I cant tell you how hard it is growing up with watching Aleks and James and seeing how much they did for each other for all of that to just stop. I understand some youtubers are coworkers, and they were, but they seemed to be genuine friends. It’s weird longing for two people who are youtubers but lmao I miss seeing their friendship and dynamic with each other
same holy shit omg okay every ask i get is going to definitely get a 100 mile long ramble from me. are you prepared.
let me tell you this: there will never, ever, ever be a friendship quite like james and aleks’ on youtube. never.
of course there are so many people who are besties on their channels, but you never really watch them grow with each other. it’s rather their chemistry is off-screen, like they grew up together (rhett & link style) or they met through a collaborative event with many others (kinda lunch club esque), or even you don’t know how they met exactly, they just kinda happened to pop up (dan & arin)
with james and aleks you can literally watch their development since 2012. you can watch how they became acquaintanced through mutual friends, collab partners, co-workers, friends, good friends, a duo, to (this is just my take) platonic soulmates.
legit the fact that they decided to run away and create a whole ass youtube channel featuring their chemistry, because they knew their chemistry was good and they worked so well together, is something fucking else.
james said all those years ago that every night he thinks about if he stayed neck-to-neck with felix, he would’ve never met aleks. and just assuming a reason why he’d say that, i’m thinking that he and aleks really changed each other’s lives. it was such a specific thing to say and the fact he thought about it so frequently fucked me up back then.
aleks could’ve strung cow chop along ‘til the bitter end. he could’ve pulled a game grumps and just declare another person his next co-partner, like brett or jakob, really anyone. he didn’t though. he knew cow chop was the idea of james and aleks’ chemistry, their banter, their ideas and creative efforts, and cow chop wasn’t cow chop without his other 50%.
i’m not trying to ignore the other members. they’re all amazing, james and aleks chose wonderful people to help with cow chop.
but to me, cow chop will always be that “what if” idea that came from aleks and james— what if there was an ‘us’.
you’re right, some youtubers are co-workers. but to me, if aleks and james were Just coworkers, they would’ve separated a long time ago when they left the creatures individually. they still put their heart and soul into cow chop when it wasn’t even making money and james pulled all the funds out of his own pocket.
there was something more here.
there will never be another james & aleks. if there is, they’ve still got years to go to get to their level of synergy.
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