DriveTribe - online car community from Clarkson/May/Hamond
Discussion
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Does anyone (Apart from the moose it seems) care?
I don't think so and that was always the problem with it; nobody seemed arsed right from the outset. When it started there was a huge element of "eh?" from the car community. Supporters would point to the high number of sign ups early on but a large number of those were probably just being trying to work out what on earth it was after all the fanfare before never bothering again.LaurasOtherHalf said:
Does anyone (Apart from the moose it seems) care?
This isn't a 'caring' issue, it's more of a morbid fascination with how everything unfolded. DT has an impressive array of investors behind it, investors that most anyone else would possibly kill to get...and it's being ran by a bunch of bumbling nitwits who are using Buzzfeed's 2010 business model.It reminds me of watching one of Clarkson's failed joke routines, where it's clearly dead on arrival, but they continue with it anyway.
Benmac said:
I don't think so and that was always the problem with it; nobody seemed arsed right from the outset. When it started there was a huge element of "eh?" from the car community. Supporters would point to the high number of sign ups early on but a large number of those were probably just being trying to work out what on earth it was after all the fanfare before never bothering again.
That's exactly what happened. As it turned out to be more and more of a lightweight automotive contender, most of the smart ones left. As of right before I left, the site itself isn't getting much of any traffic, almost their entire presence revolves around Facebook.Car-Matt said:
Soooooo Moose works(ed) for a company in a not senior position and doesn't(didn't) like the way it was run in summary now feels the need to tell us all about it.
I suppose the other 7 companies were ass-holes too and you're just brilliant?
1. Never stated anywhere that I was brilliant. That's entirely you. Thanks for the compliment, however.I suppose the other 7 companies were ass-holes too and you're just brilliant?
2. Not entirely sure that I would have been really happy to have been employed as upper management in such a disaster of an enterprise. Former DT upper management who spoke with me about their time there echoed my sentiment, ridiculously toxic environment, and one even suggested that one particular top guy can't make it through the day without a ludicrous amount of chemical/powder assistance.
3. Are you sure that you weren't my one of my raging "assholes" of a manager with one of those British companies? Because he was convinced that he was really brilliant...and wasn't...and you sound just like him. Fascinating impersonation, actually.
No, I wasn't an asshole with any company, even companies here at home. My particular fascination with the British companies in question is simply due to how dysfunctional they were, to the point of repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot...and it seems to be standard accepted business practice.
That was the experience with DT in particular, in that a bunch of inept, dishonest, CYA boobs are egotistically convinced that they're really doing something great, but can't even remember what they're supposed to be doing from day to day, running a website that was touted to be the end-all of automotive websites, and it's being relegated down to an automobile celebrity lifestyle Daily Mirror, with all of the meat being removed in pursuit of clicks from morons.
If you don't find that to be fascinating, sorry, sucks to be you.
Moose of Death said:
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Does anyone (Apart from the moose it seems) care?
This isn't a 'caring' issue, it's more of a morbid fascination with how everything unfolded. DT has an impressive array of investors behind it, investors that most anyone else would possibly kill to get...and it's being ran by a bunch of bumbling nitwits who are using Buzzfeed's 2010 business model.It reminds me of watching one of Clarkson's failed joke routines, where it's clearly dead on arrival, but they continue with it anyway.
Benmac said:
I don't think so and that was always the problem with it; nobody seemed arsed right from the outset. When it started there was a huge element of "eh?" from the car community. Supporters would point to the high number of sign ups early on but a large number of those were probably just being trying to work out what on earth it was after all the fanfare before never bothering again.
That's exactly what happened. As it turned out to be more and more of a lightweight automotive contender, most of the smart ones left. As of right before I left, the site itself isn't getting much of any traffic, almost their entire presence revolves around Facebook.Car-Matt said:
Soooooo Moose works(ed) for a company in a not senior position and doesn't(didn't) like the way it was run in summary now feels the need to tell us all about it.
I suppose the other 7 companies were ass-holes too and you're just brilliant?
1. Never stated anywhere that I was brilliant. That's entirely you. Thanks for the compliment, however.I suppose the other 7 companies were ass-holes too and you're just brilliant?
2. Not entirely sure that I would have been really happy to have been employed as upper management in such a disaster of an enterprise. Former DT upper management who spoke with me about their time there echoed my sentiment, ridiculously toxic environment, and one even suggested that one particular top guy can't make it through the day without a ludicrous amount of chemical/powder assistance.
3. Are you sure that you weren't my one of my raging "assholes" of a manager with one of those British companies? Because he was convinced that he was really brilliant...and wasn't...and you sound just like him. Fascinating impersonation, actually.
No, I wasn't an asshole with any company, even companies here at home. My particular fascination with the British companies in question is simply due to how dysfunctional they were, to the point of repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot...and it seems to be standard accepted business practice.
That was the experience with DT in particular, in that a bunch of inept, dishonest, CYA boobs are egotistically convinced that they're really doing something great, but can't even remember what they're supposed to be doing from day to day, running a website that was touted to be the end-all of automotive websites, and it's being relegated down to an automobile celebrity lifestyle Daily Mirror, with all of the meat being removed in pursuit of clicks from morons.
If you don't find that to be fascinating, sorry, sucks to be you.
The only evidence we have on here is the drivel you’ve written and the whining so what do we all think.......go figure
I’m picturing one of those mental ex’s, that goes around bleating to anyone who’ll listen about what an a
hole her ex was, how he abused her, drank, took drugs, hated you and anyone who’ll listen and basically does her best to destroy his reputation-all because he had the foresight to see she had the mental and dumped her.
Then she gets pissed and see’s him in a pub and it’s all tears and unrequited love for “the ahole”. Right up until he tells her to ps off again.
Then the mental comes back.
hole her ex was, how he abused her, drank, took drugs, hated you and anyone who’ll listen and basically does her best to destroy his reputation-all because he had the foresight to see she had the mental and dumped her.Then she gets pissed and see’s him in a pub and it’s all tears and unrequited love for “the a
hole”. Right up until he tells her to ps off again.Then the mental comes back.
Watching another amazingly funny video of James May roasting other youtubers cars or that small tit fking up a basic recharging stop on the M6 goes to show the lack of quality in the place, food tribe is even worse as James May reviews a fking burger. Like watching your grandparents on a sex swing.
DriveTribe is akin to relaunching MySpace today.
king up a basic recharging stop on the M6 goes to show the lack of quality in the place, food tribe is even worse as James May reviews a fking burger. Like watching your grandparents on a sex swing.DriveTribe is akin to relaunching MySpace today.
Leins said:
Bit of a Lazarus thread moment (Batman), but just wondering if anyone is still using DriveTribe?
I think I’ve still got a “tribe” on there, but I’d actually forgotten about it until this evening when it appeared in a search I was doing on Count Rossi’s 917
Only time I check out Drivetribe is to see Dylan Smit’s latest contribution. He has a excellent channel called Random Access Motorsport amongst others that details failed motorsport projects. Very informative. Apart from that I don’t have a strong yearning to regularly check out Drivetribe. I think I’ve still got a “tribe” on there, but I’d actually forgotten about it until this evening when it appeared in a search I was doing on Count Rossi’s 917
George Smiley said:
Watching another amazingly funny video of James May roasting other youtubers cars or that small tit fking up a basic recharging stop on the M6 goes to show the lack of quality in the place, food tribe is even worse as James May reviews a fking burger. Like watching your grandparents on a sex swing.
DriveTribe is akin to relaunching MySpace today.
May (apparently) has a decent chunk of his own money in it. So presumably that's what motivates him to keep producing content. Hammond and Clarkson presumably have smaller shares. It suits Mays personality to a degree. Some of it is good. Mays Electric vs Hydrogen car review. (and he owns both) king up a basic recharging stop on the M6 goes to show the lack of quality in the place, food tribe is even worse as James May reviews a fking burger. Like watching your grandparents on a sex swing.DriveTribe is akin to relaunching MySpace today.
But I care little for the other journos.
Put it this way, it's not Carfection is it!
May talking about electrification and the future of transport and even asking existential questions like "are we going to stop burning things at all?" before exploring intellectual arguments about why that might become the case can actually be quite interesting... but most of it is stultifyingly dull.
BTW I sympathise entirely with Moose, and much of what he said has been repeated by Jethro Bovingdon, who was seemingly sacked for being too good...
BTW I sympathise entirely with Moose, and much of what he said has been repeated by Jethro Bovingdon, who was seemingly sacked for being too good...
RoverP6B said:
jayemm89 said:
DT was broken from the beginning. The fact it is still going amazes me
Are you the JayEmm (James Martin, but not the vintage Porsche-owning chef) who has nearly ninety thousand YouTube subscribers?RoverP6B said:
jayemm89 said:
DT was broken from the beginning. The fact it is still going amazes me
Are you the JayEmm (James Martin, but not the vintage Porsche-owning chef) who has nearly ninety thousand YouTube subscribers?George Smiley said:
RoverP6B said:
jayemm89 said:
DT was broken from the beginning. The fact it is still going amazes me
Are you the JayEmm (James Martin, but not the vintage Porsche-owning chef) who has nearly ninety thousand YouTube subscribers?There's a real lack of depth to most YouTube content these days. in fact that's the wider media in general. Most assume we just want a 5 min executive summary. Or a quick line or 2 about the problem.
Look at someone like Joe Rogan and his podcasts. Normally 2+ hour long. So the guest can talk about many things. Or a few things in detail. The best example is Dr Jordan Peterson. If you watched Channel4 news hatchet job you'd think he believes in all sorts of unusual things. He's been on JR several times. Near 3 hours of chat lets him set out his stall so you can see what he's actually saying and you'll be unsurprised to learn it's not what Ch4 wanted you to believe.
JRE has 8MILLION subscribers on YT alone (ignoring iTunes etc ) So there is a demand for long form interviews.
Last year I listed to a 2 hour interview with Ron Dennis. Given that most F1 media only allows 5 mins tops in their coverage for an interview. It's refreshing to hear a speaker open up with time, and talk about things other than the usual platitudes
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