The Devastating Downfall of VenturianTale

VenturianTale - 4 siblings (Jordan Frye, Isaac Frye, Cierra Frye & Bethany Frye) with basic content creation knowledge begin a YouTube channel, only to find life changing success shortly after its inception. Only 4 months after creating the channel, they were receiving 20 million views per month, 2 months after that, they were receiving 60 million views per month, then 1.5 years later, they were receiving 80 million views per month. While at their peak, a drop in viewership wouldn't have been predicted by even the most pessimistic of fans. However, after hitting their peak of 80 million views in February 2015, the channel would go into freefall, losing viewership for 5 years straight, ending up as a dead channel, with an inability to crack 2 million views per month in recent times. What could have possibly gone wrong? Was the downfall of VenturianTale owed to a loss in confidence? A refusal to make any changes to their content over their entire journey on YouTube? Or was it simply the fact that as each sibling got older, they had to move on from YouTube to accommodate for the realities of life?

This is, The Devastating Downfall of VenturianTale.

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[hydra]

VenturianTale, that’s a name I haven’t heard in years.

[Dash_Gallou]

The channel died for two reasons:
- They didn't change their content much.
- Their fans grew up. That's why you see a lot of "they made my childhood" comments.

[disappointment]

The Acachalla Family will always be remembered

[larrydingleroot]

Venturiantale was a huge part of my childhood. It's sad to see what happened to it.

[joshlauch]

I would give up everything just to be 11 years old and watching Venturian’s Gmod videos again it was such a happier time.

[Computercat]

The name VenturianTale hit me like a sack of bricks

[craigthegoat]

This series has become so iconic at this point

[Antrozn]

This is very personal for me, as Venturian is the reason I know about GMod to begin with, and really the Half-Life series and Steam as a whole. The only computer games I played before then were Minecraft when the horse was a recent mob, (although I didn't have that version because I also only had the demo version which was somehow permanent?). I really can't imagine a life without playing and knowing the games I own and play now, as well as the enjoyment I had with all his videos. I'm probably a minority, but I NEVER got tired of anything he uploaded, and while there were other videos I liked more than others, (like the Spiderman and batman npc mods, along with the bike s-cars mod, regular show ragdoll video and the Fnaf stuff, and lastly the Papa Achichalla and murder videos), I still enjoyed then (generally) equally. It's really sad to really understand the downfall, but I also really hope he can overcome the limitations he believe he has, (but really ones that he unknowingly placed himself) and actually enjoy doing what he did for a long time. A real fragment of my childhood that I wish can be reborn, I hope one day it happens.. (Sorry for my dumb rant, person who reads this dumb rant).

[KAISER-SS]

I still remember when Jordan says: *Do you wanna know a secret* ?

[belicina]

God, I occasionally read their channel about section, and the last sentence; "hopefully in the end, it'll be a tale worth telling", made me so sad. This feels like it is some type of tragic tale.

[mr.originality]

As a long time viewer and fan of VenturianTale, I did in fact join the fun around I wanna say 2015, and end up almost ghosting from binging the channel completely in August of 2019, this really does help me get the full feel of what happened and why it happened. VenturianTale may not come to my mind a lot, but the once sacred channel will forever be a wonderful memory to my heart and soul. It's said and it's true, all good things must come to an end

[BabylonGames]

Such a shame too. VenturianTale was such a wholesome channel, a rarity in YouTube gaming at the time, and especially a rarity nowadays.

[JRock]

Venturiantale suffers from what I like to call “the stampy cat paradox” which basically means that he didn’t die, we just grew up.

[gmrgamingrm]

It's so sad that this happened to them. Venturiantale was a big part of my childhood. I guess as I got older and started to watch people like Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, etc I just kind of forgot about Venturiantale. If he had just changed his content a little, he may have still been a titan of YouTube like he was in 2013.

[waltuhgaming]

This honestly is the most depressing moment of my life. To see one of my biggest childhood youtube channels in a state this. Hits way too hard

[elopeous]

Im glad that they didnt devolve into child grooming or sexual allegations. Ironic, the most saddest fall of a channel is when it fades into obscurity as we grow up

[CozmicGryffindor]

It’s extremely depressing seeing Jordan running the channel by himself. We left the glory days a long time ago.

[Keiinnn]

Well, he also has his own entire life now, he has a WIFE which is so fucking cool, I am so proud of him, and I miss the old stuff, his channel is such a nostalgia trip, and it sucks that he didn't change his content up to try and keep up...but I also find it admirable that he stuck to his guns, honestly as long as he is happy with what he does in life then that's more than enough for me and probably a lot of his old and new fans, I'm gonna miss his old content and the siblings being in the vids, but at the end its honestly a good lesson in life...things change...people have lives...and everything will come to an end whether good or bad and that's what keeps me from breaking down every time I hear the name Venturiantale, thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

[dbsfoxyfnafpokemon]

God who doesn’t love: Gertrude, Billy, Sally, and Papa Acachalla

[skeletonentertainment]

As a kid i've always associated Garry's Mod with Venturiantale, i couldn't watch ever other Garry's mod because i grew accustomed to their commentary