Studytubers. Toxic or inspiring?

[whatshesaid123]

Hi guys, I made this account after being blocked by Rosie (JustALittleRoo, part of the Studytube Project) after calling her out on not social distancing ended up in her blocking me

It really frustrates me how many of the StudyTubers aren't making any effort to social distance (I have a family member on immunosuppressants who's still shielding, so I know I'm more touchy than most people would be about this). But I can't believe they always say "call me out if I do something problematic!" but when you do, they block you I only have instagram to follow YouTubers I like as well, which has kind of made it even more sad.

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(My first reply is hidden because she blocked me, but I said something like you can still spread the virus when a camera is pointing at you)

I quite like Rosie but now I cant believe she would not social distance and then try and justify why she’s above the law. It’s okay for her because she’s been isolating - but she could still catch coronavirus! It’s not like the virus knows whether you’ve been isolating for months

 

[bunnyboo]

British studytuber starter pack

 

[emmer_moans]

Ibz Mo was off to a good start but has now tested postive for Covid and is feeling really rough. I hope he's ok. He's grown on me as he seems to have matured and I am rooting for him on his Oxford journey.

He posted on his Insta regarding the covid.

 

[Magallanes]

shall we start a thread about Kharma Medic? he seems like a very nice guy and there's probably not a lot of tattle about him haha but he's currently a really big productivity/study youtuber

 

[Magallanes]

is it just me or many studytubers/productivity youtubers want to become a solicitor? i'm not from the UK so i find this a bit strange...i know they may earn lots of money (depending on the company) but what is the ratio between candidates and offered places?

 

[nissigossips]

is it just me or many studytubers/productivity youtubers want to become a solicitor? i'm not from the UK so i find this a bit strange...i know they may earn lots of money (depending on the company) but what is the ratio between candidates and offered places?

Very easy to get on the LPC/LLM if you self-fund (Astrid, Ibz Mo), very competitive if you want a place sponsored by a law firm (Eve C).

 

[Magallanes]

Very easy to get on the LPC/LLM if you self-fund (Astrid, Ibz Mo), very competitive if you want a place sponsored by a law firm (Eve C).

liam porritt and kharma medic's girlfriend alexia also did the law conversion course, it's as if youtube is flooded by solicitors!

 

[nissigossips]

Astrid is paying to promote her Instagram!!!

 

[jjhv]

Over this Christmas period all of the bigger studytubers are just pissing me off. Their self-absorption is showing soo much.

 

[Oaisoeo9:93]

is lucrezia chloe considered a studytuber? i'd like to start a thread about her but i don't know if she's, let's say, "relevant" enough, she still has a pretty small channel, but she looks like she looks up to grace beverley and all that TALA jazz

She’s only just gone and deleted all her useful videos too! Ever since she moved to Dubai, she’s rebranded herself as a care free girl. Barely any mention of studies and deleted all her study related videos apart from 2.

 

[Magallanes]

She’s only just gone and deleted all her useful videos too! Ever since she moved to Dubai, she’s rebranded herself as a care free girl. Barely any mention of studies and deleted all her study related videos apart from 2.

oh wow, why did she do that? she had a large following and her content was pretty much recommended by youtube, and suddenly one day she deleted her ig account and her channel went on a hiatus...just to delete most of her videos later? it doesn't make any sense to me

 

[Oaisoeo9:93]

oh wow, why did she do that? she had a large following and her content was pretty much recommended by youtube, and suddenly one day she deleted her ig account and her channel went on a hiatus...just to delete most of her videos later? it doesn't make any sense to me

I think she wants to start afresh and change her content. My guess is that during quarantine and moving to Dubai, she lost all her study motivation she once had and showed that through her content. If you take a look it’s pretty much beauty and fashion now. Changing her content is absolutely fine but deleting videos that a lot of people found useful for studying isn’t really ideal
Due to the change, she is losing views that she once had bc pretty much everyone subscribed to her because of her study content which doesn’t exist anymore.

 

[Magallanes]

i don't know if any of you have seen this, but liam porritt (for those who are not familiar with the name, he's a cambridge graduate in languages, i believe he studied spanish and french if i'm not mistaken(?), then took the PGDL and is currently a solicitor in a london firm)
so well, this guy posted a video with this title: (see attachment number 1)
which, okay, i get it. you went to cambridge, you succeeded into finding a job, now you're also a part-time youtuber and receive some extra income from that source, you have a beautiful girlfriend and you exercise 3 times a week...but, really? "how i get good at anything"? he surely didn't have to flex that hard am i right?
i think he didn't realise the privilege he had when he had the chance to attend one of the best universities in the world, how he was accepted in a graduate scheme for law, and finally, how he got the job of his dreams. it's certainly something he has earned from his hard work, i'm sure about that, but it is also a mixture of luck and privilege. he's a straight white man, who comes from a middle class family, who never experienced oppression. and, taking a look at his old videos, he never struggled with mental health disorders or other sorts of obstacles or barriers during his formative years, so he's certainly in a very lucky position
i'm assuming he received a quite strong backlash with that thumbnail, so he switched it to the second one (see attachment #2)

sorry for the long rant, i know probably this guy's intentions weren't mean, but it's a bit tone deaf to not acknowledge your privilege and think everyone can succeed as far as you do with just a bit of effort and consistency

 

[nissigossips]

Warning: big rant incoming.

But I am SO FED UP of studytubers not declaring their ads properly. They keep making the declaration smaller and smaller.

FYI the ASA regulations in the UK say you must know something is an ad before you click on it, so either have it clearly in the thumbnail or title or both.

Does this look clear to you???

In fact, let's make it a fun game: spot the "AD"

They make SO MUCH MONEY off these sponsorships. The least they can do is stop misleading people. And its intentional. You can tell by how they keep making it smaller and smaller, seeing what they can get away with...

 

[CalatheaLater]

Warning: big rant incoming.

But I am SO FED UP of studytubers not declaring their ads properly. They keep making the declaration smaller and smaller.

FYI the ASA regulations in the UK say you must know something is an ad before you click on it, so either have it clearly in the thumbnail or title or both.

Does this look clear to you???

In fact, let's make it a fun game: spot the "AD"

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They make SO MUCH MONEY off these sponsorships. The least they can do is stop misleading people. And its intentional. You can tell by how they keep making it smaller and smaller, seeing what they can get away with...

It annoys me so much! I really don't care if youtuber post loads of clearly declared ads, becuase they're usually mentioned in one part of a video and don't affect the majority of the content (and I have ad block on anyway). But I want to know before clicking on the video if it's going to contain an ad!

 

[fwooper]

Warning: big rant incoming.

But I am SO FED UP of studytubers not declaring their ads properly. They keep making the declaration smaller and smaller.

FYI the ASA regulations in the UK say you must know something is an ad before you click on it, so either have it clearly in the thumbnail or title or both.

Does this look clear to you???

In fact, let's make it a fun game: spot the "AD"

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They make SO MUCH MONEY off these sponsorships. The least they can do is stop misleading people. And its intentional. You can tell by how they keep making it smaller and smaller, seeing what they can get away with...

Do they all have the same management or something? Just wondering why the style of ‘AD’ is identical for Jade and Jack’s thumbnails.

They should put it in the title like everyone else. These studytubers will be the first to say how they want to be authentic and ‘real’ to their followers, yet for some reason are so cagey and insecure about declaring when something is an advert.

 

[lemonlime]

I used to enjoy study content when it used to be on Tumblr, just photos and tips and general stationery adoration on my part. After it became this productivity-porn where content creators stroke their own egos while humble-bragging about how many hours they have studied right before they reassure their viewers that 'grades and university don't mean everything'... Please. It turns my stomach.

Just admit that you love watching yourself be "productive" in sped up video clips and you just want the sponsorships. There is no need to dress the studytube content as if it's anything other than a regular influencer content nowadays. I'm past my school years although I was doing a second degree a few years back, and watching this stuff helped me enjoy the dull memorising process a bit more. I am all for romanticising ordinary things to make them a bit more fun for yourself but I cannot and will not sit and watch people who pretend to be inspirational and unique while they milk the cash cow that is their channel with that supposedly unassuming smile on their face.

I still love looking at nice stationery and there are a couple studytubers I enjoy watching but the rest get on my nerves with their entitlement, lies and disingenuity. I don't care if they study 18 hours a day or if they think they're inspiring and woke by passing some generic comment about the world's issues. They are just in it for the validation and money now and it's really grating that they think they are above those who don't make study related content. Jade is the absolute worst.

 

[Merpedy]

It annoys me so much! I really don't care if youtuber post loads of clearly declared ads, becuase they're usually mentioned in one part of a video and don't affect the majority of the content (and I have ad block on anyway). But I want to know before clicking on the video if it's going to contain an ad!

It's the videos where the whole thing is basically a huge advertisement that annoy me.
I don't care for your yearly review or whatever the hell you're writing about, it's clearly just to promote the app

 

[LolitaBlah]

shall we start a thread about Kharma Medic? he seems like a very nice guy and there's probably not a lot of tattle about him haha but he's currently a really big productivity/study youtuber

Yes please he is da best <3 And his new channel with podcasts made me like him even more!

 

[hollowcrown]

i don't know if any of you have seen this, but liam porritt (for those who are not familiar with the name, he's a cambridge graduate in languages, i believe he studied spanish and french if i'm not mistaken(?), then took the PGDL and is currently a solicitor in a london firm)
so well, this guy posted a video with this title: (see attachment number 1)
which, okay, i get it. you went to cambridge, you succeeded into finding a job, now you're also a part-time youtuber and receive some extra income from that source, you have a beautiful girlfriend and you exercise 3 times a week...but, really? "how i get good at anything"? he surely didn't have to flex that hard am i right?
i think he didn't realise the privilege he had when he had the chance to attend one of the best universities in the world, how he was accepted in a graduate scheme for law, and finally, how he got the job of his dreams. it's certainly something he has earned from his hard work, i'm sure about that, but it is also a mixture of luck and privilege. he's a straight white man, who comes from a middle class family, who never experienced oppression. and, taking a look at his old videos, he never struggled with mental health disorders or other sorts of obstacles or barriers during his formative years, so he's certainly in a very lucky position
i'm assuming he received a quite strong backlash with that thumbnail, so he switched it to the second one (see attachment #2)

sorry for the long rant, i know probably this guy's intentions weren't mean, but it's a bit tone deaf to not acknowledge your privilege and think everyone can succeed as far as you do with just a bit of effort and consistency

For the most part I like Porritt because he seems very normal but his devolution into standard entrepeneur/crypto/money making content has put me off him recently.

That video posted is incredibly arrogant. He might be good and optimised at studying in languages and law and a bit of codying but that does not show at all how he would perform at maths or science. Secondly it's extremely rich from a man who seems to be a study/chill focused guy and does not appear to have any artistic hobbies. Try getting good at the guitar or doing some art and then come back with that same attitude. That tit is challenging and requires hard work.

Another nail in the coffin is his recent video on how much money he " really " earns as a lawyer in London. So the dude is on £48k which is a pretty good wage for a starting job in London and yeah London is expensive but he's living with a partner which can always help your money go a bit further. So he has this good wage and then accounts for the extra hours he does as a lawyer so start taking off money. Fair enough. Then starts taking off money for time spent commuting etc which okay I guess it's sort of fair. Then he starts taking off money for his rent, food that he buys, bills and contracts and he's like oh it's pretty close to minimum hourly wage now! And it's like bro...that's not what you "really" earn like those are norma expenditures you can't put your true wage as close to minimum wage after taking off ALL YOUR LIVING EXPENSES. Plus that is not even accounting your Youtube revenue or sponsorships which are going to cover some of your bills and rent. It's so insulting to people actually on minimum wage.

I hate this devolution into techbros and investing and money and self-help that is happening to so many study Youtubers.