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** Because of all of the above troubles, for the fifth anniversary it was decided that they would instead do an [[Anthology]] project. The resultant effort was ''[[The Uncanny Valley]]'', where the individual pieces had little production troubles by themselves. Behind the scenes, the directive demanded to the contributors to hand shorts with only "exposure" as the payment,; naturally, most of them refused, and the ones who complied were the British team, who at the time were the least popular of the site. In front of the public, the only problems were that some segments were uploaded sightly late, and the perception that [[Welshy]]'s contribution, a mini-documentary called "The Dark Side of Internet" about [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]] because of [[Loony Fan|over-possessive fans]] [[troll]]ing and stalking creators, was [[Roman a Clef|obviously inspired]] by his dealing with his [[Fan Dumb]] and the subsequent burnout he experienced, not helped by him leaving Internet for a while after its release. This anthology was the last site-wide anniversary special since then.

** And then, when the site was beginning to do plans for another [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] in celebration of its 10th anniversary, the scandal known as [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/channel-awesome-implosion-changethechannel the Channel Awesome Implosion] happened, where former and then current contributors began to speak and compare stories on their mistreatment on hands of the directives of the company, culminating on the revelation that some directives and at least one contributor were guilty of sexual abuse and subsequently covered up. This was the last straw for most of the contributors, who jumped ship like peasants fleeing the Black Plague.

 

=== Western Animation ===