Why Disguised Toast Stopped Playing Hearthstone 

You forgot his main point which he said in one of his videos: riot simply treated him better. When he was invited to events with blizzard he had to pay his own tickets and get his own hotel room, and then sit at a panel (basically being used for free promotion). Riot on the other hand actually treated him well and how you should treat someone you are inviting out to help promote your event (payed his ticket, payed for a room, etc.) and at the end of the day he just got sick of blizzard (as we all haveh

I was a regular viewer of his content during his technical HS era. Years ago, when I attended a local event where there was a small HS tourney going on, I saw the mask sitting out at a random table. I tweeted at him to ask if he was there, and he went out of his way to find me. We conversed for a few minutes and offered to take a picture with me. I never got into his post-HS content, but I always respected him for going out of his way to meet up with me and shake my hand. He didn't have to do that.

Dude had a meteoric rise. I remember when he was just a humble small streamer with a cardboard cutout mask. His rise was 100% deserved btw, dude worked his ass off and was super charismatic.

Toast was simply too good, way ahead of the rest of the streamers, blizzard and the collective stupidity ended up rejecting him.

Okay this, I did not expect. Dude this is next level hearthstone content. Keep at it man.

I still miss Toasts Hearthstone stuff :'( A big part of hearthstone love died for me with him leaving. Such a great guy

these times are what hearthstone is missing nowadays, if you watch some old videos, for example dalaran heist tournament you can see all the amazing stuff hs doesnt have today, community gathering, fun, legendary broadcasters and players all together creating event, fun, memes, it was not just mindlessly killing your opponent, but there was a story behind the event and also in the actuall game, metta, so i highly recommend it if you havent seen it

What a blast from the past he was one of the best HS content creators ever - Thanks for the reminder!

I miss him so much. He was such a vital part of the Hearthstone community :(

This was great and a good retrospective. Would love to see one on Firebat.

If Rarran keeps posting these, he will be acknowledged as Hearthstone historian

Maybe this is the direction your channel was looking for. Hearthstone Archives or something. Talking about stuff from the past, explaining it. This video was super enjoyable, but even if this is not the way, I really hope you find your path as a content creator. Here is to a good 2022.

Disguised toast is the reason i started playing hearthstone. I loved his videos

I miss him :( I don't play any other game so I can't get into the content he is doing right now but I deeply loved his Hearthstone content. There are a few streamers I really miss like Firebat or Kolento, but Toast is for sure on top of that list.

I really like player showcases! If it's not too much trouble you should definitely do more of these

Really enjoyed the video and the series so far! Keep making more!

Thanks for covering all these guys, used to binge watch them back in the day and its nice to see what theyre up to, pretty cool

Nailed it Rarran! This was great!!! Very interesting and the narrative was on point. Kudos for keep trying to find the sweet spot with your new videos. This one is definitely something else 👌🏻

fuck yeah! the content we deserved. thank you Rarran. you look fantastic btw

It’s sad to see creators have to deal with this, but it is a reality. This type of bullying isn’t going away so I hope Rarran if you do have these unfortunate, or worse, interactions come your way then there is zero shame to get help or find someone to talk. Great work with the video sir. Thank you.

I love this newer angle that you are taking man!! Keep on doing what feels right and you will find the success that you are looking for.

Love this new series, keep it up Rarran!

These retrospectives are awesome! It's cool to take a look back at hearthstone history and get some details you didn't know!

Fantastic video would be happy to see more like this

I feel like toast just got tired of hearthstone. The gameplay, the company, the community. Tbh as a player who started playing in late 2017, I feel him. The game has changed a lot, blizzard made some questionable decisions, added more modes not to make the experience more fun but to monetize the game more, the original team who made the game and its core design philosophies left, big events become standard and unmemorizable, a lot of og streamers and pros left the game, toxicity runs rampant on ever hearthstone related website/content.Sometimes quitting is the best start. He made some really good friends and found a nice revenue income through other games. Toast is a winner to me.

Great video. I'd love to see this kind of stuff.

Oh snap! I love these kind of "documentary" videos and it's nice to have a HS one, I remember the last one I've seen was on DougDoug's channel (formerly Gloudas) and it was about Dog, aaaages ago since DougDoug, sadly, no longer make HS videos. Nice video, man! About Toast, I've never knew about a lot of things mentioned here, it's so strange to know that he got so much hate back then with no apparent reason, it's almost as if people have this need to hate things just because they exist, it's crazy.

Great vid. It sucks that Toast got treated so badly by the community. Also, it'd be neat to see more vids like this, where you give a mini history lesson about famous players from the early days of the game, or even old decks that were once meta-defining.

Great video Rarran :D! hope to see more of this c:

Toast got me into hearthstone during witchwood. I really appreciate him.

That was informative. Great vid, really. Enjoyed it

you came out of nowhere for me and im loving your content

Toast was the reason I even got so into hearthstone. He seems like such a chill guy. Great video!

I love these kind of videos, just came from the Firebat video. Would love to see videos about Zalae and Purple as well.

Hey Rarran I am watching your documentaries and card history videos with interest. Keep it up.

Love these spotlights/video essays

Played against him once in dumpster legend around mid 2017. It was an amazing meta. There were dozens of tier 1 and 2 decks. I was watching his stream, and then I saw my name on his stream. Fun match. I ended up conceding the match at the end because I pretty much knew his entire opening hand, but I had the game. He was playing a meta counter warlock deck that ran both the crabs that eat Murlocs and Pirates, doomsayers, and more. A whole bunch of whacky shit. It was great.

it's nice to see Rarran do a different type of video recently after series of Mercenaries which I have not been a fan of. Although I haven't watch his videos lately I still totally respect the guy for whatever he wants to feature on his contents and his life, same goes for everyone. Do what you do and like what you like, it's your life. Thanks for the humors. Good luck man' and more power.

Toast was in my top three content creators for hearthstone his interaction videos were very educational is occasional deck guide would be great and more than anything the atmosphere that he tried to create for his viewers was one that I think anyone should have been happy to be in, it was funny he was charismatic and short of a joke now and then he never did some of the things that other creators do to make their public feel lesser, I miss disguised toast hearthstone videos almost as much as I miss firebat

Loved this and would very much enjoy seeing similar where are they now type videos on HS streamers of the past.

THIS is content I like! Thanks Rarran

Awesome video, hope it does better than previous ones

Really great and insightful video

Ik you are looking for new directions for the channel and I would really like some more hs history. I've been playing since gvg and there has been so much that has changed over the years that I'm frankly nostalgic for. More player breakdowns or even a look back at old metas would be awesome

Great content Rarran!! Keep up the awesome work 👏👏 you look fantastic too 😁

Yes more of these, you should do a video on the most game breaking decks pre 2019

Personally, I got into Toast's content pretty early on into my HS life (probably late 2015) and I really enjoyed the fun interaction videos. They made him stand out and he was very different. As he switched to more normal gameplay, I drifted away because the content just wasn't for me. Never understood the reddit hate boner but I did write a comment or two about how his shift did lose me (which is fine, people have different tastes). It was pretty sad to see nobody replace him as the interactions guy because it was genuinely unique content and he had a really fun way of doing it. Went back and watched his "Playing hearthstone with a dancepad" video the other day and it's still really good today. Sucks that people went full-blown arsehole on him, glad he's doing well for himself now but still not really the content that interests me.

You look fantastic. And this video is fantastic. I'd love more of these. You did a great job. I miss toast doing hearthstone content, but I'm glad he's still youtube.

This is great content bro, lots of ex hearthstone streamers to talk about like Amaz & Kolento

Great video! More of this!

I still miss Toast to this day. He was my favourite content creator in such a high level that since he left I don't even have a favourite content creator at all. Toast was my favourite and he is the only who ever was my favourite ever. I wish he would come back full time to HearthStone.

came here willing to watch the whole video but Toast says why in like the first 30 seconds. Thanks for putting that there. I'm sure other people will find the rest of the video interesting but that's enough for me! That being said I appreciate u put it at the start and have liked/subbed.

Like it or not he change from who he was. Maybe he did not know that, but people saw that and that's why start to negative comments about him.

This was amazing Rarran!

I realize this cannot be your only avenue for content creation, but this video is just effing solid. I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. Thanks for the great content.

Awesome vid

Thanks for reminding me of how amazing Toast was and why I followed him from the Beginning

Disguised Toast was a legend! I used to watch him and Trump back in the day. Amazing video dude!!! I enjoyed every second. Keep them coming x

Good choice of video man I love it you look fantastic !

It was actually toast that inspired me to make my yt channel Rarran. If you look when I posted my first video it was around saviors of uldum. I love toast and I’m so happy for his success. U look fantastic

So my favorite Toast moment was when he was at Blizzcon. A bunch of HS streamers were all in the same streamer area and streaming on each other's accounts. Toast was chatting with Firebat, who had to go somewhere, so Toast jumped on Firebat's account (at Firebat's request). The viewers all wanted him to prank Firebat in some, usually mean, way. Toast chose to disenchant Firebat's fiery bats (a common; this is barely a prank) and make golden SI:7 agents (his voice line is where Toast's name comes from; he says "This guy's toast"). It was a gentle, adorable prank, which kind of sums up Toast to me.

Do more! NOW! This video is my favorite hearthstone RU-vidr reminiscing on my old favorite hearthstone RU-vidr

God, I remember back when Toast used to upload those card origins videos. I never really had the opportunity to play WoW for myself, due to how expensive it was, but I absolutely adored the character designs and the lore of Azeroth, and inevitably fell in love with a free-ish game adjacent to WoW: Hearthstone. Those card origins videos were a godsend to me when I was first getting into Hearthstone. It was so unbelievably cool to see that link established between the cards that I came to know and love and the games that they originated from. After getting hooked to that style of content, I promptly subscribed, back when he had around 15k or so. I came for the card origins, and while I missed those videos, I still loved his coverage of bugs, new deck archetypes, and his experiences at actual tournaments. Then he moved on to TFT, which I personally didn't mind too much, since I think at the time I was actually taking a break from Hearthstone AND playing TFT, but once he moved onto more generic content and titles with a broader reach like Among Us, my opinion of him started to sour. Basically, thanks for making this video. It really helps to understand why he made those changes to his content, and at this point, I have nothing but respect for him. Not only is it wrong for me to expect content from a creator who essentially owes me nothing, but Toast had good reasons to move on from Hearthstone to TFT and other games.

Retrospectives on the early content creators of HS would be neat. Fortunately I was along for the ride on most but it's definitely awesome to go back and really show people what this community used to be like. And that's not a knock on the people in the HS community now but more towards Blizzard for not fostering it the way they should and used to back in the fledgeling days and now only seeing dollar signs (as is their right they are a business). But retrospectives on the likes of Hafu, Noxious, Raynad, Firebat, Trump, Forsen, Dog, obviously Toast is done, Kibler, ChanmanV, the list goes on and on and some are still active in other modes or still play but man getting any of those creators together to discuss the current state of a game that helped them make their mark could be fascinating.

used to watch lots of Ratsmah and Amaz as well and love to troll those 2. However if you were to make another series of this I will highly recommend reckful. His career started out so hilarious (who can forget him missing lethal) and turned out so tragic

Hey man you are a great film maker! You should do more like mini doc stuff

nice , should create more this type of content

So many content creators left after him and with it the great future hearthstone had

One of my fave streamer and he also the one that make me love hearthstone.. missed you toast.

I havent watched your content due to lost interest in HS as a whole. But I watched this cause of curiosity and to see well known professional and admired community of HS. For me I have no incentive to keep playing when loss of interest due to it's not my job. But for someone like you or toast or firebat. I can understand an appeal to keep playing beyond enjoyment. This content is unique from the HS community and I enjoyed it. Thank you

Im glad most of these where are they now videos typically end with people still doing well

I loved disguised toast . I loved his intro .. “heh-heh this guys toast (disguised toast)” he always so clever with both his content and his decks. He was definitely the top hearthstone content creator in my eyes cuz he kept me watching just cuz there was always something surprising with his videos. Hope all goes well for my ole favorite hearthstone player

Nice documentary, sweet

Toast was my favorite streamers for a long time, even stuck with him through a good amount of Among Us until I was tired of the game. Thanks for giving us the backstory Rarran, I didn't know a lot of that

Dope vid

This is making me so nostalgic

Would like to see one for Lifecoach. He was OG but quit very early on.

He was my favourite, I ve literaly stayed up for2 3 am to watch him live

That was 5 years ago?? God damn, I’m old

"a hearthstone miracle" is still one of my favorite videos ever

Awesome Vid

Nice video!

Seeing disguised toast become such a huge RU-vidr and streamer, literally playing alongside PewDiePie, has been such a great journey. I quit hearthstone pretty much around the time he also did, but man his OG videos with the cardboard mask were iconic

Toast playing exodia mage was amazing to watch

Damn I didn’t know about this so sad to know people hating on him because he was good and everywhere on hearthstone Reddit but in the end because of haters he ended up growing his community bigger and even more content where we got to see him as a person rather than just a smart hearthstone streamer, we also got to see how he was so smart on a ton of different games creating even more funny moments.

bit late to the party but I'd like to see a retrospective on The Brode

I still watch toast but a video showing how he went from HS to 3.5 million subscribers would be very interesting. Like you said its very hard to switch games nevermind growing that much.

Thanks for the history lesson!

How come you haven't talk about the whole reason he went from Blizzard to riot(league of legends) content when he was talking about it on "offline TV"? Basically the whole story boils down to Blizzard sending him an invitation of testing new things for them(I think i was an E3 event) and just paying for the trip(no trip back, hotel, food expenses or time invested) Meanwhile, Riot payed for Toast's trip, trip back, hotel, breakfast for 2-3 days and about $500(don't remember if this part was true). Not to mention, the way he was treated when he was at the Blizzard event. He had to wait 45mins because it wasn't ready and he wasn't informed until it was too late. He received no staff help whatsoever and 0 free goodies. While, in the Riot event, he had a staff member by his side during the entire time and was reachable in his hotel for more detail information on the event. He received free goodies, merch, free drinks. He felt really appreciated for his time unlike Blizzard.

Great content

I had heard that the people at Blizzard did not treat him well during an event.

More contet like this plz😊

He was my favourite Hearthstone youtuber (though for my entire life I actively watched 4 Hearthstone related channels), and I remember being realy disappointed when he stopped making videos on Hearthstone, and I did not even know why, because I didn't follow much media at the time.

Toast is a legend and is what kept me playing hearthstone in the past.

i followed toast since his hearthstone days and its practically what made him and started his confidence 1000 IQ persona. Totally understand why he left though I would like to see him back some day when blizzard stop their greediness (which probably means never)

Toast was best thing in hearthstone content community. While everyone is just streaming their leader climb (or now bg climb) he really made fun stuff that even people who are not that competitive could watch just for fun. Such a sad turn of events, really miss his hs content

I love Toast

The part at the end about online hate is so real. I think a lot of people don't realise just how hard it would be to deal with hate on that level. It's easy to shrug off a few haters, but none of us have experienced literally thousands of people hating on you every day for clips you didn't even post for no reason. Unless your a massive content creator on that level you just can't imagine what it's like to deal with. It's really sad what these Internet trolls do to someone's self esteem on that scale.

I just found your channel and... has everyone quit? Good.

Disguised Toast fate in Hearthstone in a nutshell: "Wo eine Genie auftaucht, verbrüdern sich die Blöden!"