#but that hasn’t happened since the e3 streams back in 2019 so instead i’ll go with his wonderfully weird noise reads of acronyms

[bubblewrapjunkie]

okay so here is the thing: i am not upset WITH bdg for leaving polygon. i am sad that he’s leaving on a personal level, and it has a lot more to do with what could have been than what actually has been, particularly for the last year or so. unlike most of the polygon fans on here, unraveled isn’t my favorite series. i have enjoyed them a whole bunch, but i honestly feel like i’ve gotten a lot more out of pat’s “everything is...” type of videos for quite some time (probably because he really wants to make them). now y’all know that i’m a pat gill stan first and, like, a human second, but i swear that’s not the reason i feel this way. it has felt like brian would have liked to do other things than unraveled since before quarantine, but it has eaten up all of his time. and polygon in general has moved away from goofs and silly short things (particularly featuring more than one video producer at a time, which was a trend that started wayyyy before covid) in favor of more “serious” content with a few jokes thrown in here and there. the ratio has been off for a long time imho. you don’t get the cast cracking up behind the camera because it’s all so polished and scripted and respectable and... not very weird? or like, a compromise between weird and respectable which leaves the creators in limbo a lot of the time. and it saddens me that this is the note that bdg goes out on. the charity stream was a really good step in the right direction but it’s a very particular and very energy consuming thing to do (and sadly not very indicative of the content polygon have been putting out there over the last, to be fair, two years or so). i feel cheated of the content that could have been, but probably only in my mind, if that makes sense? anyway, this is just me rambling and trying to sort my thoughts and most likely compartmentalising quite a bit to make myself less sad. it’s the end of an era, and i hope this means better and weirder things for both bdg and polygon in the future.