I'm not sure why you keep equating drinking with fun, or downplaying the vastly greater amounts of work that go into making their videos than the time spent on camera.
This, combined with their obvious bad faith arguments and them accusing you of being paid by those two guys in Milwaukee who rely on PayPal donations if you dare to disagree with him in a detailed and rational manner, makes me think our friend here is about 14 or so.
There's a much simpler explanation for this. Relayed by Ross Scott no less.
Anyone obessed with movies, video games, comic books, or even literature hates reality.
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How many comedians have killed themselves? Fucking Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain committed suicide for Christ's sake. So is this content draining? Yes. Yes it is fucking draining. Yeah its not backbreaking labor (unless you count the stunts and sets and stuff but whatever) but it is emotionally pretty rough and these people are getting old. Its hard to maintain that kind of thing as you get older and weaker and start paying less and less attention to the little details and start craving some kind of novelty in your life.
This isn't a plea for sympathy or whatever, but its just meant to point out that if you're a funnyperson, that funny part probably comes from the fact that you feel miserable on a constant basis. Horror and humor have the same structure. Setup, and punchline.
Everyone hates reality to some extent which is why entertainment is such a hugely popular industry, Anthony Bourdain is not a comic, and there are equivalent and indeed higher suicide rates among other professions including various STEM fields, dentistry, and architecture. Do you... do you need some help here, buddy?
Another note: the RLM crew also has to balance their finances including budget, salary, benefits, taxes, etc and all the other overhead that comes with running a business. They also build their own sets and much of their scenery as well as props, which
is literal hard labor. You think making the new Best of the Worst set was done while they were fucking around while drunk? Rich would not have ten fingers anymore. They have to market themselves, network. Running a business is never easy, especially when it explodes to such a degree of popularity. And while this term is probably hated around here, yes, there is a huge emotional labour component to their work. So yes, of course it's a real fucking job!
People who idealize what they do as "just sitting around, getting drunk, and talking about movies" remind me of the speds who watched Channel Awesome back in the day and went "Duuuude being an internet reviewer would be the best job evar!" And are now seeing the results. But somehow haven't gotten the message yet. And the RLM guys clearly worked harder because they actually know how to soundproof a studio.
