Ok then...do you hate your GTR

[BK]

In the US - says it all really 🙃

 

[PranK]

Yeah, do whatever gets the views I guess.

[dyl33]

As if ya watch douchebag youtubers.

It's sad the car community has been hijacked by these clout chasing intagram/youtube wankers.

[soviet_merlin]

This is the kind of stuff that really doesn't deserve any attention. Because attention means clicks and clicks mean money. Which just enables these people. I'd propose to make it a screenshot and not even link to the video.

Don't really know who that guy is but I did come across him in a video where he was limiter bashing it until it went. Just makes me feel bad for the people who actually built and tuned the car.

Oh well, shitty people are going to do shitty things. Luckily quite far away this time.

[Shoota_77]

I can live with him.  Luckily I've been watching ALL of his vids well before het started harming GT-R's so I was ready for what was coming!  He gets his kicks out of upsetting keyboard warriors and I'm ok with that!

Not gunna lie, still hurts to see one go down though!

Let's be honest, he's done us all a favour.  There's one less GT-R in the world making them all the more rare!

[BK]

I'm still a bit lost for words really. This whole YouTube shit is getting a bit out of hand now that people actually are using it as a profession.

It really pays that much ?

[GTSBoy]

8 minutes ago, BK said:

It really pays that much ?

Only if you get the formula right. You pretty much have to have massive view counts for the ad revenue to amount to anything you can live on. Most of them have a wide variety of side gigs hanging off the channel, selling merch, affiliate links, Patreons, channel memberships, etc, to keep sufficient money coming in to keep the wheels turning.

I suspect that for many of them there's an element of Ponzi scheme going on where it will eventually come crashing down. For others, the steady need for the next thing they do to be bigger and more *gasp* worthy than the last will mean that they reach the limits of feasibility. And for others, the relentless pressure to keep putting out fresh content will eventually burn them out.

Look at the million channels that Simon Whistler presents on. He must sit in that studio reading scripts like 12 hours a day to put out the content that ha puts out. He has armies of writers and researchers putting together all his content, and the adsense revenue has to pay for all of that. He's a Pom but based in Czech Republic - likely to keep costs down.

I have started to see a bunch of youtubers banding together to either live in the same space or set up studios/sets in the same facility to save on costs. They do their own channels, do "guest" appearances on each others' channels, participate in long rambling podcasts where they just talk shit for an hour or two, then have special parts of the podcast that are only available to Patreons, all in an attempt to keep eyes on their channels in a 24 hour rinse cycle to keep the algorithm pushing their stuff out to the masses, in the hope of gaining more subs.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

57 minutes ago, Shoota_77 said:

I can live with him.  Luckily I've been watching ALL of his vids well before het started harming GT-R's so I was ready for what was coming!  He gets his kicks out of upsetting keyboard warriors and I'm ok with that!

Not gunna lie, still hurts to see one go down though!

Let's be honest, he's done us all a favour.  There's one less GT-R in the world making them all the more rare!

Supply demand, I know what I got

[soviet_merlin]

1 hour ago, Shoota_77 said:

I can live with him.  Luckily I've been watching ALL of his vids well before het started harming GT-R's so I was ready for what was coming!

Out of curiosity, what's his story? I'll admit to being guilty of judging him without knowing what's going on. Just saw one video and didn't even finish because it was awful.

[Shoota_77]

56 minutes ago, soviet_merlin said:

Out of curiosity, what's his story? I'll admit to being guilty of judging him without knowing what's going on. Just saw one video and didn't even finish because it was awful.

He started out slapping the lifted truck brigade which is pretty funny because they're a fairly cliched bunch of morons.  Very bogan Commodore driving type people (sorry @MLR!).  He then did the Hilux durability test where he punished an old school 80's/90's Hilux till it died.  He became the target of the modern day keyboard warriors who were triggered by his content and personally attacking him.  That triggered him to trigger them even more!

Look, I hate the waste and the blatant stupidity but it's his job at the end of the day!

Forgot to mention a lot of his following has come from his insanely massive monstertruck he built (Monstermax).

[GTSBoy]

So, his relevance to the GTR world is vanishingly small and it would have been better if he'd stayed the f**k away?

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

The more people are triggered the more people watch/talk about his crappy videos the richer he gets

[joshuaho96]

3 hours ago, BK said:

I'm still a bit lost for words really. This whole YouTube shit is getting a bit out of hand now that people actually are using it as a profession.

It really pays that much ?

It doesn't. Tommy Farrell/Tommyfyeah is probably the closest thing to a dedicated R-chassis vlogger and there's been a lot of credible (IMO) allegations that he's been borrowing other people's money without repaying them in order to keep his shop running. Paying customers complaining that he took their cars and money and proceeded to let them sit outside in the rain/sun/snow/salt for 6+ months, the list goes on. The people doing good work rarely have the time to be making 20-30 minute videos every other day. The number of people interested in the finer points of a steering rack rebuild is slim to none compared to a walkthrough of a new car. Practical Enthusiast is one of those channels and he makes it clear all the time that the videos are purely for his own enjoyment. The cost of making videos is far in excess of any revenue he receives.

[djvoodoo]

16 hours ago, joshuaho96 said:

It doesn't. Tommy Farrell/Tommyfyeah is probably the closest thing to a dedicated R-chassis vlogger and there's been a lot of credible (IMO) allegations that he's been borrowing other people's money without repaying them in order to keep his shop running. Paying customers complaining that he took their cars and money and proceeded to let them sit outside in the rain/sun/snow/salt for 6+ months, the list goes on. The people doing good work rarely have the time to be making 20-30 minute videos every other day. The number of people interested in the finer points of a steering rack rebuild is slim to none compared to a walkthrough of a new car. Practical Enthusiast is one of those channels and he makes it clear all the time that the videos are purely for his own enjoyment. The cost of making videos is far in excess of any revenue he receives.

The Tommyfyeah saga really puts things into perspective for some of these YT'ers. I have a genuine interest in AdamLZ's Channel. I think his story is legitimately cool. He is someone who actually put in the time and effort, went to business school, got the formula right.

Don't know what goes on behind the scenes though.

[Duncan]

Well, if you are going to pay people to troll, you will get trolls. Hell, plenty of people are willing to provide that service for free.

He earned his 12c out of me (although I never get the advertising, "OMG!!! I got $53,400", does anyone really click that stuff?)

Full props for pushing it around like a tonka toy during the process. sorry for any spoiler.

[reallyspeedly]

On 27/10/2022 at 4:28 AM, BK said:

I'm still a bit lost for words really. This whole YouTube shit is getting a bit out of hand now that people actually are using it as a profession.

It really pays that much ?

Well, ive been following and analyzing the social media stuff for a while now. It just gets worse and worse. I can now see the pattern they using and how they work with each other, how they talk and what they often talk about and show you in their videos. Almost everyone does the same thing basically, there are just stupid people watching it and think it's real and belive that they care about you as a viewer. 

The dream would be that one day, social media couldnt give you shit. But i cant stop laugh about how people just make aaannything to make money, so desperate its crazy. Worst kind of people

Edited October 28, 2022 by reallyspeedly

[dyl33]

Just remember, Like, Subscribe, and suck my.... oh i mean buy some Merch.

[r32-25t]

I can’t stand his voice so stopped watching his first gtr video after a few minutes and haven’t watched one since. 
I mainly only watch mighty car mods (that levorg is awesome) and things like trc when they do gtr content or Motive because of lots of gtr content 

[The Bogan]

I like when the excavator spun around with the 32, like a kid with a toy race car, that was funny

And the 2 ton boulder that almost killed one of them then smashed the car

People should be happy that 'mericans are killing 32's like we did 20 years ago, supply and demand $$$$$$

[The Bogan]

1 hour ago, r32-25t said:

I can’t stand his voice so stopped watching his first gtr video after a few minutes and haven’t watched one since. 
I mainly only watch mighty car mods (that levorg is awesome) and things like trc when they do gtr content or Motive because of lots of gtr content 

Skid factory for me, and Street machine stuff, and from 'merica, Vice grip garage and stuff from Cleetus McFarland 

I want to do the drag week, 'merica is so lucky with all their drag strips, it seems like every second suburb has some form of drag strip

MCM has seemed to evolved into Mighty "new car bolt ons"