Tear Jerker / Lewis Lovhaug

• On February 16, 2024, the Channel Awesome Website seems to have shut down, with no real warning or reason why this is the case. While some like Larry Bundy Jr. have made jokes about it (due to him being one of the last members of Channel Awesome to remain after the exodus of the former Channel Awesome Producers out of spite for the lack of care from Doug and Co for years), Lewis was notably more sobered on the matter, noting that as random as it might seem, it also came off to him as Channel Awesome (and by proxy, Doug Walker) was basically erasing the existence of everyone who wasn't the Nostalgia Critic.
  Lewis: If you hadn't heard - apparently the site itself now just redirects to their Youtube page and doesn't exist as its own site anymore (apparently this happened a couple weeks ago and nobody noticed until now). So you know what actually gets to me now that Channel Awesome, as a website, is gone? It's the final erasure of us as a group - of being MORE than just Doug's stuff.
  
  Oh, sure, we stopped BEING together back in 2018. We did our own things, made our own big crossover project without them (check out A Voice From the Dark!), and went our own ways. But something I noticed whenever I saw someone talking about Doug's more modern stuff - showed footage of their studio and the like - it was always decorated with JUST NC stuff, all their big clipless reviews and big stuff that had nothing to do with the rest of us. And this was all compounded by another thing: their store going down and AFAIK never going back up... and also when I tried to replace the embed codes of the anniversary movies.
  
  Yeah, yeah, I know most people hate them and mock them. I get it... but they were a part of my own show's history, the AT4W Movie followed up on stuff from To Boldly Flee and I wanted to preserve that history so anyone who TRULY wanted to see the full depth of everything I've done could see it.
  
  And they didn't have those movies up on their site anymore.
  
  Doug's originally DVD-exclusive REVIEWS of them were up on his site, but the actual anniversaries themselves were gone. You add on their lack of decoration for ANYTHING they did while they were a bigger group of people? They erased us. They didn't want people to think of us ever being a part of them. They'd brush off the google doc and our complaints, being vague about "Oh, we were just too big and there were communication issues" and not "We shared a website together for a DECADE doing numerous crossovers and movies." I still have posters for the anniversary movies up in my office because I still am proud to have done this stuff and I don't want to pretend it never happened. It ended badly and for many it was a REALLY bad experience, but for me that was a third of my life and 2/3s of my video career and now the website itself is gone, the last reminder that we were ever friends, ever working together, ever showing off that once upon a time we had shared interests and goals. No, we weren't "in-house," so who gives a shit, right?
  
  It's that part that still hurts even after six years - that they really just did not care about the rest of us, that we spent all that time laughing and talking and sharing experiences and trying to put out what we thought was entertaining stuff...
  and they simply. Did. Not. Care.