MW1990
Regular
It is a sad unfolding of events that I have noticed over the past year or so. First Rob (insert numbers here) Thrawst, and Nakaji1084 were the more popular youtube cubers so to speak, and then followed a whole slew of "cubers" that wished to YouTube partners.
Well, Rob being a YouTube partner is perfectly fine because he is teached many people how to solve the cube (the non-Pogobat way i.e. LBL), which is great. Thrawst sort of does the same thing, but his teachings never really caught on, and he doesn't really make a big deal about being a partner, which is also good. Nakaji1084, well, Nakajima produces many cubing videos, and they are all of good quality and interesting to cubers (and on top of that he has his extra channel "CUTEX" which has many useful algorithms and other cubing/solving related videos), so his YouTube partnership is great.
Now, to delve into the new wave of YouTube partners, in which they say they are cubers, but are cubers second in their intentions. First off, MeMySelfandPi. He is cool, he produces interesting videos, and the real contribution to the cubing related world would be his modification tutorials to the 6x6, which were easy to follow and reduced many peoples' times solving it. But, at some point in time, he sparked the whole "being a cuber can equal a YouTube partner" deal, which is frowned upon by most. He produced several videos on cubing, but it seemed as though he really just wanted the partnership, but I do not know for sure.
Memyselfandpi is alright in my book, the only real issue I had was the fact that more people started to follow his lead, namely: Monkeydude1313. He makes way too many videos, and I know for a fact that he is a cuber second, because of the video he made that he was whining about quiting cubing because he was denied partnership (in which he lost a lot of respect from cubers if he had any to begin with), and if he can give up cubing just like that (even though he didn't), he was never really dedicated to cubing/solving puzzles in the first place.
Lastly, a new one has surfaced by the name of HBMAN (insert numbers here again). He does a lot of unboxing videos which, in my opinion, are really pointless, because it's like watching Christmas or any holiday in which gifts are given happen without your own involvement in said occasion, and I think that a review video would be a lot better than some unboxing video with extemporaneous review without a significant amount of time to really give an honest and semi-unbiased review on a product. He is also very arrogant from what I have seen, and is not too friendly or humble (like in his unboxing of megaminx and white pyraminx crystal unboxing video....), in which he tells his younger brother to "f*ck off" at 2:25. He (as the other have) have made a big deal about partnerships, making a video explaining how he/she will/will not get a youtube partnership, and it seems to me that all the applicants are teens that are not usually serious cubers, and are mostly immature and not really ready for the responsibility (even though there's not much to being a YouTube partner) of being affiliated with a business.
This is not really a diatribe or an attack on cubers seeking YouTube partnership, I just wanted to say how I felt about the new wave of cubers that seem to be flooding the internet/YouTube, and how they should get their sentiments in order before seeking partnership by asking themselves: am I interested in cube theory/solving puzzles (as I and hopefully most other cubers are, which I can assume they are), or do I want to get views on some internet website to gain fame and youtube partnership using cubes or other puzzles to facilitate this? Just a few thoughts on the whole YouTube partnership deal... cheers, and happy cubing
Well, Rob being a YouTube partner is perfectly fine because he is teached many people how to solve the cube (the non-Pogobat way i.e. LBL), which is great. Thrawst sort of does the same thing, but his teachings never really caught on, and he doesn't really make a big deal about being a partner, which is also good. Nakaji1084, well, Nakajima produces many cubing videos, and they are all of good quality and interesting to cubers (and on top of that he has his extra channel "CUTEX" which has many useful algorithms and other cubing/solving related videos), so his YouTube partnership is great.
Now, to delve into the new wave of YouTube partners, in which they say they are cubers, but are cubers second in their intentions. First off, MeMySelfandPi. He is cool, he produces interesting videos, and the real contribution to the cubing related world would be his modification tutorials to the 6x6, which were easy to follow and reduced many peoples' times solving it. But, at some point in time, he sparked the whole "being a cuber can equal a YouTube partner" deal, which is frowned upon by most. He produced several videos on cubing, but it seemed as though he really just wanted the partnership, but I do not know for sure.
Memyselfandpi is alright in my book, the only real issue I had was the fact that more people started to follow his lead, namely: Monkeydude1313. He makes way too many videos, and I know for a fact that he is a cuber second, because of the video he made that he was whining about quiting cubing because he was denied partnership (in which he lost a lot of respect from cubers if he had any to begin with), and if he can give up cubing just like that (even though he didn't), he was never really dedicated to cubing/solving puzzles in the first place.
Lastly, a new one has surfaced by the name of HBMAN (insert numbers here again). He does a lot of unboxing videos which, in my opinion, are really pointless, because it's like watching Christmas or any holiday in which gifts are given happen without your own involvement in said occasion, and I think that a review video would be a lot better than some unboxing video with extemporaneous review without a significant amount of time to really give an honest and semi-unbiased review on a product. He is also very arrogant from what I have seen, and is not too friendly or humble (like in his unboxing of megaminx and white pyraminx crystal unboxing video....), in which he tells his younger brother to "f*ck off" at 2:25. He (as the other have) have made a big deal about partnerships, making a video explaining how he/she will/will not get a youtube partnership, and it seems to me that all the applicants are teens that are not usually serious cubers, and are mostly immature and not really ready for the responsibility (even though there's not much to being a YouTube partner) of being affiliated with a business.
This is not really a diatribe or an attack on cubers seeking YouTube partnership, I just wanted to say how I felt about the new wave of cubers that seem to be flooding the internet/YouTube, and how they should get their sentiments in order before seeking partnership by asking themselves: am I interested in cube theory/solving puzzles (as I and hopefully most other cubers are, which I can assume they are), or do I want to get views on some internet website to gain fame and youtube partnership using cubes or other puzzles to facilitate this? Just a few thoughts on the whole YouTube partnership deal... cheers, and happy cubing
Last edited:
, I just chose not too as this is an informal forum, albeit it was my mistake to not insert paragraphs/line-breaks initially, sorry about that.
