So there's a bit where he says that people on Spoony's forums went after Spoony's girlfriend because she was the one administering forum bans on Spoony's request, and then seems like he's segueing away from it to talk about Spoony winning an award. He then suddenly reads most of a long blog post Spoony wrote after winning it when he had to take down a video about the award, and... then doesn't comment on it at all to explain why he read all that, or mention that the reason Spoony wrote any of that was literally because his girlfriend was in the video and her appearance was being attacked. There's a clear connection there between directly sequential events in the video and it's just weirdly unexplained when it's relevant to other things he includes, and without mentioning that connection there's no value in even including the post. He both reads the part of the post that's clearly about fans attacking other people and talked about people going at his girlfriend like I mentioned, so it's not like I think he was trying to cover that up or anything. I'd seen someone mention it in the comments beforehand but it was still pretty jarring to see it skipped over, particularly as I remember reading that post myself back in the day and it being very clear what had happened. I don't know if he was trying to tie it directly to the forums but in that case his segueing was weird and the connection still wasn't explained. In retrospect I think he might have been using it as an example of Spoony's ego, which would be pretty off if so, but it's completely unclear.
He also dedicated several minutes to just playing LordKat's comments on Spoony after his suspension, including lots of irrelevant rambling whining before LK actually brings up the "betrayal!" thing. He doesn't really comment on any of this and it sticks out as a bizarre waste of time. It's not like he necessarily portrays LK in a sympathetic light, if only because he doesn't even say anything about him, but it's weird to give him so much uncritical screentime. You could just quickly explain that LK had issues with him over "betrayal!" thing (and actually explain that incident in chronological order beforehand instead of suddenly only mentioning it then) without playing more than the relevant clip. Especially as he, uh, also never mentions LK going on to graphically tell Spoony to kill himself, which you'd think would be more relevant there than him whining about Spoony being a waste of talent or whatever. It also calls LK a "creator at Channel Awesome" despite him having been gone by that point, and the implication of Spoony attacking a fan of his while representing Channel Awesome is different as a result.
As a side note, he only mentions Spoony's "already present heart troubles" when talking briefly about Spoony's bipolar disorder diagnosis, but unless I missed something quickly stated I don't think he ever brought that up previously even though Spoony's heart issues were a factor in his video output. Maybe he cut an earlier mention, he said in the comments that he couldn't include everything, but it's just another example of something actually pretty important to all of this being skipped over and only mentioned later while giving lots of time to irrelevant contextless things. Honestly, that and Spoony's mental health are barely talked about beyond some very vague comments, and they're probably the most important things to talk about if you're talking about him not making more videos! In general it honestly felt like he didn't really acknowledge Spoony's mental health at all beyond saying that it was deteriorating, but only that, not that it deteriorating was causing or affected by anything shown.
There's more examples, but the first two thirds felt very disjointed as a documentary or explanation because consistent issues like these means there's no real narrative through-line given. I get wanting to seem impartial (though that's inherently impossible when you're still choosing what to show and how to present it) or something like that, but that beyond the occasional comment about Spoony gaining an ego very little about the overall context of the events is actually connected or explained. He just spends a lot of time (generally way too much per event, in my opinion, especially when video/audio is played) showing that these events happened, and only that they happened, before moving on. Which is fine at the start when he's just explaining how Spoony's reviews worked and all that, I guess, but as soon as you start talking about how things changed for him you need to actually provide that narrative or you might as well just post raw clips and hope people figure things out for themselves.
And then the last third of the video happened, and it certainly gained a narrative then, just a pretty insulting one. He's suddenly weirdly unsympathetic towards Spoony, when he is clearly overwhelmed by his Patreon succeeding beyond expectations and not knowing how to deal with it, heavily editing the video of him talking about this to make him seem more incompetent. He just starts reading harassment Spoony got without comment or criticism, just reading it as if it's important and valid in itself. Before this point I was a little annoyed that he kept including Spoony reacting to harassment without actually including any of the harassment, as it made it made it harder to tell how he was characterizing the reactions (which was already hard due to the lack of commentary), but this definitely wasn't what I wanted. Then "he became known for feuding with others, including content creators" is dryly read over an image of Spoony being angry at fucking Milo, of all people, specifically over the harassment of Leslie Jones and just... wow, sure, that's a way to mischaracterize that. As he continues to talk about Spoony's tweets and eventual suspension, he makes a special mention of Spoony's site being broken but having working Patreon and Amazon links. It all just leans heavily into "he wants your money so he can waste it tweeting about Trump instead of making videos" garbage I saw in the comments without actually daring to say as much, rather than actually saying anything at all about how Spoony was clearly suffering due to his mental illness and pressure from fans that he should have stepped away from. It becomes a lot clearer right at the end that it's entirely framing things around his "hopeful viewers" and "answering fan's questions". The documentary's perspective is that of his so called fans who still feel entitled to him creating content for them, because they decided to give him some amount of money per month when he was already clearly updating very sporadically and then didn't cancel their monthly payment for whatever reason. These people care more about Spoony making more videos, which they'd probably only complain about the quality of anyway, than what he clearly needs to do: stay away from the internet to improve his mental health.
It ends on: "He now serves as an example to other content creators, about how fame and viewership on the internet can be so powerful, but also how the goodwill of that viewership must not be taken for granted if one chooses to linger in the online space." And just... no. If anything you could say his attitude fostered the kind of fan that has no goodwill at all. But the issue at hand really isn't just someone who grew too big of an ego and then didn't appreciate their fans.
