Some people may be reading this looking for all the drama and conversations and what happens behind the scenes. My honest answer to that is…I don’t really know of anything to tell. It’s not my story to say, and a majority of anything I would say would be just assumptions. That’s not the purpose of this post.
This is to say how much I’ve come to appreciate and enjoy everything that Lindsay Ellis, Andrew Dickman, Kyle Kallgren, Allison Pregler and Phelan Porteus have done. It’s because of entertainers and minds like these that I wanted to start reviewing of my own. As cliché as it sounds, I owe a lot to these people (which sounds odd considering I haven’t had much conversation with them).
I first discovered TGWTG in 2010 with the Nostalgia Critic. I was instantly addicted and was sharing it with my best friend in wrestling and with other people as well. It was a few months after that when I started watching Obscurus Lupa and Phelous and was dying of laughter. It was these personalities that made me feel better after days when my health and attitude was poor.
It was back in 2012 (I believe? Sorry if that’s not correct) that I remember Lindsay posting a video about “Behind The Scenes of Reviewing”. It was shortly after the release of the Oancitizen and Nostalgia Chick’s review of Freddy Got Fingered. Half of the video was shown how Lindsay would work to set things up and talk about reviewing and what to do. Some of the best advice I ever could take came from that video, and near the end it was the phrase “There is always room for improvement” that I took to heart.
So now, by some stroke of mad luck and every planet aligning, I was picked up by Channel Awesome. Then after one crazy week, many of the people I have watched for years are leaving. While many people have questions, I’m not really the one to answer them. All I can say is that this is not the end for anyone. Every single person I’ve named above will continue to go on and do amazing things. I will keep following these people and what they do because they have proven in the past they are worth supporting.
Will they be missed? Absolutely. Is it the end? Not even close.
And to prove my point at how entertaining, intelligent, and amazing these people are, here are some of my favorites from them.
http://phelous.com/2012/11/16/phelous/and-the-movies/tmnt-coming-out-of-their-shells/
http://phelous.com/2012/07/30/obscurus-lupa/obscurus-lupa-presents/olp-the-amazing-bulk/
http://blip.tv/nostalgia-chick/nostalgia-chick-oancitizen-freddy-got-fingered-6128105
