Hamburger Detractor
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- Feb 10, 2025
I'm pretty much in the same boat. I didn't mind WATP when it was just a Jocktober knock off, but once he started getting personally invested in SJ and every episode had to bring him up with that shitdick potato jumping on board was when I started to bail. From there Karl just revealed himself to be more and more of a hypocrite and a douche. Teaming with "da shit weigher" Shuli instead of calling him out for stealing his gimmick, then when SJ first tried to leave they were desperate to make Chad Zumock the new target but the MudShark was too much for them and they pussied out and went to just playing old John clips like they were new. After that was his failed feud with Kevin Brennan, where he tried to attack him for "just doing shows to collect superchats" only to then switch his own format to stream on youtube and spend half his show reading superchats. Now he's become a Melton ballwasher and Balldoguard and I can't even stand watching highlights any more when he tries to talk about other things besides SJ/Aaron/Opie.The Dabbleverse is someone nobody should ever get addicted to. Ever.
ngl I'm ashamed that I still follow it after all these years. In the early days when it was just StutJo beefing with Karl, it was lighthearted fun and somewhat enjoyable. This was back when WATP was still about reviewing shitty podcasts.
Once Chrissie Mayr asked that fateful question that led to the Dabbleverse moniker, that was the beginning of the end. Grifters like Shuli and Cardiff glommed on. StutJo kept on feeding this monster for a while until he disappeared, only to reappear 8 months later and throw gasoline onto this dumpster fire.
IMO the tipping point was when Melton saw an opportunity for some easy clout, and tried turning Steel Toe into the new StutJo. This in turn sucked the Rekietas in, and anything Nick Rekeita touches inevitably turns to shit.
Meanwhile, despite the shark being jumped at least a year ago, that fat Mexican deadbeat father we all know and love is revving up his motorcycle and attempting to jump an entire pool of sharks (mud and/or otherwise).
The fact is that the Dabbleverse has become so far removed from its core (I mean how many recently sucked-in DV followers have even heard of Stuttering John?). It's morphed into a colossal slapfight between an ever increasing cohort of Gen X losers, along with older Millennial losers by virtue of colliding with both the Balldoverse and the Sektur.
That all being said, the biggest losers of all are the schmucks like me who can't look away from the damn thing.
tl;dr: The Dabbleverse is fucking shit and very difficult to quit
The worst thing is I can't even try to watch the other peripheral shows because they all have to work with each other. WinBy2 is just shitty Redbar who works closely with the retard that runs the /r/boringshow reddit. I wanted to like Tookie but he has to team with the hack potato and also jumps in with the Steel Toe a-logging with Melton so he's out. Blind Mike Project is ok, but he also ballwashes/broadcasts with Karl and steals a lot of his mannerisms so even he's getting hard to listen to when he has to defend people like Nick or Melton while saying he knows nothing about why they are bad people. As retarded as the Dabbleverse is I think the worst part is you can't even keep track of everything because 99% of the shows that cover it are shit.
TL;DR : (insert any Dabbleverse hack) stinks, and I don't like him!