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place your bets on how he's gonna kill himself, and the odds that it'll be filmed.

>>15618991

Your archives are fucked.

Which tranny was Cosmo again? The one that ran one of the sites?

>>15619009

the extremely ugly one that very fittingly calls itself narcissa

>>15619009

He's famous for being one of the best Zelda speedrunners, then he started chugging down jugs of soy milk, saying it was often his only source of nutrition (not even making this up, I'm a vegetarian but the soy meme is very real don't fall for it) and then he became a tranny

>>15619009

This was the turning point in his life.

>>15619019

JOHN FUCKING NUMBERS

>>15619017

They're all ugly so that's not exactly helpful.

>>15619028

yeah but I think this one is by far the ugliest

>>15619009

I don't know when you started browsing /v/ but Cosmo was a HUGE deal in 2013 and 2014. Twitch was only about two years old and most streamers had under 1,000 views, the front page had people with maybe 2-3k max and it was usually tournaments. Siglemic (not a tranny) and Cosmo suddenly got popular and would easily get 5k views just for starting up, and then anywhere from 10-20k views while they were actually playing the game. GDQ was a new thing and he was the main event.

For a time, they were the biggest names on Twitch, which was when the CNN Business video was made. Then they just got kinda bored with it, even though the speedrunning community kept growing. Sig eventually dropped out completely, still nobody knows who he is as he never put his face on cam. Cosmo started paining his nails and went to Nintendo's smash tournament where he came #2 behind John Numbers. Shortly after that he came out as trans.

Not much else to say except that he was a real asshole and made everyone mad at him, which caused him to loose all his viewers. This included rejecting a sponsorship from Soylent then calling them back, telling them how much of a "spoiled bitch who gets what she wants" he was and then not getting sponsored. It also included him fucking with the speedrunning leaderboards website he owned, until a site independent of him was made. Just recently (again three days ago) did he finally relinquish control over the ones he did own so he could pay rent. It's been a steep downhill ride.

>>15619044

Also the Soylent video:

https://track9.mixtape.moe/jqnovz.mp4

You have to admire how Cosmo has managed to throw away every opportunity given to him. He could have easily been a Pewdiepie size e-celeb if not larger as Amazon would have given him a great partnership through Twitch subs. Coupled with drinking a sip of Soylent every day he could have easily made millions. All of that is in the toilet now because he's gone completely crazy. Remember, he used to have a job back in 2012 doing webdev stuff even if that is a lowly cuck job it's at least somewhat normal. It's not sitting quietly in a stream with 5 other people doing drugs and staring at the wall.

>>15619044

>I don't know when you started browsing /v/ but Cosmo was a HUGE deal in 2013 and 2014.

I've been on /v/, here and cuckchan, for a long time I just had little interest and stuck to the "hide threads you dislike" principle in modern trends like streaming and trannyrunning. Too much attentionwhoring. Sadly now that streaming is the marketing platform of choice since journalism has been revealed as a sham ignoring it is no longer an option.

>Twitch was only about two years old

Twitch is arguably much older if you count justin.tv which showed up in the dark year though granted that wasn't used for vidya really.

>>15619049

>You have to admire how Cosmo has managed to throw away every opportunity given to him.

He is mentally Ill so it's not a huge surprise. At least the odds say he'll off himself in a few years like most of the trannies do when they realize they'll never be the little girl

>>15619054

The majority of those cherry-picked images on the right appear to be Asian men with far too much makeup on. This is not passing as a woman at all.

>>15619056

>in modern trends like streaming and trannyrunning. Too much attentionwhoring. Sadly now that streaming is the marketing platform of choice since journalism has been revealed as a sham ignoring it is no longer an option.

Again this was 2014, not recently. Streaming was still new and it was how speedruns happened. I really doubt you wouldn't have at least heard of Cosmo in passing because even independent of the streaming he had completely broken apart OOT which itself was interesting. Both of them were doing things that weren't done before, and they weren't Lets Plays (which was the thing everyone was hating at the time) because what they were doing required actual skill.

The tranny shit only started in late 2015, early 2016. Cosmo was already going downhill by this point but it wasn't much since people thought he was only taking a break from OOT. When he came out literally everything fell apart in about a year because he was just bitchy, nasty (for the lack of a better word), and wouldn't speedrun.

>>15619073

2014 is recent in my book. Anything post-2010 at the very latest is recent that's the cut off because that's when /new/, the first version of /r9k/ and the after effects of Chanology infected cuckchan with terminal cancer, granted this wasn't fully realized at the time.

>I really doubt you wouldn't have at least heard of Cosmo in passing because even independent of the streaming he had completely broken apart OOT which itself was interesting

I recognized the name and it being some form of trannyrunner or attentionwhore. Why would anyone care beyond that? OOT is much less interesting as a subject to anyone who grew up outside of the USA where Nintendo was significantly less relevant. Obsession with the same handful of big name N64 games that always show up is a solid way to detect shit taste as well but that's another matter.

>they weren't Lets Plays (which was the thing everyone was hating at the time

In hindsight at least the earliest Lets Plays didn't feature the facecam bullshit that we have nowadays. Someone's face is entirely irrelevant to what they're playing.

>>15619081

>>15619073

To make that sentence a bit clearer:

>that's the cut off because that's when /new/ was added, the first version of /r9k/ went to shit and the after effects of Chanology happened

/r9k/ was actually not a bad board for the first few years of its existence.

speedrunning is degenerate

>>15619081

>Why would anyone care beyond that?

Because attentionwhores in this way didn't really exist then? Twitch was much smaller than Youtube anyway, it was a niche site, it wasn't what it was today. Your comment is suspect because 99% of the vitrol at the time was against YT LPers. Trannyrunning wasn't a thing period because speedrunning was still so completely new, and Cosmo hadn't come out as trans until late 2015 anyway. I'm talking about 2013-14, back before all of the stupid shit happened. Before gamergate even.

>In hindsight at least the earliest Lets Plays didn't feature the facecam bullshit that we have nowadays. Someone's face is entirely irrelevant to what they're playing.

True hence why people liked Cosmo, originally he didn't have a facecam only a handcam. The facecam came in much later, early summer 2014 I think. Which is why people were generally accepting of speedrunners at the time, they didn't scream and try to be funny and didn't attentionwhore. Again this was before 2015.

>>15619049

>You have to admire how Cosmo has managed to throw away every opportunity given to him. He could have easily been a Pewdiepie size e-celeb if not larger as Amazon would have given him a great partnership through Twitch subs.

Now that's some delusional shit right there.

>>15619100

He could have done it, keyword being "could". A capable person in this situation would have partnered with Twitch after the Amazon buyout, hiring someone to negotiate their take. As he was (again, was) the biggest thing on Twitch, Amazon would have dropped loads of cash on him for speedruns. His 20k or so viewers would have easily doubled due to ads, and most would sub so he'd be easily making over $80k/mo if not more. Soylent would have sponsored him and he'd be going around the country sipping soy and being /pol/'s posterchild when the soyboy meme popped up.

Of course, none of this happened because he went completely crazy. Instead of committing to a work schedule he decided he wanted to be a woman and not speedrun. He stupidly walked away from it and left piles of money on the table. Now all he does is play splatoon when he's not sleeping on cam or smoking weed (note he's not supposed to do this with his HRT and contributes to his mental instability).

Thread reminder that the best current OoT runner is a Trump voting, Republican card waving, gun slinging American.

>>15619096

It would probably be ok if it was 100% anonymous. Just like with anything once you add identities to it it becomes more about the person than the activity and that almost inevitably leads to things like trannies because it ups the attention they receive.

>>15619098

>Because attentionwhores in this way didn't really exist then?

Attentionwhoring on the internet long pre-dates Twitch it merely gave them an easier way to go about it in real-time. The very reason for anonymous imageboards and textboards before them was to avoid the issues brought about by identities.

>Your comment is suspect because 99% of the vitrol at the time was against YT LPers. Trannyrunning wasn't a thing period because speedrunning

Any form of vidya-related media other than pure gameplay without commentary or facecams is attentionwhoring. Trannyrunning is merely the next evolution of that trend. It also is not limited to video games or even the internet: go watch a modern documentary or history program and the presenter is shoved in your face in exactly the same manner. Want to see the historic object they're talking about? Too fucking late because this shitskin presenter we hired to tick a diversity box is standing in the way.

>I'm talking about 2013-14, back before all of the stupid shit happened. Before gamergate even.

Stupid shit has been happening in cycles much further back than that. And by 2013 cuckchan was long past the point of no return so what people then thought is irrelevant: if they accepted attentionwhoring in even a minor form that's simply proof things were fucked.

>Which is why people were generally accepting of speedrunners at the time, they didn't scream and try to be funny and didn't attentionwhore.

Except they clearly were attentionwhoring because we are now, four years after the fact, able to chart their identities and people were at the time giving them attention. At the very least this means they were forum-user-tier levels of attentionwhoring. Anyone who accepted that sort of behavior is exactly the sort of cancer that ruined 4chan and is directly responsible for speedrunners going tranny for further attention.

Streaming yourself playing a video game in a non-anonymous fashion is inherently attentionwhoring to some degree.

>>15619114

Yikes, you must be fun at parties.

>>15619105

>He could have done it, keyword being "could".

Seems unlikely. Speedrunning is niche as fuck, and even people who are heavily involved in vidya aren't interested beyond maybe tuning in for GDQ. Even if the audience was there (it's not, never has been, and never will be), every speedrunner eventually gets completely burned out and it all falls apart.

>>15619110

>Trump voting

>Republican card waving

Might as well just say he's a zionist kike puppet, anon.

>gun slinging

That's great and all, but it doesn't make up for the previous two.

>>15619114

>Any form of vidya-related media other than pure gameplay without commentary or facecams is attentionwhoring.

That's what speedruns were. Keyword: were. Again I'm talking about 2013 and 2014 here, not everything that came after. At the time it was clearly a cut above anything YT offered, most of which was LPers screaming bad jokes into mics.

Again it was early stuff. Sig was bigger than Cosmo but literally nobody had ever seen a picture of him, hence the "is sig a girl/grill" meme. Cosmo himself only put his face on cam maybe a third of the time, usually it was on the controller. Again this was before he decided to be a tranny and be weird on camera (like taking his shirt off and leaning up against a wall or something).

>>15619124

Speedrunning and Twitch were niche. Both ended up going mainstream, although the latter has proven to be far more successful than the former. Had Cosmo kept at it he'd have stayed on top because Amazon would have simply paid him a bunch of money because he was their #1 talent by the numbers. And see the OP, he was good enough to get two minutes on CNN. Even if he still burnt out, he could have curated the community and be a major (((((organizer))))) behind the scenes.

Didn't happen when he wouldn't update his speedrunning leaderboard site with new features so people made them elsewhere, then he got upset at the rest of the community for hating him because he was trans. Then he told all his viewers who were still with him that he hated them and wanted them to leave. Most did in 2015, 2016, and 2017. He's got about 13 viewers on his current Splatoon stream right now.

>>15619125

>That's what speedruns were. Keyword: were.

Speedrunning was clustered around forums. Forums are always attentionwhoring shitholes. It's the same concept of attentionwhoring only to a lesser degree.

>Again I'm talking about 2013 and 2014 here, not everything that came after.

Vidrelated looks like attentionwhoring to me. Same cancer different degree.

>At the time it was clearly a cut above anything YT offered, most of which was LPers screaming bad jokes into mics.

Being better than shit isn't an achievement and the fact people accepted it just shows how far standards had already fallen.

>>15619129

>Both ended up going mainstream

Speedrunning isn't mainstream.

>Had Cosmo kept at it he'd have stayed on top because Amazon would have simply paid him a bunch of money because he was their #1 talent by the numbers

That's assuming that other far more accessible streamfags wouldn't have rapidly eclipsed him either way, which is a wild fucking assumption.

>he was good enough to get two minutes on CNN

Anon that is beyond meaningless. Have you ever actually sat down and seen the kind of bottom-tier fluff content they use for bumps? Grandmas with pets who became mildly popular facebook memes and shit. Come on now.

>>15619150

GDQ has grown to become one of the most popular streams on twitch. If you want to argue that speedrunning isn't mainstream you might as well double down and say streaming as a whole isn't mainstream.

>>15619102

>he starts off normal

There's literally nothing behind those eyes. We call that autism.

>>15619161

See >>15619124

A single event does not mean speedrunning is mainstream. Here's the actual numbers for everything right now: https://www.twitch.tv/directory

The vast majority of people are watching your typical multiplayer streambait memegames.

>>15619181

Just because a million people aren't watching football at 4am doesn't mean the Superbowl isn't the biggest sports event all year.

>>15619187

Funny that you mentioned that. I was actually going to point out that using extremely short-lived interest in GDQ as a barometer for interest in speedrunning as a whole is like gauging interest in the NFL exclusively by superbowl numbers, but you went ahead and did that for me.

Very nice.

>Wanda disabled comments on my mind wanders

I'm actually upset by this.

>>15619136

>Vidrelated looks like attentionwhoring to me.

Because it's GDQ. Most speedrunners didn't have cams and this can be seen if you look at archived videos, including Cosmo's own. If you think GDQ was everything speedrunning was, then you're wrong. And Cosmo himself was also one of the few individual streamers that could pull early GDQ-like numbers on average. Again this was when few people got 10k views on Twitch, it was rare to do that.

>>15619196

He's completely losing it, and I seriously mean that in the "losing grips with reality" sense instead of the "stupid SJW" sense.

Over the past month he's stopped responding to chatters on his stream, instead responding to them via twitch. This was funny at first as Cosmo usually had under 20 views, but it stopped being funny when he started doing it with everybody and would just lash out with completely nonsensical comments that don't make any sense. "My mind wanders" is pretty tame considering the crap he was spewing last week, which was almost unintelligible.

Just after that happened he started responding to foxdicks on Twitter, which had about the results you'd expect from such a stunt. The thing is Cosmo kept doing it over and over again trying to shame specific foxdicks users, coming off as totally unhinged. Then at some point he ran out of drugs (his own admission on Twitter) and set everything to private while deleting the juicier tweets. I'd say he's at a chris-chan level of insanity, but even when chris goes off about his dreamcast goddess he's speaking coherently. Cosmo often does not.

>>15619197

Low numbers of viewers merely indicates that they were bad at being attentionwhores not that they did not desire the attention. Why else stream something that is inherently better viewed after the fact? Speedrunning does not lend itself to being watched live at all unless the goal is attentionwhoring and circle-jerking instead of watching the gameplay because the live nature adds nothing other than having to view failed attempts.

I'm willing to believe that somewhere way down the line speedrunning was mostly done for the joy of it but the moment it clustered around communities with fixed identities such as forums it was doomed. Everything that grew out of that was inevitable but it was all attentionwhoring of a sort.

>>15619204

*note: by "drugs" I mean weed and THC both of which he admitted to using and the former of which he smoked on cam. He has plenty of HRT pills and pops them like candy. This probably isn't safe either.

>>15619206

>Why else stream something that is inherently better viewed after the fact?

Because there's no chat? The whole thing about Cosmo and Sig was that there was 10,000+ people chatting at once. YT couldn't offer this.

Even if it did become attentionwhoring, my entire point is that it wasn't in 2013 and 2014, BEFORE Cosmo became a tranny. And again Cosmo becoming a tranny harmed the speedrunning community because he fucked up the main speedrunning website because he's incompetent. But that hadn't happened yet, in 2013 and 2014 things were still good.

>this underage faggot who first heard of speedrunning in 2013 trying to give anyone a history lesson complete with meme spacing

Jesus.

>>15619215

>Because there's no chat? The whole thing about Cosmo and Sig was that there was 10,000+ people chatting at once. YT couldn't offer this.

And what does chat add watching a video of someone speedrunning a game? Noting but attentionwhoring and circle-jerking.

>Even if it did become attentionwhoring, my entire point is that it wasn't in 2013 and 2014, BEFORE Cosmo became a tranny.

The very moment it adopted permanent identities if you want to be specific permanent identities used for conversation or communication it became attentionwhoring to some degree. Forums alone meet this requirement and they were used for speedrunning long before 2013. From there things spin-off into a private board on the forum, private IRCs in current era Discords but same difference and whatever other cancer follows from that like GDQ. The fact that many anons in 2013 didn't consider the level of attentionwhoring as it was then to be a problem merely indicates that the cancer had spread.

>Torje

>current World Record holder for Ocarina Any%

>is as faggoty as tranny Wright

Note to self: Never do an OoT speedrun. This shit is a one-way ticket to being a tranny.

>>15619250

Who knew that people running a sub 20 min category that has an unskippable 3 minute cutscene right at the start and where 95% of the runs are going to the trash by default might not particularly be sane

>>15619019

Holy shit, that wasn't even a competition, that was public castration. I knew this match turned Cosmo into a tranny, but I never realised just how badly he got beat. Shit, no wonder this left some scars.

>>15619291

Cosmo is serioulsy fucked up. He will never be alright again. And God forbids he becomes aware of his state because that day will be the last day of his life.

>>15619405

To be fair, most vegetarians aren't bad at all and well-prepared vegetarian food can be alright to decent. It's vegans that are annoying little cucks that eat shitty food.

>>15619114

>Any form of vidya-related media other than pure gameplay without commentary or facecams is attentionwhoring.

Commentary is borderline necessary in highly technical speedruns to let everyone else understand what's going on, so I disagree.

>>15619397

One day in 5+ years, he will be off his jew psychiatric drugs and not high of the weed he begs viewers money to buy, and he will look in the mirror and he will see that age doesn't give a shit about your hormones.

Cause he looks ugly now, but imagine what age will do that face?

>>15619006

Incoherent apology video, failed attention-whoring wrist slash attempt off camera (across the road, not down the street), then a drug overdose weeks later.

>>15619447

Cosmo is such a bro.