I stopped watching David Murray after the video mentioned in the OP. I only had a passing interest in his content. A lot of the time he seems to be trying too hard and attempting things that were clearly outside of his capability, all in the name of views and ad revenue. That video is probably the best example of it. He clearly didn't know how to approach this kind of project, he clearly lacked the skills to properly and non-destructively diagnose and repair the rare vintage computer featured in the video, and he was clearly in a rush to shit out the video on schedule. He thinks he knows what he's doing when he doesn't, and he refuses to ask for help. He could have and should have set this aside and worked on some other video. I mean, pretty much every full time YouTuber who is worth a damn has multiple videos in the pipeline at any given time. And this thing would have been the perfect thing to do a collab video with someone that actually knew what they were doing.
A lot of people called him on his half-assery and his bullshit response was that he was in a time crunch and needed to shit out a video, and that he had one million subs and couldn't care less if the entirety of the comments section unsubbed and blocked him. Because of course he's got one million other subscribers who don't care and will keep pumping his metrics.
Cathode Ray Dude [CRD] almost died and his plumbing exploded.
He's gone from looking like a greasy coworker to "might die"
He's out $30k and an organ. (appendix)
Dude owns a house and self-exiled to his own basement.
He's gone from "Greasy, but work ready" to "what the fuck dude"
Also thinks 12 TB is a reasonable amount of video for one SueTube video. He also admits he is now fully dependent on Adsense. Which you know, is bad.
He doesn't mention his parents or the Troonicle.
He also shows a massive hoard of shit he bought when he was flush with cash, and which may as well be tomb decorations.
He's also got youtube creator disease where he hates what put him on the map. Like every other dipshit, he wants to be a storyteller, not realizing it's the weird tech shit that makes him, not his storyteller skills.
He also cleared his camcorder collection at garage seller prices, when he's got a $30k plumbing bill.
It honestly seems like he wants to burn himself in effigy.
I don't even get why this upsets me, dude has visibly degenerated over time and he wasn't in great shape to begin with. His content was niche at best, and he's clearly grown to hate it.
I remember when he had a couple videos featuring the troon, right after or around the time he got the studio. I looked, those couple videos are gone now, probably privated following the backlash from the viewership.
At some point he mentioned that he supports two other people besides that fat hideous troon. I wonder if the other two people are also troons? Jobless troons? I've seen it in furry fandom plenty of times, where one breadwinner supports multiple worthless deadweights, out of pity or the desire to not be alone. I could definitely see this being the case for CRD and his troon(s).
He also recently mentioned that he named himself after the cheap gamepad company Gravis. He strongly implied that he chose the name, ie. his parents didn't name him Gravis. I'll admit though, kinda cool name for someone of his personality.
He quit his wage slave day job to do YouTube full time. Honestly, I think this was a mistake and I think the vast majority of people who make interesting YouTube content are making a mistake when they quit their normie job to make more time for content creation. His videos have not improved in quality or quantity. They were pretty decent before and pretty decent now, but not better. All he has done is shoot himself in the foot by letting go of that steady paycheck. Coulda had that paycheck plus ad revenue on the side. Probably coulda been paid for all the downtime from his illness. He fell for the lie that is the YouTube Dream now he's dealing with the harsh realities of both the algorithm and home ownership.
His whining about YouTube's constantly moving goalposts and ever shrinking ad revenues is something I've heard from a lot of creators I subscribe to. Most of them are saying basically the same thing. It's getting tough out there, there's going to be some changes to the channel or else I can't afford to keep doing this, YouTube analytics dictate what kind of videos I make, I didn't want to do shorts but now I'm doing shorts, etc. Most will take the opertunity to shill Patreon, and those who are members of the sinking ship that is Nebula will shill that. Basically the same shit we've been hearing from YouTubers for literally a decade now, and literally nothing has changed except it gets a little worse every year.
The people who aren't bitching about YouTube largely aren't relying on it for income. You ever see Vwestlife bitching about video performance? No? It's because YouTube is his hobby, his side hussle that he does for fun. Ever see Shango066, or bandersentv, or Mustie1, or LockPickingLawyer bitching about the reality of being a YouTube creator? No, you havent, because he's not doing it for the money, but rather to share his hobby and expose people to it, he's doing it to share his hobby and give his vintage TV repair service exposure to nolstaltgic boomers with money and he makes plenty of money as a software dev, he's retired and wants to share his hobby, show off his skills and not be alone in old age, and he's a fucking lawyer and ad revenue is pocket change for him, respectively. Take note of the fact that these YouTubers don't let the algorithm dictate what videos they make or don't make. This is how YouTube was meant to be. Literally a place to post interesting videos for the world to see. Not to make a fucking career out of.
As for that camcorder collection, like a lot of stuff people like him collect, is pretty much worthless. I mean they're all old, lower resolution digital or 480i analog cameras. IIRC it was a mix of consumer and prosumer models with maybe a couple that you could consider to be proper professional models. They're worthess for their intended purpose. They're not particularly rare and they aren't from the vacuum tube era. They're only worth their value in piquing your curiosity, or satisfying nostalgia if you happened to use these things when they were new. I think selling them $10 each was the right move. Some people got some cool old toys for cheap, and CRD got some shelf space back that he can probably fill up with some other junk aka video material.
