YouTuber bashing on other forums, why?

I don't watch them as much as I used to but I do still enjoy some YouTube shave videos once in a while. My favorite is Shave Tank these days but I've watched most of them. I don't know why others care if people watch them or not. If someone enjoys watching them then watch away.

Tomas (Shave Tank) is a lot of fun to watch. He's very quick-witted and knows his stuff. Fun to listen to someone from outside the states.


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I could do without the extraneous political opinions and social commentary.

Except that NOS is not always just old stuff collecting dust.

Nobody knew, in 1977, how popular Star Wars was going to be, yet many, many, MANY people bought the action figures and kept them in the boxes, as collectibles. Not because there was a huge online community, and not because there was an annual "Comic-Con", and not because there was a well-established community of enthusiasts exchanging ideas and creating groups of collectors. They did it because they, personally, collected the items.

40 years later, those toys are worth a small fortune, incredibly difficult to come by, and the internet is DRIPPING with communities, forums, and blogs dedicated to the hobby. A hobby that existed before people knew it existed.

I refuse to believe that every piece of NOS gear was just collecting dust somewhere, rather than being part of a collection that may or may not have been dusty...

Seriously, razors have been intricate and beautiful for a very long time. You cannot convince me that nobody collected these pieces. Manufacturers weren't making intricately carved designs in 1863 because it was fun. It was because people would pay a premium price to add that premium piece to their collection. Key words being "add" and "collection"...

Otherwise, every razor made would be plain-Jane, nothing fancy, purely utilitarian. Clearly that is not the case. Clearly there was a call and a reason for razor manufacturers to make their offerings more than simply utilitarian tools that held a blade for shaving. And those manufacturers answered that call.

Otherwise, every razor would be blase and bland, and we know this isn;t the case.

I don;t have proof, but I have logic, and logic dictates that manufacturers expended additional cost and time on intricate details for shaving gear because there was a market for it. A market clearly indicates an interest beyond the simple utilitarian form of a tool.

VERY well said.

I'm a lot like you with my preferences. Something therapeutic about watching most of these guys. I could definitely do without the social commentary though, especially after the election. I just want to see new products and hear what you think about them, with a few jokes mixed in.

IF you set yourself up as a you tube video god, you have to expect some bashing on your skill.

At the moment, far to much of youtube shave video is simply showing off that you have expensive items. ANd a lot of the stuff is horrid.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in my youth there was a short lived game show called the MILLION DOLLAR PYRAMID noteworthy only for this incredible looking babe in a bikini doing the Vanna White shtick. Any audience it could muster were probably men performing unnatural acts in those pre computer days. Months later I'm a student worker during class registration and SHE walked up to my station. She made one unreasonable demand with that 'you want me so do it look' and the whole illusion turned into that rare 60s coke bottle Camaro with a rebuilt six banger under the hood and more bondo than Detroit Iron under an old Earl Shrieb 29.99 paint job.
It isn't easy creating a finished product for online consumption. I made a tongue in cheek observation about it on another forum that was honored with Mantic's reply. I hope I didn't offend anyone in doing so. Jessie Ventura said quite rightly ' if you don't like T.V. wrestling, turn the channel.' At least these guys have a base knowledge of the product. Try watching a knife review when the fool couldn't bother learning how to pronounce French and didn't know what a marlinespike/hoofpick is.

I used to like the forums but their way to moderated. I've pretty much do Facebook now and there are many groups to join and enjoy talk and videos. I even have my own shave group where the rules are as follows....there are no rules..anything goes and I've never had a problem with anyone or anything it runs itself and everyone loves it. I just make sure nobody rips anyone off. So far no problems are all. You can buy sell trade raffle anything you like. Just under three hundred members in one month. Nobody can tell me how when where or why and if they try to I tell them to stick it. But we're all adults there and nobody gets to play God

IF you set yourself up as a you tube video god, you have to expect some bashing on your skill.

At the moment, far to much of youtube shave video is simply showing off that you have expensive items. ANd a lot of the stuff is horrid.

So...standing in front of a mirror shaving and having a one-sided conversation now equates to setting oneself up as a video god?

I think you have an inferiority complex. I don't think anyone out there shaving in camera ever once thought to themselves, "I'm going to record this because I am the best at this, know more than anyone about this, and damnit people need to get their information from watching my Adonis-like form remove stubble from upon my face."

Video god? Seriously? Come in...I think you're trying to hard to ride in on a white horse and rescue the wet shaving community from the egos in your perception...


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Also, in all of my shave videos, I have never showed a brush that cost more than $60 or a razor that cost more than $50. So much for the theory that's all about showing off...



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It's all I can do just to look at myself in the mirror. The very idea of my peers thinking themselves as charismatic as Gary Cooper , well excepting Mantic is beyond silly.