@Angrybrony
@The Glim Glam
@Background Pony #8544
According to the Kiwifarms thread, it’s because Cinematic Venom a year before CTC was making videos making fun of and criticising E-Rod, and after E-Rod promoted CV’s documentary on Twitter, the aforementioned videos were brought to light. This led to a complete clusterfuck where all the CTC people sided with E-Rod and froze CV the fuck out, despite him being on their side.
Yes CV is a dick, but the way CTC are acting is just hurting their position more than it’s helping.
@SD50-2
@Background Pony #4264
@MLPFan2012
Oh there are victims and there are perpetrators, but while the usual suspects are to blame for what happened, a
lot of the CTC alumni had a hand in perpetuating what happened. The people still at CA (besides Larry) aren’t blameless, but a lot of the CTC people aren’t innocent either. You can look back on my posts in this thread on who I think were the most victimised by CA, but will add E-Rod to the list for much the same reason as Mike J: superfans of the site who wanted to be a part of it, who got in through making content and participating in the forums, only to be ignored by the Chicago crew. Whereas Mike J saw a major member shit on a fan behind said fan’s back, E-Rod was shat on both during his tenure and afterwards by Sadpanda due to the latter not thinking he had any talent. WTF!? Say what you will about the Blockbuster Buster, but at least he
tried.
I especially like this quote by Mizafuginmike
on Kiwifarms:
That “media empire” only toppled over after it was already a dried up carcass. None of those creators were willing to bite the hand that fed them until it stopped feeding them, ergo they all kicked and walked away from a website that was built around blip videos after the whole blip system had died. It would be like if, tomorrow, a whole bunch of us started posting about how unfairly Myspace used to treat us, started a #CancelMyspace tag and closed our old pages. ChannelAwesome was already long dead and Doug’s YT channel was its own, distinct thing. SomeJerkWithACamera rage quitting the old website was never going to affect The NC’s YT #s one bit.
If things were as bad as they said they were in 2011 and 2012 (when most of the bad stuff is alleged to have happened), if they had released the Google Doc after To Boldy Flee, or even any time during 2012, they would completely brought down the house of Michaud; and while I can understand why they waited, it’s too little too late to get any semblance of justice from the likes of Michaud or the Walker brothers.
Anyway, after catching up on the TGWTG thread proper on Kiwifarms, I found some more interesting tidbits about what Doug is really like:
He was a total prick to ConBravo because the con wouldn’t assuage him despite only being a little con.
Linkara corroborated this and added that they all (sans the Walkers) went to MAGFest at their own expense to meet up and hang out with each other, as well as occasionally host panels, because of how much they enjoyed it. Doug, despite being a prima donna to a smaller con, wasn’t willing to go to a bigger con and do panels with them because MAGFest wouldn’t pay for it, despite him definitely having the means to do so himself.