general

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's streaming Gartic phone rn

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

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.

I don't think Rob ever really scammed people, but with Urealms S3/S4 he needed so much money to keep things going that it was unreasonable

He would have benefited from someone to keep him grounded in reality

Yeah, I'm saying if I had just seen the stuff today, it may have looked like a scam, but when having been watching for 15 years, there's been a long, long downward spiral.

yeah

we've been talking about this a fair bit recently

Rob's career online is a giant comedy of errors

and I think that gets to you at a certain point

There was no way it wouldn't

him not taking on sponsors for URL, relying only on a shrinking fan suppot base, while also trying to grow it each season, and wanting to sustain everything on one season of that show a year

It was so disheartening to see the Forgotten Christmas video Johnny Voruz made, with Rob saying he gave the IP to Johnny, asking if there was a potential return for Unforgotten Realms, then the video is removed from Youtube or made private.

yeah

it's just sad hoestly

Fuck

Rob is or was a funny talented guy, but it's kind of all just gone off the rails

its a giant schizo meltdown over the course of 15 years

When I went looking for the Harry Potter Book Club stuff tonight, I saw a video on his Youtube channel called "Chest Hunters" for Genshin Impact. I was thinking it was going to be something like Played It For The Plot, and, uh...