Another Mark Rober video, another reason to dislike the guy
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Dude published a video titled "I built a rollercoaster in my lab", when what really happened is that he hired a bunch of well-known backyard coaster builders (Magictecture) to build a rollercoaster for him in a week(!) and they're barely even credited in the video for all the work they've done.
The Magitecture folks themselves seem okay with the arrangement, going by their comments on their own video, but on top of all the other sketchy shit going on around Mark Rober this is definitely leaving yet another bad taste in my mouth. Just everything about the guy feels bad and sleazy.
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@Vampire A couple things have come up over the years but the whole business model around his subscription box (and how many of his newer videos are functionally just ads for that) would be one example
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@Vampire Basically by this point I am questioning more and more how many of "his" projects were actually his, and it all starts feeling an awful lot like the typical kind of technically-defensible-but-pretty-shitty behaviour from "entrepreneurs"
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@joepie91 Ah, that makes sense. Thanks
Wasn't even aware of the subscription box
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@joepie91 he became a YouTuber (derogatory)
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@robinsyl Yeah, it feels like Mark Rober's channel is just "MrBeast for nerds" now, basically
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@joepie91 @robinsyl if he's who I think he is, he's already working wth MrBeast so they are likely using the same promotional tactics.
I rarely watch USA Youtubers these days unless they are doing somethng genuinely useful like electronics or car maintenance, and even then they all use strange units of measurement - TBH I fear the only way the bullshit culture will stop is when the bottom completely falls out of the adtech funded sites like YouTube and a lot of good stuff will simply be lost along with the crap when that happens...
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@joepie91 Was there more sketchy stuff?
I stopped watching him after he tried to make guided missiles for an experiment without realising.