A bit of lore on an RoTC fan. Every once in a while I'll hear Jesse mention Andy’s Random Edits, a Mersh capo who is notorious for shitting up anti-Mersh live chats and comment sections, lurking around every corner to defend Mersh's honor. Seeing people rip on him is funny, but I only bring this up because Andy’s behavior has always reminded me of Zen Rhino's.
Before RoTC gained their ex-bear audience in early 2019, I don't remember fans going out of their way to white knight the hosts. If the fans reacted to critical content, it was usually helmed by Royce and Mersh who were trying to Jocktober a competitor - light hearted stuff. Zen Rhino is the first guy who I remember seeing go out of his way to defend the show beyond their behest. I’d pull up some examples of his replies, but the ones I remember seeing are lost in obscurity, posted on single digit videos from years ago.
In more recent times, Zen Rhino has chosen to focus on producing videos which are all recorded like this:
He's made a couple dozen of these videos attempting to call Redbar out for various offenses. Eventually Zen took to making RoTC clips that are recorded just as poorly as his takedowns; many of which are under 20 seconds in length.
I wasn't the first guy to notice how shitty these clips are. A few months ago, R/Mersh darling, Angie’s Random Edits, uploaded this unremarkable Maddox clip as a parody of Zen’s vine length exposés, accompanied by the following description.
As of the time I write this, Zen Rhino has uploaded 249 videos, which is a lot on paper, but doesn't equate to much content when you factor in video length. Zen's actually busiest on Twitter. He's tweeted ten thousand fucking times since creating his account this January; every new post being as inane as the last. Seriously, who tweets this shit?
Tweet | Archive
Was he actually expecting a response from Bill Burr?
Never got the chance to find out, but I’m curious about how many tweets Zen had on his original Twitter ‘ZenRhinoMMA’, before it got suspended. That account actually dated back to the days when Zen Rhino hosted an MMA blog, which he still links to on his YouTube channel after 5 years of inactivity. It's a pretty mundane read, but what's more interesting is the fact that Zen also hosted an MMA podcast when the blog was active called The DaMMAge Report.
The associated Twitter and Facebook accounts are gone, due to suspension and scrubbing, but you can still listen to episodes on Blog Talk Radio. (Archive of the DaMMAge Report home page). Listen to this Tonka tier programming...
From his work on the MMA blog, and on the podcast, we learn that Zen Rhino's actual name is Jeff McConnell, and that he still has a viewable Facebook account. (Archive of front page). He seems like a really cool guy!
And last but not least...
Before RoTC gained their ex-bear audience in early 2019, I don't remember fans going out of their way to white knight the hosts. If the fans reacted to critical content, it was usually helmed by Royce and Mersh who were trying to Jocktober a competitor - light hearted stuff. Zen Rhino is the first guy who I remember seeing go out of his way to defend the show beyond their behest. I’d pull up some examples of his replies, but the ones I remember seeing are lost in obscurity, posted on single digit videos from years ago.
In more recent times, Zen Rhino has chosen to focus on producing videos which are all recorded like this:
He's made a couple dozen of these videos attempting to call Redbar out for various offenses. Eventually Zen took to making RoTC clips that are recorded just as poorly as his takedowns; many of which are under 20 seconds in length.
I wasn't the first guy to notice how shitty these clips are. A few months ago, R/Mersh darling, Angie’s Random Edits, uploaded this unremarkable Maddox clip as a parody of Zen’s vine length exposés, accompanied by the following description.
As of the time I write this, Zen Rhino has uploaded 249 videos, which is a lot on paper, but doesn't equate to much content when you factor in video length. Zen's actually busiest on Twitter. He's tweeted ten thousand fucking times since creating his account this January; every new post being as inane as the last. Seriously, who tweets this shit?
Tweet | Archive
Was he actually expecting a response from Bill Burr?
Never got the chance to find out, but I’m curious about how many tweets Zen had on his original Twitter ‘ZenRhinoMMA’, before it got suspended. That account actually dated back to the days when Zen Rhino hosted an MMA blog, which he still links to on his YouTube channel after 5 years of inactivity. It's a pretty mundane read, but what's more interesting is the fact that Zen also hosted an MMA podcast when the blog was active called The DaMMAge Report.
The associated Twitter and Facebook accounts are gone, due to suspension and scrubbing, but you can still listen to episodes on Blog Talk Radio. (Archive of the DaMMAge Report home page). Listen to this Tonka tier programming...
From his work on the MMA blog, and on the podcast, we learn that Zen Rhino's actual name is Jeff McConnell, and that he still has a viewable Facebook account. (Archive of front page). He seems like a really cool guy!
And last but not least...
