Not really. He has been pretty open about why he was fired: Escapist didn't think his videos were bringing in the views, so they let him go, like many others before him.Roboshi said:Officially he "left" but as with any company working with an employee it's murky. Plus I believe any theories about how he left got deleted or banned. So I can only state the fact he "left" after some rather public twitter rants about a certain internet movement. If you want some actual info I'd suggest just looking up some youtube info on bob's meltdown.RJ 17 said:Did the Escapist get rid of him? I thought he was the one who decided to leave, much like Jim Sterling.
Thank you! It's nice to have less speculation and more research from time to time in these forums.Lightknight said:To answer the OP, It looks like he's now a member of Screenrant.com
http://moviebob.blogspot.com/2016/01/whats-going-on.html#more
Before he made the above update, here is what he was saying about the break for ScrewAttack's content:The first of the "new projects" listed below can now be revealed - I have officially become part of the ScreenRant News Team!
All questions answered?So it also goes for independent producers like myself: IN BOB WE TRUST and GAME OVERTHINKER were produced for a set run with ScrewAttack, that first run has concluded and now they're on break; while fans of ScrewAttack's broader content-library have no doubt taken note that BEST/WORST EVER and TOP TEN have started back up again. So goes the cycle. I can't say when my two series will return at this point, or in what form: It's possible that IN BOB WE TRUST (for example) might find a different homebase in the interim. It's also possible (again, for example) that you might see me on ScrewAttack with another brand-new series. All I can say on that front is that you should stay tuned.
In everyone else's defense, it wasn't easy to find. I had to go a page back on his terrible looking site. I'm not sure what it is with that kind of layout. Loading Ready Run's site is also awful looking.CaitSeith said:Thank you! It's nice to have less speculation and more research from time to time in these forums.Lightknight said:To answer the OP, It looks like he's now a member of Screenrant.com
http://moviebob.blogspot.com/2016/01/whats-going-on.html#more
Before he made the above update, here is what he was saying about the break for ScrewAttack's content:The first of the "new projects" listed below can now be revealed - I have officially become part of the ScreenRant News Team!
All questions answered?So it also goes for independent producers like myself: IN BOB WE TRUST and GAME OVERTHINKER were produced for a set run with ScrewAttack, that first run has concluded and now they're on break; while fans of ScrewAttack's broader content-library have no doubt taken note that BEST/WORST EVER and TOP TEN have started back up again. So goes the cycle. I can't say when my two series will return at this point, or in what form: It's possible that IN BOB WE TRUST (for example) might find a different homebase in the interim. It's also possible (again, for example) that you might see me on ScrewAttack with another brand-new series. All I can say on that front is that you should stay tuned.
I wasn't aware of Grey Carter habitually going into bizarre, unhinged rants about the Cleansing Fire that is needed to eradicate the "evolutionary dead ends" that pollute his world by liking CoD, or sometimes passing a Republican without spitting on them.BreakfastMan said:Besides, if they fired people just for shitting on GamerGate, Grey Carter would have been let off months ago; instead he was given a second strip to write and is doing more writing work for the site in general.
He was a contributor to The Escapist who did film reviews and a couple of other things until a couple years back when he left/was let go. A lot of people around here tend to have pretty mixed opinions about him due to some of his more inflammatory political opinions (like the ever-classic 'no bad tactics, only bad targets') which sometimes seeped through into his content.Slice said:Is it weird that I have no idea who this person is? Youtube "celebrity" I assume?
Mmm, I don't know if I'd call it "positive press". From what I saw the general consensus was that his "review" was more of a long-winded tantrum thrown by a man-child.Windknight said:[He] got a lot of positive press for his Pixels review.
Yeah, some of the tweets I've seen make me a little sick to my stomach with the venom, ire and dehumanisation. It sucks because his videos on films (and comics, but those aren't my jam) were usually pretty insightful, and towards the end all of the spite just put me off it.Slice said:I see, so he's not even a Youtube-tier "star". Well, it sounds like he's a real peach of a human being, "No bad tactics", yuck.Drops a Sweet Katana said:He was a contributor to The Escapist who did film reviews and a couple of other things until a couple years back when he left/was let go. A lot of people around here tend to have pretty mixed opinions about him due to some of his more inflammatory political opinions (like the ever-classic 'no bad tactics, only bad targets') which sometimes seeped through into his content.Slice said:Is it weird that I have no idea who this person is? Youtube "celebrity" I assume?
You have no idea. At one point he starting trashing Totalbiscuit on Twiiter, timing his tweets to coinside with one of Tb's chemo treatments so that he would be unable to defend himself. I liked his content and tolarated his personality but when this happened. I just stopped watching his stuff completly.Slice said:I see, so he's not even a Youtube-tier "star". Well, it sounds like he's a real peach of a human being, "No bad tactics", yuck.Drops a Sweet Katana said:He was a contributor to The Escapist who did film reviews and a couple of other things until a couple years back when he left/was let go. A lot of people around here tend to have pretty mixed opinions about him due to some of his more inflammatory political opinions (like the ever-classic 'no bad tactics, only bad targets') which sometimes seeped through into his content.Slice said:Is it weird that I have no idea who this person is? Youtube "celebrity" I assume?
God I hope so. Even before I learned about how he sacrificed his balls to Anita Sarkeesian, I hated 'ol Chippy's reviews.Kieran Freemantle said:After The Escapist and MovieBob parted ways MovieBob ended up working as a freelancer for ScrewAttack. But he has not a video for them for over a month, so it made me wonder has he been let go again?
This is the general consensus of people when it comes to Bob and I hate to sound hipster here but following him since his early days of Overthinker I saw his slow and steady decline poke through in his work. It was a classic case of "he who fights monsters.." after preaching about the genuine problem of Nerds becoming bullies he himself began to use his large soapbox to preach hate.Drops a Sweet Katana said:Yeah, some of the tweets I've seen make me a little sick to my stomach with the venom, ire and dehumanisation. It sucks because his videos on films (and comics, but those aren't my jam) were usually pretty insightful, and towards the end all of the spite just put me off it.
That is pretty sad, in a sort of tragic way. There was also that book he wrote about Mario 3 that was apparently an unintentional window into his psyche.Roboshi said:This is the general consensus of people when it comes to Bob and I hate to sound hipster here but following him since his early days of Overthinker I saw his slow and steady decline poke through in his work. It was a classic case of "he who fights monsters.." after preaching about the genuine problem of Nerds becoming bullies he himself began to use his large soapbox to preach hate.Drops a Sweet Katana said:Yeah, some of the tweets I've seen make me a little sick to my stomach with the venom, ire and dehumanisation. It sucks because his videos on films (and comics, but those aren't my jam) were usually pretty insightful, and towards the end all of the spite just put me off it.
I also feel he lost his way with his Overthinker show as well, he sucummed to "linkara Syndrome" whereby his videos suddenly developed this abnormal growth at the begining and end made of terrible story-writing, sub-asylum level SFX and a huge list of characters that were painfully obviously just him in a costume (unfortunatly due to the fact Bob himself is not the lightest of people).
I just feel sorry for bob because I think it's very likely that he hasn't got any real friends, sure he's got "allies" or "comrades in arms" or just plain "co-workers", but no one he actually spends real social time with. Even that picture of a bunny he used belonged to his sister or something and apparently a sister he doesn't/can't visit often as he said it was "a bit hard to get footage of it".
To finish up I want people to remember that in the overthinkers 100th episode bob dressed up as a ghost/spirit told a huge speech about gamer entitlement and then he told HIMSELF how insightful it was.
The console wars were his "..own personal Vietnam". Enough said.Drops a Sweet Katana said:That is pretty sad, in a sort of tragic way. There was also that book he wrote about Mario 3 that was apparently an unintentional window into his psyche.