the platonic ideal of ex-edgelords who spend years perpetually grovelling and loudly debasing themselves and their former fanbase as subhuman monsters who committed a literal Rwanda of Holocausts by saying nigger on internet.com
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If there was an alternative timeline where he ended up dating a regular woman who has zero influence over his channel, he would have still fallen off because he is rightfully insecure about his ability to entertain.
Let's game theory this for a second by flipping the coin.
Heads we get this Anisa shit.
Tails we don't.
If Ian never got into this cuckery, how different would the Sam Hyde documentary be?
The natural evolutionary path for someone like Ian is along whatever lines that irreverent personalities can go down. It was clear that he wanted to do Louis Theroux and that Channel 5 guy type of shit. Like a sort of cucked Brandon Buckingham. But if Anisa weren't involved, and it were the same Idubbbz that went along with whatever Filthy Frank did, what would stop him from doing the fun shit with MDE? Showing up in skits, going on podcasts. Being insecure isn't the problem, because he was interested in learning and being there for it. Now, he's absent minded and meandering.
Nothing but that insecurity you say was stopping him from doing non-cynical material, too. He chose that cynical style because it was the comedic style of the time and the insecurity came later as a reflection of that. How can you be insecure about entertaining people when all they ask you to do is open boxes of shit, and eat pickles in a sewer? That was just an admission that he got ideas from other people and didn't think he could do it on his own. But who fucking cares? All of his basic ideas were hits with people. Which "old idubbbz" series did his fans hate? I never liked bad unboxing but the kickstarter crap stuff was fun. The content cop stuff was entertaining. I don't understand what he thinks sucks about it.
The funniest thing about "old idubbbz" content is how it still applies today. He used to say reaction content was trash. He used to say commentary community stuff like Leafy and Keemstar were trash. And look at them today. Keemstar is "King of the Retards" basically wrangling lolcows into kayfabe podcast plotlines.
Twitch is absolute garbage with how many people just sit there eating and watching videos, adding barely nothing to them. When they do its retarded.
It's not like he was wrong, its that he's leaned into his weasel side. There's the dividing line. That's the Sam Hyde documentary line. You either choose to be based and shit on stuff on principle, regardless of its popularity (Reaction videos/commentary slop) or you be a bitch and make tik tok videos with your "wife" and imply {Sam Hyde is an ironic unironic white supremacist, so heh idk guys kinda cringe?"
There's nothing in his repertoire of skills stopping him from going out and doing a documentary on literally any subject he cares about. He had the money, and no one would care if it wasn't "netflix quality" because his channel never was. What was stopping him when he was more popular from spending some coin on professionals to show him how they do it, or do it for him?
All he had to do was leave the house. I mean lets be real, he's not a complete pussy. He ate pickles in the sewer, did the filthy frank hair cake shit. He boxed a guy who was clearly stronger and more experienced and then he lost he didn't just give up. He gave it another shot.
This relationship is some codependent oedipal shit and I hate it.
All he needs to do is get out there and do some shit instead of sit in his basement crying over SSRIs, spitefully watching "based" dadcore youtubers like cart narcs do shit he used to do, while working on a shitty arcade cabinet. He is depressionmaxxing for no reason internally. I guarantee this dude is excited for the moments when she goes to do something else.
I challenge you to find anything from pre-anisa where he was all depressed instead of carefree. Someone who goes around saying nigger on youtube at celebrities does not give a fuck, and that was actually a really cool thing. Fast forward and he's wearing a mask in Sam Hyde's slingshot like hes scared of air.
This doesn't just happen out of nowhere.
He's reflectively insecure about if hes entertaining? He was known for leaping off a counter and saying "I'm gay". He was known for sitting in a wheelchair and deadpan staring at the camera while saying "I have crippling depression."
Hello, your role was right there. It was to be the straight guy (gay) who "goes along with it" and then takes it a bit too far. That's actually a great bit to have because it means that there's always escalation when others are involved. All of those zoomers making tik tok trends where they dump coca cola in a bathtub or some gay shit will never surpass the insanity of the the chef series of videos.
What was the key ingredient of Idubbbz comedy style: Deadpan guy not giving a fuck.
Why is Anisa such a bitch: Loud, obnoxious girl doing a holier than thou.
Literally the formula for anti comedy. Taking everything seriously, don't hurt anyones feelings, think about the children in gaza and the tons of israelis being killed in sri lanka or whatever.
Imagine if Bam Margera right after CKY and Jackass when he was skating for Element and making tons of money got a girlfriend and all of a sudden was like "nah i can't do CKY anymore, and that audience is really toxic, me and my wife anisa are going to do celebrity boxing with former soap opera stars". You'd be wondering what the fuck happened, and think it was incredibly gay.
When Bam Margera goes to rehab over and over and does insane shit because hes become a drunk it's not a surprise because look at his fat old man and drunken uncle. The pattern of behavior changed with this bitch specifically, and the sooner she leaves him the sooner that will be proven. When he becomes a 45 year old divorce-fucked guy living in thailand with a vietnamese wife collecting insects or something so that he can upload them to zoomtube or whatever shit will replace youtube in 10 years as his hobby channel.
