Eric's early uploads are mostly videos of him doing vocal covers, mostly solo but with some collabs. There are also a few videos of his track and field competitions. The earliest video I can find of his where he's doing a vlog or commentary is
this one from September 2012 where he discusses black-on-black violence with a friend, but that's pretty much a one-off until he starts doing them more regularly in July 2016. Between the start of his channel and the beginning of his more regular commentary, spanning the better part of a decade, he only uploads about 100 videos, not a whole lot in total.
At that point, he starts to upload more regularly, with the main topics being music, video games, comics, and commentary. Many don't get a huge number of views, sometimes not even breaking triple digits, though some do get traction. As the years go by, his views gradually improve, to the point where he's usually getting five-digit views or more. His higher view count pretty much comes from his constant uploads, generally doing two or three a day, which I'd say is pretty typical of a channel primarily focused on commentary that doesn't require a lot of editing. Here are his ten most recent videos as of this post, all of which come from the past few days:
So let's more or less trim off the first half of Eric's channel and say he's been doing this regularly for about eight years. Subtract about 5 million views for those early videos (one of which had over 3 million and is still his most-viewed), and that's about 78 million views over eight years, or roughly 10 million a year.
Bob's early uploads are various mashups that he probably thought was funny, but I'm not about to watch them; I'm in no rush to find out what "Wii for Vendetta" or "Michael Bay's Super Mario Bros." are about. In contrast to Eric, Bob wasted no time in beginning his first commentary series, with the Game Overthinker starting up February 2008. Within a year, he'd posted his first Moviebob review as well. Game Overthinker lasted until March 2015, and in this time he'd uploaded about 160 videos, with over 100 of those related to that series. Most of these videos have five-digit view counts, decent for the time but not great overall.
After this, Bob began to do more Moviebob videos, which is also when he uploaded the Pixels review that remains his most popular. That went on for about a year, at which point I believe he got his job back working for the Escapist, or maybe he was still working for Geek.com (
don't quote me on that, it's hard keeping track of how many times he got fired okay, he apparently started at Geek.com a year later per an announcement video). At that point, he stopped posting reviews on his personal channel, instead uploading some In Bob We Trust (ugh) videos, as well as "classic" episodes that were presumably reposts from either Screw Attack or the Escapist. You can really see the difference in this screencap; where his new videos were getting six-digit views, his reposts were back down to five-digit:
Uploads became less frequent as time went by and he focused more on his work for Geek (until they went under) and the Escapist (until he got fired again). Views for most of these uploads were in the low five digits, considerably worse than he'd been doing before. Then over the course of 2020, he absolutely spammed his page with 184 reuploads of his Big Picture videos, and the majority of these didn't get over 10k views. Shortly after this, he got shitcanned from the Escapist, and he went back to posting all of his videos on his personal channel. Since then, he hasn't had a single video get back to six digit views, and few get more than 20-30k (and the ones that do are pretty much all capeshit). Here are Bob's latest ten videos for comparison, uploaded over the course of the last month and a half:
So Bob's been doing what he's known for today pretty much since the start of his channel over 14 years ago. That's about 40 million views in that timespan, or just under 3 million a year. Averaged out like that, Bob has gotten three times fewer views per year than Eric has over their careers.
Another point of comparison is in their more popular videos. As I previously mentioned somewhere, Bob has a total of 97 videos that are above 100k views (and a good number of those are just
barely over). All except seven are from at least four years ago, with the newest being his Really That Good video on Star Wars. Eric has 121 videos above six digits (though I'll be fair and say that a fair number are also barely over), but the overwhelming majority of these are from the past couple years, and his most recent is from just 11 days ago. So while Eric is definitely uploading more and getting a lot more views that way, he's also producing more videos that get traction with more people, while Bob seems to be generally preaching to the same crowd.
Finally, as you can see by their respective Socialblade pages,
Eric continues to get thousands of new subscribers every month, while
Bob hasn't had positive gain in almost three years, and has in fact been losing subscribers since then. Oh, and Eric also has four times as many Twitter followers as Bobbo, so that has to sting.
and thus people wouldn't see (or hear) Bob doing something like use the hard-R n-word (though given Bob's inverterate accent, I don't think it's possible for a Bostonian to actually utter the Hard-R WITH a Hard R), or Oppress Minorities (that didn't vote Republican).
