söndag 23 november 2008

Internet reviewers

At least once a week I sit down and watch a new episode or review posted by any of my favourite internet reviewers. These people have gone from being nobodies to be recognised as internet phenomenons. Most of them first posted their review clips on youtube as a joke. But more and more people watched and requested new clips. As the view count exponentially grew to a notable level by youtube-standards, the smell of “money opportunity” started to spread. Eventually the smell reached the noses of internet publishers who gladly would invite them to the family. And so was the missing links in the world of reviewing found. Their names will be remembered by many. They will not forget “The Angry videogame nerd”, “The escapist” and the “Nostalgia critic”.

These reviewers are not the regular stale and formal people who usually work as reviewers. The have gotten to the point where they are today by being different. They don’t follow the formal guidelines that the televised movie- and game-reviewers have to do. They take reviewing to a new level. A level where foul language and graphic nastiness is the way to go. When they think something is wrong they express their feelings without the boundaries of family values and proper manners. When something sucks they say it sucks, if it sucks a*s they say it sucks a*s. That’s the way it should be.

The three reviewers that I mentioned have their own style and genre. The angry videogame nerd reviews old Nintendo games, the escapist dose new games and the nostalgia critic reviews movies and cartoons. All different, all brilliant. If you haven’t seen them and have that special type of humour, get your butt to google and search them up!

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