what it actually is is every small town "attaches" to the nearest major city
so you're in the ______ "market" you'd say
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rawb
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
it's why I live in DC
despite living in another state
There are different cities next to Toronto which I would call a Toronto suburb, but thats because those cities only exist because people could not find a plce to live in Toronto
so they exist as commuter cities
I would count Missasuga, Oshuwa, etc since they are directly connected to Toronto
Kitchener has an hour of nothing but farmland between them
by Canadian definitions
Does the US have no major cities where there is another major city within an hour of it, and if no, do you consider those cities suburbs of eachother
we have those, and it's actually really easy
we combine the two
so you're in the Dallas-FortWorth (DFW) market
We combine cities if they are literally touching and merging, if there is an hour gap between them, thats insane
we call kitchener waterloo kitchener-waterloo (sometimes the tri-cities if you want to include cambridge)
I would combine what you posted the same way
since it is the same situation as kitchener waterloo
I meant, there is an hour of farmland between the two cities
would you consider them suburbs of eachother if there was a large boundary
it's rare for us to have two cities that close together
and then usually the area just gets it's own name
I see, than that makes sense I guess. Almost every Canadian city is withing 1 hour of another notable canadian city
so considering kitchener a suburb of toronto seems insane, because then every city is a suburb of another city
Kitchner is also just so much tinier
compared to Toronto
that's part of it too
Kitchener is huge by Canadian standards, Toronto is just also abnormally huge also by Canadian standards
I think kitchener is consistantly in the top 10 of city growth in Canada year over year
it's got 200,000 people
oh nvm
the tri-city has 600k
KW is like 700k yeah
Don't be crazy, heard. I had to go do something and did some thinking that I probably don't need to know a lot, really. Dont want to be parasocial. But if y'all know, is he doing better now nose sugar wise? Like, is he healthy? And I guess is he still an asshole? because I was a very casual viewer and did not know this.
Replying to Joseph Hazel #josephhazel Don't be crazy, heard. I had to go do something and did some thinking that I probably don't need to know a lot, really. Dont want to be parasocial. But if y'all know, is he doing better now nose sugar wise? Like, is he healthy? And I guess is he still an asshole? because I was a very casual viewer and did not know this.
As far as I can tell, I assume he is off drugs
considering he is not spiralling anymore
Hype
and has a real non internet job
I'm never going to hold "being an asshole" against anymore, for the most part he's the same he's always been
I agree with Pika he's dialed the drugs waaaayyyy back if not completely
2 months of forced rehab might have helped him get clean
he stopped taking his meds mind you
but stopping the hard drugs likely helped
I think part of the way his mental breakdown works though is if he has an army of people egging it on, that also makes it way worse
he purged almost all the insane people from his community
So all the weird "I am bungender refer to me as bun" and "I am scared of bathing so I have not bathed in 6 months" people are gone
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I wrote this out in vetting chat a couple times
but Rob's struggle his entire life doing projects online has been the personal-professional boundaries
all the way back to his first project with Johnny
he couldn't co-mingle being friends with someone, and having them be a part of his projects
The only relationship like that he did not nuke was Roamin
that's part of the reason so many people dislike Rob, because he was this hyper charismatic person that from their perspective froze them out suddenly one day, and they felt used
where from Rob's perspective, that was inevitable because of the dynamic of working together
who as far as we are aware, is still friends with him
and yeah, I think some people are generally easier to stay on good terms with, and Rob-Roamin def seem to have
Though they did kinda both go their own way in life
Roamin not being a professional youtuber/content person is probably why
Deadbones could have lasted if he did not feel like Rob fucked him over at the end of Urealms live
Good to hear he's on the mend(?). I knew he pissed some people off by his apology videos, and nuking his content, but I wasn't aware of who, how, or why, because of the nuking of his content.
I mean, he pissed off sorta everyone
he was having a mental breakdown, and rather from emerging from it with a little humility, he doubled down on the direction
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this was 2019, right after the cancelation of S4 and all the drama on-stream
and then he had another breakdown in 2022, which led to him being comitted
and again emerged with zero humility, doubled down, and blew his life up again
I think you can cope with things going wrong in your life that way... ig
but I don't think it's conducive to mending relationships with others
and that's kinda been the trend his entire life, forge ahead and rebuild rather than looking back and trying to fix things
I was a very casual fan. I think I somehow managed to miss each of these things just by changing interests lol. I didn't watch the last urealms lives, found him again in his GTA rp content, and stopped watching that before it all fell apart, apparently. I honestly didn't know he had any breakdowns, let alone 2.
I think it's good that Rob's mostly off the internet now, I don't think he was ever going to conquer his deamons related to internet content creation, and was likely just going to end up spiraling again in a couple years
That is a common story "wow I didn't know any of this happened" is said a lot lol
People just get nostalgic for Rob, find the website, then end up here
it's absurd/tragic how unlucky Rob was at times, coupled with a few key bad decisions over the years
he had every opportunity to have broken out and been wildly successful, and just time and time again either picked the wrong path or had the slightly wrong timing
That's a big part of why he had to move on, he can still *exist* online or w/e, but the window for making career of it is over
and when he accepted that, and was able to slow down, I think that helped with his mental state and drug use quite a bit
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Toronto Canada
Well. yeah most likely. He's definitely an urban dweller and something like 70% of all canadians live in that region
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I'm never going to hold "being an asshole" against anymore, for the most part he's the same he's always been I agree with Pika he's dialed the drugs waaaayyyy back if not completely
Being an asshole vs taking advantage of people are very different worlds. Seems like most of his shit was exploiting and having money problems because of drugs
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 he stopped taking his meds mind you
Nothing necessarily wrong with that. It is good to move off them. Just hope he had a plan around doing so instead of just hopping off.
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 that's part of the reason so many people dislike Rob, because he was this hyper charismatic person that from their perspective froze them out suddenly one day, and they felt used where from Rob's perspective, that was inevitable because of the dynamic of working together (edited)
I am much the same way. Work and life are largely two different worlds. I have met about 2 people that were ever that exception to that rule.
The "funny" part about it is that Rob tells people he's like that and nobody believes it until something happens to them
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 it's absurd/tragic how unlucky Rob was at times, coupled with a few key bad decisions over the years he had every opportunity to have broken out and been wildly successful, and just time and time again either picked the wrong path or had the slightly wrong timing (edited)
This is what gets me the most having been around the followings for a long while. I stopped in the later years, but always hoped the best for the guy. He'd doubled down, have bad luck, ans or just make what would wind up being the wrong choices (addiction issues aside). He's a very talented and smart guy in ways. He's just sorta a grand dad almost to the evolution of internet content in those days and the opportunities he had that could have went big if he just managed himself a bit better and maybe was more socially structured could have led to big things for a time.
Replying to Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil #vinnyg The "funny" part about it is that Rob tells people he's like that and nobody believes it until something happens to them (edited)
Just as true. He is at least sorta honest in that way. I think things could have gone better in some ways along the ways if the internet didn'g really lead to people blurring the lines of professionalism & friendship. People see it a lot closer than one may think due to parasocial outside of the normative work structures.
Spooky and others have said it before and I wholeheartedly agree: Rob‘s saving grace is that nobody ever speaks up about the bullshit
Replying to PhrogDor #froglandus2 This is what gets me the most having been around the followings for a long while. I stopped in the later years, but always hoped the best for the guy. He'd doubled down, have bad luck, ans or just make what would wind up being the wrong choices (addiction issues aside). He's a very talented and smart guy in ways. He's just sorta a grand dad almost to the evolution of internet content in those days and the opportunities he had that could have went big if he just managed himself a bit better and maybe was more socially structured could have led to big things for a time.
Rob's cohort of early internet creators are mostly gone now, but up until the last couple years he had back channels with so many massive people, or was at least a known quantity to them
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and yeah, agree about the passion thing, that's well said