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Nerd Vs. Critic - 2008 vs. 2025
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Is he selling towels now?
These guys somehow manage to stay relevant with every generation. I’ve seen Zoomer TikTok memes of both of them made recently.
Personally I was a bigger fan of Spoony but he basically disappeared
He had a big mental breakdown a couple years into being with TGWTG.
Another 17 years and that finger may actually make contact with the Nerd's face.
I like (hate) how they’re doing normal faces in the old pic and SEO faces in the new one
They're just doing their Flanderized faces.
It's not just that. In the first one people seem charmed by it, and in the second, they just look bored.
I saw this event taking place near me, are these people cool? Seems like they get some love based on this thread
Not cool, but made a lot of formative content when we were younger.
Folding Ideas made really good videos about both though, if anyone feels like killing a few hours:
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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No. They are not cool.
are these people cool?
That's a complicated question, actually.
Seems like they get some love based on this thread
Well, perhaps yes and no
I am legit grateful for the hundreds of hours of free entertainment provided by 
. I use uBlock and Sponsorblock, so he's literally got nothing back from me.
Vs. 
I thought those two were the same person at different life stages
Back when the nerd was in his prime.
Dam I feel old, still awesome to see them still doing YouTube
I feel old because I don't even know what this is about
In this moment I feel euphoric
Whoa, I forgot smartphones were barely a thing in 2008.
Literally everyone I knew had a low quality digital camera. Most people either had some sort of MP3 player, with the post people having iPods.
God I got so much book reading done when on mass transit.
Those digital cameras were still outpacing early smartphones. I would say all the way up to the mid 10's. Anything taken with a smartphone camera from 2008 until like 2013 looks pretty bad, especially in low light.
I remember my family ditching their film cameras in favor of a digital camera I got as a gift when I was a child... The camera had 3.2 megapixels and now all our pictures from back then look like ass.
Can't blame them though... Developing and printing film was such a large expense and hassle to go through.
Ya I lived through the 80s, 90s, and naughts. I never had a film camera, just because I never had enough disposable income to get film developed. Because of economic inequalities, cameras were often something that dads had.
I have IRL friends now who do the film camera thing cuz they're arty. Honestly I don't mind, but it's not a cheap hobby.
Yeah, I grew up at a time when point-and-shoot film cameras were cheap enough that each household had one, but we often had so save for months and let film rolls accumulate in a drawer until we managed to go develop them (all of my family is so adhd it's not even funny). I remember the development being really cheap, but printing the pictures was where the labs took you for a ride. When we got a film camera that had the tech to produce a test strip and select pictures before printing them we were so relieved.
I do the film camera thing because it forces me to be more aware of when I take pictures and of what/whom... I like the feel of the clunky mechanical cameras, and my dad left me a Soviet-made SLR that's a workhorse. It's also nice to have physical objects that jog your memory, instead of thousands of pictures I forget exist until I go looking for something on my phone. It is pretty expensive though. I'll go for months without taking pictures until I have enough to get by and spend on film and development.
Was there ever any consequences for the whole Channel Awesome thing?
The Change the Channel thing or the abuse?
CW: Suicide and SA
As far as I know Jewario killed himself in 2014 after being fired because heremovedd someone in 2013 and was fired from CA, iirc, he had a history of sexual harassment and the CA staff covered up, or didn't bother doing much.
As for the Change the Channel people, in the end Linkara and a lot of them ended up revealing themselfs as very unlikable people with huge egos. A lot of what they said was true and Doug lost credibility (also because Doug killed the nostalgia critic in some of his shitty movies, only for later on to ressurect the character).
Nowadays Doug mostly retired all characters except for the Critic (I think the Hobo Reviews was fucking up with his voice) and he continues to make his cringe reviews, and he seems to know they're very cringe but he seems happy making them (at least a lot more happier than James who feels like he's being forced at gun point to make AVGN).
Doug lost a lot of credibility, but enough people still watch his slop so he's still doing it, just without a stable of other content creators orbiting him and being abused.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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