I remember post squirting, I had one of those "Have things maybe gone to far? He's dick, but he doesn't deserve someone fucking with him in public. Has all the mockery gone too far if you have people going after him in public for internet points" soul searching 'are we the baddies?' moments.
And then he melted the fuck down. He didn't just have a "Dude, that was totally not cool" post, he had a full-on mantoddler tantrum about getting sprayed with water. And has been completely butt blasted by three squirts for over a decade. Turning Spray man into a retroactive master troll.
Like just close your eyes, nigga. Haha just get one shitty bathroom paper towel.
Had the same reaction.
When I heard about him being sprayed, I thought it was funny, watched the video and realized how pathetic and juvenile it was.
But Dobson just had to be an utter idiot about it and now I think the whole thing was fucking hilarious in retrospect, just by the amount of content it created in the aftermath.
Dobson tried so many times to portray this as a super scary assault that rocked him to the core, but he was just sprayed with water. The guy lived rent-free in his head for a decade now and his repeated attempts to squeeze into the circles of abuse victims in his Twitter echo-chamber were transparent and lazy.
I don't doubt that it was an eye opener to Dobson, who had to come to terms that being a shithead online could very well lead to someone punching him in the face down the line, but he neither stopped to assess how large that threat actually is (protip: nonexistent) or what would make people even want to punch him in the face in the first place (protip: his own shitty online behaviour).
Any normal person would either brush it off based on it being a lame prank or rethink his online behaviour, Dobson on the other hand just never brought it up for years and then it was suddenly the most terrible thing to ever happen to him.
Or, to paraphrase Street Fighter's best line:
"The day some troll sprayed you with water was the most important day in your life... but for me, it was just a prank bro."