General GunTuber thread

People have asked him how he plans on keeping up with his frequency and he claims to have enough videos for twice weekly videos. His fanbase needs to stop consuming so much. I'm half expecting him to pivot to personality videos like the other guntubers.


Since we are on the topic model rocketry:
http://www.jacobsrocketry.com/experimental_rocketry.htm (also has ammonium perchloarte rocket fuel)
http://www.nakka-rocketry.net
http://serge77-rocketry.net/index.htm
http://www.arocketry.net ( this one has a lot of chem books linked)
You can make something similar to estes rockets using sugar rocket fuel recipes. 3D printing can help a lot when casting concrete nozzles/engines
 
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Corn Flakes said:
No, I think he just miscalculated. It's a fine line between "edgy boy" and "video goes yeet", and he's crossed it before with the Rittenhouse Special.

As for the amount he's claiming he lost: he said it himself. It's not just adsense for that video. He probably had at least one sponsored piece that had to be pushed back or canceled, and his backlog of videos (particularly Gun Meme Review) has a long tail for views and therefore ads. Going without earning anything for a week when your entire company relies on a single source of income (his merch and his guns are not selling that well) will result in that kind of loss. No wonder he said he'll be working with his youtube rep in the future instead of going out swinging defiantly: if he loses his channels chances are his whole workshop goes under and he'll have to go find a job somewhere.
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My only rebuttal is that he posts once a week at most.
 
Mikoyan said:
Even if he lied about that, I don't blame him for not wanting to stir pointless youtube drama.
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Cutting himself from InRangeTV was a good business decision, but on the flipside his daily 5-10 minute snippets emptied the backlog way too quickly to be sustainable.
Not saying I could do better, but with his faithful fanbase he could have begun daily Q&As between gun overviews a long time ago to supplement his channel in hard times. That's a benefit C&Rsenal has with putting out an hour-long video that takes ages to make. It's a slow feed that people might need multiple viewing sessions to digest instead of bitesized glimpses.
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:
Cutting himself from InRangeTV was a good business decision, but on the flipside his daily 5-10 minute snippets emptied the backlog way too quickly to be sustainable.
Not saying I could do better, but with his faithful fanbase he could have begun daily Q&As between gun overviews a long time ago to supplement his channel in hard times. That's a benefit C&Rsenal has with putting out an hour-long video that takes ages to make. It's a slow feed that people might need multiple viewing sessions to digest instead of bitesized glimpses.
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You're absolutely right.

I do think, though, that he got caught out by the past couple years. Globetrotter Ian got hampered by the pandemic and the Russian contact/contacts he was cultivating went away with the war.
 
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I really don't think those Q&A videos are some portent of doom or anything like that. Sure, he's clearly stretching the soup by splitting up his monthly Q&As into bite-sized chunks, but at least he still offers more actual information than your average dudebro "LOOK AT THIS HUGE GUN I GOT TODAY". So long as he doesn't try to switch to high-intensity-low-information videos, a genre he's genuinely terrible at, I don't think he'll be in any kind of trouble. His Ask Ian videos are varying wildly in viewcount, but so do the rest of his content. A video on an experimental version of the Garand or the STG will always get a ton more views than a video about an obscure Spanish pistol from 1909 or whatever.

As for him being too busy for InRange... sure. Might have been an just excuse back then, but it's certainly not just an excuse now. The dude has clearly taking a liking to writing books, and between researching, writing, and rewriting, that shit takes time. Plus he seems to be part of a bunch of different minor projects scattered about. Between traveling, editing his videos, and now writing books (and wrangling the publishing back-end) I fully believe he doesn't have nearly as much time as he once had to just putz around with Karl in the desert.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
I really don't think those Q&A videos are some portent of doom or anything like that. Sure, he's clearly stretching the soup by splitting up his monthly Q&As into bite-sized chunks, but at least he still offers more actual information than your average dudebro "LOOK AT THIS HUGE GUN I GOT TODAY". So long as he doesn't try to switch to high-intensity-low-information videos, a genre he's genuinely terrible at, I don't think he'll be in any kind of trouble. His Ask Ian videos are varying wildly in viewcount, but so do the rest of his content. A video on an experimental version of the Garand or the STG will always get a ton more views than a video about an obscure Spanish pistol from 1909 or whatever.

As for him being too busy for InRange... sure. Might have been an just excuse back then, but it's certainly not just an excuse now. The dude has clearly taking a liking to writing books, and between researching, writing, and rewriting, that shit takes time. Plus he seems to be part of a bunch of different minor projects scattered about. Between traveling, editing his videos, and now writing books (and wrangling the publishing back-end) I fully believe he doesn't have nearly as much time as he once had to just putz around with Karl in the desert.
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I'm not so sure I'd want to be putzing around in the desert with Karl myself...
 
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Mikoyan said:
I do think, though, that he got caught out by the past couple years. Globetrotter Ian got hampered by the pandemic and the Russian contact/contacts he was cultivating went away with the war.
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He might have accidently burned that bridge before the war due to the fact that Headstamp Publishing was about to release a book written by a volunteer for the Azov Battalion.
Which is ironic because the whole shitstorm happened about 20 days before the war broke out, so if he had waited a month all the libs would support Ian.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
Meanwhile, so much for the myth that the Forgotten Weapons fanbase is smart:


If Ian had to make that video, you know he saw a lot of idiots falling for it.
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It's astonishing to me that people still fall for Nigerian prince scams in year of our lord MMXXII.
 
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UVB-76 said:
He might have accidently burned that bridge before the war due to the fact that Headstamp Publishing was about to release a book written by a volunteer for the Azov Battalion.
Which is ironic because the whole shitstorm happened about 20 days before the war broke out, so if he had waited a month all the libs would support Ian.
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Fate was hilariously cruel to him here.
 
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