The Failure of Normal Boots

New documentary out about Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom speedrunner: SHiFT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1oWyzjCts

There is footage of pbg admitting that he does not like peanut butter, think that should have been enough to ruin his credibility

Can’t believe that you didn’t even mention the biggest scandal of PBG’s entire career: hating on MySims

It's hilarious to me that newer viewers just know JonTron as "the Flex Tape guy." What a crazy timeline this is.

I like how jon's voice didn't change since he was 11 years old

What sucks about the whole "no comments section" policy for Kids content is that basically all retro content like 90s Cartoon Network clips, old cereal commercials, etc., lost a treasure trove of discussion and reminiscing by fans... literal decade+ of probably billions comments erased from existence. Even though YouTube has their "YouTube Kids" app and could have just as easily made the main YouTube platform "13+ Only" like Tiktok, Snapchat, etc. to dodge COPPA.

Hearing "Arin from game grumps" made me accutely aware of the wrinkles developing on my face

Honestly kinda happy for PBG. No real drama or controversy, content that is pretty family friendly relative to others with a similar style, and consistent videos for years now.

You forgot to mention that Jirard made his Best Buy the greatest Best Buy in the entire universe because he stole a Mario statue from a GameStop and watched G4

Tales of Super Jon is so funny to me, because here you have this absolute child of a Jon, complete with 240p video quality, but the same exact voice as adult Jon. I don't know why, but it's hilarious to me.

Referring to DYKG as a "content farm" feels like a very backhanded insult. They've contributed a lot to Video Game history and preservation. Heck, just last year they helped uncovered a lost Pokemon webgame and shared it with everyone.

Normal Boots is a reference to the Normal Boots from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time specifically. Google highlighting the wrong answer from that reddit post did you dirty on this one

Correction: Jared was the only Normal Boots member to work at ScrewAttack. PBG and Jon were fans and posted their videos as community members. PBG made some minor guest roles, but neither were ever a part of ScrewAttack. Jirard got his videos promoted by ScrewAttack, but also was never hired.

I think a lot about the normal boots dating sim… I can’t imagine it aged well

The fact that the Normal Boots logo jingle was a game over sound is so ironic

You can tell this was researched but got maybe like 80% of the way there, where the last 20% were probably details not crucial to the video's narrative, but still stick out on their own. Like no, Did You Know Gaming was never intended to be a "content farm". That's just parroting terms that only came into use in the past year. The one thing I can give is that you're not making anything up, but you should possibly keep a cite of sources on hand to refer to when writing. It's not just about proving yourself, it's also about keeping track of what you're saying.

One quick inaccuracy that I don’t think anyone else has mentioned- Asagao academy wasn’t technically a fan game, it was actually made by PBG’s wife, Danielle (unicornism). It was actually massive, and most of the cast + hidden block were very active within the fandom. Shane Gill’s twitch stream of his route where he passed out drunk mid play through will be forever close to my heart.

4:15 i want to clarify this game was primarily developed by PBG’s wife, which is why it was sanctioned and allowed to be funded and voiced by the Normal Boots guys

I love how these stories range from: "He then went on a massive political rant on live stream and committed charity fraud" to "He gets fewer views I guess, but he seems alright." Edit: I'm proud to be the creator of an Internet debate. Unintentionally, for the record.

NOTE: Screw Attack founder Craig mentioned in an interview that he fired Jared for backstage unprofessional behavior and publicly criticizing coworkers on public social media. It's in an audio interview.