Just in case the next hyped MCU entry fails, fans have the excuses already: covid.
Everyone else has already rebutted this lunacy plenty, but I feel like it needs to be pointed out again: years after the vast majority of people have put the coof behind them, Bob
still thinks that it has anything to do with his precious capeshit floundering.
I'm a week late (didn't have time), but I'll agree with Younger Brother on this one. I rather enjoyed Renfield as a very silly take on the Dracula story. Nic Cage hammed it up big time as the bloodsucker, there were some really clever jokes to go along with the simpler gags (my favorite being
Dracula letting himself into Renfield's apartment because he accidentally had a welcome mat in front of his door), and the gore was gratuitous and fun. It does kind of hit you over the head with the central theme a bit much, but it was still a fun watch, and just as long as it needed to be.
Wait, did anyone actually think that there
was such a thing as blue raspberry? That's something you figure out when you're like 5 or something and realize you don't see any at the grocery store. Without even watching the video, my gut tells me that candy companies wanted to make a raspberry flavor, but needed something to set it apart from other red/pink candies on the market since those were probably already taken up by cherry or strawberry. Blue wasn't being used (nobody makes blueberry candy), so that's what they settled on.
I could be wrong, but even if I am, I saved you thirteen minutes of your life watching MatPat blather on about something that would take ten seconds to explain.
TL;DW: After a long self-imposed Mario sabbath, Bob has finally come full mask-off to make a 18 minute video shit talking all of the click-baity bitches that dared to use his precious 9/10 Mario Movie as ammo for the culture war. And then for some reason 7 minutes of Bob trying to argue that the Cocaine Bear movie is a "WOKE-aine Bear" movie. I'd definitely recommend watching the video just for that alone.
I honestly don't get it. Mario is supposedly the biggest thing in Bob's life, a cornerstone of his youth. He styles himself an expert on the series, to the point of having written a book about SMB3 (in theory, though in practice it's actually a bizarre autobiography). It should have been a no-brainer for him to put out videos about the Mario movie: what he hoped would be in it, what he prayed wouldn't be, and what he'd like to see in future movies. His audience knows how much Mario means to him, and they'd probably click on every Mario video he put out. Maybe it wouldn't reverse the decline in his channel, but at least it wouldn't hurt.
Instead he just...didn't. His channel continues to falter because he simply can't put forth the effort to make something people might be interested in viewing. He can claim "self-care" all he wants, the reality is that he was too fucking lazy to do the bare minimum people expected.
Then again, I doubt it would have helped all that much. Take a look at the current views for his dozen latest videos:
His Mario review got barely more views than his D&D movie review. His other recent Mario videos (one about the new movie, the other a compilation reupload of videos from years past) did even worse. He continues to muddle about towards the bottom of the YouTube totem pole, posting videos that only those even more retarded than he is watch.
Oh, and one final note: Bob finally lost enough subscribers to make his YouTube number go down, marking his first drop since July 2022. He hasn't gained subscribers in literal years; Socialblade's graphs don't even go back far enough anymore.
Why are Bob's eyes all over the place during the parts where you can see his face? Like HOLY SHIT it's like watching tennis, except the ball is Bob's eyes darting back and forth like a fucking ADHD sped. Also he does way too much gesturing and I'm suspicious of people who do that. Probably because a lot of corrupt, lying politicians do it. But I digress.
Because Bob doesn't know how to speak off the cuff, so any time he's on camera, he has his script open in front of him so he can read it; note the reflections of his monitor in his lenses. That's why he usually wears sunglasses so you don't see his eyes moving, though you still get the reflections; no idea why he didn't do that this time. I'm also assuming he's still doing his "speed up the audio like it's 2006 and he still needs to squeeze every second out of his ten-minute allotment" thing, making it even worse.
I don't begrudge him for writing a script for his videos as that's just a generally good practice, but when you have the ability to edit any take into a complete video, how hard is it to memorize a sentence at a time and deliver it? Or better yet, when you look like a sentient thumb, why do you even bother to put yourself in front of a camera at all?
