![]() ![]() I truly did grew up in that golden age of YouTubers. Watching the Nostalgia Critic turn into a parody of himself is genuinely sad. And as such justifiably resulted in the largest exodus of creators from a YouTube company which brought the death knell for community-based YouTube Channels. He is still complicit with their actions. While there were far more insidious individuals who turned Channel Awesome into a toxic workplace of nepotism, sexual harassment, and gross mistreatment, it was Doug Walker who enabled this to happen. Gone was the perception of a flawed, yet passionate filmmaker who made a company so that others can accomplish their dreams, instead revealed Doug Walker as an inept, out-of-touch, and egotistical idiot. ![]() But then comes the lingering elephant in the room: "Change the Channel," which, long story short, recontextualized him and his company, Channel Awesome. And these episodes just get worse and more dumber as the years go by. But even then, most of the later episodes aren't consistently bad either, just extreme hit or extreme miss (though it's more the later). These episodes are plagued with such puss-poor production that it makes The Incredible Bulk look like a James Cameron film, impressively bad and repetitive comedy that feels ripped off from Seizer and Friedberg, horrible pacing that causes all of the scenes to be unintentionally awkward and unbearably boring, sets that are either a lazy green screen or be set in this unbelievably dull office building, and even the music is this repetitive, stock "epic" tune that feels way too overused. The skits are, and continue to be, the worst aspect of his more modern episodes. But in execution, Doug Walker had none of them. In theory, this could possibly work if you have enough creativity, quality production, and, great acting and writing. was going to rely more on using live-action skits to evade copyright issues. Since his revival and since his Jurassic world review, the N. Is also the most outdated and ironic critic in all of YouTube. He was alongside AVGN as these forefathers of this emerging genre. But these episodes, Batman and Robin, The Room, Dungeons and Dragons, the bizarre animated Titanic rip-offs, they had their charm and at least was entertaining. These episodes weren't either clever or deep compared to today's contemporaries. His content introduced me to the world of critical culture, which is watching analysis on their takes on media. On one hand, the Nostalgia Critic is one of the most important figures to me, at least in internet culture. ![]()
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