This whole thing is weird. I wonder exactly how much control Kurtis has over this space- it's clear at least that whoever this third party is that does Worlds either does not care enough about security or has underestimated the amount of programmers they need for it.
This is so funny. It's a video game, of course you're going to need security for multiplayer online play. Especially things that are available to PC. Even phone games have been hacked and botted via emulators. Their headquarters is on Melrose in West Hollywood, they seem like they just don't care.
@@Vagitarian01 Oh yeah, LOGICALLY you want security! And anyone who comes at this understanding how video games works would know this. However, that assumes whoever came up with (and threw money at) this idea knew how video games worked, and was taking it any kind of seriously. It's so easy to have it be some big wig with money who has decided phone games aren't THAT hard, and just throws enough money to get it to work. Considering how poorly this game runs and how hot it makes your phone get, it seems unoptimized as all get out. The security being on par doesnt surprise me.
I was pretty surprised to see Kurtis was doing this world thing. It seems like such a janky concept to begin with and the execution was even extra jank…
Gonna say it I feared the day some of my millennial commentary RUclipsrs ended up doing something like this..."becoming something I've sworn to destroy" vibes
yeah, after he came out with this, my sibling and i (both big kurtis fans) were anxiously waiting for him to tell us it was some kind of joke lmao its not good
@@valntine755 i think he tweeted about it a long time ago and that was how I first found out but one of his recent videos did mention it, let me see if I can find which one
I love that you talked about this. Like yeah, it’s Kurtis, you’re friendly, and we know enough about him to know that if this blows it’s not out of malice or an attempt to grift. But those things don’t negate him from being reviewed and dunked upon when it’s lame, and I’m glad you kept things relatively impartial.
Oof its so awkward when someone who is intimately familiar with internet culture like Kurtis misses so damn hard with something like this. Makes me wonder if this was missed or overlooked in a contract or something like that
Fr, I went into the app and not only did they not have ANY actual content, the Kurtis town was so lack luster. Like there was nothing to do. You couldn’t customize that much with characters (which frustrates me b/c Kurtis clearly has a unique shirt, yet that shirt isn’t available to actually use nor is there many options for clothes) wasn’t fun :(
@@LOWLUHCALLIN The app is fundamentally flawed. Anything it tries to do is done better in existing games that already have the content, communities, and infrastructure to support it.
No like I've seen all of his videos ( I even went back and watched the old ones lmaooo) and I didn't know this was a thing? Maybe I missed the video when he announced it or something?
Same, this is the first I'm hearing of it lol. It's very unlike anything else he's put out including quality level. I have a feeling the company didn't deliver what he expected because this is definitely laughable.
yeah, its acting like its some new thing, when virtual worlds like this have existed for years, only thing i can give it is that its more accessible than second life, could never figure that game out
Yes ppl are out here marketing second life like it’s a new innovation lol, definitely cringe but not surprising as the Facebook babies and Twitter generation shift around to find their footing. Second Life and WoW really took the concept of “virtual world” to the mainstream, where earlier MMO’s and text-based Multi-User Domains (MUDs) had been around since the 1990s they had still been niche. 2003 hits and these two behemoths drop. 20 years on and we have a ton of scholarly analysis of stuff like the Corrupted Blood Incident, Griefers (mostly just called trolls these days), and the trends that came and went in these spaces.
Second Life doesn't get talked about enough! It's been around for so long, and all these pathetic apps keep coming along trying to be Second Life but with Walmart ads all over the place.
Kurtis Conner’s virtual world, a place where I found myself wandering aimlessly through obstacle courses and pondering the eternal question: “Why can’t I update my profile picture?”
I agree with the "Metaverse" comment. The second he showed gameplay footage on promo during one of his videos, I was immediately reminded of the Metaverse. It seems very off-brand for Kurtis to have something like this under him. I wonder if he was expecting something a lot different than what that corporation actually delivered?
I'm betting they said "hey will give you a bunch of money to tap into your fanbase for this new project" and he said "yes please" and it's probably that simple.
This makes sense to me bc he's a rich straight white guy with cringe humor but maybe to someone who watches him regularly there'd be more nuance to be disappointed by
@@nailinthefashion even according to google (always overestimating youtuber's net worth), he's barely a millionaire. he might have straight white privilege, but there is a difference between a jake paul flexing his lamborghinis made off of scams that he pushes onto kids, and this guy who depends on internet sponsorships for his comedy career and just now put out a bit of a bad product (and barely promoted it). as to his humor, thats your own opinion, i wont argue with that
@@jits8767 "barely a millionaire" lmao the minimization triggered me so bad. He's rich. He could give me 10k, save my life and jumpstert a career and it wouldn't affect his bottomline. Idk why you felt like defending him but it was weird. I didn't even mench the Paul Brothers, someone else did
I do wonder how much he was paid for this because it really is the exact thing people like him and his friends would make fun of. I wonder if the company pitched something far different and he was locked into the contract so he couldn't be disappointed publicly with it? But perhaps he likes it. Who knows. Best case scenerio is it just gets forgotten as a particularly embarassing side project, like an influencer doing an ad read for a bad product they didn't do good research on but with less money loss.
It's bizarre. I've followed Kurtis for like a year now and this feels like... incredibly off brand? Massive L and I can't for the life of me understand why he would ok putting his name on it.
as someone who is obsessed with maplestory jumpquests / roblox obbys solely because they make me comically angry, seeing you slowly waltz to the obstacle circle on mobile then hovering in the air and giving up killed me lmao. basically how i play every time i start a new obby also, there are so many pc games with creative tools for influencers to make the best world ever(vrchat, roblox, secondlife, even fortnite is better). why would they go through this it looks so bad??
Oh my GODDDDDDDDDDDD the party quest jump puzzles!!!!!!!! I remember hating leveling stuff other than my cleric bc without teleport I was just sssoooooo bad Fu kerning city & ludi 😭 so many brain cells lost
@@nailinthefashion hahaha forreal, pretty sure i can blame my childhood anger on sneaking onto the computer to attempt maplestory. now i'm just constantly looking for pain in video games (which is probably why i still play maple lmao
Great video, but the Jeremy Renner app existed for like 2 years before drew and Danny made a video about it and then shortly after that, it was shut down.
Swell world would be awesome cuz she could do fortnite-like events but themed around real life conventions. (This idea is free if you wanna use it sis, I won't sue)
As someone that watches both you and kurtis my first reaction to this was “wtf is kurtistown” Edit: after watching the video, I’m like insanely embarrassed for kurtis. Over a year and THIS is what he released? Yikes
@@evknightfulI got a weird feeling Kurtis got super numbers obsessed and ambitious midway through pandemic. Nothing outright malicious, just the kind of perspective shift that tends to precipitate moves like this
@@Narnold yeah idk if he was like hyping it up or it costs money or smth but as far as i can tell it just seems like one of those stupid harmless things ppl do when they get big. like accepting a raid shadow legends sponsorship lol. still a shit game, i just wouldn't put it on the same level as like an nft or crypto thing
You’re definitely not just bad at the obstacle course. The jump mechanic is insanely frustrating. As you progress through it there is check points so if you fall you don’t respawn all the way at the beginning but they’re broken! Most of them respawn you INSIDE the log obstacles making it impossible to continue. After my first time playing I genuinely thought he was going to be making a video about it bc it was too bad to be true but… idk
Also the game is so bare bones I don’t understand why he wouldn’t just make a sub reddit like danny has. seems like the chat/posting feature is the best part of the game which is no different from a subreddit
I work as a UX designer. When working on new app projects, one of my first questions is always: "Would this be just as useful if it were a website?" For something like Kurtistown the answer is no, it wouldn't be just as useful. It would be much MORE useful since any device could access it, users wouldn't have to walk to the new destination, and (with the exception of the bad obstacle course), everything would still be accessible. As for the desktop version, a few things: 1. A website would be more appealing. This game/product/whatever is very ugly. 2. That's not how navigation usually works in computer games, for lots of reasons I'm not getting into. So its 100% not on Amanda that it feels weird. Overall, this whole product is baffling.
Love Kurtis, and by that, I mean I love Kurtis' videos and don't really interact with other fans/buy merch/go to his shows. I watch him a lot and he never really talked a whole lot about it on his channel (but people can correct me if I'm wrong), maybe once or twice and definitely not recently. I don't think he cares enough about this to really feel invested in it or he saw the writing on the wall and stopped talking about it during his main videos. I actually didn't know this was a thing that came out until I saw Amanda's video lmao
Don't love that people just excuse this with "get that bag." I get that YTs can't always be 100% ethical with their sponsors or the brands they work with but this is just corny. Like he literally makes fun of adult YTs marketing to kids then marketed to kids with this dumb merch selling app. His content is defined by making fun of "those kind of YTs" like. It's you dude lol Btw I don't really have a strong opinion on Kurtis this is just an example of an unfortunate thing on YT that's been happening a lot more recently
the phone getting hot likely means its unoptimized. It doesn’t seem like something so big that it would cause the phone to overheat at full optimization. Hilariously the only app I ever encounter that issue with is tumblr which is far from the level of a 3d world. The app reminds me a lot of zepeto (i think thats what it was called) and I never had issues with that.
I'm pretty sure I know what the girl in red worlds collab was! For her last album she had an interactive web page called world in red that linked to her merch/album behind the scenes/touring etc that you could pan around, it was much simpler than the app and wasn't an actual 3d rendered world though. It makes sense that they're also producing things like that, it's probably where they're making most of their revenue if I had to guess.
I love the way your avatar runs, it's so goofily urgent. Even funnier to think of Amanda being in a physical Kurtis Town and being so excited, that she's just running from one place to the next.
When it first launched on patreon, there were in game cosmetics you could buy for real money, which just sort of rubbed me the wrong way with a project that seemed so clearly unrealized and unfinished. From what I could find the production company Moment House is behind Worlds which I know has worked with TMG in the past with some live events. Everything about it is just...not great, and I wish there was more info about the people behind the project or how it came to be, it all feels a little off. Hopefully nothing bad happens given how shody the security seems to be, kurtis gets his bag and everyone just forgets it exists.
Oh Moment House worked with GMM too- I hate the video on demand feature bc wtf, why can't I just buy a recording of the show to keep??? I mean, I know the answer greed, but I am under no obligation to like that.
No yeah that's exactly the vibe it's giving but like entirely those games made for the ad of it all. Like you know those Roblox partnerships with some person you've never heard of that the game for them then gets promoted in the ad posters and billboards in other games you actually like playing and you decide to see how awful it is and you go in it for like 5 minutes and attempt to figure out what the fuck the purpose is but it's ultimately just a useless barely thought out ad with their name plastered everywhere. Watching this felt like an even more shitty version of those because it doesn't even have the Roblox basic controls that actually work
About what you said with the computer controls being weird, it's not just you. What you described is called tank controls and it is rarely used (like it's mostly there for vehicles in games) because it's slow and inconvenient. The normal way to control on pc is to allow characters to walk sideways and control the camera with the mouse. I'm guessing because the mouse wasn't available this was the compromise, but other games manage to make it work anyway.
Given that anything to do with a virtual world is a grift nowadays, I think Kurtis was approached with a proposal for "A custom world like club penguin," Kurtis said hell yeah, and the company just didn't deliver (and probably won't!) Maybe he will one day give us insight into why billion dollar companies also keep falling for this scam.
This seems a lot like the crypto and NFT games that kept coming out. I wonder what the intention was when he started working on it a year ago... Or if worlds was going to do some sort of NFT thing.
I’m really glad someone made a video about Kurtis Town. All respect to Kurtis, but I was never going to engage with that thing myself. However, I was a little curious about it.
This is just another metaverse which is far more about selling the person while at the same time I assume "Worlds" gets some kind of kick back of money somehow. This isn't for most people and realistically will die within the coming months and will be mostly forgotten about outside of a video like this.
Ok so we got a taste of Gaming with Amanda. I Want more!!!!! please play minecraft, city skylines, sims 4, stardew valley or literally anything. it would be so funny. 10/10 content. great video as always
I’m a pretty big fan of Kurtis, I’ve seen him live and I’ve been a subscriber for years. But when I saw him promoting this I thought it was so…weird? Out of character even? I couldn’t tell if it was a joke or not. I wasn’t interested in try it at all but I was a bit curious so thank you for making this lol
I'm not the biggest Kurtis Conner fan anymore but his app/virtual world is so sad. Two different spots to buy his merch ($75 for a sweatshirt? Be real bestie) and a badly programmed obstacle course. This is what he's been working on for a year and is super proud of? Mmmkay.... I saw another commenter say that they feel like Kurtis got money hungry and ambitious during the pandemic and I agree. This just feels like a cheap cash grab. Whether he approached Worlds or they approached him, I think he's laughing all the way to the Kurtistown Bank.
Not the original poster but: jokes got lame and repetitive, low effort videos, shoddy research/inaccurate facts and I just felt like I wasn’t the target audience, it was much younger people. I think the podcast made me even more aware his humour wasn’t for me and felt forced. (Although I have found I don’t vibe with most youtuber’s podcasts, as I want different things from a podcast and a RUclips video).
@@AM-tl1xi You hit a lot of the same points I would. I also at some point around 2021 felt like Kurtis was just pushing out lazy content and I could tell his heart wasn't in it any longer. He's made boucoup bucks off YT, he's just phoning it in at this point, the same way Cody Ko is.
As a HUGE Kurtis fan (who has spent way too much money on his live shows) I was kinda worried about this video, but it was nice to see someone else struggle with the same things as I did . I haven't been on Kurtis World in so long because it was so glitchy and made my phone hot too. I also felt like there wasn't anything to do. But when I played it they had old videos playing in the town square. Did he remove that?
I thought Kurtis was cool, but this just seems like a great way for kids to be exposed to language and people they shouldn't be exposed to yet. Like, this is obviously a Roblox ripoff, and Roblox is mainly played by young children. I'm sure Kurtis has plenty of child fans, and kids are probably the only ones who will spend more than 10 minutes on this. It's pretty slimy of Kurtis to have something clearly aimed towards children have 90% of the content be buying merch and tickets and the other 10% is unmoderated, barely censored chat with strangers. Not cool of him. Not cool at all.
it’s more of a metaverse ripoff isn’t it? also kurtis isn’t aimed at children, if he happens to have child fans how is it his responsibility to cater to them? the things seen in chat probably aren’t that far off from some of the inappropriate jokes and language in his vids
As chronicallygothic said, in no way is Kurtis' demographic kids. Maybe there are some kids who watch him but I imagine the majority of his fans are 16+ lol. As with all content online, kids should stick to child safe spaces or at the very least parents should be aware of what their kids are doing online. It's not the job of adults online to keep kids out of adult spaces, it's their parents. Don't get me wrong, I do think this whole thing is weird, but saying "well kids could be on it!!" is not really the problem here lol
You showcased why I only used it once and it all seems so weird to me. The idea of it is fun, but neither the message boards or the actual world is truly fun to use, in my opinion. It's just inconvenient compared to the alternatives.
I was waiting for a video on this! And also love that you’re doing a video about Kurtis. (A non-collab I was never expecting but glad you did this, Amanda!)
My guess for the origin of this is that kurtis was approached to do it, and he probably thought it would be funny. I think it’s neat in an ironic way, like Roblox Concerts. But it’s Way early stages of the site so it just seems like garbage now lol
I'm a pretty big fan of Kurtis (my name was inspired by the "YEE YEE" meme from his videos), and this is literally the first time I heard about this. I would have preferred a real-life Kurtistown rather than whatever this is.
it was on a podcast episode. he was talking about that guy in toronto who opened a workers co-op and was making fun of him saying if he was a real anticapitalist he should give all his stuff away for free. it was so dumb, he literately googled capitalism to double check what it meant, but didn't google workers co-op. @@chonk32
I was so scared for a second that he is in a scandal and getting canceled I remember that he mentioned it once in a video but not really pushing it. I dont think thats its a passion project.
@@Atlasintokyo Ah, damn then I feel bad for him. His content is good so I have no idea why he thought this was a good idea, lol. Incidentally your profile pic is super cute!
It's always odd to me when websites like this crop up that are specifically made to artificially create fandom spaces? Like,, those things usually form organically and aren't especially marketable (eg Tumblr) so any company that bases their entire deal around that is just... Off putting to me?
oh wait it's kind of creepy now that I'm trying to find out which video did he made a promo on that it's completely gone??? I clearly remember that him talking about it in multiple videos but it seems like it's existence was just...disappeared?? it's so confusing
Swell be like an angel of chaos. She appears when things are going down badly or when the most absurd shit is happening. And I for one am grateful for it.
I logged on on my desktop abt a week ago. It honestly didn’t know what to expect going in. Was very reminiscent of ppls personal virtual worlds on small personal sites and stuff
I don't think it's embarrassing, I love when people create games to sell there merchandise 😅 Poptropica was created by Jeff Kinney to advertise his books. I definitely think he could have put more effort into it. It looks like a cool idea just not executed right.
@@Agmolly exactly! tie-in free promo "metaverse"s can work, and poptropica is an example of one that was *both* created as an advertisement at its core *and* is a fundamentally pretty good game. it's very childish, but considering the demographic pretty good, and there's a lot of content! the point is that the idea of what he's selling isn't bad, it's the execution.
I’m very disappointed that the few times I tried Worlds I didn’t manage to intersect with Swell!! It really didn’t have much appeal beyond figuring out what words were or weren’t filtered and exploring the kinda lame world one time. I would definitely show up for a Swell Cult World! Maybe I’d even show up more than once 😂
i personally would not attach my name to an unmoderated community reminiscent of games for children. i give it a few weeks before we get a “i was groomed on kurtis town” video 😭
I’m happy you made this video cause when he announced it, I genuinely had to sit for a minute wondering if it was a joke. I love kurtis but this was not it. I downloaded worlds with the intention of at least checking it out sometime and never opened the app because I forgot and now I don’t need to!
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For some reason when I saw the title I thought Kurtis Conner had made an actual physical amusement park that I'd just somehow not heard about
That would be much more innocuous and whimsical
Same, and somehow I did not even slightly question it, I was full on ready to see Amanda sneak about in a Kurtis Connor amusement park
I can totally see Kurtis doing that someday. Or in an alternate universe
Literally thought the same thing. I have no idea who Kurtis is still tho
@@kirjoittaja😂saaaaame
Opportunity to create a Swell world with just a giant pair of glasses and the title "that's it! That's my world" would be totally on brand
Genius! I love it. 😂
😅😅😅
having his name attached to this unmoderated, barely censored nightmare cannot end well for him.. this is such a bizarre move
It's like mr beast burger 2.0
@@amberb7881 Kurtis town isn't going to give you food poisioning. It's still a strange move.
This whole thing is weird. I wonder exactly how much control Kurtis has over this space- it's clear at least that whoever this third party is that does Worlds either does not care enough about security or has underestimated the amount of programmers they need for it.
This is so funny. It's a video game, of course you're going to need security for multiplayer online play. Especially things that are available to PC. Even phone games have been hacked and botted via emulators. Their headquarters is on Melrose in West Hollywood, they seem like they just don't care.
@@Vagitarian01 Oh yeah, LOGICALLY you want security! And anyone who comes at this understanding how video games works would know this. However, that assumes whoever came up with (and threw money at) this idea knew how video games worked, and was taking it any kind of seriously. It's so easy to have it be some big wig with money who has decided phone games aren't THAT hard, and just throws enough money to get it to work. Considering how poorly this game runs and how hot it makes your phone get, it seems unoptimized as all get out. The security being on par doesnt surprise me.
He probably just don't give a shit
@@ghostoflazlo Yeah, could be.
When Amanda went undercover into Elon Musk's house and disguised herself as a Blue Bird monster to haunt him like a Scooby Doo villain
I haven't gotten to this part yet and oh boy is that a wild sentence- I love it
@@a.rudesillIts not just a comment joke???
@ville__ That should be your nickname 😃
They must given him a bag so large he couldn't say no lmao
He had to pay for his wedding somehow 😅
@@Agmollywhich one? 😂
I was pretty surprised to see Kurtis was doing this world thing. It seems like such a janky concept to begin with and the execution was even extra jank…
It's both a worse version of both a Patreon and a Discord server with some lame Minecraft like preset Unity assets
Its something that kurtis would make a video about. Coincidentally its a lot like Jarvis’s new video
If you do make a shirt for this video please have it say "I went to Kurtis Town and all I got was this lousy shirt".
Bye
It’s funny cuz that’s similar to what his live show merch says
@@nailinthefashionbye
Omg I love it
Gonna say it I feared the day some of my millennial commentary RUclipsrs ended up doing something like this..."becoming something I've sworn to destroy" vibes
*not me sighing in laughable Gen X fatigue*
Me, when Danny and Kurtis roasted Watertok then shilled Air-Up the next month
Everyone be nice to Kurtis. He is the mayor, it’s the law
"Be kind to mod Silver. He is delicate."
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@@kneau you made me scream laugh
Take me to jail then cuz the mullet never workt for me!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔒
@@zeran1994 I'm so glad!
Always slightly disappointed when someone says "we're not friends" and then doesn't say "we're ENEMIES".
yeah, after he came out with this, my sibling and i (both big kurtis fans) were anxiously waiting for him to tell us it was some kind of joke lmao its not good
wait when did he talk about this, i don’t remember him mentioning it, maybe I just didn’t pay attention during his videos?
@@valntine755 i think he tweeted about it a long time ago and that was how I first found out but one of his recent videos did mention it, let me see if I can find which one
@@valntine755 his video on the Tony Hawk movie mentions it immediately as it starts!
@@enbyspock where I watched it five minutes in and saw nothing?
@@enbyspock Thank you!!
I love that you talked about this. Like yeah, it’s Kurtis, you’re friendly, and we know enough about him to know that if this blows it’s not out of malice or an attempt to grift. But those things don’t negate him from being reviewed and dunked upon when it’s lame, and I’m glad you kept things relatively impartial.
Oof its so awkward when someone who is intimately familiar with internet culture like Kurtis misses so damn hard with something like this. Makes me wonder if this was missed or overlooked in a contract or something like that
What do you mean misses?
imo i domt think hes missed YET i think its still early enough that he can fix all the problems and save face
Fr, I went into the app and not only did they not have ANY actual content, the Kurtis town was so lack luster. Like there was nothing to do. You couldn’t customize that much with characters (which frustrates me b/c Kurtis clearly has a unique shirt, yet that shirt isn’t available to actually use nor is there many options for clothes) wasn’t fun :(
@lowluh00 I think bc he's getting paid to promote the app. Honestly online chat rooms used to be cool, so I can't shame him for giving them a chance.
@@LOWLUHCALLIN The app is fundamentally flawed. Anything it tries to do is done better in existing games that already have the content, communities, and infrastructure to support it.
As a pretty big Kurtis fan am I alone in simply not knowing about this? I knew about Kurtistown but not like…this. lolol
No like I've seen all of his videos ( I even went back and watched the old ones lmaooo) and I didn't know this was a thing? Maybe I missed the video when he announced it or something?
he announced it on his latest video, he didn't make a big deal about it though
probably he's aware it's not that great
@@calupoh9788 really? damn I missed that completely
He’s mentioned it on his podcast a couple times
Same, this is the first I'm hearing of it lol. It's very unlike anything else he's put out including quality level. I have a feeling the company didn't deliver what he expected because this is definitely laughable.
You could have created all of this within Second Life twenty years ago and Second Life is still active today.
yeah, its acting like its some new thing, when virtual worlds like this have existed for years, only thing i can give it is that its more accessible than second life, could never figure that game out
Habbo hotel, IMVU, coke studios, whirled, etc RULED my LIFE for a DECADE
Yes ppl are out here marketing second life like it’s a new innovation lol, definitely cringe but not surprising as the Facebook babies and Twitter generation shift around to find their footing.
Second Life and WoW really took the concept of “virtual world” to the mainstream, where earlier MMO’s and text-based Multi-User Domains (MUDs) had been around since the 1990s they had still been niche. 2003 hits and these two behemoths drop. 20 years on and we have a ton of scholarly analysis of stuff like the Corrupted Blood Incident, Griefers (mostly just called trolls these days), and the trends that came and went in these spaces.
Second Life doesn't get talked about enough! It's been around for so long, and all these pathetic apps keep coming along trying to be Second Life but with Walmart ads all over the place.
This is why I don't get why people are so upset about the world being "bad". It's not his app/website, just his corner ON it
I’m a big kurtis fan but had no idea this even existed.
Glad I’m not the only one lolll
same 😂
Good
same
Kurtis Conner’s virtual world, a place where I found myself wandering aimlessly through obstacle courses and pondering the eternal question: “Why can’t I update my profile picture?”
I agree with the "Metaverse" comment. The second he showed gameplay footage on promo during one of his videos, I was immediately reminded of the Metaverse. It seems very off-brand for Kurtis to have something like this under him. I wonder if he was expecting something a lot different than what that corporation actually delivered?
I'm betting they said "hey will give you a bunch of money to tap into your fanbase for this new project" and he said "yes please" and it's probably that simple.
This makes sense to me bc he's a rich straight white guy with cringe humor but maybe to someone who watches him regularly there'd be more nuance to be disappointed by
Honestly it's a Paul brother type beat... Give it 2 months and it's a coffeezilla investigation.
@@nailinthefashion even according to google (always overestimating youtuber's net worth), he's barely a millionaire. he might have straight white privilege, but there is a difference between a jake paul flexing his lamborghinis made off of scams that he pushes onto kids, and this guy who depends on internet sponsorships for his comedy career and just now put out a bit of a bad product (and barely promoted it). as to his humor, thats your own opinion, i wont argue with that
@@jits8767 "barely a millionaire" lmao the minimization triggered me so bad. He's rich. He could give me 10k, save my life and jumpstert a career and it wouldn't affect his bottomline. Idk why you felt like defending him but it was weird.
I didn't even mench the Paul Brothers, someone else did
I do wonder how much he was paid for this because it really is the exact thing people like him and his friends would make fun of. I wonder if the company pitched something far different and he was locked into the contract so he couldn't be disappointed publicly with it? But perhaps he likes it. Who knows. Best case scenerio is it just gets forgotten as a particularly embarassing side project, like an influencer doing an ad read for a bad product they didn't do good research on but with less money loss.
Ngl, this just reinforces that RUclipsrs shouldn’t be trusted when they’re getting money for something.
It's bizarre. I've followed Kurtis for like a year now and this feels like... incredibly off brand? Massive L and I can't for the life of me understand why he would ok putting his name on it.
@@iamjustkiwihe’s always had the vibes, you just couldn’t tell
as someone who is obsessed with maplestory jumpquests / roblox obbys solely because they make me comically angry, seeing you slowly waltz to the obstacle circle on mobile then hovering in the air and giving up killed me lmao. basically how i play every time i start a new obby
also, there are so many pc games with creative tools for influencers to make the best world ever(vrchat, roblox, secondlife, even fortnite is better). why would they go through this it looks so bad??
Oh my GODDDDDDDDDDDD the party quest jump puzzles!!!!!!!! I remember hating leveling stuff other than my cleric bc without teleport I was just sssoooooo bad
Fu kerning city & ludi 😭 so many brain cells lost
@@nailinthefashion hahaha forreal, pretty sure i can blame my childhood anger on sneaking onto the computer to attempt maplestory. now i'm just constantly looking for pain in video games (which is probably why i still play maple lmao
“Obsessed with something because I’m so fascinated by its problems and I hate it” club
Great video, but the Jeremy Renner app existed for like 2 years before drew and Danny made a video about it and then shortly after that, it was shut down.
Can't wait for Swell World and only see scathing reviews of the app and financial advice
Swell world would be awesome cuz she could do fortnite-like events but themed around real life conventions. (This idea is free if you wanna use it sis, I won't sue)
Swell would you ever go to a furry convention
hasn’t she ?
The only furry content I would tolerate.
genuinely been thinking about why she hasn't. seems very on point for the channel and would be interesting!
i would love for her to go to one
I mean she already went to anime expo, she’s halfway there already 😭
As someone that watches both you and kurtis my first reaction to this was “wtf is kurtistown”
Edit: after watching the video, I’m like insanely embarrassed for kurtis. Over a year and THIS is what he released? Yikes
Yeah, I can only assume he’s getting a bag, but it’s still a weird choice.
@@evknightfulI got a weird feeling Kurtis got super numbers obsessed and ambitious midway through pandemic. Nothing outright malicious, just the kind of perspective shift that tends to precipitate moves like this
Don't be embarassed for him, he probably got paid a bit to promote this and its not harmful really. I doubt he had any involvement in the app at all.
@@Narnold yeah idk if he was like hyping it up or it costs money or smth but as far as i can tell it just seems like one of those stupid harmless things ppl do when they get big. like accepting a raid shadow legends sponsorship lol. still a shit game, i just wouldn't put it on the same level as like an nft or crypto thing
@@NarnoldEh. I think overhyping something you had zero involvement in has its own fallacies.
You’re definitely not just bad at the obstacle course. The jump mechanic is insanely frustrating. As you progress through it there is check points so if you fall you don’t respawn all the way at the beginning but they’re broken! Most of them respawn you INSIDE the log obstacles making it impossible to continue.
After my first time playing I genuinely thought he was going to be making a video about it bc it was too bad to be true but… idk
Also the game is so bare bones I don’t understand why he wouldn’t just make a sub reddit like danny has. seems like the chat/posting feature is the best part of the game which is no different from a subreddit
Congratulations for featuring in a The Right Opinion video! (The Lily Singh video, for those who haven't seen it)
"One less pixel and this would be a radio" 💀
I work as a UX designer. When working on new app projects, one of my first questions is always: "Would this be just as useful if it were a website?" For something like Kurtistown the answer is no, it wouldn't be just as useful. It would be much MORE useful since any device could access it, users wouldn't have to walk to the new destination, and (with the exception of the bad obstacle course), everything would still be accessible.
As for the desktop version, a few things:
1. A website would be more appealing. This game/product/whatever is very ugly.
2. That's not how navigation usually works in computer games, for lots of reasons I'm not getting into. So its 100% not on Amanda that it feels weird.
Overall, this whole product is baffling.
Love Kurtis, and by that, I mean I love Kurtis' videos and don't really interact with other fans/buy merch/go to his shows.
I watch him a lot and he never really talked a whole lot about it on his channel (but people can correct me if I'm wrong), maybe once or twice and definitely not recently. I don't think he cares enough about this to really feel invested in it or he saw the writing on the wall and stopped talking about it during his main videos. I actually didn't know this was a thing that came out until I saw Amanda's video lmao
This is such an obvious money grab. So glad you covered this!
Why do companies keep dumping money into dumb apps like this that no one is going to use longer than a couple of days. So weird.
Avoiding taxes, money laundering. pick your choice
Don't love that people just excuse this with "get that bag." I get that YTs can't always be 100% ethical with their sponsors or the brands they work with but this is just corny. Like he literally makes fun of adult YTs marketing to kids then marketed to kids with this dumb merch selling app. His content is defined by making fun of "those kind of YTs" like. It's you dude lol
Btw I don't really have a strong opinion on Kurtis this is just an example of an unfortunate thing on YT that's been happening a lot more recently
agreed! more people need to be recognizing this! i wonder what his responses have been to the criticism?
Its litterally a space for him to sell his stuff with a couple games
the phone getting hot likely means its unoptimized. It doesn’t seem like something so big that it would cause the phone to overheat at full optimization. Hilariously the only app I ever encounter that issue with is tumblr which is far from the level of a 3d world. The app reminds me a lot of zepeto (i think thats what it was called) and I never had issues with that.
I'm pretty sure I know what the girl in red worlds collab was! For her last album she had an interactive web page called world in red that linked to her merch/album behind the scenes/touring etc that you could pan around, it was much simpler than the app and wasn't an actual 3d rendered world though. It makes sense that they're also producing things like that, it's probably where they're making most of their revenue if I had to guess.
kurtis fans are being absolutely delusional for defending this. like, he should be absolutely embarrassed.
It's like toon town without any of the fun and whimsy and full of ads including his merch like it is a capitalism nightmare to be quite frank
Literally, like if any other RUclipsr released this you know kurtis and all of his fans would be clowning on it for how bad it is
i think he just did it to get a bag which is fine
@@444tatiana actually asking for money in exchange for a low quality/unfinished product is worse
@@angellane1848 money is money
It was definitely not just you. I tried the obstacle course for longer than I would like to admit and never got past that first jump...
the jump doesn't reach the heights of bushes nvm do the obstacle course
I love the way your avatar runs, it's so goofily urgent. Even funnier to think of Amanda being in a physical Kurtis Town and being so excited, that she's just running from one place to the next.
It’s a little out of your realm, but I feel like you’d be a great sims 4 content maker
oh _yes_ she would. also the sims 4 is trending rn, everyone is talking about it. it’s such a funny game.
too bad it costs nearly $1000 to (legally) afford the game and all its eps 😉
@@Nebulousart hey, at least it could be a business expense
@@ew4316 🤣 that’s TRUE. AMANDA DO IT
Or even just do a “funny bug report titles / patch notes” read through…
My favorite is still “I ate the door, now there’s a wall”
not me clicking on this video thinking swell was gonna pretend to be a kurtis fan lol
When it first launched on patreon, there were in game cosmetics you could buy for real money, which just sort of rubbed me the wrong way with a project that seemed so clearly unrealized and unfinished. From what I could find the production company Moment House is behind Worlds which I know has worked with TMG in the past with some live events. Everything about it is just...not great, and I wish there was more info about the people behind the project or how it came to be, it all feels a little off. Hopefully nothing bad happens given how shody the security seems to be, kurtis gets his bag and everyone just forgets it exists.
Oh Moment House worked with GMM too- I hate the video on demand feature bc wtf, why can't I just buy a recording of the show to keep???
I mean, I know the answer greed, but I am under no obligation to like that.
Fair review, but I knew you would be. You & Kurtis exploring an event would be iconic.
So it’s basically Roblox but not Roblox
this is gonna sound mean but ive seen roblox games that are better designed
@@morg2040 I feel bad to say it but like…yeah
No yeah that's exactly the vibe it's giving but like entirely those games made for the ad of it all. Like you know those Roblox partnerships with some person you've never heard of that the game for them then gets promoted in the ad posters and billboards in other games you actually like playing and you decide to see how awful it is and you go in it for like 5 minutes and attempt to figure out what the fuck the purpose is but it's ultimately just a useless barely thought out ad with their name plastered everywhere. Watching this felt like an even more shitty version of those because it doesn't even have the Roblox basic controls that actually work
Thanks for sharing this amazing impressive new technology with us Swell!
About what you said with the computer controls being weird, it's not just you. What you described is called tank controls and it is rarely used (like it's mostly there for vehicles in games) because it's slow and inconvenient. The normal way to control on pc is to allow characters to walk sideways and control the camera with the mouse. I'm guessing because the mouse wasn't available this was the compromise, but other games manage to make it work anyway.
Love that this came out the same day as Jarvis’s metavwrse vid
my favourite part of all this is the platforming minigame with tank controls like it's stil 1996
Given that anything to do with a virtual world is a grift nowadays, I think Kurtis was approached with a proposal for "A custom world like club penguin," Kurtis said hell yeah, and the company just didn't deliver (and probably won't!)
Maybe he will one day give us insight into why billion dollar companies also keep falling for this scam.
This is hilarious. I've been a bit obsessed with Kurtis's videos recently and then I see this. 😂
This seems a lot like the crypto and NFT games that kept coming out. I wonder what the intention was when he started working on it a year ago... Or if worlds was going to do some sort of NFT thing.
I’m really glad someone made a video about Kurtis Town. All respect to Kurtis, but I was never going to engage with that thing myself. However, I was a little curious about it.
This is just another metaverse which is far more about selling the person while at the same time I assume "Worlds" gets some kind of kick back of money somehow. This isn't for most people and realistically will die within the coming months and will be mostly forgotten about outside of a video like this.
When I saw this my first guess was that it was sort of tongue in cheek from Kurtis? It's ... certainly odd.
Ok so we got a taste of Gaming with Amanda. I Want more!!!!! please play minecraft, city skylines, sims 4, stardew valley or literally anything. it would be so funny. 10/10 content. great video as always
murder with my husband world is ghoulish. a fun interactive game world revolving around stories about the most horrific crimes! jesus
I’m a pretty big fan of Kurtis, I’ve seen him live and I’ve been a subscriber for years. But when I saw him promoting this I thought it was so…weird? Out of character even? I couldn’t tell if it was a joke or not. I wasn’t interested in try it at all but I was a bit curious so thank you for making this lol
I'm not the biggest Kurtis Conner fan anymore but his app/virtual world is so sad. Two different spots to buy his merch ($75 for a sweatshirt? Be real bestie) and a badly programmed obstacle course. This is what he's been working on for a year and is super proud of? Mmmkay....
I saw another commenter say that they feel like Kurtis got money hungry and ambitious during the pandemic and I agree. This just feels like a cheap cash grab. Whether he approached Worlds or they approached him, I think he's laughing all the way to the Kurtistown Bank.
May I ask what made you not a big kurtis fan anymore?
Not the original poster but: jokes got lame and repetitive, low effort videos, shoddy research/inaccurate facts and I just felt like I wasn’t the target audience, it was much younger people. I think the podcast made me even more aware his humour wasn’t for me and felt forced. (Although I have found I don’t vibe with most youtuber’s podcasts, as I want different things from a podcast and a RUclips video).
@@AM-tl1xi You hit a lot of the same points I would. I also at some point around 2021 felt like Kurtis was just pushing out lazy content and I could tell his heart wasn't in it any longer. He's made boucoup bucks off YT, he's just phoning it in at this point, the same way Cody Ko is.
Yeah I don't like him much anymore either and this weird game cemented that feeling for me.
@AM-tl1xi Thank you for your input. I was curious to why someone would loose interest in him. Thx for sharing!
The only explanation I can find is that the check they offered must've had a bunch of zeros
damn, I clicked because I saw Kurtis in the title and the thumbnail not expecting the video being so entertaining but it really was!
As a HUGE Kurtis fan (who has spent way too much money on his live shows) I was kinda worried about this video, but it was nice to see someone else struggle with the same things as I did . I haven't been on Kurtis World in so long because it was so glitchy and made my phone hot too. I also felt like there wasn't anything to do. But when I played it they had old videos playing in the town square. Did he remove that?
I thought Kurtis was cool, but this just seems like a great way for kids to be exposed to language and people they shouldn't be exposed to yet. Like, this is obviously a Roblox ripoff, and Roblox is mainly played by young children. I'm sure Kurtis has plenty of child fans, and kids are probably the only ones who will spend more than 10 minutes on this. It's pretty slimy of Kurtis to have something clearly aimed towards children have 90% of the content be buying merch and tickets and the other 10% is unmoderated, barely censored chat with strangers. Not cool of him. Not cool at all.
it’s more of a metaverse ripoff isn’t it? also kurtis isn’t aimed at children, if he happens to have child fans how is it his responsibility to cater to them? the things seen in chat probably aren’t that far off from some of the inappropriate jokes and language in his vids
@@chronicallygothicI'm pretty sure Kurtis doesn't say he hates gay people and use racial slurs in his videos lol
@@DammeDaniel-ic3mh hence the word “probably” but kids on the internet have most definitely seen like. all of that and more already lol
As chronicallygothic said, in no way is Kurtis' demographic kids. Maybe there are some kids who watch him but I imagine the majority of his fans are 16+ lol. As with all content online, kids should stick to child safe spaces or at the very least parents should be aware of what their kids are doing online. It's not the job of adults online to keep kids out of adult spaces, it's their parents. Don't get me wrong, I do think this whole thing is weird, but saying "well kids could be on it!!" is not really the problem here lol
This IS the first time I've heard of Kurtis Town. No, I'm not annoyed. It was an interesting video. fun
Been listening to the Swell Shenanigans podcast on Spotify and love it. I'm on episode 16. My favorite so far is the Birds Aren't Real episode.
You showcased why I only used it once and it all seems so weird to me. The idea of it is fun, but neither the message boards or the actual world is truly fun to use, in my opinion. It's just inconvenient compared to the alternatives.
Amanda, under cover?!
I'm intrigued.
I was waiting for a video on this! And also love that you’re doing a video about Kurtis. (A non-collab I was never expecting but glad you did this, Amanda!)
I was wondering about this since he announced it. It seems dumb. So excited
My guess for the origin of this is that kurtis was approached to do it, and he probably thought it would be funny. I think it’s neat in an ironic way, like Roblox Concerts. But it’s Way early stages of the site so it just seems like garbage now lol
I'm a pretty big fan of Kurtis (my name was inspired by the "YEE YEE" meme from his videos), and this is literally the first time I heard about this. I would have preferred a real-life Kurtistown rather than whatever this is.
Same to everything you said lol
I wonder if he’s doing this for a video experiment he’s gonna post or this is what serious ?
I absolutely love kurtis but I feel like this whole thing was just weird like, maybe some thing his management wanted him to pursue?
This is the first time I have heard of it, like the majority of your videos.
0:31 not Amanda putting this screenshot in just so we specifically know she doesn’t follow him 😭
I was suspicious when he started shitting on workers co-ops last year. this suck as someone who went to his liveshow.
omg when did this happen do you remember? i dont think i ever saw that
it was on a podcast episode. he was talking about that guy in toronto who opened a workers co-op and was making fun of him saying if he was a real anticapitalist he should give all his stuff away for free. it was so dumb, he literately googled capitalism to double check what it meant, but didn't google workers co-op. @@chonk32
Kurtis looks a lot like Doug Henning (the Canadian Magician); Kurtis Town itself looks a lot like Dollywood.
I remember when it dropped and I went and opened the link and just sat there like “wtf is this supposed to be” glad I was not the only one
I was so scared for a second that he is in a scandal and getting canceled
I remember that he mentioned it once in a video but not really pushing it. I dont think thats its a passion project.
The crossover I always needed 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I wonder if he made it just to make a video about the rise and fall of kurtistown
No bc he deleted all the promo fast asf bc of this video probably
@@Atlasintokyo Ah, damn then I feel bad for him. His content is good so I have no idea why he thought this was a good idea, lol. Incidentally your profile pic is super cute!
I want that F1 rambling video. How do you see the season? Do you ignore Max and enjoy the fights? Or are you bummed due to the RB dominance?
i need more F1 content and from swell i would listen for hours and hours
I alway got the impression that it was just for the memes. He doesn't take it seriously, he's a dry sarcastic comedian.
It's always odd to me when websites like this crop up that are specifically made to artificially create fandom spaces? Like,, those things usually form organically and aren't especially marketable (eg Tumblr) so any company that bases their entire deal around that is just... Off putting to me?
How did I as a regular Kurtis watcher not have any idea about this thing's existence??
didn't he talked about it's launch at several of his videos? I wonder if he deleted that portion or not🤔
oh wait it's kind of creepy now that I'm trying to find out which video did he made a promo on that it's completely gone??? I clearly remember that him talking about it in multiple videos but it seems like it's existence was just...disappeared?? it's so confusing
Swell be like an angel of chaos. She appears when things are going down badly or when the most absurd shit is happening. And I for one am grateful for it.
ive tried to play on pc browser but i literally cannot click to any other page let alone the World Space its so fucked lmao
ill try again when i dont have so many tabs open
I logged on on my desktop abt a week ago. It honestly didn’t know what to expect going in. Was very reminiscent of ppls personal virtual worlds on small personal sites and stuff
I feel like this is something he was just approached for and isn't all that involved in personally. Could be wrong, but that's what it looks like.
I don't think it's embarrassing, I love when people create games to sell there merchandise 😅
Poptropica was created by Jeff Kinney to advertise his books.
I definitely think he could have put more effort into it. It looks like a cool idea just not executed right.
Wait, why am I just now learning this about poptropica???
Poptropica had puzzles and games though 😅
@@Agmolly exactly! tie-in free promo "metaverse"s can work, and poptropica is an example of one that was *both* created as an advertisement at its core *and* is a fundamentally pretty good game. it's very childish, but considering the demographic pretty good, and there's a lot of content! the point is that the idea of what he's selling isn't bad, it's the execution.
I’m very disappointed that the few times I tried Worlds I didn’t manage to intersect with Swell!! It really didn’t have much appeal beyond figuring out what words were or weren’t filtered and exploring the kinda lame world one time. I would definitely show up for a Swell Cult World! Maybe I’d even show up more than once 😂
i’ve been waiting for this crossover event
i personally would not attach my name to an unmoderated community reminiscent of games for children.
i give it a few weeks before we get a “i was groomed on kurtis town” video 😭
I’m happy you made this video cause when he announced it, I genuinely had to sit for a minute wondering if it was a joke. I love kurtis but this was not it. I downloaded worlds with the intention of at least checking it out sometime and never opened the app because I forgot and now I don’t need to!
oh swell PLEASE make a video with nick. i dont care what its about it would just be such a fun collab and he lives in LA too
nickisnotgreen for clarity
Omg a swell plus Nick video would be my dream
He promoted the game in a video, and mentioned that as soon as it launched, people tried to stage a coup.
and now i just got an email saying that it closed lol
I don't play Roblox myself, but having seen Roblox videos where brands have their own worlds....this looks exactly like a Roblox world, except worse.
Elder millennial here… no idea WHO Kurtis is. Still watched the whole video because, you know, humans are fascinating. 😂
Yeah this was a weird move… he became the thing he sought to destroy