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

[Thumb Butler]

I would add anything endorsed by Cinemassacre.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I am surprised that this is getting so much traction, there is nothing ground breaking here. Companies have been selling shitty/gimmicky products forever.

How do people think that they get the budget to be all over the place? You obviously need obscene margins to do that. Buying a shit knife is not a scam. You got your shit knife, it was made where they said it was, with the steel they advertised.

It's getting incredibly meta, where sponsors have basically become the content of the commentary community.

Is that Scott dude the same one who started the previous apocalypse? His name rings a bell. If so, I am really impressed at his ability to shit where he eats.

Because when people see there favorite youtuber trying to sell them something they think they are looking out for them. That they would never partake a scam or take advantage of there audience like that. That they have standards.
When they see that they are willing to sell a scam to their audience it is like a magician that's revealed to be a phony.

 

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Because when people see there favorite youtuber trying to sell them something they think they are looking out for them. That they would never partake a scam or take advantage of there audience like that. That they have standards.
When they see that they are willing to sell a scam to their audience it is like a magician that's revealed to be a phony.

Except none of these are scams. Just useless or shitty products with high price tags and a nice package.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

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)

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

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[AskeDead]

this post sponsored by nordvpn

 

[Oliver Onions]

Except none of these are scams. Just useless or shitty products with high price tags and a nice package.

The knives literally are a scam. They're not made the way the company claims or where they claim and they go blunt after 2 or 3 uses; they're just bargain bin knives pumped out of China like shit you'd find at Walmart for ten bucks.

Having said that, if you go on a website telling you you're getting knives worth $1,000 for $200 and don't realise you're being scammed then you deserve to get ripped off.

 

[Whatevermancer]

This topic is brought to you by Raid Shadow Legends™.

You know, Raid shadow legends looked like a legit mobile game until one of the youtubers shilling it said something like:

Tired of grinding? Just put the game on autoplay and get some tea!

I think the gameplay must be really shit if skipping it is a selling point.

Anyway, back to the point of the thread. Russian tech youtubers were busy advertising a brand of headphones called CGPods, which were supposedly designed in Russia. And to nobody's surprise it turned out that they were just noname Chinese OEM headphones with a CGPods logo slapped onto them and sold at a 5-10x markup.

The owner of the brand denies everything and claims that the Chinese stole his designs. If you wanna know more, you can read this post on Pikabu, which is like Russian 9gag. Just use google translate if you don't know Russian.

 

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The knives literally are a scam. They're not made the way the company claims or where they claim and they go blunt after 2 or 3 uses; they're just bargain bin knives pumped out of China like shit you'd find at Walmart for ten bucks.

Having said that, if you go on a website telling you you're getting knives worth $1,000 for $200 and don't realise you're being scammed then you deserve to get ripped off.

I kinda passively listened to a video on these knives as background noise, so I may miss something.

However, what I took away from it was:

• They are shit and get dull super fast, because the steel is the worst quality available
• They are indeed manufactured in the country they claim. Saying something is manufactured in Japan might sound like a claim of quality to tards, but it means nothing. Retards will retard. Nothing to see there.
• The margin is insane

Please explain to me how this is any different from what you would get in a supermarket when it comes to the higher price range for knives?

People who are buying this shit buy similar shit on the regular in everyday life. You don't need to be pro cook to know that you're better off buying something like a Global than this crap.

The whole point of selling products is to make a profit. The more retarded people are, the more they are willing to pay, and that's on them.

The more I think about it, the more I love this business model actually.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Raycons are shit.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Please explain to me how this is any different from what you would get in a supermarket when it comes to the higher price range for knives?

I'm a bit confused by your position, because it seems to be 'people get ripped off in real life too so these scams aren't scams'?

The whole point of selling products is to make a profit. The more retarded people are, the more they are willing to pay, and that's on them.

The more I think about it, the more I love this business model actually.

I don't disagree, but the fact people are dumb enough to fall for it doesn't suddenly make it not a scam. P.T. Barnum wasn't lying to people when he charged them to see the 'egress', but it was still a scam because it preyed on general ignorance to get people's money.

 

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I'm a bit confused by your position, because it seems to be 'people get ripped off in real life too so these scams aren't scams'?

It's just the nature of business. Selling useless and crappy shit by using big words to make it sound premium is not a scam.

These YTbers make it sound like it's a gottcha, but it's actually the way the whole word is built. You buy overpriced shit all the time without knowing.

Talk to anyone about something they are very familiar with (knives for cooks, software for devs, car repair to mechanics etc...), and you will hear the same story over and over. The leading brands always lead because they sell overpriced crap which allows them to have a huge marketing budget, which allows them to sell more of said crap.

 

[Oliver Onions]

It's just the nature of business. Selling useless and crappy shit by using big words to make it sound premium is not a scam.

Lying to people to sell your shit is a scam. I dunno if this is just something Americans are so used to that it's second nature to them (also assuming you're American, sorry if I'm wrong) but nowhere else in the world is getting taken for a ride this hard considered acceptable by the consumer.

I don't wanna derail the thread any further, so rather than doing any more back and forth quoting would you mind chucking an ETA in your last post and telling me what you would consider to be a scam? I'm genuinely curious.

 

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I don't wanna derail the thread any further, so rather than doing any more back and forth quoting would you mind chucking an ETA in your last post and telling me what you would consider to be a scam? I'm genuinely curious.

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.

 

[Kookin]

Everyone should use SponsorBlock. One of the best extentions. Even works on mobile when you use YouTube ReVanced.

Thank you. I'll now use this on all my devices.

 

[NerdShamer]

what is an ETA? I am retarded.

"Edited to add," retard.

And this post was sponsored by....

 

[Acronym]

brought to you by nebula

 

[Canuck Breaker]

I saw a Better Help sponsorship in a Cody Ko video a few years back. This was around two years after their scammy practises were revealed but the people some how forgot about it, as there were no comments I could see that criticized them for getting sponsored by them. I get that they want money, but come on.

Shit, it's being advertised on the Always Sunny Podcast to this day.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Shit, it's being advertised on the Always Sunny Podcast to this day.

I lose more respect for The Gang (TM) every day.

 

[Slav Power]

Raycons are shit.

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