02Dec#06
John DiLillo believes that Iger will pilot The Rat away from woke. Bobby, on the contrary, is optimistic that it will not be the case because subhumanoids are
so so stupid.
We'll talk about
Mad Maxine later, still I have to make a diversion to show how these Thinker types need the same messages drilled repeatedly into them.
Before I get into my larger point, I just want to point out the absurdity of the notion that Disney "overcorrected in response to bad faith right wing blowback" with regards to their horrid Star Wars movies. Their problem was not because some nerds on the internet got angry, their problem was that they barreled into it without any plan or anyone actually caring enough to guide the story forward, assuming that Star Wars would sell no matter what anyway so it didn't really matter what they did. So they hired a bunch of different filmmakers and told them "hey, do whatever you want, we'll fix it in post."
JJ comes along with his first entry and does his usual mystery box schtick while simultaneously doing a shameless ripoff of ANH. Then Rian comes out with his "subversive" "masterpiece" that blew up every mystery box, which admittedly was pretty funny in a meta perspective, but it left zero narrative threads to work with anymore. Colin Trevorrow wisely got the fuck out of there when it was clear it would be nigh impossible to work that to a satisfying conclusion, so Disney quickly called JJ back in because they didn't have anybody else to turn to. Of course, JJ isn't good at delivering answers, so the result is a final movie that left nobody satisfied.
And of course, all of it was subject to Kathy's executive meddling. If she'd actually cared about the Star Wars universe, she could have been an overseer making sure everything came together. But decades of jealousy of the likes of Spielberg and Lucas made her not give a shit about the legacy of Star Wars, so she'd throw in anything she felt like (the most obvious example being Captain Phasma where she liked GoT and wanted the big woman from there in Star Wars in shiny stormtrooper armor) and force them to work it in somehow.
Yes, a fair amount of nerds got upset over TLJ, but frankly, I don't think that informed Disney's decisions at all. The bigger factor was how the box office from TFA to TLJ dropped by
half. They went from a Star Wars movie making $2.5 billion to barely getting over a billion in just two years. You can't tell me that's just because initial hype wore off, that doesn't cause a drop that severe. No, that's what happens when you lose general audiences because you just didn't make that good of a movie.
02Dec#07
Glad someone finally forced him to admit to this bizarre habit he has of retweeting his own stuff all the time. His reasoning for it is even dumber. Quoted for posterity:
I'm not on this misery machine for fun, I'm here to get my words seen and thus my work and self promoted so I can get more work that doesn't require this kind of self promotion
Yeah, and how's that working out for you? Half of what you post is politisperging, the other half is shitty takes on the basest pop culture pablum, with a few intermingled "things I gleaned from Wikipedia" mingled in to give an air of expertise. If I saw any of your tweets cross my timeline, I would just laugh at how stupid you were and not bother to look into any of your work further, but I guess that's because I have more than two brain cells to rub together.
Let's take a look at his current stats just to see where he's at.
Bob has not gained subscribers in an appreciable number in years, and his views have stagnated:
His videos predominantly consist of old content that he's reposted with "updated commentary." He hasn't had a movie break six-digit views in four years, his last one being a Really That Good on Star Wars (no shit, Sherlock). Even his capeshit reviews aren't doing good numbers anymore:
His Patreon seems to no longer be in freefall, although he's still nowhere near his peak and has fewer patrons than before. Graphtreon hasn't updated with the December 1st drop, but current stats are 857 retards giving him $2523/month:
He's been fired from every place that ever had him on as a contributor, and it's not like he can go back to The Escapist again since they're probably going to shut down now that they've lost the only reason anyone ever went to their site. I sincerely doubt MatPat's paying him that much to skim Wikipedia articles either, nor is he likely to want to hire the bloated manchild for anything bigger. If I cared enough I'd go through every video and see how many Bob is actually contributing to, but I'm sure the answer is very few.
He's made zero inroads to the film industry whatsoever. His elevator pitches are so terrible that they're only good for mockery, and no producer is beating down his door to hire him for a screenwriting gig. Sure doesn't help that his grammar is atrocious.
And for all he bitches about how Twitter is a hellsite that he hates being on, his constant rageposting begs to differ. He's tweeting dozens of times every single day without fail, at all hours of the day and night, always charging in with his confidently wrong opinions regardless of subject. And despite all this, he gets practically zero engagement, consistently
losing followers even. Nobody is driven to watch his videos or subscribe to his Patreon because of his tweeting, this thing that's supposedly so necessary for him to move up in life so he'll no longer need to relentlessly self-promote.
In short: Bob is a fucking liar. He tweets because that's all he knows how to do. He will never reach his goals because he's too damn addicted to the dopamine hits he gets every time he corrects the chuds, and frankly, I'm glad he won't. Bob is blind to his faults, and thus he will never overcome them.
should tell him that's how guys like him get hired for shit like Adventure Time and Steven Universe.
