“It has somehow been expected that you can talk about how much you jerked off to women as a compliment,” Black said. “It’s not a compliment”

I hated that pivot. It was like they went from a show that covered interesting things to a show that covered interesting things with a lot of extra testosterone and bro mentality.

You’re right. I forgot about Jessica Rabbit.

Totally not on her side ^

That’s not true. Early G4 was (by 2000s standards) pretty tame and generally good (if low budget) quality that was way ahead of it’s time. It was not flawless, but absolutely nothing from the era is. It (and by extension it’s audience) did not become a cesspool until the later years when they kept desperately trying…

I think there’s something to the old G4's complicity in this and marketing to these kinds of shitheads. Austin Creed joked about this in the reunion special—G4 wasn’t perfect. Its hosts were of a certain hue, its programming (especially after Comcast made them go full Spike TV) was for a certain demographic. And in…

G4 in general is forever linked in my head to shit like The Man Show, Axe Body Spray and TNN’s rebrand as Spike TV. All kinda launched around the same time. All seemed to be firmly rooted in selling a kind of lad mag dude broness to 14 year boys.

Practically everything trading in that kind of retrograde “it’s man…

I really like this new G4 crew. I’m more of an AotS fan/viewer, and I freely admit I brought some of my old bias (please read my full piece before commenting) back in on launch day, not thinking that any of the girls had the vibe of previous hosts, but then Ovilee May butt bumped her way on the giant NES Tetris…

Right?  People telling on themselves with their whole chests on there.

On this side of the pond we never got G4 but seeing those images and hearing about other stuff while looking at the dates it was on the air yeah it really fits right into that shitty 360/PS3 era where gaming became “relevant” but only for the stereotypical white teenage guys and so many games and media around games…

G4 was basically Maxim magazine but as a cable channel.

Since I became familiar with Frosk on LEC broadcasts, I always admired how unabashed she was at being herself. Surrounded by gamer boys trying to sound likes sports anchors, she stood out....and not because of her sartorial awesomeness....

What the fuck

This goes further back than Chobot. Around the time G4 made its hard turn into Spike TV territory, they doubled down on this sort of stuff just in general.

None of that power on screen came for free, none of it. 

If your gut reaction to this is to get defensive (like many people in the twitter replies) then it might be time to start examining your personal bias. 

One of the more infamous moments in G4’s original run came when Munn suggestively licked a PS3 during a “Megathon” coverage event for the console’s 2006 launch (a lot of things were licked on G4).

Hopefully, at the least, this causes those douchebag viewers to just go away.

Good on her for tearing into a long-growing cancer on the G4 fanbase.

DAFUQ is going on?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!