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Pet peeves on knife review videos?

not2sharp said:
I doubt many of us have much experience with knives, and even those who constantly work with knives tend to work with a knife type or set and rarely play with varieties of knives. As with anything else, familiarity with a task let’s us perfect our technique and our tools and if you are fortunate enough to get there you are going to be reluctant to change either. Knives can be cool as art, as examples of perfected manufacture, as intriguing gadgets or historical and cultural relics. Many are fashionable, interesting, playful and even useful. We enjoy the many details, the endless knife lure, and the many people we share it with. But, when it comes to the tool itself, they are just acute wedges with sharpened edges and attached handles. Does one knife actually cut more usefully than another, and does that really matter?

N2s
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Guess it is all in your perspective,i got gifted a little slipjoint from my parents at the age of five and have owned used and sometimes cherished edged tools ever since.
Watching some YT knife "reviewers" you get the feeling that they are reviewing knifes because they believe that they found a easy niche to make a quick buck.
They are usually clueless about the particular knife that they are showing and always in need of bandages and to make it worse they are painful to listen to.
 
Man, i say this at least once a year on various forums but threads like this make me miss/think of “Woods Walker”. Kevin had great presentation and shared so much knowledge. Thats what youtube should have been. Now its just whatever stupid trend is a part of that community and no substance or knowledge whatsoever.


And the danged gloves!!!
 
David Mary said:
A pet peeve not mentioned so far that I've seen a lot of is: Reviewers sharing updates on some kind of ongoing drama they are involved with. That's for a separate video. If your video is titled "Xyz knife review", then stick with that. I didn't click it to have to hear you go on for five minutes about the back and forth you're having with a maker, another youtuber, or a dealer.

"What's up YouTube"? My name is not YouTube. "What's up people?" Why are you "asking a question"? You're not going to listen to or read the answer to "what's up" from 250,000 viewers. "Hello Youtube? How you doin, HOW YOU DOIN'?" Good grief.

"Hey everybody, I hope you're doing well out there". Finally something sensible.
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They're wanna be drama queens.
 
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