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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...

I'm not sure who exactly would find the video entertaining.

everything he does now is for the 10-15 suppporters he has on Discord

5-10

mostly the GTA rp stuff

dont count their split personalities spooky

Yo

This is what he does now

Gouda

I was just about to ask about that

Ididn't get this one

And ran out of time

That has a massive amount of videos for how long it has existed, and fuck all for views; does he have a job outside of internet videos/streaming? Because there's no way he's making any money off that and the brucewillakers channel.

not yet

We thought he might have

but we have been told that was not the case

he's probably quitting in January

or at least getting a real job on the side

He is consistantly getting less money each month, it is not sustainable

And at 314 patrons on Patreon, even if they're all giving $10 each, that's still not a lot for a two person household

especially since he lives in Toronto

Yeah, I was about to say if he's still in Toronto

he makes ~$1500 on Patreon

Megan makes a bit too

...From 314 people? What the absolute fuck.

He gets no youtube views, and he privated all his videos so no residual ad rev

there are 6 people giving $100 each

almost everyone else is $1

couple $5 ones

Honestly, after hearing about people who spend thousands of dollars a week in mobile games because it's less expensive than going out on the weekends for them, six people giving $100 a month to one person doesn't surprise me.

this is where the parasocial part comes in

the people in his server are essentially paying for Rob to be their friend

and I don't even think it's meant to be malicious

but read through Rob's server, there's a lot of really fucked up dynamics

Yeah, it's legitimately cult-like, with seemingly a fuckton of mentally unsound people

We jokingly call ourselves a cult but they're a real one at least it seems

idk who oeere is

It's crazy how much similarity there is between Rob and his stuff and Fraser from Awesome Video Games/Video Games Awesome, but Fraser just seems to have gotten super bitter, not gone completely insane.

I actually know who that is lmfao

imagine telling 2009 Rob, this would be him in 10 years

yeah I can see that

they are pretty similar

Used to just be a fun stream for any new game, any game they may be hyped about, any games they like, party games for couch co-op, then you have 180+ Overwatch streams with almost everything that's put out now is "sponsored" by a viewer.

He'd probably have just stuck with Unforogotten Realms, finished it, and then got a job with security.

I honestly think hed shoot himself

Or that.

Oh right before I go to sleep, @Phijkchu_Pikachu did I mention how jake broke the toilet seat