Someone in the gaming section the other day mentioned how Youtube was over once normies realized they could make money on it.
I agreed and elaborated. But I want to know something. That fake, overly enthusiastic, faggy way of talking they all do...how and why did they arrive there? How and why did the normies go "that....being a retarded faggot and talking like one...that's the gold rush boys!!!"
I want to know the progression.
When I was watching early youtube, the popular people had edge, were raw, and were usually ranty and negative, like most talking heads usually are, because that's far more entertaining to watch. A funny bitter guy like Anthony Cumia is 1000x more interesting than an Ellen Degeneras with her insincerity.
So what the heck made the faggy youtube voice/personality the golden ticket in the minds of normies? What was that pipeline that led there?
Because the Angry Videogame Nerd got a kid and wife and had to pretend to be angry?
He was always lame. Most of us were just too lame and young to see it in the early days.
He was our version of "Annoying Orange" or "Fred". I know that's painful to admit, but it's true.
It was just nice to talk about old games. I like Screw Attack better.
He at least made his show as a trailblazer on an untested platform and created an audience and industry when there really wasn't one prior.
That alone puts him miles ahead of any other later "youtube famous" guys.
Eh, his shit was silly, but there was an earnestness about the earlier stuff that had appeal.
His content was definitely designed for a certain demographic, being nostalgia bait for the generation that grew up with the NES. Even the shitty games from that era are memberable, because there was no reliable way to find out if a game was any good before you bought it like there is now. How many people's game libraries are full of turds from LJN because they liked Friday the 13th or Back to the Future and nobody warned them? Raging against the NES's version of what we would now call shovelware hits the spot for those that were there.