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I used to watch this guy. Then about 6 years or so ago. Then one video he gets on, and starts berating his viewers for sending him gifts, and fan art.
His explaination was something along the lines of him not having enough space for all the stuff. And that's fine. I understand not having space.
But then he just goes ON AND ON AND ON about it. In a pretty disrespectful manner.
He could have just said something like "As a side note, while I appriciate everybody thinking of me, I just don't have the space for it all.
So if you'd like to send me art, I would much prefer digital art over something physical. I love the enthusiasm, I just have nowhere to put it...."
That would have been understandable.
Instead, he said something more along the lines of "I'm getting way too much fan packages from you guys. LOOK AT MY LIVING ROOM!!! I can't take it all! This needs to stop! It's making me angry. You guys are tweeting me that I don't thank you for your hard work. I haven't even opened the box! How am I supposed to know what you sent me???"
And ever since then, I've seen him as an unappriciative dick. I understand the need to stop the incoming flow of packages coming in, but there's a nice way to do that.
I also used to watch this guy very regularly but stopped when I found out he's a political gun nut who open carries his AR-15 specifically to anger people and make them uncomfortable.
There's a video of him inside a store with a rifle ranting about some poor politician and their effort to prevent gun violence. Easy to find if you search for it.
I just remembered the line that made me stop watching. It was him saying that any future packages would be thrown in the trash.
This after ranting for like 3 minutes that too many people love him, and gift him so much stuff.
I was brought up to appriciate every little thing people gave me. Even as a kid.....that knock off power ranger that has a hollow inside, made of cheap rubbery plastic? "Thank you for the gift!"
So to see him say "I will throw any future packages in the trash" just felt like a slap in the face to any fans he may have had.
So I stopped being a fan. It's easy to unsubscribe on youtube.
This is his most current views on the subject if you care to watch. https://youtu.be/lGtSRb1q99o
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I fixed the link
Thanks for posting.
I'm glad he's thought through a lot of his more inflammatory positions and seems to have evolved a more nuanced take on things.
That link doesn't work for me.
Fixed it
I stopped watching when he got that one rare IBM workstation and sloppily dremeled in all the the screws to open it because he was too lazy to go to the store to buy a screwdriver. That was before I even heard about this and the stupid gun stuff. I know it's like a minor thing and he only damaged screws and sheet metal parts that could in theory be replaced with a medium amount of difficulty, but I just can't imagine intentionally damaging something very uncommon because you're too lazy to buy a screwdriver
Casually shorts the two IEC colour coded wires for AC live + neutral.
You won't believe what happened next.
I forgot about that part, that whole "repair" was such a mess
Videos like that I'm always amazed the creator even bothers uploading. I'd be so fucking embarassed it would never see the light of day.
But I guess its sunk cost fallacy. Gotta get that content out there I spent a week working on. I guess I can appreciate that. Theres also something to be said about being honest about your fuckups. I was so embarassed for him I noped out of that video so I dont really know how it ended, but I dont recall there being much humility about it?
In the comments he kept responding to everyone being critical and being like "well it's my computer so I can do anything I want to it"
...........who doesn't have a screwdriver??? HE DISASSEMBLES ELECTRONICS OFTEN FOR A LIVING!!! WTF???
This only raises MORE questions!
I think it was a security torx screw if I remember correctly so it makes sense he wouldn't necessarily have an appropriate bit, but it would have been so little effort to just order one or go to a store
You could also jam a flathead into one at certain angles if it isn't too tight between the peg, I've done that before
I get the same vibe, i still watch him, but not as intently as before. He has a tendency to do exactly that, and he generally fails to respectfully address any concerns he has. He just sorta acts annoyed and goes on tangents. His content in good, but his personality isn't
I've been finding his content hasn't been as good for the last couple years, maybe just from the random rants he tosses in for no reason. Then he went on a little rant recently about how he isn't making as much money from YouTube anymore and I unsubscribed.
Though, in fairness, several YouTubers were making the same kinda video around the end of last year. All complaining they weren't making as much money because of YouTube's algorithm favoring shorts.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
— Mark Twain
Devils advocate:
If you're known as a guy that loves Pokémon cards and people keep gifting you Weedle's (one of the lowest powered and most common cards in the game), then after a while you're going to be like "thanks guys, I know you want to gift me and to not just throw the card away, but these are worth literally nothing to me because I already have much nicer examples and I don't need/want/have room for them, I'd just be throwing them away myself".