Yep. Dull videos for equally dull people.They are just boring. So boring that these threads are dead or close to dead.
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Yep. Dull videos for equally dull people.They are just boring. So boring that these threads are dead or close to dead.
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I find it ironic that either one of them is able to grow their channel. They do the same old things over again which is boring to even their steadfast audience. And that audience looks like a bot army, with many highly liked vapid comments linked to empty channels.They feel like hipsters -- pretending to like something that is objectively bad just to prove how unique they are.
I find it ironic that either one of them is able to grow their channel. They do the same old things over again which is boring to even their steadfast audience. And that audience looks like a bot army, with many highly liked vapid comments linked to empty channels.
In the past, he was able to rely on the novelty of seeing the locations as the draw for viewers. Now, it isn’t “new”. The concept of YouTube for profit has been around a while. He has more competition than ever before. At this point, most viewers have already seen his well-traveled locations, either from his past videos or the multitude of newer similar channels. He hasn’t done anything to adapt.While I love that kind of stuff. I think like I keep on mentioning with the Ripley's stuff. I think people (inc. me) who also love that kind of stuff get bored of seeing the same wax figure places (inc. haunted wax figures), the same Ripley's stuff, the same Cadillac Ranch type places. It is like ATW love of Disney, lets go to Disney 10 days straight and think people will like it.
Blame his old Boomer audience for not expecting any more from him. I guess they like the near daily repetitive formulaic routine of listening to his squeaky manchild voice as he meanders through kitschy old tourist traps and museums and so on. Maybe some really dumb kids watch him too, I don't have access to his analytics, but it was easy to surmise who his base is judging from comments on his videos and streaming sessions.He doesn’t have the charisma to carry a large channel or grow a massive audience on his personality alone. His channel depends on the quality of its content. Low effort “let’s walk around and gawk at stuff” isn’t cutting it as the sole offering, not anymore.
Like this episode of Defunctland. 12 million views. This is quality YouTube.I have come to respect the real Youtubers who make real art and put out only one gem of a video every month or so. And those videos often get 1 to 5 million views compared to 25-30K Jacob might get. Quality is far superior than the redundant junk quantity that Jacob churns out so regularly.
Odd thing is that Carpetbagger had a real job and was married with a kid. If you believe his story of having to make a choice between his job and YT because his job thought his YT "Gig" was interfering with his job (he said that he had one week on (his regulars 8 hour day, plus being on call) and one week off).E-beggars’ bread and butter are lonely, isolated people with time on their hands who develop a parasocial relationship with YouTubers and build little communities in chat during livestreams and comments sections. They’re not hooked on the content, they just want a place they feel they belong. And YouTube encourages this as a good form of doing business.
My meaning was that e-grifters (like many YouTube vloggers) profit off the lonely. I wasn’t inferring he was an isolated shut in.So Jacob would have had to have some sort of social skills to do his job.
It’s a soul sucking job with a high turnover rate. I’ve worked with a few former social workers who changed careers to save their own mental health. It can be hard to fill vacancies in the field (low pay, high stress) so less than stellar candidates can wind up in social work jobs. Knowing how shifty Jacob can be, I would not be shocked if something happened that he’s hiding. However it could also easily be YouTube was an excuse to escape a terrible job. Instead of making a career change, he decided it was a great idea to chase internet fame and be a mostly absentee husband and father.I am sure I am probably stating something obvious. I wonder if there was something more to his story that he stated and he was not good at his job or something else happened on the job that he fucked up on. Since Social Work is a pretty serious job, Especially since he mentioned he was dealing with children.
Jacob is shifty. A real passive-aggressive manipulator. I'm sure the spoiled manchild blamed his wife and daughter for holding him back from YT career.Knowing how shifty Jacob can be, I would not be shocked if something happened that he’s hiding. However it could also easily be YouTube was an excuse to escape a terrible job. Instead of making a career change, he decided it was a great idea to chase internet fame and be a mostly absentee husband and father.
I haven't watched him in a while, and just looking at the thumbnail for today's video, has he already begun that annoying stretch of videos he does each Fall when he screams/squeals into the microphone to a pitch black picture and calling it "going to haunted houses"? If so, ugh. It's going to be a long Fall.
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I have a confession to make: I used to be a Patreon supporter of his. I enjoyed his videos of obscure places that I'd never visited before -- or even heard of before, and I know those sorts of travels aren't cheap. It was also fun to receive a postcard in the mail every month. After a few months, though, I realized that I was just subsidizing him to dick around. He had a Q&A once for his patrons, and he pretty much half-assed every answer (I asked: "Which attractions have you not visited yet but really want to check out?" and he answered something stupid like: "Yes, there are attractions that I haven't visited."). I think that the straw that broke the camel's back was a trip to Disney World where he stayed at an expensive on-property hotel. Granted, my $3 was just a drop in the bucket, but it still felt somehow wrong to be paying for someone else to go on vacation and pretend it's a job.
I initially watched him to see those places. It was a way to “travel” and check out places when I didn’t have time to get away. I could check out some quirky or interesting spot, in far less time than it would take me to even drive to wherever. I could also see inside some tourist traps I wouldn’t have ever bothered to stop for, or nicer places to add to a “go there “ list.I used to be a Patreon supporter of his. I enjoyed his videos of obscure places that I'd never visited before -- or even heard of before, and I know those sorts of travels aren't cheap. It was also fun to receive a postcard in the mail every month. After a few months, though, I realized that I was just subsidizing him to dick around.
I would just like to know how his teenaged daughter feels about her cringey dad going to clearly family orientated places(Disney/amusement parks/fairs) without her.
When she appeared in his videos when she was little, she seemed to be having a genuinely good time. It was really nice to watch them having fun together. As she got older, you could tell that she was just going through the motions at best or actively annoyed by the whole thing at worst.I would just like to know how his teenaged daughter feels about her cringey dad going to clearly family orientated places(Disney/amusement parks/fairs) without her.
I think it was earlier this year when he took her and a group of her friends to Disney World for a multi-day overnight trip. I don't think she and her friends appeared in any of his videos, which was probably a good move because it would have been awkward as hell watching him filming a gaggle of teenage girls. Still, something about it felt really sad the way he went off and kept vlogging while the girls went off and did their own thing (in one video when he went to one of the parks by himself, he claimed that the girls were back at the hotel doing homework -- I can't believe he believed that! I wonder what they were really up to!). It felt like a halfhearted way for him to try to buy his way back into his daughter's good graces without spending time together.I'm a total daddy's girl, and it would be heartbreaking to see my father, waddling around like a giant kid, instead of being a father to his kid. So I would love to have her perspective. I wonder if her school peers know about her dad, because it seems like easy fodder to mock her with or if it's a sore spot for her at all. Of course I'm just an outsider looking in, but even back when he would bring her to a few places, it seemed like he was always nagging at her, and more focused on making the video, than actually being interested in spending time and making memories together.