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Phil wanting to be the AVGN will never stop being embarassingly funny.
And ironically enough, Phil IS the real-life version of the AVGN, except for the part where, you know... the AVGN is a character? An absurd, living stereotype made to fit the concept of its own show?
I guess that's the part Phil never understood. He probably saw himself and James Rolfe doing "the same thing" and figured they were one and the same, but because of circumstances out of his control (he did nothing wrong!) it was the AVGN who had success while he became a joke on the internet.
I mean, both rage, call developers stupid, go on sarcastic rants where they open their mouths and eyes wide, they review games... they're literally the same!
If you take out the fact that Phil did it for real and the criticisms that got him famous were on all-time classics because he was incapable of reading instructions or thinking for two seconds rather than reviewing crappy obscure shovelware with a script, a production that despite being low made it look like an actual show and some actual insightful information on retro gaming that was actually funny, it was actually the AVGN who ripped off his idea. Phil to this day will try to argue that Pewdiepie was ackshully, liTurally and pahsitively influenced by him and therefore the guy has no merit whatsoever, but somehow every reviewer will always point to James Rolfe as a reference and not Phil Burnell.
But it was all a character! Even though he acts the same to this day and one of the things that makes him unique (in his own words) is that he doesn't play a character nor is a clown that seeks for clickbait. And yet, I can't recall an instance where the character of the AVGN was as unlikeable as Phil on an average Level 1 pahdcast, even though he would destroy game cartridges with drills or other absurd methods.
