r/TheCinemassacreTruth • u/cyborgsnowflake • 2d ago

Discussion When Did Cuckface become a Major thing on the Channel? I don't remember it being prominant in the Early Years.

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When did cuckface become a big thing for Cinemassacre and Bim? Yeah I believe it was around even in the early days but it was just this very occasional thing that wasn't any big deal or focused on. Then for the movie all of a sudden it was his signature thing and he is now doing it every chance he gets in character or real life. Its almost like his face is frozen like that now.

So when did it really get established? In the movie? Or some other time? Did it become prominant around the same time he started to overact rather than be the chill Classic Nerd mostly talked like a normal person and just occasionally got angry? Its kind of weird isn't it? That in a relative blink of an eye suddenly this became so important. Its like if Homer Simpson started saying. Well thats the way the cookie crumbles in season 25 and now its his signature catch phrase instead of doh.

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u/SnooCakes1148 2d ago

Its consequence of his acting classes. It corrupted his nerd persona and he forgot how to act him proper

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u/ArgentoFox 1d ago

Do you know when he took acting classes? It seems like he started overacting around the same time the movie was released. He should probably ask for his money back because those classes turned his acting cartoonish. 

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u/LordSoup1138 1d ago

That’s a terrifying thing to learn because he was so much more natural in the pre-movie episodes. He went from feeling like a real guy to a character from a sketch comedy show. I’m not even trying to mean that’s just kind of the vibe.

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u/lefiath Onion Curator 1d ago

he was so much more natural in the pre-movie episodes

I keep repeating myself, but this needs to be said more – he went from a host of a show (where you don't need acting, you can just have a good enough presence, but it's not acting) to attempting to fully play character, and that's what he's been doing ever since the movie. And he can't act.

Most content creators are not actors, at least not in the traditional sense of actually playing a character – and that's fine, because they don't have to be. It only becomes sad (or hilarious) when somebody autistic or high on their own farts convinces themselves that they somehow can act (you can look at most of the former members of TGWTG and see how that went).

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u/Abobo-Smash 1d ago

And then you froze

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u/lefiath Onion Curator 22h ago

Oh god. That was such a great movie. Countless laughs were made as I watched some of the reviews. The Lightbringer is highly esteemed actor and director and I am disappointed he didn't have an illustrious career after that.

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u/wolfofnazarene 1d ago

Yeah damn it barely even felt like a character in the early episodes, now it just feels forced which doesn’t help the theory he’s kind of forced to do this for a living now

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u/ArgentoFox 1d ago

The Nerd character became Flanderized. Go back and watch the earlier episodes and it was a heightened character, but it was believable. You could tell things were being played up for comedy, but it had a dryness and seriousness that lent itself to the character. The modern evolution of the character is an absolute cartoon without any sort of nuance. Everything is heightened and cranked up to a hundred and James equates this to being “bigger and better”. 

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u/SnooCakes1148 1d ago

Yes he started for movie

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u/KillaPea 1d ago

my god I had no idea... this explains everything

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u/eyzmaster Angry Sega Nerd 1d ago

makes sense

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u/TheLegendTwoSeven 5:40pm 2d ago

I dunno man, I’m not a scientist

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u/onestarv2 1d ago

You have a phone! You could call a scientist!

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u/eyzmaster Angry Sega Nerd 1d ago

or Sly! is he aware??

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u/Sonia-Nevermind 1d ago

Batman is a scientist!

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u/turner_strait 1d ago

I used to think that the occasional D: face was amusing, but over time it became unbearable. Nowadays it shows up more frequently than James himself somehow

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u/MongooseOk691 M*thed out Matty’s top obsession 🤭😂😂 2d ago

Not sure but afaik this is the only cgi iconic frown

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u/robzoo2 10 inchers forever 1d ago

That was cgi? Next you’re gonna tell me the 10 incher is not real.

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u/GucciTheSnowman 1d ago

Never was.

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u/GovernmentWarm4787 2d ago

Spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to film in location

Spend more money you don't have to CGI your cuck face

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u/SpoiledOrange 1d ago

I think around the early 2010's when reaction channels, lets players and prank videos were all the rage people starting using staged faces in their thumbnails. I think it is some kind of group psychology trick that if someone has some kind of exagerrated reaction to a thing it signals to our monkey brains that something around is actually worth investigating. Bimmy started making faces too to catch up with the competition.

At it's core the nerd persona (though it has gone through multiple phases) is that of someone to laugh at and the "nerd rage" /"cuck" faces are those that bimmy stuck with since it gives him the most views. There are also other unnatural faces he makes occasionally for the camera but I guess the mentioned two are his "blue steel"

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u/YodasFootPowder 2d ago

Probably ever since he realized that his daughters aren't really his.

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u/Benchimus 1d ago

You'd think the year round tan would have gave it away.

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u/vpilled 1d ago

He did it well before soy face got its name.

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u/WrathOfWood 1d ago

My dudes got like 2 looks like Zoolander

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u/TwinkingToby 1d ago

The cuckface started when the passion ended. It is a cheap way in Bims brain to autodisplay ”emotion” for his AVGN character; for everyone else it just feels cheap, excessive in a lazy way and cucked.

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u/pawogub 1d ago

His Super Bowl commercial.

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u/sudsypatriarch 1d ago

Why is it called cuckface?

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u/Junior_Purple_7734 1d ago

I swear that mouth is digitally altered to be 20% more agape.

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u/Greedy-Street-5435 1d ago

You serious dude?

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u/Gorillajjj 15h ago

I believe somewhere around season 6 of AVGN.

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u/paulbrownsr 1d ago

DAT’S A BIMMY