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There is nothing so cringe-inducing in life as people trying to justify Genna Bain's taking over TB's channel being a good thing.
Yes, I understand he asked her to carry it on, but that's really not fair to his fans. It would be like if I suddenly handed over my site to a Roosh V and he started posting PUA articles on it. This is *obviously* hyperbole to illustrate the point - the point being, that someone of an entirely different character posting about entirely different topics in an entirely different way is not only bound to upset people who follow that stuff, but they are *justified* in being upset, because they're not getting what they went there for.
Genna Bain is entirely entitled to make her online presence about boozing it up being a (not-really-guise-honest!-)kiwiy streamer on twitch, but the people who followed TotalBiscuit for what they perceived as intelligent, high-brow first impressions (non-)reviews of games, are entirely justified in being upset that they are not receiving what they did before, and are instead getting a Fluffle Puffy streamer, and it's not unreasonable for them to leave as a result of that.-
People have made the comment that it's untoward to comment on her private life. I agree. There's a lot of stuff I say and do in personal life, that's kept in personal circles, some people would disagree with. I'm a lesbian, for one, and I have some fairly controversial views on a few subjects (climate change being one of them I've mentioned here).
But the life people are commenting on aren't her private life. They aren't digging things out from behind the curtain to shine a light on them. They aren't commenting on private goings-ons or discussions. They're commenting on things she shares on social media, things she says on podcasts, and so on. That isn't private. The things you say and do in public are, by definition, public.
It's respectful and ethical to afford people their private lives as long as they are harming no one in doing so, but the things you say and do in public, are not part of your private life.-
If I started posting images of me half-naked while boozing it up in Vegas, I'd expect many people to criticise me, and I'd expect at least a handful of people here to be genuinely *concerned*. While there no doubt would be a whole bunch of people who would just be trollish asPotato Knishess, what no one seems to ever be able to acknowledge is that this isn't always all trolling - it oftentimes comes from a place being genuinely concerned about something, or if nothing else, the future of a series they once enjoyed.
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