Nothing against Dan (I've never really come around to his style but I understand that a lot of people enjoy his content), but I'm getting burned out on everything being a wrestling promo, or tying into a PAX rumble, or having people treat some genuine confusion as being a "mark" or whatever. The Powerbombcast is a fun thing, Jeff digging up old WWF trading cards or Alex playing old wrestling games is neat, and the PAX thing is fine as a self-contained unit (something that I usually ignore but that's just me), but there's been a real uptick in how pervasive that stuff has become, and for someone with zero interest in it, it's gone from "a funny reference every video or two that I don't get" to (what feels like) a fairly significant piece of this site's comedy and structure. I'm not saying it doesn't have it's merits, but it's really not my cup of tea and I've found myself watching (and listening) to a lot less over the past year.
Also, I don't know what this particular thing is, or where it's going, but I'm not a fan of how it's been handled simply because that UPF is premium only. If this is a joke, it'd be better if everyone was able to get a laugh out of it, right?
So, I don't think it's a real thing (in the sense that Dan will still be a part of Giant Bomb, even if that means moving to GBeast), but if it is, I wish Dan all the best, and I hope that (as an unrelated tangent, even if Dan does seem to be a big source of this) the crew can better balance their love/hate relationship towards wrestling with the fact that at least some of their audience is feeling a bit alienated.
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