Me as well... Now all I have to do is not despise exercise and a healthy lifestyle. I should probably lay off of the butterdogs too...
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"Channel Not So Awesome" - Ex-contributors of Channel Awesome detail a history of abuse (READ OP)
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Yeah, I have to say I'm incredibly confused whenever this pops up, particularly with the Facebook thing. Not only is Doug not really a victim (at worst he foolishly sold the rights to NC and let Michaud make a ton of money off of him, but even that doesn't matter if there's never a reason to dispute it) but he literally has no reason to leave as things are now. Even the most generous reading of what we know is that he's an incredibly incompetent doofus who was still willingly complicit in a ton of the bad things they've done. As far as I've seen, there's literally no evidence to suggest that the NC ownership thing is a thing he has ever cared about, or that he's ever had a problem with Michaud's handling of anything. He's not exactly suffering here, and the spotlight's back entirely on his show besides.
Meanwhile, if for some reason he did leave, would his first thought really be "oh, I gotta make me leaving Facebook Official"? Even before an announcement? I know they're all incompetent as hell, but that's a bit of a stretch. And if he was out, I bet Mialcom and Tamara would be out too. Regardless of whoever they're actually loyal to in the blackbox that is CA right now, it's not like Michaud can reasonably promise them they'll be stars without Doug, right? It'd be bizarre if they stuck around while he was bailing.
Frankly, the only person less likely to leave CA than Doug is Michaud himself.
Honestly, the only member of CA's inner staff and management who's given any sign of wanting to leave is Rob, and nobody brings him up in all this.
Me as well... Now all I have to do is not despise exercise and a healthy lifestyle. I should probably lay off of the butterdogs too...
...What are those and why do they exist?
About 1000 calories a piece of pure, unbridled regret.
...What are those and why do they exist?
He went from 300 lbs to about 180 & made a video about it. He recorded the moment he finally was under 200 lbs & you can just tell it was a very emotional moment for him.
Considering that video helped me to get healthy again (14 lbs lost in my first month), I'm just so glad I don't have to deal with another "this person who brought me entertainment & gave me motivation to make my life better turned out to be a bad person" situation. Hell, in general, I'm glad so many of the former contributers are leaving & aren't standing for this crap.
There's been an almost consistent track record of these former producers being quality people. I kind of didn't expect that from a site mostly made up of white men yelling into the camera about video games and movies, but, fuck; I'm really happy to see this. Once I get my laptop back tomorrow I'm seriously gonna have to consider following some of them; I'm already considering lupa and marz.
I dunno. Given the climate of things, I wouldn't be surprised.
Someone should put that into Mike's diet. He could stand to feel some regret.
I don't know, given what's been shown of Michaud, he seems dude-bro-y enough to have probably eaten his fair share of butter dogs. They are after all, a frat house delicacy.
Allison: This is a very serious issue that will lead too many people dying
Dumbass: But the Nostalgia Critic though?
Why would you ask that? Why would you segway to that?
Totally off topic, but god, the first time I saw this scene I just couldn't stop laughing.
If it was me, I would just leave it as it's just a hat and any symbolic that it once had is now gone and secondly the hat is originally worn by Wario, a Nintendo character, so most people will associate the hat with him rather than Jewario.
Paraphrasing several comments I've seen:
"How old was the Jew Wario victim? If she was 10, that's one thing. But if she was only 17, then that's not so bad"
"It's not like he raped anyone"
someone points out she was passed out after she said no repeatedly
"well, fingering isn't rape, even if they're passed out"
Like... yikes.
Well I googled the hat that Jewario worn and he had a W on it so I just assumed that it was the same. But again I would just leave it as you can't change the past and at the time Bennett did it in good faith.
The only thing I would do is what Murzgirl did and put a disclaimer on it saying that it was a product on its time and all that jazz.
Correct, it had JW on it, so he'd still have to edit the video to remove the J.
It's just a shame that something that was done in good faith & as remembrance of someone has now changed & has possibly affected another person's piece of work, but at the very least, we know now that the hat will not be in future episodes as demonstrated by his newest upload & is aware of the current situation by choosing to remove the object that would remind people of said person.
According to who? A rapist?
Fucking hell people, its still assaulting someone who in no way shape or form gave an inkling of consent (you'd think repeatedly saying 'no' would get that point across).
We've not posted this in awhile but heres the compiled list of former Channel Awesome producers (other than Brad and Larry) in case you or anyone else would like to take a browse through it, subscribe to some old favourites or discover some new ones:
Follow Your Favourite Producers
That list should be pretty useful while the only news on the situation is Malcolm being a low-key ass on Twitter.
New NC episode on Youtube about an hour ago. Let's see how the like/dislikes are going so far?
Already at 25% dislikes.
Edit: Also, with about 5 hours left in the day (I think I finally figured out when the stats change for the day on this site), they've already lost more subscribers today than yesterday.
Already at 25% dislikes.
Edit: Also, with about 5 hours left in the day (I think I finally figured out when the stats change for the day on this site), they've already lost more subscribers today than yesterday.
Holy shit, I'd forgotten about CR. I used to watch him back in the day, and didn't even realize he had left the site. Familiar Faces was my shit in middle school.
Oh gods I remember him...I liked him but then he started ranting about MLP's later seasons and I kind of lost interest...
EDIT: Also I was kind of fond of "The Idiot's Lantern" review show- she kind of dropped off about a year ago. Wonder what happened to her...
OH! HE'S CHAD ROCCO! I HAD NO IDEA. What was his involvement with #changethechannel again? I know I've heard a lot of references to him on other fora and maybe here but I can't remember what the general trend was...
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From what I hear, he got pretty thorny with the fans, too. Think what Rob did with Man of Steel, but worse.
I think contrapoints once said people often ironically pretend to be what they truly are.
New NC episode on Youtube about an hour ago. Let's see how the like/dislikes are going so far?
Already at 25% dislikes.
Edit: Also, with about 5 hours left in the day (I think I finally figured out when the stats change for the day on this site), they've already lost more subscribers today than yesterday.
Going to the comments section is so jarring coming from an informed, skeptical place like this. It's really hard reading comments from the fans who want answers, the fans who won't hear answer of this, and those of the latter who respond to those of the former. Plus they're still running the "Doug Quit" rumor mill.
Reminds me of something I saw on TV Tropes. Apparently Jimmy Savile made cracks about being the terror of girls' boarding schools. Ugh.
Hmm looking up the Wikipedia entry of the Nostalgia Critic, it seems the list of episodes were removed.
Wouldn't be the first time. That Guy With the Glasses has been removed from Wikipedia several times in the past for not being relevant enough to merit an entry.
Ah yeah, we discussed that on another forum. They decided- rather conveniently, given the timing- that it wasn't notable.
I see. I mean I'm still kind of curious what his thoughts are on something in particular, without bothering to give CA anymore views at this point. Oh well.
May I ask a very ignorant question? How does subscribing to someone's YouTube channel even work? Do you then get an email saying there's a new video? Or do you just get an alert on Youtube's site?
Uh lemme see...you get emails? Notifications on youtube? I think that's it.
There's a subscription page you can access when logged in to YouTube. You get notifications if you "ring the bell" (click bell icon and ask to receive notifications).
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Basically, every time you log into Youtube, your home page has a running ticker of all the most recent videos uploaded by all the channels you subscribe to. You'll also get a menu of all your subscribed channels on the side if you want to peruse them individually. It basically tells the algorithm what videos to prioritize showing to you.
You also can request alerts that will notify you of new videos if you want.
If you use Chrome, they pop up there as notifications.
You know the old saying "How can you tell someone is a vegan? They'll tell you"? Well, I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't have a google/youtube account nor facebook, so I sometimes struggle with these basic things. Now, poking into legal and corporate stuff online? That I know. (and, I finally resolved something I've been meaning to look up about a former member in an incident from last year).
Anyway, thanks for all the answers, everyone!
Live subscriber chart since about when the new video was released:
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Bhargav just...left. From what I've heard he's doing fine, actually. Like, nothing dramatic- he just left the company.
I don't know if he was a big component in changethechannel. A quick look at his twitter shows he hasn't really talked about it, and is his bio still says he's a contributor to CA (even though the link links to a dead page). I didn't really look extensively, so he might have mentioned it further back. Looking over his content, his Familiar Faces vids have slowed in output, and he mostly does Hearthstone streams. Sucks too, loved those videos.
The last time I saw him mentioned was actually in Lindsay's short film, "The A Word" where he (in text, which wasn't blurred [oops]) was congratulating her on having an abortion, and calling her "his hero" IIRC. She took exception to that, and said something along the lines of "do you think I'm proud of this?" (don't know the exact wording as I haven't seen the film in like 6 years).
EDIT: My mistake. It wasn't the full "The A Word", it was her short(er) pitch "No Womb at the Inn" that I had seen. Can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/13807695
Bhargav is talked about at around the 2:50 mark or so.
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Or claim to be doing it ironically when called out on their actions. But yes, she did. Good video....actually all of her videos are good.
It looks like they've been deleting comments on the recent NC episode. Out of curiosity I looked through the comment section of their Fievel Goes West Upload just to gauge how opinions are currently shifting in response to everything that has happened, but the vast majority of them seem to be just about the review. After digging deeper, I found some comments noting that they believed comments had been deleted as the climate of the comment section has evidently taken a 180 since the initial hours of the upload. Interesting but not surprising.
Also, something else I came across while waiting for my account to get approved is on CA's website there is still a way for you to log into you account if you already had one before they attempted to shut down the comment section there. Considering Michaud's overall incompetence as a CEO or a basic technologically savy individual, I speculated that he simply removed the login and account creation links as a way to deter people from flooding the main site with complaints thus halting commenting altogether. However, you can backend your way into the login page by simply hitting reply to any of the comments already there. I don't have a CA account so I couldn't test if it actually will still let you login, but I found it both interesting and funny that Michaud couldn't even be competent enough to know that he would literally have to dismantle the login system via code to stop comments and instead thought just removing the sign in links on the main page was enough. Just wow.
Also, something else I came across while waiting for my account to get approved is on CA's website there is still a way for you to log into you account if you already had one before they attempted to shut down the comment section there. Considering Michaud's overall incompetence as a CEO or a basic technologically savy individual, I speculated that he simply removed the login and account creation links as a way to deter people from flooding the main site with complaints thus halting commenting altogether. However, you can backend your way into the login page by simply hitting reply to any of the comments already there. I don't have a CA account so I couldn't test if it actually will still let you login, but I found it both interesting and funny that Michaud couldn't even be competent enough to know that he would literally have to dismantle the login system via code to stop comments and instead thought just removing the sign in links on the main page was enough. Just wow.
Orwellian damage control at its finest. If they cancel that planned video response and just keep this up, it may blow over pretty quickly, though if Malcolm's not full of it, this isn't over yet.
On a lighter note, PhantomStrider left a comment that was supportive of Doug without being demeaning towards the accusers or people who want answers. I'm a subscriber of his, and he seems like a really nice guy.
Last chart of the night:
Prior to the new NC video being out today, quickly after the last, today was going to be a very bad day for them. They may get 350-400K today as a result.
Also, breaking hearts, The Hobbit Part 3 of 2 by Lindsay is not getting released tonight :(
Prior to the new NC video being out today, quickly after the last, today was going to be a very bad day for them. They may get 350-400K today as a result.
Also, breaking hearts, The Hobbit Part 3 of 2 by Lindsay is not getting released tonight :(