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With the unexpected news that Talk About Games is coming to an end, I discovered that another Screenwave podcast has also ended: Mouthfools.  This one ended two months ago.

I attempted to review this podcast here:

https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2022/01/christmas-trust-issues-mouthfools.html

It’s entirely unwatchable.  It was four guys in their 20s, talking on some Skype group chat about Pokemon or whatever.  At least three of the four guys are gay.  A lot of the guys are annoying and none of them have any charisma.

There are podcasts like this where it’s just random people getting together for a group chat.  I’ve seen them.  Destiny Fomo aka Madam Fomo has been on them.  They’re done on an informal basis and nobody watches them.  It”s just some fucking Youtube shit.  I talk about that “podcast” here:

https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/05/mentally-ill-destiny-fomo-simp.html

Guys talking about whatever.  Over Skype or…I don’t know the program they’re using.  But this is not a professional production.  It’s just throw away content that NOBODY is watching.

That’s what Mouthfools was.  Four guys in a group chat talking about whatever.  

Mouthfools lasted six months.  Twenty-six glorious episodes.  They got fewer and fewer views as they went on.  

What’s weird is that all four of these guys have Youtube channels with a fair amount of subscribers.  We have 84,000, 166,000, 405,000, and the last guy has over a million subscribers.  Why weren’t they able to translate any of these numbers into the podcast?  The podcast has 22,000 subscribers.  

Yes, the videos on Mouthfools are entirely unwatchable but so are the videos that these individual Youtubers put out.  It’s the exact same content.  They talk about Pokemon and Minecraft and shit like this.  Games that 12 year olds play.  And they’ll be in the corner talking excitedly about some children’s game while footage is shown.  That’s it.  Unwatchable.

But it’s the same exact shit that Mouthfools was about.  So I don’t get it.  Same bad thumbnails.  Everything was the same.  But you had four of these boring guys talking about this boring children’s shit instead of just one.  This should have worked.  I guess.  In the sense that their individual channels seem to work.

Maybe with more time they could have done something.  You can’t expect a podcast to take off overnight.  Six months is not enough time.  

And why would they cancel it anyway?  It costs NOTHING to produce the show.  It’s just four guys talking on Skype.  It’s not edited.  Why stop doing it?  

You read the comments and people seemed to enjoy it.  It’s baffling but there you are.  

Let me check SocialBlade.

The channel is making about $300/year.  That’s nothing.  They’re splitting this five ways, presumably.  Each of the four guys and then Screenwave takes their cut.  So it’s peanuts.  Let’s just assume an even split for everyone, that’s $60 each.  PER YEAR.  For making a “podcast” every week.

So nobody in their right mind would continue with this unless they were passionate about the project.  They enjoyed doing it.  It would seem that these guys did not enjoy doing it.  They were just looking for a quick cash grab.  Well, enjoy your sixty bucks.

I’ve listened to some podcasts over the years.  If you like the person or people involved, you’ll listen to it even if it’s shit.  And if you don’t like the person, you won’t listen to it even if it’s slickly produced and they have semi-interesting stuff to talk about.

I didn’t like any of these four guys.  They were bland at best, aggressively annoying at worst.  So I’m not watching that shit.  

Still, I don’t think that I was in the target audience.  I think that they were going for the middle school demographic.  Same as with their individual channels.  

Well, whatever.  Ryan wanted a bigger return on his $0 investment so he pulled the plug, I guess.  Didn’t want to put the time in to let an audience grow.  Once kids start talking about that podcast on the playground, maybe it would become a success.  No.  Ryan was losing too much money on this podcast.  Zero dollars every month.  He couldn’t justify it any more.  

I’ll get to the cancellation of Talk About Games tomorrow or whenever the video is released.

But yeah, Pegwarmers is still going.  That thing can’t be making much money.  About $1400 according to Social Blade.  So a lot better than $300/year that Mouthfools was getting but still not much.

And actually, Pegwarmers seems to get fewer views than Mouthfools.  They’re making more money because there are a lot more videos and he’s been doing this for years.  He has slightly more subscribers than Mouthfools but it’s similar.

Pegwarmers is watchable, though.  The guy doing the podcast isn’t a showman but he’s reasonably amicable.  Reasonably intelligent.  He’s not annoying.  

And the show has a structure.  Toy news.  New toys that you’ve purchased.  Now we’re going to talk about Sectaurs.

It’s all done in person.  None of this Skype bullshit.  They have guest hosts.  The guest hosts are never too annoying.  

This is how it’s done.  It’s not that hard.

Compare it to Hack the Movies, which is another podcast under the glorious Screenwave umbrella.  He’s going after the horntard market.  And look at the end result.  It’s unwatchable.  I don’t want to watch a Horseface woman talking about hot chicks for two hours.  That’s stupid.  

Give the audience some credit and put out a semi-intelligent product.  That’s what Pegwarmers does.  And they’re talking about toys.  I don’t even give a shit about toys and I watch it.  Every episode.  No problem.  

And then there’s The Cinemassacre Podcast.  Holy shit.  I place 90% of the blame for that podcast on James, who refused to engage AT ALL with ANYTHING.  The remaining 10% of blame goes to Justin Silverman and his idiotic segment ideas.  “What’cha Watching, What’cha Reading, What’cha Drinking” and so forth.  An idea that he abandoned after a few episodes.  So then everything just became entirely directionless.  They started trying anything at that point.  Then before you know it, James Rolfe is reading from a book about the lost city of Atlantis.

They were constantly trying to prod James to say something.  Find a topic that he would actually engage with.  Poop worked, when James talked passionately about wanting a buffalo to literally defecate on his face, but you can’t have scat talk every episode.  So the only other thing that worked was fucking Rex Viper.

It is so fucking disgusting to watch that episode where James is with Rex Viper.  That’s the only episode where he seems to enjoy what he’s doing.  In everything else, it’s a total fucking chore to him.  He HATES being on the podcast.  But when Rex Viper is there, he’s the life of the party.  

Anyway, Mouthfools.  We hardly knew ye.