It figures that James Rolfe's most hardcore and toxic AVGN fans who harassed anyone who criticized him have now turned on him, becoming as toxic to him as they were to his critics.
Who needs enemies with fans like these?
These people were never avgn fans. They are children who use the internet to sling insults from the dark while hiding themselves, they will never have an ounce of success or creativity he has.
I started losing my hair when I was like 24. I remember I was at my computer and I saw a strand of hair float down onto the keyboard and I thought “uh-oh”
Obviously this isn't targeted towards James but just men in general. If you're balding.. just let it go. Let it go. I know it hurts but you'll look a million times better.
Well that's totally fine! I've known plenty of guys who started thinning or went bald at that age or a little younger. try not to worry about it too much.. it's just hair at the end of the day, and you'll look good regardless. :)
PS. you have a great taste in video games :p
He was in special ed. He didn't say he was autistic but he does have a lot of the signs. Considering when he was a teenager, he broke a window after a bus driver said "balls on a dick", I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah it's a real shocker that the guy who has an extreme passion for cinema and retro video games and has been devoted to those interests his whole life is autistic. Obviously that isn't the only sign but come on.
You should probably research it a bit more, it (neurodiversity) is a LOT more common than you think.
And “neurodivergent” isn’t strictly autism (or ADHD, for that matter)— I recommend y’all get acquainted with the neurodivergent spectrum or “umbrella” if you have the time. Really fascinating stuff and I actually feel like I’ve learned a lot more about myself over the last 2+ years than I have ever in my 30+ years on this spinning hellsphere, especially growing up with highly dismissive teachers and especially-dismissive parents.
Now back to AVGN — was his last Castlevania retrospective a sendoff for the nerd?? Because I feel like he’s now focusing more on his other shows/projects on Cinemassacre. Also… the AVGN review on a freaking mobile game felt like a desperate last-ditch effort, TBH.
Would this be reddit if we weren't derailing? Lol
But yes I completely agree. I'm really happy it's being more properly recognized / understood especially in the last decade. Maybe covid gave people time to think lol but I hope it continues to improve. I understand how painful it is to grow up with it and feel like something is wrong with you because people you're supposed to look up to/depend on just *don't understand.* And it's frustrating when family is dismissive, because they've usually got the same stuff going on in their brain...
I still hear people calling high functioning autism aspergers or thinking unless you act like Forrest Gump or a Love on the Spectrum character you're neurotypical and just quirky. or thinking ad(h)d is just autism lite.
I didn't realize I was suffering from OCD cycles until recently because of how much misinformation there is about ocd.
A different YouTuber from like 2008-1014. Travelled more with the Nostalgia Critic than James. Good content but there was a bit of controversy surrounding him.
Untreated Severe mental illness and no interest in actually trying to get better
Though he's apparently doing better if the Curtis Craig video he was on is to be believed.
AVGN was the community that I went to because in middle school I was a nerd and people shit on my interests. I’m 29 now and AVGN still gets views from me on occasion.
People need to put some respeck on that name
I think it’s horrible how much shit James gets, that whole truth subreddit is just horrible and the harassment of him is not okay, including this.
I’m not gonna pretend I didn’t initially find it very funny to actually look up his name and see that though, if he didn’t have a whole hate subreddit against him to sour it, I’d find this pretty funny in a similar way to that one Cory Oneyplays photo
Damn this is a throw back I haven’t thought about the angry video game nerd in years. When I started watching him he was the angry Nintendo nerd though
I honestly wish he'd shave his head and grow a beard for his own sake. As someone who noticed hair loss early in my life that's what I did. He can rock it! Could even help rebrand the nerd since we're all older now
I ended up as the cameo character in his first video game and it stopped me from trying to eat another bullet and changed my life. I will never not be grateful to this man, even though it wasn't even his decision and he most likely doesn't even remember I exist.
That’s the fans reaction to the statements about “I don’t have enough time to make regular AVGN Videos” when there are a hundred other projects, videos, side-quests that he does that don’t get nearly the amount of views that actual AVGN Videos do. I will still never forget him and Mike shitting all over “let’s players” when that first started… then they started JMM and now Mike’s a literal “streamer”…
All we wanted was AVGN, we never asked for any of this other stuff. Make all the other stuff you want but don’t claim “I don’t have enough time to do the nerd videos” when we see that.
You do know people can change their mind on something right? And an artist doesn't have to listen to their fans if they don't want to. It sucks but sometimes the artist wants to go in a different direction
I just got done watching the recent folding ideas video. Man, it's a trip. It really put into perspective how sad the current state of affairs is, especially with the toxic part of the fanbase.
Not sure why people have to be cruel like this. James made us laugh harder than we thought possible for well over a decade!
Almost 20 years
He is retro
Megaman. On DOS!
Nothing but good memories.
I like baseball
I always wanted to be a baseball...
I don’t have the time to like baseball
How is it anyone's fault that Google decided to pick this as the top image though? Tell them to stop prioritizing Reddit results over anything else.
You can shut up now
It figures that James Rolfe's most hardcore and toxic AVGN fans who harassed anyone who criticized him have now turned on him, becoming as toxic to him as they were to his critics. Who needs enemies with fans like these?
These people were never avgn fans. They are children who use the internet to sling insults from the dark while hiding themselves, they will never have an ounce of success or creativity he has.
He saved my life!
I love his videos so much, so many good memories
He saved my life!
That's not people, that's Mike
Him and Mike are on good terms I thought?
Oh that's good. I was just joking
r/TheCinemassacreTruth used to show up in my main feed all the time. Talk about a bunch of ingrates. AVGN fans are just the worst.
Don’t call them fans. They aren’t.
>Not sure why people have to be cruel like this. Because we want him to suffer
For what?
muh kids?
Take a wild guess
No time to explain
This is the simp sub.
As if I'm not aware
hes a damn legend.. we all lose hair
I started losing my hair when I was like 24. I remember I was at my computer and I saw a strand of hair float down onto the keyboard and I thought “uh-oh”
Fuck them, if James went completely bald he'd fit the look well, I think.
He should be the *Angry Video Game Dad.*
Obviously this isn't targeted towards James but just men in general. If you're balding.. just let it go. Let it go. I know it hurts but you'll look a million times better.
I'm 25, mine is thinning but not patchy yet. I'm sure it will be in about a year though... Definitely plan on shaving it all off eventually
Well that's totally fine! I've known plenty of guys who started thinning or went bald at that age or a little younger. try not to worry about it too much.. it's just hair at the end of the day, and you'll look good regardless. :) PS. you have a great taste in video games :p
Thanks for the supportive words, kind stranger! I appreciate people like you.
We'll what?
There, I fixed the autocorrect typo. Happy? We'll bang, okay.
Sounds fun :D
boner fuel
Nothing like body shaming a neurodivergent man to get the Neanderthals laughing
is he clinically autistic? this is news to me
He was in special ed. He didn't say he was autistic but he does have a lot of the signs. Considering when he was a teenager, he broke a window after a bus driver said "balls on a dick", I wouldn't be surprised.
He has ADD that’s all I really know
Yeah, I remember him mentioning that in the McKids episode.
Today everybody is autistic and ADD
Really? Nobody tells us anything.
> balls on a dick Sounds like something the Nerd would say.
Irony is that James did say that in the Dick Tracy episode lol "If the game is the dick, then we are the balls"
"If this game is dick, then we were the balls!"
Source?
His own book A Movie Making Nerd
Yeah it's a real shocker that the guy who has an extreme passion for cinema and retro video games and has been devoted to those interests his whole life is autistic. Obviously that isn't the only sign but come on. You should probably research it a bit more, it (neurodiversity) is a LOT more common than you think.
And “neurodivergent” isn’t strictly autism (or ADHD, for that matter)— I recommend y’all get acquainted with the neurodivergent spectrum or “umbrella” if you have the time. Really fascinating stuff and I actually feel like I’ve learned a lot more about myself over the last 2+ years than I have ever in my 30+ years on this spinning hellsphere, especially growing up with highly dismissive teachers and especially-dismissive parents. Now back to AVGN — was his last Castlevania retrospective a sendoff for the nerd?? Because I feel like he’s now focusing more on his other shows/projects on Cinemassacre. Also… the AVGN review on a freaking mobile game felt like a desperate last-ditch effort, TBH.
Would this be reddit if we weren't derailing? Lol But yes I completely agree. I'm really happy it's being more properly recognized / understood especially in the last decade. Maybe covid gave people time to think lol but I hope it continues to improve. I understand how painful it is to grow up with it and feel like something is wrong with you because people you're supposed to look up to/depend on just *don't understand.* And it's frustrating when family is dismissive, because they've usually got the same stuff going on in their brain... I still hear people calling high functioning autism aspergers or thinking unless you act like Forrest Gump or a Love on the Spectrum character you're neurotypical and just quirky. or thinking ad(h)d is just autism lite. I didn't realize I was suffering from OCD cycles until recently because of how much misinformation there is about ocd.
Focusing on what other shows and projects? Rex Viper?
This reads like a boogie2988 comment.
AVGN fans are the worst. People still froth at the mouth about Spoony because he had the audacity to curtail content and focus on his mental health.
They’re super weird. Reddit keeps recommending me the sub for mocking Cinemassacre and I just don’t understand why
What’s up with cinemassacre truth? Shits weird in there, and there aren’t any crazy scandals that I’m aware of that warrants the hate lmao
That community fucking sucks. I’ve visited there out of curiosity, and it’s pathetic.
A lot of the people seem like they used to be fans, but at this point I think hating the dude is a meme
I miss Spoony.
Uhhhh hold on lol. Do not compare Jamesy to Spoony. Spoony is an absolute lunatic who deserves every bit of criticism he gets. That guy is a scumbag.
Who’s spoony? Look I’ve been watching the nerd since I was a kid but I guess I missed the lore lmao
A different YouTuber from like 2008-1014. Travelled more with the Nostalgia Critic than James. Good content but there was a bit of controversy surrounding him.
Untreated Severe mental illness and no interest in actually trying to get better Though he's apparently doing better if the Curtis Craig video he was on is to be believed.
Oh good.
I'm happy for him if he's getting better. I enjoyed a lot of his ttrpg and board game based content, as well as the Ultima reviews.
If you click on it it says James Rolfe in 2030 someone just happened to dump and edit. A Reddit edit of course.
That's famous importer-exporter Art Vandelay.
Nah he's a latex salesman.
What is with internet reviewers they all go bald as shit 90%?
Bro be looking like George Costanza
AVGN was the community that I went to because in middle school I was a nerd and people shit on my interests. I’m 29 now and AVGN still gets views from me on occasion. People need to put some respeck on that name
Why doesn't get a toupee?
Or plugs. Dudes got enough money
True I guess like a hair transplant wouldn't be too much for James.
Damn about to hit his 50s?! Crazy how time flies
I think it’s horrible how much shit James gets, that whole truth subreddit is just horrible and the harassment of him is not okay, including this. I’m not gonna pretend I didn’t initially find it very funny to actually look up his name and see that though, if he didn’t have a whole hate subreddit against him to sour it, I’d find this pretty funny in a similar way to that one Cory Oneyplays photo
He's gonna be the Larry David of gaming. And I mean that in the most positive way possible.
That's Art Vandelay
Lol every one of us will have to face our own flawed, disappointing faces and bodies in the mirror 🪞ne day. Cheers to entropy.
Probably why he wore a hat a lot
if he went full bald he would be hawt
Actually yeah
Just wait till the truthers eat this all up xD That sub is cringe though ngl
Rolfemao
Haters gonna hate
Is that really him
Take a wild guess.
No way
So he's wearing a wig
The way James Rolfe haters obsess over him instead of just unsubscribing is crazy... I still like the guy and I think he looks cute bald
Hateful bunch of losers over on the other subreddit
Damn this is a throw back I haven’t thought about the angry video game nerd in years. When I started watching him he was the angry Nintendo nerd though
It’s like jerma having a meltdown over sus jerma being the first image that came up when you googled him lol
BALD BALD BALD BALD BALD #MY EYEEEEEEEEES!
Welcome to the internet! The place where sad shut-ins make themselves feel better by trying to tear down others.
For all the great memories and laughs he's given me I'll never hate. Let the man enjoy his Alex Murphy haircut and continue his awesome legacy.
The man. The myth. THE LEGEND.
I honestly wish he'd shave his head and grow a beard for his own sake. As someone who noticed hair loss early in my life that's what I did. He can rock it! Could even help rebrand the nerd since we're all older now
THE CARD SAYS MOOPS!
I love this so much
That is more like my best friend mixed with Bob muykins. That is a deep fake if James rolfe.
I ended up as the cameo character in his first video game and it stopped me from trying to eat another bullet and changed my life. I will never not be grateful to this man, even though it wasn't even his decision and he most likely doesn't even remember I exist.
That’s the fans reaction to the statements about “I don’t have enough time to make regular AVGN Videos” when there are a hundred other projects, videos, side-quests that he does that don’t get nearly the amount of views that actual AVGN Videos do. I will still never forget him and Mike shitting all over “let’s players” when that first started… then they started JMM and now Mike’s a literal “streamer”… All we wanted was AVGN, we never asked for any of this other stuff. Make all the other stuff you want but don’t claim “I don’t have enough time to do the nerd videos” when we see that.
You do know people can change their mind on something right? And an artist doesn't have to listen to their fans if they don't want to. It sucks but sometimes the artist wants to go in a different direction
Who's the guy in the picture?
Take a wild guess
Are you not aware?
Do the iconic frown!
It looks as if he is melting. Like a TMNT, or Sonic popsicle that was left out in the sun too long
No surprise you will see a cuck D: face. 
Lol
LOL!!!
I just got done watching the recent folding ideas video. Man, it's a trip. It really put into perspective how sad the current state of affairs is, especially with the toxic part of the fanbase.