#changethechannel

[firmflexing]

Broken remote.

[somekidwithpersonality]

I'mma say something people will deem controversial.

MCU Loki:

Lost his mystery.

Can't warp reality just by existing.

His film director literally gets his Norse myths wrong (including Sleipnir).

Stays on a throne all day and night.

Got Bam Bam treatment from a green giant with anger issues.

Dark Horse Cinematic Universe Loki:

His Throne is freedom.

His hair is spiked as a crown.

Leather trenchcoat.

Rain Coat = Where on Earth is Gothic Sandiego?

Leather buckles looking like an antique chest binder. Yet confident enough to tan evenly.

His literal beach blanket is most likely an ode to Jorgmunder, and how he wishes for his snake son to be saved from the oceans he was thrown into. Which is more tragic considering Odin is forcing him to do all this work to get the mask back.

"Bro, listen. I'm a god. I can shapeshift. I can create stuff out of nothingness. I can alter the fabric of reality. So please, quit being a knucklehead."

Has a dope ass mask that can grant the wearer anything.

He IS the green giant with anger issues.

Hates homophobes with a burning passion.

Alan Cumming is a phenomenal actor, and he truly carries the weight of a person with Daddy issues beyond mortal comprehension.

Tumblr sexyman before his time.

Also, I used to listen to nostalgia critic. Guess which hashtag is my favorite of these now. I just KNEW there was a reason I grew more depressed listening to criticism.

The movie scared you as a kid? It was doing its job. False advertising hurt this movie so damn badly.

[somekidwithpersonality]

And any Guy With The Glasses that makes you feel even more depressed about being in a fandom, should shut the fuck up and realize that the hashtag Change The Channel is for a reason.

hot take.

but a fanfic writer who writes sloppy Goku x Vegeta smut on archive of our own is still doing more for the fandom and for society than any fucking incel ass dude bro who spends all their time arguing with other dude bros about fucking power scaling.

it's hilarious to me, this idea that "fangirls" ruin a fandom.

fangirls make fandoms, you stupid fucks. they make communities and connections and yeah they can be toxic but it's still nowhere near the level of circle jerk that cishet fanboys get to.

all cishet mega fanboys know how to do is glaze characters they've attached themselves to, and not in the way fangirls do, where they actually try and understand a character, no matter how misguided, but in the way where this MC is literally perfect and impossible to beat and amazing (I'm projecting onto him and I have the emotional depth of a puddle in Arizona at the height of summer, so he must have no depth either).

that's my take.

[derseprinceoftbd]

Still amazed Channel Awesome's biggest ever controversy was some dumb union bullshit about not having enough water bottles and not the NC's rabid years-long transphobia streak.

I think that says something about the left.

[nostalgiacriticshitpost]

"Googoogaga why people act like Doug gud because smily frens cameo :(((((" honestly shut the fuck up

[pocketfroggy]

I was flipping through my old sketchbook and decided to redraw a page. Like many people my age, I was obsessed with Channel Awesome and the Nostalgia Critic 😬. Now, I can’t even see pictures of him without cringing. #ChangeTheChannel

[thebigdeepcheatsy]

I remember there being some animation or comic referencing #Changethechannel with Jewwario mentioned, his failure with Demo Reel, and Doug Walker being forcibly transformed into the Nostalgia Critic by his two current costars. What happened to that?

‪I’m surprised that with Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall completely missing the point the movie & him using it to stroke his own ego, no one has actually done a “Real Nostalgia Critic’s Wall” with Nostalgia Critic actually going through his personal “Wall” with actual meaning to him.‬

[franki-lew-yo]

Doug Walker

Really scared that, because of his Smiling Friends appearance alongside the likes of fellow cringelords/friendly lolcows like Chills, the #ChangetheChannel buzz about Doug Walker and the people he's hurt is going to resurface in a new way --with people 'clapping back' with how Linkara or Allison Pregler or whoever else is "also cringe" and therefor what happened in 2018 is " nothing ". No one cares/should care that Doug Walker is "#cringe. That's not what people (in the know) were mad about back when and that's not what people are still mad at him for now. It's because,

in trying to deflect from drama he was in with his former employeefriends, Doug and his company publicly outed a dead person as a sexual predator, who's death and legacy they were protecting+monetizing, did NOT protect the victims of said predator, and all to make his critics at the time seem like the actual bad guys when in reality they, unlike Doug and co, didn't know.

and THEN Channel Awesome proudly acted like they had not only not done anything wrong for how they both protected and outed JewWario but also like they owed no apologies ever.

They (Doug and CA) went as far as to rope Double Toasted into this by having Brad Jones say on their show "Logan Paul filmed a dead body and he still has a career" and "apologize, even if you don't mean it". Brad and his wife went on to claim that the Not So Awesome crowd had doxxed and swatted him, which is an absolute lie.

No amount of badfaith Doug-reviews, Linkara barking back at RalphtheMovieMaker, Marzgurl's beef with Vic Mignogna or whoever in the breadtube sphere supported Keffals cuz they don't/didn't know of what she did compares to Channel Awesome.

Channel Awesome and the #NotsoAwesome stuff that went down in 2018 maybe started out as '' drama '' but through NO ONE's fault but CA's own it escalated into outright scandal where Channel Awesome is absolutely in the wrong. They (Doug, Brad Jones, all the rest of the CA team) should not be allowed cute cameos on any shows. They are not 'just as cringe' as whoever you were thinking of. They are cold-hearted egomaniacs who use and misuse other people.

In an age of fraudsters, criminals and every other streamer being some degree of awful predator or bigot, sure; maybe Channel Awesome being '' just '' complicit in hiding a predator and being a shitty friend/employer is 'small potatoes'. That doesn't mean it's okay.

If MrBeast gets flaq for existing, cr1tikal gets flaq for centrism, Vaush gets flaq for being Vaush and even Lindsay Ellis flaq for elitism, than you ought to hold Channel Awesome to that same standard.

[thehappyspaceman]

I had never heard of this James Somerton guy before Hbomberguy and Todd both made their videos, but from people I've talked to this sounds like #ChangeTheChannel for gay people.

Like, a popular YouTuber with tons of fans has been revealed to be a lying, thieving piece of crap, leading to his platform being destabilized and his entire fandom falling into disarray after the reveal? My sympathies, I know how that feels.

[nov4-rocket5]

We all know RoosterTeeth is gonna buckle under eventually. It's practically inevitable, but I wouldn't go around putting a date on it yet myself.

The most entertaining part of RT's downward spiral is how the money RWBY rakes in (or used to) and the parasocial nature of their fandom seems to let RT constantly avoid the death blow.

You don't even have #ChangeTheChannel levels of viewer drop and that one actually had more allegations (a lot of them debunked) involved.

[chaifootsteps]

I'm starting to hate what is happening with the HH/HB Community at this time. After reading the leaks about how the studio is mistreating their people and how Viv didn't do jack shit to stop her fans from harassing people for stating their opinions about an episode or character design, I'm losing the love for the shows.

As for the documents that are supposed to come out I think it would be better if people who were harmed by SH did exactly what the people did for the #changethechannel movement for Channel Awesome: Make a statement or create a video so they can tell their stories themselves. A few people who are telling it like Erin and Ken aren't gonna do much of a change since it's easy for people to dismiss them (like I had before). It will take a big team and planning to make a difference and for people to finally listen. Hopefully, this will happen soon as people are being harmed by the toxic fandom left and right and I can tell that Viv is enjoying this.

I don't think you have to worry about that; it's not just Erin and Ken. It seems like a fairly big group, actually. There's a lot going on that we don't see, and I trust them all to know what to do and when and how to handle it.

I feel you on the HH/HB community, though. This is actually panning out the way I always guessed it would...as more information comes out and the quality of the show keeps declining, as more people drop off, the audience that's left behind is going to get louder and more defensive.

You've got to feel bad for the ones who really are just here for the show and don't want any part of this.

[weaselbeaselpants]

#ChangetheChannel was one small step for controversy, one giant step for "dear god WE LEARNED NOTHING WE ONLY GOT WORSE"

with recent events i believe that jimmy "mr beast" youtube should be here

being punted into the sun is still probably safer than appearing on his tv show

[hellsdaydreamwastaken]

My review of David Holzman's Diary on Letterboxd

[supergoopersworld]

Who was the start trek trouser checker?

JewWario. The allegations were mentioned in the #ChangeTheChannel document but not the name of the person responsible.

Olson admitted in a forum he wasn’t willing to hand a win to GamerGate by admitting it.

[tanzasadventuresinwearingclothes]

"And these pictures? Just -- Ewww! "

"I know! Ewww!"

"Yeah! This Tanza Late girl -- Very Messed Up! And Very Ewww!"

Wait! What the...? Why are the Ladies of The Eww! talking about me?! This shouldn't be happening! Changethechannel! Changethechannel!!

Oh god! It's on all channels! Everyone is discussing me!!!!!

[nostalgiacriticshitpost]

I do think that Doug should be critisized, but MAN, people who usually critisize him just flat out make shit up about him or repeat shit from that god awful Dan Olsen video which I will never fucking watch. (Which also consists of assumptions, like the classic "he wants to be a filmmaker")