Perspective: If video games are today’s rock-and-roll music, Videogamedunkey might be its Lester Bangs
Videogamedunkey is a unique voice in the world of YouTube gaming criticism. By Gene Park Gene Park Embedded audience editor on the Opinions desk Email Bio Follow Audience editor March 14 at 10:00 AM Rock-and-roll is dead. Video games are the new rock-and-roll: Parents don’t get it. Politicians blame it for things it didn’t do. And kids today want to be famous for playing “Fortnite,” not bass.
In 2006, author and culture essayist Chuck Klosterman bemoaned that"there is no Lester Bangs of video games,” referring to the influential rock music critic from the 1970s. Today, I think such a candidate may exist, and he goes by Videogamedunkey on YouTube. In video games, it literally happens. And the bear might even have a ukulele, as one does in Dunkey’s most popular video, with 18 million views.
Dunkey doesn’t do sociopolitical deep dives on the game. But he has created what I’d call a starting point, a new and engaging way of talking about a still-young art form. “It’s important to build an understanding between the critic and the viewer,” Dunkey says, citing examples of other individual YouTube personalities with loyal audiences who have grown to know their preferences.
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