Maybe JonTron being disowned by his internet reviewer friends *did* have long term benefits.

Suburbian Knights review, or: How Loli almost lost his mind trying to understand the Channel Awesome drama

LordKat becoming a victim of a bi-polar "2010's Angry Reviewer" is really the only thing LordKat is known for.

This isn't a rabbit hole. This is the abyss staring back at you and asking you to come and play with it.

"Dying in the arms of Nostalgia Critic" is the funniest sentence I've ever heard.

11:45 "Just because some guy is ranting about how much he hates a guy, it doesn't mean he's always telling the truth." Now that's a quote right there.

Funny how no one even flirted with the idea that Blistered Thumbs died not because of Spoony's rant, but because it's a Z-list video game review site, where there are hundreds of better alternatives out there.

Honestly I always like the fact that joe actually enjoy playing in these movies, because at least someone’s having fun in this dumb crap.😺

I find it hilarious how even burnt out, off the deep end Spoony is still more relevant than Lordkat ever was.

Another HUGE problem for Lorekat is now, because of his rant his only claim to fame is being the guy who did that rant on Spoony. Lorekat will now forever be associated with the man he hates. Spoony IS his claim to fame

The irony of Channel Awesome doing a "serious" Anton Chigurh like character in a comedy movie is that Anton actually does have some goofy moments. Anton sitting down and drinking milk while plotting an assassination, killing a guy for talking too much, ALMOST killing a guy for talking too much, and the "An ATM :D" scene are some peak dark comedy.

The bit where Film Snob tries to chop the bridge with a plastic sword, and says "Prepare to meet Kali, IN HELL" got a good chuckle out of me

The time I went on LordKat's show to talk about my experiecnes as a veteran as an online artist in the TGWTG community, I learn that he had extreme anger issues and it started my devolution into disgust with him. Whenever he got heated he would go on these "le epicc" rants that were full of easily debunked lies. Whatever got him mad in that moment was the cause of every ill in his life, and he would rail against them for minutes on end before moving on and pretending it didn't happen until soemthing else reminded him that he should be mad at it.

So many of us wish we could've been like Dave on Oneyplays, who watched one Nostalgia Critic video at the peak of his popularity, said "wow this guy is fuckin' gay" and never watched him again. But on the inside, we know that we're all secretly Chris and Cory.

Suburban Knights is actually a good idea for a children's book series.

I love the look on Angry Joe's face during Spoony's BETRAAAYAL rant, completely unaware of the history that was being made

I unironically think that the upskirt NC scene is the highlight of the movie. I genuinely think it's funny for how bluntly crass it is.

I can’t wait for loli to rip Quinton to pieces. 😈

"Dying in the arms of Nostalgia Critic." What a fate.

So, Holly being a goddamn liar shouldn't surprise anyone at this point. She had a history of it. Woman was a total manipulator behind the scenes. I regret that I don't have the receipts for this (you'd have to talk to Angry Joe for confirmation since we dealt with it together) but she was the reason Angry Joe was removed as the head of the site, and the reason I was fired. Someone who wrote for the site with me, Eli Cymet (who now works for Team Alto) was a MASSIVE SJW. He was basically in Holly's ear smearing Joe and I as the worst ever and that the site would be better when we're gone. Well, Eli got what he wanted and I got fired. That came down from Michaud, so there was nothing that could be done. The lies about me being this terrible evil Bible-thumper ruining the site took effect, and she was part of the problem. So, in retaliation Joe fired Eli immediately. And her smearing others that she didn't like just to try and ruin their lives shouldn't surprise anyone.

So if I date a girl that is mentally 45 and her body is 25, does that make her a MILF? Since suddenly mental age is grounds for accusation.

What are we, some kinda Awesome Channel?

I like how Phelous apparently protested this movie by just not moving at all when he's in the background. During the party scene he stands completely still without blinking...and nobody noticed. He still refers to To Boldly Flee in his videos when talking about anything terrible.

Marzgurl is STILL trying to destroy Vic. She's still going on about it....FTR Vic commented on her and said this: "SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ME! SHE'S NEVER MET ME!!"

Strange to think that there’s some universe out there where LordKat is a multimillionaire reviewer cohosting Live with Kelly, and the New Years Eve Ball drop because of one meeting with a Minecraft creator.

Man this Jewwario shit was way more complicated than I thought it would be.

*BETRAYAL!!!* [Lordkat will remember this] 🎩 🐍 no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

As someone who frequented Blistered Thumbs back at the time, I'll tell you why that site died. It was doing Kotaku before Kotaku became Kotaku. They were doing shitty, hyperbias opinion pieces as reviews. No one was reading their stuff or watching their videos. KZfaq was becoming a bigger, better space for gaming and people weren't going to BT for their mid tier content. In a way they were ahead of their time, but they didn't have the venture capital from international megacorps to prop it up.

Doog spelled backwards is Good. He truly is Master Mirror, the Man of Glass.

Doogcember cannot end until The Almighty Loli reviews all the movies , 3 words TEMPO TEMPO TEMPO.

Some detail on That Dude in the Suede since I still remember it: He's mormon and was basically the site's original anime reviewer until he left to go do mormon shit (I think it was missionary work?,) and then came back after Suburban Knights for a while. So him showing up in Suburban Knights was a huge deal at the time because basically nobody heard anything from him after he left and this was the reveal he was coming back. It's probably a good thing he left for so long since he basically dodged all this bullshit.

26:24 A little correction: Screaming Mantis was Brad's ex-girlfriend. They had broken up before that Magfest and JewWario had been crushing on her for years since Magfest was a convention a lot of Channel Awesome types frequented.

Funny thing is LordKat is only remembered for that one freak out on Spoony

What I find more interesting since Micah Curtis is on here, is that if anything. LordKat now has a much better career being forgotten. Basically after this all passed, he went back to working in financial IT, and he's been doing better ever since. What can you say, easy internet fame when you're young makes you a fool of everybody.

In all these outdoor shots, did no one think to try adjusting the camera so the sky isn't a big eye-searing white sheet covering everything?

"IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HE-SAYS-SHE-SAYS BULLSHIT I THINK YOU BETTER QUIT, LETTIN' THAT SHIT SLIP OR YOU'LL BE LEAVIN' WITH A FAT LIP"

That subtle hum of Silent Hill's Betrayal was a really nice touch.

Somehow I just entirely missed the channel awesome train. I'm fairly certain I was in their ideal age group being born in the mid 90s but even as a kid and teen I just never clicked with the whole "I'm a reviewer of (insert form of media) and I'm mad about that fact." Character.

"You don't have what it takes to be successful. You don't have what it takes to be popular." ........ kinda funny considering I have never, EVER heard of "LordKat". Edit: daaamn, I was absolutely NOT expecting Todd in the Shadows to show up. His Trainwreckords bits are quite good and entertaining, I had no clue he was even tangentially involved with Channel Awesome.

Good God the entire Channel AWSOME/That Guy with the Glasses situation is one giant Calvacade of Fuck-Ups and Backstabs with everyone lying to save their own asses Just what’s reality anymore

“Mentally she was 16” bruh what?😂 If that’s the case, a 16 year old could be mentally 18, right?🤔

History will long remember your courage and sacrifice for such an insurmountable undertaking. I knew it was a rabbit hole, but HFS…

God is dead, and the reddit anprim wizard killed him.

I came for the entertainment, I stayed for the insane rabbithole.

LordKat apparently used to have very bad anger issues. He blamed Spoony for everything, but really what's most likely to have happened is that he didn't get that Notch interview simply because he was a nobody. Spoony and Joe on their own were arguably bigger than Blistered Thumbs as a whole even back then. Until We Win was a very small, niche show, and I don't even know if LK was podcasting back then. That podcast was something else, man. He took it all down and left the internet a year or two ago, but there's a channel with some of the podcast highlights. He did the shock jock gimmick, but often he'd say very heady, ugly stuff and mean it, like getting mad at his fellow podcasters for "not letting him talk," threatening Dan Olsen because he basically ruined the chance of 8chan ever getting into real trouble over CP due to his incompetent and disturbing reporting, or talking about pushing his mother to the floor when they got into an argument. I'm thinking maybe he took it all down because someone at his work told him to. Dude used to brag about having a very successful job and a 401K, but you could easily lose it all if the wrong person above you heard some of the stuff you'd say, "shock jock" style or otherwise. I will give LK some credit, though: he was very level-headed in his Extra Mana interview. I don't remember if he directly apologized to Spoony for his rant, but he did say he wasn't proud of the rant and that he didn't want Spoony to just become a statistic. Anyway, I never knew Holly Brown blamed LK for that grope incident. By his and the woman's account, it was all consensual. Diamanda Galas, another insignificant member of Channel Awesome, wrote a Tumblr post accusing LK of r-pe and he threatened litigation. She was supposed to have taken her post down, but you can still find it with a Google search. Maybe it's a repost, I dunno. Holly definitely has some skeletons in her closet. She DID very blatantly conspire with Spoony's ex Scarlet to get him kicked off CA. I'm not convinced Lupa dredging the JesuOtaku tweet back up wasn't part of the plan. Lupa can call it a conspiracy theory all she wants, but the fact is her behavior around this time and since then indicates she's just the kind of shitty person to hold a grudge over something petty. Cinematic Venom has his own fair share of problems, but Holly siding with a loser like ERod - who by his own admission wasn't even around when everything went down - even as he was acting like an asshole really rubbed everyone the wrong way. I can't believe Marzgurl and Lupa are friends with her to this day, given it very clearly looks like she knew about Justin the whole time. Marzgurl made that one video disowning Farewell Kamen Rider or whatever it was called and she looked devastated, asking why no one ever told her. Guess what, Kaylyn?! Your friend knew the whole time! Edit: Diamanda Hagan, not Galas. Diamanda Galas is a musician, and a great one at that.

Funny enough, I was a big fan of Doug and CA back in the day. It took off in my late-teens and early-twenties and appealed directly to my developmentally-arrested ass. In retrospect, dear GOD, I cannot watch some of the old shit I enjoyed without bracing my back against the cringe. But I was a young, dumb college kid, so what sort of taste did I know back then? Also, just to let you know, Bhargav/Ma-Ti was a friend of the Walkers who started off as some sort of production guy that wound up getting fired shortly after the end of SK because he sucked at his job, or something. I can’t recall the exact details from that time.

So if you show up on a Doug Walker feature there's a non-zero chance you go trans, gotcha.

Channel Awasome is a prime example of why Metokour never had internet friends

Will the nightmares ever end? Are we worthy of escape

Only one more, Loli. In the end, we must return to where it all started. The Loli/Shota mind-break dougjin will finally be made, and you walk towards that inevitability like greeting an old friend. Remember Loli, if you were a better person, you wouldn't be here. Do you feel like a hero yet?

Also, for what it’s worth, I have receipts for everything I put into that document.

Thank you for the pain and suffering endured for this series.

Oh this movie. So much I could say about it.

Linkara, the great Linkara.

You know Spoony, we really are the Channel Awesome

That lordcat video sounded so bullshit.

I honestly respected Spoony for his xcom rant, that was the exact same reaction I had, and im sorry for crass language, but fuck AAA game studios and their studio heads, you make games for us, the consumers, and if your game sucks, it should be pointed out. The fact E3 has devolved from a way to gauge customer reaction to game and tech anouncements to an industry circle jerk where you get blacklisted for stating the obvious is just sad. He is definitely crazy but at least he was ready to tell it like it was.

Do you think he kept the wario hat on when he blew his brains out?

Holy shit, the Channel Awesome lore has deepened. I had no idea there was more to this story. Man, all this Doug Walker content from you and other creators this past month has been my real Christmas present.

Ngl I kind of miss spoony. His final fantasy and ultima reviews were pretty entertaining imo. It's a shame he became a terminally online nutjob and lost all his drive.

Your speed of output is mildly respectable, Loli.

Wow, Jewario thing is disturbing as hell. First time seeing Count Jackula's video. That Holly person is full of shit, that arms gurl did a huge rant about why Walker's never told her about Jewario but her close friend knows all along. Oh and another thing about Armsgurl is she started a go fund me for legal action against the other internet guys she has beef with over KickVic case. As far as I know she never took any legal action and spend that suckers money to Japan trip. And lastly who the hell is Dr. Gonzo?

Looking forward to seeing how much To Boldly Flee breaks you, Loli.

Honestly, the length is mostly a non-concern when you consider that these weren't meant to be watched as a movie, but rather as an episodic miniseries.

I'd rather sit through Suburban Knights than To Boldly Flee again.

Ah yes, Suburban Knights, the greatest rival to The Lord of the rings trilogy

Being a seething, vindictive asshole would have served LordKat well as a post-2010 gaming journo.

Rob Walker's commentary on this movie is actually really interesting. He talks a lot about the difficulties in filming it, not just about the weather or the various incidents that took place, but also how he & Doug had very different visions for it, and butted heads a lot.

People need to check out the Metokur videos after this, he just destroys these sites and exposes the cringe. It’s so cathartic.

Malachite is what happens when Jim Butcher from The Dresden Files tries to be like Anton from No Country From Old Men.

Also I’m positive that Lordkat made up that entire story about GDC. For one - he always complained about not having any money, so I doubt he was able to fly out to Germany for a 4 day conference. Second, Notch (famously introverted, avoiding publicity Notch) wouldn’t have done an interview with Lordkat. Jason and all of Blistered Thumbs was extremely unknown at the time. When IGN had a hard time interviewing 2012 Mojang, then Lordkat never stood a chance. They probably saw the spoony video because it went viral on forums and used it to block Jason’s entrance. The sheer delusion of all of the old TWTG creators always astounded me. They were and always will be losers that never made anywhere. Lol

The LordKat and Spoony stuff is so fucking fascinating to me. I struggle to accept the fact that someone is so shit at life that the one thing they believed would be their big break is fucking interviewing Notch. An interview with an indy developer who created a popular game is the peak that they never got to climb, the epic journey that was stolen from them. It's not oh hey ruined my project, or stole money from me stopping me from completing my dream, LordKat wanted to interview someone who'se side project got popular and his one chance at that fell through and ruined his life forever. Notch isnt some golden god that descends from the heavens to bless one person a century, he's basically an indy dev that got lucky and LordKat's magum opus was going to be asking this dude questions. I'm at a lost for fucking words at this. And the ego he still has trying to talk about Spoony as a little nobody.

ty for what you said about marzgurl. she tried to cancel someone bigger than shed ever be, and shes become even more irrelevant. shes a dirty scunner.

God bless for digging yourself into this abyss for us loli o7

I remember the stream I'm glad the image of doog balls are burned in your mind

LordKat telling Spoony he doesn't have what it takes to be famous is hypocrisy of the highest order. Spoony couldn't handle the toxic fanbase he let form combined with his own issues and his Trump Derangement Syndrome (I followed Spoony on Twitter and witness that firsthand.)

Did they even know that Jane Doe is a terminology for an unidentified female body. Seems like they didn't and just used it as a fancy term they heard in some detective movie or tv series. That alone makes it seem like a fishy bad writing.

I can't tell if I'm impressed or pissed that you dragged me through this world of madness and futility. I kept assuming I'd just quit on the video, but I didn't. Why?!?!

I fucking love it when you tell me dirty Doug stories with the Silent Hill / Cultist Simulator OST. Hope you break out the Spec Ops The Line for the next one!

That guy in suede left the site because he was a Mormon missionary and left due to being called out for a mission to Africa for disaster relief I think. He was a bit cring and soft but he seemed like a legitimately alright guy🤷‍♂️

Lets be honest, Lord Kat wasn't really getting anywhere with Blistered Thumbs in the first place.

Yeah, the LordKat thing always confused me. Sure, Spoony was exaggerated with his reaction to the X-COM reveal, but that's part of his character. Also, the 2010 X-COM game could've worked as its own thing (reveal trailer aside), but that's another discussion. Personally, I felt the exact same way when Bethesda cancelled Prey 2 and had Arkane make a reboot in 2017. I know that game has its fans, but I refuse to play it because of my hatred for Bethesda as a company, but again, a different topic. Going back to the Spoony thing, I doubt that one guy screaming in public would shoot down an interview, especially towards a lesser-known KZfaqr that isn't remembered as well. Granted, Spoony has gone through his own downward spiral, giving up reviewing and skits to become another mid-tier streamer.

Great video! Forgot why I subscribed, your complete berserk video is wonderful! I liked channel awesome. I’d rather look at clouds than one more skit with zero payoff.

I actually never went beyond watching Kickassia. 1) I did not want to see Doug’s barely covered trousers throughout the whole thing. 2) I pretty much started getting burned out by Channel Awesome by that point (although there’d be some critics I’d watch for a while afterwards).

21:00 I don't if I am too drunk but this killer rabbit rip off is actually funny.

I remember Suburban Knights being my favorite. They at least tried (a little) with the villain. Enough that I thought he was cool at whatever stupid age I was.

The whole "betrayal" theme song from silent hill playing it is fitting...

I know angry Joe. I know spoony. Who the fuck is lordkat!?

Lemme ask you Loli. Do you regret the choices that lead you to watch these masterpieces

A note. Screaming Mantis was NOT the wife of Brad Jones. I think he was interested in her and they may have dated, but she wasn't his wife.

19:46 She's not speaking Japanese so much as English machine-translated word-by-word into Japanese. It's especially bad because if anyone involved in the production had spoken Japanese, they could have easily matched her dialogue to the Ghibli film.

Phelous was always funny in these movies cause Phelous is just actually funny.

question: in all of that situation, was Benzai or Sadpanda ( the fenchs ones) were ever involved in the jewario situation or any other drama involving channel awesome?

I remember being a fan of Channel Awesome and most of the creators . These specials were a lot of fun but I never saw them as anything more than that. Certainly no idea all that stuff was happening behind the scenes

*Whew* finally that's the last of the chanel awesome movies *(quickly realizes there's a 3rd movie)* *(begins tying noose to ceiling fan)*

Folding ideas may go to hell. I was subscribed. Now not. Awesome video

One thing I’ve gottah give Doug he was the person who got me into long form content like this channel. When I was eight and I stumbled onto his food fight review his comedy and analysis behind the film was just shallow enough for my under developed to feel both entertained and clever

The "not again!" line in reference to the vulpix plushie is one of the funniest things to ever come out of Channel Awesome.

You know, the more you brought up the JewWario shit, the more I realized that BennettTheSage had his hat on his self for a long time…wow

Oh boy. Can't wait for the next one.