April 2008. Doug Walker launches That Guy with the Glasses to host his video series, The Nostalgia Critic.

Doug and the website staff have ambitions of making it a site for multiple producers to host videos of a similar strain. Two of these will be Lindsay “The Nostalgia Chick” Ellis and Paul “PawDugan” Schuler. Lindsay’s roommate, Elisa Hansen, appears in her Nostalgia Chick videos before eventually starting her own series on the website under the name “Maven of the Eventide”.

Elisa and Paul meet and film several videos together. They start dating, and in November of 2012 announce that they’re engaged. They get married in October of 2013, and their son, Grey Ingram Hansen-Schuler, is born on August 13, 2014.

Which means that there’s at least one person on this planet who exists because of the Nostalgia Critic

IS THAT A MOTHERF**KING THATGUYWITHTHEGLASSES REFERENCE?!?!?!

Arguably, being in the TGWTG fandom for 4 years & watching it collapse during and after Change the Channel was what eventually led me to study anthropology

Who wants to watch Kickassia in 7 hours?

Matpat in his demo reel era

John Wick is in Fortnite and Payday, thus giving everyone in Payday 2 at most a number of 2. BUT it doesn't end there. Ethan and Hila of h3h3 are in PD2, thus linking a whole bunch of youtubers and the like through their podcast

With this knowledge, I feel like the nostalgia critic could be easily given a ryu number

The Nostalgia Critic has a Ryu Number of 3.

(clarification below)

New content included in AVGN I & II Deluxe makes the case that it counts as a whole, separate game as opposed to a simple compilation, but for any number of reasons which may or may not include a certain controversy in particular, the Nostalgia Critic was removed in the deluxe version and replaced with Fred Fucks, so the original version is the only game that can be used anyway.

Lindsay's package (OneyPlays Animated)

Chris and Harry return to the land of Kickassia to meet Lindsay Ellis. However, Chris is one daft bugger.

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CHAAAAANGE?!! YA GOT CHAAAANGE?!

CURSED COMPARISONS: Patrick H. Willems is like Doug Walker with less baggage.

In trying to find my geologist hammer, I found one of my most cursed possessions from my past. Definitely going to burn it along with a lot of my deadname stuff

When I browse the internet I get surprised to see that some Channel Awesome reviewers are still around. I just assumed they all quit after the change the channel movement petered out.

split (2016) except it's just doug walker switching between the critic, melvin (brother of the joker), and chester a. bum

not sure if im alone on this but the taglines in animorphs always kinda pissed me off?? like how is "make a change for the better" representative of The Reunion? could they /really/ not think of any sort of vaguely-robot-related tagline for The Android? Yes, the actual titles range from completely random (I believe The Warning falls in that category iirc?) to "only makes sense in retrospect" (The Forgotten), but the taglines are straight-up just random sayings about change 50% of the time

Oh yeah, I am with you as part of the large, large contingent of Animorphs fans who find the covers super frustrating:

Like you said, the punny taglines tend to have little to do with the book itself, and are often jarringly wrong in tone (#3 is "Now you see them, now you don't"; #14 is "Never underestimate the power of a morph.")

The summaries are often spoiler-ific (#19) or focused completely differently from the book itself (#23).

Nobody likes the phrase "the other Animorphs and Ax." David (David!) also gets described as "the sixth Animorph" when Ax has already been there for 15 friggin' books.

Jake and Rachel's cover models are fine, but the other four don't match the books' descriptions of the characters that well.

Visser stars Visser One but has Visser Three on the cover. There are several other instances of especially the inside covers not matching the scenes in the books where those morphs appear.

However, those problems can probably be blamed ~95% on the speed at which the books were being published. I've speculated that those summaries may have even been put together by people who had never read the book in question. Not due to laziness, but just because the book itself didn't exist at the time when they had to hastily throw a cover together.

So imagine you're some Scholastic intern who's gotta put that cover together, and you don't know anything about a book except maybe a one-sentence summary. ("A girl named Cassie and her team the Animorphs — four fellow humans named Tobias, Rachel, Jake, and Marco; along with a blue alien named Ax — transform into horses to infiltrate a military base to prevent alien invaders from putting evil slugs into the brains of the leaders.") Honestly, given those constraints, it's nearly miraculous that the covers turned out as good as they did. And it is understandable that the word "Animorph" got mistranslated as "human who morphs" rather than "member of this team of kids who fight yeerks." Hence "the other Animorphs and Ax" and "David, the sixth Animorph."

It is still frustrating that the covers are so misaligned with the books, because we do know that people judge those books by their covers and that that's been a major barrier in the attempted revival of the series. (To say nothing of all the semi-racist memes.) But the characters' names are spelled right, the body horror of the series is accurately advertised, Cassie and Marco have cover models of the right ethnicities, and details like andalites having 6+ fingers per hand miraculously come through. I'll take what I can get.

You think maybe it should've been a red flag for the Nostalgis Critic when, during the Suburan Knights movie, he conciously decided to have a scene where he flashes his tightie whities at the audience?

His audience who was probably mostly college age and highschoolers?

Then again, maybe that's just being sensitive.

5000 posts!

You know what Tumblr, letting me know about this one is alright with me for once! I do wonder though at what count it would be if I hadn't switched blogs in 2014.