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Toushing Gent will bring in a huge wave of fans
trust the process
Hello new person
you tricked me
by forwarding the join message
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Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Toushing Gent will bring in a huge wave of fans
They won't
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Hey, welcome to the server, always can respect a fellow Drink Night enjoyer (underrated series imo)
The pins in here and #rawb are interesting if you want to catch up on all the specific drama
Being as charitable as I can be to Rob, he's gradually chosen to push away everyone in his life and his fanbase over the course of years, in really aggressive and hostile ways
It's the result of unchecked hard drug use exacerbating some mental illness problems he has, which is where I think you can paint him as being a little sympathetic
It got to a point where his family committed him to a mental hospital for a month-long involuntary hold
Issue is that the drugs also burnt his mind, and he lost a lot of his creative abilities and work ethic, which I think became a big point of frustration for him
And why he'd spin off the handle so much
Yeah, I like maintaining the archive because I think he genuinely was one of the funniest/talented people from his era of the Internet
That's another crazy part
imo, Rob's career (if you think of it like a series of coin flips at every decision point)
He made the wrong choice EVERY TIME
From when he started series, where he posted, what platforms he used
He was too early SO MANY TIMES, backed the wrong game, made the wrong call
The paywall was to spite old fans
He hated his old work, and being unable to attain the same heights again
He became obsessed with forcing viral videos for a while
Every friend/college Rob had online made it huge
He personally helped so many people who all became rich/successful
From the early Newgrounds/YouTube/Twitch days
Remember, Rob was an original streamer on Justin.tv when it became Twitch
He was on the front page almost every time he streamed
And then he cut back streaming to focus on videos, the same time that streaming blew up
He was posting to Blip.tv and his own site, rather than YouTube for forever
Even URealms, when he was early to the DND/ttrpg roleplay craze, he tried to push his viewers off-site and made the streams hard for casual viewers to find
It's was a decade+ of simple excusable mistakes
That cost him success
And a few years ago (spurred on by coke) he just snapped
He's basically off the Internet now, he streams occasionally and has some small Minecraft servers he runs for 1-2 dozen people
But the ride is over
A few years ago, I think we all hoped that
He had his mental breakdown 3rd midlife crisis thing
But I personally thought he'd turn it around
But instead he phoned in content on-stream for a while, while also antagonizing his community and spurning once-friendly content creators
After a couple years of that, gradually fading, he walked away
But yeah, a focused effort ay any point, he could have turned it around
ty Polu