These sponsorships already seem like anti ads. If you buy crap from influencers, that's on you.
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This is 100% how I operate, it's total bias confirmation. If it's not a product I use, it's got to be trash. If it's someone I like and something I already like then I'm glad stars have aligned to support the person I like. Which is rarely the case.
And if it's unskippable ads, or the same ad more than once in an hour, that product or service is dead to me for life.
Real. Every commercial I see these days makes me now question the product integrity, even if I've been using the brand for years. I stopped using Oral-B recently bc I'd associated it with unskippable ads whenever I use youtube on the TV. It's like reverse subliminal messaging lol
Sure, but let me tell you about Legendary Shadow Raids...
That's kinda what behind the bastards does. There are definitely better ad breaks than this, but they do this type of thing a lot.
https://youtu.be/eTlAYCGAHpc?t=3672
"This video was sabotaged by FedEx. This product I'm reviewing was ordered twice. The first time, it was damaged by the delivery driver."
I believe that's what Louis Rossmann does on a regular basis on his channel.
"Hey everybody, hope you're having a lovely day, because I am about to ruin it! Welcome to today's episode of how you're getting fucked. I am your host Louis Rossmann and today..."
And he says all that in like 2 seconds
All in a sped-up Bob Ross calm
How is he ruining anyones day but the people at the companies in question? I'm not gonna get offended, mad or sad that a company whose product(s) I use gets laid out as being shit. Disappointed, maybe, but only if the company used to be good and I knew that before giving them money. I just go "ah, I'm glad I know this now so I can stop supporting them, thanks again Mr. Rossmann!"
"Ah shit, this affects me, I have the product."
Yeah him or Gamers Nexus.
Yes, but he does it for free. Missed opportunity, he should charge the competitors.
and he does a fantastic job of it
Hah I was about to comment how that is basically the entire point of his channel now.
Comedian Frankie Boyle has a funny bit about blackmail sponsorships where you threaten to say negative shit about a company if they don't pay you. Like, you're watching Law & Order and suddenly it's
"Caught another pedo Sarg."
"Oh? What was he doing when you caught him?"
* faces camera *
"Eatin Walker's Crisps®" .
LMAOOOO
Literally the most boring crisp as well. So he's got a point.
And now a message from the national apple institute: FUCK PEARS!
The youtuber popular Papameat did this with Swig when he was reviewing and making fun of the show secrets lives of Mormon house wives.
Every 5 minutes was a sponsored swig break, where he would talk about how shit their soda is and how dumb it is to shop there.
Benn Jordan did that at the end of his Flock Safety video, shit-talking some companies that keep bugging him for sponsorships
"This video is in spite of..."
"And I'll happily edit out this summary of my horrible experience with Factor Meals for $1,050 per video!"
I will say this about regular sponsorship - and if you're a company bribing Youtubers to shill your shit, take heed:
Whenever a Youtuber interrupts their content to sell me garbage I don't want (and SponsorBlock doesn't catch it), I take note of the company and it goes in the very long shit-list of companies I try to avoid patronizing.
The more Youtubers that company bribes, the higher it rises in my shit-list.
The more the Youtuber tries to seamlessly weave the plug into their narrative, to sneakily make me watch it by not realizing they've switched to the plug, the higher the company they shill for rises in my shit-list - and this one annoys me no end, so the companies that pay Youtubers to make clever seamless transitions to the plugs go very quickly to the top. If you're going to waste my time with your fucking shill job, at least be honest about it.
When a company is on my shit-list, I will go the extra mile and then some to never buy anything from it, even if it sells the best and only product I really want. Fortunately, they rarely do: it's always shit.
Examples of companies at the very top of my shit-list:
NordVPN (or any VPN supplier I hear about on Youtube really)
BetterHelp
Brilliant
...
They can all fuck right off.
I do make an exception for those Youtubers who shill for quality content platforms that are alternatives to Youtube, for documentary and science videos and such, like Curiosity Stream. Not because I like the shilling, but because they advertise a service that competes with Google and that always gets my vote.
My personal issue with brilliant is that Khan Academy is so much better and has existed for years longer. You never see any adverts for them.
My personal issue with Brilliant is that I never want to hear about Brilliant, but somehow they regularly force me to.
Sponsorblock doesn't catch sponsored segments, viewers do that. Do your part, add the timestamps when you see a sponsor.
Some youtubers make in depth documentaries, then ruin it replacing the conclusion with a sponsor segment. This airport has a website and now so can you with our sponsor!
SuperRaeDizzle once did a video about Amazon's scummy practices (I think it was a about the way they take third party bestsellers, find the suppliers and then source their own knockoff version from the exact same supplier). And then she immediately plugs her amazon affiliate links and I think promoted their basics art products. Like, come on.
Sponsorblock doesn't catch sponsored segments, viewers do that.
I'm aware of that. It was just a turn of phrase.
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There was a YouTuber I used to respect and looked up to when I was a teenager and I hadn't checked his channel for years. Last year I looked at one of his videos after the US election and he was using the fact that it's a dangerous time for queer people as his segue into shilling for BetterHelp. Not a chance any YouTuber is unaware of the issues with it by now, anyone who shills it knows damn well how dangerous that platform is, and I don't think my opinion of someone has dropped as quickly as that. It's bad enough to shill that awful company but to exploit your young queer audience's fears post-election and people's mental health issues and act like they're doing them a favour? Absolutely fuck that.
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An exception to this I make is when the product or company is relevant to the youtuber's area of focus. Youtube channel Stumpy Nubs (Real name not important), woodworker, often seeks sponsorships from small mom & pop tool businesses. That I find acceptable.
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There's plenty of 20-60 minute long anti-ads for Nestle.
If I had a popular YouTube channel, I’d definitely do this for Magic Spoon after it made everyone in my house violently sick.
I'm sorry, "high protein cereal"? I'm just imagining a cooked hamburger patty, shredded and drenched with milk. What in the absolute fuck?
There are high-protein foods that aren't meat. Chickpeas and other legumes, for one.
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Ugh Magic Spoon. Where they magically spin up milk proteins into sweet tasting cereal.
The real magic is trying to eat it really fast and not chew too much so that the whey globules don't get stuck into your teeth like milk tack throwing off your next meal.
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Road Guy Rob on YouTube does parody sponsorship bits, making fun of things like VPN ads sometimes, when thanking his viewers for supporting him.
"And now I would like to take a few minutes to give a big fuck you to AT&T at the Auburn outlet mall for stealing $685 from me"
People remember names more than opinions. It wouldn't surprise me if this was still a net gain for the company.
This video is sponsored by Weyerhauser! We're destroying pretty much every ecosystem in the world, and gobble up public land like it's required to survive!
Also we'll buy all of the land around public land and illegally close off access to said public land!
But mostly the destruction of the environment! Fuck you! We're going to clear cut everything as fas as possible. You don't want to support us? Fuck you! Now we're going to close a mill that's going to devastate a small logging town! You do support us? Fuck you! We'll harvest trees so small the mills we have can't process them, and we'll close those mills too! Either way we're going to blame the owls for not being able to raze nature to dust for a quick buck!
Weyerhauser! Fuck you! We own your country!
This land use infographic has two seperate areas, one for all corporate timberland and a second just for Weyerhouser.
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That could work on PeerTube (like a nice fad).
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