AvE hid the subscription count on his channel a few years ago because the gamification was creating a negative (emotional) positive feedback loop for him. Started caring more about pumping his numbers and the constant ratrace to get ahead, when he just wanted to goof around in the shop.
Well, that's exactly what Youtube doesn't want to allow you to do. Everyone should be obsessed about their numbers and make more more more content.
remy_martian wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:39 pmFor example, there are Youtubers that used to build fantastic technical contraptions when they had below 500k, but after 3M they were digging tunnels under their houses to satisfy the idiots they picked up as subs who merely wanted a clown show.
When you are as cool as Colin Furze, then you can criticize his project choices.
He was a plumber who built a Wall of Death out of scrap pallets to ride a scooter around sideways.
He holds multiple entries in the Guinness Book of World Records for ridiculous feats.
He burned the flesh off his hands and arms in a wrist-mounted flamethrower accident.
He used to build devices and such from movies, but more or less got scooped by the Hacksmith and his team, so he pivoted a bit.
He built a hover bike that risked his life to get off the ground.
He gets offered large amounts of budget to build cool things, that he'd never get to build. Giant Tie Fighter playhouses, underground bunkers, etc.
He wrote a book with plans for kids to build cool projects without expensive tools (like GoKarts that don't need you to weld, etc).
Dude has a family, and just wanted to chill.
At the start of Covid, lockdowns in England were strict. He could only build projects out of things he already had, or could scrounge from his friends. It wasn't like the US where Home Depots flourished.
What more does he have to prove? At some point he's going to have to do safer things.
And, he was co-host with Tom Scott on a national TV series before he even did Youtube, so, it's not like this is some new thing to him.
Through it all he has no editor, no staff, still lives in the same house, hasn't gone after wealth.
I think the tunnel's pretty cool.
