Thanks to @chazington1073 for the Moviebob or Nazi drawing btw, and be sure to check out a video i cameo'd in with him th-cam.com/video/F4BqdlnO7AU/w-d-xo.html
that quiz was genuinely insane to glance at, 100 quotes so i just started spamming random answers and then getting above 50% to just SEE what he had actually said was just.. somethin man
@@Ggggggfefdff I partially agree with you but one major issue is Moviebob is baffling with his political views. His support of eugenics would rightfully drive off the vast majority of people. He describes himself as a male feminist but it's so clear his main priority with it is that it will help him get laid any actual belief he might have in it is completely lost. The video dosen't really go over it but Moviebob views his idea society as some Wall E like one where you can just sit around all down plugged into a virtual reality world and interact with your favorite fictonal characters. He generalizes such massive groups of people and instantly goes to wiping them out that it seems like a parody but it's been going on far to long for that to be the case. I want to call him a Libertarian Surpremacist or even stretch it to Liberal Surpremacist (though the more I think about it I don't think Liberal Surpremacist works here) but his belifs fall more into some Virtual Reality Authortarian hell where he is at the top of the hierarchy and just about everyone else is vermin to be removed through force.
@@robymammon610Probably be like Stan from the Eminem song, tearing everything Mario down off his walls and shelve, take a 5th of vodka and drive to a bridge, crashing off of it and into the water, drowning.
@@robymammon610 > I played this video game the other day that some of you might have heard of, it's called Super Mario Bros. 3....and I tell you what folks, it's a great game, great game, fantastic game, probably the best video game that's ever been released. My son Baron loves it, he loves video games, you should see him- he's so good at video games. And you know what's so great about the Super Mario Bros, is they're a pair of brothers, a pair of hard-working brothers, hard working brothers from New York and they're from an Italian family. We love our Italians, don't we folks? A pair of hard-working brothers who fight through level after level to defeat the great menace Bowser and I tell you what, what he does to the Mushroom Kingdom is an awful lot like what Sleepy Joe and the swamp have done to our great country during the last 4 years....but these brothers, despite how Bowser sends his minions to come after them, the same way this administration has come after me and I know they're coming after you....despite that, they work together and they beat Bowser and they take back the Mushroom Kingdom. And I know that you all- we all- have the power to take back this wonderful country of ours if we work together and take down the people who are holding this country captive, no matter what they throw at us. Thankyou and God Bless America!
I would really love Bob to find a woman, have a kid, have the life he wants. Then his kid grows up into the biggest, chadest, meathead jock archetype you can imagine and only plays PlayStation.
His kid would grow up into that ps3 Chad meme from the 06-08(ish) era I'll be shocked if he isn't covered in this video(I'm just starting it), but he was the one who just basically said "P S TRIPLE IS BALLIN' YO! THE P S TRIPLE IS FOR THE REAL PLAYAS!!!!" and basically just got under every "angry critic" merd's skin in that era for the lullz.
Which is sad because knowing how non linear editing works, you couldn't just put it on hold for the day or so and pay your respects? I've stopped the whole presses because I had an uncle die from a fentanyl OD and he was my world. Is Bob just an asshole?
Fun fact: 308.7k tweets since 2011 is an average of about 2,5 tweets per hour everyday. This guy isn't terminally online, he's fully fused himself with his computer.
Sounds like a massive waste of time. At some point you could have poured that time into literally any other activity and been more productive or useful with in your own life.
I think you forgot to the mention the broader topic that Bob's entire identity, even his politics, is based around consuming media. He's all socalist and wealth reform, but he endlessly worships big media corporations like Disney and Warner Bros because they made things he watched as a child. He also genuinely believes his movie reviews are genuinely meaningful art and activism. His entire identity is based around being a man child
"hmm, I wonder what happens when socialist ideology tries to combine with corporations worship? Let's look at this history book from the 1930s... Oh no... Ohhhhh nooooooo!"
He's sort of like a modern day Lester Bangs, thinking on it. The thing about Lester was that he believed a lot of things, but above all else he believed that good art should be genuinely challenging. Like, he believed that The Shaggs were an all-female band with an attitude that women should want to emulate because, in the decades to come people will always listen to The Shaggs for the first time, realise that they suck, and then never, ever forget what they heard and tell another person about them so that the cycle could begin again. But, there are hundreds of all-female bands and female singers with massive pop hits that will be forgotten because they strived to be too perfect to the point where they become unmemorable. He also believed that 'good' music is music for children because kids will be introduced to it at a young age, be told it's good, and then for the rest of their lives they'll be like "This AC/DC album is good because Daddy told me it was good when I was 6," which is why 'bad' music is so important, because it's music for people who think for themselves, not people who just accept what is popular as 'good' or accept what their parents told them was good when they were young as 'good'. I don't think that Bob Chipman is capable of thinking that deeply about the things that he reviews, but he sure thinks that he is.
This was a real trip considering I remember getting into a disagreement with Bob on Screwattack years and years ago. Before he won that competition he'd asked for feedback on one of his videos and I replied with some advice essentially saying to chill out on the "gramers, halo and madden are ruining video games". He sent me an extremely rude message which claimed I was too "REDACTED" to understand his video. A few months later he made a video that claimed every single game in existence should be third person because it was inherently better than first person (???). I felt somewhat vindicated about who was actually "REDACTED"
Ah shit I agree with him on something, I also hate the first person perspective. Would I genocide all games that use it and forbid any more from being created? No, but my personal hatred remains.
Oh yeah... There was one video where he put in one of those pause to read edits in his video in which he blamed Metroid prime as responsible to the continuing plague of first person shooters, and refused to play it.
Moviebob is like if "Comic Book Nerd" from the Simpsons was a real person, except you remove any and all likability and humor from him and replaced it with 3 times the pretentiousness and 5 times the stupidity.
Something you notice growing up is that a lot of the "I was bullied" crowd were actually just naturally rejected by their peers for their abrasive, vulgar, inappropriate and/or antisocial behavior, which they refused to acknowledge or change. And which they often carry into adulthood, stranding them in a loop of constant social failure. Mobiebob is the perfect example of that.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232fuck this might be me, but I will say this, at least I had a consistent and string friend group (till life drifted us apart, but okay)
MovieBob is the definition of terminally online, to the point his view of the world is more akin to a Saturday morning cartoon where he's good and everyone he hates is bad. Its absurdly depressing.
Were they united? I don't really get the impression that other male feminists and Trump haters were ever really against him. EDIT: Also, I'm actually wondering if any angry reviewer types from this era who happened to be right wingers became this insane and hateful. It's something I'm really curious about, but don't wanna rot my brain looking up the ramblings of twitter posts from all the people from that era to try and discern their politics and level of insanity. If anybody reading this knows, tell me. I anna know.
@psycholuigiman Male feminists and Trump haters weren't against him so much as they didn't want to associate with him. This is a very common thing in any kind of politics, you'll accept their vote but when the chips are down you'll disown them. As for the hateful brand of right wingers, they just don't act insane. They are the bullies that pick on people, get really nasty, spiteful and personal, and then act either as a victim or the "rational" party if person they pick on bites back. Usually that brand of hate takes the form of sly mockery, the spreading of lies and a smug and superior attitude. If you look at the ones with the most "insane" views, like anti-vaxxers or flat earthers, you'll find all of these traits apply. And just because people WILL deliberately get the wrong idea if I don't specify, I am specifically talking about hateful right wingers. People who want to turn this in a generalisation slinging match can F off.
I did a bit of quick math in relation to Bob's twitter habits. So assuming Bob made his account on the 1st Day of March, 2011, that would mean that 4,561 days have passed since Bob initially joined Twitter. His number of tweets currently sits at ~309,100 since the account's inception. On average, that is 68 tweets per day, which would equal out to ~2,040 tweets per thirty-day month. To put that into perspective, the most active users on Twitter, according to some random statistics I googled, send out 157 tweets... per month. With these numbers, that means that Movie Bob tweets ~13x as much as Twitter's most active monthly users, and ~2040x more than the average Twitter user.
The insular nature of it promotes mental illness and infantilism, I found. The western world is already heavily medicated, but having your negative aspects encouraged and accepted en masse is plain debilitating. People need a reality check and have too many outlets to avoid it.
@@diegodunn-humphrey512Seriously. I’m so tired of the political people doing dumb “RETVRN” crap or the recent late stage capitalism. Life is good for everyone but those types 😂
he just looks almost stone-faced. even when someone is cosplaying a badass character and is doing the arms-crossed pout, you can still tell they’re having fun. also he’s holding his hands out to the side like an encounter in an RPG
It gets me because that's the same guy who says "nazis ruined eugenics", "jim crow ruined intelligence tests" and "I should be exploring the stars, but that future was stolen from me"
*Dear Moviebob, the utter lolcow of TH-cam.* *You have spread your lies, your ignorant rhetorics and your stink of follies onto other people in place of actual factuality. You contradict yourself like a broken record because a social media platform has taught you so.* *For these aggressive acts of being the big clown of the circus, we will make you confess to your own truths and make you see that even Nintendo has just as much to blame for gaming as any other.* *From, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts*
He's also perhaps the most agreeable, politically, of any legacy gaming channel. I never got the impression he was on a fence and trying to slide something by casually. Gaming Brit is like that too but his channel is not of the era.
@@12ealDealOfficial AVGN didn't really get political at all. Real-world politics generally don't belong in any form of entertainment. In his book he makes it clear that he really dislikes Trump and his wife wrote something on his site once about it being a "caucasian sausage fest." That's the extent of AVGN's political discussion that I've seen since 2006. The content has always been about playing the games, ranting, and having fun. That's why it's so great and timeless! Imagine if AVGN talked about the racism and sexism in every single game. It'd be terrible. He said something about a teacher saying "X-Men, huh? That's kinda sexist" and him replying "what's wrong with being sexy?" but that was all just a (fun) joke based in the reality of activist jerks in the 90s loudly and stupidly complaining that generalized use of "men" to mean "humans" really meant "only males."
You know how the Sonic fandom seems to attract all the weirdos? Nintendo made a deal with the devil to concentrate the weirdness in one person, and MobieBlob is the result. A character so ridiculous he would seem outlandish in a parody.
I laughed so hard reading "political views entirely focused around being vindictive towards people who were mean to him in High School in 1997" because that is 200% accurate to Bob. I am embarrassed to admit that I used to watch a lot of his videos back when I was younger. One of his biggest "running gags" as it were was him constantly saying that the 90's objectively sucked, as if it were the most factual statement ever with no explanation needed. Dude literally said this dozens of times for YEARS whenever bringing up anything popular from the 90's. It brought a lot of sour feelings from some of his younger fans that remember the decade fondly, myself included at the time. Later on in what I think was a Q&A video he finally admitted that the reason he said this literally boiled down to "because in the 80's I was a happy kid, in the 00's I got to start making a living off silly internet videos, and in the 90's I was an awkward teenager that got picked on." This was in his *own* words, not something to be gleamed from context clues. It had NOTHING to do with media, the economy, social norms, or anything like that. Fair enough on him for feeling this way, but keep in mind that he had spend dozens of videos acting like the 90's being a bad decade was an objective fact based on scientific observations instead of being 100% circumstantial to his own unfortunate experiences.
He needs to get over himself. How many of those high school bullies even remmber his name? That was 25 years ago. He's like the millenial version of the my grandfather who is still moaning about rationing cards 100 years later
Somebody said it best about Movieslob. He claims to be a great gamer and movie lover , but everything he loves is surface level stuff like Pixar or Marvel or Mario.
Someone once said that if the Orange Man said something positive about Mario 3, Lord knows what would happen to KinographicRobert's brain. And i too fear what would happen to all our lives.
I Imagine it would be something akin to dividing by zero. Hopefully, the resulting cosmic paradox and its destructive power would be localized to our particular region of the galaxy.
@@TheNightmareAngelYT It sounds like a line from a movie or something. I’ve seen someone else use the famous line from a SpongeBob episode, “Bubble Buddy” to satirize MovieBob’s hatred of Donald Trump (the “He (Trump) poisoned our water supply, burned our crops,and delivered a plague unto our houses!” line). 😂
@@TheNightmareAngelYT It's not in this video, but that is a real thing moviebob has tweeted unironically. Google it. I would link it but my comment might not show.
I think Bob is GENUINELY the only person I've seen hated by everyone no matter where they are on the political spectrum. Like even the folks he "aligns" with (Lindsay Ellis as an example) can't stand him.
He's like YHVH in Shin Megami Tensei II, who's such a massive tyrant that even His own side hates Him. Now I've imagined MovieBob as a giant floating yellow head who spouts his Twitter posts at you as an attack.
Nah the leftists hating him are just the pot calling the kettle black. There are so many vile things said by self-proclaimed leftists and Bob just happens to be one of the many loonies out there.
I remember being on his Twitter once and replied to a comment about Batman where I hoped they'd bring back some cool bat vehicles and focus on his detective skills a little more and Bob went off on me saying I was 'trying to make Batman young again " To this day I have zero earthly clue what he was talking about. I cut him out of my social feed after that.
Imagine Bob, Lily Orchard and Steve Shives pitted against eachother in a boxing match. A duel of people with zero self-awareness who let polarized politics ruin their online careers and turn them into jokes.
Bob seems like a BIG guy, not just in width, but height. I bet he would just dominate internet e-celeb fighting contests because it turns out a lot of these other dudes are TINY. And none of them are athletic so it's not like a Shives could outlast him in the ring. It'd be just Bob mauling the dude.
What's funniest to me regarding Bob's stance on Eugenics is that you take one good look at that...specimen, and you just know he'd be one of the first to go in the very Eugenics program he supports.
It’s kind of part and parcel; from its origins in Social Darwinism and Herbert Spencer, it’s always been about advocating for yourself or shielding yourself from first and foremost.
I hated the Game Overthinker's "Story" stuff. Most basement critics didn't realize that the reason why AVGN's comedy sketches worked is because he was an actual film maker that studied film and was passionate about story telling. Oh, and they didn't go on FOREVER like the Game Overthinker's sketches did.
@notsyzagts7967 I'm sure if James wanted to retire, he'd be fine. He seems like he'd be well off. Bob had to keep going though. Thus the consequences terminal online syndrome
Fun fact: you can no longer buy "SMB3 Brick by Brick" Bob is so ashamed of that piece of shit, that he's tried his best to erase it from history, Stalin style
Most likely because people started throwing his words against him since they came of that book. So he pulled a stalin and tried to make sure nobody else could use it. By that point, the book had been digitalized and immortalized
Bob is the perfect example of the 2014-16 shift Before he was a somewhat respected reviewer then he jumped into politics attacked his former audience and is now largely despised by his old audience
Bob is more self aware than Chris I will give him that but that also what makes him more dangerous because he can easily influence and manipulate his viewers into becoming like him.
No, because Chris-Chan is so incompetent that virtually no one takes him seriously. Also, I don't think Chris was ever a paranoid political extremist like Movieblob is.
Not really, the only thing they really have in common is that they're mentally unstable, but at least Bob doesn't have any creepy fetishes or anything like that. In fact, Bob feels like he's on the opposite end of the spectrum from Chris-Chan, because Bob seems to have complete awareness of what he's doing, while Chris-Chan seems to lack any self-awareness whatsoever.
@@norcalroamer5774 chris is definitely more dangerous. Tried to hit a man with a car who banned him from his store for being racist. Sxually assaulted his own mom with hints of wanting to do this with women before.
So wait, if Bob despised everything Trump liked, then what if Trump liked Mario Bros. 3, let alone Nintendo in general would Bob have to force himself to despise what he loved so dearly?
He would've been like Stan from the Eminem music video, and take off everything Mario off his walls and shelves, taking a 5th of vodka and driving, only to wind up crashing into water, drowning.
We could draw connections if we wanted to. Something like this Trump was at one point or maybe still is friends with Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson is in Punch-Out, Mario was the referee in Punch-Out and is also in Smash with Little Mac ever since Brawl.
That would divide Bob by zero and eradicate him from existence in all timelines. We wouldn't even be having this conversations because there'd be no video to have it under because there would be no Bob.
@@JustDatBoi Yes he is. Losers pretend the ONLY reason is to try and get laid because they can't handle the idea somebody just actually disagrees with them. It's pure, unadulterated cope
@@Wayte13You say that, but Bob absolutely trashed Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body and Transformers not because of her sub-par acting abilities, but because her "hotness is boring to me" and he admitted in the same review that he was only hating on her because she reminded him of the hot girls who'd rejected him in high school 😂
The old school, angry reviewer era, where there would just be random nearly-incomprehensible story arcs in every video, and every reviewer played at least one evil version of themselves, was unironically the best era
Yes, I do want 50% of this review of an obscure kids movie to be about defeating the reviewers evil twin, and for the reviewer to sacrifice themselves in a scene that could be Oscar worthy. Then the review ends with a fart joke
As a Libertarian myself, hearing that Bob once described himself as a Libertarian is so... bizarre to me. There was once a time when political topics got under my skin enough to where I genuinely could not think about anything else, but thankfully I managed to crawl out of that mindset. I do ocassionally fall into a similar funk, but not nearly as often due to making several improvements in my life. Hearing how Moviebob started feels like looking into a mirror and seeing an alternate universe where I never ended up improving. It feels cathartic to see how I have improved, but it also makes me feel bad for him. He is utterly trapped in a mindset that is ruining him yet he is too angry to care.
I realized what was happening and I just cut myself off from Twitter, only ever going back if somebody else linked me something and for a certain non-political topic.
You could honestly make a second video solely of how Marvel movies melted his brain, cause when you think they're gonna unite the world in a "post-national cinema" that would supplant organized religion and that criticizing them is like saying the N-word, that's a level of crazy I'd kill to see unpacked.
@@PsychoKaiju Kind of. I remember one of his earliest videos was on how much like Rome, or Grease, or Egypt worshiped a pantheon of gods as the stories of those gods were being written. So too superheroes and their stories had become so well known throughout American culture that they may as well be the American pantheon.
@@twinzzlers Pantheons are ment to mythic figures though. I would say the closest we have are the legends of the wild West. Like Paul Bunion and Paco's Bill.
So out of abject (some night say morbid) curiosity, I decided to check out what Bob thought of the new super Mario brothers movie that came out a few months ago. I found his review, and I have never heard anyone give a more disappointed positive review in my life. You can actually hear the contempt and disappointment in his voice. He wanted nothing more than this movie to be bad so he could rip this thing to absolute shreds about how his childhood was trampled under foot by illumination… and the fact that they managed to nail it and make a really good movie in my opinion is just so utterly disappointing and frustrating to him that he genuinely doesn’t know how to react
You know I’m glad illumination made at least a good movie, but yeesh from what you’re saying he sounded so sorrowful because the plumber got a good movie by illumination
@@Beepers559 When illumination was first announced to be making it, he was so ticked off because illumination makes the minions and the rabbids movie. And Bob had already decided what he wanted the Mario movie to be like and without going into anything it was extremely weird. He was genuinely concerned that illumination would make a Mario movie just for the kiddies. Of course what do you expect from someone whose idea of a care Bears movie can best be summed up as “the care Bears crossed with paradise lost”
Ironic that someone who is far-left and most likely anti-capitalism would make a 12 minute memorial for a product made purely to sell you more products.
I'm a massive Nintendo fan but even I'm not afraid to call them out on their bullshit. MovieBlob is legitimately insane and its its even more insane how he managed to get and lose his job(s). And i agree its really sad what happened, in the begining at least he was happy and just doing his thing and he even had *SOME* level of self awareness
As a huge fan of Nintendo games, I admit I'm not a huge fan of Nintendo's corporate policies. But I have never actually called anyone who worked there a god, even "jokingly."
Its not really sad at all. He faced the consequences of his actions. It would be sad if he was a victim of circumstance, but his downfall was earned by himself.
@@Akirathedon92oh I understand, I'm just saying it's "sad" because in the beginning there was a shred of self awareness but that clearly didn't last lol
Watching Jlongbone be introduced to Moviebob on efap for the 1st time and having her brain melt at the subatomic level within a minute will still never not be one of the funniest things on the internet I've ever witnessed.
Bob making Gamergate the final boss of his Game Overthinker series, in the form of a literal giant monster, is the embodiment of how deranged he was about this dumb internet mudflinging contest.
Everyone made it a way bigger thing than it was back then, including me, and I truly apologize for being involved. Blame my dumbass 18 year old mind and listening internet morons.
@@sammysstopmotionoas2004 Honestly, I think people didn't make a big enough deal out of it. The sheer attention it so quickly got in the media, and the way the politicos and failed newspaper columnists so quickly closed ranks, showed that the collusion wasn't just within video-game media. If we'd had more dedicated deep-divers at the time, I think we could have potentially uncovered something big. But things were left to slide and so many empty-headed people went right back to trusting the TV and internet news while proclaiming what "independent-minded thinkers" they were.
@@WhiteManOnCampus "If we'd had more dedicated deep-divers at the time" GamerGate failed because certain individuals got caught up in trying to fight feminism rather than media corruption and focused abit too much on growing their own channels instead of digging up dirt.
Any time I feel bad for laughing at him I remind myself that in Bob's perfect world he'd commit a genocide against me and most of the people I care about for not agreeing with his political opinions, have to say it's pretty hard for me to feel sorry for him after that.
@@captainweekend5276If you even disagree with him slightly he wants death upon you and everyone near you Its like that old saying "If you hate people for disagreeing with you then eventually you'll hate everyone in the end"
He's fine for me, no one's is perfect in life. I even see his tweets about his beef with Lindsay back then. EDIT: 16:21 WTF...I just wrote this one before getting this segment mentioning the girl. but yeah, Don't meet your heroes in life.
Christ almighty, those tweets sound genuinely fucking psychotic. I shudder to think of the alternate universe where MovieBob gained knowledge about homemade weapons.
@@modestMismagius105Twitter is a den of Insanity worthy of Exterminatus its filled to the brim with insane takes from every Political angle you can think of Left or Right
@@TheRealSuperKirbythere are much worse things being said about him, and he knows that. He's an argumentative person online, so while I'm not a fan of the guy, I doubt comments like this affect him in any way.
I'm still astonished that bob missed the point of 2019 joker when joker literally says the point of the movie in the movie. "What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash?" The entire point of the movie is that the main character is fuckin insane and he's literally allowed free roam until he crosses the line. The joker is Daniel Larson if Daniel Larson didn't have the internet.
I mean, this is coming from a guy who consumes nothing but Marvel movies. And did I mention he did hour long rants on BvS? I can say for certain that MovieBob is a DC hater and a Marvel shill (and Disney shill too).
To be fair, the main point of the movie went over a lot of people's heads, including those who liked it, so considering modern Bob's general medial literacy (or rather lack thereof) I'm not surprised he missed it.
Moviebob's political imagination is too small to think beyond an individualistic level. He can recognize that there are ills in society, but rather than his enemy being concentrations of power or any particular systems or mechanisms of that power, he thinks everything bad would go away if we just got rid of all those dumb bad people that support bad things, as opposed to good righteous "worthwhile" people such as himself. So he can have some principles, but only to express that people are "good" or "bad", rather than opposition to general ideas. His single-minded obsession with Trump stems from his inability to comprehend the system that would create and prop up Trump, instead of the orange man himself. A lot of times, it comes off like the people he hates are stand-ins for the jock bullies who picked on him in school.
>A lot of times, it comes off like the people he hates are stand-ins for the jock bullies who picked on him in school You just described 99,9% of SJWs.
Fun fact Moviebob used to have dreams where Iwata and Miyamoto would give him some key to "save video games" and his life goal was to save video games from Call of Duty and Gears of War ect (Think of it like how Linkara's life goal was to save comic books from the 90s and Frank Miller) Also he was part of some weird internet forum where they think they can outsmart death. Sadly the person who confirmed all this was on a stream called the Betchloff show which a lot of those pre 2018 streams got flagged or deleted
I saw that video (it did resurface on Bitchute a while back) and the dream Bob described to this friend was used for the basis of his Game Overthinker self insert fanfic and in this video. th-cam.com/video/73toAMJ7rqY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=su-YiquyMTGCSkAy
recently I responded to Bob's tweet saying Ron DeSantis visiting the 911 memorial wasn't convinving acting by saying it was more convinving than his acting in the Game Overthinker. Bob decided to make it personal by saying my parents saying they love me is convincing acting so I responded by saying at least I've heard those words from my parents
Honestly I do not understand why movie Bob thought it was a wise decision to get into politics, since he’s literally a review channel and not someone you should get your political opinion from.🐱
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTownFun fact about ShortFatOtaku He posed as a lesbian during gamergate so he could silicate nude's from women Went on a whole crusade for sargon against Mister Metokur just cause Jim laughed at his suit Made a whole video against Total biscuit just cause he didn't find the "traps are gay" joke funny
15:16 Bob is the exact type of person to accuse people on the right of "being fueled by nothing but HATRED" -and at the same time he can _never_ recognize the irony
WOW never saw that Early Bob take on the Playstation, and he is 100% WRONG. Playstation kept and had the same nerdy D&D playing audience Nintendo did. It wasnt until the XBOX that the more "casual" general audience was lured into the gaming sphere. God even back then Bob couldnt get shit right.
Seriously like the big iconic hits from the PS1 are Crash and Spyro colourful cartoony platformers Final Fantasies VII, VIII and IX, Japanese RPGs, Japanese survival horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill and the first 3 Tekkens it's such a bizarre take as you said if anything XBOX and the rise of HALO is what brought more general audiences to gaming, then the Wii and Modern Warfare completely cemented general audiences pretty much taking over the gaming space
More Nintendo Wii than Xbox (at least the original Xbox, not 360). For me, it was Xbox 360/PS3 that started "casualisation" of gaming. But Europe was always more PC-centric than the US.
He reminds me of those out of touch zoomers who go threw a phase where their politics are constantly decided by whatever streamers they watch until they grow out of it except he's a boomer.
@@KingC89 Honestly, I don’t mind what political views you have or of which stance you take. So as long as you don’t attack me or force your views upon me.
I love watching your videos cause its like talking to someone whos actually been through the 2000s and its just a treat seeing history of the old internet being shown right before my eyes
@@chuyuen441its true though a ton of zoomer content creators treat the edgy or wild west part of youtube/the internet like they just got out of vietnam and its kinda embarrassing There was this one content creator taht made two videos on edgy brony videos from the 2010s and acts like bronies tortured them its kinda hilarious watching them
I'd like to make the argument that Twitter didn't necessarily destroy Eugenics Robert's mental state in 2016 so much as it was ultimately a mask falling off moment. Bob was *always* like this his whole life. Most parents give their kids goals and aspirations at a young age to cultivate a sense of healthy autonomous agency into young adulthood. His parents made the mistake of having TV and Nintendo raise him with very little meaningful interaction with him (which explains how estranged Bob is to his own family outside of enablers like his brother). Bob and his family share Chris Chan's stubbornness for improvement since even early childhood; both of which involved rejecting therapeutic and medical health at an early age. The end result was Bob relying heavily on his junk food being his *only* form of comfort food. His fringe extremism is his main personality. Bob has created an insulated cocoon with his "junk food" of consoomerism that whenever he sees Nintendo or his narrow politics come into question, he feels personally attacked. His personality is attacked. He feels in theological danger with a fight-or-flight mentality that only let's his artery clogged digits do all the flying on a smartphone keyboard to Twitter. If it weren't anymore evident in his own book no less, Bob is a coward. He can't face his own living family, let alone respect dead ones to show condolences. He hasn't used the money he made through Escapist or Geek to move out his mom's "basement apartment". He's just miserable in the falsetto of his eco chamber of self-indulgence, because that's all he has. That's all he'll ever know of the world he's too slacktivist to engage in or how he might be in danger of humanizing the same vicarious mean 'ol jock bullies he sees the rest of society Bob envisions anyone different than him to be.
I don't like Bob either, but comments like yours are what will lead to his suicide. There's no reason to have such a personally vindictive vendetta against another human being
I think it's more about Bob living in a constant state of cognitive dissonance by supporting a political group who openly mocks him as a right-wing manchild. He's the King of Chudjaks yet he thinks he's not one of them.
@@4867503as if blob cares what another person thinks. though i think he's more likely to troon out than off himself. being a straight white male puts one at a disadvantage in the online left.
@@diegodunn-humphrey512 he played halo reach and thought the fact that it was a Military story *and also the fact how the Covenant have aliens and UNSC is all human* that it must be fascist. Completely ignoring the fact how the Covenant is *horrifically* genocidal and arguably more fascist than the UNSC.
@@dalek4463 I can see a very shallow look at Reach being 'fascist' but I see it more having read the backstory going back to TFOR and ORION/the Innie conflicts so it sounds like he came to the same conclusions without bothering to do the research. Which if he did, he'd realize Halo also has jingoist themes that are deconstructed and thrown out halfway through the first game, the moment the Flood shows up.
Moviebob is the Mario answer to Sonic's Chris Chan. The man is so drugged on politics that he's basically mentally dead. The guy thinks he's a genius and a thinker when the truth is he's more of a sheep than actual sheep. Before he would consider Bayonetta an example of a female badass, but when Sarkissian said she's a sexist character Bob would denounce Bayonetta. Gamergate was where his political lunacy came out in force, but the only 'epic' moment for Bob there was when Totalbiscuit wiped the floor with Bob by reminding him that Bob was a college dropout whilst TB completed University and concluded that Bob is a clown. Concerning is Bob's opinions as shown in the Moviebob or Nazi segment. His rhetoric sounds something closer to Nazi ideology. As for the book, well, it definitely sheds some light to Bob's madness.
I’d also add that Chris Chan wants to look like a child online, playing with toys and drawing comics. Moviebob wants to look like an adult online, being ridiculously political and trying to sound sophisticated.
Blob in his early days was kinda reasonable guy with reasonable opinions (there is an ancient video by Sargon of Akkad from like 2015 about it) but contact with Anita destroyed the guy. He wanted to impress her and her feminist minions and that started his downfall. It was GamerGate, not 2016 ellections.
@@jakublulek3261 Honestly I think his contact with places like twitter and other left leaning places enlarged the already left leaning fires in Bob into raging inferno of hatred against anything that isn't on his side of the political spectrum. This only worsened as his efame grew as it all began to go to his head.
It’s not just because the Ghostbusters are women, but it’s really unfunny, the jokes are so immature, and the script is just copying the homework from the original Ghostbusters script but making it way worse. Even some high school friends of mine who were girls at the time saw the movie hated it.
Thanks for mentioning just how absurdly opinionated the Gamergate Wikipedia article really is. You should also check the talk page, where 2-3 power editors engage in personal attacks and namecalling with whoever tries to discuss the article or its sources. Whichever values Wikipedia is supposed to uphold, that article does a great job of completely throwing them in the trash. Seeing how the site admins allow this makes you wonder where else they sacrifice any kind of rigor for an agenda.
Gamergate is so fascinating when you see the mainstream sites like Wikipedia covering it compared to the smaller or lesser known ones covering the same topic and same applies for those covering it in retrospect. How aggressively one side fights to uphold their values over the other and how far they’ll create their subjective narrative of the whole saga.
The same thing I say to everyone who has a problem with wikipedia, bring sources and be ready to defend yourself. Even editors can't escape if the problems get put to a vote of consensus. The problem I often see when people complain about biassed stuff they don't have proper sources other than some random blog or yt video.
@@rayvenkman2087 I was a teenager when it went down and was well into it. In retrospect, it really was a harassment campaign at heart and only secondarily an inquiry into gaming journalism. It absolutely reeked of the same overzealousness that people point to with current campaigns to cancel people where an often loose ‘moral’ justification is used to attempt to utterly ruin as much of someone’s life as possible. The difference is that there were a worryingly high volume of credible threats surrounding GamerGate. That’s why people joke about the whole “ethics in gaming journalism” thing because it’s a nice, flowery premise which simply doesn’t hold water when looking at the lack of ethics quite a lot of outspoken proponents of GamerGate had. You’re right about people across the web attempting to preserve one narrative or another about it, Wikipedia included, but from my personal experience with it, it was such a ridiculously overblown crucible of extremism that more often than not went too far while invoking hypocritical justification. While we’re talking about the ridiculous extremism of people like MovieBob, it’s worth recognizing that things like GamerGate are part and parcel with that kind of radicalization. The best propaganda is based on distortion of the truth, not outright fabrication.
The Wikipedia page for Indians doesn’t even have Indians as one of its names, even though it links to other articles for “Indian reservations” and “Indian country.” Truly biased nonsense.
@@DeltaAssaultGaming there is litteraly a page "Indian" which shows you all the different people and places referred to as indian. I'm not sure what you're raving on about. It's en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Indian (yt hates links and will remove your comments if you include them) Edit: It is a disambiguation page, because so many different things and people are called Indians. That's how wikipedia works.
Remember when Iwata died and he did this whole tribute video that ended with the fucking stupid "Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!" thing for like a full minute?
Moviebob is such a weird case when i was a dumb 13 year old kid i remember loving The Game Overthinker with his fast talking snappy editing then i forgot about him for years them in the last few years i hear about how hes become out of nowhere
9:40 i was online quite a lot in 2014, and somehow GamerGate completely flew over my head. I remember it being #1 on Angryjoe's "top 10 gaming controversies of 2014" list and being like "wtf is this? i remember almost all the other things on this list"
I think it really depended on what circles you were in at the time. I was a kid when it was major (i think like summer 2014) but I didn’t hear about it until like 2 years later because all i watched in 2014 were lets players and gravity falls theorists
I remember it happening, I wasn't involved in it though. Only ever got an outsiders glance into it. All I ever got from it was someone slept with a journalist, and the journalist was the one who reviewed her game or something like that. That said, I have to commend Anita Sarkeesian, she totally scammed a bunch of people. She made a ton of money off this whole thing, by Kickstarting doing TH-cam videos that anyone could have done. Like, you can hate her or love her, but you can't deny that she saw people blind with anger, and reached into their wallets. lol
I take issue with the implications that Bob’s content was ever good. I was a moderator on Screwattack back in the day and his winning that contest was the beginning of a huge downswing in content quality on the site, and I got a lot of shit for not welcoming his work with open arms. Also, speaking as someone pretty strongly on the left, we don’t claim him. Nothing saddens me more than when he and I actually agree on something.
@@rayvenkman2087 There was a truly funny and original show that also frankly fit the site’s vibe way better that I believe was called Rockumentary. But as it turned out, Craig cared less about quality and more about signing a channel that already had a big following, naturally lopsiding the polls and bringing that audience to his site.
@@rayvenkman2087 What’s more, the Rockumentary guys took it in stride while also countering with a joke series, Game UNDERthinker, that was also better than anything Bob has ever done.
The story of MovieBob's descent into madness hits hard for me, but not because of MovieBob himself. This story reminds me of another content creator named AniMat. He's a Canadian animation and cartoon reviewer/historian who started off quite strong. But as the 2010's trekked on, AniMat would go through the very same beats as MovieBob. Like MovieBob, AniMat became an incredibly toxic and hostile individual addicted to politics and demonizing anyone who disagreed with him, became an ardent user of Twitter, and would act in such a condescending and holier-than-thou manner that it became hysterical and even kind of funny. By the end of 2020, I stopped watching his videos due to how irrational he got and how far he fell from grace. Now, AniMat is not as radical as MovieBob (don't get me wrong, he's still up there). But it's kind of uncanny how similar their stories are.
I remember when he called Sony Animation the worst thing to ever happened to animation due to the Hotel Transylvania movies and The Emoji Movie. (This was Before Spiderverse and Mitchells btw). But the Straw that broke the camel's back in my opinion was always shoving his goddamn USA political views on his podcast and ALWAYS blamed Trump for even the pettiest of reasons. Some tragedy happened on the USA or in his native canada? Trump's Fault Covid? Trump's Fault Floyd Protest? Trump's fault He trips and hits his face on the sidewalk? Trump's fault Add that to his squeaky voice and overreacting and one day he says to his viewers "If you hate me for always talking about politics on my ANIMATION podcast/channell then unsubscribe" I said "I had enough of this dude" and unsubscribed. And i've never regretted it ever since. Does he still talk shitty politics on his podcast or his voice finally hit puberty?
@@monstercombo007 Heh, I remember the days when he had a massive bias against Sony Pictures Animation. I believe it came to a climax when he said that the animators who worked on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs should consider a career change. Yeah...that's just cold. But, personally speaking, I'd rather take all of his biased criticism against Sony than a single second of his political rantings. A key issue is that he's incredibly arrogant, acting so smugly about what he's talking about that you don't want to listen to him. He wants to be seen as a serious commentator, but it always devolves into him screaming at the top of his lungs at those who disagree with him. A key example of this was during his podcast episode on the results of the 2020 U.S Election. This podcast was what caused me to give up on him, specifically when he went after anyone who was a centrist or politically neutral. To add salt to an open wound, a few days later, he updated the description with a non-apology that made him look even more tone-deaf (it's lost to time now). However, I think the biggest issue I have with him is that he's just not a very good critic. Granted, he started out quite strong when he began. But he started making reviews in 2009, and even during the late 2010's, he never changed his style...at all. Compared to dozens of others, his reviews come across as formulaic, bland, and very rigid in terms of structure. Combine this with the egotism and addiction to politics and you've got a recipe for disaster. Because of him, I learned about movies and series that I never knew about. If anything, there's that. But when it comes to using the internet and growing, you take what you know and improve and hone your craft. Many reviewers and content creators know this, AniMat didn't. He simply never grew up.
@@tom.fletcherI remember that non-apology. I also remember when the Capitol Riots happened that he said that "This is the new 9/11" and obviously many people were pissed about such statement and made ANOTHER Non-Apology saying that "The effects were similar" I then unsusbscribed his podcast and when he made that review of a Netflix movie about america's history, I simply gave up and said "No more" He never improved, He never changed, he was stuck with his political thumb up his ass. Even Goddamn Mr. Enter wasn't this petty, and at least he had the balls to admit he messed up and tried to change his style (even if it backfired). Pd: Lost to time? He deleted his podcast or something?
@@monstercombo007 Sorry about that! I meant to say that the non-apology he made is lost to time, as he removed it from the description of the podcast episode. In the comment section, he pinned a comment announcing that he was taking back his apology. In AniMat fashion, he ended the statement by saying, and I kid you not, "now for those who felt offended by that statement, you owe me an apology for being right this whole time." Yeah, this man's ego and narcissism are Olympus Mons' levels of massive. It would be pretty interesting to see MagicMush do a video on AniMat. Maybe in the future.
My friends and I occassionally jokingly refer to his "I needed the 1993 Mario movie to be good because Mario is my friend" bit from 'Brick by Brick' constantly as it really encapsulates the consoomer who is convinced certain companies and brands are like friends or family to them.
In my experience, the descent into these terrible rabbit-holes can be incredibly emotionally draining, after a while you just feel like an empty husk unable to properly socialize anymore. Kind of like how Moviebob has ended up (still can't believe I ever took him seriously). So at the very least, it might make some people too miserable to wanna stay in these holes for too long.
Movie bob to me represents the worst aspects of nerd culture in America in modern times highly politicized entertainment because they have a found a following they develop an inflated ego and delusion of themselves, thinking they’re worth more to society than they actually are. We all have our politics, but it important not to be our sole identity.
This is why I’ve distanced myself from nerd culture nowadays, although I was a big part of it during my high school years from 2015-2019 as everyone in my class all shared the same interests. But ever since leaving high school everyone has moved on and don’t even watch western nerd culture media anymore but instead either independent works or anime and it shows ever since going to college.
MovieBob is probably one of the few lolcows that can genuinely make me angry. Even with some leftoid or rightoid youtubers that can be obnoxious, they mostly just hate certain viewpoints and ideologies and believe in helping people. MovieBob on the other hand straight up just HATES certain people and believes he's justified in doing so. I can relate in being a bit of a Nintendo apologist and having a short fuse from time to time, but Movie Bob not only does no effort in calming himself down, he genuinely seeks anger and is addicted to it.
The funny thing is, Bob was fully capable of writing great movie essays (his "Really That Good" video for Spider-Man 1 and 2 I do remember enjoying) but it's too bad he has a terrible personality otherwise.
I tried watching Moviebob years ago, but he honestly sounded like someone who thinks is really smart, uses lots of "big" words and ends up talking a lot without actually saying anything. Oh, and no matter how much I love the church scene in Kingsmen, Moviebob seemed to miss everyone's reaction while it was happening and Harry being disgusted about what he did afterwards. I guess I watched a different movie than he did if that was what he took from the scene...
I beg to differ. He uses hard words effectively and accurately and makes sophisticated points. I don't find him to be pedantic. He also makes interesting points that I haven't seen elsewhere. It shouldn't be normal to resent writers for using college level vocabulary. That's what they went to college for and that's why these words exist
Had a friend like movie bob. Without the crazy political shit. Instead of nintendo and shitty movie reviews it was nintendo, anime and memes. Had a falling off. God, I hope he didn’t turn out like movie bob.
Most people in the 90s didn't make their console of choice their entire personality the way Moviebob did. I was a gamer, and loved good games for any system I could play them on. If you swore off playing Genesis titles like a vow of celibacy, you did yourself a disservice. Even the Atari Jaguar had a few games worth playing despite being the weakest link of the mainstream consoles released in the 90s.
@@Lastjustice I remember as a kid, I had a PS1, and when I found out a friend of mine had a Nintendo 64 I was like "Wowee! More games! I wanna play the one with the funny snowman beating up the masked dude!" Why people take console wars personally is beyond me.
@@tafua_a I had preferences to what system I liked, but I never was like I will not play X system. I was much more of a fan of game series over loyalty to any system. I have always loved Megaman, and played those games regardless of what console it appeared on. The games are always going be far more important than the hardware it runs on.
you got the right idea, participating in petty online wars only ends in making yourself upset, wasting your own time and pushing away friends over minor differences in perspective. doing something with a visible impact usually involves leaving the house, and for most people that's too big an ask.
Petty online wars are GREAT if you're self aware. For example, pineapple on pizza. This is a stupid thing to argue about. We all have different tastes. But I'm dying on the hill that it tastes great
I think it's not really about politics, or Nintendo, or whatever the topic of the online holywars is. It's social media and holywaring itself. It's easy and fun to dunk on cringe people online, but I think it's a genuine crisis of psychological health our society is facing. Social media, at least the way it works today, is terrible for our sanity, both individual and collective.
What happened to Moviebob is exactly what happened to Shmorky, a popular internet content creator who sold his soul to the "culture war" and let it ruin his life to the point where everyone turned against him. In Shmorky's case, it was Tumblr and identity politics, while in Moviebob's case, it was Twitter, Gamergate and the anti-Trump hysteria of 2016 and afterwards. Of course, Bob didn't have any creepy fetishes like Shmorky did, but did become a completely different person after they got into modern social media. And the sad part is that they're far from the only ones who fell completely from grace. Remember Spoony? The story behind what happened to him is quite insane in of itself.
@@DarranKern Shmorky was just a very creepy person, and that almost always seems to happen whenever someone let's Twitter or Tumblr take over their lives. They start out as normal people, then a certain social media app that's big into politics and ideology enters their lives, and suddenly they become FAR worse people.
@@DarranKern And when it comes to Twitter and Tumblr, they are BIG into NSFW content as much as they are into political ideologies, _especially_ the furries, they're the worst ones of them all.
Moviebob is everything i try to avoid being. A terminally online political fanatic who is obssesively biased in favor of a billion dollar video game company. Also, when's the upcoming video on Andrew Dobson?
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Thanks to @chazington1073 for the Moviebob or Nazi drawing btw, and be sure to check out a video i cameo'd in with him
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Moviebob's "other books" are just collections of his old blog posts packaged together and sold for money.
Just FYI.
Nice video.
Can you make a video about Grade A under A
Same politic and drama ruin a good youtuber
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when u read cameo'd as 'cameltoe'd' ...
that quiz was genuinely insane to glance at, 100 quotes so i just started spamming random answers and then getting above 50% to just SEE what he had actually said
was just.. somethin man
People sometimes forget what being "terminally online" really means. Moviebob got hooked up to the culture war scene and never wanted out.
@@Ggggggfefdff I partially agree with you but one major issue is Moviebob is baffling with his political views. His support of eugenics would rightfully drive off the vast majority of people. He describes himself as a male feminist but it's so clear his main priority with it is that it will help him get laid any actual belief he might have in it is completely lost. The video dosen't really go over it but Moviebob views his idea society as some Wall E like one where you can just sit around all down plugged into a virtual reality world and interact with your favorite fictonal characters. He generalizes such massive groups of people and instantly goes to wiping them out that it seems like a parody but it's been going on far to long for that to be the case. I want to call him a Libertarian Surpremacist or even stretch it to Liberal Surpremacist (though the more I think about it I don't think Liberal Surpremacist works here) but his belifs fall more into some Virtual Reality Authortarian hell where he is at the top of the hierarchy and just about everyone else is vermin to be removed through force.
How do you avoid it?
@@skeletonking2501 Honestly I'd just stay off social media and try not to get too invested in politics
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he was hooked on the brothers
"If Trump had a 2000s video game review show, Moviebob would be the evil alter ego he'd have to fight" LMAO
I would 100% watch the shit out of a late 2000s Donald Trump review show where he fights Moviebob. In fact, I’d pay money to see that.
Yep, I'd watch that
If Trump said SMB3 was his favorite video game of all time, I wonder what Bob would do.
@@robymammon610Probably be like Stan from the Eminem song, tearing everything Mario down off his walls and shelve, take a 5th of vodka and drive to a bridge, crashing off of it and into the water, drowning.
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> I played this video game the other day that some of you might have heard of, it's called Super Mario Bros. 3....and I tell you what folks, it's a great game, great game, fantastic game, probably the best video game that's ever been released. My son Baron loves it, he loves video games, you should see him- he's so good at video games. And you know what's so great about the Super Mario Bros, is they're a pair of brothers, a pair of hard-working brothers, hard working brothers from New York and they're from an Italian family. We love our Italians, don't we folks? A pair of hard-working brothers who fight through level after level to defeat the great menace Bowser and I tell you what, what he does to the Mushroom Kingdom is an awful lot like what Sleepy Joe and the swamp have done to our great country during the last 4 years....but these brothers, despite how Bowser sends his minions to come after them, the same way this administration has come after me and I know they're coming after you....despite that, they work together and they beat Bowser and they take back the Mushroom Kingdom. And I know that you all- we all- have the power to take back this wonderful country of ours if we work together and take down the people who are holding this country captive, no matter what they throw at us. Thankyou and God Bless America!
I would really love Bob to find a woman, have a kid, have the life he wants.
Then his kid grows up into the biggest, chadest, meathead jock archetype you can imagine and only plays PlayStation.
His own kids would bully him
@@benh8657 Lindsay did what?!
Create his own AntiThinker
@@benh8657 what do you mean?
His kid would grow up into that ps3 Chad meme from the 06-08(ish) era
I'll be shocked if he isn't covered in this video(I'm just starting it), but he was the one who just basically said "P S TRIPLE IS BALLIN' YO! THE P S TRIPLE IS FOR THE REAL PLAYAS!!!!" and basically just got under every "angry critic" merd's skin in that era for the lullz.
He was willing to make a tribute video for a magazine, but not go to his grandmas funeral
Did his grandma ever tell him how to find a warp whistle?
Which is sad because knowing how non linear editing works, you couldn't just put it on hold for the day or so and pay your respects?
I've stopped the whole presses because I had an uncle die from a fentanyl OD and he was my world. Is Bob just an asshole?
@@KingThrillgore > Is Bob just an asshole?
Yes.
Didn't wings of redemption also stay home from his grandma's funeral to play video games lol
@@turdferguson2 Yes. And he claimed that it's because he can't handle situations like that and he was mourning.
Moviebob: Against Nazis
Also Moviebob: “We should use eugenics!”
"I used the Nazism to destroy Nazism" -MovieBob(Probably)
Is he Icelandic by any chance?
Nazi soldier in disguise!
Average antifa circa 2020's
he's literally jealous of them
Fun fact: 308.7k tweets since 2011 is an average of about 2,5 tweets per hour everyday.
This guy isn't terminally online, he's fully fused himself with his computer.
That’s crazy
That’s disturbing.
Bro's the Master from Fallout.
And assuming he gets 8 hours of sleep every day, which is being generous, it's closer to 4 tweets per hour.
Sounds like a massive waste of time. At some point you could have poured that time into literally any other activity and been more productive or useful with in your own life.
I think you forgot to the mention the broader topic that Bob's entire identity, even his politics, is based around consuming media. He's all socalist and wealth reform, but he endlessly worships big media corporations like Disney and Warner Bros because they made things he watched as a child. He also genuinely believes his movie reviews are genuinely meaningful art and activism. His entire identity is based around being a man child
Don't forget the almighty nintendo
"hmm, I wonder what happens when socialist ideology tries to combine with corporations worship? Let's look at this history book from the 1930s... Oh no... Ohhhhh nooooooo!"
And, sadly, a man child who has lost any moral compass or sense of integrity the media he has consumed has actually instilled in many a man-child.
He's sort of like a modern day Lester Bangs, thinking on it.
The thing about Lester was that he believed a lot of things, but above all else he believed that good art should be genuinely challenging. Like, he believed that The Shaggs were an all-female band with an attitude that women should want to emulate because, in the decades to come people will always listen to The Shaggs for the first time, realise that they suck, and then never, ever forget what they heard and tell another person about them so that the cycle could begin again. But, there are hundreds of all-female bands and female singers with massive pop hits that will be forgotten because they strived to be too perfect to the point where they become unmemorable.
He also believed that 'good' music is music for children because kids will be introduced to it at a young age, be told it's good, and then for the rest of their lives they'll be like "This AC/DC album is good because Daddy told me it was good when I was 6," which is why 'bad' music is so important, because it's music for people who think for themselves, not people who just accept what is popular as 'good' or accept what their parents told them was good when they were young as 'good'.
I don't think that Bob Chipman is capable of thinking that deeply about the things that he reviews, but he sure thinks that he is.
@@qty1315That Lester dude sounds like the most pretencious cringelord ever, not everyone takes their musical taste from their parents
This was a real trip considering I remember getting into a disagreement with Bob on Screwattack years and years ago. Before he won that competition he'd asked for feedback on one of his videos and I replied with some advice essentially saying to chill out on the "gramers, halo and madden are ruining video games". He sent me an extremely rude message which claimed I was too "REDACTED" to understand his video.
A few months later he made a video that claimed every single game in existence should be third person because it was inherently better than first person (???). I felt somewhat vindicated about who was actually "REDACTED"
Ah shit I agree with him on something, I also hate the first person perspective. Would I genocide all games that use it and forbid any more from being created? No, but my personal hatred remains.
@@profanegunman7586Funny, I have a friend who can't stand third person games depending on the genre.
Not even joking, but that is actually a symptom of mental illness and personality disorders.
You deserve fourth person
Oh yeah... There was one video where he put in one of those pause to read edits in his video in which he blamed Metroid prime as responsible to the continuing plague of first person shooters, and refused to play it.
Bob's love for Mario 3 is more important than his grandmother's funeral.
A true gamer never falters his game
@@user-id2qh5sm8w A true gamer wrties a book about a long lets play too lol
Tbf I also care more about SMB 3 than Bobs grandma.
he also had a complete mental breakdown in HS over yoshis island not being the cartoon lore of Mario being from Brooklyn and in the mushroom kingdom
How could you even compare granny’s funeral to Mario 3.
Moviebob is like if "Comic Book Nerd" from the Simpsons was a real person, except you remove any and all likability and humor from him and replaced it with 3 times the pretentiousness and 5 times the stupidity.
no offense, but his nomenclature is Comic Book Guy lol, I get the irony here
@@rondobrondo That's not true. Comic Book Nerd actually had a girlfriend.
@@rondobrondoJeff Albertson if we want to be specific
@@kingbash6466 Was it a girlfriend he got after Skinner's Mom? (I'm not even lying. That happened once.)
@@wayward11in the last few seasons Jeff/Comic Book Guy began dating a Manga artist called Kumiko and eventually they got married
Ya'll not gonna mention the fact he is a huge fan of Cuties and went out of his way to extensively defend it?
Oh shit, really?
@@Petronia911 just look up moviebob cuties you can find one image that doccuments it i think.
Off all the hills to die on.
Ew
Of course he was
A person who's entire identity is literally "I was bullied in high school and never got over it"
He would be great friends with Onision
totally
Something you notice growing up is that a lot of the "I was bullied" crowd were actually just naturally rejected by their peers for their abrasive, vulgar, inappropriate and/or antisocial behavior, which they refused to acknowledge or change. And which they often carry into adulthood, stranding them in a loop of constant social failure. Mobiebob is the perfect example of that.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 explains why dobson is so similar
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232fuck this might be me, but I will say this, at least I had a consistent and string friend group (till life drifted us apart, but okay)
MovieBob is the definition of terminally online, to the point his view of the world is more akin to a Saturday morning cartoon where he's good and everyone he hates is bad. Its absurdly depressing.
That sounds suspiciously like the average political web cartoon
Bob is like one of those Conservative Comic depictions of Left Wing people except he is actually real.
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@@skeletonking2501I too read the literary work, Sonichu.
If Moviebob did anything right. He made leftwingers and rightwingers come together and say "yeah that guy's a clown"
Uniting them both just to dunk the shit of Moviebob is both wild and preposterous
@@surftacoman80bruh the 2 political sides being temporarily united over anything is wild
Were they united? I don't really get the impression that other male feminists and Trump haters were ever really against him.
EDIT: Also, I'm actually wondering if any angry reviewer types from this era who happened to be right wingers became this insane and hateful. It's something I'm really curious about, but don't wanna rot my brain looking up the ramblings of twitter posts from all the people from that era to try and discern their politics and level of insanity. If anybody reading this knows, tell me. I anna know.
@psycholuigiman Male feminists and Trump haters weren't against him so much as they didn't want to associate with him. This is a very common thing in any kind of politics, you'll accept their vote but when the chips are down you'll disown them.
As for the hateful brand of right wingers, they just don't act insane. They are the bullies that pick on people, get really nasty, spiteful and personal, and then act either as a victim or the "rational" party if person they pick on bites back. Usually that brand of hate takes the form of sly mockery, the spreading of lies and a smug and superior attitude. If you look at the ones with the most "insane" views, like anti-vaxxers or flat earthers, you'll find all of these traits apply.
And just because people WILL deliberately get the wrong idea if I don't specify, I am specifically talking about hateful right wingers. People who want to turn this in a generalisation slinging match can F off.
Bringing the world together, one tweet at a time!
I did a bit of quick math in relation to Bob's twitter habits. So assuming Bob made his account on the 1st Day of March, 2011, that would mean that 4,561 days have passed since Bob initially joined Twitter. His number of tweets currently sits at ~309,100 since the account's inception. On average, that is 68 tweets per day, which would equal out to ~2,040 tweets per thirty-day month. To put that into perspective, the most active users on Twitter, according to some random statistics I googled, send out 157 tweets... per month. With these numbers, that means that Movie Bob tweets ~13x as much as Twitter's most active monthly users, and ~2040x more than the average Twitter user.
God *_DAMN_*
JESUS. CHRIST!!
Jesus, even Spoony doesn't tweet that much.
Very strange indeed
@@ElectricBarrieri miss Spoony. I hope hes doing better.
Another example of how radicalizing social media can be. He’s hardly an anomaly.
The insular nature of it promotes mental illness and infantilism, I found. The western world is already heavily medicated, but having your negative aspects encouraged and accepted en masse is plain debilitating. People need a reality check and have too many outlets to avoid it.
So many people online think and behave like him
@@diegodunn-humphrey512Seriously. I’m so tired of the political people doing dumb “RETVRN” crap or the recent late stage capitalism.
Life is good for everyone but those types 😂
@@JollyGiant19late stage capitalism real doe
@@JollyGiant19Bestie late stage capitalism GAVE US the radicalizing social media that melts your brain
That image of him dressing up as mario still gets me every time and i genuinely don't know why
he just looks almost stone-faced. even when someone is cosplaying a badass character and is doing the arms-crossed pout, you can still tell they’re having fun. also he’s holding his hands out to the side like an encounter in an RPG
It gets me because that's the same guy who says "nazis ruined eugenics", "jim crow ruined intelligence tests" and "I should be exploring the stars, but that future was stolen from me"
@@arandompasserby7940Yeah, Bob is in no position to be as viciously elitist as he is.
It has the same energy as the red 45 days later Alex Jones picture and the OneyPlays Cory picture edit. I fucking love it
It's because he kind of looks like Mario if you think about it
MovieBob interpreted "Nintendo Power" like he was Malcolm X.
White power? No.
Black power? No.
Nintendo power? Yes!
He take the consoles war very seriously and believe in Nintendo Supremacy
LOL. Good stuff.
By Any Cheats Necessary!
Now I'm picturing Bob recreating that picture of Malcolm X with the rifle
Bob went from game reviewer to a Persona villain
As if he had any of the competence or threat of even the weakest Persona villian.
He went from MovieBob to Diabeeto.
*Dear Moviebob, the utter lolcow of TH-cam.*
*You have spread your lies, your ignorant rhetorics and your stink of follies onto other people in place of actual factuality. You contradict yourself like a broken record because a social media platform has taught you so.*
*For these aggressive acts of being the big clown of the circus, we will make you confess to your own truths and make you see that even Nintendo has just as much to blame for gaming as any other.*
*From, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts*
I guess he’s a reject from Strega that Jin doesn’t want to talk about. I wonder if he’ll end up in the upcoming Persona 3 remake… 😉
@@Nameless-ln5mr That's a pretty good one
Classic AVGN holds up today in large part because it was well-written and produced without making up contrived stories.
the classic ones anyways lol, the newer ones with his crew lacks his motivation.
@@Robert_D_Mercer No time
He's also perhaps the most agreeable, politically, of any legacy gaming channel. I never got the impression he was on a fence and trying to slide something by casually. Gaming Brit is like that too but his channel is not of the era.
@@12ealDealOfficial AVGN didn't really get political at all. Real-world politics generally don't belong in any form of entertainment. In his book he makes it clear that he really dislikes Trump and his wife wrote something on his site once about it being a "caucasian sausage fest." That's the extent of AVGN's political discussion that I've seen since 2006. The content has always been about playing the games, ranting, and having fun. That's why it's so great and timeless! Imagine if AVGN talked about the racism and sexism in every single game. It'd be terrible. He said something about a teacher saying "X-Men, huh? That's kinda sexist" and him replying "what's wrong with being sexy?" but that was all just a (fun) joke based in the reality of activist jerks in the 90s loudly and stupidly complaining that generalized use of "men" to mean "humans" really meant "only males."
@@JodyBruchon”real world politics generally don’t belong in any form of entertainment” that is just false.
The way that it's painfully obvious that one of the only reason bob goes so hard on feminism is because he thinks it'll eventually get him laid 💀
Ah yes, Eggman Feminism.
Tbh that's how all male feminist are
that's always the tragedy of male feminists; you are the worst enemy in the alliance you prop up.
@@autobotstarscream765Even Eggman isn't *this* desperate.
@@kroganshepard6594fuck robotnik done???
You know how the Sonic fandom seems to attract all the weirdos? Nintendo made a deal with the devil to concentrate the weirdness in one person, and MobieBlob is the result. A character so ridiculous he would seem outlandish in a parody.
Occasionally it leaks out to other nintendo fans
@@diegodunn-humphrey512yup
It’s not as uncommon as you think ,there are Nintendo fan are just as weird or even more than sonic fans.
Nintendo fans are just as weird, Sonic fans are just turbo autists.
@@tykamen5588 The Sonic fandom attracts autism like flies to shit, Nintendo can't compete.
I laughed so hard reading "political views entirely focused around being vindictive towards people who were mean to him in High School in 1997" because that is 200% accurate to Bob.
I am embarrassed to admit that I used to watch a lot of his videos back when I was younger. One of his biggest "running gags" as it were was him constantly saying that the 90's objectively sucked, as if it were the most factual statement ever with no explanation needed. Dude literally said this dozens of times for YEARS whenever bringing up anything popular from the 90's. It brought a lot of sour feelings from some of his younger fans that remember the decade fondly, myself included at the time.
Later on in what I think was a Q&A video he finally admitted that the reason he said this literally boiled down to "because in the 80's I was a happy kid, in the 00's I got to start making a living off silly internet videos, and in the 90's I was an awkward teenager that got picked on." This was in his *own* words, not something to be gleamed from context clues. It had NOTHING to do with media, the economy, social norms, or anything like that. Fair enough on him for feeling this way, but keep in mind that he had spend dozens of videos acting like the 90's being a bad decade was an objective fact based on scientific observations instead of being 100% circumstantial to his own unfortunate experiences.
He needs to get over himself. How many of those high school bullies even remmber his name? That was 25 years ago.
He's like the millenial version of the my grandfather who is still moaning about rationing cards 100 years later
@@nifralo2752We all “peak in high school” in our own disparate ways.
@@osurpless the last time you should care or think about high school is on your uni or college application.
Somebody said it best about Movieslob. He claims to be a great gamer and movie lover , but everything he loves is surface level stuff like Pixar or Marvel or Mario.
@@orkutfinance deadwing dork he's so right
More than I ever thought I would have wanted to know about Moviebob...
*Movieblob
@@stackflow343** Diabeeto
@@stackflow343 ***BoobieSlob
@@theseanwardshow "On second thought, I don't want to know about MovieBob. I'll pass on the video."
Someone once said that if the Orange Man said something positive about Mario 3, Lord knows what would happen to KinographicRobert's brain. And i too fear what would happen to all our lives.
I Imagine it would be something akin to dividing by zero. Hopefully, the resulting cosmic paradox and its destructive power would be localized to our particular region of the galaxy.
Bob would experience a full mental shut down
He would become the anti-thinker
Bob would decide that Giana Sisters is the real sequel to Super Mario Bros, and that Mario 2 and 3 killed the franchise.
@@cookieface80I think he would start saying Mario world is better
“Trump stole my summer, my Halloween, my ability to enjoy life” 🤣🤣🤣
Surprised he hasn't referred to seeing words that sound like "Trump" as causing a "trauma response" like I have seen said in all seriousness.
Timestamp? I wanna laugh at the silly Tweet too!
Edit: Nm, I don't think it was shown in the video.
@@TheNightmareAngelYT It sounds like a line from a movie or something. I’ve seen someone else use the famous line from a SpongeBob episode, “Bubble Buddy” to satirize MovieBob’s hatred of Donald Trump (the “He (Trump) poisoned our water supply, burned our crops,and delivered a plague unto our houses!” line). 😂
(Moviebob after he chokes on his Taco Bell) DAMN YOU, TRUMP!
@@TheNightmareAngelYT It's not in this video, but that is a real thing moviebob has tweeted unironically. Google it. I would link it but my comment might not show.
I think Bob is GENUINELY the only person I've seen hated by everyone no matter where they are on the political spectrum. Like even the folks he "aligns" with (Lindsay Ellis as an example) can't stand him.
It such politically divisive times as this, it's really heartwarming to see Bob cause people on both sides to agree on something
Vaush and Richard Spencer are like that.
He's like YHVH in Shin Megami Tensei II, who's such a massive tyrant that even His own side hates Him.
Now I've imagined MovieBob as a giant floating yellow head who spouts his Twitter posts at you as an attack.
Nah the leftists hating him are just the pot calling the kettle black. There are so many vile things said by self-proclaimed leftists and Bob just happens to be one of the many loonies out there.
Plus, Lily Orchard, and increasingly, Andrew Tate.
I remember being on his Twitter once and replied to a comment about Batman where I hoped they'd bring back some cool bat vehicles and focus on his detective skills a little more and Bob went off on me saying I was 'trying to make Batman young again " To this day I have zero earthly clue what he was talking about. I cut him out of my social feed after that.
Remember when Batemans tag line was literally "the world's greatest detective"
So what was his thoughts on Matt Reeves' Batman and its increased focus on the detective aspect? 😏
@@spiketheguy7091 He actually said he acted like an "emo bitch" and reminded too much of his cousin he hates
Imagine Bob, Lily Orchard and Steve Shives pitted against eachother in a boxing match. A duel of people with zero self-awareness who let polarized politics ruin their online careers and turn them into jokes.
Nah, Steve's still alright.
@@TheBonkleFox The guy who has 2/3 of the world blocked on Twitter is still alright?
Bob seems like a BIG guy, not just in width, but height. I bet he would just dominate internet e-celeb fighting contests because it turns out a lot of these other dudes are TINY. And none of them are athletic so it's not like a Shives could outlast him in the ring. It'd be just Bob mauling the dude.
ah yes, Lily "Can't do Stockholm, I wrote that one." Orchard
@@FlareStormsLily "don't sexualise kids, but I made a fanfic of me doing just that" Orchard
What's funniest to me regarding Bob's stance on Eugenics is that you take one good look at that...specimen, and you just know he'd be one of the first to go in the very Eugenics program he supports.
It’s kind of part and parcel; from its origins in Social Darwinism and Herbert Spencer, it’s always been about advocating for yourself or shielding yourself from first and foremost.
@@osurpless lol Bob thinks his "superior" to everyone with Diabetes and living in his brothers basement. He'd be first up against the wall.
Another trait he shares in common with nazis, lol
It's why they call these kind of people Useful idiots. They fail to realize they are exactly the kind of people intolerant system would discard first.
Ain't the first. Ask the finest aryan who ruled the third reich.
I hated the Game Overthinker's "Story" stuff. Most basement critics didn't realize that the reason why AVGN's comedy sketches worked is because he was an actual film maker that studied film and was passionate about story telling. Oh, and they didn't go on FOREVER like the Game Overthinker's sketches did.
Even James Rolfe cant escape turning into a husk of himself and he never allowed politics to ruin his life spouting out his views online.
James Rolfe is as much of a filmmaker as I am a pornstar.
(Hint: I’m not a pornstar)
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Politics isn't the core of the problem in the first place; getting old and tired is.
@notsyzagts7967 I'm sure if James wanted to retire, he'd be fine. He seems like he'd be well off. Bob had to keep going though. Thus the consequences terminal online syndrome
Fun fact: you can no longer buy "SMB3 Brick by Brick"
Bob is so ashamed of that piece of shit, that he's tried his best to erase it from history, Stalin style
Yeah, only hillarious reviews remain. Well, time to go to ebay before prices skyrocket.
Most likely because people started throwing his words against him since they came of that book. So he pulled a stalin and tried to make sure nobody else could use it.
By that point, the book had been digitalized and immortalized
Bob is the perfect example of the 2014-16 shift
Before he was a somewhat respected reviewer then he jumped into politics attacked his former audience and is now largely despised by his old audience
I watched so many respected youtubers (who were all anti gamergate, funny that) all go nuts during that time period
2015 is the zero year for all of this nonsense going on now.
@@rayvenkman2087 we are 8ACY after current year
@@androidoficeandfire9667 After Critical Yap?
Abso-fucking-lutely
Moviebob is like if Chris-Chan leaned more towards Mario instead of Sonic...
Ok, the guy is strange but he is not that bad
Bob is more self aware than Chris I will give him that but that also what makes him more dangerous because he can easily influence and manipulate his viewers into becoming like him.
No, because Chris-Chan is so incompetent that virtually no one takes him seriously. Also, I don't think Chris was ever a paranoid political extremist like Movieblob is.
Not really, the only thing they really have in common is that they're mentally unstable, but at least Bob doesn't have any creepy fetishes or anything like that. In fact, Bob feels like he's on the opposite end of the spectrum from Chris-Chan, because Bob seems to have complete awareness of what he's doing, while Chris-Chan seems to lack any self-awareness whatsoever.
@@norcalroamer5774 chris is definitely more dangerous. Tried to hit a man with a car who banned him from his store for being racist. Sxually assaulted his own mom with hints of wanting to do this with women before.
So wait, if Bob despised everything Trump liked, then what if Trump liked Mario Bros. 3, let alone Nintendo in general would Bob have to force himself to despise what he loved so dearly?
He would've been like Stan from the Eminem music video, and take off everything Mario off his walls and shelves, taking a 5th of vodka and driving, only to wind up crashing into water, drowning.
He's American, of course he'd force himself to hate it
We could draw connections if we wanted to. Something like this
Trump was at one point or maybe still is friends with Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson is in Punch-Out, Mario was the referee in Punch-Out and is also in Smash with Little Mac ever since Brawl.
^Ladies and gentlemen, we got him ^
That would divide Bob by zero and eradicate him from existence in all timelines. We wouldn't even be having this conversations because there'd be no video to have it under because there would be no Bob.
Everytime I hear a feminist rant from a neck beard I think about the Plankton line where he screams
"I WENT TO COLLEGE"
They think they're going to get some if they say the line. And when they don't, double down until you do right!? Then it eats them.
@@matthewmullins4046 Cope lmao
@@Wayte13he’s not wrong
@@JustDatBoi Yes he is. Losers pretend the ONLY reason is to try and get laid because they can't handle the idea somebody just actually disagrees with them. It's pure, unadulterated cope
@@Wayte13You say that, but Bob absolutely trashed Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body and Transformers not because of her sub-par acting abilities, but because her "hotness is boring to me" and he admitted in the same review that he was only hating on her because she reminded him of the hot girls who'd rejected him in high school 😂
The old school, angry reviewer era, where there would just be random nearly-incomprehensible story arcs in every video, and every reviewer played at least one evil version of themselves, was unironically the best era
Yes, I do want 50% of this review of an obscure kids movie to be about defeating the reviewers evil twin, and for the reviewer to sacrifice themselves in a scene that could be Oscar worthy.
Then the review ends with a fart joke
I wonder who started this whole evil self thing because avgn doesn't have that
We need to bring it back
@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethisPeople really liked the Dark Link fight in OOT.
@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis
he kind of had board james
“Nintendo and Politics”
I watched Creepshow tonight and that sentence is ten times scarier
As a Libertarian myself, hearing that Bob once described himself as a Libertarian is so... bizarre to me. There was once a time when political topics got under my skin enough to where I genuinely could not think about anything else, but thankfully I managed to crawl out of that mindset. I do ocassionally fall into a similar funk, but not nearly as often due to making several improvements in my life. Hearing how Moviebob started feels like looking into a mirror and seeing an alternate universe where I never ended up improving. It feels cathartic to see how I have improved, but it also makes me feel bad for him. He is utterly trapped in a mindset that is ruining him yet he is too angry to care.
he only described himself as "libertarian" because he likes the "broad strokes" of Ayn Rand
You could say he's a...
Angry video-game nerd
@@exotic1405 Perhaps even the angriest gamer you've ever heard.
@@exotic1405He's gonna take you back to the past!
I realized what was happening and I just cut myself off from Twitter, only ever going back if somebody else linked me something and for a certain non-political topic.
You could honestly make a second video solely of how Marvel movies melted his brain, cause when you think they're gonna unite the world in a "post-national cinema" that would supplant organized religion and that criticizing them is like saying the N-word, that's a level of crazy I'd kill to see unpacked.
Did he actually say all that? Like, word-for-word?
@@PsychoKaiju Kind of. I remember one of his earliest videos was on how much like Rome, or Grease, or Egypt worshiped a pantheon of gods as the stories of those gods were being written. So too superheroes and their stories had become so well known throughout American culture that they may as well be the American pantheon.
@@shadowspider9I mean, in a way, though the closest thing to an American pantheon would be the founding fathers
@@twinzzlers Pantheons are ment to mythic figures though. I would say the closest we have are the legends of the wild West. Like Paul Bunion and Paco's Bill.
@@PsychoKaiju Not exactly but he did bring it up several times that comics books represent a "new religion/mythology".
If I chose a game over my grandmas funeral then I would live in shame from my family.
Tbf its SMB3 I can't blame him on that one.
Bob is a Nut case who thinks Workers should be murdered on the Street what did you expect?
We're they already done the funeral though?
@@mistertagomago7974i would pick SMB3 over Bob's grandma too
what if grandma was a major bitch?
So out of abject (some night say morbid) curiosity, I decided to check out what Bob thought of the new super Mario brothers movie that came out a few months ago. I found his review, and I have never heard anyone give a more disappointed positive review in my life. You can actually hear the contempt and disappointment in his voice. He wanted nothing more than this movie to be bad so he could rip this thing to absolute shreds about how his childhood was trampled under foot by illumination… and the fact that they managed to nail it and make a really good movie in my opinion is just so utterly disappointing and frustrating to him that he genuinely doesn’t know how to react
It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic
@@josepholberding2776oh what the heck, I'll laugh anyway
@@ImTheGuy *Insert joker laughing here*
You know I’m glad illumination made at least a good movie, but yeesh from what you’re saying he sounded so sorrowful because the plumber got a good movie by illumination
@@Beepers559 When illumination was first announced to be making it, he was so ticked off because illumination makes the minions and the rabbids movie. And Bob had already decided what he wanted the Mario movie to be like and without going into anything it was extremely weird. He was genuinely concerned that illumination would make a Mario movie just for the kiddies.
Of course what do you expect from someone whose idea of a care Bears movie can best be summed up as “the care Bears crossed with paradise lost”
Ironic that someone who is far-left and most likely anti-capitalism would make a 12 minute memorial for a product made purely to sell you more products.
Ironic, but not surprising.
Socialism needs capitalism to survive.
@@jakublulek3261 No one asked + not true
It's not really surprising. If he was genuinely anti-capitalist I don't think he'd have kept up with the channel or something
Bob’s the kind of guy to harass you with Pink Floyd trivia if you’re wearing a dark side of the moon T-shirt
I'm a massive Nintendo fan but even I'm not afraid to call them out on their bullshit. MovieBlob is legitimately insane and its its even more insane how he managed to get and lose his job(s). And i agree its really sad what happened, in the begining at least he was happy and just doing his thing and he even had *SOME* level of self awareness
As a huge fan of Nintendo games, I admit I'm not a huge fan of Nintendo's corporate policies. But I have never actually called anyone who worked there a god, even "jokingly."
Its not really sad at all. He faced the consequences of his actions. It would be sad if he was a victim of circumstance, but his downfall was earned by himself.
@@Akirathedon92oh I understand, I'm just saying it's "sad" because in the beginning there was a shred of self awareness but that clearly didn't last lol
@@OtakuUnitedStudio I am a Nintendo fan too, but I still have criticism about their legacy games policy.
The EFAP Moviebob or Nazi quiz really is a gold statue for the Internet as a whole
no credit given sadly
Watching Jlongbone be introduced to Moviebob on efap for the 1st time and having her brain melt at the subatomic level within a minute will still never not be one of the funniest things on the internet I've ever witnessed.
@@Gigamyt3Oh sweet Jesus, please tell which episode was that, was it the mist recent one or a old efap episode ?
@@theabsolutetrashman3708 Efap episode 49. It's near the beginning of the episode.
@@theabsolutetrashman3708 I think I found it: th-cam.com/video/Jmg7AV3L5D0/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=DeusExMachina
Bob making Gamergate the final boss of his Game Overthinker series, in the form of a literal giant monster, is the embodiment of how deranged he was about this dumb internet mudflinging contest.
Everyone made it a way bigger thing than it was back then, including me, and I truly apologize for being involved. Blame my dumbass 18 year old mind and listening internet morons.
@@sammysstopmotionoas2004I will go back in time and steal your balls so you may repent for your crimes
It kind of reminds me of the villains in Chris Chan's comics.
@@sammysstopmotionoas2004 Honestly, I think people didn't make a big enough deal out of it. The sheer attention it so quickly got in the media, and the way the politicos and failed newspaper columnists so quickly closed ranks, showed that the collusion wasn't just within video-game media. If we'd had more dedicated deep-divers at the time, I think we could have potentially uncovered something big. But things were left to slide and so many empty-headed people went right back to trusting the TV and internet news while proclaiming what "independent-minded thinkers" they were.
@@WhiteManOnCampus "If we'd had more dedicated deep-divers at the time" GamerGate failed because certain individuals got caught up in trying to fight feminism rather than media corruption and focused abit too much on growing their own channels instead of digging up dirt.
I love that the "MovieBob or Nazi" quiz got featured here. That's a quintessential piece of Cinema Robert lore.
Movie Bob is such a strange individual. I can't decide if I should laugh at him or feel sorry.
Both at the same time
Any time I feel bad for laughing at him I remind myself that in Bob's perfect world he'd commit a genocide against me and most of the people I care about for not agreeing with his political opinions, have to say it's pretty hard for me to feel sorry for him after that.
@@captainweekend5276If you even disagree with him slightly he wants death upon you and everyone near you
Its like that old saying "If you hate people for disagreeing with you then eventually you'll hate everyone in the end"
He does not deserve any sympathy
He's fine for me, no one's is perfect in life. I even see his tweets about his beef with Lindsay back then.
EDIT: 16:21 WTF...I just wrote this one before getting this segment mentioning the girl. but yeah, Don't meet your heroes in life.
He’s the embodiment of The Loser Nerd stereotype.
Morbidly obese NEET who lives in a basement "apartment" while obsessing over something, likely with some undiagnosed mental issues?
Tbf everyone to ever be in the channel awesome crowd is
Imagine is Bob sees this video, has a moment of clarity, takes that message to the end to heart, and makes a genuine attempt to improve his ways.
😂
To quote shrek: Like that’s ever going to happen
@@maxanderson8704 What a load of --
Doubtful, but it would be cool.
¿A man can dream?
"I'm not really sure what GamerGate really was"
Literally nobody is
It’s like trying to decipher the voynich manuscript, it’s impossible
Gamergate felt more like a free for all then a conflict with defined sides and timelines
@@jamesheller5734 gamergate battle royale: coming soon to a store near you
When it was happening I had absolutely 0 idea what it was even about.... And I was working at a game studio at the time!!!
We are still feeling the affects of it today and I still don’t understand it.
Christ almighty, those tweets sound genuinely fucking psychotic. I shudder to think of the alternate universe where MovieBob gained knowledge about homemade weapons.
Nah, I think Bob is a coward who couldn't even do a small domestic haha event (TH-cam please don't shadow ban my comment please.)
that's just unironically the average left winger on twitter not even bob it's the whole batch.
@@JC-cm6hz right wingers as well
@@modestMismagius105 you are extremely delusional, i see more calls for violence and vindictiveness from you clowns all the time. Stfu lol.
@@modestMismagius105Twitter is a den of Insanity worthy of Exterminatus its filled to the brim with insane takes from every Political angle you can think of Left or Right
Hey you, no matter who you are out there, going through bad times and struggles just remember:
At least you aren’t movie bob
I remember that I am not Movieblob nor Anthony Burch and it feels good man
What if movie Bob finds this video and sees this comment?
@@TheRealSuperKirbythere are much worse things being said about him, and he knows that. He's an argumentative person online, so while I'm not a fan of the guy, I doubt comments like this affect him in any way.
@TheRealSuperKirby Then it won't apply to him. It's like the old Pagliacci joke. Except MovieBob's sadder, meaner, and less sympathetic.
Moviebod is what happens when you let your escapism become your life and when you go to far with one political side
@@SchizophrenixTheGaul3478What's a "Twitter"? I'm only seeing an "X" there (it's an adult site isn't it?)
It’s you.
I'm glad you're still alive mate.
I always see you on videos I'm enjoying,i miss jim hopefully he's doing ok.
@@fatkiller1000He still posts on poast so there's that
Damn homie read a fucking book.
I'm still astonished that bob missed the point of 2019 joker when joker literally says the point of the movie in the movie.
"What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash?"
The entire point of the movie is that the main character is fuckin insane and he's literally allowed free roam until he crosses the line. The joker is Daniel Larson if Daniel Larson didn't have the internet.
I mean, this is coming from a guy who consumes nothing but Marvel movies. And did I mention he did hour long rants on BvS? I can say for certain that MovieBob is a DC hater and a Marvel shill (and Disney shill too).
A lot of things go over Bob's head
To be fair, the main point of the movie went over a lot of people's heads, including those who liked it, so considering modern Bob's general medial literacy (or rather lack thereof) I'm not surprised he missed it.
Fortunately, Danderson was captured and sent to the clink before he could go on a late-night talk show...
Moviebob is what I’d imagine most Redditors are like in real life.
I’d agree, but most of that kind of slime are too cowardly to voice those views in real life.
Moviebob's political imagination is too small to think beyond an individualistic level. He can recognize that there are ills in society, but rather than his enemy being concentrations of power or any particular systems or mechanisms of that power, he thinks everything bad would go away if we just got rid of all those dumb bad people that support bad things, as opposed to good righteous "worthwhile" people such as himself. So he can have some principles, but only to express that people are "good" or "bad", rather than opposition to general ideas. His single-minded obsession with Trump stems from his inability to comprehend the system that would create and prop up Trump, instead of the orange man himself. A lot of times, it comes off like the people he hates are stand-ins for the jock bullies who picked on him in school.
Yep. Hence the 38 year old consoomer meme based on him
Spot on
What everyone from liberals to nazis think. It just changes who are the baddies
>A lot of times, it comes off like the people he hates are stand-ins for the jock bullies who picked on him in school
You just described 99,9% of SJWs.
There was a game called was it Moviebob or Austrian painter. It was hilarious and slightly disturbing.
Fun fact Moviebob used to have dreams where Iwata and Miyamoto would give him some key to "save video games" and his life goal was to save video games from Call of Duty and Gears of War ect (Think of it like how Linkara's life goal was to save comic books from the 90s and Frank Miller)
Also he was part of some weird internet forum where they think they can outsmart death. Sadly the person who confirmed all this was on a stream called the Betchloff show which a lot of those pre 2018 streams got flagged or deleted
This is extreme levels of obsession and slander of people barely relevant.
@@AL-lh2ht
Imagine white knighting moviebob of all people, saying they're obsessive on a video talking about Moviebob
@@AL-lh2ht No, if it’s written it’s libel, get with the program
I saw that video (it did resurface on Bitchute a while back) and the dream Bob described to this friend was used for the basis of his Game Overthinker self insert fanfic and in this video.
th-cam.com/video/73toAMJ7rqY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=su-YiquyMTGCSkAy
I never realized how similar Bob and Linkara were lmao
recently I responded to Bob's tweet saying Ron DeSantis visiting the 911 memorial wasn't convinving acting by saying it was more convinving than his acting in the Game Overthinker.
Bob decided to make it personal by saying my parents saying they love me is convincing acting so I responded by saying at least I've heard those words from my parents
That's really sad man, he is rotted enough don't remind him he isn't loved too
Tbf in your story you were the one that started by making it personal not him.
@@shroomer8294 I wouldn't say criticizing acting is as personal as claiming my parents don't love me
@@shroomer8294I dont get what you mean? All the guy did was taking a shot at Bob’s acting and idiotic tweet. Bob is the one who made it personal.
holy shit you demolished him
Honestly I do not understand why movie Bob thought it was a wise decision to get into politics, since he’s literally a review channel and not someone you should get your political opinion from.🐱
I mean, hey, the only political TH-camr I watch is ShortFatOtaku, whose channel actually started to review anime and games before he made the switch.
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTownFun fact about ShortFatOtaku
He posed as a lesbian during gamergate so he could silicate nude's from women
Went on a whole crusade for sargon against Mister Metokur just cause Jim laughed at his suit
Made a whole video against Total biscuit just cause he didn't find the "traps are gay" joke funny
@@ImmaLittlePip Huh, well that really is something. I know he's mentioned that he was an idiot in his youth, but I hadn't heard that.
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTownfair its more how Bob did it and his behavour than its because of Politics in itself.
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTownOh yeah he's done a lot of lolcow stuff that is funny to have a laugh at back in the day
15:16
Bob is the exact type of person to accuse people on the right of "being fueled by nothing but HATRED"
-and at the same time he can _never_ recognize the irony
He’s one of the most hateful people alive, assuming his Twitter isn’t just an elaborate prank.
...Not entierly wrong, tho.
The hate-spewing and fear mongering at Trump Rallies didn't help
WOW never saw that Early Bob take on the Playstation, and he is 100% WRONG. Playstation kept and had the same nerdy D&D playing audience Nintendo did. It wasnt until the XBOX that the more "casual" general audience was lured into the gaming sphere. God even back then Bob couldnt get shit right.
Seriously like the big iconic hits from the PS1 are Crash and Spyro colourful cartoony platformers Final Fantasies VII, VIII and IX, Japanese RPGs, Japanese survival horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill and the first 3 Tekkens it's such a bizarre take as you said if anything XBOX and the rise of HALO is what brought more general audiences to gaming, then the Wii and Modern Warfare completely cemented general audiences pretty much taking over the gaming space
That and his declaration that PC Gaming was dead was when I finally said I was DONE with this nutsack.
More Nintendo Wii than Xbox (at least the original Xbox, not 360). For me, it was Xbox 360/PS3 that started "casualisation" of gaming. But Europe was always more PC-centric than the US.
I don't blame him for hating Trump considering he tried to have Shigeru Miyamoto assassinated because he couldn't beat Super Mario World.
What?
Its pretty self explanatory@@twinzzlers
@@gamesake999 I guess it kinda is
Tried as in attempted? Or tried as in cried on twitter about how he wished and wanted?
@@goldeneye0019 That sounds about right too
Moviebob is what happens when you let politics take up too much of your life.
PLAY LAIR OF THE CLOCKWORK GOD
He drank so much 21st Century American Politics Kool-Aid he got actual brain damage from it
He reminds me of those out of touch zoomers who go threw a phase where their politics are constantly decided by whatever streamers they watch until they grow out of it except he's a boomer.
Yeah, you get someone like Rageholic.
Yeesh, talk about obsessed.
Guy looks like the type to say:
“You’re cool.
Don’t come to school tomorrow.”
@@KingC89
Honestly, I don’t mind what political views you have or of which stance you take.
So as long as you don’t attack me or force your views upon me.
I love watching your videos cause its like talking to someone whos actually been through the 2000s and its just a treat seeing history of the old internet being shown right before my eyes
lol bro....
@@chuyuen441its true though a ton of zoomer content creators treat the edgy or wild west part of youtube/the internet like they just got out of vietnam and its kinda embarrassing
There was this one content creator taht made two videos on edgy brony videos from the 2010s and acts like bronies tortured them its kinda hilarious watching them
@@ImmaLittlePipAre you referring to Raymundo 2112, right?
@@ImmaLittlePipso this is where you went after metokur
@@reinweissritter yup
I'd like to make the argument that Twitter didn't necessarily destroy Eugenics Robert's mental state in 2016 so much as it was ultimately a mask falling off moment. Bob was *always* like this his whole life.
Most parents give their kids goals and aspirations at a young age to cultivate a sense of healthy autonomous agency into young adulthood. His parents made the mistake of having TV and Nintendo raise him with very little meaningful interaction with him (which explains how estranged Bob is to his own family outside of enablers like his brother). Bob and his family share Chris Chan's stubbornness for improvement since even early childhood; both of which involved rejecting therapeutic and medical health at an early age.
The end result was Bob relying heavily on his junk food being his *only* form of comfort food. His fringe extremism is his main personality. Bob has created an insulated cocoon with his "junk food" of consoomerism that whenever he sees Nintendo or his narrow politics come into question, he feels personally attacked. His personality is attacked. He feels in theological danger with a fight-or-flight mentality that only let's his artery clogged digits do all the flying on a smartphone keyboard to Twitter.
If it weren't anymore evident in his own book no less, Bob is a coward. He can't face his own living family, let alone respect dead ones to show condolences. He hasn't used the money he made through Escapist or Geek to move out his mom's "basement apartment". He's just miserable in the falsetto of his eco chamber of self-indulgence, because that's all he has. That's all he'll ever know of the world he's too slacktivist to engage in or how he might be in danger of humanizing the same vicarious mean 'ol jock bullies he sees the rest of society Bob envisions anyone different than him to be.
I don't like Bob either, but comments like yours are what will lead to his suicide.
There's no reason to have such a personally vindictive vendetta against another human being
I think it's more about Bob living in a constant state of cognitive dissonance by supporting a political group who openly mocks him as a right-wing manchild. He's the King of Chudjaks yet he thinks he's not one of them.
@@4867503as if blob cares what another person thinks.
though i think he's more likely to troon out than off himself. being a straight white male puts one at a disadvantage in the online left.
@@4867503where is the lie
@Antonio-Granscieugenics and relishing in the suffering of political 'others' is bog standard democrat stuff, ok you said it not me
I only heard about movie Bob because he called Halo Reach “fascist.”
*Man am I glad he’s a husk online-*
How did he come to that conclusion?
@@diegodunn-humphrey512 he played halo reach and thought the fact that it was a Military story *and also the fact how the Covenant have aliens and UNSC is all human* that it must be fascist.
Completely ignoring the fact how the Covenant is *horrifically* genocidal and arguably more fascist than the UNSC.
@@dalek4463 I can see a very shallow look at Reach being 'fascist' but I see it more having read the backstory going back to TFOR and ORION/the Innie conflicts so it sounds like he came to the same conclusions without bothering to do the research.
Which if he did, he'd realize Halo also has jingoist themes that are deconstructed and thrown out halfway through the first game, the moment the Flood shows up.
Moviebob is the Mario answer to Sonic's Chris Chan. The man is so drugged on politics that he's basically mentally dead.
The guy thinks he's a genius and a thinker when the truth is he's more of a sheep than actual sheep. Before he would consider Bayonetta an example of a female badass, but when Sarkissian said she's a sexist character Bob would denounce Bayonetta. Gamergate was where his political lunacy came out in force, but the only 'epic' moment for Bob there was when Totalbiscuit wiped the floor with Bob by reminding him that Bob was a college dropout whilst TB completed University and concluded that Bob is a clown.
Concerning is Bob's opinions as shown in the Moviebob or Nazi segment. His rhetoric sounds something closer to Nazi ideology. As for the book, well, it definitely sheds some light to Bob's madness.
I’d also add that Chris Chan wants to look like a child online, playing with toys and drawing comics. Moviebob wants to look like an adult online, being ridiculously political and trying to sound sophisticated.
MovieBon would've been a cheerleader for the Strasserites
I wonder if these people would still complain that Bayonetta is sexist if they knew Bayonetta was created by a woman
Blob in his early days was kinda reasonable guy with reasonable opinions (there is an ancient video by Sargon of Akkad from like 2015 about it) but contact with Anita destroyed the guy. He wanted to impress her and her feminist minions and that started his downfall. It was GamerGate, not 2016 ellections.
@@jakublulek3261 Honestly I think his contact with places like twitter and other left leaning places enlarged the already left leaning fires in Bob into raging inferno of hatred against anything that isn't on his side of the political spectrum. This only worsened as his efame grew as it all began to go to his head.
My jaw dropped when I saw the Nintendo Power issue and realized that he was paying respects for a fricking magazine!
At least James Rolfe's video was a piss-take and a tribute to the magazine.
@@freemantle85I wouldn’t even say “piss take”, it was just a normal fun AVGN video.
And yet he couldn't pay respects to his own grandmother.
Bob completely missing the point as to why people thought Ghostbusters 2016 was unfunny trash is so embarrassing.
It’s not just because the Ghostbusters are women, but it’s really unfunny, the jokes are so immature, and the script is just copying the homework from the original Ghostbusters script but making it way worse. Even some high school friends of mine who were girls at the time saw the movie hated it.
How do I know it was bad? They rebooted it again.
@@KingThrillgore on an unrelated note your icon is fantastic, Mr. Meatwad.
Moviebob skipping out on a funeral to get an AC and glazing it over on his documentary on SMB3 is something out of a damn comedy.
If Nintendo ever had a death squad, Bob would 100% join it
Unless Blumpf was on the team too lol
Bob would go full blown Sega at that point
Bob would start it himself, if he hadn’t lost both feet to diabetes already!
Thanks for mentioning just how absurdly opinionated the Gamergate Wikipedia article really is. You should also check the talk page, where 2-3 power editors engage in personal attacks and namecalling with whoever tries to discuss the article or its sources.
Whichever values Wikipedia is supposed to uphold, that article does a great job of completely throwing them in the trash. Seeing how the site admins allow this makes you wonder where else they sacrifice any kind of rigor for an agenda.
Gamergate is so fascinating when you see the mainstream sites like Wikipedia covering it compared to the smaller or lesser known ones covering the same topic and same applies for those covering it in retrospect. How aggressively one side fights to uphold their values over the other and how far they’ll create their subjective narrative of the whole saga.
The same thing I say to everyone who has a problem with wikipedia, bring sources and be ready to defend yourself. Even editors can't escape if the problems get put to a vote of consensus. The problem I often see when people complain about biassed stuff they don't have proper sources other than some random blog or yt video.
@@rayvenkman2087 I was a teenager when it went down and was well into it. In retrospect, it really was a harassment campaign at heart and only secondarily an inquiry into gaming journalism. It absolutely reeked of the same overzealousness that people point to with current campaigns to cancel people where an often loose ‘moral’ justification is used to attempt to utterly ruin as much of someone’s life as possible. The difference is that there were a worryingly high volume of credible threats surrounding GamerGate. That’s why people joke about the whole “ethics in gaming journalism” thing because it’s a nice, flowery premise which simply doesn’t hold water when looking at the lack of ethics quite a lot of outspoken proponents of GamerGate had. You’re right about people across the web attempting to preserve one narrative or another about it, Wikipedia included, but from my personal experience with it, it was such a ridiculously overblown crucible of extremism that more often than not went too far while invoking hypocritical justification. While we’re talking about the ridiculous extremism of people like MovieBob, it’s worth recognizing that things like GamerGate are part and parcel with that kind of radicalization. The best propaganda is based on distortion of the truth, not outright fabrication.
The Wikipedia page for Indians doesn’t even have Indians as one of its names, even though it links to other articles for “Indian reservations” and “Indian country.” Truly biased nonsense.
@@DeltaAssaultGaming there is litteraly a page "Indian" which shows you all the different people and places referred to as indian. I'm not sure what you're raving on about.
It's en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Indian (yt hates links and will remove your comments if you include them)
Edit: It is a disambiguation page, because so many different things and people are called Indians. That's how wikipedia works.
Remember when Iwata died and he did this whole tribute video that ended with the fucking stupid "Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!" thing for like a full minute?
The idea of Donald Trump being an online reviewer with Movie Bob as his dark alter ego is absolutely hilarious
Moviebob is such a weird case when i was a dumb 13 year old kid i remember loving The Game Overthinker with his fast talking snappy editing then i forgot about him for years them in the last few years i hear about how hes become out of nowhere
Wait, Yuji Naka? How'd you get out of jail? 🤣
9:40 i was online quite a lot in 2014, and somehow GamerGate completely flew over my head. I remember it being #1 on Angryjoe's "top 10 gaming controversies of 2014" list and being like "wtf is this? i remember almost all the other things on this list"
I think it really depended on what circles you were in at the time. I was a kid when it was major (i think like summer 2014) but I didn’t hear about it until like 2 years later because all i watched in 2014 were lets players and gravity falls theorists
It’s one of those events online that happened but at the same time nothing happened? If that makes sense?
I remember it happening, I wasn't involved in it though. Only ever got an outsiders glance into it.
All I ever got from it was someone slept with a journalist, and the journalist was the one who reviewed her game or something like that.
That said, I have to commend Anita Sarkeesian, she totally scammed a bunch of people. She made a ton of money off this whole thing, by Kickstarting doing TH-cam videos that anyone could have done.
Like, you can hate her or love her, but you can't deny that she saw people blind with anger, and reached into their wallets. lol
Blown out of proportion. The media loves to bring it up whenever they are in another of their "video games bad" periods, it makes a lot of clicks.
@@GerardMenvussa eh it wasn’t “blown out of proportion” by the media. People were receiving death and rape threats over… something. Idk wtf happened.
I take issue with the implications that Bob’s content was ever good. I was a moderator on Screwattack back in the day and his winning that contest was the beginning of a huge downswing in content quality on the site, and I got a lot of shit for not welcoming his work with open arms. Also, speaking as someone pretty strongly on the left, we don’t claim him. Nothing saddens me more than when he and I actually agree on something.
Was there anyone you actually wanted to see win the contest over him?
@@rayvenkman2087 There was a truly funny and original show that also frankly fit the site’s vibe way better that I believe was called Rockumentary. But as it turned out, Craig cared less about quality and more about signing a channel that already had a big following, naturally lopsiding the polls and bringing that audience to his site.
@@rayvenkman2087 What’s more, the Rockumentary guys took it in stride while also countering with a joke series, Game UNDERthinker, that was also better than anything Bob has ever done.
@@BrakODatWak They still around today?
@@rayvenkman2087 I think they moved on, their channel back in the day was Table 8 Productions if I’m not mistaken
The story of MovieBob's descent into madness hits hard for me, but not because of MovieBob himself.
This story reminds me of another content creator named AniMat. He's a Canadian animation and cartoon reviewer/historian who started off quite strong. But as the 2010's trekked on, AniMat would go through the very same beats as MovieBob. Like MovieBob, AniMat became an incredibly toxic and hostile individual addicted to politics and demonizing anyone who disagreed with him, became an ardent user of Twitter, and would act in such a condescending and holier-than-thou manner that it became hysterical and even kind of funny. By the end of 2020, I stopped watching his videos due to how irrational he got and how far he fell from grace.
Now, AniMat is not as radical as MovieBob (don't get me wrong, he's still up there). But it's kind of uncanny how similar their stories are.
AniMat is such a sad story because he legitimately makes great content when not political, or sounding like a dog toy.
I remember when he called Sony Animation the worst thing to ever happened to animation due to the Hotel Transylvania movies and The Emoji Movie. (This was Before Spiderverse and Mitchells btw).
But the Straw that broke the camel's back in my opinion was always shoving his goddamn USA political views on his podcast and ALWAYS blamed Trump for even the pettiest of reasons.
Some tragedy happened on the USA or in his native canada? Trump's Fault
Covid? Trump's Fault
Floyd Protest? Trump's fault
He trips and hits his face on the sidewalk? Trump's fault
Add that to his squeaky voice and overreacting and one day he says to his viewers "If you hate me for always talking about politics on my ANIMATION podcast/channell then unsubscribe"
I said "I had enough of this dude" and unsubscribed. And i've never regretted it ever since.
Does he still talk shitty politics on his podcast or his voice finally hit puberty?
@@monstercombo007 Heh, I remember the days when he had a massive bias against Sony Pictures Animation. I believe it came to a climax when he said that the animators who worked on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs should consider a career change. Yeah...that's just cold.
But, personally speaking, I'd rather take all of his biased criticism against Sony than a single second of his political rantings. A key issue is that he's incredibly arrogant, acting so smugly about what he's talking about that you don't want to listen to him. He wants to be seen as a serious commentator, but it always devolves into him screaming at the top of his lungs at those who disagree with him. A key example of this was during his podcast episode on the results of the 2020 U.S Election. This podcast was what caused me to give up on him, specifically when he went after anyone who was a centrist or politically neutral. To add salt to an open wound, a few days later, he updated the description with a non-apology that made him look even more tone-deaf (it's lost to time now).
However, I think the biggest issue I have with him is that he's just not a very good critic. Granted, he started out quite strong when he began. But he started making reviews in 2009, and even during the late 2010's, he never changed his style...at all. Compared to dozens of others, his reviews come across as formulaic, bland, and very rigid in terms of structure. Combine this with the egotism and addiction to politics and you've got a recipe for disaster.
Because of him, I learned about movies and series that I never knew about. If anything, there's that. But when it comes to using the internet and growing, you take what you know and improve and hone your craft. Many reviewers and content creators know this, AniMat didn't.
He simply never grew up.
@@tom.fletcherI remember that non-apology. I also remember when the Capitol Riots happened that he said that "This is the new 9/11" and obviously many people were pissed about such statement and made ANOTHER Non-Apology saying that "The effects were similar"
I then unsusbscribed his podcast and when he made that review of a Netflix movie about america's history, I simply gave up and said "No more"
He never improved, He never changed, he was stuck with his political thumb up his ass.
Even Goddamn Mr. Enter wasn't this petty, and at least he had the balls to admit he messed up and tried to change his style (even if it backfired).
Pd: Lost to time? He deleted his podcast or something?
@@monstercombo007 Sorry about that! I meant to say that the non-apology he made is lost to time, as he removed it from the description of the podcast episode. In the comment section, he pinned a comment announcing that he was taking back his apology. In AniMat fashion, he ended the statement by saying, and I kid you not, "now for those who felt offended by that statement, you owe me an apology for being right this whole time."
Yeah, this man's ego and narcissism are Olympus Mons' levels of massive.
It would be pretty interesting to see MagicMush do a video on AniMat. Maybe in the future.
My friends and I occassionally jokingly refer to his "I needed the 1993 Mario movie to be good because Mario is my friend" bit from 'Brick by Brick' constantly as it really encapsulates the consoomer who is convinced certain companies and brands are like friends or family to them.
Moviebob strikes me as someone who has very strong opinions on storytelling despite never actually attempting to learn the craft and art of it.
That’s literally every movie/ tv show/ video game reviewers
So many people don’t understand how hard writing and creating entertainment actually is
I mean thats kinda what happens if you only consoom mcu capeshit
MovieSlob likening the Console Wars to the Vietnam War lives in my head rent-free for how insane it is.
Being consumed by politics like this could happen to any of us, it's pretty scary to think about
only happens to those who are terminally online and make political beliefs their entire persona
In my experience, the descent into these terrible rabbit-holes can be incredibly emotionally draining, after a while you just feel like an empty husk unable to properly socialize anymore. Kind of like how Moviebob has ended up (still can't believe I ever took him seriously). So at the very least, it might make some people too miserable to wanna stay in these holes for too long.
if you have the self-awareness to recognize this behavior as pathetic, you're good.
I think there is some untreated mental illness that makes it more likely. Trauma can also influence someone to fall too far into politics.
You know the kind of person Bob is when you look at his old posts and say: "Remember when he was happy?"
Words can not describe how badly I was trying to hold back my laughter during his Nintendo Power funeral segment.
Movie bob to me represents the worst aspects of nerd culture in America in modern times highly politicized entertainment because they have a found a following they develop an inflated ego and delusion of themselves, thinking they’re worth more to society than they actually are. We all have our politics, but it important not to be our sole identity.
This is why I’ve distanced myself from nerd culture nowadays, although I was a big part of it during my high school years from 2015-2019 as everyone in my class all shared the same interests. But ever since leaving high school everyone has moved on and don’t even watch western nerd culture media anymore but instead either independent works or anime and it shows ever since going to college.
"Self-proclaimed libertairian" and "very much on the left side of things" are such contradictory descriptions. No wonder he lost his mind.
That was the funniest thing it felt just like that one Inglorious Bastards scene where you instantly clock the mf
MovieBob is probably one of the few lolcows that can genuinely make me angry. Even with some leftoid or rightoid youtubers that can be obnoxious, they mostly just hate certain viewpoints and ideologies and believe in helping people. MovieBob on the other hand straight up just HATES certain people and believes he's justified in doing so.
I can relate in being a bit of a Nintendo apologist and having a short fuse from time to time, but Movie Bob not only does no effort in calming himself down, he genuinely seeks anger and is addicted to it.
To be fair, some people (read rightoids) have earned their status of "to be hated"
@@cianbroderick7733 Hey, it's MovieBob! We were just talking about you!
@@raymondtillotson6985 cool
leftoids are annoying. rightoids want me dead
@@cianbroderick7733weren't you against generalization a few years ago
The funny thing is, Bob was fully capable of writing great movie essays (his "Really That Good" video for Spider-Man 1 and 2 I do remember enjoying) but it's too bad he has a terrible personality otherwise.
Really That Good is the only thing he made i like
He manages to *mostly* keep his politics out of that series, usually only to provide context for the climate a movie was produced in.
I tried watching Moviebob years ago, but he honestly sounded like someone who thinks is really smart, uses lots of "big" words and ends up talking a lot without actually saying anything. Oh, and no matter how much I love the church scene in Kingsmen, Moviebob seemed to miss everyone's reaction while it was happening and Harry being disgusted about what he did afterwards. I guess I watched a different movie than he did if that was what he took from the scene...
Sounds like Cornell West
I beg to differ. He uses hard words effectively and accurately and makes sophisticated points. I don't find him to be pedantic. He also makes interesting points that I haven't seen elsewhere. It shouldn't be normal to resent writers for using college level vocabulary. That's what they went to college for and that's why these words exist
@@igormorais4192 ok Bob
Had a friend like movie bob. Without the crazy political shit. Instead of nintendo and shitty movie reviews it was nintendo, anime and memes. Had a falling off. God, I hope he didn’t turn out like movie bob.
“Console wars were my personal Vietnam” is one of the most wild sentences I’ve ever heard
Most people in the 90s didn't make their console of choice their entire personality the way Moviebob did. I was a gamer, and loved good games for any system I could play them on. If you swore off playing Genesis titles like a vow of celibacy, you did yourself a disservice. Even the Atari Jaguar had a few games worth playing despite being the weakest link of the mainstream consoles released in the 90s.
@@Lastjustice I remember as a kid, I had a PS1, and when I found out a friend of mine had a Nintendo 64 I was like "Wowee! More games! I wanna play the one with the funny snowman beating up the masked dude!"
Why people take console wars personally is beyond me.
@@tafua_a I had preferences to what system I liked, but I never was like I will not play X system. I was much more of a fan of game series over loyalty to any system. I have always loved Megaman, and played those games regardless of what console it appeared on. The games are always going be far more important than the hardware it runs on.
you got the right idea, participating in petty online wars only ends in making yourself upset, wasting your own time and pushing away friends over minor differences in perspective. doing something with a visible impact usually involves leaving the house, and for most people that's too big an ask.
Petty online wars are GREAT if you're self aware. For example, pineapple on pizza.
This is a stupid thing to argue about. We all have different tastes.
But I'm dying on the hill that it tastes great
I think it's not really about politics, or Nintendo, or whatever the topic of the online holywars is. It's social media and holywaring itself. It's easy and fun to dunk on cringe people online, but I think it's a genuine crisis of psychological health our society is facing. Social media, at least the way it works today, is terrible for our sanity, both individual and collective.
What happened to Moviebob is exactly what happened to Shmorky, a popular internet content creator who sold his soul to the "culture war" and let it ruin his life to the point where everyone turned against him. In Shmorky's case, it was Tumblr and identity politics, while in Moviebob's case, it was Twitter, Gamergate and the anti-Trump hysteria of 2016 and afterwards. Of course, Bob didn't have any creepy fetishes like Shmorky did, but did become a completely different person after they got into modern social media.
And the sad part is that they're far from the only ones who fell completely from grace. Remember Spoony? The story behind what happened to him is quite insane in of itself.
Well also schmorky has a , how will youtube let me type this, “a criminal fascination with children”
@@DarranKern Shmorky was just a very creepy person, and that almost always seems to happen whenever someone let's Twitter or Tumblr take over their lives. They start out as normal people, then a certain social media app that's big into politics and ideology enters their lives, and suddenly they become FAR worse people.
@@Masterge77 tumblr in particular here. Pornography addiction can be something much worse than simple political obsession
@@DarranKern And when it comes to Twitter and Tumblr, they are BIG into NSFW content as much as they are into political ideologies, _especially_ the furries, they're the worst ones of them all.
@@Masterge77 that’s the truth
The irony of this guy claiming to be a mega feminist when his first video literally claimed something was the greatest thing since jiggle physics
"don't quit your day job, bob"
See that's the thing, mush
He's never quit his day job, he keeps getting fired
Moviebob is everything i try to avoid being. A terminally online political fanatic who is obssesively biased in favor of a billion dollar video game company.
Also, when's the upcoming video on Andrew Dobson?
Good news