He was also alleged to have raped a Reddit user during her sleep, and this has been confirmed by former TGWTG forum admin Holly Christine Brown and former TGWTG producer JesuOtaku. He was accused by someone only known as "Jane Doe", however this was after he had committed suicide by shooting himself. This statement accidentally revealed the identity of the member of theirs who was accused of sexual harassment - Justin "JewWario" Carmichael. When the document "Not so Awesome" was released, Channel Awesome reacted with their own statement. Channel Awesome lost about 70,000 subscribers due to these allegations.
Allegations made against the channel include turning a blind eye to sexual harassment until it almost got violent, not compensating people for days of work, not providing food or water for people on their movie sets, and trying to force two of their contributors to do a rape/sexual assault scene. In her response, she listed some of her issues with Channel Awesome. On March 13, 2018, content creator and former Channel Awesome member Allison Pregler responded to a fan on Twitter asking about her reaction to a recent Nostalgia Critic review about 'IT'. In March and April 2018, Channel Awesome was accused by various online personalities of abuse, mainly The Right Opinion. The channel awesome cast consists of many people including Doug, Rob, and Barney Walker, Tamara Chambers, Malcolm Ray, Walter Banasiak, Jim Jaroz, Heather Reusz, and Aiyanna Wade. Their company currently is based in Chicago, Illinois. He's also one of the site's co-writers, providing much of the material used in videos. Every once in a while he cameos in a few of the videos. Normally, Rob is the man behind the camera as he films Doug's shows such as Bum Reviews, The Nostalgia Critic and Ask That Guy With the Glasses. By 2009, an increased income from advertising on the new site allowed Walker to quit his day job (a video that he made to commemorate the occasion also went viral) and develop his web persona full-time.ĭoug has a older brother named Rob who is often contributed to the site in its early days via reviews of movies, shows and toys or anything else that came his way. In 2008, "Nostalgia Critic" moved from YouTube to the independent site That Guy With the Glasses and Channel Awesome. He first grabbed viewers' attention with clever 5 second movie versions of popular films, and gained more notoriety with his snarky "Nostalgia Critic" reviews. He went on to study film at Northern Illinois University, majoring in communications.Īfter college, he worked as an illustrator and started making YouTube videos for fun.
His family moved to the United States and lived in many different places across the country when he was growing up. Walker was born in Naples, Italy to parents Barney and Sandra Walker.