Seeing MauLer’s fanbase going at it with Bob is very amusing to me. I don’t like either of them, but I’m merely annoyed by MauLer: he’s a fart-huffing, egotistical pedant who mistakes long critique for substantive critique, and his “objective” standards are incredibly autistic and not consistently applied. However, I outright despise Bob, and it makes me root for MauLer and his disciples in this particular tard-fight.
The whole scene around Mauler I find annoying, and I find myself out of any crumble of fucks to give to whatever side of a discussion about pop culture shit, not that I'm cynical or "above it", it is just old news by now, shit just keeps repeating themselves.
Not to mention that there is a bit of a cynical side to the sort of content Mauler, or Critical Drinker, Or Nerdrotic or any of these guys do, and that is the "preach to the choir" aspect, whatever these guys have to say on whatever show/movie/whatever is going to be what their audience wants to hear, and that is fine, it is what this sort of content is predicated into, it just, you know, makes it boring.
What is funny is that Robert could have "won" this slap fight if he had even a little bit of tact. Instead of just being condescending and then angry when people pushed back, all he had to point out that pedantic nitpicking doesn't help to factor if a film has quality or not, nor the idea to "quantify" flaws.
And I say that because that is what got Cinema Sins, which does a similiar stchik to Mauler's. I know it is hard to believe, but there was a point in time when people thought Cinema Sins had a point to make about movies, but eventually there was a big backlash against the stupid sin format shit and the cinema sins guys had to pivot to "hey it is just a joke guys, relax".
Not that Cinema Sins were ever in danger to change how people saw movies, or the discussion about it, but for a period of time quite a few people tought they were legit. Not anymore.
I think that may happen to Mauler, maybe not now nor anytime soon, but it will happen, and when it does, he will just say "come on guys, we are just having fun here".
Point is, you can'r refute retarded spergery with retarded spergery, otherwise the guy with more retards on his side will win, which is Mauler.
But Robert can't help himself because he is still butthurt over the diabeto jokes, and so he sneeds and feeds.