The collapse of Channel Awesome is incredibly curious to me. Here you have a webiste with multiple producers that's built upon, primarily, one act. That act is take out to pasture and then replaced with something of zero quality. And this is done without any consideration to how confusing the site design already is.
A lot of the feigned outrage "humor" I find more embarrassing than hilarious, like the individual is pulling for laughs. However, when Doug stuck to critique and told jokes based upon the actual film, he would often hit his mark. It was never perfect, but it obviously had enough viewers to create this "company" around and to pay his bills.
I'm curious because I'm confident that most of the "staff" (not sure what you'd call the other producers) on the site had to know what Doug was doing. Why didn't any of them say "hey, before you do this, you mind having something in place for us to watch so we can see what the fuck is going on." It's not a big deal if your, say, Film Brain and you're riding Doug's coattails, his audience coming for NC will still probably laugh at your shit. However, Demo Reel is terrible on every level. Uninspired, old jokes, bad acting, etc.
Good on Spoony for not associating with that Drivel. The only other three people I watch on that site are Todd, Nostalgia Chick, and Rap Critic. I hope they'll be able to keep doing their bits on youtube, cause that site can't last forever.
