we split from the alpha timeline when we decided to fill youtube with grinding, Gettysburg length video essays on games, instead of the stuff Simone de Rochefort was doing for Polygon before the paymasters sent her to the Explainer Video Mines
there was a brief period of time when polygon was genuinely one of my favourite channels on youtube, and it was specifically because their video team was allowed to do these weird little comedy videos
everyone who was putting these together was so funny and creative, and then one day these videos slowly started to disappear in favor of 1000 videos about why the most popular games of all time are just so darn good and epic and you really should buy them if you haven't
i unsubscribed pretty soon after. and i still miss it