Mike Jeavons, the week on guy

[Jam-sandwich]

Ooh I'm surprised to find this thread! His channel is one of my favourite YouTube channels, doesn't really slot in with anything else I watch but I enjoy how refreshingly normal he is, and his dry sense of humour. Been watching for years. Ocasionally I'll skip watching a Week On series if it's not something I'm interested in but otherwise I watch all his videos.

He makes me laugh the most when he does the 'responding to YT comments'-type videos/live streams, nothing seems to phase him. He just takes everything in his stride.

Grace and Basil are lovely too! I actually kind of wish Grace had her own channel, I'd like to hear more from her.

 

[StephieDee]

I love Mike and Grace too, I think their dynamic is brilliant, they just seem like a good, grounded couple. I swear that lad always has a dodgy stomach though! He is always moaning about his guts! They are the sort of couple I would love to go out to dinner with on a double date, I think it'd be a cracking laugh.

 

[Marj24]

Am a big fan of Mike (and his cat Basil). Just been discussing on another thread how much better be did a paid promotion for Muscle Food than a (laughable) slimming channel.

Mike reveiws online goods and also spends a great deal of his time trying a week on certain restrictive diets.

Over the past few years he has lost loads of weight (the catalyst was the wearable towel - check it out) Mike is witty, but loves to moan. I would much prefer to watch Mike than hate watch someone else.

 

[Apple In My Pie]

Oh I LOVE him!!!! I didn't think anyone else on Tattle would! I don't tend to watch many of his week ons because when he had that one that went viral he sort of milked it and I got bored (cos most of his week ons are all the same and he moans a lot!)- his infomercial videos are hysterical though. I rewatch the Doggie Doo video all the time, and the ab belt one. I also have a bit of a crush on Grace

I also really like Ashens who does similar style videos

 

[lokiofasgard]

Love seeing him back on YouTube!

 

[Apple In My Pie]

Oh Mike lmao, and can't forget Basil of course. I forgot what video it was but it was a Week On one where he was backed up and he said "as the heavens opened so did my bowels" and proceeded to tell the whole world he had finally done a shit.

Ah I remember that one!!!! Mike does have a habit of announcing his bowel habits In a different vein, I remember in one of the first videos I'd seen of his (the shower feet one) he was riling his audience up saying they loved to see his feet and was he pleasing the foot fetishists out there - something along those lines - it's funny because I don't really see many comments joking about his feet, or his feet much at all in general. But for that one moment I was like 'what channel have I stumbled upon'.

 

[orlyb1310]

Mike putting cress in the side salad and not in his egg mayo roll is the most Mike thing ever.

 

[Apple In My Pie]

Black Mirror is one of my favourite programmes so probably why I liked the sound of it


I liked Barshens but really went off Barry Lewis. In the Cheap Show podcast, Eli and Paul talk about how Barry is a twat to work with and that didn’t surprise me.
From what I’ve seen Mike and Ashens get on and work well together but Mike doesn’t really do videos with other people (except Grace) so maybe that’s why more hasn’t been done together?

I find it really interesting you said that. I don’t listen to cheapshow (I really want to but I can’t listen to it, I tune out!) - it doesn’t surprise me either. I don’t know how much MVK you watch but Barry was a dickhead then. Basically at one point he was talking about moving away from doing YouTube videos at home, got a really professional cameraman in, converted this barn nearby and the result was some sort of Jamie Oliver wannabe! It really was so unlike the videos he’d gotten famous for and a majority of his viewers told him as much. He did change it back to normal but ever since then I got the impression he really resented his audience for being against the change. Then Barshens. Where do I start. The official line from the Barshens team was that costs were running too high and the YouTube space where they worked was booting them out. I partially believe it (in terms of the YouTube Space) - but I think it was Barry who pushed for Barshens to end. In 2018ish he was tweeting really vague statements about ‘letting go of things that are distracting me’, ‘leaving things behind’, but when people asked about it he kept quiet. He was also moaning on twitter when Barshens had lower viewing figures, along the lines of ‘when me and Stuart work together we get loads of views but not in other videos’... (something like that anyway) - someone told him to promote Barshens a bit more and he was really snippy saying ‘well why should we have to’
So based on that I genuinely think it was him who wanted to leave Barshens behind which led to its downfall... otherwise the group would have found a way to continue Barshens as it was. Because Barry was also doing a podcast at one point so they had all the equipment to switch it over (although I could never get used to Barshens as a podcast)

Really nice to be able to say this here. On the Barshens/Ashens subreddit there are murmurs about Barry’s involvement in Barshens ending, but they’re usually shut down quick - probably because Ashens looks at both subreddits and people would rather keep their mouths shut - lol!

Sorry, this is a bit off topic! back to mike!

 

[SaturdayNightIsWineNight]

Yay! I love Mike Jeavons and happy to see he has a Rave thread. He has quite thick skin doesn't he? The negatives comments seem to just make him laugh if anything.

 

[Apple In My Pie]

I’ve always wanted Mike to do a ‘week on infomercialism’. Or at the very least a ‘weekend on infomercialism’. So all the shitty gadgets he reviews - the slap chop, nicer diner, power juicer, etc. He can have any meal he thinks of but only if he uses a gadget to prepare it.

 

[chocolate choux]

I didn't like the sound of viral, but only because it reminded me of the plot of a Black Mirror episode.

I agree the week ons are so long and some of them, I swear he makes himself purposefully miserable. E.g. in the juice week on he had three piddly little glasses of juice a day! Whether its because he thinks people click for misery, I don't know. but I personally find it really off-putting 'cos most of it is just him being grumpy/hungry/moaning. Lol! I did really enjoy the week ons where him and Grace had a fake baby and he had to go through pregnancy though - I really thought that was going to end with a pregnancy announcement!

He reviewed the Egg Master, same as Ashens, so had Ashens come into the video - I assume to stop the accusations (missed those!), I found it v funny.

I watch Barshens too (Ashens sort of.. spin off channel? Finished now ) - I really wish Mike had popped up in it. He was in Ashens' film so I thought he would!

I agree about him making himself miserable on purpose on the Week Ons. Obviously it started as him crash dieting to quickly lose weight which made him genuinely miserable, people liked it in a schadenfreude sort of way so he started acting up to it... I feel like he needs to evolve though as novelties wear off

I loved Barshens too (and Ashens’ film was brilliant!). Ashens and Barry still collab, and Eli / Paul are on Biffovision now. Wish they’d kept going with Barshens though

I’d love to see Ashens and Mike do a video together, I just searched and Ashens did briefly appear (in person) in an Infomercialism video. I wonder why they haven’t properly collaborated as they produce similar content, must have a crossover with fan bases and likely live relatively close to each other? It does strike me as a bit weird

 

[orlyb1310]

Aww I love him and Grace - especially when he does supermarket week ons and weeks on dinners from that awful dump dinners cook book

 

[SaturdayNightIsWineNight]

I like it when he does a month on something too then condenses it down into 1 or 2 videos.

Got to say, too, when he did the week on parenting I genuinely thought it was a lead up to an announcement. They'd be smashing parents

 

[crystaleyesd]

I love Mike too! I even donate to his patreon (and he actually delivers hi to the Jack Monroe frequenters here ). He's just so normal and dead pan, in these scary times it's just lovely to watch a nice person doing silly things. Do wish he'd be more adventurous with his cooking though...

 

[MrsJ]

I love Mike - I find his videos really easy to watch and quite relaxing. Didn't know all that about Barry Lewis - that surprises me tbh, though I have always wondered how nice he is to Becky. Seems a bit put on to me.

 

[justhavinganosie]

Oh Mike lmao, and can't forget Basil of course. I forgot what video it was but it was a Week On one where he was backed up and he said "as the heavens opened so did my bowels" and proceeded to tell the whole world he had finally done a shit.

 

[Toffee finger]

i love his week ons. Watch every video he does.
Wish he would do an up to date Iceland Week On. Seen loads of comments saying he should do AWO Lidl and Aldi.

I watched a little bit of his Fall Guys twitch stream and he said he is going to do an updated Iceland series soon

 

[Apple In My Pie]

I’m so happy he’s started uploading again, albeit briefly. I love and miss the infomercialisms so much! Keep going back and rewatching his old ones. The ab belt one kills me every time - and the magic bullet. I did hear he was going to stream on twitch and explain his disappearance but don’t know if he ever did? Although can’t imagine it being too exciting - pandemic related probably!

i say disappearance - sounds so over dramatic

 

[Apple In My Pie]

I love Mike too! I even donate to his patreon (and he actually delivers hi to the Jack Monroe frequenters here ). He's just so normal and dead pan, in these scary times it's just lovely to watch a nice person doing silly things. Do wish he'd be more adventurous with his cooking though...

One of my favourite things about Mike... eats or touches something while cooking ‘OW IT’S HOT’. Yes darling cooked food tends to be so

 

[orlyb1310]

I’m skipping over the braces moaning (not sure why he’d decide to do a week on in the week he gets braces fitted, seems a very odd choice), but other than that I’m really enjoying this week on. It’s good to see him having decent food.

Would it be Mike if he didn't make things more inconvenient for himself due to lack of common sense?