This is more of a career retrospective than a callout, although the video doesn’t pull any punches in critiquing the Nerd’s stagnation as a video creator, he also calls out the haters for what they are and concludes that Folding Ideas is in fact very similar to AVGN at the end of the day.
I feel like AVGN is just mentally over the YouTube channel, he doesn’t enjoy it anymore, but he still needs it as a stream of income. I just assume that he enjoys time with his family and barbecues, and the channel is just a job. I don’t blame him, but I haven’t watched him in many years.
I’m just spitballing here. But this feels like a common problem in capitalism: it ties us to a job we don’t love and drains our emotional energy. Arguably, AVGN is doing better than most of us, and he’s probably relatively unhappy.
A lot of people who made internet videos in that earlier era got typecast as their initial persona, and while a few managed to evolve into something more mature Rolfe is one of the ones who couldn’t, so his only options are to keep playing the character that makes money or else retire from the game altogether. It must suck and it also must suck that when he was at his highest popularity he couldn’t make nearly as much money as internet creators do now.
This is more of a career retrospective than a callout, although the video doesn’t pull any punches in critiquing the Nerd’s stagnation as a video creator, he also calls out the haters for what they are and concludes that Folding Ideas is in fact very similar to AVGN at the end of the day.
I feel like AVGN is just mentally over the YouTube channel, he doesn’t enjoy it anymore, but he still needs it as a stream of income. I just assume that he enjoys time with his family and barbecues, and the channel is just a job. I don’t blame him, but I haven’t watched him in many years.
I’m just spitballing here. But this feels like a common problem in capitalism: it ties us to a job we don’t love and drains our emotional energy. Arguably, AVGN is doing better than most of us, and he’s probably relatively unhappy.
A lot of people who made internet videos in that earlier era got typecast as their initial persona, and while a few managed to evolve into something more mature Rolfe is one of the ones who couldn’t, so his only options are to keep playing the character that makes money or else retire from the game altogether. It must suck and it also must suck that when he was at his highest popularity he couldn’t make nearly as much money as internet creators do now.