Muta shouted him out at least a handful of times. More than plenty. Shouted out his channel mutiple times, showed a clip of Rob's Shenmue stream during his Shenmue video, referenced him a number of times but oh Muta never gave him the time of day. Well, Rob got his wish when Muta uploaded his exposé on him exposing him to over half a million people that his boss supposedly saw because he's a fan. Lmao, fucking idiot.
His absolute shit tier work ethic was definitely a factor in why he never went anywhere. No schedule. No consistency. Disappearing for weeks or months at a time. Making promises and not delivering them. Starting video series and not finishing them. Saying he's gonna stream and then not streaming. That shit becomes your reputation. Along with the endless petty drama.
You can tell he wanted so badly to be an overnight James Rolfe or Doug Walker but didn't want to actually put in the effort to achieve that level of success. Nope. All these "sellout assholes" needed to take care of wittle ole Robbie and promote his channel nonstop. He's been a bottom feeder from the very beginning.
I remember on his Encyclopedia Dramatica article it said that he actually tried to become a ThatGuyWithTheGlasses contributor at one point but of course they realized how low effort and shit his content is and made the smart move to pass on him. Just imagine Doug Walker and crew having to sit through submissions and Silent Rob's video comes on.
Man, I must've missed that little tidbit but that's hilarious. He would've never made the cut. Gotta do a bit more than point the camera at your face and talk. Dude was so low-effort at one point that he hired that fuckhead DrunkenPunk to sloppily edit his shit for him and then that went down the drain when Asa freaked the fuck out on Punk for going after his family...which Rob did almost immediately following this recent drama which makes you wonder why he even defended Asa in the first place.
I remember when Rob first turned on superchats he started acting as if everyone else was copying him by having superchats turned on. Dude was like a year or longer late to the superchat game and acted like he was the pioneer of it.
His videos barely have any editing in them at all. The most edits that come from Rob's videos are usually in between cuts and video game music layered over the video. Maybe occasionally you'll get some gaming footage thrown in but that's as far as his editing skills go. Surprising he ever bothered hiring anyone to edit for him because his shit is as bare bones as it gets. There's no real special effects or anything added in his production. Even if there was shitty Nostalgia Critic style explosion effects at least it'd be something. He really expected people to pay him to watch no effort videos that he can shit out in the span of a few hours without trying. Anyone can get on camera and make the same shit videos he does and would do them for free without expecting monetary return. I'm pretty sure the Action 52 video was the most time and effort Rob ever put into any project and just rode that wave forever without ever spending any substantial amount of time on anything else in his pathetic youtube adventure.
And that was in 2007. Think about how long ago that was and you'll start to realize how delusional Rob truly is. He never put any effort in after that. Never wanted to improve or adapt. Nope. A big ole pile of nothing. Lemme just turn on the camera and rant about menial bullshit for 20 years. Throw in a mixed bag of tard, tism, and weaksauce jokes for some cheap laughs. Then, lemme take those videos and charge $8 a month to watch them years later and tell the fans who are rightfully pissed that they don't deserve my content and are trash that needs to be gotten rid of. Yep, a true winning formula for success!!!
This retard made hundreds of dollars in donations every stream but it wasn't good enough. I would kill to just be able to play SNES Roms and rack up money all day. He had it fucking made but threw it away because of his fragile ego. If he managed his finances properly he wouldn't be in the rut he's in. He could've easily just put that donation money away into a savings acount and he'd be fine but gotta have Arby's and Mickey D's for dinner every night and shoot up fent every day. Eventually Joe Savage won't be able to save his ass and he'll kick him to the curb like he did with the rest of his longtime fans.
Imo, there's no way he sold that place for what it was worth. It looked like a dilapidated crap shack to begin with. Knowing him he won't do anything smart with the cash and just blow it on stupid shit until it's all dried up. I'd wager he's with his mom or with a friend rn.
The Silent Rob "Living in my Mom's basement at 40 years old" arc is about to go hard. We going back to 2007 bitches.
Knowing him we'll probably get a convenient excuse like, "My mom is sick guys. I gotta take care of her." Either that or he actually closed on some other crap shack in Ohio which I highly doubt but don't completely rule out the possibility.
I also thought the sick mama story is going to be the pre-cope for moving back in with his mom. He knows we will dunk on him for it, so it’s his strategy to make anyone laughing at him for being a loser for immediate deflection. It won’t work because I don’t care if his mom is sick lol
There's no denying that the low-budget style of his content initially drew people in, but the problem is he thought he could do it forever and make a huge profit. Then, when things didn't pan out how he wanted to he deicide to give a big fat fuck you to his fans and call them trash if they weren't donating to him. That was arguably his biggest mistake. I mean the guy had people sending him hundreds of dollars just to put his unkempt ass on camera and maybe play some games. But no, it wasn't enough. That's SilentRob for ya.
The thing was, it never really stopped being profitable. Rob just stopped doing it. He became too lazy, mentally ill, and strung out on drugs to do it anymore. He streamed less and less, and then he started putting out horror videos and AI slop that no one wants to see. Then it was the 8 dollar fiasco. Then it was time to crash out and burn everything down.
You know what, yeah, I have to agree with ya there. I think that was the wrong wording. It's more like he expected everyone including YT to just adhere to his style no matter where he took it. Ghost hunting slop, AI slop music, etc. Then, he just decided to give everyone the finger and nuke it all when he wasn't getting nonstop asspats and positivity. That AI slop music arc was especially insane given how many shitheads were cheering him on like his "music" was any good. That shit was pure fucking earrape garbage sauce. Mf thought he was the next Skrillex or some shit.
As soon as Rob started posting his "new channel direction" content, I knew exactly where all of this was going to go. I knew that Rob was not going to get any views on this stuff and he was not going to take it well. It was just a goddamn ticking time bomb. This is Rob we're talking about. I knew he was not going to look at the situation with any maturity or humility. I knew he was going to take it personally. I knew he was going to get bitter, resentful, spiteful, angry, and upset. That is exactly what happened.