• Obscurus Lupa of Channel Awesome Accuses Nostalgia Critic of Sexual Harassment
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So it's really just Cinemassacre keeping ties right now huh?
I wonder if James Rolfe has a say in this, or that he's watching this transpire but knowing the backlash he won't comment. I know he's good friends with the Walker brothers so I think he's keeping up with them and not Channel Awesome.
This whole thing was like the Hindenburg disaster in slow motion
https://twitter.com/NJ4K1/status/984648820624572416
Yeah James tends to just not comment when it comes to internet drama. If Doug Walker quits I don't see why Cinemassacre would stay connected to CA though.
and with that, there is not no reason to ever watch any channel awesome content again
That's gotta suck big time. How did this Mike guy become the owner of the IP anyway?
"Salutations! I'm the Pleasant-Memories-of-the-Past Commentator, and I recollect it, so that the burden doesn't fall upon you!"
From what people have said, he literally just asked. No really. Doug and his brother decided that, because they are so unfathomably dumb, to make some random guy they didn’t really know the head of their company. I am not exaggerating when I say that they didn’t know him, he was just one of the guys who approached them to run the website
Imagine how Doug must feel knowing everything went to shit in the blink of a eye and the last guy left on your team is laughing his arse off and posting memes about it.
11th Anniversary Special: The Fact Hunt
Well, Funny enough that Channel Awesome website falsely claimed Brad Jones are still part it.
“””rebuttal””” which doesn’t address anything at all and comes off as written by an idiot?
How much lead up to a statement do we need?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y02UX9g0DQE Live reading of the response coming in about two hours.
By the way, uh, don't visit the offical CA forums. Apparently there's zero moderators and right now it's got people posting scat porn, severed heads and mutilated animals in some threads.
Geezus. Is this what happens when a civilization dies and all that's left are the overgrowth and the animals?
There’s no reality that anything good will come out of any following response. I am almost impressed that they were even able to work a site at all given the now very much confirmed uh... lack of intelligence is very very apparent. That response leaves me stunned
The fact that Tamara and Malcolm said that there's going to be an upcoming video response to the whole controversy makes me wonder how they're going to make things worse.
Stream has started by the way. He's only at the first couple paragraphs and he's already fucking ripping it apart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-Sy11mvZU I guess Doug is going to have to grovel to get his job back again
The problem with Doug getting a future job is that. Any potential interviewer is going to see this whole event and want nothing to do with the guy. And that video above just sums up how unprofessional he can be.
Does he still do Bum Reviews? Like that shit was terrible but I could see him trying that as his fallback... Though I could also see Michaud also owning that as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_h1LwTmc1k oh boy
Wasn't this on the news as the "Best 'I Quit' moment"? I thought that was pretty funny. It's not like he's going back to that same workplace.
It's pretty sickening to see people pass all of this off as "SJWs just making a big fuss like with Jontron". Funny because I've seen people accuse Doug of being an SJW himself, especially after the jabs at Trump he made.
To his credit, he's likely more known than anyone else in that room.
Most important thing he says in the video: Jewwario rapes someone sounds ridiculous! Follows someone to their room, fingers them and runs away? yeah, that fits the type... The distinction is important. Or rather being specific and accurate. It's still Rape, but rape is a blanket term and being so general is probably why a lot of people at first wouldn't believe it. But when you get into the specifics of it... molesting a persona that is blacked out drunk... It's just as fucking bad, it's still rape. But it's a very different physical abuse/assault than physically overpowering them with violence and then fucking them. He also talks about how he probably carried a lot of darkness with him. This is something that is true for a lot of people who struggle with suicide, depression and self-worth. A lot of these people sometimes find themselves at the crossroads of morally questionable acts (or just plain reprehensible acts) and make the wrong choice. Considering that, this is really not unexpected. That small distinction is unimportant to a lot of people. It is from a moral and legal standpoint. It's still sexual assault. It's still rape. But being accurate and specific when laying down the accusations and alleged events really does a lot for credibility. It went from "doesn't seem like him." to "kinda fits the bill when i connect the dots."
The only people I've seen attempt to make this difference, or rather to make it matter, are /r9k/ shitlords on 4chan trying to apologize for a rapist.
That's a very two-dimensional way of viewing things. There are nuances in everything. I wasn't downplaying his act, i was trying to illustrate why being specific is fucking important! I find that only Teenagers and angsty, loud types deal in absolutes and sweeping generalizations of issues. Sexual assault is sexual assault. There are different kinds of sexual assault. It's still just as shit an act, but violent physical assault doesn't fit the character. Molesting/assault a drunk, ko'd woman definitely does. I have no idea why that makes me a 4channer in your mind, but i think that's a very rigid way of dealing with people. You do you, but it's kinda a lame thing to project rape apologism onto me for underlying that one scenario fits the character and that another really doesn't. Maybe take a beat to work out why you shouldn't write people off so readily as villains because they make an observation that makes you feel uncomfortable or whatever...
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