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Comment by mwidell | Hacker News Reader

The author of the site went on a pretty fierce meltdown on Twitter, throwing shit at several people but mostly Gerald Undone who is a very loved, likeable, competent and successful gear reviewer on youtube. Now he has just deleted all these tweets. https://twitter.com/canonrumorsguy/with_replies

Honestly I think he was just frustrated with the fame, success and money that the gear-review-youtubers are getting, while he was working hard to provide news on a website that struggled to survive. That would be my guess at least.

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Definitely not justified, but makes me as a consumer rather sad.

I'm not sure if generational, though it does seem that way - but I'm personally astounded by the number of people who prefer video reviews to a well written article. Aside from the obvious things like having to listen and watch, not being able to easily scan - there's just so.many.ads, not YT ads, but uh, 'sponsors.' The whole industry feels incredibly gross and insincere to me.

Again, to be clear - that doesn't justify any of the above, just kinda makes me think I'd feel the same way in his shoes.

But did you read the canon rumors post? Without an ad blocker on mobile it is a relentless wall of ads with occasional sentences stuck between them... And of course a plea to allow notifications.

Not only is it shocking that so many people want video content but once quality article websites are gone the quality of videos that use the written content online as the basis for the video scripts!

I generally prefer written articles as well, but this is for camera reviews. The video format, when executed well, is actually a great fit for this. I learn more from watching a YouTuber handle a camera and operate it than I would from someone describing it in text. Video conveys an extra dimension that is lost in text for camera reviews.

The YouTuber he’s attacking (for unknown reasons) also does microphone reviews and other things related to video production. Video really is a good format for these.

I much prefer YouTube reviews to written ones these days. It’s so much easier to watch them on the treadmill compared to reading. I also like to wind down with some videos before bed, whereas reading makes me focus too much and I can’t sleep.

And of course there are ads. There are also ads on written reviews too, but I’m sure you block those just like everybody else. Please don’t complain about YouTube creators trying to monetize their content. If that’s what they need to do to stay afloat, then I’m happy to hear about whatever random VPN company is running a sale.

It sounds like someone threatened his family in a way that was meaningful. How would you react?

Having watched a lot of Gerald Undone's videos, I have a very very hard time imagining how he could incite anyone to threaten someones family. But I don't know the backstory, just saw the meltdown.

There are lots of people, especially YouTube commentators who will rush to attack anyone who is seemed to have hated on their favourite creator. It doesn’t matter who started what, it ended with apparent threats which is not ok

Look the kind of emotional response you get when you talk about Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or some other tech hero. It's off the scale.

That wasn't what his original twitter rant was about though. His original rant was about YTers being overpaid and overrated, then this "someone threatened my family" claim was after that all blew up.

It isn't at all clear what started all this, but the claim of threats/actual threats was the end of it.

12 trips to the range.

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