"I Don't Know James Rolfe"

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"If ever there were a video I've made that required a companion essay or some kind of artist statement to go along with it I suppose it would be this one. It's a strange project that I've been working on for the better part of six months now, a process of trying to disentangle myself from myself. It's about a lot of different things, it's about James Rolfe but also not about him because we have so many versions of him and we can only react to those imperfect projections. He's been doing this for basically 20 years at this point, and out of that arise a million different ways to tell the story: AVGN is deeply influential, but what does that influence mean? I found myself fascinated with his creative fixations, the motifs and stories that he keeps coming back to, and felt like the only way to engage with that honestly was to expose all my own fixations, insecurities, and fears."

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"The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall"

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Clickbait Title: I remember it so you don't have to.

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"Pink Floyd - The Wall" deals with mature subject matter and contains intense imagery some viewers may find distressing.

As a full disclosure, I was briefly a contributor to Channel Awesome for about six months in 2014/15. Channel Awesome CEO Mike Michaud severed the relationship after he received angry emails about an exposé of 8chan I had published on Medium and I refused to take it down or commit to not doing "anything else like that." Several of the songs are a roundabout veiled reference to #ChangeTheChannel, a hashtag that gained some traction in the spring of 2018 as contributors and former contributors to Channel Awesome spilled all the beans about CA's incompetence and mismanagement. What started as a bunch of people sharing stories about how the scheduling page never worked right escalated to Channel Awesome leadership releasing a counterattack letter in which they inadvertently admitted to covering for a sex predator.

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In reference to the stuff mentioned in the above video description, just to get it out of the way, have some links.

Anyway, as I said I probably would in the previous post, I watched the Folding Ideas video (embedded above) about the Nostalgia Critic's review (which I won't bother to link to here, because why would I) of Pink Floyd - The Wall.

This was a bit surreal for me. First, I've only heard the album The Wall. I haven't actually seen the movie itself (yet). (EDIT) I have since seen the full movie, too. (/EDIT) Second, I also haven't seen the Nostalgia Critic review of The Wall, and I'm not going to either, because, again, why would I. I saw more than enough of it in the above embedded thing. Lastly, I'd also never heard of Fennah or "Satellite City" or any of that shit before watching the above video, and I have little interest in checking out said animator or their work afterward, either.

As such... I really don't have a lot to say about this one. Um... let's see. Doug Walker is probably a way more deserving target of ridicule than James Rolfe was, for one. For another, this was probably a better video if only because it was about a single specific work of Doug Walker's, instead of... like... just being about everything James Rolfe has ever done from when he was a child until now, like the other one I posted about was.

Anyway, I guess I need to go watch Pink Floyd - The Wall now (EDIT a few hours later) and now I have (/EDIT). And I guess I need to go continue avoiding everything related to The Nostalgia Critic and Channel Awesome and Doug Walker now.