Like…YEARS ago. Never mentioned it. But then her DOG died yesterday, and this all came out.
How fucking insane is this? “My dog died. He’s was where my heart is. Oh, by the way, my parents are long dead too.”
I guess I can understand not talking about. Maybe? I had a similar situation a few months ago and I didn’t talk about it. But Erin is a big time celebrity. The horntards want to know. And it would have helped to put SOMETHING about her life on her Twitter or whatever, which is something I’ve talked about many times. Her Twitter is BORING AS FUCK because she never talks about anything even REMOTELY personal. It’s always just advertising her shitty videos and streams and comment-free re-tweeting of “cute” shit that she doesn’t care about.
And she always uses that fucking “I was out of town” comment when she talks about going to California. And it’s always after she’s returned. What is she so concerned about? People are going to ransack the Matei mansion when they’re out?
I can only be somewhat sympathetic. I mean, look at the way she responded. They’ve been dead for years. And from everything I’ve gathered about her parents, from the scant information we’ve been given, they did absolutely nothing with Erin. She stared at a wall her entire childhood. Look at how she turned out. No interests, no hobbies, unable to hold any semblance of a conversation.
But in some small way, as we’ve seen here, having shitty parents is a gift. When they die, you don’t give a shit. When my father died, I was a kid and I cried for months. It was devastating. It changed my life. I suddenly started doing poorly in school. Shit like this.
When my mother died, I didn’t shed one tear. I got a phone call from my weepy sister weeks later. “We couldn’t get in touch with you. There was a funeral.” I was sympathetic. My sister was obviously broken up. But as for me, I couldn’t give less than a fuck. Terrible old woman dies. Okay, let’s move on. It was a relief, frankly. I don’t have to endure her phone calls any more.
Part of it has to do with when the person dies in relation to your own life. All things being equal, parents dying when you’re a child should have more of an effect than parents dying when you’re middle aged. But also, when you have lousy parents, as I did (at least as far as my mother), and I suspect Erin did, it’s pretty easy to get over it. If my mother died as a kid, I don’t think that I’d be too crushed. “Who’s going to not-help me with my homework, not-cook, and not give a fuck about me now? Who’s going to sit on the sofa watching trash talk shows all day?”
So you see the way Erin handled it. She only brought them up in relation to her DOG. The ultimate “fuck you” to her parents. She places them below her dog.
It’s a sad situation and I’ve always been sympathetic to Erin’s tragic upbringing. Those parents created a monster in Erin. Somebody who uses people (Mike Matei, her retarded viewers), somebody who’s incapable of developing interests in anything, somebody who can’t communicate. She’s some sort of a sociopath who doesn’t care about anyone or anything. I don’t think that she was born that way, that’s the result of shitty parenting.
So she gets a bunch of replies. Generally, unlesss you have a Youtube channel, Erin isn’t responding back.
Look at this response from Justin Silverman.
- “Big fan of Pickles. Sorry for your loss.”
Doesn’t even mention her parents. I don’t think that it’s because he’s a giant asshole, I think it’s because he knows that Erin’s parents were lousy.
Oh, look at this. Newt “The Ideas Man” Wallen replied. Of course he did. He can’t resist the death posts. I wonder if he’s going to tweet about Erin’s parents and/or the dog later. He says, “Deepest condolences.”
GREAT STUFF, NEWT. Really heartfelt. What a piece of shit. Speaking of people who nobody will give a shit when they die, Newt Wallen.
But I mentioned in passing in a recent article that I believe that ShiShi is no longer with us. He hasn’t been seen on Twitter or any of his shit since February. He hasn’t posted.
I’ll tell you who else is conspicuous by his absence, JOHN RIGGS. What the fuck? He should have been the first to post. Trying to get into Erin’s pants when she’s all broken up about her dead dog.
Oh and Joe from GameSack, same motivation.
Well, it’s still early, I guess. She only posted this six hours ago. And it’s…well, it would have been like 9:00 pm her time so…like 6:00 pm Joe from GameSack’s time, maybe, and 5:00 pm JOHN RIGGS’ time. So they should have been up and on Twitter, trolling for booty. Although, JOHN RIGGS might still be in Brazil or in transit.
Erin should be in for a windfall, though. What kind of place do you suppose her parents had? They lived in Los Angeles. I assume that they had their own place. Even if it’s something modest, it should be worth a tidy sum. And nobody to split the inheritance with.
What did her father and/or mother do for a living? I’ve never heard her say anything about it. It couldn’t have been too lucrative. Her stories are never anything extravagent and she got a degree in English which is hardly prestigeous. Probably went to a state college.
Maybe Erin can start pulling her weight with Mike now in terms of supporting herself. Maybe it will be Mike leeching off of Erin for a change. That would be a delicious irony. Mike using Erin for money. And Erin is dumb as shit so she doesn’t know how to handle her money. And Mike has a history of manipulating retards for financial gain (e.g. James Rolfe).
Anyway, rest in peace to Pickles. No more pain for that little guy. He’s up there in Doggie Heaven living it up.
And as for Erin’s parents…it seems that she deems them unworthy of a mention. She knows them better than I do. So enjoy the money, Erin.
Or maybe Erin’s parents left all the money to charity.
I hope it’s ok to ask. We know about your mother but was your father of Polish descent as well?
I assume that this is some kind of a joke but neither of my parents were Polish.
Oh sorry, your mother was German. So what was your father’s background (since you’ve never talked about it)?
What bizarre comments. It’s a little personal.
These questions have to be from the goofball that did similar on Reddit, right?
I’m a bit confused on the Erin situation. If her parent’s passed years ago, why would she suddenly be getting money only now and helping carry her financial weight in the relationship with Mike?
Also, I presumed she went home to LA so frequently to visit her parents, which was a fair assumption that you shared. Given that doesn’t seem to be the case, I wonder what she was doing there if she’s an only child. Is it just to go to Disney Land? I can’t imagine her having many real life friends that would be worthy of the high airfare expense every month.
I don’t think it’s the same guy from Reddit. The interest in my ancestry was…odd but people ask this sort of stuff. It was just the roundabout way of doing it that I found peculiar. Had he said, “Where was your mother from?” I could have said, “Sorry, that’s a little personal” and cut through the nonsense.
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Erin said that she was going back to take care of her mother, after her father died. So that explains those trips and indeed…how poorly was her mother? Did she have a nurse? Erin wasn’t staying there full time so her mother must have had either some kind of carer or she wasn’t poorly enough to not be able to take care of herself.
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So that explains those trips. Checking on her mother and visiting and whatever. I can understand that. Going to Disneyland while you’re there, of course. That’s a must.
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And then after her mother died, I assume that she would have to go back to deal with their estate. Take things that she wanted (she took the dog, for example), sell things, and sell the property (assuming they owned their home, which I assume they did). So that all takes time. Maybe she had to fix the place up, whatever. If anything, I’m surprised that she wasn’t in California more frequently than her previous rota. Perhaps she was. I don’t know when she’s in California. I only sometimes hear about it after the fact with “I was out of town” during a stream or something.
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Erin is an only child. She doesn’t seem to have many real life friends.
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But yeah, I think that the timetable adds up. I don’t know when in 2024 her mother died but if it was later in the year, it wouldn’t be at all unusual to still have to deal with the estate. Even if it was early in 2024, it wouldn’t be unusual.
Thanks for the context. I thought both of her parents had passed around the same time years ago based on the “long gone” comment. Makes sense about her frequent visits then, however, I’d probably take a prolonged trip and try to knock as much out at once as possible.
BTW, I appreciate when you share personal stories and antecedes. You had understandably changed your style for a bit upon your return and kept the blog more focused on these D Listers. But I’ve noticed you starting to incorporate your own tidbits again. Honestly, it’s my favorite part of reading your blog. You’ve got a great memory and I like how you don’t hold back about your experiences and personal feelings. Too many people want to tip toe around perceived sensitive topics these days. Your bluntness is refreshing.
I appreciate the comments and your observations about the blog are correct.
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I felt bad that I didn’t care when my mother died. Because it’s expected to be upset when your mother dies. But it’s on her. It’s not my fault that she was a piece of shit. She had nearly 50 years to say or do something even remotely kind. She didn’t want to. She was content being a horrible person.
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And this isn’t something that was a result of her getting old and bitter or anything. When she was middle aged, she was awful. And when she started getting dementia or something a couple of years before she died, she was still awful but I stopped complaining about it. I stopped hanging up on her, I stopped going no-contact with her, I stopped hoping for some kind of an apology. I knew that she probably wasn’t going to be around much longer so I tried to keep things light. And she was still a horrible bitch. But I’m pleased that I took the high road.
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And I think that not giving a shit when people like this die, even when it’s your parents, is more common than people think. I don’t think that Erin gave two shits about her parents dying. And I don’t think that her parents gave two shits about her. So it all evens out.
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You look at Newt and his disgusting commodification of death where he tweets every celebrity death in a fruitless attempt to gain followers (or whatever his goal can possibly be) and you see how little anybody truly cares about anyone dying. “Oh, Angela Lansbury died? That’s great. What else have you got? That woman who voiced Poison Ivy in the Batman cartoon from the 1990s? Who gives a shit?”
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And Newt doesn’t give a fuck, of course. Nobody does.
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This is all just narcissists worrying about their own mortality and grappling with the reality that nobody will give the slightest of fucks when they die.
just happened upon another erinplays wannabe. compared to the last one, this one comes closer to the real deal in one key aspect, as per the video below
https://tinyurl.com/mj2j9mpn
Ha. Yeah. That’s taking it to the next logical step. I made it 90 seconds before I had to turn it off.
I get hating every woman on the internet, but this lady is actually interesting and talks about real topics.
Erin plays sucks ass but this game dev lady makes reasonable content
my sympathies to erinplays. the pain of losing someone close to us is something that is always hard to overcome. some don’t overcome this at all. could there be another reason why erinplays kept silent about her parents passing away but felt the urge to let people know about her canine companion croaking? what if she just wasn’t in the mood for simping comments when she learned of her parents passing?
Maybe there’s some other reason that she didn’t say anything for TWO YEARS, at least in terms of her father but it strikes me as highly peculiar.
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She started her aggressively boring NES Games A-Z streams on Twitch in July 2023 and ended in December 2023. Her father died in 2023. So certainly by the end of those streams, he had died, if not from the start. She posted regularly.
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She then moved on to Sega Game Gear A-Z for three months.
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Now, I found this period of Erin’s videos UNBELIEVEABLY boring. I refused to even watch any of these A-Z videos. Looking back, this nine month period of extreme tedium may have been a sign that she was dealing with something. But I didn’t find it noteworthy. She was just ripping of something that Mike did recently. Ripping off Mike’s idea is par the course for Erin.
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She did a Halloween stream in October 2024 where she did her usual half-assed costume, this time as a racecar driver. At this point, quite possibly both of her parents had died. No change in her behaviour. She’s as uninteresting as ever.
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She streamed fairly consistently. I know that her output on her main channel has been down but it’s been decreasing every year for at least five years. So nothing different there.
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In her post, she says she didn’t want to say anything because she views the internet as an escape. It’s true that she rarely shares anything about her life to the horntards. You get the odd bizarre glimpse into her life with the zombie gums and her slow cooker preferences but typically if she’s doing anything in her life (which is a big “if” because sI don’t think she is doing anything in her life) she tends to keep it to herself.
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But her parents dying? Who would have said anything offensive? She made that post TWO YEARS LATER and it’s all positive comments.
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She could have posted something three months after her father died, when things were calming down, and said, “Sorry I haven’t been uploading lately. I was busy dealing with the death of my father and my mother is unwell.” Everybody would have been sympathetic.
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What about a tribute video where she talks about how her father instilled a passion for video games in her with that Atari collections PC game that he had? She can talk about how much she played Pole Position. Or what about that time when they went to some pizza restaurant and there was an arcade game that she played for a little while?
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There was nothing. It strikes me as mental.