Review of Weekly Spooky - Scary Stories! - Cringe inducing hack

Cringe inducing hack writing that’s somehow worst than ChatGPT

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“Man…I really tried with this podcast because I love the idea of weekly horror stories. I’ve listened to about 10 episodes now, just to give it a fair shot, but my god. This has got to be the most amateurish, awkward, and just offensively mediocre writing I have ever experienced. I mean I know that the stories are user submitted, so I expected them to be amateur. The bar was low coming in, and they are indeed amateur, but that’s not even the problem. The problem is that they are so clumsily done, and just straight up trashy yet they seem to be really proud of them. I’m embarrassed for them since they seem to lack the self awareness to feel it for themselves Some user submitted stories are amateur but still charming, and that’s fine. The worst offender here, by far though is anything written by ROB FIELDS. Rob Fields is a straight up hack. Some amateurs submit stories just to get their work out there, but have some genuine talent. And that’s cool. Rob Fields is not that guy. Rob Fields is hands down the worst writer I have ever encountered, and is only writing for this cast for free because A: No one would ever buy or read anything he’s written. Sounds mean to say, but it really is that bad. And B: He’s the “executive producer” of this cast, so Enrique (or “Heinrick” depending on what he feels like his fake name is that week)has no choice but to read it all. It’s crass, stupid, misogynistic, and childish, like some sort of very low rent wannabe Rob Zombie, but that’s not even why it’s so bad. It’s bad because it’s so GENERIC! Everything he says, writes, or thinks up is something directly copied from a much better horror movie he watched, probably recently. The dialogue is stilted and weird. The pilots are so barebones it literally feels more like the synopsis of a plot written by A.I., every woman talks like a horny 14 year old boy, because Rob has no idea how women actually think, talk or act (HUGE incel energy coming off every story), and it all feels like it was written by a bored middle school kid daydreaming about weird male power fantasies with zero writing talent. This is worse than bad fan fiction. This is worse than the most awkward “Dear Penthouse Fourm” story. It’s uninspired, cringey garbage, and Enrique reads it off like it’s some brilliant Stephen King story. To make it even more obnoxious, Rob is so completely oblivious to his lack of talent that he has created an entire “Universe” for his hackneyed stories set in a town called “Strickfield” where all of these paper thin characters and cliches co exist. Where every woman is a college age, well endowed, cheerleader with ample breasts and booty shorts, who is also a super powered vampire/serial killer/genius super sleuth, who talks like a horny teenage incel, and every make is a vulgar, lecherous redneck, or a hard boiled heavy drinking detective that’s also a werewolf/demon/psychic/serial killer who kills serial killers, who also is in his late forties but is irresistible to every barely legal woman who happens to glance at him Yeah…great stuff. This dude wouldn’t be able to cut it writing for porn. It is that derivative, and generic. Yet this podcast treats it like Shakespeare Also, one more side note. The host has some serious issues as well. I actually liked him at first until I realized just how full of it he is. Between constantly changing his name for some weird reason, to being so awkwardly desperate for self promotion, that he does things like literally last episode complaining that his birthday passed and no one noticed so he literally SET UP A BIRTHDAY FUND on go fund me, and I ironically asked his listeners to “BUY ME A GIFT”. Seriously…he asked his listeners to buy him birthday presents, and put up a link… I also was suckered in at first because he mentioned his dog was sick and needed money for medical bills. I could relate. My dog also has a massive tumor, and only by miracle did he survive, so I donated to the fund and felt good about it. That was until I started to notice that he always seemed to have some new reason to “donate”. Some new crisis. Something new to tug at people’s pocketbooks. And then, when he literally had the nerve to whine and ask for BIRTHDAY GIFTS from complete strangers, it just clicked. The guy’s a hustler. This is a grift. He’s just b.s.-big everyone. Was his dog even sick? I really hope he didn’t lie about that but I’m very suspicious at this point. Anyway, everything about this show is awkward, weird, scammy, and gross. It’s amateur, it’s self satisfied while also being cringe inducing, homophobic, misogynistic and incompetent. Biggest THUMBS DOWN possible”

Stabberwocky via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/21/23

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