Something disturbing about watching a grown man shave in a robe that I don't want to be part of.
Hear, hear!
Something disturbing about watching a grown man shave in a robe that I don't want to be part of.
One of my New Year's resolutions is to get back to pumping out more shaving videos. My goal is a video every-other-week, though I want to try to work up to one per week.
This entire thread is a waste of bandwidth, in my opinion.
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Can someone please explain to me this recent insistence by artisans to create signature soaps? What I think was a nice gesture at first by Joe from RazoRock, has recently turned into an obnoxious trend. I think it is unfair to a majority of the customers who spend 100's of dollars with these vendors, and receive little or no recognition. I work hard for my money, and put a lot more effort into my job than the amount of time it takes to record a 5-minute YouTube video, that's for sure. I think these signature soaps emphasize and encourage shilling within the community, something we can all agree is not helpful. I am of the school of thought that a good product ought to speak for itself. It's one thing to post a written or video review, and the entire community appreciates them as somewhat of a guiding light. But if you think I'm buying your soap because of the guy that you put on the label, think again. Especially when its someone who has pointed a loaded gun at the video camera. These are the guys you want representing your brand? I really think this trend should end as soon as possible. It would be much appreciated.
P.S. I mean absolutely no offense to any YouTube reviewers, vendors, or artisans. This is just a point of view, and is certainly up for discussion.
Yeah, I'd rather be caught watching this and have to explain. Easier to watch and less embarassing
I hear what you're saying, but my contention is that this thread differs in a substantive way from all those other threads.
Somebody saying "I like my new synthetic brush" could potentially be helpful to somebody else in some way. Maybe somebody who had never considered a synthetic brush might read the thread and think to himself, "maybe I should try one of these," and then maybe he buys one and likes it, in which case the thread was helpful.
"I just bought X soap," is another thread that could potentially be helpful, provided the person actually provides some information about the soap eventually. "I tried glycerin and liked it," "Cold water shaving took away my irritation," etc., etc., are also potentially helpful, in that they are threads in which people are posting their experiences with products that others might derive benefit from.
"X new razor is aggressive," or "X old razor is awesome," similarly, are potentially beneficial.
This thread is different, because it offers absolutely no chance of benefit to anybody. This is a whining thread. It boils down to, essentially, "I am bothered by marketing gimmick X," but with no actual information that marketing gimmick X is a general problem or is likely to cause problems for others.
An equivalent thread might be something like, "There are too many Arko threads; they bother me," which is, similarly, a worthless thread and a waste of bandwidth. I would also tell that person that if you don't like Arko, don't buy it, and if you don't like Arko threads, don't read them.
In some ways, this thread is worse than the hypothetical one I just made up. At least in the case of the "too many Arko threads" thread, there may actually have been a bunch of Arko threads and maybe a bunch of people are annoyed by it, and maybe, just maybe, people will slow down the Arko threads for awhile. So there is, at least remotely, a possibility of a beneficial outcome.
What's the potential beneficial outcome of this thread? Does anybody think that because of this thread no soapmaker will ever name another soap after a person?
So I reassert that this thread is a waste of bandwidth, because it has no possible benefit to anyone and is nothing more than whining about a "problem" so small that it probably doesn't even qualify as a "first-world problem."
And yes, I'm fully aware of the irony of this post, seeing that it adds to the length of the very thread it is criticizing, and is, in itself, an example of a protracted whine that stands to benefit pretty much nobody. (I'll justify it by saying that I was trying to defend my position, which was first criticized and then mistakenly generalized.)