I guess Hope had other fish to fry (probably off to review Digimon Frontier or DarkMagnumDongmon or something like that).
She doesn't appear in his vids all that often but he does in hers.
Just like Brad was, but Brad refused to simp for her since he's actually capable of getting chicks who look good with nice racks. Phelan just went with the only girl to give him the time of day.
I'd say it's less desperation and just the two of them needed to somebody who was as sex averse as they were. I don't believe for a second that the two of them fucked.
We could imagine it would be all peaches and cream, but the bottom line of the whole scenario would fail no matter who was involved: Channel Awesome was only a newsfeed service: they didn’t pay them or provide studio/equipment for them. The writing on the wall was there pretty early on. When you have a bunch of kids who thought they’d be the next faces of movie/game/anime criticism, they were going to jump ship the moment they realized that. You’ll note that everyone who is still on good terms with Doug et al is from the older generation.
You know what's also funny? Out of all of them, it was the malignant psycho future-pooner who had the most empathetic reaction to Noah's manic-depressive attention whoring.
In the end, it was basic self-reliance. JesuOtaku was always kind of a freeloader, but with a built-in Tumblr audience. She wasn’t really of the Channel Awesome universe, I think she was in exactly one of their movies. Snob proved he could run his own weird "universe". If Channel Awesome was collapsing, Snob wasn’t gonna die in the rubble.
I forget that Doug is married.
Doug settled for a Renaissance Faire mead tent type fat chick and this was proof to every Christorian/4Channer that Doug had been compromised. Just completely cooked.
Noah kept saying he had ideas, lots of them...what that really meant was he was waiting for someone in his Twitter replies to accidentally write the script for him.
So, I guess you really could just make a 2 hour AI slop Spoony version of the AVGN movie and it would still count.
You basically got two paths here. Option one is the Ashens/Walker model, where people try to kill the critic with zero setup or motive.
Option 3: I ask ChatGPT for a script and feed that script into other AI to prove a point that this whole movie was a stupid fucking idea and even a computer can make a better film than what Spoony could even in his prime.
Man all the discourse about a Spoony Experiment movie is moot as hell, like I thought the three Channel Awesome anniversaries were already about Spoony. They already ran that screen test, what more do people want.
He married a RICH mead maid fat chick which makes him infinitely smarter than anyone he used to hire. He doesn't have to drag the Nostalgia Critic to make ends meet, he can treat it as a hobby to drop out of when he's not feeling it anymore.
According to his no-longer-archived livejournal it was meant to be a Mazes & Monsters style flick about a FLGS, where the local GM tortures his player group but it's actually becoming real or something. IIRC it went nowhere since he couldn't write a script good enough to be worth putting on film and the idea floated in his mind for years before starting TSE.
And you’d think the little rat-faced fuck would have firsthand knowledge of that exact dynamic.
They probably could have avoided some of the bigger controversies and creator exodus's that they suffered from. They still would have faced an eventual decline, but more than likely not as messy as the one they experienced . Allison stirred up so much drama during the CTC era. All that drama that happened with Brad would have more than likely never occurred without Allison and her cronies going after him for not abandoning ship. I wonder what a rat like Linkara would have done had he not been given permission to turn on Doug with Allison kicking things off with that Twitter thread.
