I was talking with a co-worker and good friend about some Bob Ross figurines we received in freight this morning. He didn’t realise that Bob Ross has become such a meme, or that he has his own Twitch. I even introduced him to the sheer idea of Bob Ross in the universe of Fallout 4:
It’s so unusual and interesting to me that a talented artist, who passed back in 95 would go on to be remembered by people — to the point of having people at the end of a Joy Of Painting episode in Twitch Chat go “gg Bob”, or even touch other parts of the world in ways that he’ll never know.
I don’t think he could have foreseen how far his own legacy would go. He passed away just as the internet was in its infancy; if he lived to see his own YouTube and Twitch channels he would have been 78 at the time of writing this. Imagine him living to actually communicate with everyone telling him gg, or witnessing that he is officially someone’s cosplay character.
I actually wouldn’t mind visiting this alternate timeline.