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Over double the age of the Backrooms kid and what is Bob's excuse? He's been fired from every job he's held except with his last stint with The Escapist where his contract was so unceremoniously not renewed that it's announcement was dropped on The Escapist's Youtube channel's community section and they told him to take his shit and leave. His book which was supposed to be some new kind of breakdown of Super Mario Bros 3 was actually a bizarre, cringe filled, and poorly written mess. He reheats and repackages his old content and tries to sell it off as new. He spends an inordinate amount of time on a social media website that he loudly proclaims is irrelevant. He has discord downloaded on his phone and uses it.
Looks like I found excuses aplenty.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this gets to Bob, mainly based on his wording which seems very dismissive to the work that the kid put into his project. Bob did his due diligence and casually skimmed the wiki page for The Backrooms and took the broadest strokes to explain why this is such a big deal.

This is the cap of the picture and post on 4chan from 2019 that birthed The Backrooms. Kane Parsons, who was 16 at the time, released his first video in January of 2022.
For a much better and more entertaining breakdown of The Backrooms project I'll point you here.
All of the effects, design, planning, was done by a kid who was just old enough to drive. Bob will never be Kane. Bob could never be Kane. Kane is special. Bob is not. That's not a bad thing. Most people on Earth will never be recognized outside of their community. That's been the entirety of human civilization. A lot of people know about Alexander the Great. The number of people who could name anyone else surrounding him drops off precipitously. Bob, who drunkenly proclaimed that it was 20 fucking 19 and he should be on a starship and talking to robots by now because that was the future he earned, will die one day and all that will be left to remember him is fading memories from his niece and nephew, youtube videos that will be lost in the digital sea, and people like us who will go our own way once he's gone assuming places like this our even allowed to survive that long. I know it effects him because he dropped that "I'm running out of time" tweet something like two weeks ago. That's kinda sad. It's these humanizing elements that helps me keep coming back to this thread. Bob is an abhorrent pig of a man but he is still just a man, no matter how hard he tries to run from it.
Besides the Chipman brothers' tranny slasher movie, this is the only movie that I'm looking forward to. A24 is pretentious and artsy fartsy enough that I think they could actually pull off breathing life into this universe better than any other company can. I say could because it's still Hollywood. I just hope they don't fuck Kane up or over with their Hollywood filth.