It's one thing to have adverts/sponsors, another when you're within that sphere yourself

he has some good points but i find him insufferable to listen to

By illustration, I don't think peopel watch Dankula and assume Raid Shadow Legends is a great game, and they don't watch Bearing thinking whateverthefuck VPN he's shilling is the best VPN

Thunderf00t? He has his own set of character flaws that makes him like that, and a massive blind spot when it comes to politics

maybe in large part, but they are surely directing traffic to these products or they wouldn't be doing it. that means a lot of people are gullible enough to go download that predatory mobile game (probably kids, much of the time)

Heady mix a-la PeP

Yes

But Bearing isn't an expert on VPNs, you might argue Linus Tech Tips is

It'd be like complaining to the Cinema company that the Volkswagon you bought after seeing an advert for it in the movie trailers wasn't as good as they made out

@Crafty even total biscuit was man enough to admit that being sent product will in tern lead to bias, he even made sure to make this fact open to his viewers and that his viewers should always watch his and many other channels

yeah it kinda became a joke once channels not even tangentially related to the product they're promoting started doing it

Not a joke, if anything easier - it's just advertising at that point and you can disconnect the product from the person's channel promoting it

Its a business at the end of the day. Its all about the benjamins. I would shill a vpn or a crappy game for huge stacks of cash. Most people would

yeah i suppose

I don't think reviewers should be allowed to keep the product once they've done the review, in essence they're not being sent a free gift, but are only providing a service

With all the issues of total biscuit with his politics and stupid behaviour at coxcon, he was consumer first through and through

As long as they make it clear they're being sponsored their shouldn't be an issue

Ffs the man shouted at his wife for not voting hillary <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

which man?

Biscuit

Total Biscuit

Man's a faggot then

(was)

Shame, he's from Newcastle, he should be tough

never really watched his stuff

Apparently he wasn't smh

But he stood by his consumer first principles no matter what, and I respect him for that

anyone got a tl;dr for what's going down in Iran* I gather Iraqis stormed the US embassy, is the strike a retaliation for that?

He was even one of the figureheads of gamergate

Youtube was low quality before it became far more commercialised

Iran isnt it?

iran sorry yeah

Basically literally was the wild west

Twitter is going off on WW3

and now is just the west

But yeah that's basically where I'm at @Crafty

Twitter is high on their own farts @Crafty

I assume its retaliation for the embassy

I was just about mention this. Whats goin on with this iran general being blasted by the usa.

The likelihood of world war 3 happening over this is basically nil

What is far more likely is Iran throwing a tantrum