I think he's legit a Transformers fan, but I have to believe the fact that Ellis' did a "feminist critique" of Transformers is not unknown to him.
He probably thinks that's another "in" for him to get in her good graces. I contemplated saying "get in her panties," but I'm on the fence as to whether that was ever his goal. I can't automatically assume it was, since I think Bob cares more about e-cred than sex. One would hope that even Bob had to comprehend that a relationship with the married, and more attractive, Ellis was never in the cards.
It's funny because it's not really outlandish for people to remember things like that from their childhood. I still remember Roy Fokker's death in Robotech. That was a pretty big deal in a kid's cartoon back then. Had he simply talked about the death of Optimus Prime like a normal person, he'd court plenty of people who feel the same way.
The part where Bob goes off the rails when he begins comparing it to real life things. That's when he begins to sound completely delusional.
The only MovieBob video I ever watched in its entirety was his "Really That Good" on Transformers: The Movie. He's actually quite negative about it, because (in typical Bob fashion) 80% of the video is just him complaining about Ronald Reagan. He attacks it as a poorly-made toy commercial with spotty animation quality. Maybe he's just salty about Optimus Prime dying because they wanted to sell a new range of toys, or because (given this is a fairly recent video) he just wanted to suck up to the woke brigade and decided to play down his fanboyism.
What's this phenomena called? Or has it always been a symptom of manchildness? I've seen it across multiple communities by this point.
I have a theory about this.
The modern woke male feminist wants to appear as non-threatening and non-masculine as possible. In theory this is because they believe in "toxic masculinity" and that they can defeat this by appearing to embody the opposite of all those things, though in reality it is more often than not a smokescreen for being a sex pest.
This expresses itself as all of the stereotypical "soy boy" behaviour. "Robert" sounds to patriarchical. A "Robert" will wear a suit and be sexist to his secretary and vote for Drumph and other unwoke things, whereas "Bob" is fun and friendly and wouldn't stalk you, not at all. It's the same with the soy face, wearing stupid wooly jumpers, being performatively nerdy and into "girly" things, claiming to be LGBTQ when they clearly aren't, and being seen to have loads of female friends (hence all the simping). It's all to look as "not like the other guys" as possible in order to look as un-masculine and un-rapey as possible, in order to score woke points and score some dangerhaired tail. (Of course most women, dangerhairs included, prefer a good deep dicking from an alpha Chad anyway and are turned off by useless Soyboys, but that's another matter).
I think it even explains a lot of trooning out. The logic is:
-All men are rapist pigs.
-I'm not a rapist pig (
)
-Therefore I am not a man.
Remember that it was Elliott Roger who caused Terra Jones, by his own admission, to troon out because he didn't want to be a member of a gender that could behave that way.
