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Originally Posted by El Kabong
Watched all of this and agree with almost all of it. I never speed ran anything but I used to watch it a lot and in the last 2 years or so it just seems like it's been slowly dying. The video nailed it because for me it's been a mix of favourite runners quitting, GDQ having no soul and a general lack of quality content.
Without watching any of it (yet), if the topic is speedrunning dying - personally, it seemed like there was a small window of time where "omg puncay/siglemic is on TEH URN" was a cool exciting thing, but ultimately only has a limited lifespan before you're like "ok I've spent enough time watching people play Mario 64 and this getting a little boring". Things like GDQ being uninteresting or whatever seemed to flow (again, just for me & my perspective and this wouldn't apply to people that were super into speedrunning) from that point of the novelty wearing off, rather than the latter being a cause of the former.