Now, this sounds very
, but I could live with a future in which Channel Awesome boots Michaud and somehow gets back on track, he goes crazy and releases a counter google doc with contributor dirt and everyone starts REEEEing at each other.
I'd actually be okay with that.
Don't get me wrong, Doug is definitely a spineless shell of a man who makes some of the most autistic content known to mankind, but I don't necessarily want him to fail.
Let me repeat that: I don't necessarily want
Doug (and
only Doug) to fail.
Again, we all engage in our day-to-day conversations about how shitty the Nostalgia Critic is/has become, but I wouldn't exactly say he hasn't earned his fanbase. Sure, his popularity was largely due to luck as well as cashing in on a trend (the "angry reviewer" formula was at its peak at the time, and Doug was in the right place at the right time to become big), but all the rapid-fire jokes and running gags and high-pitched screeching were, in a way, quite appealing to a large group of people. Why? Well...
So, there is definitely an audience for the Critic, and it's one that he's maintained for a decade now. That's, like, 50 years in Internet time. And there still are places that are so loyal to him that they will either ignore or even outright defend all his shady behind-the-scenes actions because they love his content just that much (I'm looking at you, TV Tropes).
The one person almost no one is willing to defend, that has caused almost nothing but misery for almost all of his subordinates not named Doug Walker, is Mike Michaud.
69 pages of grievances, a very large chunk of which centers around this douche-nozzle's incompetence and mismanagement, are pretty hard to just sweep under the rug as if they never existed in the first place. Michaud (Rob, too, since he also seems like a scumbag) is why I want to see Channel Awesome get burned to the ground, because at that point he'll be forced to go back into retail and wonder for the rest of his life why his e-empire crumbled without spending a single second to look in the mirror.
If Doug is unable to lose fans even in the wake of all this drama, at some point I hope he either goes his own way or ditches Michaud in favor of another, better manager.
