🌟 Internet Famous 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.

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Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votos: 1,905 63.7%

  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votos: 148 4.9%

  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votos: 100 3.3%

  • Board James

    Votos: 468 15.6%

  • Monster Madness

    Votos: 278 9.3%

  • James' movie reviews

    Votos: 93 3.1%
  • Total de votantes
    2,992
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Fester Shinetop dijo:
Nothing much on Kyle but according to an old AMA from one of his construction job workers on TCT, he apparently left over money and creative disputes, which sounds startingly similar to Bootsy's.
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Actually I forgot one damning detail. In the infamous first episode of the Cinemassacre Podcast where James and Crusty Justy awkwardly drone on about Bootsy's love of baseball, James mentioned he reached out to Kyle, but he ghosted him. If that doesn't scream some level of resentment, then I don't know what will.
 
Fester Shinetop dijo:
Actually I forgot one damning detail. In the infamous first episode of the Cinemassacre Podcast where James and Crusty Justy awkwardly drone on about Bootsy's love of baseball, James mentioned he reached out to Kyle but he ghosted him. If that doesn't scream some level of resentment I don't know what will.
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Yeah I mean look at RLM. Those guys seem to legit all like each other. With AVGN, I never got too much of a vibe that anyone other than Mike really liked James and even that got strained pretty big over time. I imagine his wife is a big part of why too beyond just the usual James is Autistic (which he of course is).

It's probably for the best for everyone involved that they didn't go shitting all over James and the rest. The one that really went for it was Kieran and look how that turned out for him. BTW, anyone know what he's done since then?
 
mlanguishi dijo:
Yeah I mean look at RLM. Those guys seem to legit all like each other. With AVGN, I never got too much of a vibe that anyone other than Mike really liked James and even that got strained pretty big over time. I imagine his wife is a big part of why too beyond just the usual James is Autistic (which he of course is).
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Even Mike has made a light dig at him here and there. iirc he criticized James for being a little too obsessed with poop jokes in the AVGN vids recently.
mlanguishi dijo:
It's probably for the best for everyone involved that they didn't go shitting all over James and the rest. The one that really went for it was Kieran and look how that turned out for him. BTW, anyone know what he's done since then?
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He left content creation, left the internet for the most part, but still streams from time to time. Nothing but good memories. Honestly even I don't entirely believe Kieran's tell-all given how Newt called him out for bashing on James behind the scenes. I know the plagiarist is an unreliable narrator, but Kieran does seem to be the type to be a snake in the grass...
 
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Tiresome dijo:
If he had decided to bankroll that piece of crap all on his own, he'd be an order of magnitude stupider than he already seems to be.
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Even Chris Stuckmann was smart enough to get his suckers to pay up front for his piece of shit bomb. It's so funny that he's pretty much disappeared after Shelby Oaks was a BO disaster, especially during the ongoing 'youtuber movie revolution' going on right now.
 
mlanguishi dijo:
Even Chris Stuckmann was smart enough to get his suckers to pay up front for his piece of shit bomb. It's so funny that he's pretty much disappeared after Shelby Oaks was a BO disaster, especially during the ongoing 'youtuber movie revolution' going on right now.
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I've only heard of one person who ever personally bankrolled a film project start to finish and that was Frankie Coppola, who had no lack of money at the time, and it utterly broke him, for years. Even with a crap indie project, it's something that no one in the film industry ever does, with good reason.
 
Tiresome dijo:
I've only heard of one person who ever personally bankrolled a film project start to finish and that was Frankie Coppola, who had no lack of money at the time, and it utterly broke him, for years. Even with a crap indie project, it's something that no one in the film industry ever does, with good reason.
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Kevin Smith did it with Clerks and that worked out VERY well for him.
 
Jeff Dunham dijo:
Pat's not going to be a thing in the next few years. The whole 80s/90s nostalgia wave is dying off and its all he's ever had. Even AVGN videos are struggling to clear 1M these days and Pat's channel rarely gets a video to clear 50k. There's just nothing else for him to really talk about. Retro gaming has been done to death and he doesn't delve into stuff like hacks, decomps or anything keeping that scene alive because he'd rather watch Wendy's commercials from 1978 on Twitch.
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The 90s nostalgia may last for quite a while, even decades as its the childhood of the millennials, so there is always going to be some market for it, much like how boomers adored the 50s. It being the last "normal" decade before 911 and a brief golden age of peace also helped to form a lot of good memories attached to that era.

Retro gaming being dead is completely true. When AVGN started out in the 2000s it was a fresh, interesting topic that many people didn't know much about and it was hard to find information on it, much less personal experiences, so even a guy talking about his childhood games was hot content. Nowadays, the whole retro gaming thing is really, really spent. Every single detail, every single game, technical detail and event of its time has been done to death, emulation and aftermarket shit also got to the point where you could download the ENTIRE fucking NES library in one go, plug in an USB-fied NES controller in your PC and bing bing wahoo away. Reproduction consoles, refurbished consoles, CRTs, programs that simulate CRTs on your big ass flatscreen, cheats, guides, savestates, scans and libraries of every gaming magazine ever produced are also available. There is no mystery of discovery left, no half-forgotten, mythical golden age of gaming left to explore. No dusty beigeboxes you found in an attic whirring to life again, no treasure trove of old magazines left to be found with new knowledge, nothing. The most obscure, minor details of the 80s gaming culture are just as accessible as choosing cereals in Walmart. To be honest, this is why I liked early AVGN so much, it was a personalized glimpse into a place and era I did not live in and did not know anything about. I loved when he kept up bringing detailed about his childhood and how gaming felt back then, it was truly informative and entertaining and felt genuine too, you can tell how PISSED he was about Roger Rabbit and its ASS controls. But now you find a gorillion carefully curated channels exactly for that to the point it becomes banal streamerslop noise.

Perhaps in 20-30 years again it will become popular again, as the memorabilia gets whittled down to genuine, expensive collectors items, millennial gramps retiring find themselves with a lot of time to spend wistfully reminiscing about their childhood and gen alpha gets nostalgia for their childhood nostalgia wave
 
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