Game Grumps

AND WE'RE THE GAME GRUMPS!

**Game Grumps** is a Let's Play channel founded by Arin Hanson and Jon Jafari (who would later go on to be replaced by Dan Avidan). Members of OneyPlays have made occasional appearances on the channel and vice versa.

**This group is at odds with one or more hosts of OneyPlays. However, fans are NOT granted the right to pester or harass them because of that fact. Be respectful and mind your own business.**

## History

### Creation

The idea for Game Grumps came about when Arin and Jon were arguing over whether or not the character Wolf from Super Smash Bros. Braw*l* was too similar to Fox in terms of their fighting styles. After animator Ross O’Donovan told the duo about their tendency to be “grumpy” with each other over video games, Hanson came up with the idea of a podcast revolving around this concept, though the show ultimately became a video series on YouTube rather than a podcast.

Game Grumps began with a video of the two playing *Kirby Super Star*, uploaded on July 18th, 2012 to YouTube.

### Controversies

#### Leadfoot Doxxing Incident

During one of the Knuckles stages in Sonic Adventure, the Grumps decided to use a guide to help them find the pieces of the Master Emerald. The author, however didn't seem to know that the pieces spawned randomly, which made the Grumps unhappy with the guide. Dan eventually said the person's actual full name out loud and even commented saying "if he gets a wave of hate from our fans, won't he be surprised". This allowed the fans to doxx the person. The episode was later reuploaded with the name bleeped out, and Dan apologized. Leadfoot himself later commented and said that things were fine.

#### OneyPlays/Dream Daddy Drama

In a stream, former OneyPlays co-hosts Ding Dong and Julian expressed their opinion of Game Grumps then upcoming game, Dream Daddy. Ding Dong took issue with the fact that the game, a visual novel focused on gay relationships, was written and produced entirely by people who aren't gay in order to virtue signal and "put themselves on a pedestal" while attempting to attract the "Tumblr audience". Ding Dong would explain in a later post that he was not only voicing his own concerns with the project, but was also expressing the concerns of a number of people involved in the game's production who he had spoken with privately and were afraid to share their opinions. His criticism was directed primarily towards what he had witnessed behind-the-scenes in the production and the intention behind the game. Ding Dong states during the stream that he does not fault the Grumps in any way for their support of the game.

Julian echoed Ding Dong's sentiments, saying that, "having watched its development and played a beta build, I just don’t think anybody cared about creating a quality product while making it because they knew it’d get good reviews for 'virtue signalling' or whatever it’s called by people smarter than me". He also say that he "was told not to talk about the game in public", and "hated having to be vague about criticizing it".

Brian, from Dan's band Ninja Sex Party, and Suzy, Arin's wife, immediately went on damage control saying that the game is not a cash grab, and that Ding Dong and Julian had nothing to do with beta testing/work on the game. Ding Dong later provided screenshots proving that they did in fact play a beta build of the game.

Ding Dong would later explain the fallout out from the drama. He says that when he and Julian spoke up publicly about their problems with Dream Daddy, everyone on the Dream Daddy production team who had talked with them and had expressed their concerns in private backpedalled hard, said that they absolutely loved the project, and left Ding Dong and Julian to deal with the entirety of the backlash. He was doxed by Game Grumps fans when his phone number was leaked and people contacted his family, outing him as gay, which was especially bad as he had not come out yet. Ding Dong also implied that he would have done "something drastic" had Julian not been there for him. Ding Dong said that a lot of people complained about the development process and couldn't say anything due to fear of being fired, and that is why he was encouraged to speak up about it, but when push came to shove, those people backpedalled.

## Appearances

Includes times Arin and/or Dan were on OneyPlays and vice versa:

* Doodle Doods
* Human Fall Flat
* Last Fight
* Ragdoll Masters
* The Simpsons: Hit & Run
* Sonic Shuffle
* Super Smash Bros Melee
* Uncharted 4
* Zero G Arena