Lindsay Ellis (Nostalgia Chick) to Leave Channel Awesome

[Risingblade]

I thought she had already quit a while ago.

 

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[soren7550]

I get the impression that Nostalgia Critic and Yahtzee are some kind of bulletproof demi-Gods who are too cool to get sick of what they do.

But Doug did get sick of what he was doing and quit. Then Demo Reel bombed horribly, and he went back to doing the Nostalgia Critic (which has finally started to be funny on a fairly regular basis again).

 

[Evonisia]

I get the impression that Nostalgia Critic and Yahtzee are some kind of bulletproof demi-Gods who are too cool to get sick of what they do.

But Doug did get sick of what he was doing and quit. Then Demo Reel bombed horribly, and he went back to doing the Nostalgia Critic (which has finally started to be funny on a fairly regular basis again).

Was Demo Reel bad or just unpopular?

Then I guess Yahtzee is a demi-God who is too cool to ever get sick of his craft. He just gets sick of his other stuff like Let's Drown Out and updating Fully Ramblomatic.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Someone wanna drop some science on old Sane, here? Do people still watch these things or am I out of the loop?

Ugh... Just a tinge of personal jealousy on my part, she's out there being successful and I'm only a few years younger still being a cashier. ugh, fml.

 

[soren7550]

I get the impression that Nostalgia Critic and Yahtzee are some kind of bulletproof demi-Gods who are too cool to get sick of what they do.

But Doug did get sick of what he was doing and quit. Then Demo Reel bombed horribly, and he went back to doing the Nostalgia Critic (which has finally started to be funny on a fairly regular basis again).

Was Demo Reel bad or just unpopular?

Then I guess Yahtzee is a demi-God who is too cool to ever get sick of his craft. He just gets sick of his other stuff like Let's Drown Out and updating Fully Ramblomatic.

From what I gathered, both. People weren't watching it, and a lot of them were asking for NC to come back, and those who did watch it seemed to be doing so because they were hoping for it to get good.

And I don't know how true this is, but I heard he sunk a quarter mil into the project, and didn't come close to making it back.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I never thought she was that good. She always seemed like Jim Sterling in her reviews, ie either completely disinterested in what she's talking about, or filled with palpable loathing for her viewers.
I always got an adversarial vibe off her, as if I had to prove something to her. Like she was challenging her viewers to not be huge trolls all the time, giving the trolls easy bait and alienating the nicer viewers who just wanted to watch.
I hate to say it, but maybe this is for the best. It really seems like she drove her own fan-base away.

 

[Darks63]

Not a surprise to me really that site has been on a downward spiral for awhile. Between not getting much interesting new blood and the horrible webpage i wonder how long the site can hold out.

Lindsey was one of my favs before her near year long disappearance from CA. After her return it seemed like her heart wasn't in it anymore and the 50 shades of green kinda sealed it for me not watching her anymore.

 

[balladbird]

Was Demo Reel bad or just unpopular?

It's a matter of opinion of course, but I think Demo Reel's bombing had less to do with its quality, for better or for worse, and more to do with the internet audience's patented hatred of their entertainers even slightly deviating from their norm.

Nowhere but here are people faster to declare that all they want is more of the same. This is the same internet that had hundreds of members shouting that Cinema Sins was RUINED FOREVER!!! because they did ONE review in rhyme.


On the topic at hand, it's not surprising. Lindsay has always seemed uncomfortable with her role on CA, and often deconstructed the fact that she was hired as a distaff counterpart. I wish her luck in future endeavors.

Still... I just checked out channel awesome's website... I recognize barely anyone anymore. O.O I think Brad, Phelous, and Linkara are the only older members left, and there's a lot of new contributors of... varying quality.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Didn't she also have a bad tendency to insult fans of things? I mean that's crossing the line into straight up douchebag territory if she did.

If you're talking about the RWBY rants, I'm pretty sure that was reactionary. I'm not here to white knight someone I don't know, she's definitely got an aggressive attitude towards people who disagree with her. But the RWBY thing, I think she said on Twitter that she thought it sucked, and got message bombed by hundreds of people screaming at her for not liking an anime thing because she does anime and therefore needs to love RWBY, apparently. So she fired back.

I really don't blame her, talking with her on Something Awful, she's had harassment online for years from her more extreme fans, going so far as to cyber stalk her back to a xenophobic christian message board she went on when she was a teenager in order to throw mud in her face.

 

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[Redryhno]

Oh, I thought she quit like two years ago.

Don't much care myself, her first few videos were fun, then she just got incredibly boring and started preaching about...something, more than reviewing and entertaining. I'll keep going to CA for their other things, if nothing else, they're still a hub for a variety of fun videos and personalities.

 

[Dizchu]

The joke is that Spoony is making nearly 6k a month through Patreon, plus the ad money on his videos, and he still barely produces anything. Compare it to people like the Nostalgia Critic and Linkara, who are keeping to a weekly schedule PLUS doing a lot of side-content on top of that. What does Spoony do? One review every two months, a scant few Vlogs about wrestling and RPGs and now apparently he is making a movie, because that is not going to backfire on him like every movie any other internet reviewer made, amirite?.

Spoony is a bit of a cock. As a reviewer I preferred him to most of Channel Awesome, especially when he held back on the skits and stuff. But he just doesn't seem like a nice person. Let's not even go into that whole Obscurus Lupa mess (I think it was her? I can't remember).

I haven't been on TGWTG or liked much of their material for quite some time. The whole "angry internet reviewer" thing has become incredibly stale. The reason I liked Spoony was because he knew his stuff, he wasn't simply reacting to dumb things that were happening in a game or a film.

I wish them all the best but I haven't watched anything by any of them in a year.

I also hope that Lindsay Ellis migrates to greener pastures.

 

[RJ 17]

citing having never been fully comfortable with the premise

I can understand being burnt out, but what's up with this? As I recall, she became The Nostalgia Chick by...winning a contest for "Who Wants to be The Nostalgia Chick!" If she was never fully comfortable with the premise, why enter the contest? o.o

 

[Fox12]

I think so too. With Jesuotaku quitting

she was the Anime chick wasn't she?

any drama there?

I think a lot of it had to do with her fans. She did lead a firebombing campaign against TvTropes because the creeps on their forums kept making sexual comments about her and being unable to differentiate her theme reviews from her real personality. It was honestly pretty funny.

Whoa, whoa, WHOA. When did all this go down? Jesuotaku quit? I used to be a fan of her. I feel so out of the loop now, it's crazy. What's the full story there?

 

[Lord Garnaat]

I think so too. With Jesuotaku quitting

she was the Anime chick wasn't she?

any drama there?

I think a lot of it had to do with her fans. She did lead a firebombing campaign against TvTropes because the creeps on their forums kept making sexual comments about her and being unable to differentiate her theme reviews from her real personality. It was honestly pretty funny.

As for Lindsay, she did break into mainstream journalism about a year and a half ago if I'm remembering right, so leaving CA is no big loss. Honestly, a lot of these shows and content creators only go to CA to get secondary exposure from Doug Walker, and if they can make it on their own, there is no reason to stick around that website, especially with Patreon and Blip around.

Didn't she also have a bad tendency to insult fans of things? I mean that's crossing the line into straight up douchebag territory if she did.

That seems to be the case, from what I understand. I don't watch much of her content (though I did like her crossover with the Nostalgia Critic for the Digimon review), but apparently she has a love of bashing certain fandoms, mine included. I was unhappy to learn of it.

I can't say that I ever really followed Lindsay Sterling, but I enjoyed all of her work alongside Doug Walker in crossovers. Shame that she'll be leaving. Hopefully she finds a new opportunity.

 

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[soren7550]

I think so too. With Jesuotaku quitting

she was the Anime chick wasn't she?

any drama there?

I think a lot of it had to do with her fans. She did lead a firebombing campaign against TvTropes because the creeps on their forums kept making sexual comments about her and being unable to differentiate her theme reviews from her real personality. It was honestly pretty funny.

Whoa, whoa, WHOA. When did all this go down? Jesuotaku quit? I used to be a fan of her. I feel so out of the loop now, it's crazy. What's the full story there?

From what I can remember, she does written reviews for an anime site now. Her departure wasn't a surprise as well, as she too was very infrequent with updates (the last thing she did prior to quitting being half of a review for the sub version of Attack on Titan about a year ago that she never did the second half to). I think part of her reason for quitting was that putting together the reviews was far too much work for her to handle, along with all the other shows she damn near never did.