Are these Vloggers just a scam? SOL or Shmee etc? (Vol 2)
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CooperS said:
I must agree, but he's found a way to get investment via these go fund me platforms so good on him.
How much extra content has he been providing for the crowd funders? It's a fine line to tread for all youtubers who crowd fund to get the audience to fund the production of the content.
I'm happy to give Hubnut a couple of quid a month on his Patreon as I like his content, and if he is using that money to fund a trip to go on a low budget trip to NZ then fair enough. It might be my own prejudices showing, but someone privileged like STG specifically fund raising to buy a fancy car and go off on a jolly seems to overstep the line as there seems to be little belt tightening on his side.
scottydoesntknow said:
She is a breath of fresh air amongst the regular vacuous wannabes fawning over unobtainable or unrelateable cars.
Truckosaurus said:
CooperS said:
I must agree, but he's found a way to get investment via these go fund me platforms so good on him.
How much extra content has he been providing for the crowd funders? It's a fine line to tread for all youtubers who crowd fund to get the audience to fund the production of the content.
I'm happy to give Hubnut a couple of quid a month on his Patreon as I like his content, and if he is using that money to fund a trip to go on a low budget trip to NZ then fair enough. It might be my own prejudices showing, but someone privileged like STG specifically fund raising to buy a fancy car and go off on a jolly seems to overstep the line as there seems to be little belt tightening on his side.
Sam's an incredibly hard working guy. Have seen him on an event, and he's constantly filming, editing or driving. Man really does put the hours in.
I was personally always confused by the choice of a new 911 - with the miles I thought he was going to be driving, it seemed to me like he was going to be throwing about £20k away just in depreciation. I'd have bought an older car which wouldn't have suffered from having 20k put on to it. But then, I'm not really the best at buying cars wisely.
I was personally always confused by the choice of a new 911 - with the miles I thought he was going to be driving, it seemed to me like he was going to be throwing about £20k away just in depreciation. I'd have bought an older car which wouldn't have suffered from having 20k put on to it. But then, I'm not really the best at buying cars wisely.
johnwilliams77 said:
S11Steve said:
She is a breath of fresh air amongst the regular vacuous wannabes fawning over unobtainable or unrelateable cars.
Ha - she's a legend! Hello and good job if you're reading! (unlikely?!)
scottydoesntknow said:
That’s a massive accolade. Ian’s knowledge is second to none. cheers love x S11Steve said:
She is a breath of fresh air amongst the regular vacuous wannabes fawning over unobtainable or unrelateable cars.
Wait til you see some of the cars I’ve scored for the next few months - hahaha! I just remember ages ago there was nothing on YouTube I liked watching (super cars aren’t my bag) so I just try to make the videos I wanted to see myself x
jayemm89 said:
Sam's an incredibly hard working guy. Have seen him on an event, and he's constantly filming, editing or driving. Man really does put the hours in.
I was personally always confused by the choice of a new 911 - with the miles I thought he was going to be driving, it seemed to me like he was going to be throwing about £20k away just in depreciation. I'd have bought an older car which wouldn't have suffered from having 20k put on to it. But then, I'm not really the best at buying cars wisely.
Surely it was a long-term loaner?I was personally always confused by the choice of a new 911 - with the miles I thought he was going to be driving, it seemed to me like he was going to be throwing about £20k away just in depreciation. I'd have bought an older car which wouldn't have suffered from having 20k put on to it. But then, I'm not really the best at buying cars wisely.
I've not watched a huge amount of his stuff, but Casey Putsch is interesting, he seems to have a good number of videos on subjects that - if not directly related to cars etc - are the kind of things it's good for the kind of young lads who watch car videos to have a think about, for example he just kicked out one today about understanding online ghosting.
"If you see people out there that you think are supremely confident, and they're just in command of the world and can do anything at all... It's probably because they've been kicked in the balls a lot... People still have to get their confidence from building, and growing, and challenges."
"If you see people out there that you think are supremely confident, and they're just in command of the world and can do anything at all... It's probably because they've been kicked in the balls a lot... People still have to get their confidence from building, and growing, and challenges."
Idriveaclassic said:
Somebody sent me a DM to the thread via Instagram and I was worried about reading it
Fairly natural reaction where PistonHeads is concerned!Idriveaclassic said:
S11Steve said:
She is a breath of fresh air amongst the regular vacuous wannabes fawning over unobtainable or unrelateable cars.
Wait til you see some of the cars I’ve scored for the next few months - hahaha! I just remember ages ago there was nothing on YouTube I liked watching (super cars aren’t my bag) so I just try to make the videos I wanted to see myself x
indeed.One issue that I have with youtube content (and also professional content, but to a slightly lesser degree) is that they never s
t on a car. Every car is awesome. Every car is amazing. I understand these are meant to be aspirational lifestyle channels and not reviews but it would be nice to get some honesty and candour sometimes - "this supercar is nice but the soundtrack is ste compared to this other supercar, but the steering is way better. Not numb like that other car."
I understand they all rely on manufacturer goodwill, but it irks me, and there are only a few channels (mostly professionals who are big enough that they have clout) that will provide some level of objectivity.
t on a car. Every car is awesome. Every car is amazing. I understand these are meant to be aspirational lifestyle channels and not reviews but it would be nice to get some honesty and candour sometimes - "this supercar is nice but the soundtrack is ste compared to this other supercar, but the steering is way better. Not numb like that other car."I understand they all rely on manufacturer goodwill, but it irks me, and there are only a few channels (mostly professionals who are big enough that they have clout) that will provide some level of objectivity.
WarrenB said:
Truckosaurus said:
CooperS said:
I must agree, but he's found a way to get investment via these go fund me platforms so good on him.
How much extra content has he been providing for the crowd funders? It's a fine line to tread for all youtubers who crowd fund to get the audience to fund the production of the content.
I'm happy to give Hubnut a couple of quid a month on his Patreon as I like his content, and if he is using that money to fund a trip to go on a low budget trip to NZ then fair enough. It might be my own prejudices showing, but someone privileged like STG specifically fund raising to buy a fancy car and go off on a jolly seems to overstep the line as there seems to be little belt tightening on his side.
I saw his drive of the Chiron, albeit brief blasts along the freeway, there is still a lot of car related content, but content ideas may have ran out, as it seems to be travelling to different states driving this or that or visiting car collections here and there.
Shmee150's back home and planning the arrival of the GTR Pro, and the Senna's almost fixed. On the McLaren front, SOL is looking to buy one next year... Apart from Archie Hamilton seeing a friend, Dean, formerly of Redline, buy a Tesla, there's not much to see from the vloggers of late. Can't really relate to the HubNut NZ stuff at the moment.
scottydoesntknow said:
Patrick-Peter said:
You should actually do at least one upload of you reviewing a supercar purely because the juxtaposition of you who likes the old British Leyland's era cars
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