This is from Retro Master HD, who…is an interesting character. Erin posted about this romhack. No prizes for guessing how she described it.
“Oh my gosh, this made my day haha. Thanks so much!! It’s so cute”
Retro Master HD responds with: “No problem, I thought it would be something great to make to honour your passion for retro video games and I thought you would like the idea of you being in an actual video game as the main character”
Oh sure. She’s really passionate about the old video games.
Some random horntard named Raven Khan says, “Well you’re cute!”
https://twitter.com/The_Raven_Khan
There’s his Twitter. Fat, middle aged man, from Utah, I guess, and his posts are FULL of various Z-list anime women “celebrities” who excite him and posts about Dungeons & Dragons and shit. These are the people going to Erin’s channel. These are her “fans.”
But who is Master Retro HD? Well, it’s a black man named Ashley. I guess that’s a name that men can have? Black men, anyway. I have a hazy recollection of Ashley being an acceptable name for men in the black American community. Let’s look this up.
https://www.quora.com/Can-Ashley-be-seen-as-a-masculine-name
Quora to the rescue again. They talk about how it was the name of a character in Gone With the Wind and used to be a popular name for boys, presumably in the South. So this all checks out. Black Americans are usually no more than two generations removed from the South. That’s why they have some of the weird pronunciations like “HO-tel” for “hotel” and whatnot. It’s not a black thing, it’s a Southern thing. Similar with their penchant for pigs feet and religious fundamentalism. These aren’t black things, they’re Southern things. White Southerners do all this same shit. Black Americans perpetuate these things, even if they’ve never set foot in the South, because it’s passed on from, whatever, their grandparents who came from the South.
So here’s Ashley:
He describes himself as: “I like to get all cartoony with my most favourite cartoon characters. I also love Anime as wel”
Wait…what? “Favourite”? Is he Canadian? I don’t know. But here’s his TikTok:
It’s a bunch of videos with him, split-screen, with some video of a sexy white woman. He’s doing “reaction” videos…I…guess we can charitably call them.
https://romhackplaza.org/author-name/retro-master-hd
Here are his rom hacks. They appear to be all unambitious sprite swaps.
But on page two, he has a couple of Lady Decade rom hacks. One for Super Mario Bros and one for Dr Mario. So Erin wasn’t even the first Youtuber he put into a Dr Mario game.
“This Rom Hack was made for Lady Decade to honour her love and respect for classic retro games and other games in general.”
There’s footage of Lady Decade’s Super Mario appearance. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a video of her Dr Mario appearance.
It’s just swapping Mario’s appearance for…what’s supposed to be Lady Decade. Does it even look like her? I don’t know. It could be anyone. Maybe if the nose was bigger it would be more clear.
But this is about his “cute” Erin Plays rom so let’s check it out.
0:00 – So he changed the title screen to read “Dr Erin Plays” and changed the copyright, updating it to 2025. I’m not sure if he can really copyright this but whatever.
The sprite has also been changed to…I guess Erin in a doctor’s uniform. I guess it looks like her? There’s glasses and red hair. I don’t know how much you can really do given the limitations of the system.
1:15 – He puts it on the “easy” mode, in honour of Erin. Oh wait. At the last second, he switches to “medium.”
Then…it’s just Erin, as Dr Mario, throwing the pills. No other changes.
He could have changed the viruses, I guess. Turned them into things that Erin claims to be passionate about like…I don’t know…Alf, He-Man, and Brett Somers from Match Game ’76.
11:45 – Then he beats the first five levels and gets a cut screen but…I don’t think there’s been any change. This is a missed opportunity. He could have done some pixel art of Erin crying in the bathtub or something. Something to motivate people to keep playing the hack.
Imagine having complete lunatics like this as your fanbase. And then you have to humour them and tell them how “cute” their creepy bullshit is. And for what? To chase those pennies. Erin made $6,900 in a year from Twitch according to that leak a few years ago.
That was in 2021. Do you think her fanbase has gone up since then? Surely it’s gone down. Let’s check out SocialBlade.
Her views and subscribers plummeted and flatlined from March 2024 to the present.
Her estimated yearly earnings from Youtube are $91 to $1,500. I’ve heard that the average is about right so Erin makes less than $800/year from Youtube.
What’s the point? Why do this? This thing that you hate. For people who are giant nerds AT BEST. I wouldn’t want to fucking deal with these people. And you’re doing it for pennies.
What’s the plan here? What is Erin going to do when Mike finally kicks her out? Just move in with Joe from Game Sack? Are jobs really that awful? You shouldn’t have to rely on desperate “Youtubers” to take pity on you and let you move in with them. What if Joe somehow manages to get married one day? Erin is totally fucked. Who’s next after Joe from Game Sack? A “poly” relationship with JOHN RIGGS and his long-suffering wife?
Maybe Newt is an option but Erin would have to agree to be his “muse” and appear in all of his “tits and gore” movies that never get released. And Newt doesn’t have any fucking money. What a climbdown from Mike’s palatial estate to Newt’s sleazy apartment that he rents from his boss at the movie theatre.
Maybe Mike would be gratious enough to let Erin stay in his second home where he stores all of his Halloween decorations, until she gets back on her feet. Erin living in that cramped house, completely chock full of Halloween decorations. What a life.