Some thoughts about the Nostalgia Critic

*Warning: this is only for people who know who is The Nostalgia Critic, If you don’t know who he is, the avoid reading this.

Oh, Doug, I remembered the first time I saw you on YouTube like it if was yesterday. You used to be one of the funniest mother*ckers I have seen in years. Your timing (Casper: TIMING!), your deliverance, your jokes, even If they were 50/50 sometimes you’ve still had that zany personality that made everything forgivable.

And now, you became a sellout, a guy who just does what other people told you. I mean, Nostalgia Critic was a character created with the one, single purpose of making fun of the Nostalgia, and honestly, that’s the thing that I loved the most, because It seemed (and still seems) that every time people talk about their childhood memories, they can’t also spew some crap out their mouth and say that everything from the past is better and there’s no future.

The dream of every outrage trash takling fanboy like me... at least when I was younger...

Doug Walker, the man behind the Nostalgia Critic, for a long time (almost 4 years) used to be my personal Jesus, my sacred holy grail of comedy and my inspiration to make people laugh instead of depressed them with my awful and pessimistic vision of the world. I still believe that mankind it’s a big pile of sh*t, but at least I can laugh about it, I can see the world from a different point of view and stop talking crap 90% of the time thanks to that.

But why Doug became so fascinating to me in the first place? Because he was just a man, a guy a camera who just got himself against the world expressing his opinion and just doing what he thought it was funny, and manage to create a whole new brand of internet reviewers that use their skills not only to gain their 5 minutes of fame, but to inspire people to look at things with a whole new vision, stop letting their Nostalgia get in the way.

But when he decided to quit, I was devastated, I felt like one of the few things in this world that meant so much to me disappeared and now I’ve got no direction whatsoever. Everything fall apart that 2012, the same year I went to Law School (fortunately I quit) and the NC, that was my only vacation during that time was gone and from that moment it went just me and reality.

After contemplate suicide several times and leave the Law School, I decide to go on, forget TGWTG (because honestly, I’ve never give too much of a damn for the other ones) and try to live my life, until he came back.

In retrospective, I’ve got mixed feelings about his comeback and reinvention, for one hand it feels so good and refreshing having the guy back in his chair and his… new white wall, but in the middle of 2013 (of maybe a little bit before) It started to change, it became more evident that he was doing all these new things for money rather than personal satisfaction, he was sacrificing his trademarked style in favor of zany antincs and lame pop culture references made to attract the attention of a 13 year old brat.

His other show Demo Reel Failed, but Doug doen’t want to assume that and instead, he is insisting in sacrificing his dignity and create reviews with sketches that are more pointless and awkward every time.  It’s really sad actually.

If you still got respect for your old fanbase, you know, the ones who made you famous in the first place, you should consider taking this job more seriously and try to keep quality over quantity. I mean, your Son of the Mask review could it been awesome if it weren’t for those god awful sketches with satan and his daughter that… I don’t even want to talk about that, it is THAT stupid.

And all this coming to age experience that I’m having now made me realize that maybe Doug wasn’t that great to begin with. Sure it got his funny moments, memorable jokes and overall proyects that make them unique (at least compared to other reviewers), but he never evolved, he never tried to improve his routine and try to prove in a more mainstram media like TV, Films or whatever, it seems like a wasted opportunity and the only one that is responsible is Doug himself.

But you know what? I don’t hate him, I mean, despite I hate some of his new Reviews (like Disney Afternoon) I still got good memories with this guy, all the happiness and joy that brought to my life was enough to keep me away to killing myself and I’m always going to thank that to this guy.

But, I still think that you sold your soul to the Devil in the moment that you started to appeal to a younger crowd instead of evolve to a full comedian and internet reviewer, but your story gave me an important lesson that I never going to forget: No matter the circumstances, I will never going to sell my integrity like you do, and with that said, I salute you Nostalgia Critic thaks for the good times and I’ll always remember it even if you don’t have to.