To this day he's still one of my fav movie reviewers and I've seen just about all his episodes, will watch Monster Squad soon though.
To be fair, Linkara has to juggle between the ever-popular AT4W on top of various other projects, and fans have always gotten particularly antsy about HOPR, so he's going to get irritated now and again. Not really fair to call him a diva or anything.
i mean come on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEOkyq04Ko
bitching about shit like this is something you do with your buddies/coworkers, not directly to the people who you're providing content for.
i mean come on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEOkyq04Ko
bitching about shit like this is something you do with your buddies/coworkers, not directly to the people who you're providing content for.
This is such a common problem among all of these reviewers, really. Linkara definitely rants the longest, but it's no different in principle than Doug going on 5 minute long detours about how valid it is for you to have your own opinion (thanks, Doug!).
I think it's just really tempting to do it, and if you haven't had any kind of training or experience in production to show you why you shouldn't do it, that temptation is gonna be hard to overcome.
i mean come on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEOkyq04Ko
bitching about shit like this is something you do with your buddies/coworkers, not directly to the people who you're providing content for.
doug will do it with rob at pretty much any opportunity they get, especially in the avatar videos. it's really really annoying (i've stopped watching those - the adventure time ones were better).
james rolfe and rocco and the mega 64 guys, along with phelous, brad jones, and lindsay ellis are all good by me for various reasons. like i think they all do it because they like having fun and really don't have huge egos. i haven't seen the angry video game nerd movie, but the vibe i get from it is more that it's a passion project, where kickassia, suburban knights, and to boldly flee were more ego projects. and you don't have to look any further than how much doug loves the nostalgia critic as a character.
and i still kinda like doug. i don't think he's a bad person or anything. i just wish he could see things from an outside perspective.
Err what. While I don't really like Linkara's voice and I don't like when he goes on and on about a single point, he has a reason for doing this especially if you know where he's coming from. You should really check out rangerboard to see why he reacted like this.
Besides, you can fast-forward if you want to. That's the beauty of videos.
err what
why do people really like to believe those videos are ego stroking? If anything it looks like a bunch of folks doing a shitty video just for fun. You guys re pretty much seeing something which isn't there and try to pin it down on small stuff.
they've been repeatedly saying those "it's your opinion this is mine" because, you know what, their fans are terrible at that. They use their videos and cite them as some sort of citation. And even detractors forget that too. Sometimes things that are obvious have a tendency to fly over people.
Oh hey, a thread title change. Neat.
I've met Brad multiple times at convention. He is the nicest guy.
Linkara's voice is one of the most annoying voices I've ever heard in my life. Instant headache, no exaggeration.
you can engage your fans, but don't do it in a mainstream way. what linkara does sounds like he's shaming the unwanted fanbase in front of basically everyone. i watch this shit casually, whenever it comes along, so seeing whatever minidrama on the forefront of really any video is kind of stupid. context is fine, and context is important - if linkara wants to talk about his personal history with a show and stuff, that's cool. if he wants to talk about the process in some sort of commentary track, i won't listen to it, but it's fine. if he wants to complain about a subset of his fans, the one venue that he really shouldn't do it at all is in the one that will garner hundreds of thousands of views. it puts him in a negative light and it comes across as super childish.
the ego thing is more or less how the creators see themselves. doug walker is a workaholic. i kind of get him. i don't dislike him either. i think he loves nostalgia critic too much. he literally made the character the center of the universe in a scene that was essentially bookended by how much doug walker loved the nostalgia critic. contrast this with phelous who constatly berates himself and jokes that his show has been going downhill since mac and me (his first one). it's a lot easier to like the guy who doesn't take things too seriously versus the one who takes everything super seriously.
and i know what their opinion is. i didn't talk about that part in particular, but they really don't need to come out and say that their lists are their opinion. i mean fucking duh it is.
if you have a fanbase, the best you can do is really just broadly address concerns in a fairly quiet way and just wait for that shit to die down, and continue to interact with the people who actually want to see more from you. stoking the flames is a bad idea.
The 4-chan thing seems pretty plausible. It's not like there are any outrageous things there. Mostly descriptions of socially awkward people, which given their interest is pretty understandable.
But the criticism that is more valid than all this other stuff is about Doug's abilities as a film maker. His stuff really suffers from the production values. Lighting and audio in his videos has been worse than almost every other youtube-type personality that has had his level of success. And considering most of his videos are just him sitting in the same location indoors in front of a camera, it's pretty baffling.
they've been repeatedly saying those "it's your opinion this is mine" because, you know what, their fans are terrible at that. They use their videos and cite them as some sort of citation. And even detractors forget that too. Sometimes things that are obvious have a tendency to fly over people.
The thing is, nothing will ever be helped by spending a bunch of time in the video explaining that they shouldn't do it. It just calls attention to it and the people who do it just don't give a shit. It's just an incredible waste of time for everyone involved. Do you think this kind of thing is unique to internet videos? No, every kind of performance has those kinds of 'fans'. How many tv shows, movies, plays, books, etc. have you seen explicitly call out fan behaviour, though?
If I went to a play and the actors stood around for 5 minutes before the play started, complaining about the things the audience of the last show did after they left the show, I'd probably walk out.
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Oh man, I remember the Skip-It commercials and that Campbell's Soup one. & from what I understand, that Nintendo one was from...Australia, I think?
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Are any of you guys enjoying the new talent, so far? Calluna, Rantasmo and Ursa have been keeping my attention.
Doug's doing Disneycember again & this year, he's doing Studio Ghibli films, along with overlooked Disney classics. First up is Nausicca.
Yeah, kind of a bummer he's not doing all of them. I understand he won't do ones that weren't dubbed, but it'd help fill the month out more if he were to cover ones not released under Disney or one of their companies (i.e Touchstone because Princess Mononoke was PG-13 & considered too violent to be released under the Disney name).Hmmm. He says he's only doing the Ghibli/Miyazaki films released by Disney, but I wonder if he is making an exception for "Grave of the Fireflies". I thought I caught a clip of it in the opening montage.
Also too bad he won't be doing Castle of Cagliostro.
Haven't watched Nostalgia Critic in years. Got a bit of a backlog to catch up on. Hopefully its still good. Hopefully the old stuff holds up.
Oh right, Christmas Month will start today. I so hope this year, he covers "Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer". I had to endure that stupid special when my little sister was younger, & she'd watch it MONTHS after Christmas ended.
Edit: Disneycember: The Black Hole
& hot damn, he DID do Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer!
I never understood how someone came up with that as a X-mas special.
Oh right, Christmas Month will start today. I so hope this year, he covers "Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer". I had to endure that stupid special when my little sister was younger, & she'd watch it MONTHS after Christmas ended.
Edit: Disneycember: The Black Hole
& hot damn, he DID do Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer!