Automotive Vloggers (Vol. 5)

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LARK F1 GTR

4,083 posts

161 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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Pincher said:
614-HSO said:
In seven years!

from Zero.



to Hero car.

Good Lord! That second video gave me nausea - why does she shake and wave the camera around so much? It's like Stradman on speed.
She's one that I will watch occasionally but I always find that the videos are too long for whatever they're about. If it's a twenty minute one only five of it will have decent content.

I'm never a fan of "reveal videos" check out my new wheels etc doesn't take a ten minute build up, do other stuff and show them to us. I know that she does other stuff but I find them dull.

Dave200

5,671 posts

235 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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LARK F1 GTR said:
She's one that I will watch occasionally but I always find that the videos are too long for whatever they're about. If it's a twenty minute one only five of it will have decent content.

I'm never a fan of "reveal videos" check out my new wheels etc doesn't take a ten minute build up, do other stuff and show them to us. I know that she does other stuff but I find them dull.
It takes a special kind of dedication to watch a video of someone walking you around their generic, pristine new supercar. What do they talk about, besides "ooh, look at this"?

C5_Steve

5,786 posts

118 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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Dave200 said:
LARK F1 GTR said:
She's one that I will watch occasionally but I always find that the videos are too long for whatever they're about. If it's a twenty minute one only five of it will have decent content.

I'm never a fan of "reveal videos" check out my new wheels etc doesn't take a ten minute build up, do other stuff and show them to us. I know that she does other stuff but I find them dull.
It takes a special kind of dedication to watch a video of someone walking you around their generic, pristine new supercar. What do they talk about, besides "ooh, look at this"?
Yeah I'm the same with her content, she does seem to be quite the petrolhead but most of her content isn't enough about the actual cars/builds it's just a lot of lifestyle stuff and clickbait. Don't get me wrong, she knows her audience and clearly puts in the work but I'm just not the audience for her videos I don't think.

I have listened to her a few times on various podcasts and find her much more interesting than in the videos.

Rusty Old-Banger

5,713 posts

228 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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Jayemm and the Suburban is a fun little video, impressive how manageable it is around some of those streets - I drive my Hilux through that village reasonably often (Station Rd/Queen St) and it makes me wince at times. Disappointed the shirt wasn't a bit more, er, appropriate hehe

acer12

1,269 posts

189 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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Just listened to the latest autoalex podcast where they covered shedfest and the below post from Fridaypassion really makes sense. They are out of their dept and moving too fast, feels like they are missing a few people on their team with experience to manage the business side of things.

Two things really shocked me:
1. They completely threw the organizer under the bus and rolled out the be nice to this guy for mental health reasons lines. I really did not like this. All of them one after another absolutely blamed this one guy for it all. They are taking zero accountability for the problems. This event was their event it had their name, people came to see them, just because they outsourced the organization doesn't exonerate them of responsibility. Sounds like after they outsourced the organization they took zero interest in the logistics which is not something anyone with brains would do and left this single person to set them up for either success or failure. Madness thing to do from the beginning and when the sh!t hit the fan a very unprofessional response.

2. They are trying to give the impression that the event / their existence is some kind of community service. Alex easily forgets what he is getting out of it, someone earlier in this thread did the maths on shedfest and he was due a massive pay day but is talking about it like it was a non profit event and how great he is.


fridaypassion said:
You do get the impression with this Alex chap that he's in a big rush to take the world over. Setting up on his own and then setting up this production house arrangement with other creators then a show on top of it. All with no experience of running a business. These guys need to chill out and just make sure you're doing one bit properly first then move onto the next thing. Having the ability to do YouTube doesn't necessarily translate into being good at business outside YouTube.

Unfortunately what happens is that you just make a hash of everything by spreading yourself too thinly and in the case of this show it ends up hurting your brand. Looks to be a bit of a Fyre festival scenario where they just expected the thing to happen without meticulously planning for it. There's widespread demands for refunds. It could wipe him out the from this.

Rusty Old-Banger

5,713 posts

228 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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acer12 said:
Just listened to the latest autoalex podcast where they covered shedfest and the below post from Fridaypassion really makes sense. They are out of their dept and moving too fast, feels like they are missing a few people on their team with experience to manage the business side of things.

Two things really shocked me:
1. They completely threw the organizer under the bus and rolled out the be nice to this guy for mental health reasons lines. I really did not like this. All of them one after another absolutely blamed this one guy for it all. They are taking zero accountability for the problems. This event was their event it had their name, people came to see them, just because they outsourced the organization doesn't exonerate them of responsibility. Sounds like after they outsourced the organization they took zero interest in the logistics which is not something anyone with brains would do and left this single person to set them up for either success or failure. Madness thing to do from the beginning and when the sh!t hit the fan a very unprofessional response.

2. They are trying to give the impression that the event / their existence is some kind of community service. Alex easily forgets what he is getting out of it, someone earlier in this thread did the maths on shedfest and he was due a massive pay day but is talking about it like it was a non profit event and how great he is.


fridaypassion said:
You do get the impression with this Alex chap that he's in a big rush to take the world over. Setting up on his own and then setting up this production house arrangement with other creators then a show on top of it. All with no experience of running a business. These guys need to chill out and just make sure you're doing one bit properly first then move onto the next thing. Having the ability to do YouTube doesn't necessarily translate into being good at business outside YouTube.

Unfortunately what happens is that you just make a hash of everything by spreading yourself too thinly and in the case of this show it ends up hurting your brand. Looks to be a bit of a Fyre festival scenario where they just expected the thing to happen without meticulously planning for it. There's widespread demands for refunds. It could wipe him out the from this.
Those two things don't surprise me at all. Narcissists will narcissise.

PT1984

2,852 posts

198 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
acer12 said:
Just listened to the latest autoalex podcast where they covered shedfest and the below post from Fridaypassion really makes sense. They are out of their dept and moving too fast, feels like they are missing a few people on their team with experience to manage the business side of things.

Two things really shocked me:
1. They completely threw the organizer under the bus and rolled out the be nice to this guy for mental health reasons lines. I really did not like this. All of them one after another absolutely blamed this one guy for it all. They are taking zero accountability for the problems. This event was their event it had their name, people came to see them, just because they outsourced the organization doesn't exonerate them of responsibility. Sounds like after they outsourced the organization they took zero interest in the logistics which is not something anyone with brains would do and left this single person to set them up for either success or failure. Madness thing to do from the beginning and when the sh!t hit the fan a very unprofessional response.

2. They are trying to give the impression that the event / their existence is some kind of community service. Alex easily forgets what he is getting out of it, someone earlier in this thread did the maths on shedfest and he was due a massive pay day but is talking about it like it was a non profit event and how great he is.


fridaypassion said:
You do get the impression with this Alex chap that he's in a big rush to take the world over. Setting up on his own and then setting up this production house arrangement with other creators then a show on top of it. All with no experience of running a business. These guys need to chill out and just make sure you're doing one bit properly first then move onto the next thing. Having the ability to do YouTube doesn't necessarily translate into being good at business outside YouTube.

Unfortunately what happens is that you just make a hash of everything by spreading yourself too thinly and in the case of this show it ends up hurting your brand. Looks to be a bit of a Fyre festival scenario where they just expected the thing to happen without meticulously planning for it. There's widespread demands for refunds. It could wipe him out the from this.
Those two things don't surprise me at all. Narcissists will narcissise.
I have no idea why these guys get your views.

Rough101

2,697 posts

90 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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PT1984 said:
I have no idea why these guys get your views.
Me neither, does my nut in.

Rusty Old-Banger

5,713 posts

228 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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PT1984 said:
Rusty Old-Banger said:
acer12 said:
Just listened to the latest autoalex podcast where they covered shedfest and the below post from Fridaypassion really makes sense. They are out of their dept and moving too fast, feels like they are missing a few people on their team with experience to manage the business side of things.

Two things really shocked me:
1. They completely threw the organizer under the bus and rolled out the be nice to this guy for mental health reasons lines. I really did not like this. All of them one after another absolutely blamed this one guy for it all. They are taking zero accountability for the problems. This event was their event it had their name, people came to see them, just because they outsourced the organization doesn't exonerate them of responsibility. Sounds like after they outsourced the organization they took zero interest in the logistics which is not something anyone with brains would do and left this single person to set them up for either success or failure. Madness thing to do from the beginning and when the sh!t hit the fan a very unprofessional response.

2. They are trying to give the impression that the event / their existence is some kind of community service. Alex easily forgets what he is getting out of it, someone earlier in this thread did the maths on shedfest and he was due a massive pay day but is talking about it like it was a non profit event and how great he is.


fridaypassion said:
You do get the impression with this Alex chap that he's in a big rush to take the world over. Setting up on his own and then setting up this production house arrangement with other creators then a show on top of it. All with no experience of running a business. These guys need to chill out and just make sure you're doing one bit properly first then move onto the next thing. Having the ability to do YouTube doesn't necessarily translate into being good at business outside YouTube.

Unfortunately what happens is that you just make a hash of everything by spreading yourself too thinly and in the case of this show it ends up hurting your brand. Looks to be a bit of a Fyre festival scenario where they just expected the thing to happen without meticulously planning for it. There's widespread demands for refunds. It could wipe him out the from this.
Those two things don't surprise me at all. Narcissists will narcissise.
I have no idea why these guys get your views.
Some of them are interesting - the more Taylor-heavy episodes can be good watching. I haven't listened to the podcast though, that's too much for me.

SCJM21

215 posts

165 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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I've been listening to the podcast (albeit a few episodes behind) on my morning commute and it's been generally good so far but after the issues I've seen at shedfest I'm getting a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth, starting to feel as though inexperience is setting in and there's been a few little things here and there (underpaying for the kei car, shedfest organisation/accountability etc) which have come to light.

The channel(s) are steamrolling in terms of views and subscribers but I have a very small feeling that there's going to be either an accident, incident or serious error one day that will have a serious effect on the reputation, purely on the basis of biting off more than they can chew.

It might be a bit of a reality check long-term but I definitely feel as though they need to slow down the pace a little bit and put more time/consideration into the content.

C5_Steve

5,786 posts

118 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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acer12 said:
Just listened to the latest autoalex podcast where they covered shedfest and the below post from Fridaypassion really makes sense. They are out of their dept and moving too fast, feels like they are missing a few people on their team with experience to manage the business side of things.

Two things really shocked me:
1. They completely threw the organizer under the bus and rolled out the be nice to this guy for mental health reasons lines. I really did not like this. All of them one after another absolutely blamed this one guy for it all. They are taking zero accountability for the problems. This event was their event it had their name, people came to see them, just because they outsourced the organization doesn't exonerate them of responsibility. Sounds like after they outsourced the organization they took zero interest in the logistics which is not something anyone with brains would do and left this single person to set them up for either success or failure. Madness thing to do from the beginning and when the sh!t hit the fan a very unprofessional response.

2. They are trying to give the impression that the event / their existence is some kind of community service. Alex easily forgets what he is getting out of it, someone earlier in this thread did the maths on shedfest and he was due a massive pay day but is talking about it like it was a non profit event and how great he is.


fridaypassion said:
You do get the impression with this Alex chap that he's in a big rush to take the world over. Setting up on his own and then setting up this production house arrangement with other creators then a show on top of it. All with no experience of running a business. These guys need to chill out and just make sure you're doing one bit properly first then move onto the next thing. Having the ability to do YouTube doesn't necessarily translate into being good at business outside YouTube.

Unfortunately what happens is that you just make a hash of everything by spreading yourself too thinly and in the case of this show it ends up hurting your brand. Looks to be a bit of a Fyre festival scenario where they just expected the thing to happen without meticulously planning for it. There's widespread demands for refunds. It could wipe him out the from this.
I haven't listened to the podcast but on the first point, is that Ciro/Petrolhedomism they're blaming? I believe they're the organiser from what I saw on socials and they're the ones who are issuing refunds.

In fairness to Ciro he's not exactly inexperienced in running events, Shedfest does appear to have been a bit of a shambles, if I hired an event organiser to run the whole thing and this was the outcome I'd be pretty upset especially as they *should* be able to handle it based on previous performance, but it's not massively professional to play the blame game. Ciro's post on the day and day after appears to have been much more balanced, taking responsibility whilst also highlighting the initial failings outside of their control.

LincolnLovin

2,973 posts

233 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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I think what’s needed is a few back office roles, such as dedicated Marketing/Communications person to work directly with the events organiser and keep things on track.

But all of that costs money, but a contractor could fill in on a per event basis.

The OG Jester

202 posts

29 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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Quite enjoyed TDC's latest video with the 911, it was a bit of a cost summary along with sorting the exhaust and interior/weight reduction. I know companies have donated parts to them in turn for a shout out, wonder how much cheaper this must be giving out £900 worth of brakes compared to an ad in magazine?


LARK F1 GTR

4,083 posts

161 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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Dave200 said:
LARK F1 GTR said:
She's one that I will watch occasionally but I always find that the videos are too long for whatever they're about. If it's a twenty minute one only five of it will have decent content.

I'm never a fan of "reveal videos" check out my new wheels etc doesn't take a ten minute build up, do other stuff and show them to us. I know that she does other stuff but I find them dull.
It takes a special kind of dedication to watch a video of someone walking you around their generic, pristine new supercar. What do they talk about, besides "ooh, look at this"?
I know what you mean, it works with some of them, but not all. She's one I just can't seem to get into.

614-HSO

1,551 posts

63 months

Wednesday 15th May 2024
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LARK F1 GTR said:
Dave200 said:
LARK F1 GTR said:
She's one that I will watch occasionally but I always find that the videos are too long for whatever they're about. If it's a twenty minute one only five of it will have decent content.

I'm never a fan of "reveal videos" check out my new wheels etc doesn't take a ten minute build up, do other stuff and show them to us. I know that she does other stuff but I find them dull.
It takes a special kind of dedication to watch a video of someone walking you around their generic, pristine new supercar. What do they talk about, besides "ooh, look at this"?
I know what you mean, it works with some of them, but not all. She's one I just can't seem to get into.
Yeah some of the videos are a bit like that, I think the issue she has is that she wants to post a video once a week and since being in the Gran Turismo movie she doesn't seem to have much time recently so making content with the cars is not likely to be easy to do.

I don't think the video of the Lamborghini collection was anything like the "ooh look at this" like many others do on video, not when you have been watching her videos for many years (like I have) which is why I posted her first video, real from nothing to getting her dream car.

The second half of the video before the Lamborghini collection video is worth watching for a bit more context.




Rusty Old-Banger

5,713 posts

228 months

Thursday 16th May 2024
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All The Gear's latest video looks interesting. Haven't watched it yet but I will today.

WarrenB

2,782 posts

133 months

Thursday 16th May 2024
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
All The Gear's latest video looks interesting. Haven't watched it yet but I will today.
It's quite different to what we're used to seeing Jack and Ethan doing, but looks very promising for the future of the channel. I can see it becoming more popular than TDC in the future...

WPA

11,878 posts

129 months

Thursday 16th May 2024
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
All The Gear's latest video looks interesting. Haven't watched it yet but I will today.
Watched it last night, did not think it was that great if I am honest.

Also not pulled in big views as yet

Elroy Blue

8,767 posts

207 months

Thursday 16th May 2024
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I'll managed 10 mins or so of TDC and All the gears latest videos.
Just generic and boring.
Shame as the guys seem pleasant enough, they're just missing something.

Dave200

5,671 posts

235 months

Thursday 16th May 2024
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WPA said:
Rusty Old-Banger said:
All The Gear's latest video looks interesting. Haven't watched it yet but I will today.
Watched it last night, did not think it was that great if I am honest.

Also not pulled in big views as yet
I might give it a watch, but 65k views in 16 hours is pretty slow going given the fanfare and expense of that trip. Suspect they will quickly find out that the AutoAlex viewers they were hoping to tap into prefer sheddy old cars and arse slapping banter.
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