What is the origin story for That Guy With The Glasses?
Doug Walker: I started doing these 5 Second Movies on YouTube, and they got a really a big following. So I tried acting in a few sketches and created the character of the Nostalgia Critic. That seemed to catch on too, and after being kicked off YouTube three or four times, [Mike Michaud] came along and said he was looking to start this [short-video production company] business called Channel Awesome. He said, “We’d love to give you a site because there’s money to be made off of this. You can make a living doing this.” At the time I didn’t believe it, but man was he right. I still can’t believe what a big fan base I have. D: Why did YouTube kick you off? DW: The second time I was kicked off, I asked the people at YouTube why, and they said they had gotten complaints from studios saying my movies were infringing on their copyright. At the time, once you got two complaints, your whole channel was gone. So I gave every single video its own channel and listed them under the “favorites” cate
