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no there's another reason

well whats the reason

joined the server.

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hello

Welcome, what brought you here?

i was randomly thinking about early drink night streams and wondered if I could find an archive

saw the phijikchu website

it says "Rob is currently on a quest to burn every last bridge in his life" and that got me curious

haven't been following him for years

you can read the first pin on this channel to see a quick explanation for what happened to rob

when a mod comes online you'll be vetted to the rest of the server

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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

Unfortunate way to go

Yeah, I like maintaining the archive because I think he genuinely was one of the funniest/talented people from his era of the Internet

Its so shocking to me that he didn't end up bigger considering he got into youtube and streaming so early, with good content, and a dedicated fanbase

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

I tried checking in on him a few years ago when he was doing urealms live. It seemed like all his content was behind a paywall.

From when he started series, where he posted, what platforms he used

Like who does that? How do you expect to get new viewers

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

It's was a decade+ of simple excusable mistakes

That cost him success

Crazy

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

I'd hoped that he would someday start making good content again. Sound like thats pretty unlikely.

Unfortunate

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

I have you vetted @Autywa

ty Polu

O thank you

What's up with new people joining when no one is on

Late night rabbit holes lol

Checkout the pins here and in #rawb chat.

yall blame the drugs too much sometimes, he is just a selfish asshole, very unlucky, and at this point used to just cleaning slate when it comes to his content and audience

drugs definitely didn't help, not that they weren't the cause, just not the cause of everything

Nobody said the drugs were the only reason, but it’s definitely a huge factor, especially in his burn out

ik ik

yall just give the drugs too much credit

Druggy making excuses for drugs

Ooooh my gawd

Mint we could literally watch the physical decline in real time

and surprise, surprise, after he came back from the mental hold and seemed to not be doing drugs (as much), he looked way better

Drugs did not make him an asshole, but they did make him a paranoid skitzophreniac

Mint, I don't like chalking it up to solely "mental illness"

Because that takes any responsibility out of it

Rob made a lot of bad decisions, but a lot of them were fueled by coke and whatever schitzo/manic shit he had going on

Seeing him medicated, he's WAY more like his old self, albeit burnt the fuck out

again, the drugs fucked him up, were indeed the fuel to almost every bad decision for the x years of his career he was on them. but he was capable of bad decisions, manipulativeness, assholeary, etc. before and after

drugs didnt make him who he was or is, but drugs were an awful thing to throw in that mix

im glad he is doing better medicated and off the coke

drugs did make him who he is currently

a worse version of who he was

which was also an asshole