Honestly I used to really enjoy Ralph's old videos. He was generally entertaining as a reviewer, and some of the skits he did were pretty funny, or at the very least had effort put into them. I liked his recurring Zack Snyder cameos.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kxrlKqkW5IY:2182
It sucks to see how much the quality of his output has regressed when you compare the vids he made when he was a teenager to what he's doing now. His new stuff is so boring and bland, and he just looks unwell, too. I'm not saying he has to be constantly making quips or doing skits to be entertaining, but he's just so dry and lifeless now.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VgdNXhNr55o:37
I guess years of doing a podcast with Adam and having to interact with the gross YMS fanbase by osmosis sucks the life out of you.
i'm not a (big) ralph alog, but from what i understand, he's just ANOTHER funny-man reviewer that believes they can just turn to creation and succeed. he won some, bluntly, meaningless award at a kiddie grade movie award show for directing one of his movies or something, and i remember him spamming the shit out of the award clip in his vids, with something like "yeah im an award winning director". he made multiple little try hard pretentious indies where he was the main character (which was an awful idea for someone so sensitive to criticism but inevitable with his ego), then i believe one did ok among yms types, candyman i think (no sam hyde relation) about a partial non-fiction school drug dealer or something, and then the others were mostly shot down or memed. but don't think any really got his dick sucked to his expectation, and he turned into the generic "you people just don't understand art" type.
i'm not sure exact time frame to say for sure but that was around the time frame he started going from a funny and energetic, if pretentious "i know what i'm talking about" but still funny type, like a pretty good nostalgia critic protege, to acting like that "30 year old divorced dad" meme, less and less energy, his reviews stopped being funny and edited and started just being jpgs and exclusively "i know what im talking about" with less, then no jokes or skits, and he went from energetic or at least having fun, to, again, divorced emo dad-esque, so he wound up being basically a shit mauler type. he also has some of the most poorly aged vids in the entire sphere, still darkly funny though, that i'm surprised aren't brought up more, that being his entire saga of talking about how big of a retard hack bruce willis was during his final acting/cognizant years.
he's not really enough to be a lolcow but he's just another creator with delusions of grandeur and no skin. these motherfuckers need to/should have learned earlier that creations like Moby Dick, Conan, and Hp lovecraft's work were all considered dogshit then later got recognition, and nigga, your ralphs etc ain't herman melville or a david lynch struggling to get his shot, and even IF THEY WERE, there's 50 hawk tuah successes for every robert e howard (conan creator) killing himself in a hospital parking lot.
essentially everyone that becomes "atheist" just worships something else, they just use different words and would call you a retard if you mention it. it's also in it's own nature, if you really want to be a soyence believer the rational option is agnostic, not faith there is or faith there isn't. black holes are an easy example as being pretty assuredly referred to as science fiction among the greater science sphere until suddenly they weren't. but you get people that refuse to believe in god or a belief system that go hard into new age shit, where some of the largest pagan etc groups were literally people that repeated shit they liked out of fantasy books and faked it until they made it and got retards that went all in and believe it's actually deeply rooted in history. or, you have people that are "atheist" and get 3 steps from killing themselves, then they discover political propaganda and decide that side a or b is saving the world and the other side is literally, actually satan, and approach it with a fervor that would make a muslim blush, though a muslim would be a retard for a omnipotent creator and a promised land while a modern atheist would end their life for kamala harris, biden, or trump