Bob Blessen

Bob Blessen is an online media marketer and the current CEO of PBLOG Group since October 7, 2022. He was hired by ATBW Holdings CEO Takash Puterr after he formed the company on April 20, 2022 without a CEO.

Personal Life
Blessen was born on January 19, 1981 and graduated from High School in 1999 and Harvard in 2003. He became a marketing manager and worked as one until 2007 when he headed back to California City to work as the SVP of a regional business for several years.

Outside his career, Blessen supports the Democratic Party and has advocated towards equal rights for all, as well as LGBT rights. After becoming CEO of PBLOG Group, Blessen has cracked down hard on Homophobia and PBLOG Group issues permanent bans towards anyone who uses homophobic language. Rainbow lights were installed on the front of the company's headquarters which are to light up every June.

Controversy
Since becoming CEO of PBLOG Group on October 7, 2022 (though PBLOG was founded and started business on April 20, 2022 without a CEO), Blessen has been accused of forceful repression of users against his policies. Blessen had supported the new rules that were established on August 30, 2022, which applied centralized rules towards all users and all PBLOG sites, including official ones owned by the company, and he had further strengthened them since getting accepted.

Under Blessen, PBLOG Group has been accused of banning trolls permanently for no reason while not allowing individual PBLOG sites to do the same. The company has also banned local site admins for trying to crack down on trolling and cyberbullying, citing that, PBLOG sites are not to be overly restrictive on their rules, yet PBLOG group goes hard on trolling and cyberbullying, banning them permanently often for no reason other than trolling and cyberbullying.

Incidents
In December 2022, Calligraphy Studios founder Danny Anguilla was globally banned for failing to remove the links off the Calligraphy Deer PBLOG site's main page after having been told to despite being important for users and safe to click. Anguilla started a protest to get his account unbanned, as well as a petition to abolish the new rules for good, and the petition received more than 10,000 supporters, mainly from fans of the Calligraphy Deer series. In response however, Blessen threatened to shut down the Calligraphy Deer PBLOG site and revoke Anguilla's role as CEO of it for trying to alter the rules and threaten Blessen's position. While Anguilla's account was later unbanned, the damage had been done, and Anguilla has urged his supporters to keep fighting to get autonomy rights for the Calligraphy Studios PBLOG site.

In February 2023, Blessen has been accused of trying to repress the ATBW PBLOG site. That same time, ATBW Holdings CEO Takash Puterr, as well as ATBW Label Networks CEO David Puterr and Langile Holdings LLC CEO Eric Langile IV all had their accounts disabled by PBLOG staff allegedly at the behest of Blessen for undermining his power and criticizing PBLOG staff decisions. He stated that they will be enabled again if they apologize. Their accounts were later reenabled after apologizing.

Copyright Abuse
Blessen has been accused of mass copyright abuse since becoming CEO. Under him, PBLOG Group has filed many copyright takedown requests throughout social media and threatened legal action against anyone who uses its works without permission, including individuals who produce fan content and drawings, as well as memes. However, the line was crossed when the company began to file copyright takedown requests on any and all social media posts that simply criticizes him or the company including but not limited to; drawings, paintings, videos, memes, etc..

In the first half of 2023 alone, PBLOG Group filed more copyright takedown requests than any of the big six film studios and Netflix combined. All of this targeting fanart, drawings, paintings, memes, and anything simply critical of Blessen or the company or its employees.

PBLOG Group's copyright policies prohibit the use of anything considered their property, including but not limited to; shows, games, movies, attractions, buildings, park rides, and company logos, and Bob Blessen doesn't allow the company to grant permission to anyone for any reason. In practice however, the company also files copyright takedown requests towards anything simply critical of Blessen, PBLOG Group, or any of its staff members, making expressing criticism of them on social media almost impossible.

Feud with Kirti Mang
On May 8, 2023, both Blessen and fellow PBLOG animator Kirti Mang got into a feud after the latter and Lamar Brown criticized him for stealing his work and depriving others of their own work, which in response, led to retaliation by Blessen and PBLOG's stewardship threatening to remove both from CCTV Productions as a result. This eventually led to the Blessen Vs Mang Feud where many from CCTV Productions sided with Mang to stop Blessen and hope for a good outcome.