They even tried to start rumors that the AVGN was a cuckold because there is a black guy in his movie.

What a bunch of ass avgn

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    That subreddit is such a trip! They are laser focused on such a niche set of grievances and all of that hate is massively out of proportion to how low stakes the subject is. Its like an art piece.

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      There’s a lot of transphobia and racism too. Who would’ve guessed that a bunch of people obsessively hating on a guy who makes YouTube videos are weirdo reactionaries?

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        Yes, they were angry that James (The Nerd) couldn’t play a game with Mike Matei (Basically the guy who played almost all the other characters, and he is weird) because James had to take care of the kids. They wanted James to play games for hours and hours when James in rl doesn’t even play games, he literally plays a character.

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      The only legitimate criticism of him I’ve seen is from Folding Ideas who just roasts his production set up. Like seriously? You bolted a $10 tripod to the ceiling to hold your key light?

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        Iirc James explained that he has his entire set built around his basement because it’s faster and easier on the production team (whom are no longer just James, Mike, Kyle and Bootsy).

        James also burns on DVDs ALL his videos and projects for some reason, I think only recent he bought those huge external SSD to preserve the videos.

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          His whole setup is wild. I kinda ibe with it and it shows how much you can do with basically no budget.

          Half his kit is just stuff he threw together in a day with junk 15 years ago and it’s still working.

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      Their criticism doesn’t even makes sense. Who the fuck gets angry at a person because they have receding hairline. It’s like they want the Nerd to ramin like he was back in 2006/7

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      Yes, it’s very bizarre. Iirc it started as a censorship free place because Mike Matei used to mod the AVGN subreddit and he didn’t take lightly to criticism. Mike used to be the real life Angry Gamer (he was the one who owned the games, consoles).

      While it started with valid criticism, specially towards Mike:

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      Mike posted a picture of his dick on the AVGN subreddit because there was a joke around he had a big dick. And then there was a second controversy because was actually smaller than in the photo.

      . And because Mike used to drawn and write a racist comic (but that was like during the 2000’s).

      Then after James and Mike kicked out Bootsy, because Bootsy said the N word, the subreddit came a garbage place where they decide to attack James while using slurs and other shit. They are now angry that James has a receding hairline.

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        Then after James and Mike kicked out Bootsy, because Bootsy said the N word,

        I knew Bootsy got kicked out and they were mad about it, but this is the first time I’m hearing he daid the N word. Wow makes sense why he’s gone now.

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          Maybe I’m misremembering things, I know someone said the N-word, but it wasn’t James (I think he’s a lib guy who voted for Hillary), I think it was one of the new guys. I believe Bootsy left mainly because he had a fight with Mike and because he didn’t agree with the amount James was paying him. I think James only paid him for some things, like editing, but didn’t pay for other things, like the music Bootsy did for Board James. The same thing happened with Kyle, but I believe Kyle left mainly because he has a family and works in real estate.