>bat credit card!
>>221268918It's crazy how unfunny and untalented ecelebs from this era were. Literally the only barrier to entry was owning a camera.
I stopped watching NC with his Casper reviewThat stupid cartoon ghost was grating as fuck.
>>221268948Like it or not - Doug was the Pioneer along with the rest of TGWTG crew
>>221268988This is flat out the worst movie I have ever seen. No story, no craftmanship, just a bunch of pretend celebrities sucking themselves off.
>>221269007watch the Linkara movie
>>221269007yeah yeah yeah. and they still made more money in a day than you did in a month in your wagecuck job
>>221269031They absolutely didn't. Youtube was not monetized then the way it is now. Most had to beg for money.
>>221269059they were making money through blip tv
>>221268948He had to own his own site because youtube threw him off.
Guys, I don't think the The Schmuckleheads are ever reforming. We may be looking at Total Uwe Boll Victory.
>>221268948It was fine, entertaining enough to watch when there weren't many alternatives.
>>221269224you could have just downloaded a VCD of a real movie
>>221269203Jesus fucking Christ. All memes aside, I genuinely feel sorry for this guy.
>>221269203Funny he's saying that in Bluesky of all places.
>>221268988Kickassia just gets better each time I watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVswH9_StGc
>>221269007Nope, there was this young guy that had an affected voice that couldnt be more performative. Can't remember what film review he did but it was in his bedroom and he had a horribly pretentious voice, might be english.
>>221269203where is the spoony movie, you fucking lazy faggot
>>221269291Film Brain?
>>221269007Kickassia is pure cringekinoTo Boldly Flee on the other hand is a genuine contender for worst movie of all time
>>221268918>no credit card
>>221269311did anyone actually want a spoony movie?it's such a dumb thing to kill your career over
>>221269291Film Bane?
>>221268948Anyone with a modicum of charm and some basic editing skills could've been a millionaire by being one of the first content creators. There was zero competition until about 2014.
>>221269314>>221269316I just saw his Chevy chase review and nope. He was way younger and his voice was like how a child would perform Shakespeare for the first time. He might be american or english but he was white. Awful voice, I found from here i think as a lolcow.
>>221269203At least Latza is succesful these days.
>>221269335uhhhh....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4bvwEDnrs
>>221269335>did anyone actually want a spoony movie?Lots of people. The skits were the draw for a large part of the audience. >it's such a dumb thing to kill your career overIt was a very minor actor in the tragedy of Spoonys downfall.
What would the movie have actually been about?
>>221269409>Lots of people. The skits were the draw for a large part of the audience.Spoony wasn't Linkara, his skits were usually fairly short and always directly referencing the games.I remember he even apologized when his skits went overboard with too much of a storyline and fans complained.
>>221268918Popped up on your recs too huh? I'll watch it later today
>>221268918I keep wondering, is there any particular reason why he chose to keep a white background?Like I cannot think of anything more boring.
>>221268948To be fair they also needed to know how to edit, while not too hard, wasn't a common thing back then
>>221268952Timing!
>>221268918>Batman is rich. He is rich and has funneled that money into his crime fighting enterprises through shell companies and false identities. And being someone who prepares for multiple eventualities, as demonstrated in both comics AND TV, where in he's actually utilized his money to solve a situation or bought something that he wouldn't carry with him, which would include say diapers for a rescued baby or coffee to keep himself awake. Plus his tendency to accessorise his crime fighting tools to fit his motif, from something understandable like a fearsome vehicle to something silly like his projectiles resembling a bat and the aforementioned usage of shell companies to aquire items. WHAT, EXACTLY, IS SO RIDICULOUS AND ANGER-INDUCING ABOUT A BAT CREDIT CARD?!
>>221268918>rewatch old Nerd or Spoony episodes>pure comfy kino>try to rewatch NC>its the most unfunny and boring shit everIs this what "growing up" truly is?
>>221268948Show some respect. These lame-ass niggas were embarrassing themselves figuring out all the shit you take for granted about how you create content for an Internet audience. Plus you have to understand how shit the tools and software were. There wasn't much quality in consumer grade recording.
>>221269633you should try watching an old LordKat videoit's like a pajeet instructional youtube video but for a garbage game you'd never want to play
>>221269633AVGN has aged well
>>221269314>>221269316Nevermind, it is him! I just saw the 10000 bc review and he had more hair. He has really toned down his voice or I saw one way too early in his career where his voice was like a kabuki theater.
>>221269673I only ever watched one back in the day, it was the Battletoads episode since I played it as a kid, and it was a boring video, guy was never going to make it
>>221269673>it's like a pajeet instructional youtube video but for a garbage game you'd never want to playWhat about his Notch interview?Also, old Phelous's horror/RE/SH videos were very good. Pretty much the only thing he was good at and actually funny. Too bad all he does now are garbage cartoon and toy reviews along with his ugly hag.
>>221269749>Also, old Phelous's horror/RE/SH videos were very good.I could never get into Phelous, what would you say are his topppest of top videos?
>it's the only "joke" he's famous for, which he made roughly 20 years ago.He makes content for broken, non-functional autistic fuckups. If you can go through any of his videos without cringing out you're deep in "da spek"
>>221269519It never leaves them.
>>221268918Remember when he made all those reviews for new movies where he couldn't use any footage from them so he instead had Woman and Black Guy act out the movie in skits?
>>221269740Funny thing is, he actually had a following with his live streams (it's a shame most of those are lost because apparently in one of them he was caught jerking off) that was fairly sizable for its time.He even had dinner with the justin.tv (the thing that became Twitch) founders.He was literally on the ground floor of what became the biggest thing in gaming media and still completely failed.No wonder he cut his dick off in shame.
>>221269673LordKat was never good.
>>2212697652000s horror movie reviews and Resident Evil/Silent Hill videos. He censored a lot of them (him singing instead of playing music is especially cringe and simply painful to hear) when he moved to YouTube, but they are still good. Also, some of his TMNT stuff was good. Recent Sliders reviews are also ok.
>>221269203So... no year of Spoony?
So who has had the the most respectable career out of the CA crew?
>>221269812What is the deal with black guy and woman? I stopped watching for years and saw threads about the game show and him hiring actorsLast few months I actually got back into watching his stuff and I guess they're a permanent addition
>>221269749Phelous is fine in small doses.>>221269812Wasn't that shortly after having to revive Nostalgia Crtic because nobody liked his other project?
>>221269850Lindsey Ellis unironically
>>221269851They both left. He hired them as part of his sketch show that failed to take off
>>221269850Cinema Snob?
>>221269850Angry Joe, unironicaly
>>221269851There was a time when Doge tried to branch out of being The Nostalgia Critic. He thought he had it in him to make something REAL, with professional actors. It was called Demo Reel, and it was the most embarrassing thing he'd ever attempted up to that point (his review of The Wall is worse but that came later)Demo Reel was such a resounding failure that he was forced to return to being NC, but he had these two professional actors he'd hired, so now he used them for skits in his reviews. Then the original woman got a real acting job and got replaced by a chubbier woman.
>>221269850Probably the Rap Critic
>>221269859Yeah, that's what I thought. I just personally don't respect how tight she clamped onto the Disney Teat for content even if it was the right move.
>>221269855"Old Man Reads Creepypastas" is probably the best thing to come out of Phelous
>>221269817>He was literally on the ground floor of what became the biggest thing in gaming media and still completely failed.Yeah, if he had played his cards right now he could be retired from doing videos because he got to work in the background of everything. Instead he's an almost forgotten has been.
>>221269830No. That idiot could have become a millionaire, be still relevant today and fuck a cute brown tomboy cosplayer in the ass every day, but he wasted it all.
>>221269850That one camwhore.
>>221269901>Goggles, put on the Sailor Scout uniform!Haha, imagine. He could be living like Yoshihiro Togashi... instead of living like Yoshihiro Togashi.
>>221269778The fuck are you on about you tard? His content is ok
>>221269203This ruined my day. I hope he finds happiness with his doggos.
>>221269880>and got replaced by a chubbier woman.You mean Tamara
>>221270033Their names are not important.
>>221270043Heh
>>221270043You big mincing ninny.
>>221270033Last I heard, she also left
>>221270043Malcolm. It is Malcolm and Tamara. We Criticheads miss them everyday
Great Scott! The disasters faced by the Channel Awesome members are enough to make stone weep! Anon, I'll allow you to use the DeLorean for ONE (1) trip to the past to save ONE (1) Channel Awesome member from the horrors their lives turned into.Choose wisely.
>>221270122JewWariothe pedo allegations were complete nonsense from some an adult woman saying she was mentally 17 at the time or somethingother CA member problems were self-inflictedhe faced genuine injustice
>>221270162He seems like a nonce because of that and getting naked and trying to finger a girl who was black out drunk
I recently watched Spoony's review of the King of Fighters live action movie, it was very simple but I thought it was alright(the review not the movie)?
>>221270122>>221270162Save the otaku, save the world.
>>221270238Meh, nothing of value was lost.
>>221270122We'll meet again in Sto'Vo'Kor.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHAKW1IEA0&t=6542s#catgirlarmy
>>221270023He killed Oreo due to improper care. And there's a good possibility "Thac0" is someone else's dog, he found it on the street and never bothered to look for the owner. Depressed losers should not have pets.
>>221268948TGWTG were literately the best the 2000s had to offer for entertainment. Go back on early youtube, and the norm was a sea of retards and serial killers making their home movie with shaky cameras.
>>221269335Many were hoping the Spoony movie would have been about his love the Ultima games. And him being friends with the creator to make something special for fans of the games, and fans of Spoony.
>>221270162>have sex with a legal 18 year old when you're in yours 40s, nice>kill self>bitch slanders you online saying she was groomed and was physically 18 but mentally... 16. >no this is not a fucking joke, this is her actual claim>get forever branded a pedophile from there on out, every time someone sees your picture they mention your pedophilic waysI hate women. I hate Jew Wario too, he was a weak willed little faggot surrounded by equally retarded faggots, but I hate women even more.
A reminder Doug knew all about the shit Jew Wario did, but kept his mouth shut about it to not rock the gravy train. Never spoke about it, despite being the face of the company when people came to him for questions on it. Chose to double down and lose his entire brand, ending up alone than admit he and his brother helped cover for a rapist.
Oney
>>221270350It wasn't them being under aged. It was him drugging them, and fucking them while half aware in hotel rooms and getting caught.
>>221270008No, none if it is okay, you fat fuck.
>>221270312There was a time when I watched Brett Keane calling random pastors and asking them edgy questions about the bible and thought that was tight shit lol
>>221270379It is great, you tard
>>221270329I just wanted a feature length episode with some slightly higher production skits. Literally just copy MST3K the movie like all these guys copied MST3K the show
>>221270296How the fuck did he kill Oreo? What happened?
>>221270439Pretend this is the Spoony movie then:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHMdzKRi_0
>>221270451What was it barking?
>>221270451It's just some A-Lawg screeching.
>>221269633What fuggin timeline are we in, this is a clown world simulation drop dead cynical and lordkat live never turned to this?Proof we are in the hell realm during the covid I was watching his new vids in 2023 -2024 he was on a diet not a transtrender, Ok very funny simulcra give me my timeline back before spoony had a break down(I'd rather be in 2006 being messed with by kurush the rich kid for being a povo straggler.).
>>221270792LordKat was always a huge faggot He just hid it by troll shielding
>>221270792>What fuggin timeline are we inThe one with no brakes.
>>221269778>I only ever watched one back in the day, it was the Battletoads episode since I played it as a kid, and it was a boring video, guy was never going to make itYou've never seen eskimo bob than, no it's not unc tier , it's an early 2000's flash cartoon matt thomas played a piano to and phleous made various character voices made in the style of old 90's cartoon like grugg and spot/curious george(also mortal komedy was better done than the nu-slop mortal kombat movies, should of got them all fit and let them make it).
>>221269884that's silky brown he hangs out with phelous and was jaxx in mortal komedy, very very good script writer they established red matter and eventually he started rapping himself(Black nerd andre owes him his whole career, I would rather they hired him to write or star as jaxx in the mortal kombat films).
>>221270903Why do they troon out?
>>221268948Cope zoomer, everything you like is dogshit.
>>221271156Mental health issues -> no healthy social life -> feelings of alienation and isolation -> seeing the extremely positive reinforcement all troons receive -> trooning out to obtain acceptance from others -> realizing social media support is not real -> 41 %
>>221269880The Wall isn't even that bad or strange, if you're a Dougologist, you'll know that the Wall is a shitty attempt at replicating the success of the Moulin Rouge review.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUPcD91mXYAnd that review really was his huge magnum opus. Back in 2011, it was nothing ever seen before, and it'd be the thing to kickstart things like To Boldly Flee getting a bigger budget. Problem is, that was 2011. If you drop something like that today, you're going to have the pseuds claiming that my asshole is a symbol for fascism and Donald Trump tearing it down.
>>221270350yeah it's kind of sad it's literally what they are doing with me to cancelling like they did with various actors, funny when it's elmo's voice actor kevin clash , kevin spacey and funk dubious doing it to teen boys under 16 and no one gives a damn...
>>221271356Between Moulin Rouge and The Wall, there's Les Miserableshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnQA93iq6gThere's also a Phantom of the Opera review that tried to do the same thing but it was so shitty I don't remember anything about it
>>221269633>Lordkat trooned out>Luke Mochrie trooned out>Jesu Otaku trooned out>Jew Wario was a pedo>Elisa Hansen married Pawdugan and decided to be asexual after shitting out their kid>Malcolm Ray is a furry>Linkara created a comic featuring rape and necrophiliaWhy did Channel Awesome attract so many sexual deviants?
>>221270367yeah he was a guest star on nerd to the 3rd same with team 4 star literally dr gonzo, paw dugan and freya mau made the both of them famous drumming up support for their ventures.What did paw and dr gonzo and todd in the shadows get michaud jostled aside for them later.They were my favorite pod cast when I had just started my grueling cisco/cycles/path theory courses, I would never have passed without them(Freya mau and dr gonzo who both ran switches and router for the site even recommended me cheap switches, routers and motherboard standalone combos to run mini soho script terminal nets).
>>221270439And yet he was invited as a guest on their newer show in 2019 before the covid, he turned it down out of stressful fan obligations, yet had no problem meeting curtis online over his phantasmogoria vid.Not picking on curtis, just it's better that he could of worked with both curtis and mst3k(and had them help him script the film with louis who is a norman like benzaie(who worked on prince of persia sands of time) used to be, now reality overlap wise he was always from poitou).
>>221269381I do think it's really funny that despite Latza wanting to be a part of Channel Awesome so desperately, his career right now is infinitely more successful than anyone that's been a part of it aside from Doug and maybe Angry Joe
>>221272077his aspirations to become an internet reviewer were still retarded tho
>>221271530>post Demo Reel NCThat's always gonna be inferior, but the skit genre was getting old around 2012. Moulin Rogue review came out at the appropriate time. No wonder he revolves everything around that moment, even his theme song.
It's sad watching some old Spoony vid, noticing a copyrighted song used for a one-off joke, and realizing that youtube reviews like that are literally impossible now.
>>221272261You can still do it, you just have to not give a shit about muh money and actually be doing this for fun.
>watch old Cinemassacre content>it's wholesome and heartwarming>watch old CA content>it's miserable and harrowingAnyone else?
>>221272416>>watch old CA content>>it's miserable and harrowing
>>221272444Jesus Christ that sucks, my grandpa had Alzheimers and my grandmother insisted on caring for him despite being an octogenarian herself
To be honest, I only liked watching doug for when he's not playing the NC and is just normally talking about a movie or topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHn1_p6Haog
>>221272581How do you feel about his top 20?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49C52FSVwZ4
>>221269203I just wanted him to make X-Files FMV-game let's play.
>>221272935>I just wanted him to make X-Files FMV-game let's play.did Bennett ever even made any lets plays?
>>221268948>>221268918guys, he;s nobody spend your time doing something else
>>221268948>>221269370> Literally the only barrier to entry was owning a camera.>Anyone with a modicum of charm and some basic editing skills could've been a millionaireThis thread has too many armchair entrepreneurs. You make it sound so easy when it's not. Doug won because he was original, funny and consistent for its time. He has released at least one scripted video every week for the past 19 years. He tried multiple formats, sometimes failed and moved on. He's a work horse and he has been an inspiration for an entire generation of content creators. Comedy is subjective but his drive is undeniable.
>>221272412on a platform where no one will ever find the content, that no one will ever watchdemonetized videos will never show up in recommendations
>>221273066>Comedy is subjective but his drive is undeniable.>Uuuuuhhhhh...YEAH U THINK?!?!
>>221273269Face it, breakfast is ruined!
These movies were just full of literally whosRemember that guy who was just a fucking jpeg
>>221268948I hate that ecelebs of this era think they're "entertainers" and have to create sketches with other actors like they're on some sort of crapper SNL. Just review the fucking movie and tell us whether it's worth watching.
>>221273380Would you rather watch:>The AVGN movie>Any of the CA movies>Game Dude's toy dinosaur play
But where is Game Dude?
>>221273444Doug Walker cut of To Boldly Flee, easily.
>>221273380a reminder that the banana boi used to be a part of their group too
>>221273444AVGN and it's not even closeIt's still a shitload of fuck but it's got ten times the charm and passion put into it than anything Doug shat outGame Dude is is so rude, he's not in the conversation and is probably a green skeleton now and deadThe real question is: To Boldly Flee or the AT4W movie?
>>221273444I watched all the NC movies on a second monitor. I stopped watching the AVGN movie after ten minutes. I couldn't do it. No wonder James has never been the same.
>>221273444I've watched Suburban Knights like three times
>>221273489Banana boy wrote a book called Sexbot Uprising
>>221273601wasn't it called neckbeard uprising? I remember him shilling ''non-productive'' another one of his failed projects too
>>221273637No, Sexbot Uprising. It came out this year.
>>221271653Sir, 2D Lee is trans now.
>>221272416>watch old Cinemassacre content>can't stand it now that I know he's actually retarded and obsessed with poopoo>watch old CA content>CAUSE I AM KAZAAAM>GREEN EGG AND HAM IT
>>221273653Oh
>>221273637>>221273653you think he just ctr+f replace neckbeard for sexbot?https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7874224.T_J_Kirk
>>221268918His whole style grew increasingly schizoid over the years, disconnected from the world around it. The Wall review was the peak of this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VePEBp2jczs
>>221273444Kickassia is the most enjoyable by far. AVGN Movie is a pretty distant second.
>>221273666I looked this up half-expecting it to be true given how many of them seem to troon outBut 2D Lee is nowhere to be found, he's disappeared from the internet
>>221273538>It's still a shitload of fuck but it's got ten times the charm and passion put into it than anything Doug shat outYou had to be there to enjoy the NC movies because it was a pretext to feature all the obscure creators from the TGWTG website. Meanwhile everyone agreed the AVGN movie was the most soulless slop ever when it came out. The angry nerd acts different, Mike is nowhere to be seen and Cooper steals the scene because James' wife was jealous. The movie insists upon itself and expectes the audience to praise its bottom tier special effects.
>>221270367BEST OF Channel Awesome References (Funniest Moments)
>>221269203Me when I try to make a 5 minute long video game review
Uh-oh! Jewario has roofied JesuOtaku (pre-troon), but due to a kerfaffle with the police is unable to follow through. It's up to you now, anon. What do?
>>221273719The Wall truly is peak garbageAll of the Channel Awesome movies, the AVGN movie, all of it are all fucking kino compared to this crap and I'm surprised he kept going afterwardsBut the Dougroach never seems to die
>>221273862Off before she trooned out she was such a cute tomboy
remember that jeet?
>>221273934HEART
>>221268948even when it was brand new and had traffic (I guess?) I thought it was fucking horrible. One or two friends thought it was great, so whenever we'd hang out and start drinking they'd put that shit on and laugh at it. I didn't fucking get it, still don't. The overacting, nerdy shit makes me shudder. I can watch oney make a sims family of them and fuck with them for an hour though lol
>>221273934I remember his death being a serious plot point in To Boldly Flee and Doug doing a hilarious impession of him because the jeet was predictably a sex offender or something
>>221273934What happened inbetween Suburban Knights and To Boldly Flee that meant he wasn't in the movie?
>>221273934He was pretty cool.
>>221273684wait what? james is a real retard and obsessed with poop for real? pretty successful for a retard gotta say
>>221273984I don't know, I only remember him from the MK 2 reviev
>>221273959BIG PLENTIFUL BAAAALLS
>>221269203would transitioning have saved him?
WOMANBLACK GUYGET IN HERE
>>221269203bro could've said I can't cope after my dog died but he's just a pathetic simp
>>221274072Noah was a total shithead when April left, it doesn't surprise me one bit that he's bringing her up again like the selfish faggot he is.
>>221274054Remember when they revealed the woman was raped by her uncle as a joke?
Wasn't there a TGWTG civil war or something a few years ago? I remember someone accusing either Doug or his brother of rape. Or maybe not paying people. It was one of those.
>>221274196You're clutching pearls over an Uncle bad touch joke? That's very cool.
>>221274197There was a massive document of grievances of questionable validity and pretty much everybody left
i had a friend who really wanted to do sketch comedy YouTube in the late 2000s/early 2010s. he looked at these guys and thought they were amazing, and that he could just do the same.really lovely guy, probably autistic, just not very self-aware. he went out and bought a proper camera and PAID for Sony Vegas, After Effects, etc. then he managed to rope some of our (non-actor) friends into acting out his scripts, all filmed in his mother's house and garden.by the end, we were in our 20s and he was calling MY FUCKING PARENTS asking why i wouldn't go around and star in one of his comedy videos. the whole time, i could tell it was cringe. i am really, really grateful to these Channel Awesome guys, for making me aware just how awkward nerds-doing-comedy can be. i dodged a bullet.
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>>221274253You're a frigger in 2026, I don't think you understand who dodged the bullet.
>>221274253You could have made the next Fedoras Are Awesome.
>>221274197All the creators left acussing Doug, Rob and the other guy of covering up a rapist. Even though they actually fired the rapist and many of the accusers were also covering it up. These days, Doug is doing better than ever appearing in Adult Swim shows and all the others are washed up nobodies.
>>221274267oh my life is terrible. and for what it's worth, i respect that these Channel Awesome dudes were just having fun. i rewatched Kickassia recently and fuck it: they put themselves out there, good for them.me? horrifically camera shy. don't have that 'theater kid' drive in me, at all. at the same time, i think some people just don't know when to feel embarrassed. like something is lacking in their brain.
>>221274054WOMANBLACK GUYGET IN ME
>>221274253When I was 14, I actually recorded my own NC-style review. My "character" wore a dressing gown, red sunglasses and had a bubble pipe. As soon as I watched back my first poece of footage, I realised how cringe it was and never attempted it again.
>>221274013Are you new here? He was in special ed class, rode the short bus, and his poop jokes come from the heart.
>>221274267The fuck is a frigger?
The only TGWTG content that I still revisit every once in a while is Pawdugan and pals playing old Sierra games and voicing all of the characters in them. It was obscure even when it came out and i think a lot of episodes are lost but imo it's still funny and holds up today, the format was ahead of its timehttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC74540AB86AD8E05
>>221274379>Pawdugan>win>still lose
>>221274013He once left a movie three times to validate his parking because he didn't think to find a different spot.https://youtu.be/d9SNEPojPqA?t=1104&is=Tf45Ek_JRJAWVdol
>>221274197Yes it was the #changethechannel drama back 2018. Most of the creators feature din TGWTG left the website and published their complaints on a Google doc. A lot has been written and recorded on the matter. Youtuber nettles5517 made seveal videos about it. To make it short, the rebellion lost ground because most complaints were lies, half truths or petty bullshit. People like Obscurus Lupa and Linkara unironically wanted to destroy Doug's life and they failed. Channel Awesome has only mentioned the issue in writing once or twice and never played into the drama. The only real difference is that CA learned its lesson and quietly stopped wasting time and money on other content creators.
>>221274420You fags losing your mind over this guy was always funny. But that you didn't think to stop when he came out and said he was a literal retard is just hilarious.
>>221274301He's still going and still nobody gives a shit
>>221269203>earned a great living just talking about and playing his favourite video games infront of a camera>stopped doing this literally effortless "job" for no reason at all>wahhh, my life is suffering because after 20 years of easy living i might have to finally get a basic job and pay rentWeird to look back at the videos you used to enjoy as a teenager and realize you were watching an actual worthless manchild, ive known people with actual real meaningful disabilities who stay consistently employed, have wives and kids and never complain or pity party themselves, what an absolute fucking dreg.
>>221274477Chrome dome...
>>221274477He has nothing but film in his brain..
>>221274485Spoony is disabled, just not physically. He's got loaferitis.
>>221274477Did he get cancer?
>>221274477Kek, the first video that comes up when you search for him is him bitching about CA. Ungrateful fucks the lot of them. Doug gave them careers and they spat in his face. Ironic considering that was the last time he had any relevancy.https://youtu.be/avYpWzssU7c?is=oy6d0vEXnD0kZxh9
>>221274476>>221274420wtf is this meme about James being retarded?
>>221274477And they thought Channel Awesome was holding them back lmao. Lupa is still seething about it.
>>221274554Is he still in the same bedroom from his very first videos? Wasn't that his parent's house?
>>221274564See >>221274367He went to special ed school
>>221274564Two reasons:1) He went to special ed school (nothing wrong with that)2) Making the AVGN movie was an emotional rollercoaster and he's never been the same since then. James before and after the movie are two different people. He hasn't stated it directly it afaik, but he burnt out real bad.
>>221268948Because they were actual nobodies doing obsessive nerd talk, and not young hustlers trying to break into an e-celeb industry
>>221274301Typical e-celeb bitching>Hmmm, could it be that no one wants to watch my video? Nah this must be Youtube's fault
who's the smarmy one on Kickassia, who argues with Douge the whole time?it's sweet they tried to include everyone, but it felt like i was expected to know who all these 'characters' were. e.g. one was a JPEG for some reason, not sure if the joke was he couldn't make it, or his videos were still images, or what.>oh hey Dave the Film Squid, how's it going?>oh you know, still nursing my tentacles back to health after that big fight with Cinema Kraken.shit reminds me of Sonic OCs and sprite comics back in the day.
>>221274301Him not understand Oneyplays's loving mockery of Doug is very telling
I don't watch his shit but he knows what he is and just roles with it. Can't hate the guy.
>>221273380>Remember that guy who was just a fucking jpegLee Still Gaming. He is a troon now and dresses in grandma clothes. I'm not joking.
>>221274761Ironic that he's best known to people now from being a footnote from the NC conversations on OneyPlays OH NOSTALGIA CRITICOI'M SO EXCOITED
>>221274845Ironic that his character in the anniversary movies was nothing like his "character" in his videos, but that's his entire legacy - Doug's fictionalised version of him.>His only legacy is his
>>221274802is it this avatar/vtuber streamer? (clearly male from the voice).tbqh i just find it sad now. yeah yeah, geeky dudes, maybe a bit awkward/spergy. but then i don't feel any schadenfreude when they star wearing wigs and lipstick. it's less 'for the lulz' and more 'holy fuck, this guy is ruining his life.'
>>221274928I'm sure there's probably an obvious answer - but why is this so common in nerd/geek culture?
>>221268918Shine on, you crazy diamond.
>>221269633this is like the sixth person at CA to become a tranny right?
>>221274976i want researchers to just look at autism as a differential diagnosis, same way we do with any other condition/disease/disorder. ignore any 'controversy', just study the possibility.my heart goes out to awkward guys (and gals) who don't feel quite right, struggle to socialize, and are probably considered awkward/annoying by most people.but when they troon out they're just shifting all that in a different direction. like people still find them incredibly weird (if not more than they were before), everyone is just being polite. it's like if someone has B.O.: at some point, they just NEED to be told.
>>221271653Rollo T transitioned too
>>221268948The first 100 episodes of AVGN were kino, I discovered him too late
>>221275032>>Lordkat trooned out>>Luke Mochrie trooned out>>Jesu Otaku trooned out
>>221275056LordkatLuke MochrieJesuIron LizRollo Tso five
He wasn't CA, but didn't Jim Stirling troon out?
>>221274258ywnbaj
>>221275075I think Iron Liz was already a troon before CA
>>221274976I think there was a specific period in the early to mid 2010s when Tumblr discourse around gender identity and shit got very vocal started to proliferate in a subsection of social outcasts who became convinced they felt different and ostracized because they were secretly a hideous balding woman in the body of a hideous balding man
>>221275106I honestly blame tumblr too
>>221275106>>221275125And when Tumblr banned nsfw content, there was a mass exodus to Twitter Reddit
>>221275106bum
>>221275106>>221275125it feels so quaint now. before Tumblr it was LiveJournal, DeviantArt, scattered blogs. people WERE saying the same shit and using the same terminology, but we accepted they were internet weirdos.e.g. some furries believed they were actual 'otherkins' possessed by fictional animal-men and shit. it was ridiculous, obviously, but i miss just how earnest the weirdos were.now, people take the weirdos seriously. and the new generation of (wannabe) weirdos steep everything in Twitter irony, 'i'M So ScHiZo!!!1'. i miss when it was real.
>>221275106when moot split /jp/ off from /a/ back in '08 everyone was constantly posting about how they wanted to 'be the little girl' or that they were 'so ronery' or whatever and he was trying to get /a/ back on topic by exiling all that shit. having been observing this stuff for the last couple decades i dont really find the modern world very surprising. some percentage of weird nerds have been convinced all their problems in life would have been fixed if they were born a woman.
>>221275775i think a lot of the /jp/ stuff was ironic, just joking around. i mean i'm sure a lot of them DID want to fuck the little girls from Touhou, or go and live in Gensokyo, but eh, that's standard internet/weeaboo perverts/depression.if you were there around then, do you remember sparky5 or whatever 'she' was called? used to post>hi guyz I LURV WINDOWS ME it's my FAVE OPERATING SYSTEM!!!! ^__^ wwwww CRAZY and shit like that?that person was genuinely unwell. uploaded occasional videos over 10+ years, it wasn't just some act or gimmick. but nowadays it's something we'd validate, which is really fucking scary.
>>221274845>>221274869I'll be serious. I did not know who the British bald guy was until the To Boldly Flee movie, then I gave him a shot, found out he's basically unwatcheable. But I literally learned he exists thanks to Doug. Everything involving Linkara's gimmick, being a weird space cowboy Iron Man, also got largely popularized by To Boldly Flee. The fucking Linkara movie is LITERALLY just a spinoff/sequel to To Boldly Flee.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h76fBmV2GVoEven their skits are reliant on Channel Awesome/Doug.
>>221268918https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPSaOgx6-6s
>>221276299this actually how i felt at the time but im still connected with maybe 50~ or so posters from back in the day on discord or twitter and quite a lot of them are trans now. i think the tumblr stuff the other anons mentioned is also pretty important since a large movement of acceptance also means more people will act on those idle thoughts. had society been as accepting as it is now back in the 00s i imagine an even larger % of people from then would have attempted to transition.
>>221269328I don't understand why YMS considers To Boldly Flee the least bad of the Channel Awesome movies
>>221268948I always thought it was interesting how all reviewers at the time just did reviews because I guess it was the only thing that got them views, they all ACTUALLY wanted to be filmmakers
>>221276477His retarded need to be contrarian has been widely documented.
>>221276492Amazing how reviewers and critics only seem to make shit films
>>221276516Paul Schrader was a critic and he went on to make some very good films
>>221276586Literally fucking who?
>>221269346If I pull that mask off will you cry?OH IT WOULD BE SO EXCITING, CRITICYou're an excited guy!FOR YOU
>>221276471damn that's sad, maybe i was just naive.part of me understands how it has grown popular with young adults today. you see 'Celeste' on Twitter, 'she/her' has a personal website in the style of 90s webpages, 'she/her' develops Linux and likes Serial Experiments Lain! ^__^i did an actual computer science degree in 2010, and there was a grand total of three women (to hundreds of men). none of them were like the Celestes and Florences of the world. so these MTFs, they're not doing a great job at emulating real women, IMO.there's still this division in my mind between transsexuals who got sex changes back in the day, and modern transgenders--autistic men/women who believe 'gender is a construct'.i find it heartbreaking.
>>221276516>>221276606It brings me great joy to know that the detractors of Glorious Doug are philistines.
>>221276606You know, the guy who directed such films as Exorcist: Dominion and The Canyons
>>221273934I liked his videos on behind the scenes of Kickassia
>>221276763That's another thing that was so funny about the #ctc drama, they'd all forgotten just how much they were all constantly filming everything they were doing so lots of their claims were easily debunked.
>>221273984I think he left to do other stuff.
>>221269007Go watch RLM's 'Space Cop' and then tell me 'Kickassia' is the worst movie you've ever seen. I dare you.
>>221274197It went basically like this:Some people who used to be on Channel Awesome had a bone to pick with them, and griped about it on TwitterThis spread throughoutHolly, the former HR of Channel Awesome, along with Lupa and some others, put together a document about the grievances toward Channel Awesome, and the movement was called Change the Channel. At this time the Me Too movement was still going and people Listened And Believed Change the Channel without closely reading the documentMost of the document was filled with petty, idiotic things, some of which got debunked by other things eventuallyHowever one anonymous complaint was coming from someone who said she was groomed by one of the reviewers and said despite being 18 at the time she claimed she was mentally 16 at bestThis is what led to people claiming that Channel Awesome was shielding a rapist, which prompted their response in saying that they acted quickly to boot the offending person out, due to needing to consult a lawyer.Somehow they fucked up when they showed the chat transcript and everyone figured out that it was JewWario they were referring to, and people on Change the Channel were also involved in the cover-up (particularly the former HR of Channel Awesome)Like >>221274470 said, nettles did a bunch of videos on Youtube that picked apart much of the document.
>>221276803Yeah in particular Lindsay's claims about Doug not knowing what craft services were got unintentionally debunked by Film Brain's video of the whole talkShe was claiming that she was asking a "logistical question" when it turned out she was going "Coffee? No, but... coffee"
>>221276952>>221276996>>221276852>>221276819>>221276803>>221276763>>221276669>>221276643OP here, I am glad that my thread gave you anons an opportunity for this interesting disscussion
>>221276952Didn't they also swat Cinema Snob?
>>221277331You just made me remember Linkara dismissing this in one of his videos, not a tweet or blogpost, but making it an actual part of his shows canon that he didn't think what happened to Brad was bad.
>>221274301>BuckBuck broken
>>221277331https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nHtQhP9UE
>you now remember when Guru Larry was the only person on CA besides Doug and Brad
>>221277481Forgot to say, this video talked about what >>221277406 brought up
>>221277490kek, is this site even still up
>>221277616Nope, it just re-directs to the Youtube Channel. Linkara was pissed despite leaving and trying to bring down Doug.
>>221277664Kek what a bitch. He publically leaves CA, drags them through the mud, but STILL thinks they should honour his legacy four years later>He decorates his studio with NC stuff boo hooYeah, and why the fuck wouldn't he?
>>221274477BRUH
It's actually pretty crazy that douge still puts out a new NC every week+extra videos. He's been doing this for years on end too. Imagine if James Rolfe put out a new AVGN every week and still did other reviews on top of it, even at peak output he didn't match douge's.
>>221274539No, he is just British.
>>221277999punished brain
>>221277999Wtf how does he look older than Doug?
>>221277999oofff...
>>221277999That's actually a better look for him compared to when he looked like a 12 year old doing chemo
>>221278420>Balding>Bedroom in parents house>Posters for kids movies>Le quirky 80s movies t shirtsForm a queue ladies
>>221278062i watched some recent Douge and it was a lot of rehashes like>The Nostalgia Critic re-visits his review of Pokemon: The Moviewhere he made the same jokes, and commented on his own comments.also the comedy still isn't to my taste, but he can't do the 'voice' any more. maybe it's health troubles or just ageing, but he used to crescendo into "aaaa-at-at-at-tatata-ATATATA-AT-AT-AAAHHH!!!!" (really grating tbdesu.)now his voice is strained and squeaky and it makes me feel sad, the same way hearing modern Marge Simpson does ;_;
>>221278486He also no longer does rants or negative reviews, instead doing more analysis and restrospective videos. Sadly, that's just not what people want from him and doesn't leave much room for comedy.
>>221278420Imagine having a worse hairline than Doug
>>221278526that's fair. but what he focuses on is strange to me.like there are people who go too far in the opposite direction where they'll have entire 'video essays' about queer themes in Back to the Future, it's some Room 237 borderline-schizophrenia shit.Douge on the other hand just sees the basic plot and spectacle of films. i don't know how to say this without sounding all pretentious, but he never really talks about the acting or themes or anything, it's always just>omg this LOOKED absolutely EPIC and that car chase was AWESOME!type shit.he is claiming to be a critic (at least in name) so i wish he'd go do some research, or something. and i mean really basic stuff, that every (professional) critic understands.
>>221278611Doug's not a pseud, so shit like 'my asshole is actually a deep representation of the evils of fascism and racism' would not fly with him.He's weird in that he's stuck in some limbo. He can't do the radical criticsm of things people love because he's scared that he'll get shat on himself, and he's not a full pseud. So he's just stuck in this boring middle ground. Were I him, I'd just go back to shitting on things, even and especially sacred cows. That's what made him work in the past. AVGN has the same problem, really. They're too tame, and self-censored, almost.
>>221269595>Autistic faggot makes excuses for a shit gag in a shit movie
>>221273864I love Doug's style of big, ambitious ideas with absolutely no care put into their craft. Nostalgia Critic's The Wall is the best Tim and Eric bit and he just does it naturally
>>221278683I hope he's not a nasty cockslut at least.
>>221279120I have some bad news for you...
I like Doug because he's normal guy that happens to make funny Youtube videos. It's crazy how rare it is. If you're old enough to remember the full TGWTG roster you know what I'm talking about.
>>221268918>We're not doing the supervillain shuffle
>>221268948Yeah, now you need access to a wiki, a microphone, and an editing program to make tuber slop for millions of subscribers. The bar is way higher.
Was it really that bad?
Linkara's wife
>>221279286Zamn Linkara gets pegged by that?!
>>221269203>Supporterslmao what supporters
>>221273864I Wonder if his the wall review will be seen in a simmilar vein as Foodfight or The Room. Just a trainwreck of bizzare decisions.>>221276496Contrarianism was the big tyle of the time. And YMS nicely fit in that more cynical, edgier zeitgeist. He even showed promise of long but thoroughly researched vids. Buuuut then he discovered streaming. Fuck that canadian faggot bbc lover.
>>221278453i dont think this guy is interested in the fair sex m8
>>221269381>>221272077I just looked up his IMDB and he's just the editor for internet shows. He's less better off than Doug
>>221278673Ehhhh both Doug and James are now in their 40s they are bassicaly dinosaurs from an utterly diffrent era of the internet. I don't think they really care or need to anymore. Their chanels are more or less still somehow hiking along the Internet Hills.
>>221275692That image is actually nostalgic. I still remember the Star Wars edit of it. There's still internet schizos out there but you have to look for them.
>>221268948Doug actually was and is funny > Literally the only barrier to entry was owning a camera.Even truer today,
>>221279513They don't, but I wish they did. If they were as unapologetic as they used to be, I'd watch them. They'd even attract a new crowd because people are CLAMORING for that unrestrained shit.
>>221279556The schizos grew out of the Internet and entered the halls of government. And if you criticize them, you're a nazi.
>>221279424Aperentaly he has his own page. Worked on some big and small stuff. I guess he did what so many of that era dreamed of. He got into the industry. I guess he got the last Laugh. https://www.paullatza.com/
>>221279513What was going through his head, /tv/?>pic related
>>221279640Not for very long, he'll be one of the first replaced by AI, if he isn't already.
>>221277999>>221279640>mfw I'm 35 and still have a full head of hair
>>221279640Christ that hair, let it go Latza let it go
>>221279695I get the artist. But editors? Someone need to be a trimmer and the guy who selects the right things.
>>221279556i know a few weirdos i follow. i never interact with them, i just check out their weird Sonic slash fiction or whatever, some of them have been going for decades.i really wish there was a way i could share these. but i just don't trust Kiwi Farms types, they don't understand how to leave people alone. interacting with them (or outright harassing them) ruins it.
>>221279640>>221279708Maybe revisit your roots Latza? That might help.
>>221279758Kiwi Farms lost the art of not tipping the lolcow. They want more and more too quickly that it dries up and the fun stops. If Chris Chan started in the kiwi farms era he'd have killed himself before Liquid Chris
>>221274976There is a big pressure in contemporary society to adopt an identity for yourself and people who sit in playing video games alone all-day struggle with it. Their discord friends troon out and they tell them some ironically sexist shit which convinces them. >you don't like meat, potatoes and football? I think you're a woman!Nerds always turncoat and run to the masses as well. It's why they have chronic backstabbing disorder which you'll see in any sort of closed off nerd community that lasts more than 3 years, or if they allow an (actual) woman in. They're mentally weak by their own admission.
>>221276952I'll never forget how /tv/ unironically believed in that "mentally 16" shit and jumped in on the pedophilia allegations.
>>221279640>I guess he did what so many of that era dreamed of. He got into the industryyou can get into the industry with craft services.... latza makes no money on projects he doesnt give a fuck about that no one has ever fuckin heard of or ever thought about. i get trying to be nice about latza like yeah some fucking dweeb twgwtg orbiting lolcow made something of himself but take a step back and look at it honestly. is it worth celebrating editing social media garbo for disney? no. have you heard of literally anything else he's edited? no. though to be fair, i am actually impressed he's somehow managed to hold down employment relatively consistently. i would have thought he'd get canned by hr immediately
>>221280021You can't forget the sexual aspect. A lot of these guys have terrible luck with women but trooning out offers them access to women's spaces and attention.
>>221279267Not really.
>>221280065Yeah that sounds like /tv/.
>>221280080Well i doubt that he doesn't make money. Considering he manages to still live in LA if his site is telling the truth. >is it worth celebrating editing social media garbo for disney? no. Ehhh a Job is a Job. Considering how these days people just remember him for that cringeworthy pitvh he did fro TGWTG and RLM. I guess he still managed to land in a better spot than most. Like Spoony or Linkara.
>>221280080He actually managed to land a job and live a relatively normal life while somewhat tied to what he wanted to actually do. Compare with LordKat or Linkara or that British guy still reviewing movies in his mom's house getting under 1k views. Yeah, he's not Doug nor AVGN, but at least he didn't become LordKat. And this dude was a brony, so his success is something to admire there. If a fucking brony can get a mid-tier editing job in LA, you can make it.
>>221269203Lol what a faggot. All BlueSky users are pedo niggerfaggots
>>221280065this only vaguely rings a bell, but we did used to formally diagnose people according to their 'mental age'. i mean, 'retarded' wasn't an insult: it meant 'retarded' as in 'slowed'.you've probably met an adult with learning difficulties and they act like they are still 12.it sucks that they CAN'T (or really, really shouldn't) have sex, but the concept is sound. we moved away from it due to political correctness. same way there'll still be autistic people in 50 years' time, but we'll be calling it Neurodivergency Class 3A or some shit, 'autistic' will be considered offensive.
>>221280277>>221280325i dunno, maybe you guys are right in that he didn't end up as a complete fucking failure like some of the other cohorts. i just find it all miserable that he had all of these aspirations as a creator but ended up as a career editing jobber for throwaway garbage
>>221275106>>221275692>>221276299>>221276471All of that Tumblr shit from 2013 was downstream of US Academia of the late 80s/early 90s.Intersectionality was placed on a shelf and dusted off about five years after the 2008 Recession as an antidote to Occupy Wall Street. This is the same reason why almost all Western countries legalised Gay Marriage between 2013 and 2015.Gender Ideology was simply the next logical step, after the failure of pushing mysogyny and Anti-Racism as the Next Big Thing (originating in the Whig conception of history from the 1850s).While "Die Cis Scum" looked ridiculous to normal people back in 2013, it has since been incorporated into the Ruling Ideology.
>>221280489>i just find it all miserable that he had all of these aspirations as a creator but ended up as a career editing jobber for throwaway garbageMost aspiring artists meet even a worse fate, being a Disney editor is still above and beyond being in retail, media-focused journalism or being a wageslave for a much lesser known (and less profitable) company.Yes, it's miserable that he couldn't realise his dream, but like I said, it's a better life than most of his kin and like they say, "that's life".
>>221280493Obama term 1 was a moderate conservative compared to Biden/Kamala.
>>221279391The people who forgot to unsub from his primary source of income, which has diminished from a monthly 5k to about 70 bucks.
>>221280557Plus, there's a hint that Latza wasn't interested in it for the fame, he was literally a proto-influencer in that it was all pure business for him. He was guillible to go to the RLM thing, but he went to it in the first place. Dude was always looking for employment, he wasn't doing this ONLY out of autism.
>>221280711I think in the Gamer's Atlas ot was still some Passion and Autism. He also seemed to use Youtube as away to actually learn the craft of editing. Also I guess that RLM debacle gave him a final cold bucket to tardwarangle himself and actually do something. And I guess it payed off.>>221280700Man...He really is a modern Icarus.
>>221280689Obama didn't really drop the act until Trayvon and the first BLM riots. Even with Obamacare he tried to pass it off as more moderate and at least tried to pretend.
>>221280788I don't remember Icarus being a lazy depressed asshole
>>221276852They thought making a whole movie about trying to do their bad acting on purpose gimmick would be hilarious. Shitting your pants on purpose for attention isn't funny. It's sad.
>>221280788>>221280700>>221279391>>221269203Spoony could have worked his way up to 20k a month. If only he had fucking worked.
>>221279778>>221279640>>221279695>>221279723>>221279424Latza seems to be a full time contracted Disney employee as an editor and a Tonari employee as an animatics guy (animatics editor?). He already moved up from editing facebook clips of their kids shows to working on the actual trailers for big budget movies. He's unironically WELL ON HIS WAY to becoming a major Hollywood film editor.He's so awkward in all his classic videos, though. I wonder what he's like to work with for directors.
>>221280489>. i just find it all miserable that he had all of these aspirations as a creator but ended up as a career editing jobber for throwaway garbageLatza always wanted to be an editor. Very openly so. He moved to LA to become an editor. He works on projects on a steady basis for big companies, possibly contracted. That's the ideal path to becoming an editor on "real" movies. "Editor for blockbuster films' isn't a job that gets handed out like it's nothing, it takes a long fucking grind to get there. Decades in many cases.
