The Story of Dobson: The World's Wackiest Webcomic Creator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
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0:00 Intro
1:25 Creation
6:37 Frustration
13:38 Representation
18:54 Humiliation
24:02 Inflation
28:45 Resignation
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Man, he did the "See, your argument is invalid because I drew you as the soyjack and myself as the gigachad" thing YEARS before most. Truly an innovator.
straw man comics are twice as old, people just didnt draw easy to do templates since reddit made them lame for a while.
@@SenpaiSamaKun Apparently David Willis, fed up with people pointing out his tendency towards strawman comics, made a comic making fun of strawmen...in the form of a strawman.
Ever read Dante’s inferno? It’s a classic literary tool, not unlike The Hero’s Journey.
The original coal
Bro you stole my fucking joke/j.
To be honest, I can see why he hated college. Dobson wanted to focus on the more character based stuff, whereas a college will cover a broad range of arts, from watercolours to sculpting, so he probably considered that a waste of his time on what he wanted to focus on.
I must confess I was the same, but I dropped out and bough a load of "how to draw" books with my money, then just spammed the hell out of any company that I felt would be interested in my work. Not once was I ever asked what degree I had and got loads of freelance jobs!
Thank you based Larry.
This is why you de GOAT, Larry. 😁
Hi Larry. The TH-camr "Keiv reviews things" pointed out how you stole his mgs gameplay footage from his mgs v critique, without giving credit.
Hello you my dude
Recommend any certain books or authors on how?
Let's be clear. He didn't draw in a 90s anime art style. He WISHES he could. Instead, he drew in a stereotypical 2000s weeb webcomic style. None of the detail, line quality, or proportions of actual anime.
So he hates anime that exists past the year 1999 and yet can only draw anime in post 90s style. Now that just hilarious.
@@leviticusprime4904Nah, he cant draw anime at all. Its more like a weeb art style that looks like the kind of stuff unskilled middle schoolers used to draw.
I genuinely thought we were gonna talk about the Megatokyo guy at first based on the art style alone.
@@AltimaNEO or in other words a slightly evolved Chris Chan
And that is good.
photographer: i consent!
cosplayer: i consent!
dobson: i dont!
isnt there someone you forgot to ask?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The myth of consent
Nope.
😂
...The father, the son and the holy Spirit amen?
The funniest part of the Power Girl photo story was that the photographer who took the pic was the cosplayers boyfriend. Just adds another level of hilarity to the comic
WAIT REALLY?
@@eins2001
Yup. Funniest shit I've ever seen
What's even worse is supposedly he got his fans to bully the girl off the internet by lying about it to them.
Okay, I was a little willing to believe that maybe she took a picture with the guy and Dobson saw the photographer get shitty with her afterwards because obv comfort can change quickly, but this is the context I needed that makes him definitely an asshole in that situation
Ok, even with the benefit of the doubt there is no way he could just misunderstood. That comic was wishful thinking on his part, some real twisting of reality.
My favorite Dobson story was the one about his job at am airport, he fell asleep on the job, which is one thing, it happens you know? But he fell asleep on the floor, in the middle of the fucking terminal. One of his coworkers found him and woke him up, and Dobson was so offended by this that he went to complain to his boss about it, but he told him he couldn't talk right then because he was in the middle of an important meeting, but Dobson INSISTED, he interrupted the meeting to complain about such petty shit, and his boss was fucking pissed at him for this and Dobsom genuinely doesn't understand what the issue was. The funniest part is that Dobson himself told this story because he thought he was being unjustly persecuted and was trying to farm sympathy
What a Tard
He sounds like such a Jerry
Sounds like legit autism
This one alongside Dobson walking into a tabletop game store that was closed because the door was open despite saying closed outside of the store and his bully "sending" a friend request in facebook only for him to fuck up showing Dobson was the one who send the request to his bully meanwhile the bully didn't care about him after all those years, also that guy lives rent free in Dobson's mind because is implied the bully is the main reason that he hates Link having blond hair. Are my favorite stories from him.
what a Karen
He saw a woman posing for a picture and immediately assumed she was being taken advantage of. His feminism is so bad it literally wraps back around to being sexism
The jealously seething through his eye sockets.
A lot of modern feminism does this. However, it usually doesn't directly demean women.
Just like any male feminist.
While still having the audacity to have a porn alt where he sexualizes woman via inflation art
what's wrong with being sexy?
MovieBob and Dobson would be great friends and agree about 99% of things, but the remaining 1% disagreement would make them bitter enemies until death.
Damn.
Well said
"Most notably, he's a big ally of the LGBTQ community, especially in the Western Animation scene. And by that I mean you take away the G's, the B's, the T's, and everything else, until you're left with what his career consists of: nothing but L's."
That was freaking BRUTAL
But not wrong.
I love how that quip works on two levels. A pretty good snarky one-liner.
Genuine Bars
So freakin' epic, am I right my fellow redditereenoes??
Ok dood
Treasure Planet is a masterpiece, it's a real shame how dirty Disney treated the animators for wanting to make that movie
Jon Musker and Ron Clements fought tooth and nail to get Treasure Planet made since either Lil Mermaid or Aladdin, and they were basically almost forced to make Hercules because Jeffery basically held the chance to make Treasure Planet by a string (but he was later fired during production of that since it was the time he was heavily trying to get the supposed VP position he was promised but acted like an entitled prick during the PR for Lion King and Eisner eventually telling him he wasn't getting the promotion due to his behavior)
This and Atlantis are such good movies. Disney did them absolutely dirty
Treasure Planet is definitely underrated.
Disney set it up for failure by releasing it in the middle of winter alongside their own Christmas movies.
@@otose4206 what else did Disney release that year? Or did another movie sink it?
Imagine thinking Goku made you lose your job
funnily enough basically describes what Goku and Co. did to the Freeza Force soldiers after namek.
Goku dd put the RR army out of the job
That means Goku is 4D quantum outerversal. He defeated someone IRL. Therefore he is the strongest.
@@NeoVault_
Combine this feat with him fusing with the audience and were cooking g
@@2-bit567 Truly cooked well-done.
"Those with inflation kink may usually have inflated ego." - Confuscious
That was Confuscious? I thought I heard that somewhere in The Odyssey.
Homer warned us too! egad!@@Scribble2345
@@Scribble2345pretty sure it's Socrates
@@Johnny2gyro nah you're thinking of muhammad ali.
Counter Argument: Pyrocynical
What's actually pathetic about dobson, is the fact that unlike other lolcows, he as absolutely no excuses for his failure. He doesn't have terrible parents like Chris Chan, or an extremely screwed up family tree like Cyraxx. He just ruined himself by being absolutely insufferable and hypocritical.
Ironic Ain't it?
it wasn't him. It was autism.
@@frogglen6350
Autism explains insufferable behavior, it doesn’t excuse it.
Linkara could also be thrown into the same boat
@@MrAsianPieLinkara doesn't even responds poorly to ctiticism, he responds poorly to anything. I'm genuinely puzzled by the way he acts online.
Dobson: Will not draw inflation of Ghibli characters because they are minors
Also Dobson: Proceeds to inflate the entire cast of azumanga (they are all minors)
When you say inflate... what do you mean?
edit: holy crap Forget I asked
Wait till you see other fetish artists.
AZUMANGA!!
?!* sorry i had to emphasize my shock there
When i see that, i actually feel like vomit
To be honest, Dobson's comics don't feel like 90s manga, they look more like *French* comics drawn by people who think they're inspired by 90s manga
That's kind of an insult to French comics because there are so many great ones
Also France did made an anime and it was pretty it's called wakfu
As a french man I can confirm
@@TheOmegaGamerI'm so sorry
EXACTLY
Dont be @@TheOmegaGamer,he made his bed now hes got to lie in it
Years ago a friend made a Facebook post about the Power Girl photo, which lead to a couple of us making jokes about it in the comments. Now, none of use tagged Dobson. None of us messaged Dobson. None of us KNEW Dobson or were even aware he had a Facebook presence. So imagine our collective surprise, and the hilarity, when he showed up in the middle of our conversation to yell at us and then block us. And that's how we learned he apparently would actively look for people making fun of him online so he could get mad.
I was literally choking while laughing
No way lmao
-Unable to take criticism.
-Made cringy Strawman comics dickriding nintendo and mocked people.
-Insulted everyone who gave him the contrary
-Made up a comic where he made a couple on a photo session look like harrassment
-Says he defends women and says being attractive is sexist yet likes to draw them like Blimps.
-Insulted the daughter of a great comedian on his passing anniversary
-And Possibly costing his brother an important job due to his toxicity
Dobson: Why am I getting backlash?
I remember when he wrote a DA post complaining that the Aurora shooting was bad because it would ruin The Dark Knight's reputation (this was only about a week after it happened, btw). Truly a pillar of empathy and sensitivity.
The absolute best part of his insult to Zelda Williams was his apology where he said "Oh some people didn't appreciate what I did."
I can't tell if he was just salty he got called out or he genuinely did not realize he did something wrong.
@@lightninstriker10
Knowing the antics this man was involved in, most likely the latter.
@@lightninstriker10
"Some people didn't appreciate what I did"?
Appreciate what? She isn't some close friend who was angry because she had a rough day at work or a person who lost an internet argument, It was the daughter of Robin Williams mourning her loss!
No wonder he likes inflation, his head is full of air!
I feel sorry for his brother.
Both for losing an important job
And also for being related to this jackass.
One thing to note about Dobson's lesbian fetish; Dobson had met the bandits of a certain tower in one of his playthroughs of Skyrim. The quest starts with a farmer asking the Dragonborn for help with a bandit group, thinking they kidnapped his wife. It turned out the wife was actually the former bandit chief who just returned to the bandit life. She tells the dragonborn to get rid of him, but NOT TO KILL HIM!
Dobson was playing a female dragonborn, roleplaying as a lesbian, and decided to kill the farmer because, in his mind, she was being abused and controlled. He even made artwork for the scene that he believes happened, and not, you know, how she would probably react to you killing her husband...
How progressive!
Oh yeah, there's no real happy ending to that scenario. You can lie to the farmer and tell him you didn't find his wife, or tell him that she's dead. Either way, he suffers from false hope or despair. However, it would take a twisted line of logic to come to the same conclusion as Dobson.
"roleplaying as a lesbian" this guy is so weird what....
@menherakiss It's more common than you'd think. Look at FF14, lots of guys playing scantily clad cat and rabbit girls who want to get it on with other cat and rabbit girls.
@@insertname3977 man :( so many weirdos out there
The origin of his blue bear character is kinda funny. He'd always draw himself as thin and with a full head of hair. People kept asking him why he does that when hes actually bald and fat. Eventually he got fed up, threw a tantrum, and started drawing himself as a blue bear
Fun fact about the Power Girl comic; the dude taking the picture was actually the girls boyfriend, which is why she was so chill about it.
Apparently the cosplayer was bullied off the Internet by Andrew's fans
@@gregthehedgehog0956 Just typical
@@gregthehedgehog0956fans? What fans are you talking about?
@@untipoinanimado2352 he apparently had fans
@untipoinanimado2352 have you ever heard about the goggles story?
Disney didn’t invest more in cgi because treasure planet failed, treasure planet failed because it was an extremely expensive production that disney did not want to succeed. Disney wanted to use less expensive methods of animating than the extremely costly deep canvas they used on most of treasure planet. They released this movie at a date where it was competing with 2 other major disney movies and they barely marketed it at all. Their PR department could sell water to a fish, of course they could have sold a good movie to a willing audience, they just decided not to.
So you're telling me that Disney sabotaged themselves so they can promote another product and push their own agenda? Well, color me shocked.
Also because hand drawn animators are unionised with regulations while non-unionised CGI artists can be hired cheap and forced to work overtime to meet deadlines.
Ironically, it succeeded anyways reception wise!
And because it was not only dueling in a weekend of packed family movies. with Potter and Clause either out or coming out shortly after, it had to go up against a movie you bet your ass the tweens TP was targeting were lining up for - The Two Towers
Disney invested in cg simply because it was cheaper. They set treasure planet up to fail so they could get it over with to move to cheaper styles of animating.
Fun fact: Dobson's former colleagues all managed to break into the animation industry.
Particularly Andrew Chestworth, he was a classmate of Dobson and unlike him, Chestworth managed to get a job at Disney and also managed to have one of his shorts nominated at the Academy Awards
@@pablocasas5906 Oh the irony
That's nightmare stuff, all your class doing something important with their lives except for you...
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoonno, the real nightmare is being unable to realize why that is, and carry on doing the same mistakes again and again. My former classmates all did something with their lives and I didn't, I realized I needed to chance and now, a little late, but I'm also doing something.
Dobson was his own demise.
@@Heidegaff I guess that's also true, is never too late to change for the better, the problem with Dobson is that he closed himself in his little circle and rejected all opinions that came with a slight of criticism or didn't allied with his political worldview, that's a pattern in all lolcows really.
The best part about drawing Steven Universe in the style of Leiji Matsumoto? He thought Leiji was a woman, and refused to change his belief when someone pointed out otherwise.
he didn't want to admit he's been gooning to a dude the whole time
Yeah, the stereotype of the male feminist isn't going anywhere.
The stonetoss comic about predators being in camouflage, it gives a few examples of animals, then the last panel is a male feminist. I feel that comic still rings true.
@@SneedBassone of the few times a comic they made was actually realistic and not edited to be about among us
@@Meleedropped the burgers one is pretty good too.
@@SneedBassrockthrow is a nazi
@@SneedBassstonetoss fan 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Ironic how Andrew "Get the bike pump" Dobson says he loves Nintendo, the second they say something he doesn't personally approve of such as Peach being Blonde, then he had to throw a tirade making Peach a dimwitted bimbo in response, which is also how he perceives characters and people he doesn't like, especially women he doesn't like. How very Male feminist of him.
He's 100% a hypocrite.
Wait... since when was Peach NOT Blonde? I was never the biggest Mario fan but as far as I can remember Peach was always depicted as Blonde.
@@brianboru2762 Much earlier on (most noticeably in Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3), she had more gingery hair.
@@brianboru2762He got it from the DIC cartoons, whose designs were based on the NES and SNES sprites that had a very limited color pallete, hence ginger/brown haired Peach or "Toadstool". He was also obssesed with Link having brown hair.
@@brianboru2762 In the old cartoon show since for the NES it was hard to tell. Dopson threw a tantrum when the characters didn't look like that, especially Zelda from the hokey cartoon.
I am floored by the fact that Dobson just couldn't handle the modern internet landscape, and he started off pretending to be a teen girl.
Many such cases! Very sad!
Yeah, how old was this teen girl he pretended to be? Because this was also his NSFW account.
@@mileidyclass it doesn't look like he was interacting with anybody on that account, just posting shit into the void.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy I mean yeah, I just meant it would be weird of he pretended to be underage while posting his inflation porn, especially since he drew inflation art of underage characters (the Azumanga Daioh main characters).
he pulled a shmorky?
I love how he was "traumatized" by 4Chan's fake commission prank, while that was easily one of the least harmful things 4Chan has ever done.
Not just least harmful, they LITERALLY gave him money and let him to harm himself on his own.
My biggest Dobson memory was him drawing a comic complaining about how he had to reference bad events when he wanted to talk about something he liked because a talking Squid told him to do it "because it's the internet"
_It was a week after the Aurora Colorado Theater shooting and Dobson was upset that it was still being covered and people expected him to express sympathy to the victims of the tragic event during his personal review of the film._
*"UGH Why do I **_have_** to say anything about the shooting victims a week after it happened? It's a week ago, get over it! **_I'm_** the victim here!"*
That's such an evil thing to say .what a scumbag
Dobson seems like the archetypal Reddit White Knight.
He is the prototype of an average redditor
@@leviticusprime4904Patient 0
The missing link between the mid 2010 Tumblr user and the modern day Redditor
@@CertifiedWoodClassic Modern Day reddit really IS basically a majority male Tumblr
@@CertifiedWoodClassic truly a brilliant discovery in the science community
It’s crazy how everybody in that era looked like they belonged on Channel Awesome
It was the style at the time
Yeah.
I don't know how much of that is one leading to the other. Like, if it was that everyone dressed that way so logically most people on CA looked like that, or because everyone CA looked like that, people who wanted to be on Channel Awesome were emulating the people who were already there.
Yeah it was just how the outcast neurodivergent nerds and geeks looked at the time. (I say that as one of them). The people with the know how to build a web site and post digital video online, at a time when all this was new.
As the Internet got more mainstream, the barrier to entry went down a lot more diverse people started creating content. And of course the best looking people always become the most popular, leaving the nerds of old to be forgotten. That's pretty much where we're at today.
If someone told me he was Linkara's brother I wouldn't have questioned it for a second
It’s crazy because a lot of Lolcows are told that if they just leave the internet the trolls will disappear and they’re like “NOOOO WHAT ABOUT MY FANS :(“ (think Cyraxx, Chris, Daniel Larson, etc.).
Dobson took the advice one time and he went from being one of the biggest clowning targets online to an obscure footnote in the span of a couple years.
They never truly disappear, they just move on to new targets. If Chris Chan were to ever make another YT or DA page, you'd have dudes come out of trolling retirement to get on that 🤣
@@KHayes666 like a "I haven't heard that name in years" scene
Great video overall! But there’s one question that’s not addressed:
“Why is he suddenly a blue care bear?”
At one point, he made a comic ranting about people not liking a recent change in his self-insert. He doubled down by changing it again to a blue care bear, and saying he won’t go back to the human design until people stop complaining.
He never went back to the human design.
that's a funny bit ngl
Honestly, if he wasn't so ridiculed and lol cow-y, this response could've been a based interaction with his community that would get a laugh and get memed and stuff.
Dobson: *tells a woman to “calm her tits” because she’s grieving the loss of her father*
Also Dobson: why am I getting so much hate?
Hearing that made me want to scream in frustration over Dobson saying something ridiculous to a woman
If he didn't know her Dad died when he posted the meme and he apologized, it's embarrassing but why should we care.
@@marthademovimaus5140 so what if he didn't know her dad or apologize he was still being a an asshole for no reason.
@@tykamen5588 I said I don't think he knew her dad had DIED. Whether or not he knew her Dad personally is kind of beside the point!
@@marthademovimaus5140still that's something you should not say to grieving person. Also don't give me that bullshit that Dobson didn't know Robin Williams had died because literally everyone knew and even if they didn't know all it takes is a quick Google search.
I like how the inflation fetish was foreshadowed throughout the video. Slowly building up paranoia in the audience, before the monster finally shows itself
Yeah and that absolutely terrifies me on what Dobson’s kinky thing might be...
He did a similar thing with the Shmorky video.
I mean, the inflation fetish thing is a lot more tame than whatever Shmorky is into.
@@SuperKlondike64 Oh god, is that white thing what I think it is...? Wait, it has a brown stain... oh no... stay back... stay back! AAAAAAAGH!
You can say there’s an overall inflating sense of unease through the entire video, only expanding further and further until the final climactic burst of reveal :)
"You could start a seafood restaurant with all the damn clam slamming going on in Dobson's art galleries" fucking killed me
Dobson is the OG “woke straight male ally”.
Can't believe at one point I was like this. Well not as bad of course and I was 12 but still, not a fun existence
He even wears a fedora for fcks sake, i would not be surprised if he unironically used "m'lady" to address women.
If you cringe at your younger self you have evolved, unlike Dobson. @@Kyubeylovessouls
@@Kyubeylovessouls I hope you have become racist.
When making Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson actually modeled Calvin to be sorta his polar opposite, a decision that made him such a fun character for Watterson to write. Meanwhile I can't imagine strawman comic artists being anything more than miserable
You just reminded me of a Dobson comic where he mentioned how Watterson refused to sell out C&H because he wanted to maintain the integrity of the comic, then Dobson blatantly say he would rather do the exact opposite
As a writer it AMAZES me how much of 'popular' media now is about 'seeing myself in comics/movies/games' rather than using writing as an incredible space to explore and empathize with a million different kinds of person to yourself.
@@axiss5840 yeah, oddly the entertainment media has become very "Me" focused lately... Alot of creators and writers lately only want to self-insert, and make their characters an almighty version of themselves.
They also push the odd notion that you "can't relate to characters who don't look like you, think like you, act like you, have your same culture, ect." which isn't true obviously...
I love many things with characters different from myself.
@@pallydan893dude I thought you meant Cyanid and Happiness
@@beauwalker9820 which is why i love making my Dungeons and Dragons characters very widely different i find if i were to play myself to a T be rather boring
Some minor things to take note of in regard to Dobson.
Half of the art he made about gay men was less for a sake of interest or representation and more as a punchline to a personal joke where two men ending up together is more comical to him, specifically the one picture he made of Mako and Wu where he explained that he saw Mako being with another man as more of a comedic punishment.
The second thing to take note of is that his CattyN account was used for him to roleplay as a teenage lesbian and he was also one of the first people online to use the tired phrase of "im literally a minor" whenever he was losing an argument. Its good hes offline ultimately
This mf larped as a lesbian teen and years later is shocked women who feels sexually attracted to other women likes sexy girls lol
I doubt he has a bias against gay men, but it's pretty clear that he's nowhere near as progressive as he claimed. He was very clearly just doing it because he liked lesbians and potential female attention.
Don't forget threatening to doxx a girl for drawing a parody of his stupid lesbian kick comic. Doblet could be a real piece of work at times.
@@RosencrantzxGuildenstern Oh yeah, he sucks.
"Look! He buckled under intellectual scrutiny."
Another funny thing is that on Kiwifarms they localized Dobson's family house which was big and had a pool. If I remember his father was very respected director of sailing association and his gay brother was director of the local NBC network (and both of them also were bald).
Dobson was a straight white man from rich family. The one of the people he hated most.
Yo whats up with the inflation cutaways 🤨
Edit: foreshadowing was crazy
Was also wondering that
One thing you didn't mention is that the reason he changed his avatar to a blue bear is because people kept pointing out that he was drawing himself with more hair than he really has
Yup
He traded being called bald for being called a furry... This doesn't seem like an upgrade to me.
Also while never confirmed, since this was during the time webcomic artists were monetizing the crap out of their creations it was rumored he also made the freaking bear because it was easier to merchandise
Also much slimmer than he actually is
@@superplayerex2431 not to mention his Blue Bear avatar, or should I say fursona, looks worse than his previous self-insert. I mean, to me his Bear avatar looks kind of creepy, Dobson always adds weird wrinkles and pointless details in his characters and it always end up looking off. His art truly got worse with time
Him getting offline for his families sake is probably the only selfless thing he’s done in a very long time, I cannot think of any other lolcow even considering such a thing. Proud of you, weird blue bear man.
thats a very poetic ending the more i think about it
maybe we'll see him again and hopefully he's a changed man 🥲
I don't think so man, I bet his family probably forced him to take down everything. I bet that if he didn't have a brother, he would still be around to this day
@@falco5148
Yeah, but he still did it without any known pushback or relapses. Most of these stories that involve family intervention is only the halfway mark of the story. So he must have felt really awful knowing that he cost his brother a really good job just by existing.
The fact that there are relatives of this nutcase in the Gov't says a lot about the current state of things.
It's honestly a fitting end. He didn't leave because of all the people making fun of his inflation fetish or his inability to take criticism, he was forced to leave because of something he himself did. You reap what you sow, I guess.
15:30
Dobson:
“you are pro lgbtq cuz you’re inclusive… I am pro (L)gbtq cuz I have a yuri fetish. We are not the same.”
What if you’re both?
@@ethanwebster3764
I am not pro LGBTQ+ because I have a yuri fetish!
I mean, I do have a yuri fetish, but it's not why I'm LGBTQ+!
@@tafua_a Yuri is freaking amazing and I'm a lesbian
"I hate seeing myself in these people" too fucking real dude
"There's no point in being self-aware if you aren't gonna do anything about it!"
Many, many people nowadays need to hear this, not just Dobson.
Realizing that, actually saved my life a time ago fr
Boogie2988 comes to mind.
@@gonzalot.605 boogie isnt self aware hes just a secret narcissist
I strongly agree.
Indeed.
All these years and I'll never understand why Dobson responded to Zelda Williams like that. Jesus Christ.
IIRC she was on the wrong side of Gamergate, or at least Dobson thought she was. And always online, extremely thirsty dudes like Dobson all treated Gamergate like it was their own personal holocaust so he was looking for any opportunity to snipe at her.
@@2old2steakshe was involved? Would have assumed she wouldn’t even have heard when it happened.
@@JohnWilliams-wl9px I don't think she was, it was something like her making a tweet that could be interpreted as a reference to gamergate and dobson getting upset by it. It's also why he really didn't want to apologize.
Looking it up though I can find zero references to it so I might just be going senile about ancient internet weirdos.
@@2old2steakso HE thought that she was “for” gamergate? God that’s the prettiest shit I’ve ever seen
@@leviticusprime4904 If I recall Robin Williams died around that time frame and Zoe Quinn, the whore responsible for Gamergate happening in the first place, tried to use Robin William's death to promote her game about depression that was tone deaf, tasteless and poorly researched. I don't think Zelda was ever involved with Gamergate, Dobo just decided to put her in the crossfire because his thought process was Robin Williams died -> Zoe quinn promotes her shit game-> Gamergate calling out BS->?Attack his daughter?
I love the subtle hints at the last chapter like every transition clip being of a character being inflated and that every chapter ending with “ation”
This is the first and only Dobson video essay I have come across on TH-cam and I'm surprised it took this long to find one, considering the wacky hijinks this dude has been up to for... forever now. Thank you.
I am a bit blown up about it not mentioning the Aurora Shooting comic.
oh god I forgot about that @@Aerafuz
One funny little happening was when Dobson "Killed a Giraffe". There was a plugin you could put in your browser that allowed you to draw and put notes on top of webpages, anyone else who had the plugin could see and add-to/change what appeared. Fun little thing, which yes was perfect for clowning around, but to be clear this didn't change the page in any way. Everyone browsing regularly wouldn't see any of it. People who had this plugin started dunking on Dobson adding notes and critiques, or drawing stupid things next to his art. Dobson couldn't take this, so he spent hours of his time constantly monitoring his deviantart pages and erasing anything people put on top of his work. One time a person drew a really nice Giraffe under one of his pages, it wasn't saying anything mean, it was just hanging out being a giraffe. However Dobson still erased it. So for awhile people would go in the comments and call him a giraffe killer.
Edit: The plugin was Goggles.
Ohhh yea i remember this. Pretty funny that he goes out of his way to erase troll scribbles from *every single* artwork on his page, which of course nobody but people who had this one plugin is able to see. Big ego dobby-chan had.
Hey, does that plugin still exist? It sounds really fun
giraffes are weird animals, man, they look like aliens
>The original was just a badly drawn dick that someone turned into a giraffe. After he erased it, people started drawing more giraffes as a way to mess with him.
theyare so cool
In spite of everything, there is one thing about Dobson I can respect. He did what Lolcows almost never do: walked away and broke the cycle.
Yeah, because he was forced to, by his family.
@@Silver77cynforced or not, it’s still a broken cycle.
@@Silver77cynthe Lumberjack finally cut down that Internet.
feels more like they cut the cable than he walked away
@@Filthy-Rat__ Well, at least there’s that, unlike other lol cows that end up in a never ending cycle of degeneracy.
17:25 "I've seen worst artists getting a following"
Damn that shadman disrespect was absolutely
Called for screw that loser
I'm questioning the mental gymnastics on how this guy blames anime ruining treasure planet, which cost him a job he never had nor applied for.
There's plenty of other studios he could've worked for, but seemed obsessed with just working for Disney.
He could have still gotten an animation job at Disney, it just would've been for a show or something.
@@demanic6159 That. He could've done just that and had a steady career but figured "if it's not a movie, then what's the point".
Hell, he still could've tried to get work as a story board artist/character designer. Those are options that still made use of 2d art or he really wanted to try, he could've gone back to school to learn vfx.
@@jetblackangelXSounds like he was a "go big or go home" type of guy. His ego wouldn't allow him to be less than a *movie* animator for Disney.
@@TheDragonSeer He's a "go big or go home" guy, in the sense that he wants to go big, knows he can't, so he just stayed home.
This guy hatred of anime was so hillarious.
He made an entire drawing where it wa just his OCs beating up random anime characters like goku, naruto, ash, salormol and removing the bra of the girl from urusei yatsura.
It wasnt even ironic he was 100 percent being serious
He really was that petty.
Edit: HE ALSO MADE HIS OC'S BEAT UP DOREAMON FOR SOME REASON 😭😭😭😭😭
glad he didn't touch on Detective Conan, another popular 90s anime
I thought he would like shit like Doreamon what the hell
Him being offended by sexualization of women and somehow sexualized woman. How ironic.
Based pfp.
@@liquidbismuth1044 glad I'm not the only one
I feel bad for his brother. He shouldn’t have lost a job offer because of crazy family members
One of those government jobs that require the background check on not just you but your whole family. Even inlaws. The gov is very picky about that.
There are certain jobs where you'll be in contact with high profile politicians (presidents, speakers of the house, etc), and they don't want someone who has family ties with extremists to get that job.
@@SkeloperchEven so, losing a job over heredity is absolute bullshit and should be illegal
@@bobthycat3914 It should be, but it would never be.
that probably never happened. Dobbie made a few last attempts at kickstarter and monetization that failed and in the aftermath of that he just rage quitted.
Strong Feminist Ally with a penchant for lesbian art.... so when do the accustaions start coming to life?
Bold of you to assume that he isn't getting pepper-sprayed the minute a Hey leaves his lips.
@@burnerheinz 5'5, balding, out of shape, no social skills, middling artist. Literally the only thing I wouldn't believe is if he was accused of cheating because I refuse to believe he could pull one let alone two women.
"The brighter the virtue signal the darker the allegation"
- *Razorfist*
I feel bad for Dobson's brother. Imagine losing the opportunity to have a great job because your brother decided to make a clown of himself online. Something that isn't even your fault.
That one might be copium from the brother. Clearances shouldn’t care about your families internet hijinx, but it is a possibility
Take that with a big grain of salt... rumors coming from lolcows harassers are not the best sources...
That bit was interesting; In my opinion they where looking for an excuse to decline him and that was the worst they could find; something someone else did that he didn't have any control over.
@@snowmcsnow4732 they don’t really do that. If you’ve reached the clearance stage you’ve got the job.
@@Mawyman2316 Could be scapegoating from the golden child, but assuming it´s a high post government job, if his competition grabbed a hold of Dobson´s art and comments they could easily use it to blackmail the brother or to climb the ladder directly by showing it to a bigger dog in government.
Point being Dobson may have been too notorious on the web for his own good and may or not screwed his brother´s career as a result.
What a way to justify his hate boner for anime..."its because Treasure planet that I was never able to work at Disney, I hate anime now!!" Its a leap of logic so large I can't believe its real
Even more confusing, he _specifically_ hates anime from y2k onwards because of Treasure Planet, anime from the 90's is exempt 💀
@@error-try-again-later don't know if Dobson could be considered as a sort of old-school otaku, there was a comic where he mentioned that in college he was in an anime club and he wanted to show some younger fans an old OVA, I think it was Bubblegum Crisis or another 80s anime, and he complained that nobody appreciated it and instead kept making jokes while the anime was playing
Not to mention that in his Alex ze Pirate comics plenty of panels were completely lifted from scenes from shows such as Ranma ½ and The Slayers
@@pablocasas5906The art in Alex Ze Pirate looks like a bootleg Rumiko Takahashi series
@@queencancerous5332 I know, he's a huge Rumiko fan, at 25:33 there's a capture from his CattyN site where he mentions how he would never inflate any of her characters because they mean so much to him.
I also remember enjoying Ranma ½ as a kid in the late 90s, but I find it funny how Dobson mentions he hates modern (at the time) anime like Dragon Ball when it actually premiered in 1986. I know I got popular in the U.S. in the 2000s, but come on
@@error-try-again-later and then he made inflation art of azumanga daioh, an animu from 2002, anyway (technically it was adapted from the 1999 mango but w/e)
Dobson seems to pick and choose which part of the 90s anime he talks about, there were dark edgy anime in the 90s like Akira, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Fist of the Northstar, Dragon Ball Z, etc. Dude just thinks because of the 2000s, Disney became edgy
As an artist, and a SENIOR in art school, it kills me when online artists have these massive followings (even if they’re being mostly hatefollowed, lol) and they just.. don’t improve. My art has improved SO much from when I was a freshman, and it’s because I was given critique and guidance! I’m even a webcomic artist myself (mostly Webtoon) and I’m just like.. amazed at how stuck in time this dude’s art is. It’s nostalgic in a bad way 😅
I can feel you there. I've been doing wherever I can to improve my art stuff and trying to get better as much as I can. It's fun to look back and see how far you've gotten. Those followings you mentioned can be a bit demoralizing to see.
Out of curiosity, what's your webtoon called? might give it a read later.
And this should serve as a lesson for all of us. Dobson refused to accept criticism so he refused to improve. Criticism is not an attack on the person (even when its author just wanted the attack). Criticism is an opportunity to ward off stagnation.
Dobson was once a major lolcow in the early 2010’s. I’m more surprised people even remember him
Feels like he got known again after the new guy meme when people re-remember another lolcow who accidentally paint themselves as the bad guy.
Some lolcows are forgotten like tears in rain, others age like fine wine.
Nobody forgot inflation bear. Fortnite players were making fun of a little bear in the game and called it Dobson.
Dobson is still a meme on /v/
I feel like he's still somewhat known because of that comic where he drew himself as the hero, I remember discovering about this guy in like 2019 or 2020
Dobson ironically got the best ending any lolcow can, leaving the internet behind. He had some talent but he completely squandered his potential by being overly attached to one art style to the point that he never improved, it's likely this is the reason why he never broke into the animation industry, however his fragile ego meant he was also not cut out for being a public figure either. It's everyone's dream to be able to turn your hobby into your career, but for him it was just never going to work out.
I'm also surprised you didn't mention the "imagine being so fat you look at computers and see food" comic Dobson made, since that was a somewhat notable controversy that he like moviebob insisted PCs were bad compared to apple macs and bing bing wahoo consoles.
Imagine being at computers
14:36 "And you're left with what most of his career consists of, nothing but L's."
nice double entendre there, lmao
Ok, I had NO IDEA about him making that insensitive joke towards Zelda Williams. That’s literally the first time any, and I mean, ANY TH-cam video has caused me to cartoon-style drop my jaw like that. What a hell of an experience this video was, props to you man!
Oh, that's the tip of the iceberg.
Dobson once drew a comic dubbed "Squid Comic" where he complained about having to reference a bad event that happened whenever he wanted to talk about something good, because a talking Squid told him he had to because "It's the Internet"
It was a week after the Aurora Colorado Theater Shooting, he was upset that the news was still covering it, he was upset that people were offering their condolences to the victims of the shooting, and that he felt like he had to be a decent human being when he wanted to talk about his experience watching The Dark Knight Rises because people online told him he should at least offer his sympathy.
Yeah that was wild 😂
@@Aerafuzit was only six days after the shooting. Less than a week. How the hell did he think that was a good idea?
@@henrynelson9301 Andrew really only thought about himself, he doesn't care or empathize with other people.
Remember the Charlie Hebdo shooting?
All of DeviantArt was practically saying "Art cannot be silenced, we will fight for art to be heard" and all that.
*Not Dobson,* that's where we first heard of him having PTSD from the spray bottle incident in 2012. Because he was all "I'm afraid that what I will do will get me killed", no one cares about your art mistakes, they hate your terrible attitude. If anything, that would be what gets his ass kicked.
While I don't condone the spray bottle shenanigans, the fact that he used that to claim he got PTSD _only_ so he can say "I'm a victim, you can't criticize me or my art" just...
... What a jerk.
Yeah. What's even more concerning is that instead of everyone gets angry at Dobson for his insensitive jokes on Robin William's death, he ends up getting laughed at.
Dobson once implied that people who complained about Mary Jane’s hair color changing in a new Spider-Man movie were shallow. Keep in mind he was notorious for complaining that Link’s hair changed from brown in the early NES games to blonde in the newer titles
He was even blonde in the original Japanese box art. The only reason it was brown on the NES was due to to palette restrictions. A similar case with Princess Peach in Mario 2 and 3.
@@SuperKlondike64 if only he knew that. He’s the same person whose first exposure to these characters were the DiC cartoons
Link has pink hair and bunny ears . The woke revisionists are at it again .
@@Mikewee777 Although I do wonder why they gave him pink hair in LTTP, as the SNES had a much more expansive palette than the NES (15 colors per sprite rather than 3).
@@SuperKlondike64 It sounded like a good idea at the time
Dobson prefers the DIC cartoon Link to the video game Links??? Why the hell would he, besides whole blond thing? What is it about cartoon Link he actually enjoys as a character?
Link: Oh boy! Smooching time! (tries to throw himself on Zelda without consent)
...... Knowing his actual stance on women, I think I see it now.
It could be an age thing. I grew up with "excuuuuuuse me princess" and not with Ocarina Link that ppl younger than me did. But the last part of your statement might be true too lol
I like how you kept teasing the inflation fetish before actually mentioning it
But you also forgot to mention the guy who photographed the Power Girl cosplayer was her boyfriend, and she was apparently bullied off the internet by Andrew and his fans.
21:02 The guy who took the picture of the power girl cosplayer was actually her boyfriend
This makes it a thousand times funnier.
Lmao
LMAO
Didn't Treasure Planet bomb because Disney essentially set it up to fail cause the bigwigs didn't want to do traditional animation anymore?
Pretty much. The powers at the time set the standard that 3D was just the new thing and no questions, peasants. It also is much easier to make a character model and mocap over it or something than painstakingly draw frame by frame in full inks and paints. 2D animation made Disney, but the executives of the mid-00s to now, have slowly forgotten where they came from.
Plus, it was up against both Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings.
@@XartiXV Man; that's like having the largest penis as a rat versus ACTUAL WHALES.
I wouldn't say they set it up to fail. They put a ton of money into marketing it, had a McDonald's ad and toy lineup and everything.
@@bhendri31 Exactly. People keep repeating this weird claim like it's fact, even when you can easily look up the budget and all the advertising for this movie online. Disney isn't in the business of losing money on purpose, especially not in service of their competition, considering Shrek was in theaters at the time.
The common explanation for him quitting the Internet is a little heavier than his relatives citing his brother allegedly losing a job by association as a reason he should stop his antics. Really, when has he ever been that reasonable or empathetic?
The full narrative is that Dobbo the Clown, being a failure in every sense of the word, was/is still financially dependent on his fossilizing parents despite being on the wrong side of 40, and they threatened to cut him off if he didn't stop melting down online.
Ultimately his allowance for buying Switch games was more important than railing at the digital heavens.
Sounds about right, I wouldn't even Believe he'd be selfless enough to stop for his brother.
Like you said, he can like/draw all the fantasy balloon women he wants -- that's his thing and I won't judge him there. It's his sheer hypocrisy that's the issue.
weird "I'm feminist so its okay if I do it" logic tbh
The guy is just an absolute dick, his fetishes are like his ego. Inflated
If only they weren't minors though
Blaming treasure planet for the resulting firing of a whole bunch of animators is kinda stupid given that in reality its because animation artists were unionised thus they had more rights and disney had to pay them a reasonable wage compared to the then budding CG animation which had no unionisation and ultimately was just an excuse to get rid of a bunch of animators.
Yes, but liberals don't like to think about how corporate greed hurts the working classes-they only want to talk about how "privileged" the working classes are and how "oppressed" the corporations are.
Interesting
Also, it wasn't Disney's last 2D movie that decade; if anything, you'd probably be blaming Home on the Range for the failure to bring in people to the box office, but even that's false, because The Princess and the Frog came out in *2009*.
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819Andy ain’t exactly good with thinking
if you want to blame a singular movie for 2D animation dying, blame the Rugrats movie for starting a trend of straight to video 2D animated movies. theres a very good rebel taxi video about it
Every internet artist needs to learn the tale of Dark Dobson so they don't end up like him. An uninspiration basically.
I always tell people to just quit because it's all genetic.
@@Elba.Ginon93 source: my ass
An inspiration of what NOT to be like or do
"Don't be a Dobson" wasn't an uncommon quote to hear on Tumblr at the time
So basically a cautionary tale?
Dobson the typa guy to have his face turn red and steam come out of his ears when he gets mad
Honestly as someone who pretty much exclusively plays on Nintendo consoles, I find those Nintendo shilling comics to be genuinely painful to look at.
I don't know if me being a kirby fan means I'm a Nintendo fan. But when ever I see those Nintendo fanboy comics, I just feel constant dread seeing them. Ugh -_-
Same
Same
I'm a huge Nintendo fan and nostalgic too, I even love their obscure experimental stuff like BOXBOY! and Kururin (also currently hyperfixated on Rhythm Heaven as I type)
But I would never go that far, to defend the company itself so hard
Especially since Nintendo sure as Hell doesn't return such favors anyway, since they ignore their fans when they criticize them and harass using DMCA takedowns when they show labor of love
@@BinglesPto be a bit fair that's because they don't wanna lose sales to free games
Though still they go the extra mile
Another thing that should be mentioned about Dobson is that he had a weird fixation on blondes and blonde guys specifically, which is why a lot of the blonde characters he drew were depicted as dim-witted or bullies. Apparently he was bullied by a blonde kid in school and never got over it.
Reminds me of astruc and him not getting over his bully from childhood which is pretty apparent in miraculous with how chloe was treated
He hated link samus and peach becoming blonde so I guess this was the reason?
@@christianwabajak37 Yeah, that explains it. 😆
@@christianwabajak37 Pretty much.
I mean, I kinda get it
I was once stabbed by a kid with down syndrome, and I spent the next decade of my life advocating for lobotomies (mostly my teen years, I was less than 9 when the incident happened)
the more i watched this video the more i realized dobson was only special for the late 2000s 2010s internet because most of this is the description of the modern twitter artist
It’s upsetting how goddamn right you are.
It literally is. I honestly don't see what's so special about this dude when there's way worse out there.
he was definitely a product of his time- the fact there are slews of online personas akin to him (and other notable Lolcows from the 00's) today is kind of depressing ngl
I love getting lectured on immigration by diaper furs
Because having month's long breakdowns over children's media was seen as laughable back then. Now there's thousands of people doing the same thing on social media.
I honestly like Dobson's 90s anime art style a lot, probably because it reminds me of a lot of cartoons and flash animations I grew up with
It's just a shame that it's Dobson who draws it, because the dude is an absolute creature
💯
I will say I like his art style. It's got an eighties Garfield vibe that has a charm to it. He's also good at drawing expressions and different faces. I have an easy time imagining his art translating well into animation and I gotta give credit that his ability to edit the DIC Mario characters in real life for the early 2000s that was really well done. It's a shame strawman comics are his main thing, he could be so much more.
Yes I agree. That's the sad part, the man clearly had talent. But his ego and arrogance prevented him from improving. He stagnated and got stuck in his comfort zone drawing strawmans...
Fun story about Dobson:
Dobby made numerous comic books and had them printed up so he could put them up for sale on his website. He didn't sell a lot (if any) so he decided to give them away to his aunt so she could hand them out for free to her co-workers and relatives and in that way, give him some publicity. She ended up donating them all to Goodwill who had them all burned because they didn't realize it "was a professional comic" lmao.
Another fun story: Dobby is to this day a virgin because him and his one college girlfriend had a snuggleless relationship. He only became a feminist because he thought it would get him some action (it didn't).
To be fair that is the reason why most men become feminist
Being a virgin can suck, but you gotta eventually learn to just deal with it, that or hire someone.
@@twinzzlers He tried to deal with it in the best way he could think off. He was even thirsting for some SJW land w h a l e on twitter who made you-know-what vids with other men until she blocked him.
@@twinzzlersi mean shit, its legal in nevada. free excuse to go to vegas in my eyes
I gotta be honest here. It still baffles me to this day that people see the problem with such weird guys and so many other just like him in being a VIRGIN itself, as if that was the crux of the issue and not their massively disgusting personalities and lack of character by themselves. From when I was still a relatively young dude in my early twenties that just HAPPENED to be a virgin still aswell all the way up to nowadays not much has really changed about me personality-wise. I mean, I'm still basically the same guy I was when I was a 22 year old virgin, I'm just me. On the other hand tho, I get it tho - maybe we'll just need to find a better despricptive word for people like this, instead of just calling them "virgin"? Incel? I don't know. Yet I just find it strange how there is so much stress put on young males, such a push for them to lose their v-card, so much importance put on male virginity. Why is that? Did I magically gain some kind of respect by society and the whole world on the night I lost my virginity? Hahaha, I wish! My point being that I've meet really cool chill virgin guys and also non-virgin guys that act just like the "typical male virgin" probably all of us get a picture of in our heads when we hear things like "HE's a VIRGIN".
Dobson claim that he never got work as an animator because Disney stopped making 2D animated films, and yet 2D animated television remained very much a thing. This leads me to believe that 2 possible things happened.
1. He was so set on getting a job animating Disney movies specifically that he never tried getting jobs at any other studios.
or
2. Studios wouldn't hire him because he's a hack.
These options are not mutually exclusive.
He could have still worked for Disney as a concept artist/character designer or animate for one of their TV shows.
@@error-try-again-later Imagine him being a storyboard artist for Kim Possible or Gravity Falls
He also claimed that his college was "worthless" for getting an industry job, despite fellow famous internet artist Andrew Chesworth going through the same art program at the same college and getting a job at Disney specifically. That man has literally no one to blame for his lack of career movement other than himself.
It's nearly impossible for a guy that can't accept criticism to work in a team
@@lordtickledck7012Oh boy that’ll be rather chaotic and a disaster if he works as a storyboard artist for those two shows...
This is why i'm SO fucking cautious when drawing my 2 lesbian OC's, weird ass dudes with even weirder fetishes ruin everything
At a certain point you kinda have to accept that teh interwebz will draw porn of your characters, if they get popular enough. It's one of the many double edged swords of noterity.
@@Calvin_Coolage I'm not worried about porn, I'm worried about being seen as some weird guy who has a lesbian fetish.
@@1Lazarus Oh. I misunderstood.
I think the point was the mix of female fetish with the irony of being a hyper feminist (to the point where you don't actually understand how women feel) as to why he got so much hate for it. People gonna judge you drawing fetish of any kind no matter what. No reason why you can't enjoy a fetish overall though as long as you ain't a hypocrite about it.
The reason Treasure Planet failed is because Disney... set it up to fail...
John Musker and Ron Clements worked on well known things like The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), AND Treasure Planet (2002). The issue is that Treasure Planet was: A. It was an adaption of Treasure Island, a book that in itself is hard to adapt to other mediums because of the content of the book is rather subtle in a lot of cases up till the end of the book where it the themes become overt. And B. Was not all that marketed well by Disney with mostly only previews at movie theatre's or an EXTEREAMLY small amount of broadcast commercials on a select amount of networks that almost no one saw.
Anime did not kill it, Disney and idiots who with could not pass an Linguistics Literacy Test is why if failed.
You can say Dobson has an... inflated sense of ego!!!
Every time Dobson gets mild criticism, he likes to... blow it out of proportion!!!
Dobson can be described as a very... larger than life person!!!
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@@liquidbismuth1044 "It's worth EVERY penny!"
Good ones 😂
Oh, you!
Some more fun factoids about the man:
- he claimed to have developed legitimate PTSD from the water spray incident
- he supposedly had a serious situation with a coworker at his airport job because they accidentally spoiled one of the Harry Potter movies that was coming out at the time due to having read the book, which had obviously come out years prior.
- he had a massive boner for Apple products and saw them as straight up superior to their counterparts and not just another brand. One of his most famous comics is a Mac vs PC piece where he makes a food analogy where a broken down PC is junk food while the Mac is healthy vegetables. It's funny considering his love of McDonalds and his let's say, portly figure.
- the video does not do justice regarding just how utterly ANAL he was about characters not looking and acting like their DiC cartoon counterparts. It was the one thing he criticized Nintendo for. He did not relent about this throughout his entire career.
His mac shilling gets even better. He later backpedaled on that one infamous “looking at computers and seeing food” comic, basically giving very flimsy excuses for how it was totally all ironic, and making fun of tech rivalry somehow. Also the Mac he stuck with was from 2008. He literally bragged about running Skyrim at 10 FPS, because “fuck 60 FPS elitism” in his words. and then when undertale came out, he couldn’t even launch it.
Maybe that's why his art style never really evolved. Characters can only look the way he wants them to look. Why listen to what other people have to say?
@@theotherjared9824 you can really see it with the blue bear. He was so focused on being bitter and petty in the comic, that he just gave this tiny cartoon bear like all this detail on the face, in the wrong way, it is just uncanny and unappealing.
@henrynelson9301 the blue bear is honestly one of the ugliest cartoon characters I have ever seen
I love two edits made to that compyutta comic, I forgot what the top dialogue was, but the bottom two panels had the dialogue changed so lazily that it just ran over the both of them.
The edited dialogue was: Imagine being so fat that you look at computers and you see food
However, due to how it was set up, another edit removing all but the bottom left panel made it say "imagine being at computers"
Still funny.
I'm still getting Loss.jpg'ed in goddamn 2024 🙃
It is truly timeless
The sheer dread the inflation references built up prior to actually addressing it was so palpable.
Poor Zelda, kinda horribly ironic that her father worked in Disney movies, but our L white knight wanted to work for Disney, and treated her like that. I dare say that it’s twice as horrible because her dad had named her after princess Zelda because he adored the series. Kinda made me want send her fruit to say sorry.
Not only that, but telling a woman "calm your tits" seems to really be at odds with the kind of progressive message Dobson would be sending out there, ya know?
@@arandompasserby7940 This only convinces me that most of the people pushing for that kind of progressive message aren't trustworthy at all, especially since Dobson is far from the only one who's like that. What happened to sticking to your principles?
@@superplayerex2431 Moral of the story
If someone is white knighting and claims to be a male feminist
RUN
Especially if you're a woman, Run far away
@@arandompasserby7940 This situation would be a Dobson comic, where Dobson would destroy the man who made fun of her. Dude is his own antithesis.
he did not even say sorry to her, he was sorry that people where mad at him.
For a supposed feminist, he sure defended the hell out of the one Metroid game, Other M, that's criticised for being sexist.
I've never heard anyone accuse Other M of "sexism", it's just a bad game with poor writing, that's it; Calling it sexist would be like calling the Gollum game misandrist because it's shit and the MC is male.
Sometimes a product just sucks, and that's it.
@margarinesnatcher no I've heard the sexist argument from making Samus take orders from a man to making her having daddy issues both of which made no sense.
@@richardbrown7258
1: You say it's daddy issues, I say it just looks like shit writing you're projecting upon.
2: A man giving orders to a woman is not intrinsically sexist in any way shape or form, especially in a military/combat setting, welcome to reality.
@@margarinesnatcherOther M's depiction of Samus contrasted greatly with peoples perception of the character from previous games. Before, Samus was a strong battle hardened warrior who took no sh!t from anyone. In Other M however she's sort of bland and focuses a lot on her femininity, a trait no other game felt the need to focus on. Before her gender was sort of a non-factor of her character, she was a badass thst just happened to be a woman, but Other M just beats you over the head with the fact Samus is a woman, making constant allegories about motherhood and her obsession with "The Baby" (The Metroid larva from Super Metroid, the previous game chronologically.) Many people saw this as a degradation of the character, boiling her down to her basic traits and ultimately inferior to her previous depictions.
@@margarinesnatcherThe Golden Bolt has a good video on Other M that goes into the greater criticisms of the game, including Samus's contentious depiction. I'd also recommend The Geek Critiques' Other M video, he has a pretty good section on Samus' character in that as well, and explains things better than I probably could.
“He was hooked up with a jewish girlfriend and started celebrating Hanukah with her “ neat
“And then he got mad at it not being as fun as Christmas and drew a comic about it” wow, just wow
I feel bad for dobson's brother honestly. Imagine getting screwed out of a government job because they think your a bridge between your boss and a potential assassination attempt. Poor bastard probably got put on a no-fly list.
Dobson: Stop objectifying women!
Also Dobson: (Draws dozens & dozens of art pieces of lesbians making out)
And also drew fetish art of characters that are underage. What a hypocritical weirdo
and fat fetish
Some of them of not most of them aren't even lesbians
But even bisexuals but straight women
And Inflation of Women, to the point they look like yoga balls
I would have so much more respect for the guy if he could just be honest about what he likes.
I was on the EDF during the Metroid commission. It was intentionally and specifically done to compare it against a piece he'd done in his college years that was much better, much more detailed, and honestly a really great work.
lmao I checked that thread every day. Kiwifarms wasn't created at the time
The EDF thread on Dobson was a phenomenal ride. Pretty sure Dobs also didn't do the commissioner's last requests for fixes before finally calling it done and just tossed the "finished" piece at them. His early college (and I think even high school era) work was definitely more raw- I always felt like he lost his love for art after a time and just treated it like something he HAD to do as opposed to something he wanted to.
I like how Dobson wasn’t even scammed, they still gave him the money
@@henrynelson9301 We're edgelords, not monsters.
Earth Defence Force?
Shame about Treasure Planet, however the truth of the story is that the tech used to make Tarzan and Treasure Planet was expensive and Disney internationally tanked it to move to 3D for monetary reasons. "There just isn't an audience for 2D animation" they lied.
"Money money money, it's the gold and silver itch!
Money money money, it makes the poorer into rich!"
Man you didn't mention the fact that when he was sprayed with the water he claimed it was urine online, and then later speculated that it might have just smelled like urine because he was sweatay.
his BO and hygiene is so bad that when contact with water, its turns into urine
Dobson is one of those lolcows on the internet that just fascinates me because he had everything going for him. At one point everything seemed to be going very well for the guy. His ego, his hubris, his inability to take criticism, and his willingness to piss people off for no reason other than because he wanted to feel smug and better than other people ruined every bit of success he had ever gained. Seriously, during the height of his Deviantart days, he could have leveraged his internet popularity, worked with a writer to improve his comic ideas, focused on positivity, taken criticism, and not been lazy and I have no doubt he'd be successful today. Maybe not rich or anything - more like that guy whose art we recognize - but still successful. Hell, he had a stint on TH-cam about animation history and techniques that was pretty interesting to watch too and if he brushed up on his editing, presentation skills, and people skills he could have had a decent side gig as an animation reviewer and talk about animation techniques and history.
People tend to not realize how good they have it and it often takes losing it for them to understand that. Stepping on the toes of his brother and costing him his job might've been the final moment that made Dobson realize just what he has been doing this entire time and what he has lost in the end... I don't know if that's the case, but I like to think he reformed willingly rather than reluctantly. It's only going to be worse for everyone involved if you still can't comprehend the consequences of your actions and what they've turned you into all these years later.
So essentially, if he was a completely different person, he'd be succesful
Saying someone is similar to “Movie Bob” is worse than any slur I can think of
At least he's not Anthony Burch
He looks exactly like I imagined someone named "Dobson" would look like
Damn, I remember being around when Dobson was "relevant". What a massive manchild he was.
Counterpoint: He left and never returned. That means Dobson actually learned from a mistake and thus as long as he never returns, is no longer a lolcow
We don't know if he did or didn't. It's very easy to go anonymous on the internet.
@@fabiomgm1293 I mean that's still a.good move. It's no longer "look at me THE Andrew dobson" now he's just some guy on the internet. A bit of a growth in ego control which is a glimmer of hope
He didn't "leave"-the Lumberjack cut down his Internet against his will.
That's like saying Chris Chan "learned and changed" because he wasn't on the Internet while he was in fucking jail.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy yeah but at least he can't do anymore damage to himself off it. Getting offline is the best thing a non-horror Cow can do
@@drewbakka5265 sure it is-he just didn't do it. His family forcibly removed him. It's the difference between "stayed home" and "placed under house arrest".