Nostalgia Critic Takeover

**Nostalgia Critic Takeover**
	Banner ; Full Twitter avatar ;
Type of event	Takeover
	Host; Nostalgia Critic
During	Season 3
Start date	April 9, 2018
End date	April 15, 2018
Chronology
Previous	Gadget Week 2 ft. The Nostalgia Critic
Next	Tax Day 2018

The Nostalgia Critic Takeover was an event during which the SiIvaGunner channel was used by the Nostalgia Critic after he defeated Inspector Gadget during his takeover.

Summary

Despite the takeover being hosted by the Nostalgia Critic, the rips uploaded were focused on encapsulating a stylistic throwback to the pre-reboot Season 1 era of the channel or referenced other rips, in an attempt to evoke nostalgia.

The banner was changed to show the Nostalgia Critic blasting through the lighthouse. The YouTube and Twitter profile picture showed Nostalgia Critic in a recreation of the third act of Doki Doki Literature Club! that also includes a cinnamon bun, referencing a later debunked incident in which Doug Walker unwittingly ate a Cinnabon frosted using a sex toy. The channel description was changed to:

The ONLY Official Youtube channel for the Nostalgia Critic and SilvaGunner.

New Nostalgia Critic rips every two hours.

New Flintstones Flashbacks every two hours.

New Snow Halation Memorization every two hours.

New Nigra's Never Seen episodes every two hours.

New Blue Balls every two hours.

Classic throwback rips are uploaded after they are cleared (and are willingly submitted by a team of content creators). Sometimes they are uploaded on an inconsistent schedule, so check the playlists. Same with Soulja Boy, Chip the Ripper, and mashups.

The description catchphrase was changed to "Read the channel description so I don't have to," as a reference to the Nostalgia Critic's catchphrase, "Hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I remember it so you don't have to."

Most of the rips uploaded during this time were released in the album Inspector Gunner 2 With Critic, which was announced in "An AWESOME Announcement!"

After the last video, the channel "rebooted" (referencing SilvaGunner: Rebooted) and reverted to the SiIvaGunner avatar, which means the channel returned to its original state^[1]. The channel description has a typo ("mmostly") in it.

Background

The inclusion of Doug Walker as channel host comes a few days after several content creators for Channel Awesome (which owns Nostalgia Critic) came forward with their stories of abuse and apathy from the owners of Channel Awesome. Notably, many of the accounts detail how Channel Awesome focused almost exclusively on promoting the Nostalgia Critic, often at the detriment of the other contributors. This is perhaps the reason for the Doki Doki Literature Club!-esque profile picture, which comes from a scene in which a character has disposed of everyone else in order to be the only person at the center of the player's attention.

Rips uploaded

All rips uploaded during the event were of one or more of the following:

Rips using only "Meet the Flintstones", "Snow halation", and/or Loud Nigra as jokes
Rips featuring Chip tha Ripper
Rips of more basic mashups, such as with various rap songs
Reuploads of rips, particularly ones from GiIvaSunner and the 9/11 2016 event
Rips that served as remasters, references, or inverses of previous rips
Focus on Undertale rips
Rips with off-key and unsynced mashups
Blue balls rips

Near the end of the takeover, some medley rips were uploaded.

Additionally, the upload speed was raised back up to bi-hourly (sometimes hourly) for the duration of the takeover.

Timeline

Rips that were reuploads are noted in italics.

April 9

April 10

April 11

April 12

April 13

April 14

April 15

Tweets

Tweet	Date	Note
Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic; I rip high quality video game music so you don't have to!	April 9
I have always tried to keep my dealings with my content partners out of the public eye & despite any differences or disagreements I have never publicly spoken negatively about any of them, but a response to the accusations leveled against me must happen. youtube.com/watch?v=y7U4pntqgOg	April 11	A reference to this Tweet by @ChannelAwesome: "CA has always tried to keep our dealings with our content partners out of the public eye & despite any differences or disagreements we have never publicly spoken negatively about any of them, but a response to the accusations leveled against us must happen". The tweets links to the "Get the fuck off my property" clip used in "You are filled with announcementation."
😃	April 12
	April 13	The account retweets Chaze the Chat's Tweet about hosting a new streaming channel
Just ran into a loyal fan! I love my fans!	April 15	Picture of Chaze the Chat with Doug and Rob Walker from 2012.^[2]

Trivia

The banner includes a portion of the Nostalgia Critic's introduction since 2016.
Chaze the Chat has stated that he had the idea for Nostalgia Critic becoming a channel host since around February 23^[3], when he created the "Doug Walker fan server"^[4]. Coincidentally, the "Not So Awesome" document appeared on April 2.

References

↑ "The implication is that the takeover is over, and that we have "rebooted" back to the normal state." - Reddit comment by Hinchy
↑ Tweet. @the8bits; Apr 17, 2018
↑ "First Live Stream! Q&A". YouTube. April 16, 2018. 9:06: "I started the Doug Walker fan server around the time I had the idea of Nostalgia Critic week."
↑ @the8bits. Tweet. "please join the official doug walker fan server"

[1] "The implication is that the takeover is over, and that we have "rebooted" back to the normal state." - Reddit comment by Hinchy

[2] Tweet. @the8bits; Apr 17, 2018

[3] "First Live Stream! Q&A". YouTube. April 16, 2018. 9:06: "I started the Doug Walker fan server around the time I had the idea of Nostalgia Critic week."

[4] @the8bits. Tweet. "please join the official doug walker fan server"

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