Except somewhere in all of that, you pretty much cold-shouldered me for no apparent reason. Fair game, you don't like my stuff, but much like people who bash the dislike button¹, it always puzzles me why people do things like that without any explanation, how am I meant to improve if i don't know what i'm missing? You weren't the first, vwestlife did it years before, LGR *cough* sellout cunt *cough* did the same (Along with turning his back on the Duke Nukem community), RGVX too, all of them run huge channels now so whatever, evidently I'm not worthy or some shit.²
Here are a few I subscribe to that I feel are worth a mention;
> WaybackTech - In many ways, similar videos to my own but probably much less boring than me
> Nelizmastr - Only recently ventured into this stuff, no idea if he'll continue but it's nice to see a new face on the scene, got the whole system (PMMX) right from the word go and didn't let the video drag
> uxwbill - His formula is a bit like that of vwestlife. I can sympathize with this guy because he is unashamedly a normal guy living in a normal house much like me instead of having everything look like the Apple Store
> Roadgeek - Whilst the editing is basic and his videos are probably longer than they need to be, he gets the nostalgia factor right and is still worth checking out.
- Videos sans frontier and lmull3 fall into the same crowd as the above, though focus on retro much less. The latter seems to spend a lot of time with more recent laptops. Still interesting though. As for VSF, he's worth checking out for the awesome Scottish accent if nothing else.
> VintageCG - Uploads old CGI demo reels. Seems to have run out of them, but you can at least watch what is already there.
> Techmoan - Occasionally does videos on old Hi-Fi stuff and the rest of his content is interesting. He almost never touches computers however.
¹ In some cases, without watching anything. I found it monumentally hilarious when some noob from Australia hit the button on every video I ever uploaded in the space of a few hours (so obviously not watching them) seemingly because I stated a dislike of the way some things are over here at Vogons. Oops. I suspect the same buffoon was the one who tried to shut down my channel and failed miserably. They're obviously a coward anyway as they never came forward or said what their gripes were with me. Whatever, it achieved nothing but a slight boost to my search ranking, whoever it was obviously has no life anyway so I can only guess their either jealous or it is another YouTuber feeling threatened. Personally, I'm just flattered they show such dedication to this day, I must be awesome to have left enough of an impression that they are willing to spend so much time on me, we're going on a year now I think.
² For the record, I don't really care, I just find it strange that such a pattern emerged. Over the years most of the largest channels on this scene were subscribers and even regular comment contributors at some stage and all of them disappeared. However, it would be interesting to know why, especially when one of them outright copied me early on until I altered my format and went into a more advanced, more in-depth style that I don't think they could compete with... That might have alienated some of my audience I guess as they may be unable to take it in, but I doubt it. I take pride in the fact my audience isn't comprised of idiots and twelve-year-olds, it is one of the things I like about my channel having grown slowly and naturally as opposed to being some overblown sellout cesspool like some of them are, channels where you can't go three seconnds without a stupid comment war breaking out and never get a reply from the video's creator. I sometimes take a while to reply, but that is because I like to put time into that, I believe in showing respect to, and interacting with, my audience as much as possible. At the end of the day, they're the ones who sat there for 30 minutes and listened to me ramble about obsolete crap the wider world doesn't really care about.
