That guy with the glasses

That Guy with the Glasses is an American website that offers video reviews and parodies of movies, TV series, and video games. In most video assumes Douglas Walker (born 17 November 1981) as That Guy With the Glasses (dt. About The guy with the glasses ) the role of the critic The Nostalgia Critic . Michael Michaud is the founder, administrator and CEO of the site and is now operated by Channel Awesome (also founded by Michael Michaud together with Mike Ellis and Bhargav Dronamraju). In the meantime, the site continuously includes new categories from other participants, some of whom have their own websites or who only became known through That Guy with the Glasses .

Rubrics

The most extensive sections of the site are the 5 Second movies designed by Douglas Walker , The Nostalgia Critic , Bum Reviews and Ask ThatGuy .

Under the title 5 Second movies (dt. 5-second films ) clips are released from popular movies that will play the entire contents of the film in a humorous way. However, the videos are rarely exactly 5 seconds long.

The "Nostalgia Critic" (right) discusses with the "Angry Video Game Nerd" (2008)

In The Nostalgia Critic (dt. The nostalgia critic ) reviewed Douglas Walker mostly bad films and series in a satirical way. It is said to have a similarity to the style of the angry video game nerd , which led to a fictional feud between the two Internet personalities. Most of the films are from his childhood and youth, the 1980s and 1990s. Walker opens the videos with the slogan “Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it, so you don't have to ” . (German about "Hello, I'm the nostalgia critic. I remember it so you don't have to.") New reviews were published weekly, mostly on Wednesdays. In September 2012, Walker announced the temporary end of the Nostalgia Critic by video message , but he announced in a video in January 2013 the return of the Nostalgia Critic from February 5, 2013, but in future every two weeks and not set to a time period.

In Bum Reviews (dt. About Penner reviews ) is, to a number of reviews of current films by Walker in the role of a drunken homeless be performed. The boom tends to identify with situations and people from the films in question, even if these are completely unrealistic comparisons. In addition, he often mentions that he uses drugs .

In Ask ThatGuy (dt. Ask DenTyp ) submitted questions are answered in a humorous and / or absurd way. Walker later said to the person of Ask ThatGuy that he wanted to invent a question-and-answer series, the protagonist simply misunderstanding every question asked him. ThatGuy is characterized by an exaggerated racist , perverse and controversial attitude towards most issues.

In addition to the videos produced by Douglas Walker, contributions from other participants are offered in changing sections, with topics ranging from video games to animes and comics . The best known are Angry Joe with his The Angry Joe Show (video games and current films), Linkara with Atop the 4th Wall (comics) and The Game Heroes (video games).

The site also offers a blog, a forum and a chat, which are mostly used to discuss the content of the videos.

Origin and production

Walker's videos were initially published on YouTube . However, several large film studios such as 20th Century Fox and Lions Gate complained about copyright infringement, as Walker used sequences from the films and series discussed in his reviews. Although Walker stated that his videos would be fair use , all videos and channels were deleted from YouTube.

Then he founded the site That Guy with the Glasses in April 2008 together with Mike Michaud and his company Channel Awesome . His videos and, above all, his latest works were made available there. Videos from a number of other authors, some of them fans of the website, were added later.

The videos with Douglas Walker are produced in his native Naperville . Up to 5 new videos appear every day.

success

Within the first year, the site had approximately 800,000 unique visitors per month and generated $ 10,000 in advertising revenue per month.

Criticism and controversy

In April 2018, 20 former employees of Channel Awesome published a 70-page document called "Not So Awesome" in which they made serious allegations against Channel Awesome or That Guy with the Glasses . They complained, among other things, of poor working conditions, bad treatment and bullying by superiors, and poor pay. As a result, many of the artists employed by That Guy with the Glasses left the website and continued their careers on other platforms such as YouTube. In addition to Doug Walker's shows, only two other artists are now listed on the website.