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You Can’t Go Home Again: The Legacy of the Angry Video Game Nerd

This piece originally appeared in 2018 at ZEAL. Permit me, if you will, to take you back to the past. Way, way back a dozen years ago — before major gaming sites made comedy a key part of their video strategy, before most sites even had a video strategy. Before PewDiePies and Game Grumps and…
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My Story Animated

New forms of media spawn new genres of storytelling. Television brought us the sitcom, the police procedural, the drawn-out public humiliation. Video games gave the world JRPGs, point-and-click adventure games, and Flopglopple abuse simulators. Streaming video first presented the vlog, then the head/cumshot compilation, and at last, the metrics-calibrated weapons-grade dopamine trap. For tots, there’s Cocomelon and…