YouTube Sponsors - Own Façade Chinese Steel Knives and a square foot of Scottish Plot of Land for $420

[I've Seen Some More Shit]

The THIS THREAD IS SPONSORED BY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS is hilarious and all but man, looking into them gets a couple odd things.

So it's not really a secret the game is made in Israel, it's not something they hide and it's bluntly stated the devs, Plarium, are hosted in Tel-Aviv (Just a wiki article but archived anyway).

Then you learn the founders were really, really into Jewish mysticism. Here's an example mentioned in this article (Archive) where he keeps a bunch of religious documents including the Zohar in their solid black office. The article, despite its odd wording, does iterate and confirm there were multiple people who used to use the office, not just him. Whether or not all four founders used it and not just two of them, it doesn't really clarify.


To clarify there's four co-founders: Two pairs of brothers - Avraham and Gabi Shalel plus Haim and Eli Torpiashvili. The Shalels are related to the Torpiashvilis because one of them is cousins with the others in a weird half-sibling thing. It's some convoluted shit, especially given apparently Haim and Eli are from Georgia and Avraham and Gabi grew up in Israel from what I could dig up.

All of them are pretty under the radar though, it's just funny the only thing we know about any of them personally aside from their backgrounds is that they had a weird Jewish wizard office.

I'm not calling conspiracy or anything, but that's a fucking weird thing to find by cursory googling on a random whim.

I do find it funny either way that these people are really quick to take money from Plarium to sponsor their games but if you ask them their opinions on Israel they get really awkward or say they're pro-Palestine but that's just business.

 

[TayandYou]

I like the concept of this thread, but literally anybody can be a youtube sponsor as long as they pay some e-celeb to shill their stuff. Is this thread about specific scandals or just sponsors in general?

 

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I like the concept of this thread, but literally anybody can be a youtube sponsor as long as they pay some e-celeb to shill their stuff. Is this thread about specific scandals or just sponsors in general?

IMO, it almost has to become a "scammy" YT sponsor thread.

There are so many scams on there, but the funniest ones are always centered around someone. Like Ty Lopez, Andrew Tate, Don Cardone etc... These often have enough milk to have their own dedicated threads. They also really are scams.

Although it seems like most here disagree with me, I stand by my point that these barely even qualify as scams, and there won't be much more than the obvious to come out from this:

Products are bad quality, because you can't spend millions advertising your products without high margins. Simple as.

Beyond that, once you uncover the actual value of the product there is not much fun to be had. You won't become a lord, and you can manufacture shitty knives for hundreds of years, making it a traditional way of doing it.

 

[Dysnomia]

Agreed on derailing, what is an ETA? I am retarded.

I am not American, I am just familiar with the business side of things in this space and knives.

As far as I know, they used phrasing that allowed people to think that their products were better than they actually were. They did not lie, they used people's gullibility to mislead them.

Where I draw the line to a scam is if they actually lied. Selling overpriced shit to retards is not a scam in my mind. It's my job.

I fully believe a lot of these youtubers know their sponsors are garbage. They know they are shilling crap. They just don't care. This stuff of course got worse after the monetization apocalypse. Social media influencers do it too in text and not just video.

I remember from the Anna Johnson thread when she was shilling various food bars she obviously wasn't eating because ana-chan. And I saw it with others as well. "I'm totally loving this yummy "insert product here". Always the same thing. One and done. Move on to the next super yummy glazed donut birthday cake 90 calorie meal bar you are just gonna lick a few times. I doubt that the company even looked at the posts. They just want the shilling spread far and wide. I'm thinking it's the same with the videos and that's why you aren't seeing big name well known companies sponsoring much. Because they don't need some random youtuber's word of mouth anyway. Plus there's no quality control if every makeup thot, idiotic streamer and true crime loony is shilling Coca Cola or Jimmy Dean sausages.

If you look at that graph at the bottom of the timer bar that shows you what part of the video is watched the most, usually the sponsorship spot is totally flat. I skip a lot of them myself because I'm sick of hearing about crappy knives, Raid Shadow Legends and Hello Fresh and its ilk.

Cross-posting but https://kiwifarms.net/threads/the-betterhelp-creatorhealth-influencelogic-rabbit-hole.48362/ , tdlr Youtubers will get money for everyone that signs up under their link. Basically, profiting off mental issues (tbf they already do that with their audiences)

That is really messed up.

I'd be really wary about online sessions that aren't coming from a a legit office that you have seen in person. I'm not sure what kind of telehealth services are available for mental health. But if you want to look into it then it should be done through a doctor you've seen in person. For all I know Better Health hires Wally the Wino off the street and pays him to stay sober long enough to tell you how crazy you are. Looking through the complaints posted in the thread I'd say that isn't far off.

 

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I fully believe a lot of these youtubers know their sponsors are garbage. They know they are shilling crap. They just don't care. This stuff of course got worse after the monetization apocalypse. Social media influencers do it too in text and not just video.

Of course they know. It's a bit of uroboros situation. But who is really to blame then?

Literally all the companies mentioned in this thread are companies you have a least seen once in an ad. No matter the niche type of content you watch, you saw them. Most likely, over and over, especially with Christmas period starting.

That's because they pay a lot. And the reason they do, is because they have high margins. People promoting these products run their own business, nobody here is naïve about the situation. If you can afford above market price, you are making better margin than the average.

"That is really messed up."

Not really. I mean if we don't consider the fact that Better Help is a trash service.

Affiliate based deals are fairly common. Usually, it's something that happens on the initiative of the publisher, or when the company is young and cannot support a cash intensive marketing strategy.

If the creative's audience aligns with the brand, affiliate deals are more profitable than straight up ads. If the company is looking for investors, it's great too, cause it lowers burn-rate.

None of these creators were fooled. They all know the game, they understand the way this works.

In these kind of deal, if you do get a deal, it's unlikely you get less than 10% on the net revenue. That says a lot about what kind of margin you are looking at.

More so when you consider that they are also paying a fixed price for the plug itself and the people being paid to make this happen, to analyze and optimize data/sales, to develop and maintain the website, to handle the design and production and to handle logistics, to pay customer service reps and handle payment processors fees etc..

All in all, it's mostly people trusting people blindly who are to blame imo. I struggle to understand how anybody thought they were getting a good deal.

 

[Pixy]

Just think, if he hadn't raped his mother, Chris could have been shilling a Kamikoto Knives sponsorship by now. And this time he wouldn't have had to buy the knives himself.

 

[Naoto]

Don't forget the "gaming chair" sponsors. Which are literally just $30 chairs from China with a logo stuck on it and sold upwards of $500.

 

[JamusActimus]

THe amino app is a another good one.

Guess they paid youtuber more than the average sponsor.

 

[Colon capital V]

THe amino app is a another good one.

Guess they paid youtuber more than the average sponsor.

I had completely forgotten about amino. I remember YouTubers shilling the hell out of this from 2016 - 2018ish. Literally what is its function? What's the point of using it? From what I've gathered it just seems like tumblr^2 with all the kiddie fandom shit like undertale and the like. Why not just use reddit, twitter, tumblr or discord at that point for fandom stuff?

 

[Near]

I just want to take the opportunity to shill Sponsorblock. It works on Chrome, Brave and there's a firefox version too.
I've been conditioned to skip anyone shilling all this hot garbage. I recommend including Honey in the OP too, because for being so completely "free" and "handy", it's nigged to hell and back inside. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/2...-security-risk-paypal-acquisition-competition

 

[HRT Heisenberg]

I recommend including Honey in the OP too, because for being so completely "free" and "handy", it's nigged to hell and back inside. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/2...-security-risk-paypal-acquisition-competition

I certainly agree that Honey seems way too good to be true, a supposedly "free" extension that only helps you and yet they are willing to pay Youtubers to sponsor it. However Amazon's "warnings" against Honey sounds awfully similar to when a German mail provider used the same scare tactics to try and stop people using Adblock Plus (Archive), saying that because the extension can see/change webpages it is therefore a risk. It seems like Amazon is using the extension's permissions as a way to spread FUD just like GMT as in both cases it hurts their bottom line.

Still though you're right and Amazon is probably correct in the way that Honey harvests user data but it's always funny how big tech companies keep accusing each other for collecting data when they all do it shamelessly. What I would really like to see is if a security researcher is able to do some packet analysis to see exactly what information Honey phones home with, like what they did to Tiktok.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I just want to take the opportunity to shill Sponsorblock. It works on Chrome, Brave and there's a firefox version too.
I've been conditioned to skip anyone shilling all this hot garbage. I recommend including Honey in the OP too, because for being so completely "free" and "handy", it's nigged to hell and back inside. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/2...-security-risk-paypal-acquisition-competition

I have used honey before and most of the time. I find the coupons they collect don't even work. But I didn't realize it could collect user data.

 

[ten dollars off]

I have used honey before and most of the time. I find the coupons they collect don't even work. But I didn't realize it could collect user data.

Pretty sure by the time an app like Honey has picked up a discount code with significant value, the retailer has already squashed it. We're past the days of being able to abuse promo codes found on deal forums or blogs -- most now seem to be tied to specific user accounts or account types. Or they just knock a measly ten percent off at a retailer with prices sufficiently bloated to absorb the hit.

 

[Soyjak Enjoyer]

Here's a video of a guy reading emails from some of these companies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRDLXaIxueM

The key takeaways: They're not very professional, they require the ad to be placed a few minutes into the video, they may require the video to be published on certain days of the week, most of the payout comes from referrals, and Raid tries to use it's ironic meme status as a selling point to youtubers.

I will say though, the youtube sponsors are nothing compared to modern radio sponsors. Herbal testosterone supplements and pain relief remedies big pharma doesn't want you to know about, prepper meal buckets, exotic (scam) investments to beat Biden's inflation, pajama ads that intentionally have the same tone as lingere ads, time share exit lawyers, "anti-woke" books to read to your children, and $100 nose cleaners. This boomer shit is just depressing compared to all the flashy chinese junk you see advertised on youtube.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Highland Titles has got to be one of the most retarded sponsors I’ve seen being peddled by the YouTube community.

First off, land is finite. The fact that this company doesn’t address anywhere on their site the limits of the territories they’re “selling” is highly suspicious. If large YouTubers like Steve Reviews are offering discounts of land and millions of viewers see it, much of the land should be purchased within that short span, and yet they always conveniently have lots of acreage available. Hmmm

Second, obviously owning a scrap of land in Scotland doesn’t make you a laird. If this were the case, then a normie homeowner in Scotland would be a “laird”. The title is strictly for owners of large estates with tenants renting the land. A laird has to own all the land in the vicinity to be considered as such, so instead of a parcel of land, you would have to own the entirety of the land Highland Titles is selling. Sure, you can claim to Scot’s that you are a “laird”, but tell them where and be prepared to learn you’re full of shit.

It’s so obviously a scam but imo if people are stupid enough to actually fall for this then they don’t deserve to have that money back. If you care so much about the trees then donate to an actual fund, preferably a local one, without exchanging for land so that you can play out your ridiculous Scottish/Irish ancestry fantasy LARP that’s so popular with culturally bereft Americans.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The Established Titles story continues.

 

[NoReturn]

The whole titles thing was always retarded to me. It's the new version of naming a star. Yeah, there's totally stars out there named Karen or Jimmy. You can't buy the rights to celestial bodies

That was the very first thing I thought of as well. I guess they thought enough time had passed since the 90s that people wouldn't remember and the zoomers who didn't grow up with it wouldn't know about it.

I'll admit I actually got suckered into one of the sponsors, that being Hellofresh because I thought it would be kind of fun. Being charged $80 for ground beef which had split open and leaked everywhere along with some withered old potatoes wasn't in fact fun. I got my money back and learned a good lesson that day: Don't trust anyone on the Internet

I've tried a couple things like that too at the "intro price" and always cancelled it after the first month or two. They can be a novelty, but that's about it.

Raycons are shit.

The weird Australian guy very nicely described why they are shit to all the normies.

I was gonna ask, but Slav already answered my question.

Audible
Use Audiobookbay

Audible is just Amazon anyway.

tl;dr: Just get a mild DE razor (as in it doesn't expose much of the blade) and some good quality razor blades, plus a shaving brush and some shaving cream. Get some bowl to froth up the shaving cream and voila, you've got a shaving set that not even Dollar Shave Club can beat. The initial cost will be higher, but in the long run it will be vastly cheaper.

What about for ladies' shaving needs? What's the best option?

Pretty wild thinking that the whole reason lefties went from laughing stocks to total dominance of social media in 4 years is because the Skeptics got trojan horsed, and the shitlord suppression AI this little ruse created successfully isolated the internet right wing into its own echo chambers where nobody new could stumble upon them. I'm surprised whoever did it managed to resist the urge to brag about being the modern day Bletchley Park, sealing the fate of the "Internet Nazis" or some shit.

When we lost Hitchen we lost so much more than we knew.

No Magic Spoon I don't want to buy your expensive as fuck bullshit cereal.

Nobody with any fractional amount of self respect should buy Magic Spoon. If you want to buy sugary diabeetus cereal for kids, just fucking buy Lucky Charms or whatever, nobody will care. But soyboys just have to have their SPECIAL SUGARY ADULT CEREAL for ADULTS who do ADULTING

Fuckin Ridge Wallet selling their wallets for like $80. Ordered a no-name brand one from Amazon for $12, and it has been incredibly durable.

For that price you can get a nice handmade leather wallet/cardholder.

 

[Canuck Breaker]

What about for ladies' shaving needs? What's the best option?

Same option. Proper soap and lather with a nice sharp DE blade in a quality handle will glide like silk.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

VPNs are owned by a Jewish monopoly? OOOOOH, I SEE NOW!! No wonder why Jewsh wants us all to use a VPN, because Jews together strong, am I right?
Does that mean that Kiwifarms is just some Jewish honeypot intended to expose antisemitism or something?
Makes you thunk...dare I say; it provokes your thunk!

Perhaps Kanye should take his meds and spend the rest of the money making his own VPN company instead of making Alex Jones look like a normal person. The one who made Piers Morgan look like a proper quality journo.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

VPNs are owned by a Jewish monopoly? OOOOOH, I SEE NOW!! No wonder why Jewsh wants us all to use a VPN, because Jews together strong, am I right?
Does that mean that Kiwifarms is just some Jewish honeypot intended to expose antisemitism or something?
Makes you thunk...dare I say; it provokes your thunk!

Perhaps Kanye should take his meds and spend the rest of the money making his own VPN company instead of making Alex Jones look like a normal person. The one who made Piers Morgan look like a proper quality journo.

WARNING: JEW SPOTTED.