Some bad takes on bob
I am too. I actually don't know much about Moviebob; I've just heard his name tossed around by Yahtzee and Jack Packard.
I tried to find a video about his firing to find out what it was about since I heard he was "fired for his views". That can mean a lot of things, good and bad. I found a video on
You Tube talking about it, but within minutes it turned into aggressively grave-dancing the demise of an "One of the biggest SJW reviewers", which told me two things. One, no explanation of what had happened coming from
this guy was going to be meritorious and two, I should definitely check out some of Moviebob's work.
People who piss off people who like to scream about "SJWs" generally have some pretty good things to say.
He parted ways with the Escapist after management decided to embrace Lamergate. Then new management decided to be not evil, and he and Shamus Young were invited back. More recently, he's left again, but according to himself it's just because his contract ended
comes up, there's a bunch of people in rural areas who start wailing about it instantly and a lot of American politicians seem to want to please those people all the time. They're mostly whipped up by Fox News and Bob is really overstating the issue those people are.
The thing that bothers me about the sort of hate mob he has is that a lot of it is based on stuff that...is either wrong or not weird. Like, half the people who mob him on Twitter will post a picture of an overweight man in a Mario costume, apparently under the impression the picture is Bob. It's not, it's some other guy that doesn't actually look much like him at all, but it's apparently supposed to be a devastating attack? Also something about him skipping his grandmother's funeral to play a video game (didn't happen) and something about him marinating chicken in Mountain Dew once. Not actually that strange, using soda as a marinade is pretty common in a lot of places. He did make that eugenics joke though. And it was pretty obviously a joke because of how over the top it was. It was a terrible joke that he shouldn't have made, to be clear.
My read on him is that he's a really good media analyst when he wants to try, has kind of an iffy sense of humor, and he really doesn't deserve the hate mob he attracted, if only because of their bizarre incoherency and insistence on attacking him on specific, wrong, things.
The thing with the picture of the other guy is especially weird because like, Bob has videos with his face in them. It's not that hard to find out what he looks like and posting a picture of an entirely unrelated person isn't much of a gotcha.