I haven't been paying much attention to TGWTG, but they used to be really good. This does show that as much as people like to bitch about managers being useless, they are rather important. Content is important but without good administration all your hard work means nothing, and when you are working with other people good administration is even more important as you need to balance their needs as well. Your big name will only carry you so far, especially if by big you mean to only those who spend an obscene amount of time on the internet. To the offline world, you are obscure.
Asalieri asked people around town in this video if they knew who spoony was. Skip to 10:50
I found this link on /cow/
http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/20...ered-thumbs-mismanagement-and-despair-part-1/
http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/20...ered-thumbs-mismanagement-and-despair-part-2/
If Doug Walker were to apply for a job outside to the real world, it will take whitewashing, being apologetic, with a tinge of bull. He will need to place emphasis on running a small media business and how hard it is to keep businesses afloat. Managing a website and cooperating with other people to host their content on his website. As for the unprofessional way of how he left his prior job, he should say, "I was stupid and that was unprofessional, but now that I am older I see that was wrong. After running a business of my own, I now understand the importance of professionalism. I may have made some mistakes, but we all make blunders and the important part is that we learn from them." He will need to play the management and creativity card hard, and any mistakes he made (Blistered Thumbs) needs to play the "We all learn from our mistakes and some methods are less effective then others. I grew overconfident in our brand." If he plays his cards right, I think he can be hirable and he does have talent.
It is human nature to focus on the negatives, but Channel Awesome did become big and popular. He does have something to be proud of, but you can only revel in the glory days for so long. I think this was the downfall.