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Is there a pun here I'm not getting or is this just absurd?
Not a pun, but an inside reference to one of AVGN's more famous lines (that ended up in the theme song to his show).
Which is?... And what is AVGN short for?...
AVGN is Angry Video Game Nerd. He's a youtuber that has been reviewing shitty old video games for almost 20 years at this point; he's basically the originator of the "anti-nostalgia reviewer" genre of youtuber. In one episode (I forget which one, but it's a very old one), he said he'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear and eat the rotten asshole of a roadkill skunk than play the game that was the subject of that episode. And yeah, that ended up being one of his most famous lines.
Its in the themesong even
🎵He's gonna take you back to the past🎵
🎵To play some shitty games that suck ass🎵
🎵He'd rather have a Buffalo take a diharrea dump in his ear🎵
🎵He'd rather eat the rotten asshole of a road killed skunk and down it with beer🎵
🎵He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard🎵
🎵He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd🎵
🎵He's the Angry Atari Sega Nerd🎵
🎵He's the Angry... Videogame... Nerrrrrrrrd🎵
-- AVGN theme song
The Angry Videogame Nerd was a character played by James Rolfe, starring in a YouTube series of the same name from 2004 onwards. He would show off his outstandingly large collection of physical copies of videogames, primarily for the NES, and each episode was a (obscenity-filled) review of a different terrible game.
The series is still on YouTube if you can stomach the rather vulgar humor. There's nothing actually offensive, just... a lot more creative obscenities like the ones in his theme song.
Yes.