Board Thread:SMG4 Discussion/@comment-36426936-20190203214947/@comment-38435131-20190206010145

Honestly, I think SMG4's golden age was from late 2012 to mid 2016. The bloopers had just the right tone of retardedness, random stuff, SM64 avatars, GMOD, and sound effects balanced well with text. I think the problem was that after SMG4 reached 1 million subs, the quality of his animation increased drastically, and he added new characters to differentiate himself from other SM64 youtubers. From early 2017 to mid 2018, his bloopers have kinda sucked (based on trends that only last a couple weeks, bland and repetitive storylines, even more Flanderization with characters, Meggy being too OP, Bob being too annoying, etc.). I'm also not used to the new animation style. I actually liked it better when the animation was low quality, with crappy SM64 avatars with GMOD backgrounds with 2-D sprites being used as stuff. That animation was low-quality, but it had that SMG4 charm since it was edited good. That kind of quality reflected the bloopers themselves. They were just a bunch of crap thrown together to form an entertaining story, not meant to be taken seriously. There might be plot holes, and spelling mistakes, but this was a low-budget Youtuber who cared more about the quality of jokes and randomness than animation. SMG4 also obviously had a lot of fun making those bloopers, as well, since most of the videos in his Golden Age are genuinely funny to watch, with the jokes from them becoming classics. This is because back then SMG4 made good content for the sake of making good content and having fun while making it, and no other reason. I feel like in SMG4's trash age (2017-2018) SMG4 cared more about animation and the fact that he can't get away with as much since he's a bigger youtuber now than the actual content. Youtube censoring everyone also had to do with this. I think SMG4 playing it safe and experimenting with new characters and listening to the fans too much was what made those videos suck. However, after War of the Fat Italians 2018, SMG4 started developing  the main cast so they actually had layered personalities, and I think from November 2018 to the present his bloopers have become just as good, but more like having an engaging story. I feel like with War of the Fat Italians 2018 SMG4 found that sweet spot where he started focusing on the content and an engaging story instead.