But the weirdness of has reawakened nostalgia in the former X-Play host. This year, I would say, emotionally nourishing. In , Pereira faced his own hardships when, in an effort to save his Twitch show The Attack launched in , he turned to view-botting, a disgraced practice where channel owners falsely boost view numbers.
Pereira owned up to his actions in statements to Polygon , saying, "I'm tragically defeated by it all. Two years later, Pereira tells Inverse : "I've had varying degrees of success with production companies and start-ups, and I've had no shortage of walloping failures. I've definitely learned more from the failures. Similar to Sessler, Pereira is spending recognizing how much his old Attack of the Show! Eastern on Twitch and YouTube. Eric Francisco. Before Twitch, there was G4. The show covered tech, gaming, and pop culture, with some episodes on the floor of events like E3 and Comic-Con.
Above: Pereira and Bailey at Comic-Con Mind and Body. Or did you just think it might be better to leave that chapter of your life in the past? KP: When it was announced, I mean, I got excited. Part of me was equally surprised it took this long for it to come back. Anytime you seem to get more than like five like-minded nerds or hyper passionate folks get together about anything, they would always reminisce so positively about G4.
They'd always come out with, "Oh I miss this show," or " Oh, E3's coming around again and I wish that team was there doing it again. And so, I was like, "Why hasn't it come back? And then when it came back, there was definitely that moment of like, "Oh man, I'd love to play again. I'd love to be involved but I'm in such a different space. Would I even belong? And what would I have to say? Because again, like I said, there are personal and professional insecurities that permeate everything because I'm a human being and, spoiler, flawed.
But when I said, "Okay, let's do it", and saw the script and we showed up on the day, it all melted away. It really was like the band was back together and we all played our part and it sounded good. There weren't any rusty solos. We had a good time.
And from then on, I was like, "Oh, that's right. This is an amazing thing. It was an amazing time. And a common refrain has been if I could go back and do it all again. There's that lustful, "Oh, man, if I knew then what I know now. In fact, the kind of opportunity that people don't ever get in their lifetime.
And now to get a chance to suit up or strap in, whatever analogy you want to go with, and do that again with what we know now. Yeah, sign me up. I think that's what I said, and I think I got signed up. I think they bought it. Now I know the power and the privilege that comes with a show and a platform. It's a chance to refine comedy, to discover what coverage of the same old topics, but in a new presentation and style would be today.
A chance to raise a new generation of talent under the same banner that we helped grow. I get all tingly in ways that I will not describe to you. But about that privilege and opportunity, because it really is. The ability to try it again is really fantastic.
CB: You briefly talked about the reunion special that you were part of that released last year. What did you think about the fan reaction to that with it being the biggest piece of new G4 content that has released so far? KP: When we filmed that thing it all felt natural and great.
And at the end of the day, we're like, "Well, okay. We'll see how it cuts. We'll see how it goes. We live to fight another day. We'll do another one tomorrow. So I got the chance to watch it live. We pulled over at a rest stop, because after the reunion special, we did a little live hit as well on the other side of it. So we were literally in the parking lot of an I-5 restaurant.
I was coming in hot. It was at two frames a second because again, boonies with an LTE modem. I mean, I was so genuinely cool because, from frame one you had, I could see the fans, like yourself, that had watched before that recognized the winks and the nods here and there and it still resonated. But what was really great was to see people discovering it as a new thing like, "Oh, I had heard about this.
What is this about? I mean, that was great, and I feel like, it's certainly not taken for granted that G4 meant a lot to hundreds of thousands. But we feel such a huge responsibility and also refreshing the brand and making sure that it's applicable to an audience today, getting those new eyeballs. So, that was a wonderful first step that even though that reunion special wasn't intended to be the special for the new audience.
The fact that they seemed to like it as well and gravitated toward it and started signing up and subscribing and joining the Reddit and the Discord. I'm thrilled with the reaction. Over the moon. CB: Speaking to Attack of the Show specifically, I'm sure there isn't a lot you can say right now about the show's new iteration, but how much are you looking to keep it similar to what it was in the past? KP: I know the focus is on the B4G4 content because it is a chance for us to kind of re-introduce ourselves, to bring in some new eyeballs and to test some new ways of presenting content and sort of flex in those ways.
So that's where the bulk of the attention is going right now. But to specifically answer that question, it was so funny, I think it was , or so, must have been because we had said, "Oh, we're going to put YouTube on television.
We're going to show clips from YouTube. I have been with G4 for the past ten years, and have clawed my way up the corporate ladder from production assistant to executive-producer and host…. Pereira is now the second G4 personality to be leaving the network, as Adam Sessler, who hosted X-Play, recently quit due to a contract dispute. On his blog, Pereira says he is working on some new projects, which includes a new show that will air on SyFy, including other digital content.
Change is often met with fear and uncertainty, sometimes with sadness or anger; and occasionally that negativity manifests itself into horrific visions of a falling sky. No offense, Brian. Share your thoughts! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Email Address. Search for:. In response to those who say that Attack of the Show is dea, Pereira said, Change is often met with fear and uncertainty, sometimes with sadness or anger; and occasionally that negativity manifests itself into horrific visions of a falling sky.
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