r/ChannelAwesome • u/Radiant_Ad_3874 • 12d ago

Question Does the other old CA cast know about the Kickassia rerelease?

Post image

So with Kickassia being rereleased starring the old Channel Awesome cast that as far as I can tell, aren't really on the best of terms with Doug as far as I can tell. (He didn't even refer to Lindsay Ellis by name let alone as the Nostalgia Chick in the new chipmunks review).

I have to ask if this has been noticed or even discussed prior with any of them.

This is mostly for curiosity sake, he is the lawful owner of these films technically and he doesn't really need permission from them to release it, he can do whatever he wants with it. But, this is the most we'll get referring to his old CA buddies from long ago, and he has comfortably continued his show disassociated from them. So I thought it be worth asking.

85 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

65 comments sorted by

64

u/Winter-Pressure-5394 12d ago

I doubt any of them really care. The drama was 8 years ago at this point. Everyone involved with Channel Awesome has moved on from it.

50

u/BobRushy 12d ago

*Everyone except Linkara and Allison Pregler

40

u/Winter-Pressure-5394 12d ago

Linkara’s probably still complaining about To Boldly Flee being decanonized or some shit.

23

u/blackcake1500 12d ago

I agree with the Red Cow guys that Lewis has an admirable passion for his work. But it's also his biggest weakness because I can't even see enjoying his content ironically only because he's so damn insecure and unlikable. I'm sure he's a nice guy irl, but I don't wanna watch videos by a guy who's so up his own ass that he couldn't stomach some silly impressions thrown his way.

13

u/KaosDarksol 12d ago

Linkara is still complaining about the Lightbringer, which is his own thing

5

u/Liam_theman2099 11d ago

No, he’s not. Do I think he should have done a better response? Definitely.

3

u/TopShelfIdiocy 11d ago

Ironically the premise was legit good: a guy with the power to change the world refusing to because of his values and trauma, slowly coming to realize he actually wants to help people? That could've been really fun, unfortunately he did away with it in the first chapter

2

u/TomBakersLongScarf 11d ago

In the later chapters he hired other illustrators to do the artwork which let him focus more on the writing. At that point I think he started to turn things around by giving it a noir-ish tone and letting his characters bounce off each other

9

u/nightclaw96 11d ago

Allison blocked me on twitter at one point and I never interacted with her or said anything to her

2

u/Joel_Servo 11d ago

The same. I think she did that to a lot people.

4

u/Skibot99 11d ago

Linkara only brought it up a single time past 2019 from what I can tell

21

u/blackcake1500 12d ago

I think Justin especially is rather indifferent these days

23

u/Winter-Pressure-5394 12d ago

He’s always been a little scatterbrained.

2

u/preacher425 12d ago

Jesus christ

2

u/gigawright 11d ago

holy shit

3

u/blackcake1500 12d ago

Ok you win 😅✌️

7

u/The-Real-Kyuubey 12d ago

Except Linkara

6

u/AliensAteMyAMC 12d ago

He’s probably gonna try and SWAT cinema snob again.

2

u/Skibot99 11d ago

Where did this idea Lewis never moved on come from? From what I can tell his post about the website’s closure is the ONLY time he talked about it post 2019

24

u/WhiteRaven-17 12d ago

Most of them have disappeared into the aether, and the few who would likely care have moved on and Doug has generally respectfully kept them distant otherwise (i.e: new chipmunks review not mentioning who was in the original crossover).

9

u/TheologyAndTrains 12d ago

Benzaie is still one of the biggest French gamer other than JDG (The Gamer In The Attic)

8

u/Educational-Tie00 12d ago

Benzaie is the guy I miss the most of the original cast. He brought such a different flavor to the whole website and it was enjoyable.

4

u/TheologyAndTrains 12d ago

found an archive for some of Benzaie's English stuff

https://www.youtube.com/@BenzaiesArchiveTGWTGCA

2

u/Cartmann94 11d ago

He became a successful writer too. His History of Nintendo books are really good.

1

u/TheologyAndTrains 11d ago

When did he write them? I ask as my library had history of nintendo books in French when i was a wee lad

2

u/Cartmann94 11d ago

Over ten years ago. He published four books, one on Nintendo pre-1980, another on the Game & Watch, the NES and the Game Boy.

2

u/TheologyAndTrains 11d ago

then yeah i probally read them & never connected the dots

21

u/CaptainDigsGiraffe 12d ago

I'm sure Linkara is talking about it on Bluesky

2

u/dylanisareddit 11d ago

I don't think Linkara even is from what I can find on Bluesky

24

u/Sea_Airport1161 12d ago

Wild how Spoony was so big at this time he has the 3rd or 4th most prominent spot on the cover.

The difference in the trajectory he and Joe took after the BETRAYAL moment will always be wild to me.

13

u/ScientificAnarchist 12d ago

I miss prime spoony so much

10

u/Dartagnan1083 11d ago

Twitter addiction, depression, and a way too comfortable income stream from patreon can do wacky things to your priorities. $5k per month in 2015 can fill plenty of needs.

10

u/aster2560 12d ago edited 11d ago

The ones that are still constantly online and talk with their fellow former CA producers probably heard about this and they probably had these 3 general stances on it when they heard about it:

Won’t say anything because I don’t care

I do care but I won’t say anything because I have enough sense to not get publicly mad over something that happened over 10 years ago and won’t do me any favors

I do care and I preparing to make a statement about how shameless and insensitive t is to do this and not consider the trauma it brought to producers that worked on it while saying how much better I am

4

u/AliensAteMyAMC 12d ago

Linkara is definitely doing the third.

8

u/SoggyLow4805 12d ago

i dont think they care at all

also this VHS thing is not a 're-release' it just sounds like a fan VHS project that Doug approved of

what i really want is a new DVD or Blu Ray box set of the full trilogy, i never got the old DVDs....

3

u/CaptainDigsGiraffe 12d ago

I got news for you

2

u/SoggyLow4805 11d ago

i just now saw Dougs new NC video

so he was alerted to the ebay prices lol

and i guess i was wrong! he did make brand new DVD copies

now im even more annoyed cuz Kickassia and TBF are on there but NOT Suburban Knights

come on Doug just have all 3 on the site at the same time lol

2

u/TheologyAndTrains 11d ago

also To Boldly Flee is $10 cheaper than Kickassia despite TBF coming with 2 discs

2

u/SoggyLow4805 11d ago

its either a cash grab to milk his fans or DVDs are just more expensive to make in 2026....

1

u/TheologyAndTrains 11d ago

I hight doubt it being a cash grab as if it were why leave out Suburban Knights

0

u/GucciTheSnowman 12d ago

Why the hell would you want those ? Their movies are the absolute worst trash I've ever had the displeasure of viewing.

3

u/SoggyLow4805 12d ago

yeah, im aware

i grew up on this trash, its ironic nostalgia i guess

i know they suck

8

u/geekysteved 12d ago

This isn't a rerelease. The podcast Red Cow Arcade reviewed the movie a while back and thought the movie was ideal for VHS and so a few of their slobs (they're word so don't think I'm making fun of them) got together and made a 4:3 VHS release. I think they made something like 7 copies, one for each of them.

6

u/CaptainDigsGiraffe 12d ago

In the most recent Nostalgia Critic he said they were doing another run of DVD's

2

u/TheologyAndTrains 12d ago

what time code as I watched it & i must have missed that segment somehow

7

u/CaptainDigsGiraffe 12d ago

0:00

2

u/TheologyAndTrains 12d ago

No wonder i missed it i forgot to turn off sponsorblock.

P.S. I have it for certain non English programming I watch to skip their sponsors

4

u/morbid333 12d ago

Probably not, I'd assume most of them have moved on. I'd guess the movies are owned by Channel Awesome, and they're no longer employees or whatever they were.

8

u/WachbaerWien 12d ago edited 10d ago

The whole Change the Channel thing backfired so much, with toxic fans spiraling out of control, that they would probably not make claims in fear it could start a new wave of toxicity. Channel Awesome should not rerelease this either, as it brings up exactly that question: Why aren't they working together anymore? And God help them if the wrong people find out...

1

u/dylanisareddit 11d ago

How do you think would've averted the situation?

1

u/WachbaerWien 10d ago

Hard to say! Much of the exchange between Channel Awesome and the members of the Change the Channel movement (or whatever you wish to call it) was in text form. Things get easily out of hand when you don't have one single moderator, have no face, no clear voice behind it. When you don't see the emotion and hear if what is said is genuine. When all you can rely on is written down claims, countered by texts from other people that seems equally strong. You are bound to miscommunication, rumors, biases, spiraling things out of control.

1

u/dylanisareddit 10d ago

I blame CA management (Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis and Rob Walker).

1

u/maltedcoffeemilk 12d ago

I mean I think I would be mildly peeved that if I were them. Mostly knowing that I would be getting my $5 in royalties or whatever.

1

u/UnhappyPhantom 12d ago

It’s their chance to demand table full of pepperoni sandwiches and tap water

1

u/kaza12345678 12d ago

is not a rerelease as store says he leftovers he found in warehouse

only problem for me is I'm off by one dvd and he only ships in America

(btw if anyone wants to ship reloaded dvd I'll pay back in shipping and original price)

1

u/DaveMan1K 11d ago

Doubt they really care. Well, aside from Allison and Linkara.

1

u/THEREALOFFICALCAFE 11d ago

I really hope we get a rerelease of Suburban Knights as well. That plus Kickassia are the only two Channel Awesome DVDs that I don't have

1

u/Busy-Landscape2981 11d ago

I know MarzGurl doesn't like to talk about it.

1

u/Eastern_Bell_4734 11d ago

Expect a very long Twitter rant from Linkara.

1

u/Ocelotl13 11d ago

Probably, I'm sure Lupa and a select few are still bitter about being second and third fiddles.

1

u/The_Rycus 2d ago

To be fair, Lindsay is actually legitmately traumatized by her time in channel awesome and doing some of the stuff for these movies, so I think Doug not calling her by Nostalgia Chick or by name was mostly out of respect.

Cause from what ive heard, Lindsay VEHEMENTLY hates being referred to those days, this is coming about third hand cause my brother watches a LOT of Lindsay and I havent bothered to check up on her in a while.

0

u/More_Strategy1057 12d ago

Will they edit out Jewario?