Part of me is worried if AVGN ever does a collab with someone like Red Letter Media, Screenwave fatties are going to fuck it up just like they did with Macaulay Culkin. I think the only reason James Rolfe doesn't get shit unlike other YouTube reviewers like say the Nostalgia Critic or the Animation anaylasis community is because he's genuinely a nice guy that makes really shitty decisions. He puts his trust into a bunch of fat slobs who've never done that kind of content, which is partly why Bootsy and Kyle left in the first place. I don't think it was James, but rather people like Ryan who tried to buy them off.
Keep in mind, this mostly started after the failure of the AVGN movie, hell I'd say it goes further back to when Cinemassacre and that guy who created Cheetahmen tried to scam people out of their money. I remember watching Archfiend's video years ago going into length about how Mike Matei basically got AVGN fans to waste their money on a fundrasier dedicated to a physical release of Cheetahmen, only for it to never actually happen. Which pretty much started the bad taste in people's mouth about James and his business strategy.
I do admit, that Cinemassarce's fuck-ups are nowhere near as bad as the disaster that happened with TGWTG, but it's still not really looked into by most. AVGN fans just don't realize how much of a shitty person people like Ryan from Hack the Movies, Justin Silverman and pretty much anybody from Screenwave actually are. It's painfully obvious at this point that James Rolfe wanted to end the AVGN character a long time ago and that he secretly hates doing it. He'd rather just make stuff like movies than continue using a character that he's been doing for nearly 20 years. But since it makes profit, he does it anyway to pay the bills. Overall the quality of Cinemassarce is going to become worse, especially with Mike gone since he was the writer for the majority of the classic episodes. So expect the flanderization of the Nerd continue to increase.
Most AVGN videos from the earlier days would have the Nerd go in detail about the history of certain games and then slowly become angry the longer he played it, actually seeming like he was genuinely pissed off at how badly programmed it was. The newer videos however heavily rely on the Nerd being extremely pissed the moment the episode starts and joking about how he lives like it's the 80s and doesn't know what modern technology is. Even going as far as him using something like a Commodore 64 as a personal set-up. That to me is basically part of the decline, that the Nerd as a character is heavily flanderized to the point that they chose a few traits of his and rolled with it. I mean, who needs writing anyways?
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