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So yeah, funny story about the box office. Sure, Disney might have had a good run last year, but that's not the whole picture.26Mar#02
Cope dope.
Let's archive the post I highlighted in yellow to see if his prophecy comes true.
Let's take a look at the past few years, skipping 2020 because that's the coof year. Here's 2021, 2022, and 2023. In brief:
- In 2021, Disney had a whopping single movie in the top 10, with Shang-Chi all the way down at number 9. (Spider-Man doesn't count because it's produced by Sony primarily.) There were still coof aftereffects, admittedly, so take those numbers with a slight grain of salt.
- In 2022, Disney had four movies in the top 10: Avatar 2 (#1), Doctor Strange 2 (#4), Black Panther 2 (#6), and Thor 4 (number eight). However, outside of Avatar's ridiculous box office take (it still baffles me anyone was actually interested in another of those), the other movies certainly didn't quite live up to Disney's expectations. None of them crossed the billion-dollar mark, and considering the huge budgets and marketing for Marvel movies, they likely weren't as profitable as they wanted.
- In 2023, Disney once again had only a single movie in the top 10, GotG 3 at number 4. Once again, it didn't pass a billion. This was a year where Disney had a lot of movies released, and many of them were utter flops. Ant-Man 3, The Little Mermaid, Indiana Jones 5, The Marvels, and Wish ranged from below expectations to dead in the water. Hell, it was a year where the top three movies were Barbie, the Mario movie, and Oppenheimer.
Bob is basically arguing that the YouTube ragebait grifters are stupid because Disney is too big to fail, and people will still go see Snow White because it's Disney and that's just what you're supposed to do. Thing is, Snow White is a lot like the 2023 flopbusters: a lot of controversy surrounding a movie nobody wanted. I do not think it's going to have a successful run, and theaters are likely going to try and shove it out the door as soon as possible.
People make fun of you for the Mountain Dew chicken not because you used soda in a recipe, but because it looked like dry, overbaked trash. You're so stupid.
Now, honestly, I don't think Bob could ever truly have managed to hit great success on YouTube in the long run. He's an unfunny and uninteresting sperg who only got anywhere by being a big (lolfat) fish in a small pond when the idea of being an online film critic was new. He's been coasting on what little momentum he got back then for fifteen years.
However, if he had put in some more effort, maybe he would be in a better place now and not up to his eyeballs in debt. Neglecting his personal channel while he kept chasing film critic jobs at established websites only hurt his position in the algorithm, and by the time he realized he'd have to actually use it again, it was already too late. He would never be a huge channel, but he could at least be somewhat comfortable.
Put another way: the reason the RLM boys don't have to do ad reads for their videos is because they put in the work to build a channel that their fans would gladly financially support. Bob has a tiny audience that is clearly not growing. He's long past the point he should have given up, yet he keeps toiling away at his garbage channel, hoping that someone will finally notice him and give him his big break in Hollywood.
(And honestly, it's just stupid that this fatass gets $32k/year (before Patreon's cut and taxes) for producing this dreck. With most of his living expenses likely taken care of, he should be covered easily.)
Good on them for bringing back Game Informer, I suppose, although it's hard to say if they'll make it work in the long run since the market for a print gaming magazine is pretty limited at this point.
Meanwhile, it's been over twelve years since the last Nintendo Power issue. The market for console manufacturer-specific magazines is even more limited than a generalist one. It's not coming back, Bob. Get over it.
Because he's an autistic retard.
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