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MKTheVintageBloke wrote:Heard back from the Gerald fellow - by the way, not a YouTuber, I got that wrong. The guy's a photographer by trade, and a pretty serious collector of vintage Grand Seikos:

The copyrighted material that TGV has used without his permission were photos from his Instagram account. In response to the videos being taken down from TGV's channel, TGV tried to...claim Fair Use with YouTube. A channel that monetized, claiming "fair use!" Cheeky bastard.
Meanwhile, according to Gerald, within the time that YouTube had to process the Fair Use claim, they have not allowed the videos to get back on the channel, and so they're unlikely to return there.

3Flushes wrote:Why, this is a horrible loss for the watch blogosphere.

MKTheVintageBloke wrote:I’m inclined to agree with that, TB. Still, I think it’s simply about the wrong people doing that. Look at them, the poofy pish-posh twats, the spoiled boyos, who really shouldn’t have received a camcorder from Mum for Christmas. I wonder what would the watch channels on YT be like, if any of us, the Lords, would start a channel. I guess if the likes of us would be doing it, there’d be hardly anything to complain about.
Hell, I’d be doing that, if only I wasn’t absolutely horrible on camera. I always hated recordings of myself, but that’s pretty common with introverts with a slight OCD, i.e. the likes of me. I suppose that the biggest problem with all those YouTuber bufties is that unlike us, they have no knowledge to provide their audience with.

svaglic wrote:

MKTheVintageBloke wrote:I’m inclined to agree with that, TB. Still, I think it’s simply about the wrong people doing that. Look at them, the poofy pish-posh twats, the spoiled boyos, who really shouldn’t have received a camcorder from Mum for Christmas. I wonder what would the watch channels on YT be like, if any of us, the Lords, would start a channel. I guess if the likes of us would be doing it, there’d be hardly anything to complain about.
Hell, I’d be doing that, if only I wasn’t absolutely horrible on camera. I always hated recordings of myself, but that’s pretty common with introverts with a slight OCD, i.e. the likes of me. I suppose that the biggest problem with all those YouTuber bufties is that unlike us, they have no knowledge to provide their audience with.

I’d do it, but I have a face for radio.

MKTheVintageBloke wrote:Well, as I've said, the eloquent (or, well, loquacious) Mr. Bloke in me would give way to a stuttering millennial adding a lot of "ummmm..." and "yyyyy" between words, if I'd give it a try. That would result with a video seasoned with a shitload of noticeable cuts. And when that'd be ready, and I'd be happy with the result, I'd probably be 70-something and retired by then. Ahhh, well... Looks like most of us decent WIS are good with a pen/keyboard, and those who are good with a camcorder are the likes of TGV, T&H, and all that sorry lot of fruit, who know nothing about watches, yet love to fuck their audience over by pretending to know what they're talking about.

3Flushes wrote:I'ma do a podcast like all of the other kids.

bedlam wrote:I am amazed anyone watches that shit

conjurer wrote:

bedlam wrote:I am amazed anyone watches that shit

Goddamn it, Carl, if I continue to agree with you so much, I'll turn into a goddamned commie myself.

There is nothing better than a juicy literary feud. From Hemingway v. Fitzgerald to Rushdie v. le Carre, there is always plenty of capital fun in reading great writers break each other's balls. What do we have today? Archie Luxury and whatever the Urban Gentry's name is, breaking each other's balls. FFS. If either Archie or the Urban Gentry guy got hit by a bus tomorrow and got ground up in the bus's differential, I wouldn't give a shit.