Most don’t, Rob’s saving grace is that nobody spills the beans
rawb
Monday, May 29, 2023
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak (Almost no one does because no one talks about this shit publically)
fair
We just happen to have a collection of people who have some connection to Rob or access to other servers of importance
like, we had someone in Megan's discord who got megan talking about it, we had someone in sixelona's server who caught justin talking about how he was abused behind the scenes
Dolf knows a lot of the DvZ people, etc
As insane as Rob is, he is sane enough to know how bad of a look publically saying anything would be
so he does not
It's genuinely unfortunate how bad things got for Rob, idk what he really thinks about his life's arc post Digital Bards
between the drugs, mental hospital, breaking up with Megan, losing all his irl friends, money from his career drying up, etc.
We get the joy of reliving this every week when someone joins and learns about it
which is fun in its own right
Fun for a lot of different reasons
Kind of feels like the payoff of us watching this happen for years
I archive the Rob videos because a lot of people still enjoy watching them, meant a lot to some people especially
I don't think Rob's current arc takes away from his past work, there was always good and bad
It's always gonna be good to go back and revisit stuff you're nostalgic for
It's not like I expect this to happen 10 years down the line from starting phijkchu
I think the drugs he started were the beginning of the end
yeah
Pause is to blame
he ruined him
Kappaa
so, Rob got into doing drugs, and kept steadily self-medicating himself more and more on harder substances
he had multiple mental breakdowns over the years (separate but related to his midlife crisises)
and when he was committed to that mental hospital by his family, we have details from Megan on how schitzo he was irl
separate from the on-stream "manic" person he's play up
idk how much you remember about digital bards, the breakdown stream ending Urealms Live, etc.
but Rob literally ran away from home
to try to romance hivequeen
yeah so that one
that stream he did, was after he got back from running away
and got talked down by hivequeens secret fiance
Hivequeen is her own can of worms that is funny, she went from being the uwu wholesome teacher that Rob was promoting to being a horny posting vtuber ethot
hivequeen threw he community away to chase the vtuber money
tldr, it didn't really work
she bots her stream HEAVILY to appear in rankings ans such
What are you talking about spooky, she is totally not botting those 100ish viewers she constantly has
that do not chat
That was a bit of a tangent to Rob, but it is interesting seeing the trajectories of his adjacents
it's all tangential to Rob at this point, and other than when new people join and ask it is all in the past now
yeah
except if youtube keeps recommending me hivequeen clips like it did today for some reason
then it is in the present
I've never thought about botting views on twitch. I bet it's against TOS vinnyg5LUL
You streamed a leaked game
idk, I can give you more Rob lore if you want Monslay, but I usually try to just summarize because there's a lot I could say
We are waiting on him to die to drop our youtube documentary
which will be the greatest phijkchu project since we released a game on steam
Leaked is not against TOS, afaik, Nintendo is just a lot more wary of it than most companies
If you sign an NDA that's different tho
the overaching theme of his career is Rob was incredibly talented in a few ways
but continually was in the wrong place at the wrong time with his content
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 the overaching theme of his career is Rob was incredibly talented in a few ways but continually was in the wrong place at the wrong time with his content
Specifically, he was too early
he did things before they blew up, constantly
also backed the wrong horse at times
that thought though, or some thought like that got to Rob, and Digital Bards was kind of the culmination of looking back at 10 years of that
anyway, welcome to the server
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 she bots her stream HEAVILY to appear in rankings ans such
Wait, so you mean all those people watching when she - and her Vtuber avatar - were asleep and the channel was just playing Youtube videos of people making bread during an "uncapped subathon" were all bots!?! 😮
one thing her and rob have in common seems to be not caring about what their core audience wants
if 80% of your fans leave when you make a big change like that, maybe it's not that they aren't "real fans", maybe your new content is just shit
I think hating on old fans is always a bad look, doesn't matter who it is
And don't string old fans along, if you are ending a project or making some major pivot, just be honest about it
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I think hating on old fans is always a bad look, doesn't matter who it is
old fans form the backbone of a content creator's community, your content can change, but don't shit on your old fans because they can't/ don't conform to your new content
Rob had an old fanbase that would follow him from project to project too. Sure he had a lot of people who were only interested in DvZ, Urealms live, etc, but he had a core fanbase that enjoyed his work in general
him throwing away that group was the deathblow
that left him with nothing
Rob had a unique community where it was a mix of communities from Streamers like Coestar and Justin