He has no agency over his own life. He is purely a passive spectator. How about instead of just sitting around for Hollywood or MST3K to contact you, YOU instead contact THEM? Email or call them and ask how one would pitch a script to a Hollywood producer, or ask about internships at MST3K. BE PROACTIVE AND DO SOMETHING instead of just sitting around and waiting for everyone else to serve you opportunities on a silver platter.
That requires effort and Bob can't do that.
What's funny is I always assumed the reason Bob self-published Brick by Brick was because he sent the manuscript to publishers, it got rejected, so he did it himself because he assumed the reason was because they didn't understand what gold he had given them. But with this in mind, he might have just tweeted out a couple of times that he had a book he wanted to publish and assumed someone from a publishing company (He's too superior to know their names, but they're obviously always watching him for great ideas) was going to see it and DM him for it.
It'd be funny if that's also what he's talking about when he says "I have projects in the work". He's hoping people will ask him about them so he can bring them in on some movie or review crossover.
Hey Bob, instead of trying to get hired by this thing that is begging for money, why don't you just do that on your own channel? Maybe if it was successful enough, MST3K would come asking, and then you'd say, "No thanks, I couldn't afford the pay cut." (j/k that would never happen.)
I think in 2015 or 2016, he, Chris and Sarah were doing a show on Patreon where they riffed games. Bob was insistent this wasn't a Let's Play because this was something new: They were making fun of the game while playing it. People repeatedly pointed out that yes, that already exists, it's what the Retsupurae guys used to do. Eventually they gave up because no one watched it.
Also, considering how much money he gave up when he joined Geek just so he could be a paid movie critic again, he would absolutely take SWG minimum, or less, just so he can say he's a writer for MST3K.
I want to get Bob and Linkara together to do a riff on something just to see what stupidity they'd come up with.
I've been lurking on KF for years following the exploits of this...human jello mold, I guess, and I just can't wrap my head around where this guy gets off thinking he's superior to anyone.
I mean, we all talk about Dunning-Kruger, but this fat fuck is its mutant manifestation.
Dunning and Kruger would look upon this beastly, formless troglodyte and whisper, "not like this...not like this..."
My theory is that Bob had this grand ideal of the way his life was going, reached a point where it stalled out, and could never accept it.
As was said, his plan was to be a movie critic, and then use that as a stepping stone to being a film maker. How? Well, clearly Hollywood producers would read his blogs and see his videos, realize what a genius he was, and enlist him on a small project. When that made millions, they'd give him something bigger, until eventually he was making superhero blockbusters.
And it kind of worked. Bob spent years trying to be a paid critic, and eventually got there through Screw Attack and Escapist, later getting a paid gig through Escapist that finally let him move out of his house and buy his own PC. He was getting push back for his lazy takes, but he was also getting lots of views and attention, so he kept going and made no efforts to improve because he was convinced he was already perfect. But then his bad attitude and poor workmanship got him kicked out of Escapist and he was reeling. Then, the infamous Pixels review happened, and what Bob assumed would happen finally did. People were talking about him, even Howard Stern referenced the review. This meant that he now had Hollywood attention and could make the leap to film... and it never happened. And he can't understand why.
I feel like the main reason he never put much effort into his own channel and focused so heavily on working for another site again is because he refuses to 'go backwards' as he puts it. To him, his career goes youtuber/blogger, then paid critic, then small director, then mid-level director, then blockbuster director. And to go back to being a youtuber, even though he was making way more money per video, he just wasn't putting out as many, is to accept defeat.
No amount of Blobservation can ever let one understand Bob Chipman. I've been here for 8 years now and in all that time, despite being literally blown out of the water by Lindsey Ellis et al. Bob always comes back the same as always.
The lack of blow out finally taking him out upsets me because I see this being another Dobson: This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang, but a whimper. If he does quit, there won't be some big lashing out at people, he'll just go away and never come back. Or, more likely, he'll just stop making videos but keep whining on twitter and trying to get people to go check out his now dead channel in the hopes he'll make a few more bucks.
