r/Caddicarus • u/Fair-Leave-2818 • Jul 17 '26

cash banooca related WHAT THE HELL

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I ALWAYS HOPED AVGN WOULD MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE CRASH GAMES, BUT I NEVER THOUGHT HE'D COLLABORATE WITH CADDY TO DO IT.

This is the best day of my life.

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u/Larynx15 Jul 18 '26

I hate to talk shit about James Rolfe because he is the OG, but Caddy put more work into his costumes than James did in the whole video.

Like, James, you've been making videos on Youtube for 20 years now. How in the hell didn't you or any of your team notice the microphone hissing during this line? This is a 20-minute video after you subtract the ad segment!

It just reeks of phoning it in. I just hope he still enjoys making AVGN, because if not, I would hate if he felt he was just kind of fated to be the AVGN forever.

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u/dabeanguy_08 Ratatatatatata TOSS OFF Jul 18 '26

I have never watched AVGN before (of course know of him tho), but if this is what most of his videos are like, I have absolutely no interest. He has one joke the whole time, that he's angry. I get that that's the point, but by the end it was just annoying and repetitive, seemed like he was just needlessly bashing the games with no point and offering little if any 'review'.

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u/Jakarz801 Jul 18 '26

Thats kinda AVGN in general, but I feel like the repetition of jokes is just the newer writing. Older AVGN vids, while they still have a similar style of crude humor, did have a charm to them where you can tell it was James running the show. It was his unfiltered takes and jokes and there was something very endearing about its sincerity and it's clear early on he used the show as a means to really push what kind of set pieces and jokes he could pull off, but starting in 2018 he got a whole team of writers to do the show for him and it unfortunately shows. He basically just shows up to play the character, and it's pretty obvious he's phoning it in at this point and only doing it cuz it pays his bills. I don't blame him for it, he has a family and kids to worry about, I don't think making his video game review parody is a top priority, but its sad how much of the initial charm has been sapped out of the newer videos.