The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Website. A group of critics was assembled. For within these website was bound the strength and the will to critic each content. But they were all of them deceived, for another story was made. Deep in the lore of TGWTG, in the Fires of Mount Blip, the Dark Lords forged a master template, and into this template they poured the outlining of the Nostalgia Critic, his shtick, his malice and his will to do the same over and over again. And so they searched for more critics. But then something happened that the Dark Lords did not anticipate. Because real people go on in life and develop…
Chapter 1: Nostalgia… Chick?
In these days the Website was searching for a female counterpart of the Nostalgia Critic, named “Nostalgia Chick”. From 2008 to 2014, while also studying for her MFA, Lindsay Ellis was selected to host The Nostalgia Chick as part of the Channel Awesome production company. She went on to create over 100 videos as part of the series before leaving in 2014. In this time there were quite some developments.
Axiom’s End is a 2020 science fiction novel by American writer Lindsay Ellis. Set in 2007, the novel is about a U.S. government coverup of contact with extraterrestrial life. It’s part one of a trilogy called “Noumena”.
Atop the Fourth Wall (AT4W for short) is a comic book review show on the site, hosted by Minnesota native Lewis “Linkara” Lovhaug. His nickname came from a character he created when he was a teen, writing amateur fantasy novels. His show is one of the tamer in tone, as Lovhaug has one of the more wholesome and light-hearted personalities.
Being one of the bigger patrons of sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies, such as Doctor Who, Star Trek, Babylon 5, etc., he is one of the strongest users of a story-line, which he features in the same videos as his reviews, where he is an important and high-ranking agent against paranormal and extraterrestrial threats. He is also a major fan of Power Rangers and Pokémon, and once featured the glitch MissingNo. as a villain on his show. He also hosts a separate show where he discusses the history of Power Rangers.1
1= From Wikipedia: “Channel Awesome” – writing credit see there. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply.
We begin this report at the very beginning… what happened so far? First there was nothing, then there was something. Space. Time. Things. Objects. Places. Life. Movement. Or to put in another way:
And then, there was YouTube. YouTube is today an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is the second most visited website, right after Google itself. YouTube has more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. This was the first video on YouTube:
In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google’s ownership of YouTube has also changed its business model; it no longer generates revenue from advertisements alone, YouTube now offers paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers a paid subscription option for watching content without ads, YouTube Premium. YouTube and approved creators participate in Google’s AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. YouTube’s reported revenue for 2020 was $19.8 billion.
Since its purchase by Google, YouTube has expanded beyond the core website into mobile apps, network television, and the ability to link with other platforms. Video categories on YouTube include music videos, video clips, news, short films, feature films, documentaries, audio recordings, movie trailers, teasers, live streams, vlogs, and more. Most content is generated by individuals. This includes collaborations between YouTubers and corporate sponsors. Established media corporations such as Disney, Paramount, and WarnerMedia have also created and expanded their corporate YouTube channels to advertise to a larger audience.
On YouTube and its competitors a new culture of film making grew. And this is where the next chapter of the story begins.
The Angry Video Game Nerd and Cinemassacre
The Angry Video Game Nerd (abbreviated as AVGN) is an American retrogaming review comedy web series created by and starring James Rolfe. The series centers on Rolfe’s titular skit character, often simply shortened to “the Nerd”, a short-tempered and foul-mouthed gamer who delivers commentary on retro games of poor quality. While the series began with Rolfe simply playing games while delivering a running commentary, the show would eventually grow in scope to encompass sketches featuring guest characters, reviews of gaming consoles and peripherals, and short lectures about video game history and culture. This is his story:
Logan Paul was a guy who went way too far in his videos. After his demise the so-called “Quality Programme” of YouTube, which restricted most YouTuber’s ad revenue.
These are strange times. With wars, rumors of wars and a pandemic, it’s time for ASTROCOHORS CLUB to regroup. In Iceland, Jarmo Dorak meets his contact Jeff Holland to discuss the way forward and the future of the club. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis1…
1 = “Times are changing and we are changing with them”, that is a hexameter that has been used as a proverb since the 16th century. It goes back to the verse tempora labuntur tacitisque senescimus annis… (“Times pass and in quiet years we age…”) from Ovid’s Fasti.
“Clifton and the Spies” (French: “Clifton et les Espions”) is the third adventure of the comic character Colonel Harold Wilberforce Clifton and the last one that was drawn by Macherot. In this story, an old friend of Colonel Clifton is suspected of being a spy.
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“Asterix and the Goths” (French: “Astérix et les Goths”) is the third volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was first published in 1963 in French. In this story Getafix attends the conference of the druids in the forest of the Carnutes and gets kidnapped by Goths. They want him to help them to conquer the Roman Empire with his magic potion. But Asterix and Obelix are on their way…
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“The Purple Smurfs” (French original: “Les Schtroumpfs Noirs”) was in chronological order the first own adventure of the Smurfs, that first was published as a mini comic book, then re-edited to full size in 1963. In this story one of the Smurfs gets bitten by a mosquito and turns into a violent purple Smurf.
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“Lucky Luke’s Lookalike” (French: “La Sosie de Lucky Luke”) is a Western comic drawn by Belgian artist Morris. It was published in episodes in the Spirou Magazine from 1947 to 1948. In this story Lucky Luke encounters his doppelganger, who’s up to no good.
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“Spirou at the North Pole” (in French in three parts: “Spirou fait du cinéma”, “Spirou chez les Esquimaux”, and “Chez les trappeurs”) is an adventure of the Belgian bellhop that appeared in Spirou Magazine between November 1940 and March 1941. It was drawn by Belgian artist Joseph Gillian after Spirou’s creator Robert Velter was taken prisoner of war. The circumstances under which the adventure was created were anything but favorable…
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“The Escapees” (French: “Les Évadés”) is the second adventure in the comic the series of “The Little People”. Drawn by Seron, this scenario was written by Albert Desprechins. It is about two inhabitants of the city of the Little People who escape from prison and want to go to the “Big Ones”.
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“Clifton in New York” (French: “Clifton à New York”) is the second adventure of the british detective Harold Wilberforce Clifton from 1960, drawn by Belgian artist Macherot. In this story Clifton is asked to investigate the case of a kidnapped actor in New York.
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“Asterix and the Golden Sickle” (French: “La Serpe d’Or” = “The Golden Sickle”) is the second volume of the Asterix comic book series. It was first serialized in Pilote magazine in 1960 and is about a trip of Asterix and Obelix to Lutetia to get a new sickle for the druid Getafix.
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“The Flying Smurf” is the first story of the Smurfs that was not published as a mini comic book. It was printed in full size in the anniversary edition of Spirou magazine in 1963, but with twenty pages it is still shorter than later comic books.
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“The Gold Mine of Dick Digger” is Lucky Luke’s second adventure, which was serialized in Spirou magazine in 1947. Morris had developed his cowboy a little further, but the story was still pretty straightforward.
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