Nerd Vs. Critic - 2008 vs. 2025

I like (hate) how they’re doing normal faces in the old pic and SEO faces in the new one

Whoa, I forgot smartphones were barely a thing in 2008.

Literally everyone I knew had a low quality digital camera. Most people either had some sort of MP3 player, with the post people having iPods.
God I got so much book reading done when on mass transit.
- I remember my family ditching their film cameras in favor of a digital camera I got as a gift when I was a child... The camera had 3.2 megapixels and now all our pictures from back then look like ass.
  Can't blame them though... Developing and printing film was such a large expense and hassle to go through.
- Those digital cameras were still outpacing early smartphones. I would say all the way up to the mid 10's. Anything taken with a smartphone camera from 2008 until like 2013 looks pretty bad, especially in low light.

Vs.

Was there ever any consequences for the whole Channel Awesome thing?

Doug lost a lot of credibility, but enough people still watch his slop so he's still doing it, just without a stable of other content creators orbiting him and being abused.
The Change the Channel thing or the abuse?

As for the Change the Channel people, in the end Linkara and a lot of them ended up revealing themselfs as very unlikable people with huge egos. A lot of what they said was true and Doug lost credibility (also because Doug killed the nostalgia critic in some of his shitty movies, only for later on to ressurect the character).
Nowadays Doug mostly retired all characters except for the Critic (I think the Hobo Reviews was fucking up with his voice) and he continues to make his cringe reviews, and he seems to know they're very cringe but he seems happy making them (at least a lot more happier than James who feels like he's being forced at gun point to make AVGN).

I thought those two were the same person at different life stages

Back when the nerd was in his prime.

Another 17 years and that finger may actually make contact with the Nerd's face.

Dam I feel old, still awesome to see them still doing YouTube

I saw this event taking place near me, are these people cool? Seems like they get some love based on this thread

both of them are going bald, and seem not to accept it but in very different ways.
I mean, Doug shaves his head
- yeah and he always had the hat. he looks like a guy that caved in and shaved it but doesn't wanna talk about it.
jokes aside I've never watched the critic
Doug seemed to have embraced the cringe and he seems genuinely more happy now with his crew just doing cringe silly stuff for his critic videos. While he also does some more serious reviews that is just him talking to the camera without the critic stuff.
the nerd has just been in a downfall. im not into the lolcow hate watchers he has but it's just apparent that he doesn't give a damn and just wants to do minimal work on his videos as much as possible so i stopped watching.
Yea, 5 years ago he did improve a lot and seemed to have returned back to a more detailed videos (like his earthbound and polybius ones) but then he gave up again because whatever. I still find weird that there are people out there angry that he doesn't act like he did back when he was 25.
- i don't think they are mad about it, they're just shitty people that want to have some fun by bullying someone they have a vendetta against for 'taking what they liked away'. as far as i know james rolfe aside from that bizarre behind the scenes he did doesn't respond or being much of a lolcow so they're just boxing shadows. to me his channel trajectory is just sad to think about but i just don't care enough and whatever works for him is fine by me.

Personally I was a bigger fan of Spoony but he basically disappeared

Is he selling towels now?