It feels like the backlash James got from the 2016 Ghostbusters review is what completed his Bimmyfication into a lame and inoffensive character. Like he was never especially edgy in his non-AVGN video, but him getting scared of further backlash made him lose any edge or coolness he seemingly had before.
to boldly flee truly is a postmodern masterpiece and one of this generations best statements on hyperreality
a bunch of 30 year olds with fake personas who met on the internet coming together and creating a 3 hour student film composed entirely of pop culture references... doug was truly ahead of his time
my internet armchair theory is that Doug had a sheltered/Catholic upbringing, discovered swearing and violence in college, and found those the funniest things ever.
ditto with James Rolfe. he has a whole anecdote about how an uncle LITERALLY said the F-word to him once.
Yeah a lot of people back then managed to get a decent following just by using a cheap camcorder and screaming into the microphone about generic stuff like George Bush, 4kids, Sonic 06, etc
Back then everything on Youtube was like 144p so yeah didn't really matter if you could make the best looking video, it was going to look like shit on Youtube no matter what.
because he only reviewed movies that normies liked, he just happened to dislike the ones with the most originality. he was just your average imdb user with a youtube channel
I agree I like Pan videos but I hate Izzy , I feel like that lard pozzed ideas and presence halt Pan professional development , I think the only reason he keep Izzy close was because the few contacts in the animation industry and his doormat personality that never told him to frick off
>tasteless pleb confused matthew
I can't believe he actually stole that shitty MSPaint avatar lmao. Also, him trying to bait NC into a feud was cringe.
Something Awful has always been pretentious/elitist but they managed to be edgy without just saying "kek fricking troony moron homosexual" like teenagers saying naughty words.
Shame they've deleted or delisted a lot of videos they "now regret" (including all the BillyMC ones ;_;).
Yeah, I liked retsupurae.
The videos got delisted after Slowbeef and Diabeetus developed troll's remorse. They established a policy where they'd remove any video making fun of you, but you had to ask. Billymc took them up on this after years of those videos being up because he could never escape the retsupurae memes. Fortunately, all his videos got reuploaded.
But even after they stopped trolling LPers, they still made good videos riffing on shitty games, with Darkseed 2 being their magnum opus. Their Kickstarter Nonstarters series was also good (better than what other people shitting on Kickstarter were doing at the time, like idubbbz) but again troll's remorse hit them and many of those videos are gone as well.
As for not saying homosexuals, yeah, that's not true. They called FFL2and3Rocks (who would later make Irate Gamer parodies as the Third Rate Gamer) a homosexual over and over again in their retsupurae of him.
Even funnier: that retsupurae features a pre-gender blob Shmorky (with a somewhat normal voice) calling FFL a homo.
The Weird Al thing of asking for permission was the way to go. I love the video where the guy randomly bursts out laughing because he's been watching Retsupurae. Most LPers were happy to be riffed.
Shmorky now claims his normal voice was actually a fake voice, and the squeaky voice is his real voice. His BPD gf having a mental breakdown is such a fricking rabbit hole man:
https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_o1w43x4GGX1v772mro1.mp3
BlackBusterCritic was great. One of the first lolcow commentator channels. Used to reason with Bart Simpson and Thomas the tank engine coomers and try to become their psychologists and also made one of the first Chris chan history videos.
everyone would later betray james including kyle the guitar guy and douge walker
he gave them everything and they betrayed him over female ghostbusters...what a joke.
The feud leading up to the Brawl was great. Kickassia was great. Suburban Knights was a disaster.
Doug never betrayed James, they just never collabed again. Kyle Justin became a construction worker.
Doug was on rental reviews and had james on a video about Looney Tunes
It feels like the backlash James got from the 2016 Ghostbusters review is what completed his Bimmyfication into a lame and inoffensive character. Like he was never especially edgy in his non-AVGN video, but him getting scared of further backlash made him lose any edge or coolness he seemingly had before.
to boldly flee truly is a postmodern masterpiece and one of this generations best statements on hyperreality
a bunch of 30 year olds with fake personas who met on the internet coming together and creating a 3 hour student film composed entirely of pop culture references... doug was truly ahead of his time
I like the Star Trek III references and the conclusion to FilmBrains arc across the trilogy.
Imagine it being your job for over a decade to make videos and you have no fricking clue what people want to watch other than "not you."
>D*** and B***
dick and balls?
Top guy is D*** aka Doug(Nostalgia Critic), bottom guy is B*** aka Brad(Cinema Snob)
my internet armchair theory is that Doug had a sheltered/Catholic upbringing, discovered swearing and violence in college, and found those the funniest things ever.
ditto with James Rolfe. he has a whole anecdote about how an uncle LITERALLY said the F-word to him once.
Not really, no.
Which ones do you remember Cinemaphile?
Looking back it’s crazy how little production value and technical knowledge you needed to get a following back in the day.
Yeah a lot of people back then managed to get a decent following just by using a cheap camcorder and screaming into the microphone about generic stuff like George Bush, 4kids, Sonic 06, etc
Back then everything on Youtube was like 144p so yeah didn't really matter if you could make the best looking video, it was going to look like shit on Youtube no matter what.
i feel like i remember watching a few of these people but cannot recall any of them outside of a few familiar names
i feel like at this point its better to have your legacy tarnished (spoony, darksidephil, wingsofredemption ) than to have it fade into obscurity
RebelTaxi is the only one here who still makes good content
Also it was kinda funny how much of a tasteless pleb confused matthew was
How was Confusedmatthew a pleb when he mostly criticized movies that basic normies like (Lion King, 2001, Revenge of the Sith)?
because he only reviewed movies that normies liked, he just happened to dislike the ones with the most originality. he was just your average imdb user with a youtube channel
I agree I like Pan videos but I hate Izzy , I feel like that lard pozzed ideas and presence halt Pan professional development , I think the only reason he keep Izzy close was because the few contacts in the animation industry and his doormat personality that never told him to frick off
>tasteless pleb confused matthew
I can't believe he actually stole that shitty MSPaint avatar lmao. Also, him trying to bait NC into a feud was cringe.
Retsupurae were great.
Something Awful has always been pretentious/elitist but they managed to be edgy without just saying "kek fricking troony moron homosexual" like teenagers saying naughty words.
Shame they've deleted or delisted a lot of videos they "now regret" (including all the BillyMC ones ;_;).
Yeah, I liked retsupurae.
The videos got delisted after Slowbeef and Diabeetus developed troll's remorse. They established a policy where they'd remove any video making fun of you, but you had to ask. Billymc took them up on this after years of those videos being up because he could never escape the retsupurae memes. Fortunately, all his videos got reuploaded.
But even after they stopped trolling LPers, they still made good videos riffing on shitty games, with Darkseed 2 being their magnum opus. Their Kickstarter Nonstarters series was also good (better than what other people shitting on Kickstarter were doing at the time, like idubbbz) but again troll's remorse hit them and many of those videos are gone as well.
As for not saying homosexuals, yeah, that's not true. They called FFL2and3Rocks (who would later make Irate Gamer parodies as the Third Rate Gamer) a homosexual over and over again in their retsupurae of him.
Even funnier: that retsupurae features a pre-gender blob Shmorky (with a somewhat normal voice) calling FFL a homo.
The Weird Al thing of asking for permission was the way to go. I love the video where the guy randomly bursts out laughing because he's been watching Retsupurae. Most LPers were happy to be riffed.
Shmorky now claims his normal voice was actually a fake voice, and the squeaky voice is his real voice. His BPD gf having a mental breakdown is such a fricking rabbit hole man:
https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_o1w43x4GGX1v772mro1.mp3
BlackBusterCritic was great. One of the first lolcow commentator channels. Used to reason with Bart Simpson and Thomas the tank engine coomers and try to become their psychologists and also made one of the first Chris chan history videos.
What happened with Game Dude?
Imagine the smell
COME GATHER ROUND PEOPLE, WHEREVER YOU ROAM
AND ADMIT THAT THE WATERS AROUND YOU HAVE GROWN