The Spoony One has been ejected from That Guy With the Glasses.

[Mr.Mattress]

Spoony didn't look too good to me in Ultima 9 Parts 3-4. I don't know if he was wearing Hollywood Make-up or if that's how he has actually been looking for the past couple of days, but I am worried about him. Hopefully now he can take a break, do some fun things that aren't also stressful. I just hope he gets well soon. Poor guy...

 

[Reynaert]

Spoony didn't look too good to me in Ultima 9 Parts 3-4. I don't know if he was wearing Hollywood Make-up or if that's how he has actually been looking for the past couple of days, but I am worried about him. Hopefully now he can take a break, do some fun things that aren't also stressful. I just hope he gets well soon. Poor guy...

Ultima 9 Part 4 felt like Internet History in the making, there was something special, something touching about that piece of video. It reveals what the Ultima series means to him and he does it with a sincerity I have rarely seen before. If you haven't seen it, go see it!

I wouldn't worry to much about him though. I don't know him and don't pretend to have any insight in his state of mind but he looked fine in the previouw video (about the European beer and candy).

 

[zombie711]

Spoony didn't look too good to me in Ultima 9 Parts 3-4. I don't know if he was wearing Hollywood Make-up or if that's how he has actually been looking for the past couple of days, but I am worried about him. Hopefully now he can take a break, do some fun things that aren't also stressful. I just hope he gets well soon. Poor guy...

Ultima 9 Part 4 felt like Internet History in the making, there was something special, something touching about that piece of video. It reveals what the Ultima series means to him and he does it with a sincerity I have rarely seen before. If you haven't seen it, go see it!

I wouldn't worry to much about him though. I don't know him and don't pretend to have any insight in his state of mind but he looked fine in the previouw video (about the European beer and candy).

Yeah when he went on that rant about his life, I remembered everything that had happened on TGWTG. Dont know how I felt about it.

 

[DRTJR]

I'm just glad that for all intents and purposes the people I like weren't asshats about it. Noah is and has been a Comedic Genius and one of the most influential members of the site, and he is run out of town but a no talent two bit hack with red hair.

Did CR take a side?

 

[ovidbrono]

Wow... what a long thread.. I only had the time to read a few of the pages before I skipped to the last few posts. This is my first post and I registered only to remark how sad that a site I looked at to get a laugh has itself become the butt of a joke. He made some pretty nasty comments on his twitter.. and if his fans wanted to leave or stop following or whatever, that's their prerogative. However, for his coworkers to rally up, counter, or admonish him publicly is not only distasteful, but unprofessional and pathetic.

Yes, he made disparaging remarks, but as the "better person", each individual who chose to respond to his twitter could have simply ignored it as he was already on "tilt". He probably would have ranted on to something else soon enough instead of causing this firestorm of stupidity.

This drama should never have gotten out of hand like this and shame to the administrators for not trying to work this out.

 

[Dorian6]

This drama should never have gotten out of hand like this and shame to the administrators for not trying to work this out.

They did. Spoony was suspended for being an asshole to his followers and other Channel awesome contributors on twitter, he then proceeded to violate his suspension by being an even bigger asshole. The TGWTG admins then gave him the option to either change his behavior, or leave the site. He chose to quit.

It wasn't about the rape joke, neither JO nor Lupa got him fired. He made the decision to leave. It's all on him

 

[Gone Rampant]

So if Spoony's left, how come Insano showed up in To Boldly Flee? Plot reasons? An attempt to calm everyone down?

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

So if Spoony's left, how come Insano showed up in To Boldly Flee? Plot reasons? An attempt to calm everyone down?

I doubt these guys make their videos a few days before submitting them. As TGWTG is considered a serious workplace I imagine they have deadlines and have created numerous shows a few months in advance.

Plus -- Spoony can guest star but he just can't have his own material on the site and get paid for it.

 

[Supernova1138]

So if Spoony's left, how come Insano showed up in To Boldly Flee? Plot reasons? An attempt to calm everyone down?

To Boldly Flee was shot back in April, long before the whole shitstorm with Spoony started. Given how Spoony is playing at least two key characters in the special, there was no way they could remove him from the special even if Channel Awesome wanted to, not without massive rewrites to the script and a whole bunch of expensive reshoots. TBF has just had a very long post production process, which is why it is coming out now, four months after it was shot. It likely will be the last Channel Awesome video that Spoony is in.

 

[evilcorgi]

Don't really know what you're talking about...the only thing TGWTG censors in its videos is nudity. Most everything else is fair game. :/

False. The Amazing Atheist was booted off the site for posting inappropriate content and it had nothing to do with nudity.

As far as Channel Awesome goes, they don't say anything about anything. But I did watch the AA's vid after he left, according to the man himself it was because he felt that TGWTG wasn't creating interesting/engaging content. He wanted to set up his own thing to attract 'real' talent. I hadn't read otherwise i.e regarding censorship issues, but quite possibly I just missed that little detail in the whole snafu.

Captcha: yes, sir

He wasn't fired because of any content, he was fired because he was The Amazing Atheist. He was scaring away advertisers.

 

[Silverspetz]

This drama should never have gotten out of hand like this and shame to the administrators for not trying to work this out.

They did. Spoony was suspended for being an asshole to his followers and other Channel awesome contributors on twitter, he then proceeded to violate his suspension by being an even bigger asshole. The TGWTG admins then gave him the option to either change his behavior, or leave the site. He chose to quit.

It wasn't about the rape joke, neither JO nor Lupa got him fired. He made the decision to leave. It's all on him

Well, Spoony has just cleared up this whole mess in the first part of his commentary on "To Boldly Flee" and really, it wasn't even the suspension that made him quit, it just got him thinking. The admins didn't give him an ultimatum he just realized that being suspended didn't actually affect him that much.

The real reason Spoony quit was because of a disagreement in how TGWTG deals with their producers and how their site works in general. The shitstorm on Twitter was just bad timing, but he does take responsibility for the things he said and admits that he was being an ass. Spoony left because he felt that he and TGWTG didn't need eachother anymore (they didn't generate any traffic for eachother which is why they originally teamed up) and after Doug made it clear that he was retiring the Nostalgia Critic Spoony felt it was time for a change too.

He left the site on fairly good terms with everyone and he has made it clear that he does not intend to stop working with the producers he usually does crossovers with and that they are only a phonecall away. In fact, he just posted a crossover with Diamanda Hagan, another producer on TGWTG.

Really, just watch the commentary on his site so that this whole thing can finally be put to rest.

 

[Smolderin]

What the above poster said. Many of the questions that people want answered are answered to their fullest extent by Spoony in his commentary of to Boldly Flee. It was very insightful as he explains not only the issue with Lupa, but also the departure from Channel Awesome. He makes several apologies to anyone offended by his joke on Twitter and really gets down to the bottom of alot of the issues plaguing the Spoony One. He is surprisingly up front with his fan-base which gives me a whole new respect for Spoony. Yes..sure...he is an ass...but what he also is, is real. He is not fake. He is not a character, which is why I liked Spoony in the first place. But that is just me. To anyone wanting where this supposed commentary is, here is the link..enjoy.

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/09/15/to-boldly-flee-part-1-spoony-commentary/

 

[Davroth]

So as of this moment, this is the most viewed, and second most commented story of the year.

I find that quite astonishing, all things considered.

The whole thing was a mess, but ultimately, I personally think it turned out favourably for everyone involved.

Here's hoping we can come up with bigger, more directly tied to videogames, stories for 2013.

 

[zombie711]

So as of this moment, this is the most viewed, and second most commented story of the year.

I find that quite astonishing, all things considered.

The whole thing was a mess, but ultimately, I personally think it turned out favourably for everyone involved.

Here's hoping we can come up with bigger, more directly tied to videogames, stories for 2013.

Yeah its too bad Thatguywiththeglasses is starting to go down hill.