Pet peeves on knife review videos?

My fave is when they ask for "likes" or "thumbs up" and "subscriptions" before they've earned them.

Maybe they have a point. I think I'll start giving timeouts to folks who don't "like" my posts.

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txgolfer45 said:
For me, I don't need the reviewer to show how good they are with the different opening methods by fidgeting with the folder throughout the video. I also don't care if I can reverse flick the knife. I don't spend time fidgeting with my folders. What about you?
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None. I'm in full control of the time invested to information extracted ratio. :)

If my pet even starts to get peeved. It's on to the next resource.

It is valuable to see them function and in a human hand. Especially considering the size of the investment and inability to handle them as part of the purchase decision process.
 
My pet peeve for knife reviews: moving too quickly. I can't stand when the reviewer opens, closes, puts down, picks up the knife before I can get a real view in any particular angle.

Oh, and listing dimensions. Those numbers are easily found online. I'm watching your video because I've already figured the blade you're handling is possibly the right size for me, and I want to know what you actually think of it.

EDIT: Removed some words. Brain is fried today.
 
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I like one particular reviewer only because his tastes align with mine. Otherwise I don’t watch them from hardly anyone else.
 
Yapping.. many “influencers” talk too much ( probably because they are paid by sponsors ). Give a description that includes specs, edit for length, do realistic stuff with the knife.
 
I will admit one time I inadvertently watched a video of Britney Spears showing her knife dancing skills. It was pretty friggen funny although did find myself trying to diagnose her mental issues towards the end.
 
Well, y’all have just about covered the dislikes! And I agree with most….but I am glad that the reviews do exist. Otherwise I’d never have much, if any, knowledge of what’s “new and exciting” in the marketplace. If you live out here in the country, that info is not really (easily) available. Plus, I’m learning how to properly open boxes!
 
I don’t watch knife reviews anymore.
I have previously watched them, yet I really didn’t learn anything. Also the videos were way longer than I have the patience for.
I did not feel they were worth my time.

Minus one video of some blonde girl reviewing a Reate butterfly karambit (exo ?) . I did buy that knife ha ha.
That was a fun video to watch.
 
Nah, I don't watch 'em, just kinda skip or fast forward through to the interesting parts. You can show me the closing action, but I hate, hate,  haaaaaeeeettttte the word 'shutty.' Whoever coined that needs to be drug out in the street and shot. I have similar feelings about 'walk-and-talk,' but give it a pass because it has apparently been an industry term for longer than I've been alive. It just sounds stupid, is all. If I hear it more than twice in a video, I block that reviewer from my recommendations.
 
txgolfer45 said:
For me, I don't need the reviewer to show how good they are with the different opening methods by fidgeting with the folder throughout the video. I also don't care if I can reverse flick the knife. I don't spend time fidgeting with my folders. What about you?
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They are just giving you something to look at while they are talking. Some people just wave their hands around over the knife while it sits on the table.
six o' one.

One of my pet peeves is they rarely give a decent shot of the spine of the knife so I can see how thick the handle is , how thick the blade is , whether or not it has goofy cutouts in the wrong place for comfortable use ( Spyderco Stove Pipe I am looking at you ; what is all THAT about anyway ? ? ? ? maybe I don't get it because I have not handled one but it makes me not want to handle one ).

Anyway I spend too much time attempting to stop the vid at a point in mid wave-around so I can look at the spine of the knife .

Also cut something with it of substance like a heavy plastic jug or solid cardboard not corrugated , or a finger nail .
Tell me about the factory geometry of the edge / am I going to have to reprofile the piss out of it to get to the point it will cut adequately and hold an edge for more than a day ?
 
I don’t watch knife reviews to listen to opinions, I just want to see the knife outside of photos so I can see it from more angles.
 
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