The Cinemassacre & Screenwave Iceberg Explained 

i don’t wanna keep repeating this so i’ll just write it here: the voice is an AI (elevenlabs) not the actual james or an impression sorry for some of the mike elmo clips being gone, someone at screenwave wanted to fuck with the video and tried taking it down and i could either appeal or just take the easy way and cut them out so that's what i did, if anything like this happens again i'll see if i can do anything else

Honestly Mike's miiverse drawings are insanely impressive

The AI James Rolfe voice sounds like it's from an alternate universe where James did creepypasta videos instead of AVGN

Finally one of these videos that mentions the Cheetahmen 2 scam. I never understood why this barely gets mentioned in any retrospective on James.

The AI James Rolfe narrating this entire video is actually really cool, really threw me for a loop until I went into the comments here

Holy hell AIT James narrating this is nothing short of genius

If I recall correctly, James explained the "nerd face" in an old James & Mike Mondays video, he invented it as a kid and would practice it sometimes when he was bored, it's supposed to look like a cartoon character, and there are actually two of these faces, a shocked one with mouth open and an angry one with mouth closed. At some point he simply stopped caring if these faces make any sense in the situation, which drew a lot of negative attention towards them.

It's weird to hear James talking in 3rd person

Watching this video was almost as fun as building brown bricks with minecrap

Finally, an iceberg for Cinemassacre. Great stuff!

Technically the mike with inspector gadget video is the first minecraft vtuber video

The Rex Viper live shows were bad, but just getting out there and performing in front of a crowd earns my respect. It's not an easy thing to do. If you've ever played in a band, or had to give a speech in front of a crowd, the first few times you are almost guaranteed to suck. You build up the guts, get out there, do it, work on it, and get better, just like anything in life.

That picture of Mike with the eye bags always makes me giggle. Also baseball is pretty cool.

In terms of the "muh kids" part, I actually agree with James. I'm a father to two girls. And even though he does work from home, I'm sure his wife would like a break after he's done working. I don't know anything about her, let alone what she does for a living, but when it comes to kids I will always cut anyone slack.

James is an enigma. He simultaneously has no time to do anything, but is also able to participate in podcasts with no name RU-vid channels that get less than a thousand views.

Do people love or hate James?! He seems like a fine normal dude. The hate is strange.

I laughed way too hard at the Chicken Dance being played over Rex Viper

Tbh, Joueur Du Grenier is still pretty relevant and going strong. Especially (but, of course mostly) in French part of RU-vid

Honestly I don’t mind james resting in his laurels, and putting out low effort content. He provided hundreds of hours of entertainment that I bonded with friends over and watched fanatically in my teen years.

People act like Mike made jokes about actual kids and not a bunch of furry sock puppets lol

The Bob Magrann rabbithole is the weirdest fucking thing you can go down

It’s so creepy but amazing how AI can make it sound just like James Rolfe. Never would have known otherwise.

23:18 HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING

Great video! It really brought back nothing but good memories from the past few years. Big scase fan btw.

Listening to AI-James narrate his own descent into mediocrity was unsettling.

even though I've been subbed to cinemassacre since like 2010, a lot of this I didn't know, mainly because I tend to only focus on the AVGN aspect, great video, love it

13:05 the reason that we're all here

I'm curious if anyone else has made a video covering on the whole Cheetaman II kickstarter scandal from back then, I'd love to here this with the AI James voice.

Finally a full breakdown! This is great, thanks for the effort you put into this! 5:40

I thought this whole video was going to be a shitpost. I became amazed at how informative and well done it is.

THANK YOU for making this!

What's messed up is that Bob Magrann was the only funny member of Silvermania! It's still not saying a lot though.

This video is really well made! Good Job!

This was friggin beautiful! Great work 😄

Find it really dumb the video criticizes James because he doesn't have time to make videos due to his kids and then goes on to say he is working from home and doesn't have to leave. I mean kids need way more attention than to just be sitting at home while you sit behind a computer so James has every right to focus more on his kids and not make any videos at all.

Curious if many of those who complain abt people wanting to spend more time with their families actually have their own. Love james' content for the most part, and I appreciate that those in creative arts have an increasing uphill battle to keep coming up with new material, especially with so much competition, many others out doing the same. Does an artist *owe* fans new/fresh material? People that enter into agreement for compensation for their work, absolutely are owed that.

This is my first iceberg video. Well done.

James Rolfe AI. Interesting

2014 was the last genunely good year of Monster Madness. Luckly, he had hit all the major horror series before then, and then gave Friday the 13th its own series. Oh, and if you ever wanted to update this, you should add the Opie and Anthony interview that James did way back when. If you're not familiar, there was a time when they were the #2 biggest radio show in the country after Howard Stern. Anyway, Anthony Cumia (the titular "Anthony" of the show) is into gaming, and discovered AVGN, and thought it was hilarious, so they invited James to do an interview. He ended up doing a call-in interview, and basically spilled his spaghetti the entire time.

nice video 5 of us laughed 40 of us cried

AVGN room is his basement, not garage…he’s done room tours walking down his stairs

I like how this vid stands out compared to other icebergs vids by using a TTS. The program managed to make the audio experience enjoyable, tho it couldn't capture James' intonation. I also liked the vulgarities dropped in the script because it's appropiate when one talks about the Nerd. Btw, which TTS did you use to replicate James' voice?

I love the Elmo in Grruchland review! It was hilarious.

Great video. Big Ryan fan btw

Whoa! A whole lot I didn't expect for sure.

I've been a huge Cinemassacre fan since I was 9, and I still love James. It was pretty interesting learning more about the Screenwave era though, as I usually tend to avoid drama related content on creators that I genuinely enjoy. Having AI James narrate the video was a nice touch, made some of the less savory entries a little easier to swallow.

Some would say that this is a James Rolfe ai voice, but I'd like to think that this is an alt account for the AVGN.

I still like the avgn stuff. We are close to the same age and i can understand how changes in life make your priorities change and you dont have the same goofy sense of humor you once had

Mate, the ai voice is spot on well done

I mean I can understand James making time for sidesScrollers because it's stuttering Craig. They go back a long time even if Craig's content is an extreme contrast to anything he's done in the 2000s/2010s. I like to believe they are friends

Loved it!!!

I don't like all of the gleeful hatred that these r/TCT dipshits like to spew. James created something that brought joy to millions and inspired an entire genre. Did things keep on rocking forever? Maybe not. Are screenwave unlikeable? Yes. Are we sad about the rift between the ogs? Undoubtedly. Was the movie terrible? Yeah. But that doesn't mean we've got to drown ourselves in hatorade. I for one remain a fan for life.

I cannot understand how Mike hanging out at James place in a pajamas has not become a meme

So James and Mike are real people that make mistakes. Wow.

Im one of those guys that has a lot of admiration for what james has done and look up to his work ethic from when he was in his prime. Times change and he hasnt been producing as much quality stuff lately, but i think he is still making good videos. Im not saying he doesnt deserve critisism, far from it, but some are way too harsh on him.

The reality of all this is that clearly James is somewhat content with what he has now, having work life balance thanks to Screenwave. He’s gotten older and has a family, and clearly this was the only way to keep paying the bills whilst still somewhat doing what he enjoys, albeit cutting out the hours he used to need to do hardcore video editing or self made productions. But also yes, the cliche “avoid mental health and burnout problems” wave that has happened with Many content creators, this was a blessing in disguise now if you really think about it. Now he’s got a crew helping him out and he’s purely the actor now. I don’t think it’s a bad thing but I think where it falls sadly in the end was his friends on the journey. The only series that seems to retain this feeling is Neighbour Nerds, but it’s sad how this practically took over James and Mike Mondays. They are still quite entertaining, thank god his childhood friend and neighbour has such a funny personality and memorable voice but at what expense, so many others.

i thought this was going to be a joke video were James talks in the first person defending himself from all the claims about the subjects made by the "assholish variety" that are on the iceberg. but still tho, this was a pretty interesting video. good job

Are you going to remaster the old OTAV episodes with the new clearer AI James?

I’m surprised out of all the channels dedicated to Cinemassacre, there’s no “Angry ‘Angry Video Game Nerd’ Nerd”

crazy how angry this video is

you are a gentleman and a full time scholar

No time, its 5:40 muh kids

Amazing film!

Thank you my friend are justice.

Ngl, rex viper looks like a fun time. Amateur or not.

James isn't a bad person. I just wish he would treat his Nerd character that brought him success with more passion rather than brand. It's unfortunate Doug Walker beat him at doing what he would love, since he's more of a movie guy now

He's sounds like if James and Gruz had a baby

It's truly sad what Cinemassacre has become. I, along with most people, used to think James was one of the few really genuine content creators out there. No drama, no scandals, just good, quality content, and an all-around good dude. Well, I hate to say it, but it seems like that might be a little off. The way he did Kyle and Bootsy is pretty sad. We, obviously, don't know all the details, but it's telling that both of them bailed not too far apart from one and the other. Clearly, something shady was going on and drove them off. I wish Kyle and Bootsy would expand on it more, but both of them seem too nice to really say anything negative, even if it is deserved. I think James' biggest problem is that it doesn't seem like he has a backbone. I feel like he probably bases most of his decisions on what his wife says. It's likely why he's not allowed to be more involved in his own content and had to hand it off to Screenwave. And speaking of them, it seems like James lets them do whatever they want, even if he doesn't necessarily agree with it. He signed away his brand and just collects the paycheck. They write everything, and he shows up to go through the motions and read his lines. When they're all together for a podcast, interview, or other spinoff video, James just sits there and nods or says "Mmhmm" while the others steer the ship. They have zero chemistry! I guess this shouldn't be too much of a surprise. James was never that into video games, and if it hadn't been for Mike, he'd have bailed on the AVGN character after his first 3 videos. He wanted to be a real filmmaker, not a content creator on the net stuck making video game shorts. Unfortunately, that pays the bills now, and he's stuck having to keep it going. Nobody cares about his filmmaking. He's fairly incompetent as a director, as noted by his ridiculous methods of filming the nerd and his God awful movie that was just a jumbled mess. Instead of making a nerd movie, he tried to jam everything he liked about film into the movie and turned it into a slog. Sadly, we've seen the best AVGN has to offer. All that's left now is mediocre Screenwave content, and his mindless fans that white knight for him at every turn and refuse to acknowledge his content just isn't good anymore. It's kind of like the Simpsons. Any level-headed person will tell you that the show should've ended 20 years ago, but there's still those millions of people who will claim it's as good as ever. (Edited for clarity)

Nice! big ryan fan btw

I've never understood the fascination of grown men over Mike DIC pic plus the whole 5:40 thing , the guy has kids and wants to be present in their lives which is what a dad should do

I actually really liked the rental reviews

You sound a lot like James

mike’s looking fairly cadaverous these days according to that mugshot in the intro

The bawls on the berg!

Level 3 having that amazing Bomberman hero music ❤ love that track

I kind of checked out after James & Mike Mondays and Rental Reviews were canceled. AVGN is fine and all, but it's no longer a fresh, groundbreaking DIY series that can prop up a channel on its own.

Hey i’m justin

Great film.

I think James should've became a full time movie reviewer years ago. I'm not saying his opinions on movies are good or bad, but it's really evident he's not fit for anything else. He can barely be the Nerd anymore, nor can he have enough talent to make a watchable film. Yes, the AVGN movie was not good in the slightest, but he knows how movies work. He still has a core audience for his non-nerd content, but it would make sense he chooses the latter, and make Nerd content for the most money possible. He should've ended AVGN at Mega Man episode, or even the movie. It seems as if he has "no time" to make anything else but watered down Nerd episodes, and movie reviews. He's too calm of a man to be the Nerd. So he should either quit, or take the criticism.

well done sir.

This video fucking rocks

This IS James taking, isn't it? Tone, timing, sounds just like James. :)

I notice there was one entry not on here. That tweet where Mike Matei raged at people for using save states and telling them that if they used them, they didn't beat the damn game.

lmao, that Wario Land 4 pinball zone music is so depressing, perfect choice

0:52 lmfaooo hearing James voice saying this with the emoji 💀💀

The robut ai version of james has a lot more energy than regular james rolfe... screenwave could learn something from this

Wait Kyle left because James didn't pay him? Is there any source of this?

I see what you did there with the James AI. AMAZING

We’ll get into that later

Yer voice sounds really similar to James, I thought it was him at first

Elmo will always be the worst thing mike has ever done. its worse than the loco bandito

Even as a kid i never liked Mike, he never was funny for me...

Thumbs up for the Sun Araw music

What a shitload of fuck- err I mean, informational content. Great video!

I remember watching "TheREALCinemassacre" parody account and thinking (still do) his vids were quite good for a parody, even a friend of mine wished he continued when I showed him some vids. Not sure if this is lost media, but I remember watching a vid in 2013 regarding James's top 10 Godzilla monsters. Shame ya didn't mention an old vid where I assume James threatens to "spit Jimmy's nuts from atop a tree" or some shit like that. :D You're a meanie for the River Twigz Bed music btw :P Edit: I forgot to mention, on the topic of possible lost media, I remember watching these vids where James recounts old memories about certain games, Super Mario Kart and Contra being the ones I remember watching back between 2013-2015.

Big Cooper fan btw

Wasn’t expecting the voices that really lends to it. Almost comedic.

Dude, can you please provide the source of the music tracks you used

Wow! I would watch this but I don’t quite have the time

Hey wanted to Ask what is the music at 6:07 ?