That Guy with the Glasses
That Guy with the Glasses is a US-based website, the video reviews and parodies on movies, television series and video games offers. In most video takes over Douglas Walker (born 17 November 1981) as That Guy With the Glasses (Eng. about The guy with the glasses ) the role of the critic The Nostalgia Critic. Michael Michaud is the founder, administrator and CEO of the page, it is now operated by the company Channel Awesome ( also founded by Michael Michaud along with Mike Ellis and Bhargav Dronamraju ). Meanwhile includes the page constantly new sections of other parties, some of which have their own websites or were only known by That Guy with the Glasses.
Categories
The most extensive sections of the page are designed by Douglas Walker 5 Second movies, The Nostalgia Critic, Bum Reviews and Ask Thatguy.
Under the title 5 Second movies (German 5-second films) clips from popular movies to be released that will play in a humorous way, the entire contents of the film. Nevertheless, the videos are exactly 5 seconds in the rarest of cases.
In The Nostalgia Critic (Eng. The Nostalgia Critic ) Douglas Walker reviewed mostly bad movies and series in a satirical way. It is made out to be a resemblance to the style of Angry Video Game Nerd, which led to a fictional feud of the two Internet personalities. Most films come from his childhood and youth, the 1980s and 1990s. The videos opened Walker with the slogan "Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you do not have to. " (Eng. about "Hi, I 'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember, so you do not have to. " ) New reviews were weekly, usually on Wednesdays, published. In September 2012, Walker announced a video message for the temporary end of the Nostalgia Critic, but he announced in a video in January 2013, the return of the Nostalgia Critic, from 5 February, 2013, but set in the future bi-weekly and not to a time period.
In Bum Reviews (Eng. about Penner reviews ) is a series of reviews of current films that are led by Walker in the role of a drunken homeless. The Bum tends to identify with situations and people from the films in question, even if it this is completely unrealistic comparisons. He also mentioned many times that he used drugs.
In Ask Thatguy (Eng. Ask DenTyp ) is ended questions in a humorous and / or absurd way be answered. Walker later said to the person of the Ask Thatguy that he wanted to invent a question -and-answer series, whose protagonist simply understands each question put to him wrong. Characteristic of Thatguy is an exaggerated racist, perverted and controversial setting on most topics.
In addition to the videos produced by Douglas Walker Another participant offered in varying categories of contributions, and the themes of video games about anime extend to comics. The best-known are Angry Joe with his The Angry Joe Show ( video games and movies ), Linkara with Atop the 4th Wall (Comics) and The Game Heroes (Video games).
In addition, the site offers a blog, a forum, a chat, which are mostly used to discuss the contents of the videos.
Development and production
Walkers videos were first posted on YouTube. However, it came to complaints by several major film studios like 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate copyright infringement, since Walker sequences from the discussed films and series used in his criticisms. Although Walker explained that his video would fall under the fair-use rule, all videos and channels from Youtube deleted.
Then he founded in April 2008 with Mike Michaud and his company Channel Awesome the side That Guy with the Glasses. There his videos and most of all his latest works were made available. Videos Later came by several other authors, some fans of the site, do so.
The videos with Douglas Walker are produced in its native Naperville. Seem daily up to 5 new videos.
Success
Within the first year the half of the month was called of about 800,000 unique visitors and generated $ 10,000 in advertising revenue per month.