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![WHY WE HATE TGWTG (In 5 Seconds)
20 03 2010
I actually meant 5 Good reasons why we hate TGWTG…
Fanboys – Go Home.
#1 – Money (That’s What I Want!)
The Nostalgia Critic show averages 100,000 to 200,000 viewers per week, and the site as a whole has 1 million page views per month.[3][4][8] This is expected to increase following content-provider Blip.tv’s deal with Youtube in July 2009.[9] As of July 2009, the site earns more than $10,000 per month in advertising revenue and has received more than $11,000 in online donations, with the company expecting to earn $150,000 by the end of the year. In the third quarter of the 2009 Fiscal year, Walker’s shows earned $53,000 with $32,000 from the Nostalgia Critic alone. This revenue was generated by run of network from Puma and Starburst.[3][4][5][9] The success of his shows has allowed Walker to make a living performing and to quit his previous job as an illustrator, as well as pay the salary of co-founder/COO Mike Ellis.[3]
Ripped Straight from the Headlines of Wikipedia. We don’t hate the fact he HAS a website, we don’t even hate the fact he gets PAID to have a website. What we do find baffling, is the fact he is willing to do this Full Time. I am sure you fans are going “But he’s spending more time doing what he loves”. Sure that’s a good thing, he has plenty of time to make Bum Reviews, Nostalgia Critics, and rubbing his sphincter with $100 bills donated to him by PayPal.
However, there is one thing every person must know about the internet - it does not last forever. Busy Street is fully aware that most of these people will be gone in 5 years tops, fads really do come and go. While in 2004, people go to YTMND – no one gives 2 shits about it now. When is the last time you went to HomeStar Runner? TGWTG as a site, can’t survive a full decade, if my prediction is right. You could only say a movie is shitty so much, that a certain anime is shitty so much, that a video game is shitty so much, that a comic book is shitty so much, that a FMV is shitty so much… that it ends up being stale. That moment was 2008. When people say “Don’t Quit Your Day Job”, they mean it. Don’t quit your day job to make these videos for the internet. It’s going to be hard to recover in 2014.
#2. Repeat.
Reviewing is dead, we have a whole team of people who have this belief. What used to be a golden staple in homes everywhere in the 1990s, have become dead in 2000s, due to the success of blogs and social networking websites like Twitter and YouTube. You no longer need to be a Major in Film Studies to be a critic – as long as you can be on camera and use the powers of persuading 12 year olds to agree with you, everything will be AOK.
1990s Reviewing -
2000s Reviewing-
Just be glad, we only gave you a teaser of that review. If you watch a guy try his hardest to imitate Tom Goes to The Mayor while reviewing video games for the internet – you should just read the Customer Reviews on GameStop.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a6pmadwqt3aiylx5gf53vh6o/bafkreidhzgmtc5g3oomafjkyntjbqw54c2qg4oc4x4t7vw4fezucdti5nq@jpeg)
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![Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiap6asa64jdjb2vlv4c2sdritjrntsibvsv7baj6o4cgwcfgsjeny@jpeg)
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