soyouareandrewdobson

[soyouareandrewdobson]

I can kinda understand mixing up certain words. (As I’m guilty of doing such due to my autistic ass getting confused.) But you’d think Dobson would have used spell check or some shit to help him out, or at the very least have someone proofread it.

or you know, know the most basic grammar. As for the idea of someone helping him out, I doubt his ego would have ever let him do so. Reminder, this guy took any form of criticism, including genuinely constructive and rather neutral, like a personal attack

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Oh Dobson has used "worse" instead of "worst" many times that I noticed, like in comics (the only one I can remember off the top of my head is when he's showing Iria to his anime club and someone says "This is the WORSE anime EVER!") It seems then that he genuinely does NOT know or understand that this is incorrect, and that's something you learn in grade/grammar school. Then again he also admitted he was a bad student and didn't pay attention in school so there's more proof for you.

The fact that Dobson fails basic english grammar on a scale me, a person who doesn't speak english as first language, is astonishing. I know my grammar and spelling can at times be flawed. But at least I know how to spell troglodyte

[soyouareandrewdobson]

aight, I read trough ya stuff and still I don't kno what does the dear old Andrew the boomer Dobson have against damn anime and manga, like it seems the mere idea of anything related to than makes his bloody boil. I kno anime fans can be annoying or "cringe" but that can go for a fan of any type of media, which includes him, but his ramblings are far more than annoying.

His hate for Japanese style and media is insane since what he likes ya kno Nintendo game since is Japanese in origin and his hated for what the Japanese apparently did to his childhood, which are Americanized cartoons of Japanese property is really stupid. I have a feeling da man think anything outside western comics is inferior, I wonder how he would feel about manhwa or anything else.

I think his hatred simply boiled down to the following aspects.

Anime became "too popular" in the mainstream at the time, especially anime with a more darker edge at times such as ElfenLied. Dobson, who was more of a reader of stuff by Rumiko Takahashi's work like Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 (the later which took him over 18 years to read), Slayers, the work of Miyazaki and other "wacky" cartoonesque anime, hated that. Because it was not stuff he enjoyed tonally, while others did.

Dobson felt alienated by the average anime community who did not enjoy the stuff he enjoyed and even riffed it -which is also related to some degree to Dobson at a time in college being president of an anime club and failing to genuinely get them interested in his stuff- so he became antagonistic towards them and the media they enjoy

People rightfully called Dobson out on ripping off other mangaka's works for his shitty solo comics and he got so butthurt about it, he not only tried to reinvent his style (which failed), he also became more hostile to the entire japanese entertainment industry. To the later I can just say the following: I hope Dobson makes one day acquaintance with some cartel members, once they learn he dissed Dragon Ball

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Got anything in regards to Dobson's warped views on relationships, since it's Valentine's Day?

More than a month too late to really answer that, so here is the most abridged thing I will say about Dobson and "relationships": If it has a penis, he won't ship it, if it has a vagina, he will ship it with another vagina, even if the two vaginas together have less pubic hair on their genitals than Dobson on his head.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Why he hate the ps3?

Because it is not Nintendo and he is riding that dick till he will drop dead of anal bleeding.

That and the PS3 at the time was to a degree considered more popular than Nintendo for having more "mature" games here and there and Dobson hated the idea of that and "dudebros" engaging in a hobby -gaming- he "enjoyed"

[soyouareandrewdobson]

How did Dobson expect to be a showrunner right off the bat? Why would anyone hire him for that? Did he honestly believe his own work like AZP would be good enough to land him a deal with anyone? Especially if he didn't even TRY to get a job at any studio?? Why did he expect things that he wanted to happen to all do so just for him?

Because he was that utterly delusional about his own skills.

I don't know what to say here, as Dobson has over time barely openly talked with someone/ranted on deviantart about his lack of actual work in the field of animation, his expectations or hopes. I know he tried to get some job storyboarding for Ed, EdD 'n Eddy and he tried to apply for a position at a reboot of the animated show ReBoot (wow, that was redundant to type) , but both fell through and he didn't bother elaborating on it.

I am also not really a psychologist, so I can't make a in depth analysis of Dobson's mental state or how genuinely entitled he was. My personal theory is, that Dobson thought of himself always as an underdog (after all, he was bullied at school, but being able to draw comics had somehow gained him some admiration and popularity as a "quirky" kid) and that because the underdog at the end always gets his/her slice of the cake, he too should be rewarded with good things.

The fact that in a good underdog story, the underdog has to actually work for his or her success however, is something Dobson seems to have willfully ignored.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Is there any story behind the blue bear? When was it introduced into his comics?

There is no story. As I explained back in my last master post reviewing SYAC (reminds me, need to get back to that this year), Dobson really just "suddenly" shifted from a human self insert to this sort of self insert, though he would for the longest time claim that the Dobbear was not a self insert. But ust as with a lot of things, that was obvious bullshit.

Basically, Dobson was just sick of people rightfully telling him that SYAC was a self insert comic and that his main character was a more embellished version of who he really was. So to avoid that any further, he came up with the blue bear as "main character". But instead of people looking at the blue bear and identifying as a completely separate entity to the author, people just -still rightfully- called him out on the shit. And as time went on, the bear became so closely associated with Dobson and his shenanigans, it was the one thing people identified him with closer than even his alternate username of Tom Preston

[soyouareandrewdobson]

So... Dobson dreamed of working for Disney, but by the time he was done with college, Disney shut down 2D studios (or something along the line) which sucks, when you get your degree specifically for this, but... If you feel that strongly about art/animation, why wouldn't you try in some other studios, at least to keep your craft fresh or even develop it, so that now, when Disney has 2D TV projects (like DuckTales, Owl House, etc.) you could work for them? Hell, make your own projects!

Yes, he could have done that.

But in reality, he simply didn't. And why? No one realy knows and the only word people can think of, is laziness. Dobson likely didn't want to "just" work as some random background animator for others, he wanted to be a showrunner and content creator from the start. He wanted to be famous and beloved. He did the one major cardinal sin of any failing artist: He put his "career" above his actual product and he got rejected for that attitude by everyone.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Did Dobson not take any writing classes or anything and that's why his writing is so terrible? He loved talking about how much he knows about animation, and even made comics about that, but he doesn't seem to know anything about good writing; not how to make and time jokes, not how to develop characters, now how to plan a decent story. Just things he personally finds funny that no one else does (I think there was even an AZP where he said it was based on "an inside joke"...with himself, and then proceeded NOT to explain what the "joke" is) and being angry over something but not thinking about how to make an actual argument. Did he consider himself "too good" for writing?

Good question and I would not be surprised if Dobson took no writing classes at all. To be fair, I am not really a fan of the concept of writing classes much myself (I think they help teach you certain technical concepts, but the true meat of writing a good story is related to the emotional investment and a balance of your own personal biases and reader's expectations) but they can help in some manners to teach you basics.

That said, I think the bigger issue has always been, that Dobson had no basic understanding of a good story, period. This is a guy who looked at the 2017 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reboot movie and thought it was good, but could never really "explain" why he was emotionally invested enough in it to label it that way. A guy who hated Legend of Korra to the core, but praised it once Korra turned into a carpet muncher, while ignoring any of the plotbeats such as Kuvira as a villain, the character development of certain characters etc. because that was "uninteresting" and distracting to him.

and the thing is, while I can point out what the issue tends to be with Dobson's writing in the actual works themselves -lack of character depth, of focussing the pacing on actual current events in the story, overabundance of puns, constantly trying to emulate more popular things in your work instead of trying to have an original touch to it, lazily expecting immediate success and popularity just for doing something etc.- I can not really explain or understand myself, why Dobson was embracing this surface level, shallow approach of "writing" and creating your own work/world. Simply because there is too little on the internet really painting to me a clear picture of WHY he would always prefer such simple minded entertainment over some even slightly more "sophisticated" stuff.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Nah!

As someone from Europe, I can tell you what would happen:

Bustier would be the first mayor in the history of France who did so bad, that Marine LePen would not only do decent in the first run of the next presidential election, she would win it in a landslide by just promising to get rid of her as major. The right wing would win the election, just because the hippie did a bad job.

Heck, most french people HATE Paris. The capitol of France tends to be especially dispised in the rural areas, because a lot of political decisions from them + the distribution of money and funds is so utterly horrible, most people want to see the city burn. You want to get a free drink in a restaurant in Lyon, despite being an obnoxious tourist? Tell the people there that you love france, but that you just came from Paris and think that place is awful.

Heck, a "realistic" portrayal of Paris in Ladybug would involve a lot of burning Peugeots and more than just one demonstration being brought down by the police.

So Bustiers reformed Paris amounts to the French Economy having a giant hole in it due to getting rid of the Automobile industry. The school system work, because all thats really gonna happen is the students will just goof off all day, or even worse, be ran by the Biggest and nastiest Bullies there if theres no teachers around. Bustier was already a bad teacher and now she's just as bad as a Mayor!

Just imagine how high taxes would be to pay for all this. Hell, I'm pretty sure the citizens of Paris would be counting down the days until they can get a chance to hold a recall election.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

.... Reagan was governor of California from 1967 till 1975. Sohe actually knew something about politics prior.

How the hell does someone like Miss. Bustier even become Mayor in the first place? I'm no expert at politics, but I'm pretty sure you need like some sort of political degree or background to be one, right? No disrespect to France and their government background, but are the politics in Miraculous so bad that they just elect anyone? Regardless of their lack of political background or not?

To be fair, I don't know a lot about French politics, and even here in the states, I don't think we should judge, given how two of our presidents were celebrities who had little to no experience in politics prior to their respective elections.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Why do you think Dobson still holds onto all his web site domains? He's paying to keep them alive and host web sites with no content. If he seriously wants to be away from public life forever (as himself anyway), then he has no reason to care if someone else buys the domains after they expire. Or does he still care about that for some reason? But why?

I assume that either Dobson is unaware he still is paying and the amount is too miniscule for him to notice, or he is paranoid enough to believe that once the domain names expire, some of his haters will buy them and use them to further smear his name. You know, like suddenly when you google for Alex ze Pirate instead of the Dobson comic you stumble upon a movie pirating site or some shit.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

I find this thing honestly funny for three reasons:

The entire "I hate these fictional characters" list is cringy in its own way as he does not even really give proper explanations wh he hates them or what would make them genuinely loathsome in regard of the actual show's context.

Chloe's name is derived from the french word "Bourgeoisie" and even phonetically doesn't really sound like Bushwa. Heck, Bushwa sounds actually to me like some derogatory term for a native person. Like "Bushwackes", so... ew?

Am I the only one who sees Dobson even failing at using the superlative correctly? First he calls Chloe the "worse" and not the "worst" character. Second, if she is the worst character in the world, why is she only third place?

The 'troglodytes' thing puts me to mind of Chloe 'Bushwah'. Troglodytes I can understand not knowing, it's not exactly a common word and if you're spelling it that badly then autocorrect and spellcheck aren't going to save you. But, like... There's a wiki for Miraculous Ladybug. You can double-check her name. As somebody who never watched Miraculous I can look at 'Chloe Bushwah' and tell there's something amiss with that name. Tchyoclodites is hysterical but misspelling Bourgeois as Bushwah with such absolute confidence is embarrassing.

From Dobson’s “Top 20 Most Hated Fictional Characters”:

It’s extra silly because he’s supposedly a big fan of the show too.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

What IS the reason you think Dobson left for good? I've heard all kinds of weird theories and rumors, usually "His parents made him!" But that doesn't make sense to me. He is an adult and they can't make him do anything, even if he lives in their house. I mean, if that's the kind of relationship he has with his parents, that's his problem but I think that's rather regressional. Unless they found out what he did, were embarassed, and threatened to boot him if he didn't stop? But that also doesn't make either because we KNOW he's been online since he quit, like when he was found commenting on a YouTube video...and then emptied his account. He also emptied his social media and web sites over time. Maybe someone else did it, but he'd need to give them access. Also, where would the parents rumor come from when there's no evidence for it? I think he was just being the ultimate whiny baby, couldn't take the criticism and injury to his ego and decided it's not worth it. He doesn't NEED to make a living anyway so why bother? I do think he's that pathetic and lazy and the answer is no more complex than that. But what do you think?

I honest to god have no idea.

The problem for me is the following: Dobson already had in years prior multiple reasons to "leave" the internet for good, but always still remained. He lost his gick with brentalfloss, his original comics failed, he got mocked on multiple plattforms, his patreon ended up earning him less than most people make in a day, he got twitter banned...

and yet he never left for good, deleted all traces and stayed out of the public ire as he did since 2020. Yet somehow, getting a bunch of shitty panels of a badly thought out comic idea leaked, as well as some tumblr users calling him out on recent shit was finally the last nail in the coffin? It somehow never added up to me, even if I assume that his mental health state was already wack.

And the rumor, that he left the internet because background checking him had cost a relative to get a governmental job, while an interesting theory, never really sounded too legit for me either.

The closest idea I have is, that perhaps his family became aware of the most recent failure of his online career and after realizing how self destructive he is for his age, particularly in the time of COVID, that they put their foot down and told him to go cold turkey or else they would have cut him out of their lives or something else.

Cause as far as I see it, the only way how to make someone like Dobson actually just "quit" with his bullshit, is if they have to face genuine consequences for their actions. And getting banned online is not consequential enough.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Oh we would know if Dobson was dead. It would be in public records and someone would have seen it and reported on it. He's just in hiding either by his own pathetic self or using an alias. I believe anyway.

Good. Hope he stays hidden. Otherwise... hey Dobson, if you like, I buy off the rights for Alex ze Pirate. I go according by their actual value though. So... three french fries and a half eaten BigMac?

[soyouareandrewdobson]

I don't expect Dobson to know anything about strippers/exotic dancers, male or female, period, but have you ever seen or heard of one with THAT kind of beard?? Maybe it does happen, but I have never seen or heard of that. I found that to be another weird thing about the Elf on the Shelf comic. Was he trying to make...I don't even know what kind of a point with that. Or was it just a weird design choice?

I think it was more of a design "choice" instead of anything deliberate.

I am honestly a bit baffled someone even takes offense to the beard choice and I myself know not enough about stripper and exotic dancer culture to comment on that. I mean, perhps some people like their "entertainment" with more hair.

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Do you think Dobson will ever come back? And if so, hypothetically speaking, do you think he'd have changed? (Personally, I got my doubts, given people like Movie Bob exist)

Honestly, I think no to both.

Dobson has been off the grid since 2020, which considering his history, is sort of a record and something not even freaking Chris Chan, who was in prison (but still had contact to trolls outside), achieved.

There is a reason I believe he either was forced into cold turkey the very hard or that somewher inbetween May 2020 and now he has died.

And if he managed to stay away this long, even as otherwise things happened in nerd and social culture that should have caused him to open his mouth, I doubt he will come back even if Trump becomes president again. Or at least he will not come back under his old alias.

As for him having changed: Guy hadn't changed for the better n between 2005 till 2020. What should make him have changed now, especially when nerd culture as a whole is at the verge of rejecting most of the things he once loved or fought for?