@twocatsyelling723

Asmongold played FFXIV because it was trending. His chat had suggested he check it out before that, but he wasn't interested. Not until the YT algorithm said he should be.
As soon as XIV stopped trending, suddenly other games - all of which just happened to be trending at the time - became his priority.
All the while, he was saying he'd go back to FFXIV... just to keep those fans waiting for him to on the line.

Now that he no longer has to pretend to like FFXIV, he's back to bashing its graphics, combat, etc.

And it wasn't only Asmon. It was rather eye-opening to me to see how many larger creators are just as much slaves to the algorithm. Any time a new release comes out, I see the same big names streaming them, pretending to enjoy them... until the algorithm says it's time to move on... then they're pretending to enjoy the next big thing.

It's pretty gross.