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What do you look for in an airsoft blog/channel?

YouTube ad money has gone waaaaay down, how d'ya reckon full-time social media people keep the lights on?  Charging for their promotions of stuff, it's not a rumour believe me.  Airsoft is small fry, big guns channels in the states charge thousands for 'reviews' then ask you for Patreon; the price list for IV8888 is floating around out there somewhere, used to be anyway, all of them are at it.  Subscribe to a bunch of them you'll see reviews for speicfic guns and Olight all weirdly publishing on the same day at almost the exact same time.

 
What do I look for? 

Nothing.

I honestly don’t care for watching Airsoft, I prefer playing  :D

 I don’t use YouTube other than an instruction video on the odd occasion.. but then I’m not really of that ‘millennial’ mindset

 
well tbh i didnt mean to butt in, but it is rather on topic isnt it? for instance you lot are saying what you look for in a channel, if i give an example if you want to look go for it, im not exactly mashing your face onto the keyboard telling you to "watch like & subscribe" am i lol

 
really pisses me off when they are reviewing a rig or something and they don't even fucking wear it! show me how easy or hard it is to get the fucker on and what it looks like how it sits.

 
C4milz Airsoft UK said:
well tbh i didnt mean to butt in, but it is rather on topic isnt it? for instance you lot are saying what you look for in a channel, if i give an example if you want to look go for it, im not exactly mashing your face onto the keyboard telling you to "watch like & subscribe" am i lol
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clumpyedge said:
As soon as I see sponsored by or paid partnership Ive automatically lost interest. I did hear a rumour that a certain blogger charges around £450 for a review of a single product, now I find it very hard to believe someone can 100% be subjective/unbiased when they are being paid for the review.
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She hardly plays a full day either. 

 
Genuine gameplay, in-depth reviews and unbiased thoughts. 

I have been watching Gun Gamers lately, that channel is great.

 

 
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SuckMySock said:
Genuine gameplay, in-depth reviews and unbiased thoughts. 

I have been watching Gun Gamers lately, that channel is great.
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Praise Judy.

Gun gamers say bad things about good products. Hell he loves krytac and made a whole video bashing things to do with them because he likes them so much hes found almost all the little issues and niggles people should know about. That is how you can tell they aren't just trying to sell you things or use their "influence" to peddle shit. 

 
More milsim Reviews

more night vision reviews

more hair gel reviews

blah blah blah

etc etc

dont do YouTube sponsored content (sorry reviews)

 
I don't know either, but I just like when we're being catty.

 
I tend to be drawn more towards youtubers that review guns/gear and give good tips for the sport rather than one's who purely focus on gameplay. I go for smaller uk based youtubers like burntwolf or lone wombat airsoft because they have good reviews and good guides on various things within the sport of airsoft. The one's i stay away from most are the one's that have "OMG, KID REKT AND STARTS FIGHT" in the title. These, in my experience, tend to be more common with american youtubers. I'm not trying to put them down or anything but from my own experience, we seem to be more laid back when compared to places like the US. It's a game based on trust and at the end of the day it's just a bit of fun. So yeah, anything with rediculous titles and/or teenagers fighting eachother.

Oh, and novrithcjsbfhdb whatever his name is, i can never pronounce/spell it properly. I remember seeing one of his videos a long time ago and didn't really care much. Since then I've seen arguments for why people don't like him and i get it. His stuff being overpriced and trying to get new players to jump in the deep end with sniping and then give up on airsoft when they realise they aren't captain macmillan from modern warfare could prove rather damaging to the future of the sport. Every hobby needs the hobbyists to keep it going and if they splash out on his gear and then give up after they realise it's not as easy as novvi makes it sound then that's not good for anyone except his bank account. 

Templar is another decent one but i don't think he has done weapon reviews in a while

So yeah, i go for the smaller channels personally but to each their own. Just my twopence. 

 
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Garand Thumb for the win. If only for the comments section!

Airsoft "reviews" of kit that are literally just "it's a thing that's made of stuff it comes in lots of colours" are worse than useless, same goes for unboxing videos of gifted bits.

Actual informative reviews of stuff a la @TheFull9 are great, anything that has the "reviewer" in full gear fumbling about with stuff while wearing tactical gloves gets an ignore straight away.

I'll also say one of the BEST channels for airsoft is Negative Airsoft https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWFrvXg78qI4j8Brfit2XA cos Luke is ace and he swears like a navvy with Tourettes.

 
Lozart said:
Actual informative reviews of stuff a la @TheFull9 are great, anything that has the "reviewer" in full gear fumbling about with stuff while wearing tactical gloves gets an ignore straight away.
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Nah my stuff is terrible, nobody watch it.

To be fair I often wear some gloves in video where my hands will be seen close up, but usually I've torn back the skin around my nails on gun parts during the week and I just don't think people wanna see it.  I sure can't stand watching videos when the subject can't even spend £2 on a nail brush to clear all the black shit out from under there when they wash their hands.  Maybe if you're a chimney sweep or like work in an actual steel foundry and you're getting filthy all over every single day, but my hands get filthy from carbon and OX-24 all the time and I get them clean so I don't think there's an excuse for most people.

 
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