Eh, the Nerd's reaction to 'Crazy Bus' was amusing. But I mean yeah, that's not a great batting average. That and the Nerd of all people did not mention the urban legend about 'Jaws' for NES when that would have been a meta moment.

Said legend was that when Jaws was nearing completion a programmer voiced their concern to a superior that the thing stank. Said superior allegedly assured the programmer that 'I could shit in those boxes and we'd still pull a profit due to licensing.'

The Nerd is a legend. He invented being funny on youtube. He's still brilliant and Rex Viper rocks!

Eh, if you like him, like him.

Always came across as a tryhard, and his jokes and shtick always fall flat for me. One of my friends would always put on AVGN or Pewdiepie when she made dinner, so I've been subjected to hours and hours of both of them. I can honestly say I never laughed once, just played polite.

Your opinion is a shit load of fuck. I'd rather eat the testicles of a capybara that had been run over by a sewage truck than listen to you insult James Rolfe.

That was.. quite the pantyfest for me simply saying he was uninteresting. I even had to Google the name, lol.

I always thought you to be pretty level headed, but you went full Coastie there.

Also, remember how in the mid to late 00s, we here were baffled by all the Japanese TV clips with the host reaction boxes in the corner? "Why do the Japanese enjoy watching people watch TV?"

Now that's the entirety of Youtube =(

Well, the guy never made me even smile, so he literally was never funny to me.

Still, as yogarfield said above, if you like him, go nuts. I'm glad he worked for somebody.

The Nerd is responsible, for better or worse, of ushering in that whole era of "mad at thing!" YouTubers. This led to groups like Channel Awesome, of which the quality varied greatly and ultimately ended in collapse. But one could argue that Channel Awesome also led to the rise of the RedLetterMedia guys, which I still like watching. There are a lot of personalities out there—for better or worse—that might not be there if not for the Nerd.

It's not the Nerd's fault that some of those people were cringe to watch, or that YouTube was oversaturated with fake raging and cursing folks. People saw something they liked and thought they could do it, too. Nevertheless, the Nerd has the honor of being the first one to do it, and he started a chain reaction. One also has to respect that he set it off by accident. He got an idea to put on a costume for a video and talk about how an old game made him mad, and it caught fire.