Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[Arthur Morgan]

My pet theory is that he has been scrimping and saving, hooing to put together enough for a down payment on a home/condo/bridge, but something happened that
A) he had to spend his nest egg
B) doesn't qualify for a loan
C) seller picked another buyer

The only thing is that he said there isn't anyone to blame, which is very unlike him because he's so quick to anger and nurses a grudge like few I've met in real life. If either of those events happened, I can't see him not blaming someone.

I highly doubt that since he seems to be incapable of saving his money. He mentioned being in deep debt before and only just being able to come out of it. I initially assumed it was some project he blew all his money on that he hinted at, but considering he also said it was related to gamergate, what probably happened was after he got fired from Escapist the first time, he maxed out his credit cards and it took him years to pay those back. Hell, this is a guy who has consistently brought in over $3k a month on patreon since 2015 on top of whatever he made from freelance jobs, and still complains about having no money to upgrade his PC. And remember, Film Robert was 31 when he finally moved out and was only able to get a basement apartment rented to him by a family member, which he's been stuck in for the last ten years.

That's why I said it was something medical. Unless there was some toy he really wanted but couldn't afford, but when he finally got his check they were all out of stock.

 

[Adamska]

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It took me a good 20 seconds to realize this was his smooth brained take on that Addams Family movie. He's that fucking bad at optimizing his SEO.

 

[Flexo]

My pet theory is that he has been scrimping and saving, hooing to put together enough for a down payment on a home/condo/bridge, but something happened that
A) he had to spend his nest egg
B) doesn't qualify for a loan
C) seller picked another buyer

The only thing is that he said there isn't anyone to blame, which is very unlike him because he's so quick to anger and nurses a grudge like few I've met in real life. If either of those events happened, I can't see him not blaming someone.

Oh that's a good point.

There was also talk once about him working on a film or something. Maybe a combination? Like his planned lead actor abandoned the project?

 

[Chan the Wizard]

They way Robert has talked about his finances, I don’t think he has saved anything. It sounds like he has significant debt and spends any extra on booze and plastic crap.
With how the housing market is, I doubt he’d be competitive even if there was evidence he wanted to leave his basement hovel and he had any money saved up.
That’s without getting into if a bank would approve him for a loan.
On paper Robert looks like he makes a decent amount from Patreon, but once you take out their cut, factor in taxes, and things like him buying his own health insurance, he ends up with significantly less take home pay. Once you factor in rent and food (average sized portions) you’re left with very little. Robert has also been open about getting black out drunk and has stacks of empty beer cans in his basement apartment.
I suspect Bob has no savings and is one bad month away from living with his brother. Well, probably not, because his family will let him stay in the basement for free but his other obligations will be fucked.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

Being an alcoholic almost feels like too convenient of an excuse for Bob's assholish behavior but the giant mounds of beer cans that pile up make me a little suspicious.

 

[Mola Ram]

Being an alcoholic almost feels like too convenient of an excuse for Bob's assholish behavior but the giant mounds of beer cans that pile up make me a little suspicious.

A lot of Bob's Twitter aggression makes more sense if you assume he's lit half the time.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

I guess spending more time on Twitter raging than saving finances and improving your video and analyzing skills is more important to Bob.

 

[Totally Awesome]

I guess spending more time on Twitter raging than saving finances and improving your video and analyzing skills is more important to Bob.

Bob would do better if he promoted his videos more, and kept his Twitter commentary about movies and fun stuff.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Being an alcoholic almost feels like too convenient of an excuse for Bob's assholish behavior but the giant mounds of beer cans that pile up make me a little suspicious.

I don’t think his alcohol consumption has any bearing on his personality. By his autobiography it seems like he was always an asshole sperg.
His alcohol consumption is just something he lets slip to sound like an adult without realizing it’s pathetic and no one thinks you’re a cool guy for waking up with no memory in a hotel lobby or have a stack of beer cans in your room like some dumb college freshman.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

1. Geoff threw out the entire planned storyline when Trump got elected and everyone in the comic industry went batshit crazy calling anyone they didn't like Nazis. So he rewrote the story to make it a commentary on such fear/hatemongering with a much stronger denouncement of Adrian Veidt AND Dr Manhattan for being horrible evil people who were the real villains of Watchmen

I'm going to need some more elaboration on this as I'm curious as to if this effected certain plot elements like the Superman Theory, which asked the intriguing question of why most of the world's metahumans were from the United States,

2. As part of this, he also fucked up by declaring "NO FUCKING CROSSOVERS"; which bit him in the ass and then some, as Dan DiDio got pissy that he was going to miss out on a big sales boost for the DC line. So he purposely let Tom King kill off/make into a murderer Wally West (fucking up any chance of a Wally/Doctor Manhattan showdown) and gave Supeman AND the Legion to Bendis, who fucked over Geoff's plan for Jor-El to be a patsy/slave of Dr Manhattan and the subplot from Rebirth where Saturn Girl was going to try and fix Manhattan's fucking with the timeline, as Bendis decided to create his own new Legion; forcing that plot thread to be aborted and a last minute insertion of the Bendis Legion in the final battle. And for added insult to injury, Scott Snyder was given TWO major minis to be the "official fix/finale for Rebirth" after Snyder agreed to do a story with a TON of tie-ins.

On one hand I can see this as a fuck up because of the lost potential revenue of tie-ins, but I look at it as Johns trying to protect the integrity of his story as Doomsday Clock was more "literary" than his other works. It was clear that he was trying to emulate Moore's style on Watchmen. I fucking LOATHE DiDio for how he attempted to derail the story, but I think part of why he killed/derailed Wally was because of his hatred of the original sidekick characters. I present what happened to Dick Grayson and Roy Harper during that time as evidence. The handling of the Legion was what really sent me over the edge because I was eagerly anticipating their return when I saw Saturn Girl in Rebirth, and Bendis' Legion was incredibly godawful. Don't get me started on the Death Metal tie-ins. Some of them were okay (hell, Mark Waid's contribution was readable) but the majority of them were dogs hit.

Tying into Bob Chipman, I think many who worked at DC at the time (DiDio, included) had the same attitude towards the fans--notably how they believe that we don't know what we want and we should accept what they give us out of gratitude. Rebirth was effectively an apology for how the company handled The New 52 and the failed DC You initiatives. Geoff Johns was the front man and fans as a whole loved it, but I could imagine that DiDio and many creators were seething. However, Geoff was getting more involved with the film side of the company and I suspect that his influence began to diminish. Johns soon quit as CCO and DiDio saw an opportunity to force his vision on the DCU, fans be damned, and thus we have the clusterfuck we have now.

3. Geoff refusing to remove Gary "slow as fuck" Frank from the book, resulting in the delays.

I suspect Geoff's "moonlighting" as a producer interfered as well as he was developing Stargirl and writing scripts for Titans and I believe Doom Patrol as well, but don't quote me on the former.

Removing Frank would have been problematic. Yes, it would have prevented delays, but at the cost of artistic consistency. Look at Infinite Crisis as an example. Phil Jimenez, another slow artist whose quality turns to shit if you rush him, was the original artist assigned to it, but he couldn't keep up with the deadlines so they brought in other artists to pinch hit for him. How many artists? We had George Perez, Jerry Ordway, and Ivan Reis brought on and the series reads rather haphazardly because of it. As slow as Gary Frank is, I would have rather seen him to it to the end rather than bring on other artists with different styles to muddy the series. If DC wanted a faster, more reliable artist, they should have brought on one of their workhorses like Ivan Reis though I don't know if he would be able to emulate the Watchmen style. Maybe they should've brought in Jason Fabok instead, but I don't know how fast he works.

 

[Franz Joseph]

I guess spending more time on Twitter raging than saving finances and improving your video and analyzing skills is more important to Bob.

I'm waiting for Bob to follow his brother Chris's footsteps and start shamelessly ebegging on Twitter for money.

 

[Mola Ram]

His alcohol consumption is just something he lets slip to sound like an adult without realizing it’s pathetic and no one thinks you’re a cool guy for waking up with no memory in a hotel lobby or have a stack of beer cans in your room like some dumb college freshman.

I'm reminded of a recent tweet where he genuinely seemed to think he was owning some Twitter rando by bragging about having the opportunity to drink rum with breakfast. Fucking wino.

 

[Quixotic Man]

I love how Greenwald is attempting to be ideologically consistent and Bob is acting like this makes him Nazi.

How dare he think some tactics are bad, actually.

And how the fuck would Bob be in debt? He lived with his parents until he was 30, obviously doesn't spend anything on business expenses, and lives in a basement.

 

[Mola Ram]

I love how Greenwald is attempting to be ideologically consistent and Bob is acting like this makes him Nazi.

How dare he think some tactics are bad, actually.

Bob is so intellectually dishonest that he perceives intellectual honesty as a vice.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

More Angelic presence:

Transhumanism is based on the belief that human beings are not capable of more, an admission of defeat to our creations.

At least on the Internet I think people (which is the proper plural of "person", not "conspiracy theorists") decided transhumanism was a bad idea around the time it stopped being about cool cyborgs and A Mind Forever Voyaging kind of stuff and started being about websites like LessWrong and their genius takes. Like the time some of them argued themselves into believing - and panicking - about AI Satan/God From the Future coming for clones of their souls.

I'm reminded of a recent tweet where he genuinely seemed to think he was owning some Twitter rando by bragging about having the opportunity to drink rum with breakfast. Fucking wino.

I have that opportunity every day. Most people do. We don't because we're not raging alcoholics, but there's nothing practically stopping us. What next, is he going to brag about the 'opportunity' to subscribe to the skin channels on cable and wank himself until his dick is raw?

 

[Adamska]

Being an alcoholic almost feels like too convenient of an excuse for Bob's assholish behavior but the giant mounds of beer cans that pile up make me a little suspicious.

He's a drunkard, but all that does is amplify his hideous personality disorder. He at best would be more likely to not screech gas the normals if he didn't hit the bottle harder than he reaches to justify why Toddler Movie 1549 is a genius work of art for the ages.

 

[Captain Marvelous]

I like how Robert is always surprised that mindless spectacle is boring.

Discerning viewers figured that out long ago.

I guess he just has a high threshold for it. He actually thinks the Resident Evil movies are good, after all.

Because Marvel movies are a completely different story.

I'm reminded of a recent tweet where he genuinely seemed to think he was owning some Twitter rando by bragging about having the opportunity to drink rum with breakfast. Fucking wino.

Bob is this close to making his own rum ham, isn't he? It's consistent with the other stuff he's cooked in the past.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

At least on the Internet I think people (which is the proper plural of "person", not "conspiracy theorists") decided transhumanism was a bad idea around the time it stopped being about cool cyborgs and A Mind Forever Voyaging kind of stuff and started being about websites like LessWrong and their genius takes. Like the time some of them argued themselves into believing - and panicking - about AI Satan/God From the Future coming for clones of their souls.

Well, that, AI breakout scenarios, genetic engineering/neurological reprogramming speciating the human race, and so on and so forth- this stuff is so potentially volatile that even people who are for it (like Nick Land, to whom Blob has been compared) admit that any implementation is going to have a huge body count, possibly up to our entire species. To people like Land, this is simply a function of natural selection, but to people like Bob, it's a feature- it's one of the things that makes him so impressively nasty.

He's a drunkard, but all that does is amplify his hideous personality disorder. He at best would be more likely to not screech gas the normals if he didn't hit the bottle harder than he reaches to justify why Toddler Movie 1549 is a genius work of art for the ages.

I've said this before, but I don't believe Bob is a drunk, at least not in the way that he makes out. His tall tales of waking up in a hotel lobby in Chinatown with no memory of the previous night sound like locker room braggadocio- and as evidence, I ask you: has he, at any point in the last five years, been off Twitter long enough for such a blackout night of partying to occur? Has he ever tweeted anything while clearly impaired beyond his usual retardation? Hell, his waifu Hotdog Girl spends a lot less time talking about her drinking habits and managed to produce a chef's-kiss-tier mugshot by getting fucked up in public, so we know that happened. Bob has yet to prove that he even goes outside.

No, I think his "hard partying" is slinging back of few cans of PBR or some other shit-tier beer while tweeting about gassing the mayo ghouls, followed by some desultory jerking off to She-Ra porn on DeviantArt, then passing out to do it all again. Thing Ignatius Reilly with consoomerism in place of the classics.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

The pigger has one of the most unhealthy lifestyles I've ever seen.

Let's see, the guy is a regular drinker, sleeps and wakes up ultra-late, pigs out on all sorts of unhealthy food, either store-bought or home-cooked, absolutely does not exercise and spends most of his time hunched over his phone or laying down on whatever bed he has.

Bet his personal hygiene is not up to date, either. If he's already an awful sight on the outside, I don't want to imagine the suffering his innards must be going through. They likely want to give in, but the sheer strength of his rage makes them function against their will.

 

[Grumpy Pickle Rick]

I fucking LOATHE DiDio for how he attempted to derail the story, but I think part of why he killed/derailed Wally was because of his hatred of the original sidekick characters. I present what happened to Dick Grayson and Roy Harper during that time as evidence.

I don’t understand his hatred for sidekicks. What’s wrong with training the next generation?

Even Hercules had a sidekick/protege in the original myths. His nephew Iolaus, helped him with the 12 Labors.

Tying into Bob Chipman, I think many who worked at DC at the time (DiDio, included) had the same attitude towards the fans--notably how they believe that we don't know what we want and we should accept what they give us out of gratitude.

I hate that attitude, “We know you better than you know yourself, so be grateful to us”.

If these people know us so well, then why do their stories suck?