Before I start, I need to make a point. Yes, I have shared posts where I'm very critical of Mattel and used colorful language to point out their problematic and pernicious aspects. No, I have never been an employee if Mattel, nor have done any freelance work for them. This is very important, because it makes my opinions less biased than those from a former brand manager. His stint at Mattel is a double edged sword. While some people see his views as better, because of insider knowledge, othwrs see his views as the mad ravings of a disgruntled ex-employee. When he posts a video rambling about the possibility of Mattel losing rights to MOTU in the next 2 years, he's creating chaos. When he speculates that Mattel will cancel origins this year because of Masterverse, he's spreading discord. Because of his past position, his opinions hace a bit more weight and far larger audience than a blogger with 20 readers (one of them being Toyguru himself... ohai Scott!)
He's been out of the game for roughly half a decade. Things HAVE CHANGED since he was a player. Right now his speculation and theories are being harmful to the brand he claims to love. Hell, this is the 5th or 6th rewrite of this topic... which I've toned down for the sake of "being less negative" the first draft was called "@#$% you Toyguru", the third was called "Toyguru is MOTU Poison"... which are a bit more shocking for the sake of clicks, but more dishonest. While normally, I ramble in an exaggerated manner, now it's not the time.
Right now we're on an era where misinformation rules. We got sites like wegotthiscovered that makenshit up and spread it for views. It seems that Toyguru is copying this approach and is inadvertently creating the same environment that HE claimed killed Mattycollector. If a blog that reaches 20 people, one of them being Toyguru himself, killed Mattycollector; imagine the damage a YouTube channel from a former Mattel Brand Manager reaching thousands of people COULD DO.
IF he truly cared about MOTU, he would delete all the negative videos from his channel and use his position in the community to spread the love for the brand... but what do I know? I'm just an asshole with a blog.
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