit, initially pushed back, saying what most sane people already know: actual jobs are harder than sitting in front of a camera. But when Hasan got upset, things […]

Shock Value Hasan Meme Shock Collar Video
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Shock Value – A Shockingly Satirical Hasan Piker Music Video

If you thought Twitch drama couldn’t possibly outdo itself, welcome to Shock Value - my scathing, satirical anthem inspired by the now-infamous “#CollarGate” moment that sent Hasan Piker and his dog Kaya trending across every corner of social media. This isn’t just a diss track. It’s a roast of the entire Twitch ecosystem that thrives on outrage: the streamers, the hate watchers, and the content vultures who clip faster than you can say “ what context?”. The Doggy Days of Drama It all started when a questionable clip surfaced of Hasan’s pup yelping during a livestream. What followed was a perfect storm of denial, deflection, and digital chaos. Claims flew faster than Twitch ads during a subathon: was it a shock collar, a bark trainer, or just a bad moment taken out of context? The answer, as always on the internet, […]

Why Game Rant Tried to Rewrite Hogwarts Legacy Boycott History
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Why Game Rant Tried to Rewrite the “Boycott” of Hogwarts Legacy

Game Rant’s Hogwarts Legacy 2 Take Got Ratioed Game Rant decided to light itself on fire this week after posting on Twitter, the post getting immediately bodied with a Community Note correcting it: If Hogwarts Legacy 2 wants to avoid the same boycotts its predecessor faced, the sequel cannot take the same approach that the original did. https://t.co/LJIMjUHhW8 pic.twitter.com/Wf1PTKreNa— Game Rant (@GameRant) October 12, 2025 In other words, the so-called “boycott” Game Rant referenced was about as effective as trying to cancel oxygen. Hogwarts Legacy wasn’t just successful - it dominated, becoming the best-selling game of 2023 worldwide and one of the biggest single-player launches in gaming history.Even hilariously eliciting a Hogwarts Legacy fluff piece from Game Rant themselves at the time! So why is a major gaming publication trying to actively rewrite history? The answer’s actually pretty simple. It’s the same reason when […]

A Game Journalist's Pre-Publish Checklist
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A Game Journalist’s Checklist Before Crying About Difficulty Online

Your Easy Guide for Not Embarrassing Yourself Online So, you’ve died a few dozen times in Hollow Knight: Silksong or just lost another ranked match in Marvel Rivals. Instead of blaming your own thumbs, you’ve decided the entire game is just broken, the difficulty is outdated, and the devs should need to make games easier. But before you rush to file another 1,200-word “Why Boss Fights Hurt My Fee Fees” article, let’s pause for a quick moment of self-reflection. Welcome to the Game Journalist’s Checklist!  Feeling particularly altruistic, I've went the extra mile to help the modern games journalist with 10 handy questions you should ask yourself before embarrassing your chosen profession on Twitter. (Yes, today we’re talking to the "Alyssa Walkers" of gaming. Grab a notebook, because class is in session!) 1. Have you tried not button mashing and actually […]

Ghost of Yotei Phantom Sales and Manufactured Hype
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Ghost of Yotei: Phantom Sales and the Manufactured Hype

When Ghost of Yotei launched, Suckerpunch and Sony’s marketing machine kicked into overdrive - gaming media proudly claimed that the game sold 1.3 million copies on day one, just barely edging out Ghost of Tsushima’s first-day numbers.On paper, that sounds impressive. But when you start digging into the numbers...something doesn’t quite add up. This isn’t about conspiracy theories or wild speculation. The facts themselves are suspicious enough to raise eyebrows. Between the supposed “insider” tweet that started the fire, the exaggerated praise from certain journalists, and the eerily consistent talking points across major outlets, it all feels like another case of what I like to call the Manufactured Hype Virus. The Phantom Sales Begin The story starts with a tweet from an account named Millie A (@millieamand). The post claimed, “Hearing, 1.3 million sold on first day for Yotei. Ever so slightly ahead of […]

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