(note: this might be old but I had other things to do so I'm just getting this up here while it's still relevant)
It seems that ol' Angry Joe getting different lately and that it's not sitting well with the community at large: namely him announcing his 2 month vacation from making game reviews and topping it off by disabling comments and ratings after the uproar he received. What led to the backlash was his vacation only applying to game reviews and not his other videos, which technically makes this kind of outrage understandable.
And as you can tell by my way of viewing it, I'm somewhat more understanding of Angry Joe than the community given that making reviews in general takes a while, especially with him having to do other responsibilities in life regarding health and chores just as I have to. However, I do not think disabling comments and ratings just after announcing this is a smart idea and is actually kind of shady; maybe it's because of the whole experience of seeing how a certain rad fem "critic" deal with criticism but I know AJ should know better. All he might end up doing is fanning the flames so the best thing he should do is well not. But then again he did admit on his response video that he would never do this kind of shutting down comments and ratings thing like 3 years ago and now he went back on it; talk about hypocrisy.
In regards to his vacation though, I'm going to do something after seeing this: I'm going to give Joe the benefit of the doubt by just waiting for his game reviews to come out. Why? because well as I have said, I understand the need to do other responsibilities in life and trying to get freshened up outside of making content (heck I have plenty of material to make after making this blog post) and in that sense I think he's right to do so. I know it may not be a popular opinion to espouse in light of this but my gripes with his handling of the backlash (and him claiming that the "haters" are after him and being subbed to those Young Turk jerks), but keeping calm and not do anything rash is the best way to handle it; though to be fair he should apply the vacation to his other reviews of which I don't care for as much as his game ones, that would help.
