I was interviewed about this so I thought I'd provide a reaction to the part I could speak about. Watch Joon's full video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aq2moql82LLSXXU.html

Craig be like "Do not cite the Deep KZfaq Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written!"

I laughed my ass off when you said theater kids are weird 🤣🤣🤣 it’s SO true

A ScrewAttack retrospective would be amazing! Maybe reunite some of the old gang?

I watched whole video…. I went from being anti-Jared to Projared. As in…. Man that guy had to eat a lot of shit. And none of it had to do with screw attack

Craig, Tom and James Rolfe walked so your favorite CC could run

I was actually just watching Jake's video and you came on and I smiled Big Time hearing this is stuttering Craig with screw attacks top 10 and it brought me back to days when me and my buddy used to watch you and Steven and Larson for laughs. Thanks for the yes of memories

I really wanted to work for you back in the day. Screwattack seemed so fun. Jose, Corey, Ben, Chad, Nick, and of course, the Man himself: Craig. I then realized I don't know how to edit and I don't live in Texas lol. But, man. I respect what you built. The memories I have...

So good to still see you uploading stuff, screwattack brought so many good memories back in the day. Wish the internet could be like how it was back then still

I feel incredibly sorry for Jared because even thou he did some questionable things (like the Sailor Moon nudes. I know, nothing was illegal, but it’s still weird) he still always seemed like just one of the nicest and hardest working people on KZfaq. And even thou the 2019 debacle was devastating to him, he was a Martyr of some sorts for other KZfaqrs. Specifically because of how Heidi twisted things against him and all, Jared is the first one to show that even thou it seemed like all the evidence is against you, that the rule of „innocent until proven guilty“ should stick to the end. Like when Pyrocinical got in a debacle too, people immediately thought: „we‘ll wait before judging because it could happen like it did with ProJared“

*Ad plays on the video Craig's watching* "ANOTHER AD? REALLY??" Ad on the actual video LOVE the timing lol

I just looked you up after seeing the ProJared video. I used to loved Screwattack back in the day, the content was freakin' awesome.

I hit like as soon as Craig said theatre kids are fucking weird. Truth!

When Jared showed up for the last time, I took that particular episode of Hard News as just a normal episode, as if everything was part of a bit or something. Then again, the departure didn't matter much to me because at the time, I literally just discovered the existence of ScrewAttack: everything and everyone was new to me.

Watching Craig’s reactions and listening to his comments to Jareds final episode of hard news in particular is so weird to watch back now with all the context of what’s happened years down the line.

Theater kids are the ones that will start randomly singing or doing other cringey shit in public. Which isn't to say I haven't enjoyed Jared's content but theater kids being weird is as factual as water being wet.

I never knew really about your relationship and history with Jared so this is an interesting perspective

Mind you it is not 3 in 10 minutes, but the timing of an ad popping right after your statement was a bit of a chef's kiss.

The time you reset the SNES on Jared during the SA livestream hits different now haha

Ended up watching the full documentary and gotta say, I'll look at Jared a whole different light

Theater kids being weird is well known every where. Between my friends during collage we all avoided dating or befriending any theater students and I'm from canada

5:51, thank you Craig! Glad to know there are still people with common sense on the Internet.

8:37 I found the AVGN through ScrewAttack, and I found ScrewAttack through those EPIC top 10s. I was always more of a SA viewer. I wanted to be a part of the SA family, you guys seemed so cool. Plus I had a major crush on Corey. I saw more Sidescrollers episodes then I saw AVGN stuff. Every time I read a Florida man story I think of Sidescrollers. To this day I still don't know why or how you guys had a can of Skyline Chili in the background on Sidescrollers, but it was awesome to see! Cincinnati never gets any love. I was stoked on the Sidescrollers reunion with buff Brian's transformation. Good times!

It was intriguing when you talked about what went on behind the scenes. I had no idea there was tension with You/The Team and projared.

Craig, I love your videos. I loved you guys back in the ScrewAttack days, and I love your KZfaq commentary today. I feel like I grew up with you. We're around the same age, grew up with the same games, and I really loved your game news/reviews/memories from back in the mid-00's. Thank you for being who you are, and being honest with your fans that have followed you over the years. I really appreciate all you have done for the past decade and a half.

Yo. Seriously. I loved screw attack growing up. Been in school for a good chunk of my life and you guys had a huge part in it in keeping me sane! Thanks for all the laughs and memories. I miss side scrollers podcast

I was thinking the same thing about theater kids, then Craig said it 😂😂😂

I met Jared in 2016 at Kitsune Kon. I brought my SGC and Too Hot for the internet dvds for him to sign. The first thing he said was, wow, you actually bought this.

Very interesting stuff. Lots of things I didn't know about Jared. Thank you for sharing.

It was a standard r/relationship story where one spouse wants to open the marriage the other spouse agrees after begging and finds a new love so the initial spouse gets angry and wants to close the marriage. It ended up breaking up 2 marriages. They all did it to each other. False accusations, lies, and lots of defamation of "character" happened. The internet joined with the more attractive spouse and dogpiled on the other until they released a video proving the other spouse wrong.

This was a very interesting watch and Im curious actually. Does anybody know if it was just Jared that didnt mesh well with everyone else or say also Lauren not meshing with the others since they were a clique as Craig said? Its always really interesting to hear behind the scenes stuff like this. Appreciate it Craig

25:30 He did in fact show up for Mario Party After Dark upon leaving Screwattack. Due to the wiping of Twitch archives and much of Screwattack's timeline being in limbo I don't recall which game was his last as part of the company, but I know for a fact Mario Party 8 was after his departure due to them playing it on a Wii U

On the topic of the "only angry retro rants" ScrewAttack content was definitely positive and most of the game related stuff was a preservation of history and appreciation for the games represented. Look at the video game vault, a series devoted to shedding light on classics that were and are still great.

I enjoyed this. Always was curious how things went down

This was a great watch.

yeah that's insane to insinuate that AVGN was taken advantage of. No one could have known he would be a near household name for youtube

I would definitely watch a Screwattack documentary

Lol I should've known Jared was a theater kid xD

5:30 I laughed my ass off at this skit, how can you even watch that with a straight face

Wow. Watching that video in full, it's crazy how wrong about Jared the internet was.

Hell, this takes me back. I spent many a happy evening in middle school watching Screwattack top ten videos. Weird to think that that was a decade and a half ago now. I remember discovering Jared because of a reference to Nametags made in Life in a Game. Always wondered what became of everyone else at Screwattack.

I miss SideScrollers so much. Obviously I also miss those days very much lol… Anyways Craig thanks for watching this with us. Very cool. 🙏🏼💙

I came across this looking for old Destin videos because the phrase "I'm Destin, and this is hard news" kept popping up in my head. I remember Jared becoming the host because it was a revolving door after Destin left and Jared was the crowd favorite. that does speak to his charisma, but I also remember his own review videos and thinking there was no way he could work for another company while trying to do his own thing

Craig: "going crazy with the ads!" Me: *sees an ad immediately after*👁️👄👁️

"Is that something you can't say on the internet now?" Craig, expression of sexual desire has been outlawed for a few years now! Heck, even being sexy has been outlawed in some parts, remember that Street Fighter tournament that banned R. Mika's regular costume for being too "expressive"? I agree that people should be re-evaluating themselves, but I think they're too busy feeling like "the good guys" to ever bother thinking about the actual implications of their notions and actions. ;

Man, Gametrailers and Electric Playground were the shit back in the day lol. Kept me sane too!

I'm pretty sure I watched that last Hard News episode. I still think it's funny how he started the meme "I brought the receipts".

Honestly I'm disappointed that I didn't take any kind of drama or theater class back in middle school or high School but years into college I did try a theater class and yes I am in full agreement with you. Theater kids are weird. Now most of them are not in fact most of them were pretty normal but there was one kid in particular in that class who had this look about him where he just thought he was better than everybody else and thought he was Superior and acted Superior and I'll be honest the way he acted he was pretty skilled at it, but that is one hell of obnoxious personality even for somebody taking a theater class in a junior college or community college.

I really like the content Jared creates, and I believe the 2019 debacle was completely ridiculous, and Jared’s wife taking advantage of a blatantly false accusation made against him to air out their personal laundry online and cause a rampage against him. But the take here and the inside baseball about the firing from ScrewAttack and your relationship was really interesting stuff!

Everytime craig says “another add” ironically it plays another add on his video too lol

That's why innocent until proven guilty must be held in high regard.

As a former theater kid, I can confirm that the theater kid stereotype is 100% correct

I have a question. If he ever reached out, would you talk to him and catch up? I'm not saying you have to be friends or work together, but would you spend time with him if he asked?

I took theater for a few years and I can confirm theater kids are weird as hell

Surprised Craig doesn't have KZfaq Premium, ad free KZfaq is so convenient! I hate it costs so much but I definitely spend the time to watch these kinds of videos a breeze

14:11 I enjoy that talk and line: “Negativity breathes on the internet.” Because that’s what started all this. Nostalgia Critic, AVGN, even those like Noah Antwiler (Spoony) loved ranting about stuff they despise. And it follows with kids today as of today they bash shows THEY despise like Teen Titans Go, Uncle Grandpa and Unikitty. You even said that on that kid who was saying this on “Are video games no longer fun.” Kids who are at the age where they have to discover they’re not kids anymore and that those shows don’t appeal to them anymore. Negativity is indeed a major problem on the internet.

Hey Craig, whatever happened to Captain S and that crew? Do you know anything about them after Screwattack?

10:20 I think this question was asking “did you mean $35,000 over the course of 10 years?” because your original statement could’ve been interpreted that way (however unlikely that sounds).

Didn’t Jared technically come back for the 9th Mario Party after dark? I believe Brutal Moose was the guest that night but I’m not too sure if it was before or after. Either way great vid Craig, cool to see some insight after so much time

I miss the old days of the internet remember watch you Ben Jose Chad Nick and Tom y’all were a big part of my time online during your middle school into high school years miss you all hope you’re good gotta watch the old Metal gear Ben SGC and top 10s and vaults I got on dvd from the site back in the day

I'd be interested in your take with how Cinemassacre is doing these days? And where do you think James is mentally from where you two split??

Hahaha it was funny to see lots of ads on the video Craig was watching and almost immediately see one on Craigs own video.

5:53 There actually is someone, one of your old employees actually, that would have taken offense to ProJared's joke there. Jonathan Mann. He would re-evaluate himself and within 1 second say something like "Nope! Jared was in the wrong for making that joke and you're in the wrong for thinking his joke was funny." It's kinda the reason why I don't like or have any respect for Jonathan Mann.

Genuine question: if that was the last time Craig and Jared had spoken to each other, why did Jared come back for the last 2 episodes of Mario Party After Dark and why was he invited back to SGC?

Haha as soon as Craig said another ad I got 2 haha. But I try not to skip them

I’d say until the early 2010’s, there wasn’t a lot of money to make from online content creation.

As a theatre kid, how dare you sir! That aside, it's a tough occupation the one of KZfaqr. I appreciate you staying true though Mr. Texas. I wouldn't mind working with you in the future.

Iv been listening to the sidescrollers podcasts since razorfist guest started, I work at a game store and Projared stopped in here and we whispered to our selves noting if that was him. I'm not fromillar with his videos, but now I'm going down the rabbit hole. Interesting he has history with side scrollers. Didn't know you had a lot of history online.

I swear any time stuttering Craig mentions an ad one comes on in his video

Oh wow I remember Lauren when you mentioned her. Was her departure on good terms? I know she’s a big name in Funimation now.

I really loved the screwattck retrospectives.

Second comment and I'd like to say that wow I had no idea that Pro Jared was so difficult to work with and actually I didn't even know he was on screw attack. I remember seeing hard news but I never saw it when he was there. I saw it hosted by somebody else. I don't remember his name he was blonde long hair. If I remember correctly I heard that he actually voiced boomstick on the death battle series.

He did too show up for Mario Party after dark, he played at SGC 2013

Craig, man. watching this was such a strange experience. I watched you guys in the years leading up to Jared's termination and hell, I was friends with Jared on the said social media you mentioned (it was a personal Facebook account that he'd use to add fans and g1s) he'd just post some of the most petty things on there. I remember he had to review Star Wars The Old Republic and he was constantly posting status updates about how the worst thing he's ever had to analyze in his life. And yeah, he was doing those game reviews around then, I remember even thinking his content was something else. And I won't lie, Jared's work on his own channel and hosting Hard News did have an affect on me when I was a teenager. Probably because of thinking I did have relatability to him back then. With yup, being a theatre kid lmao. I even made a spoof of Hard News that I submitted to you back when I was a stupid kid hoping I could host a news show. It was simpler times back then for me. My channel URL is the only part of my old videos I have left I think. Jared did a few times though, come across as a bit of a dick. I remember I got to speak to him on this show he had called "Pro Live" or something like that. He just done a radio podcast discussion with some of his viewers. A lot of the old g1s joined, myself (InterestingCathal), Revulsive and I think(?) Woodyman but I could be wrong on that. And I remember one time he just got a bit narky at a guy for mentioning his work on ScrewAttack. And I remember that just upsetting me so much at the time, because I was a dumb 15 year old thinking that Jared's comedic timing on Hard News was just perfect and that he had such a magnificent wit about him on-camera and was really hoping that maybe one day, I could impress him with my news show if I got somewhere with it (it was basically a non-gaming Hard News). But the moment he done that I just felt like all that work I done to try and express my shitty video just went down the toilet. I felt like I saw a bit of his off-camera side come out that time. And hell before that I even exchanged fan mail with him before all of the sudden he got passive-aggressive at me when he found out I do performance. I honestly found it so odd back then and was really questioning if I done something to offend him. I do want to point out though that I know Jared never meant to upset me, but I was young and when you're raised in doing theatre you have a tendency to take things a little too personally. Jared's a strange guy, I wouldn't say he's bad but I do think he's a bit self-centered and when he's in a bad mood he can only be content when everyone else around him is also in a bad mood. I kinda fell off his KZfaq career around 2014 or so since I was finding his videos were getting a little too on the trying to hard to be funny side, but I stuck with you guys until Full Screen done an execution. Glad to see that Jared managed to overcome the drama and seems to be doing well enough on KZfaq now though. Anyway thanks for this trip back to memory lane was absolutely surreal! Really, really hope that Joon makes a ScrewAttack video.

Dude, so many years and branching stories... for some reason I feel a bit sad. Anyways. Love ya Craig, definitely you are a part my youth

I've gotta say, he's hard to love.... but he's even harder to hate.

Jared is definitely a weird guy and got involved with some stuff he shouldn't have, but he makes some great content and is genuinely creative. I was actually happy to see him leave screwattack and start up his own channel, even if it wasn't really his choice. after tom and liz left screwattack, I felt it wasn't really the same and screwattack being purchased really put the final nail in the coffin as even craig had to leave. I remember listening to sidescrollers once about 15 years ago, you and tom were complaining about how the gametrailer people were just soulless corporation jerks and you guys had a hard time getting along with them because it wasn't just a job to you, but over the years thats what screwattack became sadly. Im glad that Jared is still around because he still fits the theme of the old site and I could just as easily see myself watching the new ProJared episode on the front page next to Video game vault or Captain S. Im glad you're back too Craig, I just recently found this channel and all those old memories are flooding back. I hope to see you making more content like the old days where you were free to do and say whatever you wanted to without fear of breaking a contract or something. I missed all you guys like crazy, Tom, Liz, Ben, Mickey and Jose. If you can ever manage to get a chance to collab with any of those guys, please do.

“Was that 35K a year?” You could tell it was a kid asking that who thinks that’s a lot of money lol

I would love to see a Screw Attack documentary!

Jared come across as a grumpy old man who feels he's made for better things. I can relate. 😁

I mean, he clapped back, so whatever bad thing it was (I legit forget) is just gone

Sure would love to see some old sidescrollers videos! ;) I miss things like the swear jar, Monty's and 40s, Craig rants about dumb people in news! XD

I was a theater kid, and yes lol

The expose video could've been so much shorter, there was a lot of stuff in there that didn't need to be.

Still think that was one of the major turning points and biggest failures of Craig. What was going on on the insides is one thing, from the outside Craig ripped out part of ScrewAttack's soul and discarded it.

It's so interesting to see this side of the story.

If he does a video on Screw Attack, are you prepared to be honest about the many accusations and accounts of fucking people over? The company was basically built on stabbing a friend in the back, so it would be interesting to see how that gets presented.

It sucks to admit I didn’t work nor had any close contact with Jared I was a fan of him at some point but that’s all. It’s hard to digest the idea of a personality that you thought was one way ends up being different. It’s the fault of the viewer for generating this bonds when the creator is just making content. Truth always comes out specially with the internet.

Btw I had close to as many ads during this video as you did while watching the video 😂

Thanks! I really enjoyed this, I know that in reality it is none of our business but I always wonder about what really whent down with Jarrad departure from Screwattack, I was one that fallowed him and liked his presentation, after the "scandal" I stopped but when he came out with his response video I realized he probably wasn't doing what he was accused of but he was Doing stuff that opened him up to that accusation and I just wasn't cool with that

Don't know if you noticed, but there was a small typo in your comment lol.

Whenever the ProJared video had ads, this Craig reaction video would play an ad. That’s some inception shit going on here. 😅

16:50 lol I got ads at the same time here

I think right after the “goodbye” episode on hard news he tweeted that his leave from SA was “not exactly mutual”, which made his goodbye video look like you were trying to put down the fire by virtue signaling, and him being the victim.

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if all the false accusations were made by people who were angry with his Sonic Adventure 2 review...IT WAS ONE FUCKING GAME PEOPLE!....That is the world we live in these days

my man, im a theatre kid and i wholeheartedly agree, theres a reason i dont pursue that anymore, im 36 btw...obviously this was years ago xD

$35,000 a year is still more than I have ever made. 😂

I'm not a fan of this video I didn't know much about the Projared split I think a lot was left unsaid I think it was better that way to stay professional . Another thing that came up was Craig said he never did Mario Party After Dark again. That's untrue Projared did two Mario Party After Darks after leaving Screwattack and a few at SGC As for the office not liking Jared I always thought his relationship with Nick was weird. I could always sense the tension and I would say that was more on Jared's side than Nick's. Nick always seemed to try and be cool with Jared but Jared always seemed like dick to Nick. Jared always looked like he was cool with Sam and Chad though. I don't know what the Chad relationship is like now but before Chad did a a whole stream with Jared after Jared left SA. I think Jared and Sam are still cool to this day. But overall after Jared left he did become as a big of name as Screwattack solo. I do think there is some bitterness and even envy. I also think there are issues because of he left and when he was posting on social media about the company. There might even be some issues based on his review on the AVGN game that Screwattack published. I think it would be better to same them on the same sides rather than opposites but I don't think this video would help that relationship.

Retrospective please!

I remember that time when a lot of this stuff happened. Especially when jared left screwattack. I've continued to follow various things since then. I'm sure everyone has their side of the story. But one of the things i've learned thru wisdom is, to assume people innocent first. Till all the facts come out. I don't like how at times lately, people are doing the opposite. Especially when that happens, it can ruin people who are proven to be innocent. After all the facts are out in the open.