Have you noticed that most of what passes for comedy on the Internet is anger? I don’t mean to denigrate Internet reviewers like the Nostalgia Critic and the Angry Video Game Nerd. I often find their work to be creative and fun. But that doesn’t change the fact that their videos are full of childish tirades and excessive expletives.
I noticed that this is a problem when I watched the Nostalgia Critic’s recent video apologizing for his mistakes. At one point, he asks his viewers to calm down when writing their angry responses to him about nitpicky details he gets wrong in his reviews. Here’s a man who is constantly pretending to be violently angry in his videos, and he’s asking people to stop being so mad at him for no reason. That made me realize that there’s a serious disconnect between online content creators and online consumers. The writers and actors are presenting absurd responses to films, video games and other things that shouldn’t really evoke such strong emotions. But people who read their articles and watch their videos seem to miss the point that this is all a charade. Continue reading
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