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did you see that Spiff got a VA role in another game

I don't exactly understand the "meta" stuff, but based on how people in the Discord talk, it seems like less fans and more of a parasocial relationship

I did not, what game?

yes, Rob's irronically created a really strange dynamic in his community, by trying to prevent it

I just came in the Discord to ask if the unlisted stuff was going to be privatized, and it was an almost hostile "PEOPLE OVER CONTENT" from an unexpectedly large amount of people, and "it's all part of the meta!" from anyone who wasn't hostile.

And I'm just like, "Uhh, I just wanted to know if the Urealms Live playlists and other stuff will be privatized."

Yeah, a lot of them are not the most reasonable

yeah, we also don't know why Rob decided unlisted wasn't good enough

they have some weird in jokes and they don't know not to pelt a new person with them

since that solves 90% of his problem with comments

something we, with spooky's large prostate, would never do

I didn't think I was new - I've been following for the most part since either Splash Attack or the first Unforgotten Realms episode on Newgrounds, whichever was first of those two - but it seems everyone and everything changed between the time I stopped keeping up with everything around season 4 of URealms Live and a few months ago.

yeah thats about when it happened

Zyton and I are the oldest fans in this Discord

but yeah, Rob went off the rails in 2018/2019

Basically if you're not part of the current "in" crowd you're new, even if you've been a follower/fan for a while before that

most of the people here are from 2014 era rob

other then zyton and spooky

i forget when i actually joined, i think late end of pokemon

what i remember being biggest was lom and buffalo wizards

I saw the video where he essentially said "I need $12k a month or URealms Live is gone, btw give it to these random people you've never heard of may not have any interest in," then I heard he raged when people donated only $2k on the first stream he was doing the Digital Bards thing on, expecting people to toss $20k like they did with a Urealms Live show at someone they've never seen.

yeah

oh ok, yeah you did see the midlife crisis stream

he wanted 22k a month or something and the first month goal only got 43%

*mental breakdown

I didn't see the whole stream, just the end of URealms Live/beginning of Digital Bards clip from it, was only a few minutes

Oh it was 22k? I thought it was 12k.

he wanted 323k a year

it was 12k after his artists told him to take them off the pool

pika has a youtube playlist with a bunch of funny clips from that time

so he lowered it to remove how much he said he would pay them

since he made that video without informing anyone

I still miss !tired

didnt he just rebalnce it

to increase the other values

i dont think it went down to 12

Do you have a link?

Sorry, there are a ton of videos on here, not sure which one I'm looking for

he'll get to it later

I honestly don't remember what Phijkchu name I had, I just remember I used Dunsparce for the avatar. X(

based

you can be Phijkchu Dunsparce

Oh, thank you

dunsparce made the wiki

lol

our Phijkchu Dunspace left

We have a wiki with a bunch of old phjikchu archived

There was already a Phijkchu Dunsparce, but there were only so many Pokemon to choose from for pictures

oh

Ones actually in the GTI story, I mean

you might like these

we hae all the avatars in our Google drive

Is everything gonna be a cum joke

It went down to 17

because six was the only one to leave

@ me top of next round

because she was the only artist with a cut

Yeah, after trying to find out if the unlisted stuff was going to be made private, I ended up finding a whole bunch of other stuff, and saw Sixelona put out a twitlonger I think that didn't exactly sound so great.

I'll give the only defense for Rob that I think is fair

he was clearly having a complete and total mental breakdown during that whole thing

lot of poor decisions

If I hadn't been following for 15 years now, I would think it's a massive amount of scamming and/or the most dedicated trolls ever, but I've seen too much crash and burn to not believe it's a legit mental breakdown.

well

he's not wrong

There's a lot of added lore and speculation

from that time period

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id say its a mix of both

i dont think he started intentionally scamming

but as urealms progressed

when he set a 20k donation thats maybe when it switched

but idk

Like, Unforgotten Realms getting canned after the DVDs and T-shirts that took months to produce, there probably wasn't enough people buying to continue making it, and I had (and still have) no idea how monetization on blip worked then to think it was a scam. Unforgotten Quest felt like a scam after several years, but then I remembered that he was keeping a blog about it(though not often updated), and you could see a downward spiral from trying to make a game he had absolutely no idea how to actually make

And he seemed to have just worked himself so hard that he started to completely lose it.