Gaming Historian is 'Permanently' Taking a Step Back from YouTube

Norman Caruso, the creator of the beloved Gaming Historian documentary series on YouTube, has announced that he is 'permanently' stepping back from full-time content creation on the site. This news may come as a surprise to many fans of Caruso's long-running YouTube channel, and this is only the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the social media platform.

Caruso, who began his YouTube career all the way back in 2008, rose to fame over the years by creating extensively researched documentaries on a wide variety of retro video game subjects. Despite his content output rate being fairly light, the Gaming Historian YouTube channel still managed to accumulate over 1 million subscribers throughout its lifespan. However, Caruso's channel had been inactive for over 10 months after he released a video on the story behind the first video game cartridge in June 2023. It wasn't until only recently that Caruso finally uploaded a new video on the Gaming Historian channel, with his latest work being a nearly 90-minute documentary on the classic video game The Oregon Trail. Now, with this latest update from Norman Caruso himself, it seems like fans of the Gaming Historian will not be getting any new videos from him anytime soon.

In a recent tweet from the Gaming Historian Twitter account, Caruso unveiled that he made the «tough decision to permanently take a step back» from his YouTube channel. The main reason Caruso cited as to why he no longer plans to work on YouTube full-time is because of how the creation of his documentaries has taken over «most of [his] life.» Though he still enjoys making the show, he stated that he'd like not to treat content creation as a job, but rather as a hobby going forward. Caruso also announced that he's shutting down the Patreon account, which he launched back in 2015, on May 1, 2024. Since he's not going to be working on Gaming Historian full-time anymore, Caruso expressed that he's no longer «comfortable collecting donations.»

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