It's not an either/or situation. Look at the official Cubase videos, for example. Their guy is friendly and very personable (and he's one of us). But I don't know what he looks like and I don't need to know.deastman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:22 pm I don’t mind the YouTubers who are promoting themselves as a personal brand along with the content that they generate. Everyone needs to make a buck somehow, and if they can find a way to do it by providing useful, intelligent, and entertaining content, I’m fine with that. I don’t require every technology video to be dry, to the point, and devoid of all humanity.
Here, again, why would you care if they like it or not? I don't want their stupid opinion, it is almost certainly going to be worthless, I want information so I can make up my own mind.I do have a few bones to pick with them, however. As they grow more successful, these people start to take on more sponsored content. It isn’t just that they have advertisers, but that the actual content of the show is driven by companies with products that they want featured and reviewed. Naturally, you’ll never see a critical review. If a reviewer doesn’t like the product they’re being paid to showcase, they’ll usually go over the features and demonstrate its use, without offering an opinion. The problem with this agnostic approach is that they are implicitly endorsing the product by choosing to review it, even if they don’t personally like it.
He was the first person to get his hands on TRK-01 and I couldn't watch even one minute of his video. He pissed me off something chronic, I just wanted to punch him in his stupid face. So I just bought TRK-01 based on the demo sounds and hoped for the best. (Turned out it was even better than I had hoped/expected.)