Yo HQ, Please Don't Burn down Scott

If you're not playing HQ, please hurry and catch up with the times. The app, past the co-creators of Vine (RIP), is extremely popular and extremely unproblematic: Twice a day, at 3 p.m. and 9 p.thousand., yous can open the app and participate in a live trivia show — answering, aslope tens of thousands of young man users, upwardly to 12 questions of increasing difficulty. If y'all get all 12 correct, yous win a cash prize. Information technology's an entertaining style to look up from your monitor and actually interact with your co-workers at 3:00 each twenty-four hours. (Or, it is until you all realize you're non actually every bit smart as you thought you were, and then are forced to admit it to each other.)

The all-time thing about HQ, though, is not the money. It's a guy named Scott. Scott Rogowsky hosts nearly of HQ's shows — occasionally replaced by a perfectly nice woman named Sharon, who is good, simply no Scott — and, if the alive comments ("quiz me daddy") during each game are to exist believed, has developed something of a rabid fanbase.

Only during a recent interview with Taylor Lorenz at the Daily Fauna, Scott managed to become himself into some trouble with HQ's CEO, who wasn't pleased the host had done an interview with the news outlet. After being told that Lorenz was interviewing Rogowsky, HQ CEO Rus Yusupov said "Scott could lose his job" if the interview ran. Why? For (completely inexplicable) reasons similar this:

When the Daily Beast read Yusupov a quote from Rogowsky proverb, "I tin can make people happy and give them the trivia they and so desperately love and want. Information technology's been so smashing to build this community," Yusupov implored the reporter to "take that out."

Asked for clarification, Yusupov replied that Rogowsky was absolutely not allowed to say that he "enjoys making people happy and giving them the trivia they want."

In a later telephone call, Yusupov walked dorsum his comments and told the Daily Animate being he never threatened Rogowsky's task. Just in case that's not true, or he decides to modify his mind again, here are a few of the reasons nosotros, the loyal HQ-ers of Select All, believe Scott Rogowsky has got to stay.

The style he commits to keeping words coming out of his mouth even when he's not actually sure what he'due south saying.

The other nighttime I played a game in which Scott flip-flopped between saying "Enya" — pronounced properly — and "Anya" while reading a music question. Information technology hurt my soul a trivial bit, only Scott, unfazed, soldiered on. That's only how he is.

His religious delivery to riffing, even when no riffs are available.

Scott'south talent is rooted in his ability to take some extremely dry trivia questions and answers and riff on them in often-nonsensical, oftentimes not fifty-fifty funny, means. Sometimes he calls question five "question fiver," for no reason anyone can sympathize. "Ben Affleck … skillful old Benedict Affleck," he said, bafflingly, in one contempo game. This commitment to riffing, rhyming, and punning, even when there is absolutely no humor to be found, is an inspiring brandish of persistence in the face of claiming.

The timbre of his vocalization when he screams the word "Roughshod."

If an HQ question knocks out a substantial number of players, Scott will declare information technology a "SAVAGE QUESTION." A shattered animation volition cross your screen, and the sounds of breaking glass and Scott yelling, "SAVAGE! It'Due south Fell, I TELL YA!" will haunt your dreams forevermore.

The dumb things he says that make yous feel smarter, even when you go a question incorrect.

Chances are skilful that, unless you're some kind of supercomputer-brained human being, you will get a question wrong at some bespeak playing HQ. Scott will make you feel better about this because, as you're nursing your intellectual wounds, he'll undoubtedly be saying something ridiculous and slightly skeevy and yous'll get to think, Well, at least I'thousand non that guy.

That, uh, burnished await in his eyes.

We'll let you lot figure this ane out for yourself.

The way he'southward not really all that funny.

To be articulate, Scott is not an objectively good host. He'southward not peculiarly funny. His barrack is bad. Half the time he's just babbling to kill fourth dimension between questions. This is Scott's appeal. HQ wouldn't be half equally much fun if he were a good host.

Long live Scott!

Yo HQ, Please Don't Fire Scott