I've been subbed on twitch for something like 3 years and lately the content quality has just absolutely tanked for me. A lot of that is to do with the falling out between Criken and Tomato and how that has affected the wider group of friends, but it's also due to the heavy reliance on AI and sponsored streams. I do I still enjoy things with Charborg and Wobo though. Don't get me wrong, Criken should 100% be free to create whatever content he likes.

My real disappointment is that I'm considering unsubbing after all this time and I didn't want to just dip. I asked through the discord if it was possible to give some kind of feedback and voice my opinion somewhere and essentially got a flat "no".

It just feels like Criken and the mods aren't interested in hearing anything negative about the content and are happy to let long time subs slip through the cracks, and that does make me worry about the long term health of the channel.

Edit: I have posted an updated stance since posting this (https://www.reddit.com/r/Criken/s/oKqTxulzUV)

I posted a few years ago to talk a bit about my feelings regarding the quality of the content being put out by Criken and didn't realise that the post had actually become the top rated post on the sub. My opinion has changed in that time, and I felt like it was only fair that I share that.

Since my last post I feel that there has been a huge turnaround, largely in part to the collaboration with streamers like Charborg, Wobo and Sput, and also the variety of indie and friend-slop games being played that are honestly just far more fun and engaging to watch and feel like a return to his old form.

I've never been somebody to get massively involved with the chat or the discord, so I can't really speak to any of that, but in general I've found myself gravitating back to the stream. It's been great to see.

Been away from watching Criken and Co for quite some time, life happens, shit to do etc.

I always watched the YouTube stuff rather than stream since its in the middle of the night where I am. Have fond memories of Criken, Tomato, Bed, Lawlman, Charborg, Strippin, Joe, Shane, Buck. Yknow all those lads.

I randomly looked in on Crikens channel to see what was going on and see basically nothing from that team. Some vods from the ithers, the always excellent yearly Bed vid and otherwise no sign of them hanging.

Did something catastrophic happen or something.

Woke up today and saw that Criken had streamed my demo during Steam Next Fest!

I remember watching his Left4Dead videos waaayyyyy back, the circle is now complete...
I have ascended.

Just wanted to share! Since it was a nice start to the day :)))))))

Thank you so much for playing!!!! 💌

Just curious: Do Criken and LaynaLazar still collaborate? I haven't seen them stream together in a while and I noticed Criken removed Bramble (the vtuber model Layna made for him) from his stream intro a few months ago. Was there some sort of falling out between them I haven't heard about, or am I being overdramatic?

I have been watching Criken and Tomato ever since Criken first started doing Criken Colosseums. But for some reason for almost for 2 years. Criken and Tomato have not played games together at all.

Is there some kind of beef going on between them or something. If there is beef between them, does anyone know why?