Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc???????
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Blink982 said:
A what? A who? Aspirational to whom exactly? The guy flips cars as soon as he's signed the pcp paperwork and drives them at 20mph in Knightsbridge with the exhaust flaps open? Who is that meant to impress? Kids, that's who and they have no money for cars as they're too busy paying £80pm for an iPhone X. The millenials only appear to be interested in looking at cars (and stuff) on YouTube or Instagram, not actually owning them, let alone driving or experiencing them. This whole social media phenomenon of bloggers and vloggers influencing people is one big load of vacuous dog poop and I can't wait
for it to end. They're not role models, they're spoiled brats with an ego, nothing more. Rant over.
Isn't TGE himself a 'millennial'? Millenials are born from 1980-1990. TGE is 29/30. Please explain how "millenials only appear to be interested in looking at cars (and stuff) on YouTube or Instagram, not actually owning them, let alone driving or experiencing them.for it to end. They're not role models, they're spoiled brats with an ego, nothing more. Rant over.
dannyDC2 said:
I was surprised it worked too! Fully expected to have a very bad time with that.
Sacking that car off though, it's too far gone for a daily driver. Needs either restoring or drifting, neither of which I can be arsed with.
Getting a much more sensible daily at the weekend that I won't have to piss about with so much.
Reunited with a clio 1*2 ? Sacking that car off though, it's too far gone for a daily driver. Needs either restoring or drifting, neither of which I can be arsed with.
Getting a much more sensible daily at the weekend that I won't have to piss about with so much.
Ashley man said:
Isn't TGE himself a 'millennial'? Millenials are born from 1980-1990. TGE is 29/30. Please explain how "millenials only appear to be interested in looking at cars (and stuff) on YouTube or Instagram, not actually owning them, let alone driving or experiencing them.
The number of people sitting and passing their driving test is falling (Jeremy Clarkson wrote an article on this not that long ago). Getting my driving licence at 17 was a big goal and everyone my age couldn't wait to drive. Kids aren't interested in driving these days, they're only interested in looking at them, how much ugly carbon fibre they have on the dashboard and how loud the exhaust is. Just look at the audience that turns up in these collection videos, I'll bet they didn't drive there themselves, did they?
None of the car vloggers have ever come up with anything remotely useful or interesting in their so-called reviews and they can't, in my humble opinion, hold a candle to the likes of Catchpole, Bovingdon, Meaden, Metcalfe, Sutcliffe, Bird et al, yet they're afforded just as much seat time in the latest cars cos any publicity is good publicity, right? All they're good for is wrapping and exhaust videos. They can't even mod cars for crying out loud.
InitialDave said:
ashleyman said:
Isn't TGE himself a 'millennial'? Millenials are born from 1980-1990.
Bugger that, that would include me, and I'm sticking with generation Y if I must have a label!ashleyman said:
InitialDave said:
ashleyman said:
Isn't TGE himself a 'millennial'? Millenials are born from 1980-1990.
Bugger that, that would include me, and I'm sticking with generation Y if I must have a label!Blink982 said:
None of the car vloggers have ever come up with anything remotely useful or interesting in their so-called reviews and they can't, in my humble opinion, hold a candle to the likes of Catchpole, Bovingdon, Meaden, Metcalfe, Sutcliffe, Bird et al, yet they're afforded just as much seat time in the latest cars cos any publicity is good publicity, right? All they're good for is wrapping and exhaust videos. They can't even mod cars for crying out loud.
Has anyone ever bought a car because of some journalists opinion? 
Blink982 said:
Ashley man said:
Isn't TGE himself a 'millennial'? Millenials are born from 1980-1990. TGE is 29/30. Please explain how "millenials only appear to be interested in looking at cars (and stuff) on YouTube or Instagram, not actually owning them, let alone driving or experiencing them.
The number of people sitting and passing their driving test is falling (Jeremy Clarkson wrote an article on this not that long ago). Getting my driving licence at 17 was a big goal and everyone my age couldn't wait to drive. Kids aren't interested in driving these days, they're only interested in looking at them, how much ugly carbon fibre they have on the dashboard and how loud the exhaust is. Just look at the audience that turns up in these collection videos, I'll bet they didn't drive there themselves, did they?
None of the car vloggers have ever come up with anything remotely useful or interesting in their so-called reviews and they can't, in my humble opinion, hold a candle to the likes of Catchpole, Bovingdon, Meaden, Metcalfe, Sutcliffe, Bird et al, yet they're afforded just as much seat time in the latest cars cos any publicity is good publicity, right? All they're good for is wrapping and exhaust videos. They can't even mod cars for crying out loud.
Young folk don't wanna watch old men droning on about their big end, like Catchpole.
Young folk wanna watch young men shouting about a bit of gold plastic, like SoL.
YT vlogging is no different to the Beatles in the 1960s, punk in the 1970s, rave in the 1980s, and Britpop in the 1990s.
Young peeps prefer young peeps. As the old saying goes -- never trust anyone over the age of 30.
Yipper said:
Blink982 said:
Ashley man said:
Isn't TGE himself a 'millennial'? Millenials are born from 1980-1990. TGE is 29/30. Please explain how "millenials only appear to be interested in looking at cars (and stuff) on YouTube or Instagram, not actually owning them, let alone driving or experiencing them.
The number of people sitting and passing their driving test is falling (Jeremy Clarkson wrote an article on this not that long ago). Getting my driving licence at 17 was a big goal and everyone my age couldn't wait to drive. Kids aren't interested in driving these days, they're only interested in looking at them, how much ugly carbon fibre they have on the dashboard and how loud the exhaust is. Just look at the audience that turns up in these collection videos, I'll bet they didn't drive there themselves, did they?
None of the car vloggers have ever come up with anything remotely useful or interesting in their so-called reviews and they can't, in my humble opinion, hold a candle to the likes of Catchpole, Bovingdon, Meaden, Metcalfe, Sutcliffe, Bird et al, yet they're afforded just as much seat time in the latest cars cos any publicity is good publicity, right? All they're good for is wrapping and exhaust videos. They can't even mod cars for crying out loud.
Young folk don't wanna watch old men droning on about their big end, like Catchpole.
Young folk wanna watch young men shouting about a bit of gold plastic, like SoL.
YT vlogging is no different to the Beatles in the 1960s, punk in the 1970s, rave in the 1980s, and Britpop in the 1990s.
Young peeps prefer young peeps. As the old saying goes -- never trust anyone over the age of 30.
Just my opinion obviously.
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