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Channel Awesome is an American online media production company based in Lombard, Illinois. The company was created in 2008 by Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis, and Bhargav Dronamraju. Channel Awesome operated the That Guy with the Glasses website (often abbreviated TGWTG) until late 2014 when it was phased into the Channel Awesome website. The site is best known for the comedic film review series Nostalgia Critic, starring Doug Walker. Their YouTube Channel has 1.37M subscribers as of 2024.
Why They Aren't Awesome
- The CEOs, Mike Michaud, and the Walker brothers' way of doing business, which mistreats their producers and even screws over their viewers. To name a few:
- An Indiegogo campaign was made to raise money for new shows and received $89,757, which exceeded its goal of $50,000. However, none of the promised shows were made, except for the infamous Pop Quiz Hotshot.
- Allison Pregler (Obscurus Lupa), was fired and removed from the site by Michael and Doug for not chatting with them on her computer
- Lindsay Ellis, along with Lewis Lovhaug (Linkara) was pressured to do a rape scene in the crossover movie, To Boldly Flee, through intimation.
- Mike Dodd (The Birdman) was dropped from the site without being told!
- Both the website and the YouTube channel focused too much on the Nostalgia Critic and/or anything with Doug Walker, overshadowing the other producers until they left. This shows that the Walkers are now egotistical.
- Speaking of which, the Nostalgia Critic (Doug Walker) is now reduced to a loud, crude imbecile who treats movies way too seriously, and his "reviews" are riddled with skits that are mostly filler. He is hypocritical since he said in his Jurassic World review that the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex vs. Spinosaurus fight scene in Jurassic Park III (in which the T. rex died) was made to sell more toys, when he is a big fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a franchise that was, at its core, made to sell toys. He refers to the Spinosaurus as the "Who-Cares-A-Saurus", which can trigger a ton of Spinosaurus fans. The Critic even contradicted himself by saying in the Demo Reel finale "The Review Must Go On" that he wouldn't review anything currently in theaters but after this, he would later make a clipless review of Jurassic World on June 24, 2015 (when the film was still in theaters at the time). He also did clipless reviews of older movies like Hocus Pocus (1993), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), and the infamous The Wall (1982).
- Not to mention it is shown that in some reviews that he barely knows anything about animals (or even paleontology):
- In his review of Disney's Tarzan as part of Disneycember, he couldn't tell a cheetah from a leopard when he referred to the leopard antagonist Sabor as a cheetah. Here are the differences: Cheetahs have spots on their coats while leopards have rose-like markings known as rosettes; an adult male cheetah weighs roughly around 54-56 kg while an adult male leopard weighs around 60-70 kg, leopards have retractable claws while cheetahs have non-retractable claws and leopards, while shorter at shoulder, are more muscular and stronger than cheetahs. In his "Top 11 Nostalgia Critic F Ups Part 3" video, he regretted making that mistake, but he said "It's a cat, it has spots", even though leopards have rosettes, not spots. Not telling a cheetah from a leopard is the same as not telling an alligator from a crocodile or a caiman from an alligator.
- In his Jurassic World review, he thinks that the hybrid dinosaur Indominus rex looks like a giant raptor, but it doesn't, it looks like an average theropod/carnosauria (In fact, it looks more like a T. rex than a raptor). The real-life Utahraptor was a great example of a giant raptor and the Indoraptor from the film's sequel was also a giant raptor because it used a raptor as the main template. He referred to the Indominus rex with male pronouns despite being female and referred to the Indoraptor with female pronouns despite it being confirmed to be male in a toy showcase video by Universal and Mattel executives, making him the first confirmed male dinosaur in the Jurassic World trilogy, though there were three male T. rexes in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III respectively.
- Also, he referred to the Mosasaurus from the movie as a dinosaur when it wasn't a dinosaur, it was just an aquatic reptile. Not only did he think the I. rex looked like a raptor, but he also said that it moved like a raptor, but it didn't, and that it sounded like a raptor but it didn't, and he said that it was 90% raptor, but it was a combination of other known dinosaurs, as well as modern animals like a pit viper, cuttlefish, and tree frog, and also Deinosuchus, a genus species of a prehistoric alligator that co-existed with dinosaurs.
- The Nostalgia Critic has also shown to force memes quite often in his videos, without understanding how they work. Several internet memes are just random things that people picked up to exploit them. In his Sibling Rivalry review of Logan, Doug said that a taking pills scene would totally be a meme, but later, it wasn't even included in Know Your Meme.com. One of the most notable forced memes are the "Frying the Coke" meme from his Double Team review and the "T-Rex Song" from his Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, and Jurassic World reviews.
- Not to mention it is shown that in some reviews that he barely knows anything about animals (or even paleontology):
- For some reason, Doug Walker sold the rights to the Nostalgia Critic character to Michaud, which is a rather stupid move.
- The Walkers and Michaud knew that the late Justin Carmical (JewWario) was a sexual predator, even when they made a tribute to him in 2014 after his death, but they never told anyone, and it wasn't until The Channel Awesome drama that everyone found out!!
- Speaking of the drama, former employees and producers made a Google Doc pointing out the company's poor practices, hence why the #changethechannel movement exists.
- Channel Awesome's responses to the drama are... unprofessional:
- Their so-called "apology" states "We sincerely regret you felt that way". That is the literal textbook definition of a non-apology!
- Their second response is them nitpicking examples from the document and "correcting" them, basically calling the accusers liars.
- Because of their "responses", all the former creators left the company and the site, except Guru Larry and Brad Jones, the latter staying out of spite.
- After the controversy, the only change Channel Awesome made was moving to a new studio, which doesn’t help anything. If anything, that just benefits them rather than doing any good to resolve the controversy.
- They are blocking their former employees and anyone who criticized them on Twitter. After YouTuber Shinobi-03 made a response video, criticizing the Nostalgia Critic's clipless review of Deadpool 2, Channel Awesome downright blocked him on Twitter.
- They made bad shows such as Demo Reel and the aforementioned Pop Quiz Hotshot.
- Many of the crossover movies were also bad.
- They have recently released a horrid satire album of the Pink Floyd album The Wall, and one of the songs "Corey" is just Doug saying "Corey" three times. This album also contains a parody of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song. What does SpongeBob SquarePants theme have to do with Pink Floyd?
- Not to mention that it was only made because Doug disliked the band and the movie itself, making the album nothing more than a vanity project to spite fans of the band themselves.
Awesome Qualities
- There are still some talented people, like Tamara Chambers and Malcolm Ray.
- The "Where's The Fair Use" video.
- So many great creators came from here, such as Linkara, Phelous, Guru Larry, Brad Jones, Lindsay Ellis, and Angry Joe.
- Some videos are okay.
- Even to this day, the Christmas-themed Nostalgia Critic episodes are probably the best things the show has to offer.
- The editorials are good, especially "When Does a Joke Go Too Far" and the "Is Parody Dead?" video, which discusses how the parody movie genre died because of atrocities like Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie, etc.
- Doug Walker as the Nostalgia Critic has criticized PC culture "who go into causes for the wrong reasons" in his "When Does a Joke Go Too Far" video. He also criticized when several people are offended over nothing, such as when Speedy Gonzales was banned when colleague campuses were offended over Jerry Seinfeld making a joke about models looking angry on the runway. He has made fun of political correctness in his Ghostbusters (2016) review and said "You can still believe in equal rights and think the movie sucks".
- Most of the Nostalgia Critic's reviews were good and hilarious before the revival in 2013, except his aforementioned reviews of the Jurassic Park films and his review of Francis Ford Coppolas' Jack (1996), which are completely inaccurate because in the Jack, the Critic says that the main character has a hyper-rare disease likely caused "bad screenwriting" when the titular character has a real disease known as Werner's syndrome.
- The Nostalgia Critic's commercial specials are pretty fun since they are mostly looking at old, sometimes new, commercials (even if the opening of "After These Messages" gets old).
- Doug has been shown to handle criticism, such as when he portrayed a parody of Nostalgia Critic on Smiling Friends.
- FanScription offers an engaging experience by exploring how iconic moments in film history might have unfolded differently. Through creative theorizing, they dive into alternative possibilities for pivotal events, sparking thought-provoking discussions and imaginative "what if" scenarios for movie fans.
Trivia
- Nostalgia Critic has been unofficially translated into many languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Polish subtitled versions, as well as Russian dubbing.
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