WI: No Angry Video Game Nerd

James Rolfe never films his first two videos in 2004. Maybe the whole online "Caustic Critic" trend he started doesn't happen? Your thoughts?

Maybe youtubers become less popular, and more based in After Action report model(when they write text how was play that streaming), or just less funny with mr Rolfe?
 
Something like that may still happen. Spoony was doing text reviews before getting into movies. I think once Youtube moves to the ability of people being able to make money off of views, something like it will pop up. The AVGN actually started off as a parody as I recall.
 
I think you have a real problem with pointing to one thing as the start of internet criticism going for the maximum rage angle. Posting absurdly negative reviews in other parts of fandom is the hallmark of people's whose web presence in some form or another goes back to the late 90s.
 
I have some examples of what would happened if James Rolfe didn't create his AVGN character...

* James Rolfe might still make his short films (or will go into feature length movies) that he did prior to playing AVGN and might have a different kind of popularity overtime.

* Doug Walker might still quits his job in the best way possible but like Rolfe, he also did few short films before he got famous so chances are he might do the same as James did in this scenario.

* Lewis Lovhaug might have a different career whether it's by:
- Still writing fanfics as PsyWeedle.
- Still writing books like he did with Angel Armor.
- Still writing comic strips like he did with Lightbringer.
- Become a Agony Booth regular reviewer due to the fact he reviewed Bat-Baby before he created AT4W blog.
- Might have his MST3K fan-made episode be discovered by Best Brains Production and will become the third host of the series (and might butterfly away Rifftrax and its spin-off properties).

Okay, the last one sounds very hard to believe and might be impossible but who knows what road he might take without James Rolfe's presence.

* Armake21, Playitbogart and Wiz War 100 might have a similar career but it depends if they have bigger success than ITTL or not without the precence of James Rolfe doing video game reviews. I would say the same accounts to Noah Antwiler as well.

* Brad Jones might never adopt his Cinema Snob character. However, he was known in small circles for making movies (not short films like the two above) before that and he might continue doing that.

That's all I can think of for now.
 
I think that there'd still be a Caustic Critic thing, it might just be different in nature.

I mean, Yahtzee started doing his thing independently of the Nerd. You might have it that critics follow his model of five-minute videos rather than the long reviews and VLogs we see now...
 
I think that there'd still be a Caustic Critic thing, it might just be different in nature.

I mean, Yahtzee started doing his thing independently of the Nerd. You might have it that critics follow his model of five-minute videos rather than the long reviews and VLogs we see now...
That's around 4 years off. Butterflies and all that...
 
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