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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

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

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