My Thoughts About SMG4's Retirement From His Main Channel! [REUPLOADED]

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00:00Hello, this is MM50321. In this video, I want to talk about SMG4 and his decision to quit his

00:08original YouTube channel. I know that in the past, I've made it clear that I didn't want to talk

00:13about SMG4 on my channel, or on my Discord server, or in general, since he can be very overrated.

00:20But for this video, and for his retirement from his channel, I'm going to make an exception.

00:25Also, feel free to talk about him as much as you want in the comments below, but first,

00:29I really want you to hear me out. SMG4 quitting was something that, for me,

00:34just came out of nowhere. Like, it came up one day, and everyone started talking about it,

00:40and everybody kept messaging me about it. And the truth is, it was a huge relief. Seriously!

00:49Don't get me wrong, part of me is glad SMG4 is quitting. Part of me is glad SMG4 is done with

00:55his channel. Considering all the bad things I heard about his more recent content, and

01:01all the trauma I got because of him over the years. Don't get me wrong, it's not his fault.

01:06I'll get to that. But yeah, I mean, I guess I am going to miss him when he's gone. I mean,

01:12I was one of the people that inspired him, and yeah, apparently he's going to go on to continue

01:18with Glitch Productions, was the name of his company. And yeah, I'm going to continue doing

01:25what I do because, well, I'm not going to quit anytime soon as of this video because, you know,

01:31there's still so much to do on my end. Now, I'd like to talk about my experience with SMG4.

01:37I've known of him ever since he was known by his original YouTube name, Super Mario Glitchy 4.

01:44Over the years, he shortened it to SMG4, but yeah, that was his name back then, Super Mario

01:49Glitchy 4. At first, he seemed like just another funny SM64 machinimist, like me. Now, what

01:56happened next was not his fault, but yeah, back in 2011, 2013-ish, yeah, that was when my channel

02:03was, uh, that's when the quality of my channel was starting to suffer. You know, I wasn't having

02:08many good ideas, and, uh, you know, my channel was at the beginning of its dark age. A dark

02:14age that went on from 2013 to, like, 2017. Apparently by 2013, SMG4 was, uh, starting to

02:21get more popular, so, you know, I debuted him as a character in my videos, you know, Luigi's

02:27big moment, and, uh, I even tried to copy his style in a way, but, but I couldn't because

02:33his style just doesn't work for me. I wouldn't be able to make a good SMG4 video. Not like

02:39the type of video someone like OnyxKing67 would make today. His, his stuff is a lot like classic

02:45SMG4. And the truth is, as SMG4 got more popular, I was struggling. My, my channel was struggling,

02:52my content was struggling. And the worst part? Everybody started comparing me to SMG4. Like,

02:58in 2015, out of desperation, I uploaded a video that ended up being the most hated video on

03:05my channel. It was so hated that I ended up having to make an apology video about it.

03:11An apology video that SMG4 himself commented on. At the time, I was grateful that he was

03:17giving me the encouragement I needed to put myself back together. And thankfully, a few

03:22years later, I did. But overall, it was still a very dark time for me and my channel. It

03:28got so bad that I, I tried to be like him and, and, and, and that made it even worse for me

03:33because my content, my YouTube channel, it, it all started to suffer because of that. People

03:38were, were posting hurtful comments that, saying that SMG4 was, was better than me. I mean,

03:44I can forgive those people if they've learned their lessons since then, but I will never forget.

03:50I will never forget! It was a very dark time for me and for my channel. And the trauma was so deep,

03:58I just didn't want to talk about SMG4 on my channel anymore. And when he came out with these collabs,

04:04I only joined because, the truth is, I only did it because I, I thought it would help make my channel

04:09more popular. But I entered, uh, two of his collaborations and both of my submissions for

04:14those were turned down. One of them was late. And, uh, the first time, you know what I did then,

04:19right? I could have gotten away with it, but I didn't. I publicly apologized for it. I didn't think

04:26so many people would see that apology, but what's done is done. Interestingly enough, on the day that

04:31that apology video went up, my family, uh, went out to church to get my baby cousin baptized. It just felt

04:38like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders that day. And the second time I made an entry for

04:45one of his collaborations and mine wasn't featured, I wasn't going to personally attack him again. So

04:51instead, all I did then was I unsubscribed from his channel and that was that. I haven't resubscribed

04:58since. And as of this video, I still haven't! SMG4, I'm grateful I was one of your inspirations,

05:06but the way you got popular, it's, it's, it's had some very indirect but very traumatic effects

05:12on me. And, uh, I don't want to blame you as a, as a human being, but, you know, on some level,

05:19I just can't help it, you know? When I realized referencing SMG4 in my videos wasn't going to

05:24help my channel, I just, I just stopped using SMG4 in my videos. And then in the later years,

05:30I started hearing bad things about SMG4's content and you want to know the truth? I was glad. I was

05:38glad to hear that SMG4's content was doing badly. And the reason for that is all the trauma I suffered

05:45because of him over the years. Because the truth is, SMG4's popularity has always made me feel like

05:51a failure. I thought I could get popular if he can as an SM64 machinimist, but, uh, apparently,

05:58he's doing something that I'm not. And, and that's why. Don't get me wrong, there's a number

06:03of YouTube channels out there that make me feel like a failure. This guy! The truth is, channels

06:09like SMG4, they affect me on such a deep psychological level. They make me feel like a failure. They make

06:15me suffer in a way. And the quality of my content suffers because of that. But in spite of all this,

06:21I try to get by as best as I can. But I always have those days. Those dark days. Those dark

06:28days where I feel overshadowed by a lot of things, including SMG4. And little do I keep

06:34realizing that making my content just to attract more people isn't the way. That I need to do it

06:40because I enjoy it. And I need to be passionate about it. But as you know, stuff keeps happening.

06:47People on the internet are crazy. Eventually, people stopped comparing me to SMG4. But the damage

06:53was done. By that point, I had made it clear that I don't want to talk about SMG4 on my channel

06:59or on my Discord server anymore. Not unless it was important like this.

07:05But yeah, just because I wasn't competing with SMG4 anymore doesn't mean that the stuff he was

07:12responsible for didn't affect me in the future. Like in 2023, we got this. Seeing this take the

07:22internet by storm. Seeing this get really popular made me so angry just because it was connected

07:32to SMG4. I didn't want to talk to anyone about this. I didn't want people to think that I was

07:40jealous about it or anything. I'm not. I'm happy for them. But I want to say that it's very

07:46overrated. But the truth is, because of all the trauma, all the psychological trauma I've suffered

07:53because of SMG4 over the years, seeing this makes me angry. It makes me so angry. It reminds me of all

08:03the pain that I've been through during the dark ages of my channel. All of that suffering. It

08:09comes back every time I see this. It affected me so much that that on my worst days, I actually

08:17okay, I'm going to calm down a second. I wanted to be as far away from this as much as possible.

08:24But on some days, it would just come up and that would ruin my entire day. I've imagined yelling and

08:32screaming in the case that I would ever see someone with merchandise of it. Like if this

08:36showed up in real life to me in any way, I imagined yelling, screaming. I've imagined getting into

08:42fights. I've imagined getting violent. I've imagined seeing this in many ways, shapes, and forms. Like

08:48seeing merchandise of it or hearing someone talk about it or seeing someone watch it that would

08:54immediately cause me to flip out and lose it. In my mind, I would start yelling, screaming, getting violent,

08:59attacking people. Then I'd imagine they'd yell at me. And in the worst cases, I end up getting arrested.

09:04I end up paying for my crimes. I end up in a mental hospital. I tell them it was just because of this

09:10thing that made me angry. I imagined getting locked up in prison or a mental facility in a straitjacket,

09:16that sort of thing, just because of this thing that I said was connected to SMG4 that makes me so

09:21angry. On some level, I just want to blame him, but I know I can't and I don't. That is how

09:27psychologically traumatized I am about this whole SMG4 thing. If I felt this way about something

09:32like Disney and Mickey Mouse, I actually would be in a horrible place given how much that's

09:36everywhere these days. I just can't enjoy this thing that my SMG4 that makes me so angry just

09:42because it's connected to him. Just because of him. That's literally the only reason I can't stand

09:47to see this thing. That's literally the only reason. If not for him, maybe I would enjoy it.

09:52On my darkest days, I've imagined making a video where I rage bait people and say a lot

09:59of bad things about this. Anything they have to say in the comments. Anything they have to say

10:05in the comments. Oh my god. I would take pleasure in rage baiting them. I would take pleasure in

10:15anything they have to say. All the rage and stuff. I would take so much pleasure. I would take so much

10:25pleasure in rage baiting them. Knowing they can't touch me. I would know that they have. Basically,

10:34I'd have the mindset of a rage baiting troll. And the truth is, maybe I would enjoy it, but in the

10:41long run, it would just hurt me. It would hurt my channel and it would not do me any good. So that's

10:47why I want to spill my guts about it right now. And there actually was one instance where I saw

10:55this in real life. During Halloween of 2024, I was walking through the mall and I saw this as one of

11:02the costumes and a display in one of the stores. Look familiar? I could have gotten mad. I could have

11:08screamed. I could have cussed. But somehow I didn't. But I did take a picture and I did vent my frustrations

11:15to my friend who was walking with the mall with me that day. Somehow they got the idea that SMG4

11:20was a total asshole because of it. But just because they thought that doesn't mean I do.

11:25These feelings that I've shared with you, these feelings that I have towards SMG4,

11:30they're complicated. I know it's not fair to compare this to SMG4. It's just hard not to after

11:38everything SMG4 has put me through. It's all made me feel like a total failure over the years on my

11:45darkest days. And I've just had to work hard to recover as best as I could. And I did. And finally,

11:51here I am now with this video. And I'm spilling my guts to you guys because you guys need to know

11:57the truth. There's one other thing I want to share. One time during a Q&A, someone asked me if I had

12:05watched Has Been Hotel. I didn't know how to respond to that question at the time, but I can respond now.

12:11The truth is, I love Has Been Hotel. I love these two shows. It is quality content for adults. I love

12:20to watch these shows at night, in bed, on my smartphone. It is very good stuff, especially with

12:28so many crappy adult cartoons out there. Not these. I guess you can say any resentment I've ever felt

12:35towards SMG4 or, to a much lesser extent, Vivzypop and any other popular YouTuber out there. It never

12:43occurred to me exactly what it took for them to get there. But it's not something I should focus on.

12:48Like, I shouldn't try to get popular. I should just enjoy what I'm doing, right? And don't get me wrong,

12:54I will continue to have those dark days where I feel like giving up. But for the most part,

12:59I'm going to try my very best to get by and cope as best as I can. I don't want to have a problem

13:05over anything I've said in this video. Like, this video is supposed to be about SMG4 quitting,

13:10and I've made it all about myself. And that makes me feel selfish. But I do hope you understand

13:15everything I've talked about. And the truth is, I don't want to ruin my life over any of it. And I

13:20don't want anyone getting the wrong idea either. I respect SMG4 and wish him the best of luck with his

13:25endeavors. And all those bad thoughts I've talked about, they're just things I wanted to get off

13:30my chest. So please don't take any of it seriously. But if you want to talk about any of it with me,

13:36please post a comment below. Even after all is said and done, I don't know if I'll ever be able to

13:42enjoy the amazing digital circus. But now that I've opened up in a few years, who knows? I figured

13:48SMG4 quitting his channel was a good time for me to share all this with you. And yeah, we're all

13:53gonna have a lot of bad days. We're all gonna have those dark thoughts. We're all gonna have

13:58those bad reactions. Things sure do happen. The important thing is to know the difference.

14:04Like, to know exactly how to deal with it, and how to react to it, and not to make such

14:11impulsive decisions. I thought about making a rage bait video about TADC, but that's not

14:17gonna happen now, thank god. Now that I've resolved the matter with you guys, now that I've told you

14:22guys about it, I think, uh, everything will go peacefully from here on out. I will miss SMG4 when

14:29he's gone. I will miss him when he's busy with glitch productions and everything he's doing, but

14:35I'm not gonna miss any of the bad stuff. Like I said, I'm still gonna have a lot of bad days, and I'm

14:40gonna have to deal with digital circus being out there as it is. Along with has-been hotel, hell of a boss,

14:45and all that other stuff that makes me crazy. We all have demons in our lives. We all have

14:51things we struggle with, and the way we deal with these things, the-the-the-the way we choose to

14:57resolve them in the end, that's the important part. And sharing all of this with you guys, it's-it's

15:04made me feel a-a lot better. Like, moving forward, I'm-I'm going to do a better job coping with-with

15:10everything around me, and whatever problems I have, I'll-I'll-I'll try to resolve them as best as

15:15I can, whether it's with you guys, or with anyone. I want to thank SMG4 for the good times we had,

15:23and I'm grateful to be one of his inspirations. And as much as I love my YouTube channel and the

15:28work I've put into it, my YouTube channel has always been more of a-a hobby to me. Like, I didn't drop

15:35out of college just for my YouTube channel. I-I finished college. I finished college, and I got

15:41my degree. So really, my YouTube channel is more of a side hustle while I do what I want to do that

15:46relates to my field in real life. And that's why I'm not as popular as SMG4 today. But with all things

15:52considered, I shouldn't compare myself to SMG4 anymore. I should just do my own thing with the

16:00people I love, and those who follow will follow. I'm going to do my best not to let SMG4 bother me

16:06anymore. I'm going to do my best to use all of this, and use it to grow as a person, and to do

16:13better from here on out. Making this video and admitting all of these feelings I had was the

16:19first step towards that. Now you can share all your thoughts, anything you have to say in the

16:24comments below. So, you know, leave a like, subscribe, and uh, yeah, like I said, comment. And uh, oh, and I

16:32have a Patreon page now, so you can either become a YouTube member, or you can join me on Patreon.

16:38But if not, and you just want to leave a like, subscribe, and comment, that's fine too. It's up to

16:44you. Thank you for watching this video, and uh, yeah, thank you SMG4 for everything, and uh, good luck

16:53with your company, and I'll see you guys on the next one. Goodbye!

17:02Bye!

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