[arbysauce ✓ supporter]

I just want to clarify a thing or two about my post.  First off to Jeff’s question, I am 38 so good guess about my age.  As for Brian’s comment, I don’t consider myself a hater or despise you, I just feel like your earlier videos were more “pure” whereas your later videos come off (to me) as a video diary with a lot of product placement.  I didn’t mean to single you out in my bitching and moaning, I should have clarified by specifically mentioning the number of new self promoted youtube channels that seem to pop up weekly on Reddit.  I applaud guys like Brian who can quit their day jobs and ride exotic places around the world.  Kudos, but I just feel like in order to do that, your videos, to me at least, feel like they have become a long advertisement because you have to plug your sponsors in order to keep up that support.

As for Mark’s comment about youtube being great because you can basically “change the channel” and choose what you want to watch, I guess I am just frustrated in seeing the amount of commercialization that is creeping into videos.  All of the riders with any decent number of subscribers seem to be incorporating more and more sponsor mentions in their videos. It’s only a matter of time before Google starts injecting ads you can’t dismiss in every video along with a 60 second commercial that you can’t skip to start every video.

I’ll quit bitching now and go ride my bike.

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