Category:History of TGWTG.com

Before TGWTG.com
Douglas 'Darien' Walker aka ThatGuyWithTheGlasses first made his appearance on the website, YouTube. It was here that he began his 5 Second Movies and the beginnings of The Nostalgia Critic. His stay on YouTube garnered many fans, but also complaints from major studios like 20th Century Fox and Lions Gate, over copyright infringement. Despite Walker explaining quite clearly in his videos that his videos are satirical, thus protected by the United States First Amendment, the videos and channels were taken off anyway. He then attempted at giving each video a different channel so that if one video was deleted, his others would still be left intact.

The Creation of TGWTG.com
According to Rob Walker aka The Other Guy (aka Doug's brother) on the TGWTG forums:

"Eventually, Mike Michaud and (Walker's college friends) Bhargov and Ellis said they were looking for a product to support as the first step in their glorious plans to create Channel Awesome. Mike offered to build the site. We would use the moniker Doug had on Youtube (TGWTG). At that point, most of Doug's work on Youtube was being done to get a fanbase going. The idea was, when we have enough fans, we'd launch the site. At that time, though, Mike's scheme was only one of like four things Doug had on his plate. So it started off slow. And Mike wanted to make sure the site was perfect before launch."

The Aftermath
In June of 2008, every single one of Doug's videos were found and deleted from YouTube, much to the pleasure of Walker who later announced he was planning on deleting the channels himself, so that more people would see his videos on his official website. Since then, the site has garnered thousands of fans who visit daily, and also continues to grow as new, talented contributors are added.