@Background Pony #BC65
Correct on both accounts. The problem with CTC is that it came too late to do any real damage, as TGWTG was just coasting by since about the time Allison and Phelan left, and the people who joined after 2014 were by-and-large already established thus weren’t impacted either way by TGWTG reverting back to well, more-or-less TGWTG.
Did the upper management and Doug and Rob do some pretty shitty things? Yes, without a doubt. Were they as bad at CTC attested? No. Why? Because they lied. We know they lied about things like catering because in one of the behind-the-scenes videos for Kickassia, you can clearly see and hear Bhargov asking people what they’d like to eat, and how they should drink a lot of provided water given that they’re in the desert. People on Kiwifarms have also dig up claims that CTC encouraged Dr Gonzo to lie about him not being allowed to do a memorial video for Mormon Mario.
As was said at the time by critics of TGWTG, nobody is innocent there, and the two or so years since have shown that to be correct.
Doug et al have weathered the storm pretty well, and are in a good if not very expansive place. Lindsay, Todd, and Joe are successful in their endeavours and have quite comfortably left TGWTG behind. Lewis, Allison, Marzgurl, and E-Rod are however shackled to both TGWTG and CTC, and are stuck in its shadow.
Lewis is middling and is trapped by AT4W by his own choosing, and the more that time passes, the more he comes across as the Doug that CTC proported Doug to be. Allison, Marzgurl, and E-Rod are essentially moribund online career-wise, and are involved in their own controversies. My advice to them would be to get the fuck over whatever TGWTG did to them, and move on, because them bringing it up make them out to be the bad ones, not Doug, Brad, or Rob.