I'm convinced Mike Matei has pictures of James fucking a dog or something because there's no other discernible reason than blackmail to keep that retard around.
He's the reason why AVGN exists, he and Kevin Finn.
Mike drew all the titlecards, played and recorded footage of the games, bought new games and systems to feature in new episodes, searched for shitty games with the potential to be the subject of new videos, played character cameos (Finn did the same), managed the channel and all social media for Cinemassacre, and apparently, he wrote whole episodes for the classic era of the AVGN because James had no time to make two episodes every month.
Keep in mind that Finn was always behind the scenes alongside James' wife doing everything as well, from costumes to camera and props, and Finn was basically the sole director for the film because James is a sped who doesn't know how to make films (various accounts corroborate that).
I've come to the realization in the last few months that James is the sole responsible for the decline of his channel because everyone else was doing the work for him for all these years before, but they are all gone now. It can't be just a silly coincidence.
James Rolf is a horrible filmmaker with delusions of grandeur. He considers silly video game reviews below him, but that's what people want to watch him doing. It explains why he has this fixation with big skits and complicated storytelling in his videos, because that's what a film looks like in his mind, and he still believes he is destined to become the next Spielberg.
But in reality, he's just a "slow in da minds" sped. Seriously, he draw this shit when he was almost 20:
