Pro Gamer Compounds - JonTron 

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This is so painful. It’s like an 8 year old’s idea of what running a business is like. “Yeah and soda would come out of the desk and we could just play games all day and we could have like meetings sometimes and stuff.”

Nothing screams "fun" like a corporate office environment.

"Because hell is no longer a place only accessible after death" is such a raw line and it's that kind of quality that I've come to expect and enjoy from JonTron

I don't know why but the words "money laundering" keep popping into my head.

"This place is insane!" Blank white walls, an industrial ceiling, exposed pipes and utilities, and tables with the same generic pc gaming set up facing away from each other, all in one giant room. Insane is the correct word, but I'm questioning his context.

We've turned a fun activity, gaming, into a hellish corporate dystopia, this is the most exciting thing ever!

"It's like Willy Wonka's factory, but for gaming!" _Right down to the disappearing children!_

“Hate to be the bearer of bad news Gen Z, but literally nothing good has ever happened in a compound, EVER.” Bro I fucking cried

These “gamer compounds” are 98% regular business space with a single room they lock the “gamers” inside of

If I snipe a guy and find out that he got so tilted he needed to lay in one of those tubs I'll fucking die of laughter

22:53 I love that the “outdoor” area is indoors. Really suitable for pro gamers

"I'm not gonna pay $5000 for a bath with a lid" says the man who paid $2000 for a six foot garden gnome

The idea that I could be 6 beers into a modern warfare session and my stun grenades and molotovs gets someone so cheesed that they recluse into a literal pod to get over it fills me with joy.

"Because Hell is no longer a place only accessible after death" is a really good line

This is how you "react" to video. He's not just streaming it and pausing it to say a few words. I enjoy how JonTron actually puts in effort and editing to make a new perspective in the video.

11:08 "Black and white, our team colors." ...well, if that doesn't just sum up the *stark dreariness* to which they've reduced video games.

This is definitely the fucking darkest timeline, I couldn't imagine anywhere I'd wanna be less than the gamer gulag with the high school bois.

This is the strangest combination of "how do you do fellow kids?" and what 8 year olds thinks running a company is like.

Remember when gaming was nerdy and frowned down upon? Can we go back to those days please?

I literally refuse to corporatize my gaming hobby. How am I supposed to get stoned and press buttons when some jerk wants to put me on a schedule?

People: "We want Jontron to do video game videos again." Jontron: "I got you."

The most painful part of this all is the grown ups guys acting like hype teenagers and then failing to hype anyone around them consistently...

The average Japanese Business person's workspace will make me happier than working in a Gamer Compound.

The fact they made a gamer compound video BEFORE IT WAS EVEN FINISHED is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. They had to capitalize on the influx of gamer compound videos I guess

"Hell is no longer a place only accessible after death." -Jontron

Gamer compounds: *When you're too busy being focused on a screen,* *You don't need to notice the authoritarian dystopia being fashioned around you.* *RADICAL! FAR OUT!*

I laughed out loud when I heard that the "Gamer Castle" was named after HOT POCKETS!! Truly beyond parody, these compounds are...

As a Dutch person the jokes are even funnier, every Dutch bit is just german words

You know, when he said "Gamer Compound," I wasn't expecting the gaming room to look like an ACTUAL compound: Solid white walls that stifle imagination, hard corners, the "ticker tape" feed reminding you of your place - and the chef's kiss, the big logo of the corporate sponsor, a mortgage company, the most pro gamer profession of them all. None of the designs even feel "slick" or "contemporary", it all feels genuinely dystopian.

“Because hell is no longer a place only accessible after death” is the best line I’ve heard in a long time.

This looks like if an AI was told what an arcade was, and was told to create its own in a dystopian future where the concept of genuine happiness no longer exists

Best feeling I ever had was beating a team in valorant, rewatching the livestream and seeing that they were in a compound

you know you're old when you think "damn that gaming castle must have an insane electric bill"

JonTron is like a cryptid. A couple million people see him, then there’s a huge period of time where there are no sightings.

Only in a state like California would they think to make office compounds for fucking gamers! Because when I wanna play one of my PC RPGs again, I wanna be in an office cubicle where I can be surrounded by corporate advertising. Definitely think it’ll add to my immersion when I’m playing Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines as a Ventrue debt slave.

Upon rewatching, I learned that 100 Thieves and Cash App ended their partnership, not sure what happened to the compound

"Hell is no longer a place only accessible after death" Excuse me, sir. I would like to steal this quote.

Office workers: I wish I could work at home, online. Gamers: I wish I could I wake up early to drive to an office, probably hit traffic, just to stream.

This is why I stay faaaaar away from the big cities. This shit is uncanny and creeps me out.

That redbull coming out of the hole in a desk was some of the funniest shit I've seen in a while

"Because Hell is no longer a place only accessible after death" I've never felt a quote quite as much in my life after hearing about a hot pocket castle...

It's like a competition to make the most overstimulating and uncomfortable interior space possible.

that placeholder joke about the two soon to be replaced presenters had me in actual stiches i dunno why it was so savage i love it

I am in my simple room on my simple bed playing my simple switch. I will simply have more fun here than I would in these overly complex "gamer" rooms.

Everybody is struggling to find housing and these guys are like "let's turn this airplane hangar into a computer lab for like, 10 dudes"

It's like if Prison had a gamer compound lmao

“Lazy boy on the lazy Susan!” Legend inspiring another legend. He even got the Beetlejuice music

18:56 >Where a lot of big announcements have been made. >dude with earbuds in not listening

Jon has been looking a lot healthier recently, probably because of all the pro gaming he’s been doing

John playing "Hurt" on a keytar at the end is somehow the most thematically fitting thing to finish this video with

Jon: "HYPER INFLATION IS IMMENANT!" Also Jon: 12:36

You will stream in the pod. You will eat the bugs. You will drink the G Fuel.

The funniest thing is that they have these huge building meant for “gaming” but have like 10 computers actually set aside for playing games.

“Nothing good happens at a Compound!” - JonTron, 2022. Jon ain’t wrong.

i love that he started playing johnny cash at the end

I don't think the "Hot Pockets Crust Tocket Pocket Hocket" joke gets talked about enough. Shit has me wheezing laughing

Imagine the mental and emotional fortitude required to say “100 Thieves Cash App Compound” in front of a camera with a smile on your face, and then proudly show off your Rocket Mortgage League of Legends Training Room, without breaking down in hysterical tears from the existential dread of knowing this is now your life

I always love how these places have like 50 million desks or humongous rooms or thousands of computers and then there just like two people awkwardly shoved together playing roblox or something while the rest of the room is just completely empty

Those gamer compounds look like the kind of places that are designed to take the fun out of gaming, and to suck out your soul and leave you an empty husk. A constant reminder of who owns you now.

21:45 I thought he said "Lazy boy, gamer virgin" for a sec LOL

Once they inevitably collapse in the next five years, that building is going to be a great office for some tech startup that also crashes within five years

I don't like to throw around the word "cringe" too much but these dorito gaming compounds and hot pocket castles are something else I tell ya.

“Imminent Hyper-Inflation” If only Jon knew, how right he would be

I would actually want a full cover of hurt from Jon tron

Not gonna lie, the dutch guys dunking on the "automatic" energy drink dispenser did get a chuckle out of me.

I love how that "castle" is just an old warehouse full of overpriced props they got scammed with(like the Lazy Boys and the fake temple).

Playing videogames in my own room is more comfortable than those gaming offices. lol

"Man, that's crazy how Silicon Bank failed how it did. Wonder how that happened..."

Love how companies have captured the nostalgia of gaming in the school library. All they need is a teacher looming over your shoulder for the effect to take full force.

"We heard that blue light gives people that sit at screens all day eye strain and headaches, so we made an entire room dedicated to nothing but blue light"

These people have no concept of ambience. Jontron's studio is infinitely more wholesome to game in.

8 months later. "imminent hyper inflation" really hits different now

"Gamer compound" sounds like what you would call the grime that builds up on video game controllers.

As an elementary school age child, I used to draw secret underground forts that I thought were amazing. Food dispensers, massive TV walls, flaming spike pits to catch intruders. It's incredible how close the design philosophy in these compounds is to what I drew in a spiral bound notebook.

I remember the simple joy of a chuggaconroy let's play back in 2009. How far we've fallen 😢

These influencer compounds and stuff are such a massive waste. These influencer people don't even live in reality. Seriously. Their entire existence is completely fabricated by massive corporations throwing money at them and telling them what to do. Their existence is so fragile. Just a few people need to decide to stop watching them and their entire life is over ad they know it. And it will happen one day. Probably sooner rather than later. Then there is no way at all to come even remotely close to making the amount of money These corporations were throwing at these people, no regular job will pay that and they have no skills to have a regular job anyway. So they're pretty much screwed once they get thrown back into the real world again and realize that everything they knew before wasn't real

The avgn reference is my favourite thing ever, "I got the lazy boy on a lazy susan"

These companies are gonna be mad when they find out a lot of good gaming content comes from people in their bedrooms using maybe a grand worth of a streaming/gaming setup.

Jon was built to walk through a football field with exaggerated shoulder motions while holding a mic

The fact that gaming, which was a fun activity to blow off some steam and escape into another world(s) became THIS - is actually quite depressing

When I hear the words "Gaming Compound", I'm thinking a big ol building in the middle of nowhere, with armed guards outside while the best gamers in the world sharpening their skills in their gaming dojo with the gaming grandmaster watching his proteges reaching to the top.....not corporate office dystopia!

I didn't think it was possible to build cringe. These guys have proved me wrong.

Yesterday a guy with a 100 Theives hat came to my work and I had to keepu myself from laughing while thinking of this vid and the hotdog hole

Is everyone gonna ignore how this man predicted "Imminent hyper inflation" so casually like that at 9:00

I remember arcades being a fun environment, pumping in quarters, scarfing down pizzas and soda. It was fun. This seems sterile and sad.

The "Gamer Castle" towards the end just seemed like a good way to get tons of eye-strain; given all the garish lighting.

The TSM compound looks like a Counter-Strike map. Very thematical!

I love Jon's subliminal messaging. No wonder RU-vid hasn't been recommending videos, he knows too much!

Imagine building a gamer compound without an ant farm going along the entire hallway that feeds ants into your mouth while you're in your gamer pod.

These compounds look like the complete opposite of what you'd imagine a "gamer compound" would look like, everything is so sterile, not an ounce of personality in the entire complex.

"Crust Tocket Hocket Pocket" made me nearly piss myself laughing

what a corporate dystopian nightmare

A sensory deprivation tank for when you're done with those 30 hour pro gamer WORK shifts.

You know “thieves” and “cash app” shouldn’t be so close to eachother in a logo

Please don't ever change bro, you are one of the legends.

I vote to see the Alibabah Float Tank!

Most of these “gaming rooms” look more like a penitentiary or a school’s janitor closet. Sick Red Bull machine though, that will boost morale for sure!

I love how every one of these compounds has a "relaxation/unwinding room" cause sitting down and playing video games is no longer relaxing to these people 🤣

He made a chemical 'compound' joke. I've seen this 4 times and just now I realized.