Can we stop with the "Game Changer...Bang for buck" threads please

topdog91

ewal said:

I had no clue that YouTube and other influencer behaviours was such a sensitive issue!

It is?

TimmyO

Dr_Necessiter said:

fretmeister said:

willo said:

"This one device completely recontextualises the use case of many popular digital modelling systems, currently in use by electric guitarists in the US and UK, primarily through a wrll-considered UI and multi platform integration!!"

I might actually prefer clickbait

Fuck me sideways. 

Sorry.

 Constructive criticism and writing as a professional public speaker: that is indicative of the worst kind of advertising spiel using big words to brag about a vocabulary rather than saying anything in a way that engages the reader / listener.

Make your point in as few words as possible and always pick the simplest word that does the job for maximum engagement and understanding.

What? 

I think he means 'be succinct' :-) 

Snags

topdog91 said:

Snags said:

I'd rather we stopped the multiple pages of totally predictable and facile wibble that only serve to reinforce a sense of being part of a smug inner circle, and aren't even posted /Off Topic, than be triggered by the query, potentially perfectly accurate in context, as to whether or not something is a "game changer" in a thread title.

All thread titles are an invitation to click on them. It's up to you whether you do or not. If you feel that some terms are now so debased by their use in slightly hysterical YouTube titles that they aren't fit for polite society, that's your choice. You can always, i don't know, just not click on the thread and read it. Or you can click on it and read the OP to see whether it's of interest, rather than triggering your Angry Of Internet reflex.

Ditto this thread. :shrug:

Just, you know, jog on, right?

Fair point, there's a certain irony in contributing to it all. But it beats working.

Roland

Snags said:

I'd rather we stopped the multiple pages of totally predictable and facile wibble that only serve to reinforce a sense of being part of a smug inner circle …

Most threads reach this stage sooner or later. It’s a law of the internet, similar to compound interest, that compound comments become increasingly facile, especially under the affluence of incohol.

axisus

Well this is awkward. I was just going to post threads on the new Playstation 5 Ai software that changes games before you know you want to, and another on shot cartridges for male deer hunting.

darthed1981

Sporky said:

From now on, every new thread should start with this sort of image.

 

You see that's why you never go "oooh... a bugger me button... I wonder what that does!!!"

BillDL

^ yes indeed, and that's something the manufacturers will never tell you about.

Kittyfrisk

Penn said:

I am really fighting the urge to start a thread called “What’s the best game changer… bag for buck thing you’ve bought ever?”

It’s taking so much self control. 

I dread to think how a thread on 'a bame changer' would go... 

Revolutions

Kittyfrisk said:

Penn said:

I am really fighting the urge to start a thread called “What’s the best game changer… bag for buck thing you’ve bought ever?”

It’s taking so much self control. 

I dread to think how a thread on 'a bame changer' would go... 

Probably be the draftst thing ever written.

Penn

Revolutions said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Penn said:

I am really fighting the urge to start a thread called “What’s the best game changer… bag for buck thing you’ve bought ever?”

It’s taking so much self control. 

I dread to think how a thread on 'a bame changer' would go... 

Probably be the draftst thing ever written.

Ffs don’t bame me you draftst barstewards. It was my ai overlord what dones it. 

Brio

I've been away for a few days doing dog walks on cliffs, pub quizzes, meals with mate and strangers and then return to thi usual scene. And then I go onto YouTube and John Nathan Cordy is posting exactly this kind of crap.
New haircut. Same shit.
Don't forget mate that you are part of the cost of these pedals. Every 'sponsored content' tag puts the price up.
I'm assuming you weren't on the list for the new Origin Effects release or there'd be a video.

Nerine

Brio said:

I've been away for a few days doing dog walks on cliffs, pub quizzes, meals with mate and strangers and then return to thi usual scene. And then I go onto YouTube and John Nathan Cordy is posting exactly this kind of crap.
New haircut. Same shit.
Don't forget mate that you are part of the cost of these pedals. Every 'sponsored content' tag puts the price up.
I'm assuming you weren't on the list for the new Origin Effects release or there'd be a video.

When you release several videos per day, it’s difficult to stay fresh, clearly. Who’d have thought it. Good guitarist, but seems to favour prolificacy over anything else even though some content seems rushed. Who’d have thought it. 

Would probably get more views if it didn’t seem like such a grift. 

Gotta serve the algorithm, though… 

Danny1969

The trouble is a lot of Youtube guitarists have nothing really to say. A lot of them haven't really done much live playing and a lot of them don't understand the gear they use at a fundamental level. They need more time to develop themselves really. That's why when some old guy starts YT like Tom Bukovac did in 2020 it was like a breath of fresh air. Someone who could play to the highest  of standards, someone who didn't need any video production or post editing. Just an iPhone perched on a table. 

Buy I'm old too and get the fact a lot of younger players will prefer the more processed sounds and slick editing of the big hitters. 

NelsonP

Sporky said:

From now on, every new thread should start with this sort of image.

 

That fella looks familiar

BillDL

NelsonP said:

That fella looks familiar

Part of him does to me too:

digitalscream

Brio said:

I've been away for a few days doing dog walks on cliffs, pub quizzes, meals with mate and strangers and then return to thi usual scene. And then I go onto YouTube and John Nathan Cordy is posting exactly this kind of crap.
New haircut. Same shit.
Don't forget mate that you are part of the cost of these pedals. Every 'sponsored content' tag puts the price up.
I'm assuming you weren't on the list for the new Origin Effects release or there'd be a video.

And people wonder why we get precisely zero high-profile musicians posting on here...or why, when folk from here do get a decent amount of exposure, they stop posting here.

Accusing up-and-coming YouTubers of being the reason for inflated pedal costs is such a ludicrous overreach (and plain wrong) that I don't know where to begin, and the Origin comment is just a cheap shot that, based on your posting history, I genuinely thought would be beneath you.

Perhaps go and look at how the economics of being a relatively small YouTube creator really works, and then compare those numbers to the historical marketing costs for such things.

BlueStrat

fretmeister said:

willo said:

"This one device completely recontextualises the use case of many popular digital modelling systems, currently in use by electric guitarists in the US and UK, primarily through a wrll-considered UI and multi platform integration!!"

I might actually prefer clickbait

Fuck me sideways. 

Sorry.

 Constructive criticism and writing as a professional public speaker: that is indicative of the worst kind of advertising spiel using big words to brag about a vocabulary rather than saying anything in a way that engages the reader / listener.

Make your point in as few words as possible and always pick the simplest word that does the job for maximum engagement and understanding.

Are you paid per word?

Brio

@digitalscream ;Well said and points taken on board.
I still find his content stretched very thin. How many videos did it take to decide whether he liked the PRS SE DGT or not? 

I was an influencer way back in the day. If I did as little research as he does and stretched stuff out this thinly my editor would have fired me. Probably after a lot of correspondence landing on his desk about how crap I was.
Of course he doesn't have an editor. And it shows.

Wazmeister

Now, 

Car indicators… they are a real lane changer…

Brio

Not on BMWs