Mr Processor
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- Jan 8, 2022
The thing is, Bob is so old and has been doing this for so long if he had and drive or talent he'd likely be a success. He was one of these people who had a shot at never having to work a real job and still being relatively successful. I think we always compare him to Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. I think Yahtzee does pretty well for himself. The Escapist gave Bob more or less the same exact break they gave Yahtzee. Yahtzee is still going strong, while Bob hasn't managed to maintain interest.Literally everything he says in that tweet is either projection or could be fully applied to him and his genre. If anything, the whole nerd and culture analysis side of YouTube has become so oversaturated that it is impossible to find any success in it. It is the go to thing that your average simpleton decides to talk about, and most of the time they are just reusing the same dumb talking points that a million other spergs have made on the internet. It is about as safe of content as one person can make now and days, and it really has become so played out that only a few can maintain success in it.
The real irony is that unlike the movie or game sphere side of YouTube, the sports side really has a higher track level of success. As long as you are somewhat competent you can find success in it. Even Barry McCockiner who is on the lower end of editing quality has developed a sizable fanbase off his videos. It isn't just analysis either, a lot of people want to hear the stories telling the history side of things and how things got to be the way they are today.
If Bob wasn't the complete retard he is, it isn't out of the realm of possibility that he could have actually found success talking about sports the way he pretends he did with media. McCockiner has proved you can even be an asshole when it comes to your personality and still find success.
I can't imagine Bob successfully shifting to sports commentary, I just don't think he has the knowledge or interest. He'd be such an obvious fake fan I think people would laugh at him. I guess the one thing he could talk about without being fake would be pro-wrestling from when he was a kid. If that succeeded, I guess he could move into talking about current wrestling, but he'd have to make the effort to start taking an interest in it. Well, this is all theoretical anyway, since he won't do any of that.