I'm indifferent to Tim Dillon but I don't understand the Hot Ones guy's popularity at all. He's a soulless robot. He's devoid of all charisma or personality but he somehow pops up all the time to play his lame fuck little hot sauce "game" that isn't a game. I watched the Conan O'brien Mark Twain award thing and there's a big chunk where they bring out that dickhead to do his fuckin hot wing bit. That whole thing sucked anyways but every time it cut to Conan you could see he was like "Oh...Great...The Hot Ones guy again."
He also gets praise for being some amazing interviewer like he does Nardwuar level deep dives on them, but he just coldly recites their Wikipedia with a couple words changed around so it's phrased as a question.