You seem to be burying the lede here, which isn't that Bob's brain works along the lines of the below average redditor (not surprising), but that he was slated to be part of some unnamed documentary and the backers advised the people making it not to have him on board.
I have no idea if it's true; Bob is dishonest and while flat out untruths are not his general m.o. he distorts and elides like a motherfucker, so he very well could be exaggerating how close he came to being in some project if not completely making it up ... but man, if it is true? He just admitted he's exactly as toxic as we've been saying over here for almost the last decade.
Bob does lie a lot, but he almost always lies to make himself look good, not bad (see the aforementioned cookout tweet above). Thus, I'm inclined to believe this is true, if only because there would be no point in lying about it in such a fashion. If he were trying to paint a rosier picture of himself, he would simply state that he was almost in a documentary but plans fell through and leave it at that. The fact that he explicitly states that he was shitcanned from it leads me to believe he's seething about something that actually happened.
And he still wonders to this day why he has such a bad reputation. It can't always be those dang dirty trolls, Bobbo.
One of the most annoying things about Bob's ego is this belief he is a master at predicting things. Basically what Bob does is he reads the wikis for these comics. Then his prediction typically is "this thing that happened in the comic, it's probably going to happen in the movie about the comic". And than his dumb fans are like "WOW BOB YOU WERE SO RIGHT HOW DID YOU KNOW?"
And Bob, the humble guy that he is, says "
I hate always being right". His big brain is such a burden.
It honestly amuses me that Bob thinks so highly of himself and rags on "YouTubers" all the time, despite the fact that he does contract work for one of the biggest slop mills on the platform. For someone who harps on and on about media literacy, you'd think that he'd refuse to work with a channel that basically encourages people not to engage with the media they cover and instead watch endless "explainer" videos on it instead. (As one example, while looking up Local58 videos the other day, I saw that their latest video had about 500k views, while a Theorist video covering that one had over a million. Needless to say, I was a little disgusted.)
As addressed many times already, Bob has no real skill beyond looking stuff up and pretending he's well-versed on a topic. I guess that's why he fits so well with the Theorist crowd, since that's basically all they do (along with pulling shit out of their asses, another Bob staple). Marvel makes it super easy for him too since they announce these movies years in advance to build hype, giving him plenty of time to look up every major storyline and character and figure out what the most obvious thing they're probably going to do with them is. Then he acts smug about his predictions being right when they're so simple anyone could have called them (and conveniently ignores the many times his predictions don't pan out). Just a pathetic waste of a human being.
04May#01
For the first time in his life, Bobby experiences "fear of success". In other words, he is making excuses for being lazier than normal.
Bob, that's not "fear of success." You're just getting old, compounded by a lifetime of bad habits. Turns out that all those fairly small Mickey D's meals and rums for breakfast have caught up with you, and now you're facing the consequences. Enjoy the decline.
04May#10
How about NO? Pedophile.
A&N
I generally don't have a problem with public broadcasting, but it's been clear for decades that they've become mouthpieces for smug liberal propaganda that I'd rather not pay for. If libs want to save them, then surely they'll be fine with giving out of their own wallets instead of forcing people who don't care to watch or listen to them at all to subsidize people who hate them, right? Rev up those pledge drives! You'll even get a free tote bag if you donate enough!
04May#18a
Bobby took notice of
the piece of news about Kevin Feige I mentioned above. Bobby changes his tone in a most bizarre way:
- Now Feige is a genius because he hoodwinks fans into believing that he listened when he in fact didn't.
- The fuck up post-Endgame is deliberate: because Feign must burn the phoenix into ashes so it can be reborn!
- Not only is "superhero fatigue" real, MCU and Feige knows that it is real for a long time: Thunderbolts is about superhero fatigue!
- Bobby is the ideal critic because he knows how things are made.
Books could be written on the sheer levels of cope that Bob has around the continued decline of the MCU.
First off, I don't think anyone besides people with their heads
way up their own asses like Bob and that other guy up there thinks that Thunderbolts has anything meta to say about the MCU. It's another by the numbers capeshit movie that nobody asked for and has nothing to write home about. Bob is so damn desperate for his slop to have some kind of meaning so he can feel like he's not wasting his life.
Second, even if it
did have anything meta to say, how would they know three or four years ago what the discourse surrounding capeshit would be in 2025? Superhero fatigue didn't really hit the mainstream zeitgeist until maybe 2023 at the earliest, and really kicked into high gear in 2024. I know Marvel basically reshoots entire movies as part of the process at this point, but that seems like an awful stretch to assume they were writing this under the assumption that people would be tired of capeshit by now. Also, wouldn't that be admitting failure on their part to not keep people invested?
Third, Bob seems to be arguing that they knew that shit after Endgame would be bad and they'd need to reboot down the line. If they actually knew that that far in advance, why didn't they, I dunno,
not produce a bunch of garbage for several years and tank the brand? What kind of five-dimensional chess does Bob think Feige is playing here?
Fourth, as the article points out, Iger was the one who was pushing for all the MCU Disney+ content before he ran away and left Chapek holding the bag as it fell apart, only to swoop back in and pretend he was their savior when Chapek was doing what he wanted from the start. Bob admits it's "bad decision making [sic]" but fails to lay the blame where it belongs. He will also never stop blaming the coof for all of the MCU's woes.
And finally, tying this all back together, Bob continues to insist that Feige truly has this all planned out years in advance and knows exactly what he's doing at all times, even hoodwinking fans into thinking their feedback matters. Thus, he made Thunderbolts into a movie that was actually about capeshit fatigue and timed it to come out at exactly the right moment for that to be the main discourse about the genre. Now, I'm no media literacy expert like Bobbo, but let me channel my inner Bob and do a quick Wikipedia search...
During the production of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), director James Gunn expressed interest in making a film based on the Marvel Comics team Thunderbolts, a group of "anti-heroes and super-criminals". Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said this was a possibility based on the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. By May 2021, Gunn was no longer interested in the idea after directing the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film The Suicide Squad (2021), because that team from DC Comics is based on a similar concept to the Thunderbolts.
[...]
By June 2022, Jake Schreier was attached to direct Thunderbolts, from a screenplay by Eric Pearson, with Feige producing. Schreier was hired after a presentation that "blew away" Marvel Studios executives.
So call me crazy if you want, but it seems to me like the reality is that Feige wanted to do a Marvel version of The Suicide Squad (the James Gunn one), and since they already had some characters around for it, he greenlit it. No meta-commentary, no deeper meaning, just "let's do that." Seems pretty simple to me.
04May#18b
To elaborate on Point 2 above. A savvy media critic will notice that there is no Avengers beyond
Endgame.
Still a lot of cope here, especially in how Bob insists you don't
actually have to watch everything to keep up (despite Disney basically implying it all the time and people trusting them at their word). But that last part, where he argues that this is all some part of a master plan by Feige and company to make people miss the good characters that they killed off already by releasing a bunch of slop that nobody likes is just...so, so very fucking retarded.
I mean, seriously, does Bob actually think that it makes sense in
any way for Marvel to put out one bad movie and TV show after another
intentionally? Does he not realize that studios would actually prefer to
keep making money hand over fist? Is he so retarded that he truly believes that Feige knew everything was going to flop after Endgame and he'd somehow use that to build up interest to a triumphant return?
The answer is yes, obviously. Bob really is that stupid. If they truly wanted a rebound, they'd have shut things down entirely for a few years, quietly worked out a plan for things to come, and then come out swinging with heavy hitters. But they didn't, so all we have is slop and a failing brand that only diehard fanboys like Bob continue to defend.
