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.

[Pringles Can]

I honestly wonder if Kyle gets paid for using the theme song in new AVGN's?

No idea. Kyle seems to want nothing to do with James, so I would assume that Kyle gets nothing from him. I know bootsy had the same issue with the songs he wrote for James, so to expect Kyle to get some special treatment would be weird.

 

[BrunoMattei]

No idea. Kyle seems to want nothing to do with James, so I would assume that Kyle gets nothing from him. I know bootsy had the same issue with the songs he wrote for James, so to expect Kyle to get some special treatment would be weird.

The only way James would be legally clear to use the song is if he had Kyle sign a contract that the song was a commission and James owns it. It would be funny if Kyle turned around and turns out he does own or co-own the song and copyright strikes every single AVGN video.

 

[Pringles Can]

The only way James would be legally clear to use the song is if he had Kyle sign a contract that the song was a commission and James owns it. It would be funny if Kyle turned around and turns out he does own or co-own the song and copyright strikes every single AVGN video.

That would be hilarious to see Kyle do that. I can see James getting the rights years ago back when everyone were friends and both Kyle and bootsy thought James or Mike would never go full dick mode.

 

[Travoltron]

So Kyle pulled a "NO TIME! MUH KIDS!" on James?

 

[Mullti Port RDRAM]

That's the saddest podcast i've ever heard.

 

[Pickle Dick]

That's the saddest podcast i've ever heard.

Their the saddest podcasting nerds

 

[TrippinKahlua]

They filmed a bunch in one go just so it doesn’t get canceled as quickly due to inevitable unpopularity.

 

[Janny Jewsh]

April & James (Behind The Scenes)
[this was too spicy for r/TheCinemassacreTruth lol)

 

[RumblyTumbly]

The problem with James doing a podcast is that he's not really a very good host.

He's, on the surface, just a chill dude, but that doesn't make for someone who is skilled at guiding the discussion and keeping everything focused. He'd be better as the secondary person on the podcast rather than the person trying to guide the ship. And the other people on the panel are just his friends so there isn't much room for anything interesting to come out of it.

I'm going to compare this to Conrad Thompson, the king of the wrestling podcasts. He has successful podcasts with Bruce Pritchard, Eric Bischoff, Jim Ross, Tony Schivone, and Arn Anderson, and his greatest skill is asking tough questions and getting the wrestling stars to open up and even get into fights with. Something to Wrestle With and 83 Weeks would be missing something if Conrad wasn't there.

 

[Janny Jewsh]

lmao at these comments



I didn't cherrypick these, these are literally the top comments right now in both the unlisted trailer and the premiere:

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nice I made the screencap!

 

[TrippinKahlua]

April & James (Behind The Scenes)

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April tried so hard to remain behind the scenes even despite the “Mrs Nerd” blog posts.

James really seemed to maintain her anonymity in the early phase of AVGNs popularity. The marriage was announced to the internet the same week it happened.

James fucked up though. There was one obscure page on Cinemassacre at the time, depicting pictures of James and April visiting Scotland around 2006-2007.

Doxing her appearance wasn’t quite enough though, the page flat out had April’s name in it.

I learned April’s name and what she looked like well before the “Mrs Nerd - Caucasian Sausage Fest” controversy.

 

[Janny Jewsh]

April tried so hard to remain behind the scenes even despite the “Mrs Nerd” blog posts.

James really seemed to maintain her anonymity in the early phase of AVGNs popularity. The marriage was announced to the internet the same week it happened.

James fucked up though. There was on obscure page on Cinemassacre at the time, depicting pictures of James and April visiting Scotland around 2006-2007.

Doxing her appearance wasn’t quite enough though, the page flat out had April’s name in it.

I learned April’s name and what she looked like well before the “Mrs Nerd - Caucasian Sausage Fest” controversy.

Do you know the exact date of their marriage?

I have a theory once he got ball & chained by her, his content started getting worse

 

[Pickle Dick]

Do you know the exact date of their marriage?

I have a theory once he got ball & chained by her, his content started getting worse

I've read somewhere that they got married in 2007. In the few years following, AVGN was still, for many, in its prime, but I guess it all started really going downhill after they had their first child, and even worse after the second child, hence "MUH KIDS". I think James used his kids as an excuse as early as right before the AVGN Movie came out.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Yeah, Screenwave has been deleting negative comments on the podcast video. What a shock, I know.

 

[Gru]

I find his "muh kids muh no time" whining particularly funny, because not only are there tons of other youtubers who have a wife and kids and still produce content, but because this is literally James's dayjob, imagine going up to your boss at the office or some shit and telling him you have no time to work because you have kids.

Speaking of bosses and jobs, does anybody else get the vibe James doesn't consider youtube a "real job", despite the fact that he literally helped to make youtube and video content more well known? I get some people on the internet still go "hurr, streaming and video content no real job" but there's a reason why it's stuck around so long, it's because people are genuinely watching creator driven content over cable and shit, and this stuff does have effort put into it, a lot of times with actual teams behind it (example: this very channel), yet James just keeps going on about "no time, muh kids".

I would've found that a ridiculous idea prior to the BTS video, but the fact that he seems to have such contempt for the audience, and his lack of passion on anything youtube related combined with the fact that he's more focused on his autobiography and his 500 films and the 200th episode, because apparently milestones matter more than the content.

 

[Pickle Dick]

I find his "muh kids muh no time" whining particularly funny, because not only are there tons of other youtubers who have a wife and kids and still produce content, but because this is literally James's dayjob, imagine going up to your boss at the office or some shit and telling him you have no time to work because you have kids.

Speaking of bosses and jobs, does anybody else get the vibe James doesn't consider youtube a "real job", despite the fact that he literally helped to make youtube and video content more well known? I get some people on the internet still go "hurr, streaming and video content no real job" but there's a reason why it's stuck around so long, it's because people are genuinely watching creator driven content over cable and shit, and this stuff does have effort put into it, a lot of times with actual teams behind it (example: this very channel), yet James just keeps going on about "no time, muh kids".

I would've found that a ridiculous idea prior to the BTS video, but the fact that he seems to have such contempt for the audience, and his lack of passion on anything youtube related combined with the fact that he's more focused on his autobiography and his 500 films and the 200th episode, because apparently milestones matter more than the content.

You know, just reading through your post, I'm wondering if James has become unnecessarily stressed out due to his poor time management? I mean, see how much he complains about time? I think its been so long since he's had a job that he doesn't know how to manage time during the day. He could scale back the amount of new AVGN episodes that come out (probably the biggest source of this stress, given how he's quickly churning them out to get to 200) and focus on, well, everything. I mean if he's so worried about kids and his passions, why not just do that?

 

[ANF]

Those rumours about James attending special ed. as a kid might be true after all.

He outright said he was a sped in one of the episodes, that might have been in character though.

 

[Sonic Sez]

He outright said he was a sped in one of the episodes, that might have been in character though.

He said it in a non-AVGN video where he wasn't in character.

 

[ExtremeZap]

The podcast was mostly boring and not very well thought out.

A what ya watching segment is completely useless when recording these in batches, especially with someone like James who won’t have done anything.

The topics were all over the place, James clearly has zero to add to any video game discussion as his most recently played games were pretty old. He didn’t even seem to understand what Pokemon was. Why was so much time spent on Rex Viper when it’s clearly not a popular thing on the channel?

WTF was that excruciating conversation about mixing drinks?

More “no time is actually wasted time” moments as James talks about spending 100 hours editing the Hearts on Fire video….. that no one wanted or cares about.

If they have to do this podcast, get the slobs off camera, have James pick 3 or 4 topics he wants to talk about and get someone to host who can keep the conversation going on that specific topic.

Barely any memes, just boredom. I did like Justin having zero to add to the weight loss conversation though.

 

[northstar747]

I think the stress is the sponsor deals, where they need content to plug the sponsor. So they can't just slow down.

James is like George Lucas its clear his friends held him up but because he was the face of the show he got the credit.

Screen wave is like Disney.

Any idea on how much money James brought in over the years?