I do have one more thing to say about this. Not that it's important what I think, but you know me, I'll say anything to anyone, even the internet.
If there's an achillies heel to the ZP videos, it is exactly this: Yahtzee's intense, whole-hearted, and genuine hatred of his "fans."
Granted, they, we, may give him plenty of valid reasons for this loathing, but that doesn't change the fact that the constant string of insults and anger towards those who profess love and admiration, the whole rotten lot of us....it wears ya down after a while.
We come, we laugh, we say yay or nay to the various opinions expressed, and we ignore the hatred, because we have to. I mean, what can you say to something like that?
"He's right, we're a horrible bunch, lets die now?" "He was talking about everyone except me?" "Wow, Yahtzee called us jerks when he doesn't even know us, what an asshole?" "Lets go give our admiration and support to someone who won't insult us for it?"
Not going to happen. Fans attracted by the wit and humor are going to just ignore the hatred before they'll turn that hatred back on Yahtzee himself. 25 pages on the Escapist forums about how much the Mailbag video rocked. That's a lot of love.
Yahtzee's the Big Cool Thing on the Internet, and has been for a while now, but the Masses don't stick around forever. As things get older their exciting Newness wears off and the flaws get harder to overlook. Then something newer and shinier and fresher pops up and everyone hurries off to slather THAT thing with unconditional forever love and forget to remember to check the Escapist on Wendsday morning.
This is just my opinion on what will result in ZP's fall from internet glory. Keep in mind that I don't know jack about anything. Alright, I'm done talking now.
The counterpoint to this would be that his fans can be polarised into two camps, the one camp of intelligent fans who silently appreciate him, perhaps discussing him amongst themselves far, far away from anyone to listen, and the fans who consistently wail on his ass about crap he doesn't want to hear about, sending him billions of emails, professing undying love and basically making a giant, collective arse of themselves. One of these groups is a gigantic and colossal embarrassment to Yahtzee.