Aaron, its impossible for me to have skirted anything because I'm under no duty to defend anything. I'm not Nutnfancy.
I don't see any hypocrisy, except when someone says they "never paid attention to him in the first place" yet have intimate knowledge of his reviews and go on public rants about someone they purport to care nothing about. You do a lot of complaining about someone you claim you don't care about.
His controversy leaks onto bladeforums, where I'm made aware of it. I've only sat through part of 2 of his videos (couldn't tolerate them in their entirety). I watched them them because I enjoy a good train wreck as much as the next gawking onlooker.
First was the video he made on the Enlan knockoff of the Hinderer. Now, I've made no secret of what I think about counterfeit and knockoff knives, or the people who buy and promote them. In his video he gives glowing praise to this knockoff made in China. Don't bother looking for the video, because he quickly pulled it because of the vitriol that was immediately thrown his way.
The very next video he posts (or at least, the next video that I'm made aware of because someone here posted it) was on the Spyderco Southard, where he immediately starts ranting about how an overseas made knife shouldn't cost so much. A blindly ignorant opinion, btw, as the Taiwanese made Spydercos are every bit as nice as as the Golden, CO made ones, and Spyderco saves absolutely nothing by having them made in Taiwan.
The same man took a $30 Tenacious made overseas, slapped a paint job on it, and charged $100.
The same man has a special edition Lion Steel SR1, which is made overseas (Italy), and costs every bit as much as the Spyderco Southard does.
He is a fool and a hypocrite. Or a genius and a hypocrite. Either way, he's full of crap and he's a hypocrite.
My point is this - Nutnfancy is just some nameless guy from Utah who puts up goofy knife reviews on Youtube. Who cares? If you don't agree with his opinion of a knife, more power to you. Then stop watching. But to generate post and post in thread after thread about Nutnfancy means there is much more going on here than merely disagreeing with whether XYZ knife has enough jimping. Its way deeper than that. You and some others despise Nutnfancy [see my quote in post #69 if you want to contend that you don't hate him], and it has nothing to with me, and nothing to with knives. Its a visceral personality clash. He is supremely confident and happy and self-important, and you can't stand it. Thats the only conceivable reason that you and so many others get so wound up over something so insignificant as a knife review.
It matters because he has so many followers; people that gobble up what he spews. I don't care how much he likes his jimping. I don't care about how much he likes his knives to weigh. If you want to listen to him ramble on for an hour about the Sebenza, it's no skin off my teeth. But if he's going to tell people to buy knockoffs and to only buy expensive overseas made knives if he gets a cut from the sales, then yeah, my hackles get raised a bit. Before those 2 videos, he was merely a blip on my radar. What I knew about him was what I gathered from people talking about him here. Some liked him, some thought he was a longwinded blowhard. Either way, he has a lot of followers and his videos get lots of views. But
after those 2 videos, it's clear that he has some ethical and moral shortcomings, and doesn't mind that he's getting paid for it.
