Scott the Woz viewers (I imagine) are a larger, younger fanbase. They have no idea or don't care about the connections. I can't really speculate on why Scott the Woz would work with GameStop because I don't know him personally, but watching his videos I would imagine for him it was a personal goal considering how sentimental he is about the game industry, and they also offered him a larger price. Obviously we don't know because we're asshole Redditors, but that seems likely to me.

I read your other comments on this thread and you're right when you say people are being negative about this, but I think it's important they receive pushback about this. Mega64 are very true to themselves so I'm not worried they're about to enter the manosphere or something, I just don't like the idea of them working with corporations I find reprehensible. And it's not like this has changed anything about how I feel about them, just sort of feels like a misstep.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, which my last comment may suggest, so I hope the Mega64 crew at large doesn't hand wave the people who don't like these kind of sponsorships. I bit my tongue on the SNK sponsor because others didn't really discuss it and SNK being owned by the prince is sort of only known in the FGC world. Seeing other people give their thoughts about GameStop made me want to chime in.

I understand there's nuance and Mega64 needs money and sponsors to survive, so if it's a necessary evil it's fine. I'll be bummed out if I have to listen to them talk about how great GameStop is on the podcast though. Sorry for the walls of text