This is probably a bit blog-posty but I figure if there's any interest you can make of it what you will- But I was an /o/ denizen who checked in on RCR I believe as far back as the yardman review when he was around some 15,000 subs on youtube. At the time the board felt like it was on the same page as him, enjoying the kinda subversive review style when a lot of fuckers were your saabkyle/doug demuro/thatdudeinblue or even Top Gear "here's the car, here are the specs, here's me driving it-" Brian's shit seemed to fly in the face of that and was willing to crack a bit of wise at an owner or everybody's expense. At that point you'd probably think he was taking the piss out of most mainstream shithouse automotive journalism, after all you could just go to a wikipedia/google for the shit a rag like Jalopnik or the smoking tire was shilling, right? It seemed like he was flying a one finger salute with tongue firmly in cheek to these outlets and the sort of people who quoted Top Gear as if it were God's honest truth.
The first blowback I recall came about with the death of the Echo and the e-begging therein but prior good will prevailed and even cynical cocks from /o/ were kinda split decision in his favor about the matter. Still though a lot were on board, he indulged "contemporary car enthusiasm" and was filling a niche that really nobody else did but there were bits and pieces people picked at- The more egregious was the early F150 review where he not only made a point of not talking about the thing but when he finally did his 'head up ass' syndrome showed when he utterly shit up pickup payload (asserting a 1500/150 half ton pickup could haul or tow a max 1500 pounds, apparently never having seen them regularly haul another car on a trailer). But probably the first 'wtf' moment came with the Olds 88 review where he basically said "this is because everyone was SUPER GAY." I also raised an eyebrow around this time because he started paling around with your Matt Farahs and Jalopnik people, the sorts I'd thought he was taking the piss out of.
Similar around this time he was putting out more tangential content and the Falcon build kinda tore the skirt off shit and these things advertised the fact not only did he not know the most about cars, didn't particularly want to know about cars, but was actively scared of the damn things (the grand 120 hp of the Falcon being fast to him, utterly confused by Bruce Henn feeling out the idle on the Falcon via brake stand.) Somewhere in here his furfaggotry also got sussed out where he's been trying to hit it big with this same shit since the late 90s and hilarious asides like his parents revoking his car privileges because they thought he was gay coming to light.
Personally my big 'come to Jesus' moment came about with the 427 Camaro review where it seemed like the chip on his shoulder came to light and he succumbed to all the trappings of his contemporaries, proclaiming the big block chevrolet "the engine of middle class entitlement," ascribing malice and privilege to owners without understanding engineering advancements in contrast to manufacturing advancements ("no reason to have a rat motor while the LS exists" in the face of a splayed valve cylinder being more 'advanced' engineering) and it felt like after this he REALLY fell into bad habits and bizarre conclusions where he still adamantly insisted things like a USDM GT Apex Corolla is most definitely NOT an AE86 because the chassis tag says AE88- But a Dodge Demon is literally a Mercedez E-class because a demon is "basically" just a Charger, and a Charger is "more or less just an S class, and the S class shared shit with the the W140 which was based on th E-class so DEMON = E-CLASS ZOMG. I had basically strayed away but kept tabs on his extended shit by this point and there was just repeated weird shit that came up like despite being a "car guy" he insists on having nothing to do with cars outside the channel, he hocked his "dream car" AW11 after a pathetic honeymoon period, was too intimidated to approach Freiburger & Finnegan when they passed near him during a Lemons rally, has entire vlogs dedicated to how scared shitless he is of actually getting up to pace driving on a track-
It just strikes me as a further spiral from then on in where the turkey can't even do the most basic research (or even observe the shit he's in immediate contact with, the BMW crossover review he predicated a diatribe about it being a hybrid about despite not being a hybrid) and his bird remote twitter shit just kinda depresses me since he had a long spiel basically explaining he dropped significant dosh on his gay fursuit because he feels like he doesn't get hugged enough- Just feels like a guy who wants approval somewhere ANYWHERE. I know the spergy technical detail shit probably ain't a deal-breaker for most, there's wikipedia and google for that, right? But I've watched the guy color a not insignificant amount of talk surrounding cars and morally dictate erroneously from a puddle-deep understanding. So hey, that's my bread and butter he's fucking with.
