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
    2,854
I still can't understand why he needs to hoard literally gazillion terabytes of uncompressed past footage. My tweaker friend used to have fun with doing 3 backup copies on 3 separate drives when going off the rails with his "habit", because you never know when you might need those! But that was a result of paranoia - if James needs some past footage he can literally download one of his videos off Youtube.
We are talking about the same guy who had issues with wire management and his first thought was to drill a hole though his childhood desk. Clearly James either does not know about this, or he was somehow too lazy to go download videos. Speaking of his technical ability. I wanna see his hard drives so badly. I would not be surprised at all if he did not use RAID at all and is not aware that you can use raid 5 or 10 in case a drive fails.
 
So much of this reminds me of other reviewers. People already mentioned the Linkara parallels, his refusal to use emulators reminds me of Spoony's need to use an actual Commodore 64 (and even said he won't review Ultima Escape From Mt Drash until he finds a legit copy... of a game that was literally buried in a landfill), and the boneheaded, inefficient technical decisions remind me of some stuff Phelous said about Doug Walker.

No wonder all those guys were inspired by AVGN, they're literally just facets of his personality, isolated and magnified.
 
Slobwave's stellar management of Cinemassacre got the channel to the point where AVGN knockoffs have more subs than James does.

Joueur Du Grenier (or, as Mike Matei once put it, "this fucking bum") recently passed Cinemassacre with 3.6 million subscribers, and his views far surpass AVGN's as well.
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Top-notch help you've got there James.
 
Slobwave's stellar management of Cinemassacre got the channel to the point where AVGN knockoffs have more subs than James does.

Joueur Du Grenier (or, as Mike Matei once put it, "this fucking bum") recently passed Cinemassacre with 3.6 million subscribers, and his views far surpass AVGN's as well.
Top-notch help you've got there James.
I would say its a little unfair to compare the two because frenchies (or what ever foreign country the YouTuber originates from) will easily flock over to their national star compared to someone with international notability as James. However, a bigger factor is that Jouer doesn't appear to post as regularly as James does, which means the videos could potentially be of higher quality than a new video on the Cinemassacre channel (correct me if I'm wrong on that though, I don't understand French).

And again, I think James should stick to a schedule like that, you don't have to put out new AVGNs every month (let alone two new AVGNs every month), just take your time with them and do an episode on a game you've played that's really bad.

Speaking of Jouer Du Grenier, James actually camoed as the Nerd in the former's Christmas video late last year:
 
Anybody else ever see these?

This guy was making these anti-AVGN videos back around the time the AVGN movie was in production. I thought they were kinda funny. He takes particular umbridge with James Rolfe for e-begging for money to make the movie.

They're downvoted to hell because being anti-AVGN was not a popular stance at all back then.


Oh shit, it's Wrestling Jesus. A legend in his own right. Check out the shit he made about amazing atheist.
 

This is a snapshot of a playlist of AVGN episodes from 2014 (the year the show celebrated its tenth anniversary). I was looking through this to compare the views he gets on his newer AVGN episodes to what he got on older episodes.

It shows that most of the recent episodes at the time still had under 2 million views, with the "Making of" video not having even reached 1 million views at the time. Most of these videos since have had more than 2 million views, meaning they might've blown up one way or another.

On one hand, that could mean the new AVGN episodes of now could blow up somehow in the distant future, or on the other hand, this rationale is probably another way for me as an AVGN fan to cope with the poor quality of newer episodes.
 
I heard a interview about how he missed out on addressing the Ghostbusters controversy and the excuse literally was “No time my kids.”

I hope April, Darcy and Rolfe Girl 2 (I know the name of firstborn but not number 2) are ready to become a lolcow family.

James is being primed for trolling, this video proves it.

Giving a tour of this technological mess is on par with Chris Chan’s house tour. Isn’t James concerned about fire hazards?
 
If I remember correctly, people were giving him shit for working with ScrewAttack specifically because of the feud between Craig Skitsmas and Thomas Hanley. People on the old forums were livid with Craig once they split.
I heard a interview about how he missed out on addressing the Ghostbusters controversy and the excuse literally was “No time my kids.”

I hope April, Darcy and Rolfe Girl 2 (I know the name of firstborn but not number 2) are ready to become a lolcow family.

James is being primed for trolling, this video proves it.

Giving a tour of this technological mess is on par with Chris Chan’s house tour. Isn’t James concerned about fire hazards?
He's still not a lolcow. He will still be remembered as one of the best internet personalities who avoided drama for the majority of his career. Mentioning that sub in the newest video was a horrible mistake though. It was very unprofessional to feed into them. You can tell this entire video was James being a verbal puppet for either Schott or Silverman. That room does look like it's on the verge of a fire hazard.
 
If I remember correctly, people were giving him shit for working with ScrewAttack specifically because of the feud between Craig Skitsmas and Thomas Hanley. People on the old forums were livid with Craig once they split.
Was that the biggest factor that led James to leave ScrewAttack, or was it something else?
You can tell this entire video was James being a verbal puppet for either Schott or Silverman.
Funny you mention, I had that thought in the back of my head. I wonder how much of the video was James regurtitating whatever two wanted him to say, or how much of it what him acting like a boomer (he is 41, after all) and telling those darn kids (TheCinemassacreTruth) to get off his lawn. There were some behind the scenes stuff in that video, but most of it was him being uncharacteristically defensive.
 
Was that the biggest factor that led James to leave ScrewAttack, or was it something else?

Funny you mention, I had that thought in the back of my head. I wonder how much of the video was James regurtitating whatever two wanted him to say, or how much of it what him acting like a boomer (he is 41, after all) and telling those darn kids (TheCinemassacreTruth) to get off his lawn. There were some behind the scenes stuff in that video, but most of it was him being unusually defensive about the state of the show.
It was because the contract ended. YouTube was becoming more profitable around that time and James was big enough at that point maintain his own channel without help. Screw Attack was also doing fine existing off of Death Battle by that point,

Realistically, the only huge mistake in his career was the movie. It turned out horrible and is probably one of the contributing factors why he'll never get to work on a major Hollywood production. It doesn't help that he left that absolute man child to make content for the channel those few months while he was away.

Say what you want about Screenwave but I personally don't think the content is anywhere near as horrid as anything Channel Awesome has ever produced. The majority of James' content at this point is still excellent and surprisingly holds up. This guy is in his 40's now, has a family, and has consistently been making entertaining content for the better part of 15 years. It's hard to get mad at him for a few subpar videos.

EDIT: I just remembered why I came to this thread. Here's an archive of the Cinemassacre site going back to 2005. It chronicles James' life updates as the Nerd starts becoming more popular. Very fun read, https://cinemassacre-archive.github.io/blog. He made a short film about his car crash
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And again, I think James should stick to a schedule like that, you don't have to put out new AVGNs every month (let alone two new AVGNs every month), just take your time with them and do an episode on a game you've played that's really bad.
Nope, no time for that! He has to rush 2 episodes per month for that paid promotion whenever he likes it or not.
 
Say what you want about Screenwave but I personally don't think the content is anywhere near as horrid as anything Channel Awesome has ever produced. The majority of James' content at this point is still excellent and surprisingly holds up. This guy is in his 40's now, has a family, and has consistently been making entertaining content for the better part of 15 years. It's hard to get mad at him for a few subpar videos.
It's not much that people are giving him flak for having parental responsibilities and what not, its more that he keeps using his parental responsibilities as an excuse. It can't be understated that James can't communicate with fans all that well; you'd think he'd be a little more upfront about being burnt out from doing AVGN for well over 15 years, would he?
Nope, no time for that! He has to rush 2 episodes per month for that paid promotion whenever he likes it or not.
>No time to make less AVGN episodes

Pretty accurate for this whole thing
 
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Now that James posted his "how my setup works", I begin to wonder where did he go to college? is it a fly-by-night college?
there's so many things he did wrong in the video. I can understand if he is just an ordinary youtuber shooting inside his house, but he has studied filmmaking, he should know better that there are better, cheaper and easier solutions to his retarded setup like this
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Now that James posted his "how my setup works", I begin to wonder where did he go to college? is it a fly-by-night college?
there's so many things he did wrong in the video. I can understand if he is just an ordinary youtuber shooting inside his house, but he has studied filmmaking, he should know better that there are better, cheaper and easier solutions to his retarded setup like this
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I think he's just so old-fashioned he doesn't know (or want to know) more efficient ways of making videos inside his house. I have to question why he couldn't just use two lights max for lighting the room. It wasn't this bad back when he was recording off of MiniDV tapes, but ever since he got HD cameras, he's seemingly overcompensating for how rather shoddy the room really looked by having all of these lights surrounding the room.
 
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:

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^ Fair enough then, OK, well how about keeping Mike in the closet like the good helper monkey he is? Because whenever he's included in anything he immediately detonates whatever worth it might have had, I don't think he's funny. He's got zero charisma. Whenever he's paired up with James it seems like he's trying so hard to be edgy and relatable while James is the more laid back one. If that's by intent then Mike is an even bigger dumbass than I staked him for.
 
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