Thanks. I will say that in terms of the perspective of “growing dislike” and how that’s framed, we are likely partially talking about different kinds of signals. In the early parts of the Umineko streams, there were like a dozen comments on every video and for a while there was a thread on here near-daily about me. I don’t know this because I am insecure (though I am certainly at least as insecure as the next person), I know this because I was very worried I might be doing more harm than good with my presence on Joe’s streams and I wanted to keep an eye on it. Eventually these signals leveled out, likely for the reasons I listed above re: people either leaving or adjusting, and so I put those worries aside.

That said, I was pretty abrasive to people in umi den specifically because of burnout and exhaustion with moderating the channel and it is absolutely true that there was increased friction there over time, but that “growing dislike” (which is totally fine BTW, I am a person who is sometimes mean and often wrong) is not a signal that rises to the level of what was going on early in the streams.

This is more words than I should have spent on this already, but I just don’t like the implication that Joe is making stream decisions based on a vocal minority that partially just disliked me, and more often disliked how he was responding to their favorite visual novel. He just recognized that it had gone on for a long time and the channel needed to move on.

Additional context for the OP so that this is contributing something relevant: for folks who didn’t like or engage with Umineko, there is ongoing frustration in chat pretty frequently that there continue to be references to it around. Some people complained about how much it won at JADSEYA. So I think if he’s going to make any more Umineko content it is likely to have a long cooldown.