Channel Awesome / TGWTG general (& ex-contributors) - Dying Gay Review Website

[Kari Kamiya]

I distinctly remember That Fellow in the Coat, which still seems to be functioning. They had people like Hewylewis, Pan-Pizza, Joey Tedesco, and (probably their most infamous member) Animat.

Animat sounds familiar, but how can any anime(?) YouTuber be worse than Mr. Anime?

 

[Mizafuginmike]

I distinctly remember That Fellow in the Coat, which still seems to be functioning. They had people like Hewylewis, Pan-Pizza, Joey Tedesco, and (probably their most infamous member) Animat.

LOL So That Fellow in the Coat outlasted That Guy With the Glasses?

 

[Kerth Gersen]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if somebody there converted.

Plausible.

It's the woke identity-of-last-resort for white guys who've irrevocably identified themselves as hetero.
They can try being a "anarchist revolutionary" for woke cred, but there's the problem with that being in revolt against EVERYTHING because it kinda pre-empts all the other revolters.

All of whom have a "So...what? Are you trying to erase me??? Are you pre-empting my struggle?? Are you silencing me with your antimansplaining, which is totally like, violence against me?" response available.

Fuck. These people have made their lives into an unforgiving old-school Nintendo platformer with all the color and fun removed. On the "HARD" difficulty. Yet somehow I have no sympathy.

Honestly the tension and buildup makes Kong even more satisfying. Heck in the movie Aliens, we don't even see them until about halfway in the movie and when we finally see them, it is wonderful.

In the movie that...what? "inspired"? Aliens ("IT! The Terror From Beyond Space", a 1958 indie), the creature that boarded the ship on Mars and killed the crew, moving progressively up the rocket-ship-shaped rocket ship, was not going to be shown AT ALL, but a producer added a few seconds of special effects shots of a "monster". I never noticed it being awkward or anything when I was a little kid, though.

NOTE: It CANNOT be said Alien "ripped off" or "copied" that movie though, except in broad conceptual strokes. Monster on a ship. Ain't copyrighted. Just like "Aliens" was basically a "Good guys in a fort under siege from overwhelming forces", but can't be said to have copied much besides some colonial empire tropes and character slots.

The thing that's more important than seeing the monster, or even of providing space for characterization, is communicating how badass it is, and what terrible things it's doing. A steady build up of ominous incidents, a few mangled victims ("No wolf could tear a body apart like that, Sheriff!"), maybe a red herring "natural explanation"...that sets you up to see how bad things have really gotten, and engage the baddie.

 

[Sable]

Can you imagine if Channel Awesome hadn't collapsed and Doug had kept doing those shitty anniversary movies? We'd have had an Infinity War/Endgame rip-off by now, I just know it.

I remember, the second (?) TGWTG 'movie' thing being passable, even though it radiated enough autism to turn anyone within 1000 yards into an avid fan of trains or Sonic or something...at least if you go in with the mindset that it's a bunch of idiots with little to no acting talent just messing about.

I actually think all the awful stuff on Movie Night has messed with my perception of what a good film is though.

 

[Kerth Gersen]

It was in a crossover review he did with somebody else. I remember the other host being a woman like Diamanda Hagan or Iron Liz. In the review, he pointed out that his accent wasn't British but some accent unique to some two-block wide pissing corner in the United Kingdom somewhere.

Yeah? "No British accent"? And if I decide to put all thousand of their Livepudlian and Yorkshire and OxBridge and etc., etc mini-accents in a big bag labelled "British Fucking Accents", what's he gonna do about it?

BTW, this is EXACTLY what I do, and consider myself pretty discerning because I don't throw Australian and Irish in there too! I'm not gonna concern myself with the petty distinctions between a bunch of ginger Oscar Wilde wannabes, I can't tell the difference, any more than I can between the native Ugandans...who themselves consider their differences worthy of a genocide every few decades.

>new form of dehumanizing

I just realized how easy it is to make any fucking word a slur now.

Great, innit?

Wasnt Ross Scott also a contributor to the site? He seems pretty ok (I don’t know whether or not he says exceptional stuff on twitter though. I avoid that site lie the plague).

+1, sound Twitter usage advice.

Those RC cars your parents bought you and you ductaped steak knives onto for your bootleg BattleBots battles behind the shed where the older kids huff paint doesn't count as a robot army.

Still, though...props for intent and concept, eh? And that's really about as far as most TV show creators successfully get nowadays, so...nice try.

Damn, I never new Gage went crazy and trooned out. He is now selling "sexy" pictures of himself where he is photoshopping his face and body in most of them. But reality often rears its ugly male head tho and you see it's all a fucking farce.

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Ashira Herzig (@AshiraHerzig) on Twitter

Edit: I forgot to mention that he also calls himself Sedusa La'Gorgon

Good God. He can troon out, he can cosplay as "myself, if I were actually attractive", he can be a bronyfurfagweeb, what the fuck ever. But "Sedusa La'Gorgon" is the most 13-year-old messageboard name I've ever heard. And that's coming from a guy who was once "Thud Beefslap" on a flame board.

Surprisingly enough, burning away your youth churning out YouTube videos on pop culture from your bedroom for pennies isn't healthy, fulfilling or sustainable.

Who knew?? I mean, if you can escape the pettiness and vicious social dynamics of high school...to become dependent on the approval of people with whom you have only a parasocial relationship, why not?
Well, except for the fact that it's a fucking lateral move, wrt mental health, with the difference being, that while you will grow out of the toxic aspects of high school, the Internet is forever.

And unless you get rich off it and can afford a luxury rehab stint, it's just guaranteed unpleasantness.

 

[The Cunting Death]

you can reply to everyone with just one post you know

 

[CWCissey]

Holy fuck, Film Bald took a hint and grew a beard.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1356288661550198784

Now he just needs to take the bigger hint and chop the rest of that barnet.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Holy fuck, Film Bald took a hint and grew a beard.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1356288661550198784

Now he just needs to take the bigger hint and chop the rest of that barnet.

The beard doesn't look too bad. It'd look better if he shaved the top off though.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Holy fuck, Film Bald took a hint and grew a beard.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1356288661550198784

Now he just needs to take the bigger hint and chop the rest of that barnet.

He looks like a gay pedophile on Prozac.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Holy fuck, Film Bald took a hint and grew a beard.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1356288661550198784

Now he just needs to take the bigger hint and chop the rest of that barnet.

It's actually a huge improvement, if only because he doesn't look/sound like Russell Howard's down on his luck cousin anymore.

 

[PeriodicTrouble]

Film Brain is complaining about his lack of popularity again.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1358100479796985859
Though it is a bit different. He admits that the videos that get the most views are old Bad Movie Beatdowns. You think he take the hint that maybe he should make more of those besides the year end countdowns, but oh well he wants to be a serious critic that's on Rotten Tomatoes.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1358104770574229506

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Film Brain still makes videos? Shit.

After CTC, I thought maybe some of these people would use that as their way to get out of that lifestyle and get a real job. Nope.

Wouldn't it be funny if some of these people considered crawling back to CA to try and get in with Doug and crew again?

 

[RJ MacReady]

Film Brain is complaining about his lack of popularity again.
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https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1358100479796985859
Though it is a bit different. He admits that the videos that get the most views are old Bad Movie Beatdowns. You think he take the hint that maybe he should make more of those besides the year end countdowns, but oh well he wants to be a serious critic that's on Rotten Tomatoes.
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So many of these washouts are just stuck in the past and completely unable to grasp YouTube trends. There was never a market for Film Brain's shitty "serious" film analysis and no divine algorithmic intervention from Google could change that.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Honestly, Film Brain always seemed like a nice enough guy, I'd probably be able to enjoy talking to him over a beer, but I never really thought his Bad Movie Beatdowns were all that good, either.

 

[RJ MacReady]

The Spoony One had the cops called on him for a welfare check due to some disturbing tweets and proceeded to throw a massive shitfit over his followers "betraying his trust" and trying to get him, his dog and the cops killed which is now resulting in him threatening to leave Twitter forever.

He also turned 40 years old in late December, celebrating with nobody. He is being allowed to remain in his foreclosed home due to the federal moratorium on evictions.

 

[starborn427614]

Honestly, Film Brain always seemed like a nice enough guy, I'd probably be able to enjoy talking to him over a beer, but I never really thought his Bad Movie Beatdowns were all that good, either.

That's how I feel about a lot of Lolcows. The difference between regular ones and the worst ones is that the worst ones just tend to lack a support system with people who'll tell them no every once in a while.

 

[The Weed Wizard]

Film Brain is complaining about his lack of popularity again.
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He'd have a lot more views if he wasnt so fucking annoying.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

betraying his trust

Let me guess, this was his reaction:

 

[CWCissey]

Jesus Mathew, you complain about no-one watching your shit, you're given a massive hint about what people would like to see from you, yet you turn it down to be a woke moron.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1360247254330863617

Brad didn't need a sperg to cry about how Music is literally killing the autistic, he just mocked the shit out of it with Jerrid!

 

[T_Holygrail_Jesuschrist 2]

Brad's Christian parody movie is on YT