WAIT A MINUTE.
You have a reputations special interest.
this was the turning point?
I thought you were like
self-aware about this
It wasn't an insult. I was dead serious. You like keeping track of personalities and stuff.
sorry that made you so angry.
and if I guess to face the truth, I've lost sight of it a bit. He leeched off me somewhat. And I him. Effectively we leeched off each other. Notably, I basically advertised his channel back when he was making mostly-coherent content, and people forgot who built 98% of BlockoMYST since I made the thread (whereas I evented it), and I would be lying to say I wasn't excited to have the former A.T.C. helping build what was initially a solo project.
We're aware of it. We even talked about it. But it was so long ago that I forgot about it. So yeah, we "benefit" from each others' friendship. We're totally cynical leeches.
And we're good.
And to answer your conundrum about his continuing popularity,
"good" videos are extremely subjective. People do like the random junk Squideey often puts out, or they wouldn't... you know... act like they like it.