Source: WIRED

Written by Jenna Wortham

The humorously bitter video series You Suck at Photoshop will return June 27 after a fan backlash erupted following the show’s abrupt ending earlier this year.

Show co-creators Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch will revisit their deliriously demented video tutorials, which feature miserable office drone (and photo-editing expert) Donnie Hoyle delivering caustic, bite-size lessons in layering effects, clone stamping and the quickest route to getting fired.

“Once fans began to realize this was the end of Donnie Hoyle, there was a sudden outcry of anger and confusion,” said Hitch, who voices the tutorials, in a phone interview. “People were sending hate mail … posting [threatening] comments and generally doing everything in their individual web 2.0 power to get us to bring Donnie back.”

“It was truly the will of the people that took us down this path,” added Bledsoe, who said the duo was motivated to bring the show back after seeing “hundreds of people submitting Photoshop tributes” in Donnie’s memory. Tallying more than 9 million pageviews over the 10-episode run and picking up two Webby wins (for “Best How-to” and “Best Comedy Series — People’s Voice”) didn’t hurt either.

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