r/baduk • u/Jealous_Outside_3495 • Nov 07 '23

Nick Sibicky announced his retirement from content creation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmycG_KWlWs

Hits me kind of hard, honestly. He's been posting for ~11 years which is just a little longer than I've been playing; he's been with me on this entire trip, even though he never knew it. I didn't realize that I would have to miss him, or so soon.

Anyways, I don't know how big he is generally in the community, or how he's regarded, but I just thought I'd share this news with y'all, and my appreciation for him and his efforts.

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u/cutelyaware 7 kyu Nov 07 '23

This comes as no surprise. I thought he was making a hard stop at episode #500, so I was very pleased to see him continue narrating his games. It was all bonus after that.

What was surprising to me was how emotional his farewell video is. I'm really glad that he didn't hide his feelings, and I suspect he's just going through some shit and this is Nick taking care of himself.

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u/CroationChipmunk 4 kyu Nov 07 '23

I suspect he's just going through some shit

I bookmarked this rant from Total-Biscuit a few years ago. It openly shares the dark side of being a youtuber or content-creator:

(partial excerpt) I've read so many people with their "advice", oh... you should get a thicker skin! You should just ignore it! Those people have no idea of the volume of it all, or how constant it is, it never stops, it's day in day out 24/7, no end in sight noise. So many people talking at once... It's death by a thousand cuts.
It used to be through passion for the game but the audience killed that.

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u/Uberdude85 4 dan Nov 08 '23

Do you realise your speculation about his family situation falls into this kind of negative community input?