Intro and the transformers

Our first total rewind start in a quaint little town of Naperville, IL where young 30s man working at Circuit City decide he wanted his childhood back. He just started to watch some old cartoon and movies from his childhood when he realized passage of time did some nasty things to them. He was aspring filmmaker named Doug Walker, and with his brother Rob Walker and his co-worker Mike Michaud they decide to knock on the doors of web entertainment, mostly because they were laid off.


First video of Nostalgia Critic seems more like a Bum review than anything else. But mostly it took the form a character that much like himself, excited and happy for the moment of childhood, into the Critic than the tortured soul that slouch to review a horrible movie, that Critic had become. It was way of showing that Transformer was bad, but it was just childish fun; something that most critic didn't figure out till the third movie. It was till second review that the he review the horrible stuff but it felt more like a warning that pure anger. 


So my not-so-good review continues as we see a gradual move from man in the 30s who wanted his childhood back and got bunch of crap to pure bile of anger and emotion that is the Critic today. See you next time on the YouTube era.


(This review will cover from Transformer to Transformer 3. Anything farther will be reviewed next July as part of my yearly recap.)

Update...

Sorry, but unfortunately the 'total review' is dis-abandoned in the the second blog, but the'total review' is moving to the this blog with the Nostalgia Critic.


Introduction and/or First update sometime this week.

Late Announcements

After a long delay of schoolwork, I announce that in Oct 7th, or few days later, I'll be opening a second account on Korean Entertainment. So, if you have an interest in  that kind of stuff, I'll write one in KEntertainmentFTW.blogspot.com or some variation thereof. Also in that second blog, I'll starting my tentative year-long project called ' Total Rewind' which I review every episode/video/comic within a specific content. List are changing, so I'll update soon.

On the Web

I lay down on the web
The web of lights and currents 
The information slowly ebb
in a wash of slutty comments


Who are you to say
You suck, everything is wrong
You're fake and gay
The words which makes the weak strong


You can find every secret
Security always comes up short
There's everything on the net
Every fact you can contort


It's sucking the life of all
The imprint is there to see
The chats, the merchandise, it's a mall
You could get everything you could perceive


Why we forsake freedom
So we can slouch in the dark
Why do we sell our life to the modem
When you can just go to the park


Web is made for the spider
It could catch the pest and save the gardens
but as a tortured soul, it's a biter
that poison you into the heavens 


I lay down in the net
in the home of over a billion people
I throw myself as a bet
but I couldn't follow...but an apple

Hips taking over youtube... and other stuff

I was reading Alex Day's blog about Youtube Advertising, which I was interested not because I want to advertise on youtube but 'interestness' of Ad companies trying to play with the new media, and how's that working out for you, then when he said something about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I realized that the 'advertisers' were not like Shaycarl or Lisa Nova but Kristina, Luke and rest of the Wrock or more generally the Hips. This was the first attempt to make hip something of a media producer, something that can sell ads or products. Going big. 


This leads to some concerns. Of course, people still watch Shaycarl, who recently gained one million subscribers, but to people with taste Shay has fallen down quite considerably over the years. The question is that will the Hips fall into the same pits as far-right did in 2010 or so, or will they make creative content, whilst selling product, that is both entertaining and profitable, like Wheezy waiter or Alex Day.
(Strange thing happened in the Fiesta Retrospective, where the original participants - the first where famous backgrounders made their pitch - talk about the fiestas after one year, the comment in all of commercial were mean and trollish, - more specifically, the zombie one was plain stupid, the one guy I didn't know, Brittani Louise Taylor was interesting but let's face it she's annoying for most, LilyLuay was bland, and Wheezy Waiter... wait - except for Wheezy. I take that account into proving that Wheezy was an evil overlord, and therefore proving that Dan Brown (the vlogger) is a psychic.)


So put your thought about Hips first foray into blatant ads and how it might decrease their quality.

Weird Connections

Quick sidenote to my last post. There has been weird connection that have defying the chart, but I still like. Here's three connection.

Nerimon and Wheezywaiter
It feels weird to me that these two have been collaborating for so long, but 20 year old British kid who sings about Doctor Who and 30 year old Chicagoan man who sings has a nice combo. They met once a year for 3 years.
2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M2LuaECQOU
2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kf6yobal40
2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpRxoST6GJE
Hank Green and Mark Douglas
Really just a questioning moment. How could these two come together? Anyway, as Barely Political are the vagabonds of the chart, I think I can give him a break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ9RMW9kULk
I think it's because John coined Key of Awesome before Mark did and needs Green's approval. Proof here.
Winter Spring Pro
It's just an anomaly rather than weird. Working with Barely Political, then just moving to LA then joining the station? I don't know... 

Vidcon! and youtube chart update

This week was vidcon and to commemorate this occasion, I'll talk about how vidcon change the youtube chart. Unfortunately, the chart project itself is abandoned and probably will for a long time. But the idea is there on the prototype.


Youtube chart started in 2006-7 when Renetto started to collaborate with other people, like FilthyWhore and Nalts, and when SMPFilms held the first youtube gathering, but the today's chart wasn't created till second generation formed with the Youtube Live, in November of 2008. Youtube Live gave us some kind of equal platform between the celebrities and the youtubers for the first time and led the youtubers to manage themselves in a more high quality. By 2009, two distinct group formed. The Cools, held by the station and their allies and the Nerds, spearheaded by Vlogbrothers and its friends. As demonstrated by this video, the Nerds have been known as the Other Side of Youtube, not actually called that but you know... felt like, the guys and gals who are more interesting than the Cools, who have falling steadily in their laughs, but not seen by  causal viewer, who whiff through front page and never dig deep. But in June of 2010, that changed with Vidcon. Vidcon, like Youtube Live gave the Nerd chance to be equal to the Cool, and Cool saw it they potential, unlike the rotten fest they had then. The integration of Nerds and Cools  led to a new group, the Hips.  Making of Hips was agitated by two factor from each side. For the Nerds, Wrock was giving out. People didn't had much fervor about Harry Potter as before and the formerly wrock group started to write nerdy songs. Which piqued Cools' ears. For the Cool side, ShanePhil incident led the Station to be isolated, and when the Station net broke out, they broke out big. Olga Kay and her friend grabbed viewers, Fine Bros finally found the success formula, along with DaneBoe. If it weren't for Totally Sketch and Nice Peter, the Station might have been long dead. Anyway, by the start of 2011, Hips fully formed, along with new interesting people who didn't make side and enjoyed both side equally, like Winter Spring Pro and Tobuscus. Now, ideas pass like crazy throughout  the chart, leading to happy homogenization that Youtube can market, it's seen as renaissance of youtube, despite the haters.