AVGN and Cinemassacre YouTube channel down?

I didn't know where i could post this, but for more attention, i'm posting here.
Anyways, AVGN and Cinemassacre YouTube channel is down...
I'm hearing rumors that SEGA did flagged his channel by footage of SEGA's old video games...

EDIT: New News! Thank god AVGN returned to YouTube!
He's channel is back, so no more worry

 

Seems he moved to BLIP. I only watch him through his own website.

But it seems he had alot of haters that probably flagged him off you tube. I'll see if there is anything on his website. He may have even flagged his own stuff.

 

think he's focusing on his movie more than anything, most of the recent videos have been old stuff and videos from mike

 

and this wouldn't be the first time either

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/05/21/avgn-loses-regains-youtube-account/

 

Maybe that douchebag Irate Gamer flagged them.

 

I used to like AVGN alot and have seen most of his episodes. However recently hes made some strange moves. First he asked his own fans to fund his movie. He must make a ton off youtube and gametrailers so why ask fans to fund the movie? Also if you've seen the recently released trailer for the movie it looks beyond cheaply made, like they bought a camera at Best Buy and shot it without any consideration for making it look decent.

The other thing that bothered me was his support of the Cheetaman 2 complete version Cart. Someone is trying to get people interested in buying a version of Cheetamen 2 which was actually beatable (the original crashed midway through the game). AVGN happily supported this effort by making a special video for it. Why is he supporting someone charging money for a game that ripped off people originally?

So for me this banning from youtube is another incident in the whole "AVGN is now rich" story. Either its youtube's copyright bots not acting correctly and banning a good account or AVGN was up to something really suspicious and youtube caught it.

 

Actually SEGA is flagging alot of gamers who mention or show footage from SEGA's old games, specially
More rumors say that the YouTube auto-flagging system has banned him, and from he getting a lot of money per day by YouTube ($600 - $2000)...

 

How could it have ripped off anyone when it was never released, and the collectors who bought the ones found in the warehouse surely knew what they were in for? It's not like anyone buying the new Cheetahmen II version is expecting a good game, just a curio.

 

Ok so cheetamen 2 never saw release but I'm still not sure why AVGN is supporting cheetamen in general when the Action 52 did rip off so many who bought it.

Anyways, his channel is back up: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesNintendoNerd

Somebody false flagged his channel to get it taken down apparently.

 

I doubt it. Irate Gamer is a lot less douchey than he was during the whole AVGN/IG controversy from years ago. Now he's just another angry internet video game reviewer with terrible acting. On a personal level he's not a bad guy though.

There is a group of IG fantards that used to flagged numerous videos against people who vocally criticize IG, so it's possible that they had a hand in it. Honestly, I think it's just a simple case of YouTube bots auto flagging videos that contain certain footage of copyrighted material.

 

1. Nobody at Sega has said it was them. It's supposed to be a rogue butt hurt employee.

2. You Tube's auto flagging removes flags if you remove the offending video. I know because I've fallen victim to auto flagged too many time.s

 

I really don't see the point, Action 52 ripped off people because they thought it had good games in it, while the Cheetahmen II re-release is for collectors who want to own it even though they know it's a bad game. The situation is completely different, and it's not like the money's going to the people who made Action 52 anyway. It's like the difference between buying Dead Rising and buying Eyeful Home: the first one you could expect to be good but turns out to be shit, while the second one you know is barely a game and you just want it because you're a collector.

I wouldn't say he's just another angry Internet video game reviewer, I'd say he's the worst Internet video game reviewer. And I'd also say that blocking people who make comments about factual errors in his videos (nowadays I think he just disables comments on everything) is pretty douchey when the guy can't even be bothered to do research.

 

Years ago, I would have agreed with you. I guess I've lightened up to him. His videos are terrible, but I wouldn't say he is the worst. He has kind of a goofy, dimwitted charm of sorts that make his videos at least barely worth watching, if only to get laughs from his terrible writing and acting. With that said, there are others who are just plain terrible with no redeemable qualities whatsoever. As difficult as it is to believe, there are people who, to this day, rip off AVGN even more blatantly than IG did. It's just now, nobody gives a shit.

I haven't really kept up to date with his channel, but I do know that he currently gets just a fraction of the views he used to get, anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000. Judging from the last 3 videos he made, I don't think he disables comments anymore. Comments range from 49% blind hate, 49% blind fanboysim, and 2% normal commenting.

EDIT: While we're on the subject, anybody else find AVGN's latest videos to be lackluster?

 

I don't really keep up with the Internet reviewers anymore, but technically there have been worse ones than him, it's just that the ones that are worse are mainly teenagers with crappy equipment, while IG is a 30+ year old guy with decent equipment, so there's really no excuse for him to suck so much, especially content wise. It's just totally obvious he is either completely clueless about games and unwilling to do research, or just doesn't care about games at all and only started doing reviews because of how popular AVGN got.
The only reviewer that's an actual adult and could be worse than IG is Angry Joe. Holy shit is that guy unbearable.

 

I dare say he makes a large amount of cash from his various internet accounts, but I doubt he makes enough to fund a movie all by himself. He has a wife and a kid on the way, he has regular bills to pay too so I really doubt he has enough pocket change to make a film.

With regard to the quality of the trailer, I actually thought it looked really good. If you compare this to the youtube film Happyconsolegamer made its like night and day. Im not bashing the HCG movie but it was what it was, a low budget movie made for the fans. I think the AVGN movie looked, quality wise a lot better. Not to mention all the locations, extras, special effects etc used.

I do agree with you on the cheetamen 2 cartridge though, I think that was just plugging. He was obviously being paid to do that in my opinion.

 

I don't hate him, but he is certainly one of the most annoying reviewers on the internet. I can't believe that idiot has nearly 400,000 subscribers. No wait, I can. Thanks internet.

I enjoyed watching Geoff Keighley embarrass him at the VGAs a couple years ago. Made him look like a huge dumbass (not that it takes much effort).

 

Angry Joe I like but his reviews are way too long. I don't want to watch a half hour video ON ONE GAME unless it's a lets play

 

Angry Joe can be funny at times, but for the most part the guy gets on my nerves. He's loud and obnoxious, he appears to feign anger instead of actually being angry (the number one complaint I have against most angry reviewers), he's unprofessional during interviews (There's a time and a place for when that's fine. But he thinks he always has the green light to act like a dork when speaking with people in the industry.), and he always does skits to show off his "acting" (A common internet reviewer trope that needs to go away.)

 

Maybe Angry Joe can be funny, but I've turned off every video of his after a couple of minutes because of his overwhelming douchiness. I also hate his "I AM THE VOICE OF THE GAMERS" shtick: no you're not, you're just another guy who pretends to be angry over video games. Besides, "angry" reviews are rarely funny when they're of games that are either good or just average/mediocre (which is a mistake all the crappier reviewers make: the games you pick have to actually be bad enough to be interesting), because then you either have to nitpick, make shit up or just suck at the game (Irate Gamer does all three)

 

I actually just removed all my old videos off my you tube. Mostly becasue I'm sick of getting random notices about Retrocade episodes but also because I wanted to reinvent what I do not too many people do the kind of show I do where, actually I'm not even sure what it is I do. I guess I play a game and say random shit, which may sometimes be funny. My Rule is play until I need to continue then move on.