Sifted through the thing. I have yet to see any direct mention of Doug Walker himself (aka the Nostalgia Critic) commit any form of sexual assault, and a lot of the grievances are more directed towards Doug being a bad director or being egocentric and some of the humor being overly crass, with the sexual harassment accusations being not only sparse but directed at unnamed and seemingly secondary "producers".
If a mod sees this I'd like to request a quick change of the thread title because it's sensationalist as all fuck.
I'm sure gonna be a bit sad when this turns out true. I'm not a fan of the Nostalgia Critic anymore but i used to watch it religiously years ago.
Whoa, I always thought Doug seemed like a really chill guy
This is very surprising to me
It comes to no surprise that the entire thing is ran like a circus on steroids.
I read the entire document and Doug is not once accused of sexual harassment.
Watching that Spoony documentary video the other day made me interested in Channel Awesome and I looked into it and found all kinds of shady weirdness hiding just beneath the surface. This doesn't surprise me too much.
yea it's less "-accuses Nostalgia Critic of Sexual Harassment" and more "-accuses Channel Awesome Owners of Sexual Harassment"
But that could be confusing seeing as most people would think Doug and Rob own it where it's two other guys who have majority.
Regardless, it's shitty no matter who did it.
Looking through a bit more, I do see repeating stories and anecdotes of this Mike Michaud guy.
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Classy, doug
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yeah unfortunately titles can't be changed currently but Nostalgia critic himself has done nothing wrong aside from evidently being a bad director occasionally. The people being accused of harrassment are the CEOs of Channel Awesome, while doug himself is mostly just talked about in terms of his lack of experience and arrogance
There's one direct story about being harrassed, in this case by Mike Ellis
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Even before the document became public, people were already leaving CA over this, like Linkara.
I am curious on why Angry Joe hasn't talked about this though.
the google doc talks a lot about certain producers consistently getting a free pass for stuff that got others completely blacklisted, but afaik never actually names these select people. maybe Joe was just one of the lucky ones
So, an interesting thing I didn't realize is that Doug doesn't even own the rights to his Nostalgia Critic character or anything else he created under Channel Awesome, which means he would be screwed if he ditched Mike Michaud. Guess that explains why Doug has kept working with Mike despite him supposedly being responsible for a lot of the worst shit in the document.
I wouldn't be surprised Doug retires from the site completely after all the fallout is over, especially since the toxicity of Mike has been revealed.
I find it exceedingly annoying that a sensationalistic title leaves you and several users with a mess to clean up that isn't even yours to begin with. It's like people don't get that the subforum title is a joke.
Page 44 and onward with Mike's response to JewWario's suicide are especially horrifying
This goes so far past just sexual harassment, the management does such a poor job that it falls into what is arguably malice and destructive towards their producers.
it doesn’t help that Doug and Rob basically allowed it all to happen because they are both like monumentally stupid
My first realization that Channel Awesome wasn't that great was years ago when Mike "The Birdman" Dodd was let go, and didn't find out until a week later when someone who worked there mentioned it.
Dude that's so fucked.
https://i.imgur.com/HKQBAzz.png
The excerpt from page 44
glad doug isn't caught up in the accusations, seemed to me like a guy who enjoys what he does for the most part. even if that content isn't always the highest quality or what people want.
THAT IS SOME FUCKED UP BEHAVIOR! including all of the harassment charges, no sane human would utter something like "Hey so a guy on our team died. We'd put together something for him, but only people that rake in the view dosh will do it because we need the attention." Someone oust Mike already!
I highly suggest people read Holly's section, particularly her exit from CA. It's my candidate for worst thing in there.
Yeah I could see that.
Wait someone mentioned Doug and Rob Walker with swords and bats helping someone go home one night. That was true? GEEZUS GUYS! I'll give the segment this; Doug and Rob walker seem to be a genuinely nice people with their hearts in the right places only to be brought down by the management fuckery that is CA. Doug can't even quit without losing the Nostalgia Critic IP. Lindsey Ellis is my close 2nd.
Wow, what a cowardly, cookie-cutter PR response that is.
Honestly, this whole thing is giving me Fireball20xl flashbacks. I know the TFS guys often work with CA; I wonder if they've had any problems.
Unfortunately, I know a few project leads who are exactly like that, going so far as to demand people work while hospitalized, and then threatening to can them without paying for work already done if they don't get it done within a short timeframe - again, while hospitalized.
The world is full of shit people.
It just so happens that the personality traits that make them shit also tend to make them ideal for leading.
Being an uncaring shitlord doesn't make you ideal for leading. It makes you ideal to fit in the modern, uncaring corporate environment which treats people as disposable peons who are to be discarded as soon as their usefulness is gone and who should feel grateful that they're doing a job they hate to survive.
It's the exact opposite of leading.
Okay, it makes them ideal for modern corporate leading.
Regardless of what your opinion of that may be.
Most CEOs in this day and age aren't sweet people who take the time to know their employees. They're people who see their employees as tools to be used until they are no longer within acceptable profit margins.
Oh man, hearing about Doug's direction and technical ineptness is truly golden because it not only confirms that his show is really just that janky (not by aesthetic choice), but because it's absolutely astounding that you can be in the game for as long as Doug and still know next to nothing about production.
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