I found this dude on a KF page.
This commentary is very good. I used to like and respect the Channel Awesome crew. When I was younger, I wanted to be like these guys. As I have gotten older, I have seen them as entitled and out of touch with reality. These kids who got out of high school made it big in the salad days of the Internet. While flawed, CA did bring some attention to these reviewers. They would come around and attack the very site that helped them become Internet famous.
A great many of these guys never had a real, butt-kicking job, so the old CA document seems petty and foolish. These CA content creators needed to get their hands dirty with real jobs to be thankful for the great jobs they had during the golden years of the Internet.
As I have gotten to more about many of these former CA, I find them to be annoying. I think it has more to do with social media. Even when their fame is waning, they look down upon getting a real job. We all have to do it.
Remember Spoony.
Side Note: My favorite entitled former CA member is Film Brain. I liked his negative reviews, but he’s changed into a more positive reviewer and moved away from what made him amusing, funny, and popular. His old videos were getting between 90-150K, and now they are between 2-9K views. It reminds me of my shitty ass blog. This blog was getting crazy numbers in the 2000s. Good thing I didn’t make this my living. Right, Film Brain?
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