Did Channel Awesome Ruin Media Literacy? | Ant vs The Nostalgia Critic

Channel Awesome was a coalition of internet critics in the early days of YouTube. With Doug Walker standing at the front, they dominated the internet movie analysis landscape. While many of these critics either evolved, like Lindsay Ellis and Linkara, or faded from memory, like The Spoony One, The Nostalgia Critic remains an unmovable column of internet pop culture.

I think these critics shaped my development as a critic, but were they...actually any good? Or did they have their own sorts of problems that need addressing? I went to the past to look at their earliest reviews to see where they went.

Joining me is ‪@SaiScribbles‬ and ‪@thecrimsonender‬ . Thumbnail is also the work of Sai.

0:00 Who is The Nostalgia Critic and What was Channel Awesome?
10:26 Forbidden Doug Walker Lore
11:35 Lindsay Ellis
16:08 Linkara
27:57 The Cinema Snob
36:01 The Spoony One
45:09 Doug Walker, The Nostalgia Critic
48:08 Was The Nostalgia Critic Ever Funny?
1:05:15 Was The Nostalgia Critic a Good Critic?
1:21:17 Nothing Changes