Just went to the wikipedia page for Molossia and it recognizes that it was the Dictatorship of Kickassia for two days of its existence.

Say what you will about the film, but Doug Walker is the only KZfaqr to have successfully launched an invasion of a neighboring country.

2005: "It's over Anakin! I have the high ground!" 2022: "It's over Lindsey, I have the rape rap!"

Say what you will, the image of Lindsay Ellis whining incoherently about "coffee" while Douglas stares in utter confusion before ignoring her will always be comedy gold.

It's like watching Hollywood in fast forward: dreamers who became a business who became a syndicate and a clique who became has-beens barely remembered.

Ah yes, JewWario, the man who cosplayed as Jotaro so much he thought Star Platinum would catch the bullet.

Kickassia is what Apocalypse now wished it could be

The rape rap became a Chris Chan biography.

To say Nostalgia Critic/Channel Awesome defined a generation would be an understatement.

That Sarah Palin impression was so bad that I had no idea she was even doing one.

It's fascinating to see these old critics back in their prime when each of them at least had a semblance of popularity. While some of them were able to survive and even thrive in current KZfaq, others just washed up. It's almost sad. Then, you remember how plenty of them were batshit insane.

This is the greatest reward for completing no Nostalgia Critic November ,thank you Loli.

I distinctly remember Doug making a joke in one of his NC Fuck Up videos about his nitpicker character being attracted to the green M&M. Since the Metokur video, I've wondered if that was Doug making an underhanded dig at his friend and colleague.

Ain’t it kinda weird how the Channel Awesome document cycle kinda mirrored the whole KickVic situation? Actual serious allegations gets mixed up with far pettier shit and the whole thing starts to feel like it was just made to ruin the career of someone over office drama? Everything Marzgurl touches turns to poison I swear

The Avgn/Critic collabs were glorious at the time. Legit had fan meetups. The glory days...

That first crossover with the AVGN is kinda cringy by today's standards, that's a given, but it's the fun kind of cringe. It's like getting overly serious with your buddies in laser tag, or roleplaying in general. ... Boy did it stop being fun after that.

Reminder that the creator of infamous ChangeTheChannel document is directly linked to Spoony getting fired from the site (arguable with his meltdown) with the second biggest contributor to it being someone who started KickVic and is a friend of Monica Rial.

If you think about it, Linkara was right to think Kickassia would make him a mainstream star. With all his bizarre fetishes, he'd fit right in in Hollywood.

gotta love when "verified document" turns out to be a big fat lie

Time to grab a bowl of green m&ms.

What a day to see, Almightyloli covering Channel Awesome with Appabend as a source. This is not a coverage I'd even dream of happened. Yet it did. Wow.

The perfect movie, revolutionised Hollywood and frankly changed the medium of cinema forever. When Doug overthrew the government and executed Mollosian civilians you could really see the beginning of the descent of his character as he slowly gave into paranoia and fear of being overthrown, ironically sealing his own fate. Yet those who sought to overthrow him were even more radical and worse then Doug himself, eventually coming to the conclusion that the only reasonable solution was the restoration of the previous regime as it was clear that none of the revolutionary radicals could hold power.

Oh man, seeing Spoony back when he was still funny.... that gets to me more than it probably should.

Probably my biggest strike against Doug is at a technical level. Even as his videos have gotten more ambitious, he has consistently refused to improve his production quality. Fifteen years and the only thing that has changed is the number of pixels in his camera. His _Pink Floyd: The Wall_ review, in spite of the resources that went into it, is still on the level of his work from ten years earlier. By contrast, look to JonTron. Comparing his earlier work to his current work, it’s night and day. He started with the same setup, just a guy in his house with whatever he happened to have, to a proper set, with professional grade camerawork, sound and lightning, the effort is obvious, sometimes he’ll build unique setups just for the sake of a ten second joke (like the bathtub bit in his _Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf_ review).

Seeing all the critics like Linkara, BennettTheSage, Nostalgia Chick, and the rest of them together makes me sit back and think, “Wow…..all of these guys lost their relevance now….except Brad. He’s still good.”

I was almost in Kickassia I drew RolloT's titlecards, and still do on occasion for his podcast now and I lived in NorCal at the time. I was reached out to by someomeone (maybe Holly? I dont remember) about possibly showing up as an Extra for the movie only to be told a few days before filming that the weren't going to need as many extras as they planned.

There’s a road pathed with good intentions. Wonder where it leads… 🎩 🐍 no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

It's fun to find Phelan in the background of group shots looking completely checked out

The mission... The nightmares.... They're not over....

Holy shit, Loli has the rape rap? That thing has been a legend to me ever since Metokur referenced it existing.

I remember watching the VODs of the streams for these. Oh boy, those were wild.

Hey a pizza guy got traumatized for this

I loved Channel Awesome back in the day. Loved their content, felt like they had good harmony, and interesting insight. Then they went woke, scandal ridden, and lost the point. I'll cherish the memories, but I've moved on.

This is quite the blessing after a whole month of No Nostalgia Critic November.

You know there really was a charm in early Doug Walker content. Like it's cringe but it was cringe in the same way a video you made during highschool was cringe. Nowadays Doug is just going through the motion because this is all he can do.

There's still novelty with Kickassia. As a kid, it was legitimately cool when all these critics got together to make a "movie." Nobody on the planet knew who everyone was because there were so many people, but I think I got into a few of them because of it. Film Brain is actually a decent and articulate critic. He recently did a retrospective on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and it's probably his best work. Kickassia was also before all the drama and backstabbing. Sad state of affairs today, but I can watch parts of Kickassia (I'm probably never gonna watch it in full ever again because it is a piece of shit) and go back to ignorant bliss, if only for a moment. Nowadays, you could pluck any random person from the cast and there's a 99% chance they're an unironically bad person.

Mick saying Chris and Corey have brain damage for liking Kickassia forever lives rent-free in my head. Also, Spooney's Counter Monkeys is actually a good show.

Personally Suburban Knights was mostly mid, To Boldly Flee is the real Cthulhu-tier mind-shattering horror. Also, you still owe us you and Shota suffering through the Linkara Movie.

I think I can sum up some of the Channel Awesome guys in my own words: - Nostalgia Critic: The guy who seems nice but tries too hard to be funny. - Linkara: The guy who claims he’s a male feminist to hide the fact he’s a hypocritical weirdo. - Cinema Snob: The easy going guy that everyone still loves. - BennettTheSage: The guy who acted like a contrarian snob who thinks he knows better but didn’t know what he was talking about and fails to clean up his image cuz he doesn’t admit his mistakes. - Angry Joe: The guy who just gets mad for no reason nowadays and ends up saying stupid shit. - JewWario: The dead pedophile. - Spoony: The guy who tries to fix his depression with alcohol. - Nostalgia Chick: The woman.

Oh god. Feels like ages since I have remembered Channel Awesome, let alone Nostalgia Critic

So weird to see Angry Joe with only 2 chins instead of 4.

Kickassia is an adaptation of Lord of the Flies, you can't convince me otherwise.

I remember watching back in the day. Big ups to Doug for being cool with OneyNG's jokes.

The Linkara portion of Metokurs TGWG series was better than anything LInkara himself has produced.

6:34 Yeah. My biggest issue with the document was (besides just about everything Lindsey wrote) was Marzgurls complaint about the costume she had to make in TBF. She most certainly was right to ask for compensation for the time and work put into it. This is something she should have negotiated beforehand. But if she wanted compensation for the materials, then CA most certainly had the right to ask for the costume.

Why are you so good at making trailers, and why haven’t you been hired to make them for actual movies, shows, and games?

23:34 Lmao, I knew Brad was the voice of reason. He really does seem like the only one that had legit self-awareness all the way through every movie and incident. 26:26 That president guy was the best part of the film though. IMO the gag of him being 'not the president' seemed amusing to me. Funnier than the others at least and that guy isn't a 'professional comedian' like they were.

I used to give them a pass because i thought these movies were stupid but they at least had fun making them Shame it seems they didn't Same thing with linkara's "storyline", he took it way to serious

Nostalgia Critic is the guy who reawakened my love of Cinema. Love that guy.

Loli: "we're going to review Kickassia and channel awesome" Me: "hold up I need lock up anything I could use to hurt myself"

I'm not gonna lie. It was Doug walker, Angry Joe and some non-CA youtubers that got me into video creation

I've always thought that with some of the complaints the creators on Channel Awesome had why didn't some of them just cut their losses and leave sooner than later? Or keep sticking around being abused? Some of it definitely doesn't add up.

I don't know how Santa Christ coming back to life after three days ruins the joke. It's obviously a reference to Jesus Christ's resurrection in the Bible. Probably it's meant to highlight the pointlessness of the previous sequence since if he can only come back in three days like Jesus, then "We believe in Santa Christ" was never going to work to begin with.

Reading that google document, it's hard to tell what's real and what was made up or exaggerated to provoke sympathy in the readers. Especially when I realised it was written by many of the drama starters and general bad people of TWTG. The truth I reckon, is that NO ONE was an okay person in that group. Apart from Brad. Cinema Snob seems alright and just trying to cope with all this BS.

Holy shit, you’re amazing for reviewing this. I’ve been tempted to show these to my fiancé who’s never even heard of Channel Awesome, just to see if she still shows up at the alter in spite of the experience.

I was a Machinima kid growing up, so I was more or less on the other side of the internet while all the Channel awesome stuff went down. Now, learning about the Channel Awesome stories as an adult, I feel like a nosy neighbor peeking over the backyard fence just to find the family next door had been murdered years ago without me noticing. The strangest part is that they weren't killed by an intruder or anything, evidently they all killed each other.

The persona soundtrack in the background is top tier

Spoony will always have a special place in my heart. He was too good for these people.

Oh god, I still remember the streams when they watched the movies. Please, loli, stop hurting yourself like this…

FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO GETS IT! As someone who is a second generation reviewer taking from the CA days like Bobshaux, I still follow the NC/CA style of reviews. Many say its a dead genre per say, but I think it can still be viable for internet culture. If anything the genre and style can be done, but learn from the flaws of the past. I follow lore that picks up from the CA story and movies. Pretty much what Linkara does because it's a story I have passion and heart to tell. If CA was the original Star Trek, my show is Star Trek TNG. As for the controversy, I'm glad to see your opinion on it be fair, honest and open minded. Despite the legit issues, what it comes down to is they were ammature and young and when you're young you do stupid shit. I made my first feature around the same time Kickassia and Suburban Knights came out and it was a real learning curve in what I do now. This comment is a little too much me ngl, but this video was fun, informative and fairly opinionated. Well done. You earned a new sub.

Damn ... listening to Loli explain to the kiddos who the Nostalgia Critic is (as someone who used to like NC's reviews when I was younger, though I'll admit Walker's format didn't get old as fast as Rolfe's) really makes me feel old. I can feel the lines on my face grow deeper. Somewhere on my head, liver-spots are developing.

16:10 "He heard every word of that, you fcking asshole!" I laughed too.

I love these movies Channel Awesome made, and i watched reviewers like Spoony and Doug and AVGN, who i watched a boat load of. edit - I also saw an interview of Spoony from the channel, Conversations with Curtis, the lead actor, Paul Morgan Stetler from the game Phantasmagoria 2, doing the interview. Spoony seems to be in better health and back on his meds.

6:07 Pov: You’re the shotgun

I enjoyed watching CA back then. Doug and Spoony really captured a cadence in their videos with summary - skit - review - summary that made them great for listening while you were working on something else.

let us all bow our heads in remembrance of the short period in which marzgurl was vaguely marragieable

I was probably a couple of years too old to appreciate this when it came out, but this looks like a peak representation of the "lol so random" era of the internet.

AlmightyLoli: "If you don't buy my T-shirt I'll poison your dog." *Flashes JoJo Part 8 Rock Dog* He didn't pass up on the JoJoke. Beautiful.

Lindsay Ellis used to annoy the crap out of me in those old Nostalgia Critic reviews but Tamara Chambers was not a good replacement either.

The Board James cameo made Risk look simple. That's how talented James Rolfe is.

Seeing a healthy spoony is weird. Last I really kept track of his ass was okay it’s the down the rabbit hole video on him. Great video. I didn’t even know these guys made a couple movies.

PLEASE tell me you're going to eventually go over Doug's 'review' of Pink Floyd's The Wall. That fucking thing was a absolute fucking disaster.

Man, the moment Film Brain was mentioned to be British I remembered about RoosterTeeth and their fall.

I don't think the issue with Doug is that he doesn't care, it's that he just generally fails to understand or analyze context. If you've seen any of his video essays, you know what I'm talking about - they read like remedial English essays written by a high schooler - the man just doesn't really have the drive to go deeper than surface level, and when he does it's usually laughable. No, he's not a bad guy, but by and large he's incompetent when it comes to filmmaking and media analysis.

Something that could have possibly worked is going the Roger route from American dad where the president had a different disguise for interacting with different people and everyone had the one disguise they couldn't see through which is actually something that happens in an episode of American dad

I don't think Doug doesn't care but he is incompetent & doesn't listen to criticism enough. He really really should not have gone down the skit recreation route for reviewing movies. But he only doubled down on it despite it being universally hated. Yet somehow he's still failing upwards off of meme factor.

NGL that speech you gave at 16:18 was low-key inspiring despite it being for comedic purposes. Well done Loli, well done.

Doug always has seemed like a genuinely nice guy overall, and the dude is full of zany energy possibly at all times much like how Steve-O used to display. I agree about his style of humor, though, he just seemed to really settle in to the structure of set-up/punchline that has became what most people imagine when hearing the name Nostalgia Critic. So people could be forgiven for not remembering some of his other abilities as an old G like myself does who spent the early-to-mid 2010's watching NC. For example, he actually can be guilty of saying some funny shit! Also, he has always had some fantastic insights into movies that a few of could be quite brilliant depending on who you ask. I remember back when that one movie had just released with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence where they got up to romantic hi-jinks or so the filmmakers so desperately wanted people to believe. Long story short, Doug was one of the first, if not the very first, critic to explain why he thought the movie could have been incredible had it been edited with the goal of making a horror film. Anyway, didn't mean to go on too much here as if I'm sucking the guy off. I think I just sorta had a reaction to all the NC/Doug negativity that went on for a couple years that doesn't seem all that long ago, where I had grown tired of NC content yet felt people were just going way too hard in a lot of ways that compelled me to try finding the nuance that was so obviously being left out. In particular I recall when NC posted their review of Pink Floyd's The Wall and the resulting podcast travesty from Jar Media (podcast from I Hate Everything and crew) that featured 4 or so gentlemen being so offended they spent at least 2 hours crying directly into tampons to illustrate the point. Those guys can be funny so it was weird to see, felt like I was witnessing interviews given by r-pe victims to spread awareness.

I’ll be curious to see how much Loli will continue to go into regarding the situation with Channel Awesome: what he’ll cover, whether or not it was true, and so on, and how it may tie into the movies. I haven’t done as much homework on the NotSoAwesome Doc, so I wasn’t aware how much of it was falsified, but I always did think it strange to put in really petty things alongside serious sexual allegations. Really deludes the intensity of the JewWario stuff, and overblown the he said/she said shit. I’m pretty sure I already now what stuff isn’t true, but it’s interesting to hear people talk about all the same.

The intro feels like a mgs 4/5 cutscene about the past of the Patriots

I still visit the saga on occasion. Those early streams were a trip. I still think they’re a dream on occasion.

I've actually been rewatching some of his earlier stuff and mildly enjoying it, so help me God

Most of Channel Awesome was comprised of ankle biting nobodies who thought their unremarkable presence deserved more praise and recognition from the company.

HELLOOOOOO, I'm the early viewer! I watched this so YOU don't have to!

Suburban Knights is next, it is a titan compared to this, but when it is finished, your struggle will not be over. You will swear it to be a summer's breeze when you arrive at what is after.

I remember change the channel as Mike and Rob being outed as incompetent

yes, first I clicked on the video Then I was asking myself if I should rather run You got me there. P.S seeing spoony always breaks my heart. Depression is a beast that shouldn't be underestimated

The fact she made that rap is still wild ☠️

So your saying if Linkara randomly showed up all I have to say is "Green M&M" and I have an assault case I could win ?...huh interesting.

Oh hey, I remember your live stream watching this movie. I was a good history lesson of some internet personalities I've yet to see.

I unironically love the anniversary trilogy. Everything that's shitty about the movies is what makes me enjoy them.

it's still strange to think that Benzai tv (appear at 6.40) was in that collective years ago before comming back to France, and that when he came back, it gave some nostalgia critics cameo over the athlantic

I remember watching Mister Metokur’s TGWTG video series. Shit was so cash, such a good look into Channel Awesome with good jokes, too. The fucking rape rap remake was hilarious.

2:15 as someone who was almost the same age when it came out, I could feel my brain cells turning more boomerish and my heart teared up 😢

13:39 Genuinely Doug walker’s videos on the Mask comic and the super mario adventures comic were pretty good.

I've never tried to make a movie, and I have watched these three anniversary "films". There's a lot here that needs improvement, but one major thing I would have done to improve the film is to let each of the guest characters be themselves, because as you said, that's part of the novelty of having them all in the same video. So instead of just writing all the scenes and making them like me, I would have written the script, then sent the portion of the script that has the character in it to that character to look over and review, and then have them re-write their dialogue to bring it more in line with how they play their character and how their character would react. But then again, Doug and Rob would have had to share screenwriting credits with them if they did that.

No Nostalgia critic November. Conquered. Let's start Destroy Doug December!!

dear god, Linkara's streams are the gift that keeps on giving

You either grow up on Doug Walker or AngryJoe. We don’t talk about the kids raised on Linkara.

Now review the linkara movie