The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

[Mondaytothursby]

The ad-ocalypse on YouTube really ruined peoples confidence in making stable money off of YouTube. I hate how many in video ads there are now, but I know people need the income.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Mondaytothursby

ad-ocalypse

It’s like the old adage
“I went to the fights the other night and a game of Hockey broke out”

“I was watching some ads, and a video started playing”

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Do you know what videos I have been watching that dont get interrupted by ads…

These ones

Melting an RFID card

Melting an RFID card

Calling on the Dangeorus Army to watch videos

So there’s this thing on YouTube called a “merch shelf” which puts links to products directly under the video and above the description. We want to do that to improve sales (it’s been a downer few months lately)… but to do that we need to monetize our videos… and to do that we need to meet minimum qualifications… and at the moment the only qualification we don’t meet is “hours watched”; [image] So I guess I’m asking for people to just like… watch our videos? Just mindlessly zombie through eve…

[Mondaytothursby]

I’ve been playing this video nonstop while I’m at work. Usually if I’m Active on here I’m at work.

[anon3825968]

I get that, and on many videos, I don’t mind the ads too much. Well I do to be honest, especially when the content creator goes out of their way to weave them cleverly into the narrative, so that by the time you realize they’ve switched to the money-making part of the video, you’ve already wasted 30 seconds of your life.

But in the case of LPL, he doesn’t use interesting content and advertise his products in it: he actually carefully select the subject IN ORDER to plug something. And it’s not interesting at all: always the same crap padlocks to sell his jigglers, car ignition locks to sell his Lishi tools (thank God he finally gave the fucking Lishi tools a rest incidentally)… And here in his latest video, he “revisits” a fingerprint scanner, but the sole purpose of his “revisiting” is to sell his magnet.

It sort of grinds my gears a bit.

[Backpackingvet]

Don’t use scissors to cut things, that are meant to be cut with other things kids.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

Ohhh, ouchy…Thats a good amount of blood.
Any stitches needed?

Hey BPV, Show us your gash

If you were watching videos instead of playing silly buggers, that wouldn’t have happened…Just Sayin’

Calling on the Dangeorus Army to watch videos

So there’s this thing on YouTube called a “merch shelf” which puts links to products directly under the video and above the description. We want to do that to improve sales (it’s been a downer few months lately)… but to do that we need to monetize our videos… and to do that we need to meet minimum qualifications… and at the moment the only qualification we don’t meet is “hours watched”; [image] So I guess I’m asking for people to just like… watch our videos? Just mindlessly zombie through eve…

I’m going to stop dropping these link now, It was funny ( to me ) at first, now I’m starting to annoy myself.

So the last one ( for a while )

[Mondaytothursby]

I haven’t watched LPL’s videos in quite a while. I’m sad to hear that its like that now though. i always liked his content.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Mondaytothursby

I haven’t watched LPL’s videos in quite a while.

Do you know what you SHOULD watch…

[anon3825968]

Yeah it is really sad. Oh well, there are other good pickers who still do locksport videos.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@anon3825968

Oh well, there are other good pickers who still do locksport videos.

I have always been a fan of BosnianBill, I don’t know why he isn’t AS popular as LPL.

Bosnianbill

[anon3825968]

Hmm well, BosnianBill has gone dark. Looks like he only makes private videos for his Patreon supporters or something. At least that’s my understanding from one of his last videos.

[Mondaytothursby]

@Pilgrimsmaster

Do you know what you SHOULD watch…

I’m honestly surprised the view count isn’t higher already.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@anon3825968

Looks like he only makes private videos for his Patreon supporters or something

Oh, I didn’t realise, I just watch
I donated a few years ago…I guess like it still counts

[Backpackingvet]

I can’t snap the pic quick enough. Yeah. Will likely get a stitch.

Just bleeds instantly

[Pilgrimsmaster]

[Backpackingvet]

Almost a cm thick? Ish

[Backpackingvet]

I will see if I can tape whatever they do. I imagine 2 or 3 stitches and a butterfly

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Backpackingvet

and a butterfly

Ooohhhh, PRETTY

[Zwack]

I like Deviant Ollamh (not always security related, sometimes he talks about food and drink). He kind of shills stuff for his store but it’s not irritating, unlike LPL who has definitely switched to “You could use any pick, but I’m using this one that we sell on our website”

The other one I like is the not so civil engineer. He has been less active recently (since he started working for LPL) but his videos are very educational.

Neither of these are pure locksport as they both work as physical pen testers, but they are interesting none the less.

[Eriequiet]

I don’t really mind LPL becoming what he’s become

His content isn’t really locksport to me, it’s a running compilation of really shitty locks and security products that are laughable

It’s not good content for recurring, but more sporadic lulz

Most of his viewers don’t want to watch the struggle but laugh at the 5 second bypasses

I do genuinely love his covert companion, and am super pumped about the new turning tool module for it, say what you will about the standard lock pick stuff every lock pick store has… that’s a fairly new and decent tool… if a bit spendy