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Either way, I did notice that RIA is putting out their own videos. I don't know if they intended to replace him or are making up for his absence but those ~5k views aren't touching a Forgotten Weapons video.
Corn Flakes said:
It's possible they insisted Ian make a video on a gun he wanted to buy, he refused since he has stated before he doesn't publish videos on guns he's interested in, and it escalated from there.
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Doubtful since he's already bid on guns he's made videos on and the reverse in that he sold a rifle he previously bought to do a video on(that proceeded to sell for an absurd amount).
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:
Either way, I did notice that RIA is putting out their own videos. I don't know if they intended to replace him or are making up for his absence but those ~5k views aren't touching a Forgotten Weapons video.
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If these are the guns they'd be suggesting him to talk about, it might be he just didn't feel like it.


WhoBusTank69 said:
Doubtful since he's already bid on guns he's made videos on and the reverse in that he sold a rifle he previously bought to do a video on(that proceeded to sell for an absurd amount).
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Was it on the same auction, though? I remember a few years ago him mentioning buying a gun he had made a video on, but I thought it was a good deal later, on a subsequent auction. I'm probably misremembering, anyway. As for selling a gun there... sure. I guess his name is now attached to the gun's provenance and enough people cared for that shit to drive up the price. Good way to make money off idiots. Speaking of which, how much did he sell his Maxim for, again?
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:
My kneejerk reaction is that they're jealous and didn't like him cavorting with Morphy's and their full-auto goodness, but with how much publicity he gives both it still wouldn't make sense.
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Ian has been doing videos with James D. Julia/Morphy's for years now, though. Although he did put the video on really interesting machineguns at the early summer Morphy's auction behind a paywall, so most people would miss out on that.

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HumptiDouji said:
That has been mutually beneficial for them, so that's fucking retarded.
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Gun community fallings-out tend to be very PR conscious (except where involving furries and sex weirdos), but they are no less autistic and incomprehensible to outsiders than those of any other subculture.
 
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Archie_Kimkicker said:
Gun community fallings-out tend to be very PR conscious (except where involving furries and sex weirdos), but they are no less autistic and incomprehensible to outsiders than those of any other subculture.
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In the end it does explain why Ian has been stretching his content by splitting the Q&As into multiple videos. I'm pretty sure he was only able to start that daily upload schedule because he was working with two auction houses at the time. He's got to be looking at his video buffer and sweating.
 
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Corn Flakes said:
In the end it does explain why Ian has been stretching his content by splitting the Q&As into multiple videos. I'm pretty sure he was only able to start that daily upload schedule because he was working with two auction houses at the time. He's got to be looking at his video buffer and sweating.
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Which is why he should fucking slow down a bit. I wanna see Civil War cavalry carbines and oddball automatic weapons, not the latest generic tacticool gun that looks and works the same as all the other ones.
 
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In taking a break from laughing at the fatass that is Karl Cucksarda, let's not forget how in his earlier days, the legend that is Paul Harrell did a presentation on drive-bys for our urban brothers.

So, this begs the question: is he a Crip or Blood?

My opinion? He's an O.G.
 
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HumptiDouji said:
Which is why he should fucking slow down a bit. I wanna see Civil War cavalry carbines and oddball automatic weapons, not the latest generic tacticool gun that looks and works the same as all the other ones.
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Preaching to the choir, man. Just look at his most popular videos:
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Not one goddamn plastic black rifle in sight (edit: okay, fine. There's the G11. But it's Kraut Rocket Surgery. We can forgive the polymer in this case). The guy made a channel out of talking about the weird, the rare and the iconic.

It feels like he's featuring more modern shit because that's simply what he's got access to lately. He's already visited a bunch of museums and presumably exhausted his options there, and even for the ones he'd like to visit and film at again there's always a lot of bureaucracy involved. And since his visits to Europe seem to be sponsored (or at least encouraged) by gun manufacturers or people who have contacts in local manufacturers, he's getting a lot of "look at this cool shit we have in our nation!". And the guy is a huge geek, so he'll go all starry-eyed over the chance of handling something he'll never see here in America.

So yeah. Ian already has a huge following. I'm sure he could bring it down to 3 uploads a week and retain all his algorithmic relevance.
 
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