https://www.youtube.com/@ErinPlays/videos
According to her Twitter, she’s working on another video that may be out before the end of the year. It’s a video about a Castlevania game. That’s some riveting fucking stuff, Erin. But I’m calling an end to the year right here.
Eight videos. She made eight videos this year.
In case anybody is new here, Erin used to release one video a week. Fifty-two videos a year. For 2022, she released EIGHT videos.
The channel is done. Let’s see what these eight videos were about. I’ll link to my full review after each summary.
Bizarre Bootleg NES Console with Over 400 Games
She played a handful of these games, briefly, for the purposes of this video and then never again. And it was well short of the 400 games that this thing allegedly has.
Trash Bags FULL of NES Games
Extremely lazy video where she went through Mike’s video game collection, that just happened to be in trash bags for storage purposes. She sits on the floor, goes through the cartridges, and says, “This game looks cute. I like the font colour on this game.” Shit like this. Unbelievably bad video, even by Erin’s standards.
Ten Awesome Enemies from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Just ten random enemies in the game. Not the top ten, of course. Erin doesn’t do top ten videos. Not expressly by name, anyway. She just does ten random whatever videos. So she’ll show an enemy and say, “This guy is cute.” This sort of thing.
BAD NES Games in 30 Seconds
This was her attempt to capitalise on the early James Rolfe video called “Bad NES Games” or something.
Erin’s video is so fucking bad that I couldn’t even watch it. It’s Mike saying the name of the game (that Erin played on stream, for money) and then Erin has to do a 30 second “review” of the game just off the top of her head. And Erin has absolutely no capacity for this. She has negative charisma, knows nothing about video games, and can’t speak. Fuck this shit.
Playdate Review
It’s an ad. Erin was given this thing in exchange for doing a video on it. She plays the games briefly, for the purposes of this video, and then never again. She can’t even figure out how the first game works.
Five BAD Games from Ocean Software
Another bizarre attempt to cash in on that video that James Rolfe made like 15 years ago.
It’s just five random games from this developer. And I don’t even think that it’s Erin playing these games. Mike had played a lot of these games on stream, for money. I think that it’s just footage from his streams. But it’s negative charisma Erin talking about these five random games for like 90 seconds each.
Five BAD Games from Hi-Tech Expressions
Same exact video as the previous one, same problems, but a different developer.
10 Spooky Levels from Non-Horror Games
She talks about cute enemies in ten random games and her usual braindead bullshit.
That’s it. This was her output for 2022.
She didn’t review a single fucking game. That used to be her thing. Reviewing games. She’d review some old NES game or something. The “reviews” were absolute dogshit but it was a relative golden age in Erin’s Youtube career.
Now it’s just absolute rock-bottom, lazy content. Compilation shit where it’s not even her playing the games.
Carpal tunnel syndrome will be her excuse. But it’s all complete bullshit. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her hands and/or wrists. This is just another one of her many, many lies. Bad lies. I should do a compilation video of Erin’s lies. Not her top ten lies but just ten random lies.
The channel is done. There’s no question of that. Let’s see what she’s making on SocialBlade.
She’s making about $450/year from Youtube. That works out to $37/month. It’s an all-time low. At least from the past three years or whatever that I’ve been covering Erin.
When I started, the joke was that she was making fifty bucks a month from Youtube. I based this figure on what SocialBlade said. But then gradually, she started making more.
There’s the first article that I can find where I look at Erin’s channel on SocialBlade. This was in April, 2020. She was making about $100/month at this point.
In March 2021, I did this exercise again. She was making a whopping $275/month at this point. Not bad. It’s almost as much money as a child’s part-time paper route job might pay.
I didn’t do this for 2022, unless you include this article right here. She’s making $37/month from Youtube. That would be a child’s allowance. Possibly only if they did all of their chores. Erin is making pocket money. She’s 35 years old.
There’s perhaps the most important piece of investigative journalism that I’ve ever done. There was a leak of Twitch data and it showed how much money people made. Erin made $6,900 in one year on Twitch. This was in 2020. Is she still streaming as much as she was in 2020? I assume not. “Carpal tunnel”.
She has 72,000 subscribers. According to the “future projections” page, she’ll get 100,000 subscribers in 2026. When I looked at SocialBlade in 2020, the “future projections” page said that she’d get to 100,000 in 2024. The date was pushed back because her channel has self-destructed.
She’s making nothing. It’s a joke. A sad joke. A joke about a woman who has totally wasted her life.
Every year that goes by makes it that much more difficult to re-enter the workforce. But it’s not like it’s impossible. Plenty of women take years off from work to raise their children. Erin wasn’t raising any children, she was getting fucked in the ass for Youtube promotion, but it’s a similar (although less rewarding) premise.
Just go back to California and send some resumes out. DON’T put “Youtube content creator” on your resume. Because then people might ask to see the videos and you don’t want that. If somebody asks why there’s a five year gap in your resume, just say that you took time off to raise a child. It’s fine. People will understand. And nobody is going to check. They’re not going to ask for proof that you have a child.
Maybe getting married might be an idea. I don’t think that this sugar daddy thing with Mike is the healthiest way to go. I’m talking about getting into a real relationship, not some prostitute shit. Try it out. You might like it.
But marriage shouldn’t be the goal to financial stability because that’s pretty shady. Getting a job should be the goal. Be able to support yourself.
The jobs are out there. And working isn’t so bad. Even if it’s Walmart or a record store or whatever, it’s a job. You’re making money. And when the job gets too soul destroying, look for another job. This is how things work. You don’t have to do the same shitty job for the rest of your life. Opportunities present themselves. You can stumble into a better job. But you have to be actively engaged in the employment market for any of this to happen. Not sitting in Mike’s fucking bathtub and crying.
So it could be a good sign that Erin is winding down her “career” as an internet “celebrity”. Maybe she’s going to make some big changes in her life. I’m all for it. I welcome the day when Erin just shuts all of her shit down and we never hear about her again. Not in a mean-spirited way, but it would mean that hopefully she’s getting her life together. She’s working. She doesn’t have to prey on the mentally challenged for thirty-five bucks a month. I want Erin to be a confident, independent woman.