mcc
I watched, and enjoyed, the Dan Olson AVGN video. It mostly felt like a recap/coda/extension of the Lady Emily video(s) on the same subject, but he thanks Lady Emily at the end so I assume this happened in a cordial way.
I think, if you're in a position to spend hours watching deconstructions of mediocre media & internet culture, you should watch these 3 videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmC5Zte5RnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIn66K2_Wzg (either order)
Anatoly Shashkin💾
@jplebreton @mcc Interesting. I was there at the beginning of the AVGN, and enjoyed the early works quite a lot. In fact, AVGN inspired me to start my own YT channel. I was, however, always surprised by a slew of direct imitators of the style because I always realized that it was a character James was playing, and that it was a sketch show first, and everything else second.
mcc
@jplebreton When I watched that original Castlevania II video (I think it might be the first one? I didn't know that at the time) I imagined someone like, getting angry at a toaster. He puts bread in a toaster, and toast comes out, and he's like, shocked and surprised. Oh my god, why is my toast all brown and crinkly now?!
JP
@mcc yeah it's just pure performative rage as entertainment and on some subconscious level i could tell even then, many years before gamergate and reactionary youtubers, that this was headed somewhere bad
mcc
At the center of Dan's video, he discusses a short film "Wavelength" (1967) which is 40 minutes of an apartment bldg.'s lobby, a film that's only important because as an object it's strangely devoid of meaning and therefore forces you to project your own thoughts onto it in order to make any sense of it at all. I believe Dan's thesis is AVGN is the "Wavelength" of YouTube. There's not much to it, so if you try to deconstruct it you're really just talking about yourself & what you see in film.
mcc
Thinking about it that way, I enjoyed having Dan's alternate perspective to Lady Emily's on what is basically the same narrative ("AVGN's channel got less watchable because he decided he'd rather spend time being a father.")
I've now watched like 3-4 hours of Emily/Dan AVGN explainers and I have never watched a complete AVGN video. I watched the Castlevania II video when it first came out and was like "Why are you behaving this way?" and turned it off 40 seconds in. I never watched one again
JP
@mcc similarly, i don't think i've seen a single second of an AVGN video that wasn't being quoted in some other video like this. i didn't even make it past the title - "angry video game nerd? yeah, no. i'm good."
mcc
@dosnostalgic @jplebreton Something I keep noticing is that *people who make YouTube videos* seem to as a group be a lot more interested in AVGN than people who do not.
Anatoly Shashkin💾
@mcc @jplebreton I mean, I didn't really want to make YT videos, but at the time there didn't seem to be anything else to reach a non-targeted audience. So I started a YT channel. It really wasn't until, forgive me lord, Twitter that I actually found a form that fit what I wanted to express better, and actually got some recognition. But as Dan points out, yes, AVGN was inspirational to many just because he had a leg up in video production in the early days of streaming video.
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