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AvE. A 3 minute video supporting the truckers "protest" gets a hard NO from me.
He's why I had to install 3rd party channel blocker because yt kept recommending his videos.
That completely caught me off guard and I was super disappointed.
Para social relationships are hard. You think you get to know someone over the years watching their videos. I would even watch the videos he would put on his daughter's channel. The videos of him just cooking.
I thought he was a smart guy even with some of his gruff persona.
Oddly enough, one of the first cracks in that facade was a BOLTR video taking apart a Hitachi wand or knockoff. He was so weirdly prudish about the idea of a woman actually using one in a way that didn't feel like a joke. But I convinced myself it was probably a joke, because...why would he be weird about that?
But the trucker protest videos hit me like a cement truck. It actually really bummed me out. I texted my dad and he said something to the effect of, "Oh well, his videos have been shit anyway."
I first stumbled on him via his cooking videos (the one where he cooks breakfast for dinner at the request of his daughter), stayed for the interesting technical/fabrication videos.
And then COVID happened and it's like half his brain shut off.