He's a lolcow he's just a likable one. He's like Chris Chan was during the early years.
I dunno man not to poot my own assburgers but I’ve followed Chris Chan since like 2008. I don’t think there was ever any endearing or likeable traits. People were there to fuck with him or look on in horror. Chris Chan has never had “fans” ironic or otherwise of what he does. Ever. Whereas a lot of people get genuine entertainment from Cobes or his content even without all the trolling or “milking.” Nobody enjoys Chris or his “content” at face value like they do Cobes. Cobies is unintentionally an actual entertainer, with people watching his content just because it’s funny and entertaining by itself, you can see as much with how much people are inspired to take his content and meme it or use it to create more content.
Chris Chan is a lolcow oddity who people only tune into so they can see what horrific thing happens next or the potential of something happening. Nobody could give less of a shit about what he’s “creating” or doing, only what they can get out of him themselves. Which is why he’s a lolcow and why I don’t think Cobes is one. Because they CAN get stuff out of Chris themselves whereas trying that with cobra leads him to go offline and stop producing content. It’s why we hate “glasstappers” so much because we like cobras content at face value. We like his stupid rants, food hacks, and drink combos for what they are. Put it to you this way to illustrate what I mean about Cobes not being a “lolcow” if somebody said to you “I’m a fan of kingcobrajfs’ content” you probably wouldn’t think too much about it, you’d just assume they find his rants and antics funny and unintentionally comedic. If somebody unironically said “I’m a fan of [Chris Chan’s] [Cyrax’s] [Daniel Larson’s] content.” You’d probably be really puzzled or alarmed and think “what fucking content?”
Edit to add because I’m phone posting and it kept publishing before I was finished: Their output is just noise, funny but it’s not what people are there for. They’re there for the behind the scenes antics and implications of their personality and actions. But with Cobes a lot of people ARE there for his output and his “content” as well as the behind the scenes personality. Which is where the problem and conflict between different fans come in. Because the people who are here to milk a lolcow aren’t here for the content so they could give less of a shit about flagging his YouTube channel, or getting him banned from his favorite bars, or swatting him during a stream because they’re not watching his food hacks, or rants, or drink combos, they’re here to see him have a huge meltdown. Whereas the rest of us who ARE here for his food hacks, rants, and drink combos don’t want him to lose his channel because we’d lose our content, just like we don’t want people to call in bogus door dash orders or welfare checks to derail the stream we’re watching because
we’re there for the stream. Thats what I mean by saying there’s a fundamental difference of expectation and why calling him a “lolcow” sets an expectation of behavior in some “fans” that is overall harmful to the rest of us who “get it”