• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    It’s kinda weird how for all the video’s repeatedly saying that you can’t take anything about AVGN at face value and assume that the nerd is James Rolfe, people in the comments are doing the same exact thing to Dan Olson the man playing Dan Olson the Youtuber. The most obvious example is the diorama who Dan Olson the Youtuber claimed that he made out of obsession with AVGN. But from the credits, the diorama is attributed to 4 people of which Dan Olson the man is only one of them. And my hot take is that the diorama was probably mostly made by Kristi O based on her handle @komakesthings. And it’s far from feverish obsession. If anything, it’s closer to a cold business transaction where Dan Olson the man commissioned a diorama to be made by Kristi O with the other two presumably giving her screenshots of the AVGN’s room to work with since she doesn’t seem like much of a gamer nerd. And of course, we cannot neglect the fact that the video has two writers. Like, maybe 95% of the script was written by Nathan Landel and Dan Olson the man is just an actor playing Dan Olson the Youtuber, so everything that Dan Olson the Youtuber says has nothing to do with what Dan Olson the man actually thinks.

    • ssj2marx@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 days ago

      I’m looking forward to you 90 minutes video essay, “I Don’t Know Dan Olsen”.