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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.