#ChangeTheChannel: Channel Awesome falls apart
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Tactical Nuke

April 04, 2018, 04:58:20 PM
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=309622.0 <- previous topic

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/channel-awesome-implosion-changethechannel
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/channel-awesome-loveual-misconduct-allegations/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdomr0qIYhY



Quote from: wendynerdwrites, tumblr
Things that Channel Awesome’s Management has pulled according to the #ChangetheChannel folks coming out over the last few days



A handy tumblr list (with links!) for people who are wondering what I’ve been talking about since Friday. There’s a really good compilation thread on resetera here. And the ex-contributors are working on a document compiling their past experiences. But I thought maybe a  tumblr compilation might help the curious until said document is completed.

1. Firing an employee who had worked for them literally every day, including holidays and weekends, because she had to take time off for surgery, then holding her severance hostage to have her sign a contract saying she wouldn’t work for another media site for 2-4 years.

2. Turning a blind eye to loveual harassment until it almost (or actually) got violent.

3. Not compensating people for days of work

4. Not providing food or water for people on their movie sets

5. Trying to force two of their contributors to do a rape/loveual assault scene



6. Spending $90k of viewer money on this:

https://youtu.be/klPkGfHAxqU

7. Buying a warehouse “studio” and not bothering to sound dampen it

8. Mass producing and selling prints of an artist’s work without informing or compensating her.

9. Firing someone for making anti-Gamer Gate videos.

10. Mislabeling videos in their queue. Then screaming at any contributors who mentioned the mix-up to fans.

11. Constantly changing scripts for anniversary videos so no one could learn their lines on time.

12. A general Wiseau-esque approach to filmmaking and treatment of cast/crew. Like, just WOW. WOW. RIGHT DOWN TO PEOPLE FAINTING ON SET. THERE WERE EVEN CAMERA SHENANIGANS AND THIS GUY HAS COVERED BOTH THE ROOM AND THE DISASTER ARTIST.

13. Not informing contributors that they’d be “retiring” the Nostalgia Critic character years ago.

14. General mismanagement of footage, videos, resources and staff. And expecting people to do tons of work in basically NO time.

15. Verbally abusing contributors (to the point of tears) for their advertising practices (the ad revenue that some were trying to live on, and practices that they’d eventually engage in, such as mid-rolls) (Keep in mind these people were not paid in anything but “exposure”)

16. Never addressing contributor issues and complaints. Insulting and harassing (female) people who had suggestions/complaints.

17. Shutting down entire sites without forewarning to the contributors.

18. General misogyny towards female talent.

19. Management not being available to site members. (Keep in mind that CA is a full blown corp)

20. This stuff. https://twitter.com/Obscurus_Lupa/status/974019689847427072

21. Randomly dropping people for “not posting videos” despite random rule changes and/or the videos simply not being scheduled right on the managers’ end.

22. This stuff too. https://twitter.com/Kitsunelaine/status/974395260263530496
Basically a “prime membership” thing that never produced anything that cost $30 to get “exclusive” videos…. that they mass-released a year later anyways.

23. A general creepy and flippant approach to the characters they wrote.

24. Ignoring the existence and work of contributors who had been there for years, including excluding them from video events directly involving their own extensive work, such as the Don Bluth Special. And using other contributors’ footage in “response” videos without telling them.

I encourage everyone to check out @marzgurl, @atopfourthwall, @chaosd1, and @allisonpregler. Check Marzgurl’s twitter here, Allison’s twitter here, Linkara’s twitter here, also Foldablehuman’s, Lindsay Ellis’s, Holly’s, and Pushinguprose’s twitter for more info.



as of now, Linkara, Todd in the Shadows, MikeJ and more have all left the company

this is really loving big

/discuss

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Mr Queeba

April 04, 2018, 05:00:10 PM
can someone remind me about what exactly channel awesome is? is it like one of those youtube networks?

torin²

April 04, 2018, 05:00:22 PM
why are all of your threads titled like this

Tactical Nuke

April 04, 2018, 05:03:59 PM
Quote from: Mr Queeba on April 04, 2018, 05:00:10 PM
can someone remind me about what exactly channel awesome is? is it like one of those youtube networks?

yea

it's like machinima but it operated off of blip.tv instead of youtube bc all their content was reviewers and they kept getting banned

more info (also info on spoony): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMSZ1TqgOIU

TlTO

April 04, 2018, 05:06:40 PM
i love nostalgia critic

Col. Burton

April 04, 2018, 05:10:13 PM
wtf is channel awesome

Tactical Nuke

April 04, 2018, 05:14:01 PM
Quote from: Col. Burton on April 04, 2018, 05:10:13 PM
wtf is channel awesome

thatguywiththeglasses

yehellis3246

April 04, 2018, 05:17:53 PM

cblock360

April 04, 2018, 05:22:43 PM
this is messed up

Metalliku

April 04, 2018, 05:37:05 PM
damn, this is really messed up

Conan

April 04, 2018, 05:40:45 PM
looks like they managed to piss off both ends of the political spectrum, and do things that are morally wrong rather than just politically wrong. i'd be surprised if they pull through this intact.

never heard about the channel itself, but regardless i dont see a situation any of this is acceptable or expected

hillkill

April 04, 2018, 06:06:06 PM
can someone tldr this for me? i have no clue what's going on here

Tactical Nuke

April 04, 2018, 06:12:33 PM
okay so does everyone know the nostalgia critic

he runs a company with his brother and a guy named mike michaud that's pretty much like machinima but for content reviewers, like film critics and video game critics, originally called thatguywiththeglasses.com but now called channel awesome

well former employees/reviewers of the company have outed the business as doing a ton of shady stuff, and a lot of the blame falls on the nostalgia critic himself

SeventhSandwich

April 04, 2018, 06:17:18 PM
A lot of this sounds like pretty clear-cut stuffty behavior. I'm glad that it doesn't look like Doug participated in any of the misconduct directly - although surely he has to take some of the blame for not firing people who did.

I don't really care about the fact they made an edgy rape joke, but if you have a contracted contributor who doesn't want to perform in a scene with loveual assault, you should definitely be accommodating about that since there's loads of valid reasons why an actor wouldn't want to do it.

torin²

April 04, 2018, 06:19:21 PM
does anyone else get the vibe that the nostalgia critic is on the autism spectrum
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