Final month the streamer and YouTuber JoCat—identified for his Monster Hunter, D&D, and Last Fantasy 14 movies like ‘A Crap Information to X’—introduced an indefinite hiatus.
This was within the wake of an innocuous video titled “I Like Women” (a gender-swapped parody of Lizzo’s “Boys”) which in his personal phrases “reached outdoors of its audience”. JoCat stated that wider reception from fringe components induced waves of harassment, which included doxxing makes an attempt, threats of violence, and a “suspicious package deal”.
As said within the unique announcement, JoCat had some tasks he wished to complete up earlier than making his departure. “I’ll nonetheless be persevering with Coronary heart of Elynthi and the JOmega charity, however as soon as these are completed I will likely be taking an indefinite break from posting something on-line.”
Coronary heart of Elynthi is JoCat’s D&D livestream (which he DMs), and will likely be posted as an unlisted, demonetised video alongside the tip of his Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough. The JOmega charity run nonetheless was accomplished yesterday.
In case you are unfamiliar with Last Fantasy 14’s raiding scene, an Final is a gruelling 8-man boss combat. They’re thought of to be a number of the sport’s hardest brawls: a gauntlet of ultra-hard boss fights chained collectively the place a single mistake spells doom in your complete crew.
Whereas an Final itself takes round 15-20 minutes on a profitable clear, really studying the combat can take months. Or in JoCat’s case, over a yr. JoCat determined to show the occasion right into a charity drive for trans rights, creating stretch targets on Tiltify for gamers who wished to donate. He additionally stated he would donate one greenback for each demise.
JoCat has now accomplished the raid with a complete demise counter of 1,573. Since his charity of alternative is Gendered Intelligence, JoCat transformed his {dollars} to GBP, upping his private donation to just about $2000. On the time of writing the marketing campaign has raised £53,607 (over $60,000), although donations are nonetheless open for the following week.
After beating the raid, a swarm of supporters met JoCat in Radz-at-Han and promptly flooded his display with particle results—the closest factor you may actually get to a standing ovation in an MMO. JoCat issued a thank-you to them stay on stream, then later uploaded the total saga in a YouTube video.
“I wanna thank everybody, together with the [team] that helped me attain this level, and all my mates—together with all of the trans mates I’ve made alongside the way in which that impressed me to not simply do that, however to be myself,” he features a few different particular mentions, together with the Ulti Challenge’s Sausoftheroll for creating and sharing strats, in addition to Gendered Intelligence for coordinating with him on sure stretch targets—although he regrettably will not be capable of fulfil all of them.
JoCat then offers a heartwarming thank-you to his followers: “Thanks, I am sorry to say that I believe I do want this step away. For a few years you’ve got helped me—you’ve got bought me a home, you discovered me my fiance, you are serving to me repay my mum or dad’s home, and I can not ever thanks sufficient for that.
“I do not know once I’ll be again, if I ever [will be] … however after so many instances of claiming ‘you are welcome’,” a catchphrase he finishes all of his ‘Crap Information to X’ movies with, “it is now my flip to say ‘thanks’. So thanks, I hope you’ve an exquisite night time and an exquisite yr.”
JoCat finishes the video with a clip from his time on the Latech Faculty of Design in 2018, the place after a presentation he is requested whether or not he does YouTube movies as a result of “that is among the finest shows I’ve ever seen, and it flows like a YouTube video … that is fairly wonderful.”