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Just rewatched his thing about the 2016 Ghostbusters movie and none of what you said is true. He didnt lie nor did he spread anything resembling a conspiracy. He said it didnt look good so he wouldnt be seeing or reviewing it, his reasoning why were pretty similar to why a lot of people ended out not liking it when they did see it, the jokes weren't good, the effects sucked and it felt kinda pointless and then also his own weird attachment to the Ghostbusters and the 80s in general. If 4 million people saw something and 'many' decided to send death threats as a direct result (which is kinda doubt cause there was a lot more hateful and misogynistic reactions to the movie coming from elsewhere, he prese ted a pretty milquetoast opinion, there us nothing remotely resembling anything that would motivate someone watching to do anything at all aside from not expect a review), well 4 million is a massive sample and a lot of Chuds are AVGN fans, chuds like a lot of stuff I like as well. As far as the chud award show, I think thar can safely be chalked up to him being kinda checked out and just doing whatever comes with a paycheque. Having a friend who drew racist comics in the mid 2000s is just being a guy with more than 10 white friends in the mid 2000s, at least one would be doing a lot of racism as 'a joke'. Screenwave has that guy that really likes gengar who dressed up in a klan robe, which is certainly really awful...but I dont really see it as fair to have him up there with like...Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro or any of the rest of em. You could put Rich Evans on there with just as strong of a case.
Yeah, I don't associate AVGN with anti-SJW people at all outside of being a g*mer. He's definitely not on the same level as that Swede who repeatedly say the n-word. I don't think he even publicly supported G*mergate.
I remember checking the I Refuse video back in the day cause I was curious to see if he would end out being a chud about it and after watching remember thinking the only weird part of his opinion was being that reverent towards Ghostbusters. The rest can be chalked up to plain old laziness or having a friend who was edgy in the 2000s. As for the dick pic, looking it up,he was responding to a thread speculating on the size of his dick and what he posted was more than likely an image he found online and not his real dick.
AVGN is also a lolcow to some segments of the Internet, which means the people harassing him are themselves anti-SJWers.
Overall, I see AVGN as an Internet anachronism who was in the right place at the right time but who has refused to adapt to the times, making him hard to map onto the modern Internet landscape. He has long since checked out and is just here for a quick and easy buck, which he is perfectly entitled to.
He probably has shit politics by virtue of being a white dude in his 40s who has made a career out of playing videogames, but he's also operating under old media rules where his content has to be as inoffensive as possible in order to reach the widest audience for a quick and easy buck. AVGN probably didn't hitch his wagon to GG because he saw it as some weird online shit pushed by cranks over any political disagreement, but that itself should already exclude him from some anti-SJWer list.
I agree. He's just like...a prettt normal middle aged white dude. And the weirdos obsessed with hating him are way worse. My irrational resentment came from biting and selling retort gsmes in the mid 2000s and him making the prices of things go up bt reviewing them right after I sold em. He was a massive net positive despite those occasions, people were playing older games and the collector's market wasnt speculators, it was more a combo of rare, famous and good and you could pick 2 and those were the ones thsr went over 100.