- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
I'm no fan of Youtube shorts (portrait video will always be an abomination unto God), but it feels like, somehow, Bob has managed to get this wrong too. In pretty much every short I've seen used for promos, it's some short clip from the video in question but cropped to a portrait-frame section focusing on whatever the important part is. Bob, meanwhile, has put the entire video in a tiny frame in the middle, bracketed by a bunch of useless filler on the top and bottom where he's advertising the series, his Youtube, his Twitter, and his Patreon. Oh, and he also tosses in one of his usual clipart images telling you to watch the whole video. Seems like yet another attempt to try and revitalize his dead channel by chasing trends.Oh, Bob, Killer Klowns From Outer Space? Really? What a basic bitch cult movie to highlight for a guy who's been at this since before Obama was elected. That movie is so played out my buddies and I were goofing on it in high school, and lemme tell ya, ol' Mola graduated high school before most of the people on the Farms were even born.
Do better, Bob!
I also like how he continues to pretend that his one-man operation is anything but by referring to an unseen "we." I mean, I know Bob's fat enough to count for multiple people, but I don't think that's what he's going for.
Speaking of dead channel, I decided to look over his videos again just for old time's sake. I'm not well-versed in how shorts typically perform, but I think by any metric, this attempt is doing absolute garbage. Somehow, Bob can't get even a thousand people to watch a 25-second clip within a day of posting it. Another thing I've noticed is how he labels every Big Picture as "New Big Picture," and I can't figure out why. Does he think people don't understand that a video about a new movie or TV show is probably new? Does he realize that he's probably made people tune out his channel by spamming reuploads of his older videos and thinks they'll click if he specifies they're new? Is it just autism? Who can say?

The rest of it is pretty much as you'd expect, middling views on anything new, pathetic views on any of his reuploads. If it's capeshit, it performs a little better, but not much, something like 40k views compared to non-capeshit's 20-30k. Ironically, the last video of his to break 50k views was his review of The Batman, and I wonder if he chafes at the fact that a DC review has done better than all his recent Marvel videos. Within the past year, his only videos that have broken 50k are that, his Eternals review, and his Dune review, and those last two were almost a year ago already.
Socialblade's graphs sum it up nicely: a continuing downward trend of views, and a stagnating amount of subscribers with occasionally enough bleed off to make the number tick down another thousand.

And finally, for shits and gigs, here's Bob's Patreon year-to-date alongside anti-Bob Drinker:

As Bob is wont to say: tick-tock.