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Maybe it's because Dobbo uses himself as a model, and he can never do a real smile?
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Maybe it's because Dobbo uses himself as a model, and he can never do a real smile?
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Yep, also he gets jealous when his characters are happy because he'll never be.
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The only happiness that ever existed in his life was in his drawings and even that was fake.
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He never cared about animation as a craft to begin with, otherwise he would have leveraged what he learned at MCAD to become an independent, yet recognizable figure in the field but he never did. Dobson had such a huge head start compared to other 2000s era internet creators because he was professionally trained as an animator. He could have easily garnered a huge following online both in Newgrounds and pre-corporate Youtube if he actually cared about animation.
He had the knowledge, the tools and the financial backing to hit the ground running and did nothing as he sat on the lap of advantages and privileges very few people have access to.
No one who genuinely cared and felt passion for animation as a craft would have acted the way Dobson did. An animator animates especially if there is a true drive to showcase to others what you are capable of doing but there is nothing in his portfolio that you can point out to and find remarkable or inspiring. He allowed himself to wallow in his own stagnation and mediocrity and by the end of it whatever was left of his knowledge as an animator had degenerated into producing the cringe inducing "Mowgli-Korra" marriage proposal animation clip. I don't think I've ever felt embarrassment-by-proxy like the one I experienced after watching that "thing" clumsily move on-screen.
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Just consider the following:
The only thing he ever created using his skills as an animator was that completely aweful video of Korra asking Asami to become her wife.
The only thing he ever created using his skills as an animator was that completely aweful video of Korra asking Asami to become her wife.
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Isn't that when Chris-Chan graduated college?
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Thanks for the PSTD.
But you're right.
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Children born when he entered college earn more money than Sobson at any point of those 17 years, even adjusted to inflation.
Sobson forever Carl at least finished the bear minimum of the life cycle, maintained a grift and got involved in politics. DSP was the streamer with big donos per capita at one point. Robert and Sobson are a tier of loser which is hard to convey how much of a failure they are as adults, any kind of job/work is above them and must cope with that by saying these jobs are beneath them. Thus the vicious cycle of seething continues.
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IIRC, Dobbo wanted to be an "idea guy" at Di$ney without doing much animation work - he'd come up with "brilliant" ideas, and the animation team would bring those "brilliant" ideas to life.
(reminds me of that one Calvin and Hobbes comic)
Also IIRC, at one point there was a roommate who got a job at Di$ney while Dobsoy didn't. Of course, it goes without saying that Dobsoy was jealous - maybe to this day.
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A lot of people wonder about Dobson’s motivations for choosing the field that he did, especially since he seemed to derive very little pleasure from it. Or, at least, he didn’t get that core fulfilment from his art that is a requirement of any professional artist in any field.
So why did he choose animation/drawing? I think it was the only thing he was any good at. According to his old dA journals he was mediocre at best in school, and borderline failing his classes at worst. Now there’s nothing wrong with not having an academic inclination in or out of school; plenty of people have very fulfilling careers in a labor- or technical-field job, especially freelance tradesmen like welders or technicians of all sorts. However, Dobson clearly looked down on tradespeople, likely associating them with those dang-dirty conservatives or something. So he probably never considered himself in a non-arts or non-academic job… heck, the sheer premise probably revolted him (remember his stint as a live-in building janitor?).
To me, the answer for him entering his field was that he was simply too dumb and conceited for anything else. He did the only thing he could do reasonably well without having an identity crisis.
So why did he choose animation/drawing? I think it was the only thing he was any good at. According to his old dA journals he was mediocre at best in school, and borderline failing his classes at worst. Now there’s nothing wrong with not having an academic inclination in or out of school; plenty of people have very fulfilling careers in a labor- or technical-field job, especially freelance tradesmen like welders or technicians of all sorts. However, Dobson clearly looked down on tradespeople, likely associating them with those dang-dirty conservatives or something. So he probably never considered himself in a non-arts or non-academic job… heck, the sheer premise probably revolted him (remember his stint as a live-in building janitor?).
To me, the answer for him entering his field was that he was simply too dumb and conceited for anything else. He did the only thing he could do reasonably well without having an identity crisis.
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I dunno, I always imagined that Dobson had a knack for doodling comics and that this was his way to stand out amongst the other people in his class. So he became the comics guy, doodling away, being top student in his arts class, positive feedback by everyone and all that jazz, so he decided to pursue a career in art...
And then he joined MCAD and instead of being the comics guy that's the best in his class, he was just a mediocre artist in a group of comic people and most were much better than him at making art.
His identity would vaporate within minutes and what you are left with is Hat Andy with an inferiority complex and a bad attitude.
And then he joined MCAD and instead of being the comics guy that's the best in his class, he was just a mediocre artist in a group of comic people and most were much better than him at making art.
His identity would vaporate within minutes and what you are left with is Hat Andy with an inferiority complex and a bad attitude.
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Reminds me of how he started to dislike anime after it got popular in America, because the style he drew in* was no longer really unique after many in America started drawing in anime style too.
*(which looks like that of Rumiko Takahashi)
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The story is told in this blog post from @SteelPlatedHeart.
tl;dr He got a job as a caretaker at some apartment complex for the sole purpose of having a free place to live. He of course didn't do his job, let the place go to shit, had a fucking blowout with his superiors and also had a string of fights with his girlfriend over it.
The usual Dobson series of events.
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Thank you. Thank you so much. This gif makes me so happy.
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Jesus Christ each frame is more cursed than the last
He briefly lived in an apartment complex where he was basically given free rent in exchange for fairly light custodial duties. He mentions things like mopping floors, occasionally putting chlorine in the pool, etc. So in other words, basic maintenance… nothing hideous like rooting toilets or anything like that.
As you can likely predict, Dobson couldn’t handle it. He shirked his duties constantly, and the slack had to be picked up by his girlfriend (who, appallingly, had her own 9-5 job that she worked while Dobson had literally nothing else to do). He was told off by the building superintendent multiple times for letting the building look like shit, and was eventually kicked out after Dobson complained that his chores interferes with his drawing.
One story he mentioned was trying to serve a noise complaint to a party in one of the units, only for them to shut him down and then some of the women came and teased him at his own door. Dobson apparently called the police crying due to the teasing, later having a meltdown over wondering “who the FUCK these people think they are!!!”
Just like every other time, Dobby was given a sweet, cushy deal in exchange for minimal effort, and couldn’t even do that.
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I remember this, dammit, I would've happily get that job for the free apartment and work somewhere else (maybe part-time?) in order to cover my costs that wouldn't be much.
Dobbo has been given many kind of opportunities on a silver platter, job wise, career wise, relationship wise and he managed to ruin every single one of them because they were all beneath him in his mind.
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He also did that mediocre video of him playing Wii with 90s cartoon Link.