James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,812 63.5%

  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 143 5.0%

  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 96 3.4%

  • Board James

    Votes: 443 15.5%

  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 270 9.5%

  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%
  • Total voters
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One of my friends text me this asking what happened to James Rolfe.
 
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This came up in my feed just recently:


Edit: the most stunning revelation here is that James may have ripped off Mike with the AVGN idea. At 4:00 it's revealed that Mike directed James, repeat, DIRECTED, James to act drunk and interpret Mario's life...


This is a real "holy shit, the emperor has no clothes" moment. The reality is that Mike is the true creator of the AVGN and James simply had more professional equipment and thought to review the material as a nerd character instead of just a random drunk dude. It's like the Bob Kane/Bill Finger creator of Batman but for the internet age and autistic!

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BrunoMattei said:
This came up in my feed just recently:


Edit: the most stunning revelation here is that James may have ripped off Mike with the AVGN idea. At 4:00 it's revealed that Mike directed James, repeat, DIRECTED, James to act drunk and interpret Mario's life...


This is a real "holy shit, the emperor has no clothes" moment. The reality is that Mike is the true creator of the AVGN and James simply had more professional equipment and thought to review the material as a nerd character instead of just a random drunk dude. It's like the Bob Kane/Bill Finger creator of Batman but for the internet age and autistic!

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Isn't this old news?
 
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Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
AVGN's sharp decline pretty much coincides with when Mike stepped back and stopped being involved with the show.
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Without anyone to wrangle him Bimmy is a completely useless tard.

With the slobs wrangling him, he's a mediocre tard.

With Mike wrangling him, he could have built an empire, but he would still be a tard, just one who was involved in fun content.
 
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Personally I don't think it's really important which one of them created what. We've known since the very beginning that Mike was involved with the creation of AVGN, James has never tried to deny this or imply anything else. The fact is that Mike doesn't have the charisma to be the AVGN and Mike himself has said as much. Mike wasn't good on camera and he wasn't comfortable with it where James loved being on camera and had natural charisma as the AVGN character.

In an alternate timeline where Mike was the AVGN on camera and not James, AVGN wouldn't have been any more popular than Irate Gamer or Game Dude.
 
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Dave The Diver said:
Seriously, out of all the things to criticize James for as a creator and actor his haircut is an absolute nothingburger when he doesn't try to cover it up or cope about it in any way besides maybe being selective in what video angles he uses
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There's a 1000 post thread in the DSP subforum just about his hairloss.
 
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I've never understood why James doesn't just wear a hairpiece when he's playing the Nerd. It seems like the obvious solution if he doesn't want the character's look to change, and it would let him shave his head when he's out of character instead of wearing hats 24/7
 
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neger psykolog said:
There's a 1000 post thread in the DSP subforum just about his hairloss.
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And that's pretty silly considering what a roach DSP is. But I'm not arguing. All I know about DSP lore is: "Never bet on DSP".

For anyone else reading this, there are posts on page 509 from @Permanent Resident Cope and @demicolon that concisely lay out the root issue that people have with James' hair (tl;dr - "the cope is bigger than the crime").

My pet peeve is still his FUCKING SHIRT, but at least now I understand where other people in the AVGN fandom are coming from.

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I've never understood why James doesn't just wear a hairpiece when he's playing the Nerd.
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My theory is that we the audience see the Fucking Nerd as a character while James has always just roleplayed himself (maybe amped up to 11 a bit for comedic effect). Thus James keeps playing himself despite getting older and mellower while the audience is hoping to see a comeback of an ACTUALLY angry video game nerd.
 
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Dave The Diver said:
And that's pretty silly considering what a roach DSP is. But I'm not arguing. All I know about DSP lore is: "Never bet on DSP".

For anyone else reading this, there are posts on page 509 from @Permanent Resident Cope and @demicolon that concisely lay out the root issue that people have with James' hair (tl;dr - "the cope is bigger than the crime").

My pet peeve is still his FUCKING SHIRT, but at least now I understand where other people in the AVGN fandom are coming from.


My theory is that we the audience see the Fucking Nerd as a character while James has always just roleplayed himself (maybe amped up to 11 a bit for comedic effect). Thus James keeps playing himself despite getting older and mellower while the audience is hoping to see a comeback of an ACTUALLY angry video game nerd.
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James doesn't really give a shit about games, he was just an actor that Mike got to make the first few videos. He doesn't play the games, do the research or write the scripts, and has said before that the Nerd is in no way an extension of himself.
 
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Mike Matei's Penis said:
It's so fucking bad. The highlight was that James said "James and Mike Mondays" in the update. That and the comments.
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I wonder how long it'll take before he disables the comments. Rex Viper is so universally disliked that not even Screen Wave wants that content on the main AVGN channel.
 
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Rex Viper is easily the worse thing to come out of the channel.

In a somewhat tangentially related discussion in another thread, somebody was saying how they can't watch earlier content of a youtube channel that they used to enjoy because of the current state of the channel. This made me think of AVGN and how I haven't watched a classic episode in years now. There's stuff that's current state is ruined that I can still enjoy like for instance I can still watch Star Trek: The Next Generation despite the stream of diarrhea that paramount has been expunging, even despite how much Picard did so much damage to the character. On the other hand I can't take Darth Vader seriously as a character anymore.

As for the nerd I just can't watch episodes I was fond of, it's like I know too much about behind the scene now. Any episode with Bootsy or "Kyle" are tainted because I know just how much James ended being a dick to them it takes any joy I had of watching them goof around together. I can't do James & Mike Mondays for the same reason. Just seeing James barely bothering to stay awake because he has to sit down and play video games with somebody he once considered a best friend. That's honestly one of the biggest reason why I hate this channel. James pushing away all his friends over this show, the ungrateful sack of shit. Especially when you think how much "Kyle" and Mike did for him. Kyle fucking recreated the nerd room in his garage at his new place and allegedly did it for free. And we all know James would be bagging fries at McD if Mike hadn't come along. What do they get for this? They get to be persona non grata.

Man, fuck James.
 
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Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
Rex Viper is easily the worse thing to come out of the channel.

In a somewhat tangentially related discussion in another thread, somebody was saying how they can't watch earlier content of a youtube channel that they used to enjoy because of the current state of the channel. This made me think of AVGN and how I haven't watched a classic episode in years now. There's stuff that's current state is ruined that I can still enjoy like for instance I can still watch Star Trek: The Next Generation despite the stream of diarrhea that paramount has been expunging, even despite how much Picard did so much damage to the character. On the other hand I can't take Darth Vader seriously as a character anymore.

As for the nerd I just can't watch episodes I was fond of, it's like I know too much about behind the scene now. Any episode with Bootsy or "Kyle" are tainted because I know just how much James ended being a dick to them it takes any joy I had of watching them goof around together. I can't do James & Mike Mondays for the same reason. Just seeing James barely bothering to stay awake because he has to sit down and play video games with somebody he once considered a best friend. That's honestly one of the biggest reason why I hate this channel. James pushing away all his friends over this show, the ungrateful sack of shit. Especially when you think how much "Kyle" and Mike did for him. Kyle fucking recreated the nerd room in his garage at his new place and allegedly did it for free. And we all know James would be bagging fries at McD if Mike hadn't come along. What do they get for this? They get to be persona non grata.

Man, fuck James.
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What exactly did James do to Mike that's so despicable besides merely falling asleep in James and Mike Mondays? I get that James fucked over Kyle Justin but I was under the impression that Bootsy was fucked over more by Mike than he was James. There doesn't seem to be any animosity between James and Mike, they both still have nothing but nice things to say about each other, it just seems that they naturally drifted apart as they did their own things. That happens all the time in real life.

And I dislike the current narrative that Mike is innocent, based, and the God of Cinemassacre while James is this evil, psychopath, heartless thief. It's not true at all. In reality James is just an autistic retard and Mike is also just an autistic retard and they both went into Youtube as a team, James handled most of the video making while Mike handled everything else. People pretend that James stole everything from Mike and then forced him in the corner to be his side character slave while forgetting that it was Mike that made the channel for James to upload his videos, managed the channel behind the scenes before screenwave was hired because James is a boomer and didn't know shit about Youtube, helped edit his videos, drew title cards for AVGN episodes, helped write a lot of AVGN videos, and that Mike was the one who encouraged James to be on camera in the first place because Mike didn't like being on camera at that time. James has never contradicted any of this and neither has Mike. James has been on record as saying that he only made the first few AVGN videos as an inside joke with Mike, and Mike was one of the big proponents of hiring screenwave in the first place because he didn't want to handle managing the Cinemassacre youtube channel anymore.

People say things like "James would be bagging fries at McD if Mike hadn't come along" but don't think about what Mike would be doing right now if James hadn't come along. It goes both ways.
 
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