we found who did it, after talking to some of the OG wiki guys
vetting
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
not likely anyone still had the theme file though
I'm also not actively working on it, or trying to fix it
I could probably make it look somewhat presentable if I played around with it for a day or two
Just a tedious thing to do?
lol
I vaguely think your username looks familiar
but that is probably just me being braindead
hello new person
I don't think it would get all that many clicks for a drama essay
drama essay, no
he is more of a long for 2 hour youtube doc kind of story
Rob's story is interesting, and I think a surprising number of people know who he is sorta
I think if you tell it right, it is a compelling narrative
Rob is/was REALLY notable over the years
Totalbiscuit hated him personally
which I think is super cool
Yeah that's true, a lot of his old circle has also kinda gone, haven't they? Or fallen off for lack of better words
Newgrounds, Drow Guild (WoW), Escapist, BlipTV, front page JustinTV/Twitch, YouTube/Mindcracker, TRPG Streamer, internet nutcase
quite the progression
one of the first letsplayers
his first Minecraft let's play came out the same time Yogscast started doing videos
Early Newgrounds animator
Tried to make a professional minecraft league on JustinTV/Twitch back in 2010
Pre-dated critical role and the big TRPG boom with Urealms Live
and all along the way, had contacts and relationships with other people doing what he did
If Urealms started just like a tiny bit later, things could be so much different probably
he's talked about it seldomly, but he resents the fact that people he knew/worked with/helped made it BIG
while he never did
Replying to Orcen Cypress #orcencypress If Urealms started just like a tiny bit later, things could be so much different probably
that's everything he did
Wait everything?
Rob genuinely lost on a "coinflip" of his internet career a dozen+ times
backing the wrong horse, being too early at something, giving up and moving on to different projects/sites
That's actually really unfortunate
he was a front page Twitch streamer in the begining, and gave that up to have his own site
he chose blip over YouTube
he stopped doing Minecraft before it had its huge surge in popularity
he bet on Mindcrack with PMC, and then abandoned them overa EULA that never came
I said it earlier today, so this is me just quoting myself
There's this weird divide between Rob's mistakes caused by drugs/mental illness, mistakes caused by his ego, and mistakes caused by bad luck
but when he had his meltdown, and started demanding $300k/year from his fans
part of that was 100% resentment over the fact that people all around him made it big, despite doing the same things he'd been doing (and in some cases helped them do)
and yet he's barely scraping by, overworking himself to get S4 of Urealms ready
and saw his numbers dropping again, like they always did as his projects unsustainably wound themselves down
Buffalo wizards was another one
he was both too early and too late
the first wave of internet groups did really well, the wave that came after him did really well
but the 1-2 years he spent focusing on that, trying to make it work with his group
really slowed/stopped his growth
and he focused away from Twitch, at a time when Twitch was blowing up
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 the first wave of internet groups did really well, the wave that came after him did really well
the yogscast does it still and I still enjoy their stuff but they have been stagnating for like 10 years
Was it slow because most of the group had lives/jobs outside the group/content creation? Like how mindcrack were already minecrafters
I think you could chalk it up to a lot of different things
Justin has talked about Rob's advice being bad (which I agree with), he also wasn't really a good manager
varying levels of interest in going full-time, audience size, content diversity, personality fits, etc.
Overall though, it took Rob's attention away from doing projects, which is what he excelled at (and what had a chance of going viral)
and he also stopped trying to grow as a Twitch streamer, which would have been the sound career move at the time
his numbers were great
but it was 1 stream/week, and he flaked out a lot once BufWiz was up and going
his general stream number, like the random Sims stream where he'd get 10k
it's crazy he didn't see that, and try to double down streaming
I think a big part was he really didn't like Twitch as a company, but idk, maybe it was less obvious at the time how lucrative it could have been
though like REgi said, he did shit all to monetize it