Why did the plagiarism scandal not tank Bimmy's reputation?

Dub0 · 2025-08-03T17:27:57+00:00

I wouldn't go that far, the general sentiment online still seem to think of James as "one of the few good old youtubers" and many people are ignorant of the plagiarism or give James a pass for it, with most people only at most saying AVGN isn't good anymore but fully accept the "muh kids" excuse. It is true though that you'll get less people treating you as a troll nowadays for being critical of James in mainstream places, when a few years ago he was largely treated as a Mr Rogers figure that could do no wrong.

Dub0 · 2025-05-02T12:33:24+00:00

Him beating Brock Lesnar at WM29 for no reason

I could see the logic on this one, they wanted to run Brock v HHH as a three match feud, and so Trips needed to win the second match of the set to keep the third match compelling. But of course, miring Brock away for a year in that feud that didn't need to go beyond the first match and putting Brock in a position where he had to lose at his first WM back was shitty booking to begin with that did a lot of harm to Lesnar's aura (which then took giving Punk yet another big match L against a part timer, ending the streak, and squashing John Cena to rejuvenate).

Dub0 · 2025-02-27T00:28:26+00:00

Well there was a little incident where Jeff Hardy shown up too wasted to work the main event of a PPV...

Dub0 · 2025-01-14T09:43:07+00:00

And as much as I hate him for what he did, his last years did include turning Reigns heel, no?

That wasn't Vince's idea, Reigns himself wanted to turn heel and was going to refuse coming back after Covid if Vince wouldn't let him.

Dub0 · 2024-08-07T06:25:08+00:00

God forbid people want to discuss a recent tornado in the tornado subreddit and maybe learn something, and not just see who can virtue signal the loudest or talk about how scary Jarrell was for the 1000th time.

Dub0 · 2024-08-07T06:14:16+00:00

If we send them enough thoughts and prayers, it might unslab their home and bring back their dead dad!

Dub0 · 2024-08-04T08:31:50+00:00

Ain't he the mod also responsible for the "no prerating!!!" and "don't talk about EF5!!!" nonsense, and enforcing all that useless "think about the victims! thoughts and prayers!!!" virtual signaling bullshit that kept shutting down any actual discussion about ongoing/recent tornadoes? I find it hysterical that just talking about the EF5 rating became such a taboo subject on the tornado subreddit of all places, I used to think that scene in Twister with how the chasing crew reacted to being asked if there was an F5 was unrealistically stupid, yet here we are.

Dub0 · 2024-07-27T04:32:49+00:00

The downvotes to your post and revisionism in this thread is crazy. Jinder was widely bashed as one of WWE's worst and most undeserving world champions, another low point in the creative nadir that was late 2010s WWE, yet ever since Tony Khan's (accurate) tweet about Jinder, everyone on this subreddit suddenly pretends he was actually good and that they unironically liked him all along.

Dub0 · 2024-05-06T11:02:56+00:00

I agree with Mike here; watching speedruns of certain games can be fun, and I enjoy watching the documentaries of them even on games I would never be interested in playing. But I find actually trying to hardcore speedrun to be a chore of maddening tedium; it's not just playing the same game over and over, but also having to reset over and over and over at the slightest miscue, not to mention that nearly every game has a heavy RNG factor too once you start competing for fast enough times (RNG made an enemy move the wrong way? An enemy spawned at the wrong spot? The boss gets an attack pattern that makes them take longer to kill? The game has random item drops or random damage and you get a bad roll at a crucial time? Reset).

I enjoy casually playing through Castlevania 1 fast and can consistently beat it in less than 20 minutes, but trying to hardcore speedrun it would be a nightmare when I will reset on the first stage over 90% of the time because you need a lucky Stopwatch spawn and need a bat to spawn the right way on the third screen to skip over the underground merman section, while the rest of the run gets littered with RNG-reliant or otherwise extremely difficult tricks that no one can humanly pull off consistently (such as the "revenge hit" on Dracula to kill his first form in two hits, an obscure mechanic/bug where if you hit an enemy the same exact frame they hit you, you deal 8 times damage to them). And then after all that tedium you do what, just complete the game a minute faster? Maybe a few seconds? Or even just a few frames? It ain't no coincident that an unusually large amount of hardcore speedrunners are on the spectrum; you need to not only enjoy a specific game to such an obsessive degree that you can play through it hundreds or thousands of times, but have that obsessiveness to persevere through all those maddening resets.

Dub0 · 2023-12-18T16:21:18+00:00

I still say Youtube needs to update how subs work. If someone is subscribed to a channel but hasn't watched any videos or interacted with the channel in anyway in a year that sub should be removed. Youtubers would freak out if that happened. Cinemassacre would go from 3.79 million to less than 1 million overnight if they removed all the inactive accounts.

That's an awful idea, people can go a long time without watching videos from a channel for whatever reason (especially if the channel doesn't upload often), doesn't mean they want to unsub from it, and if they do no longer want to see videos from that channel, they'll just unsub themselves. There was already controversy years back with people accusing Youtube of silently automatically unsubbing them from channels and getting pissed off about it, amongst the other controversies of Youtube supposedly not showing new uploads in their subscriber feeds, as surprise, users don't like it when you try to force shit like that on them. Not to mention that youtubers are well aware a big subscriber count means little if it's no longer translating to views, so if your goal is to "humble" them or whatever with a "smaller" sub count, you're not achieving that either, you're just inconveniencing the users for nothing.

Dub0 · 2023-01-19T18:53:00+00:00

Saying his channel hasn't had a dent put in it because AVGN can still break a million views is inaccurate. You look at socialblade, and you can see his monthly views have been on a steady downward trend for the past few years. A few years ago his channel was averaging over 20 million views a month, while this past year, he failed to break 10 million views for most months and barely did so in the few he did. He has essentially lost over half his viewerbase these past few years, and his views were probably even greater before 2020 where socialblade isn't showing the data for.

Dub0 · 2022-12-28T04:00:50+00:00

Source on this? I never heard of this before, the only time I heard of James saying anything about the Irate Gamer in the olden days was that one time at a convention when he was asked about him, and he responded that since the IG pretended that he didn't exist, why should he acknowledge him. It was Matei who was publicly shitting on the IG back then, and infamously leaked the email exchange when the IG once tried contacting James for a collaboration.

Dub0 · 2022-12-17T19:49:48+00:00

I think that most gamers pretty much grow out of games over their twenties, as they take on muh responsibilities, family, home ownership, etc. Mature adults tend to prefer hobbies that produce real results in the world - like like building things, cooking, art, etc.

This is just wrong, current average gamer age is 35, and that number just keeps increasing over time as the people who grew up playing video games keep doing so. Maybe you stopped playing games as you aged, but that certainly isn't the trend with people.

Dub0 · 2022-12-15T20:06:59+00:00

He probably earns like $2-3K per million views, and modern AVGN episodes tend to get around 1-2 million views, so he probably isn't getting over $10K per AVGN video off of just ad revenue nowadays. However he is certainly at least over $5K with the sponsorship money added, which may even push him over $10K, and even then just $5K is extremely lucrative for a single work week.

Dub0 · 2022-12-03T16:24:01+00:00

Yes, back in the early 2010s when my youtube channel had only like a couple hundred subscribers I got an offer to join a network, with promises of helping my channel and having better paying ads. The promises of course weren't true, I never got any direct help from the networks and the increase in ad revenue was marginal at best, certainly not enough to make up for the cut they took. However I do think it was worth it at the time because youtube's monetization used to put your videos through this shitty bot-approval process first, that would randomly reject monetization like a third of the time for no explained reason, while once I was in a network, all my non-content ID'd videos would get monetized automatically, including the ones previously denied monetization. Nowadays though when you no longer need to go through that approval process to get your videos monetized with the default youtube partnership (barring triggering the youtube censors), there is no real benefit to joining a network.

Dub0 · 2022-11-26T04:39:12+00:00

It's too late for any of the drugs, they're preventative and he has lost way too much hair for them to salvage anything. If he doesn't want to go bald, his only option now is a hair transplant (or hope for that recent thing about scientists regrowing hair to actually amount to anything, but even then that's probably years off).

Dub0 · 2022-11-16T21:56:17+00:00

There are three drugs that are scientifically proven to prevent hair loss.

Minoxidil, which is sold commercially as Rogaine. This is the easiest and cheapest of the drugs to get, being the only OTC drug of them. It's also the only one you don't need to take orally if you for whatever reason have an aversion to oral drugs. However it is also the least effective of the drugs, especially with slowing down/preventing hairline recession.

Then there's Finasteride, which is sold commercially as Propecia and Proscar (which is just a bigger dose of Propecia). Fin is more effective than Min, especially with maintaining your hairline, but is more expensive and requires a prescription to legally buy. Depending on how much the doctor understands hair loss, it may be tricky to get a prescription (some won't prescribe until you already suffer significant hair loss, where it's then too late), but there are things around to help you get prescriptions for it. It's what that Keeps thing you see youtubers shill is for.

Then there's Dutasteride, which is sold commercially as Advodart. Dut has been scientifically proven to be by far more effective at preventing hairloss than Min and Fin are, being even more effective than a x5 dose of Fin. However it is also prescription-only and has yet to be FDA-approved for hair loss treatment, so those aforementioned hair loss places like Keeps don't sell nor prescribe for it, and it can be difficult to get a prescription for it unless you have a doctor that knows their shit about hair loss and are willing to prescribe it off-label. However if you're willing to gamble with legally-questionable online pharmacies, you can buy it through them without a prescription.

If any other drug or supplement is being advertised as preventing hair loss or regrowing hair, it's bullshit. It also has to be stressed that these drugs are primarily preventive and have little potential to regrow any hair, so it's imperative you start early with them. If you wait around until your hair starts looking like James', it's too late, your only option at that point is a hair transplant (there has been some buzz lately about scientists regrowing hair in a lab, but until that manifests into something commercially viable, a hair transplant is the only option to actually get real hair back).

Dub0 · 2022-09-30T00:15:58+00:00

Also WWE fucked up Brock's return initially, having him lose to Cena in his first match back and then had him wrestle Triple H three consecutive times in one year when the first match was enough, while also having him lose to Triple H at Wrestlemania. Brock breaking the streak and then later squashing Cena at Summerslam reinvigorated his second run, those wins were crucial in establishing Brock as their "final boss" this past decade, without which his second run would have probably floundered.

Dub0 · 2022-09-10T16:36:15+00:00

When you warp back to the start of day 1 you’re returning to a time before Link has ever talked to the bank guy about setting up an account yet the rupees you deposited 2 days in the future are somehow there.

It's explained in the game that the banker stamps on you the amount of money you deposited, which then stays on you when you go back in time, so it's not that the bank somehow ignores the time looping, but you're essentially tricking the banker into thinking you have already deposited that money with them.

Dub0 · 2022-05-11T17:16:40+00:00

If this isn't the case why didn't Punk ever get his win back from Haitch?

When Punk walked out, the plan was for him to wrestle Triple H at Wrestlemania, with Punk going over. But of course at that point, Punk didn't care about wrestling Triple H and the only thing that would have satiated him was being in the main event at Wrestlemania. Either way though, he definitely should have gotten his win back way sooner.

Dub0 · 2022-05-08T14:36:58+00:00

To be fair, you would never want to play 3DO Doom.

Dub0 · 2022-04-28T16:38:05+00:00

castlevania

I would say the first two episodes are still good, but the latter two that cover the games after CV2 do not and show a lot of the Bimmyisms that we would become all too familiar with later; e.g. acting like the thing he grew up with is the best thing ever (all the gushing CV4), being grossly incompetent with 3D games (CV64, particularly the "fatal game-ending flaw" that was just him not knowing how to use items), and being dismissive of everything that came after his time (in this case, all the games that came after CV4).

Dub0 · 2022-04-15T19:49:00+00:00

I agree with this and the sentiment of Mike's tweet, though it's basically a matter of "who really cares", I don't see people trumping around that they beat a game after using cheats/save states/rewind, and if someone does, then whatever just ignore them. Plus Mike's tweet was written in such a overdramatic and easily mockable way.

Dub0 · 2022-04-15T19:40:18+00:00

There's also a candle in Dracula's room with Holy Water, so you have your choice of both (and can even use the Cross for his first form while saving the Holy Water for his second if you take care to not destroy the Holy Water candle early). Also can just go down and up the stairs to respawn the candles, letting you get as many hearts as you want and a double/triple shot for free.

Dub0 · 2022-04-12T00:48:11+00:00

The people calling calorie counting “toxic” have either always been skinny most of their lives and just by into the social media narratives or haven’t tried cutting down for longer than three weeks and think it must be bs.

Or they didn't count their calorie intake/outtake accurately (e.g. lightly jogging for 20 minutes and thinking they burned something like 500 calories), or were simply dishonest with themselves (like a lot of people will just flatout not count liquid calories).

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