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Mark Rober is headed this direction for me.
I remember thinking highly of some of his early content. Like this guy could be a decent educator.
Now every time I see him, he just comes across as a walking breathing brand rather than an interesting individual.
This is completely unfounded and I have zero facts to back this up, but he comes off as creepy with kids. It's just a hunch, but if I had kids, I would not let them near the man.
Creepy in a way similar to mr. Beast. I don't think he'd be bad with kids, he just comes off as incredibly fake to me.
I guess the votes so far disagree with you, but I could see your icky feelings coming from the same stuff that I perceive with the “walking brand.”
Everything is planned and rehearsed. He reminds the viewer repeatedly how he can be trusted. But it still feels like every word was passed through a committee to make sure nothing bad leaks out.
In my social circles I’m the fun parent that the kids like to play with, and maybe some acquaintances have gotten creepy vibes on occasion, but that’s more a reflection on society at large and how fear and negativity sell news. Nothing that can’t be solved with transparency and consistently just being a decent person.
Eh, I expected downvotes, but I felt I should speak my mind.
the instant crunch labs was announced I got out of there, it turned from kid friendly content to content for kids
I generally prefer it if YouTubers can self-fund based on merch, as opposed to hawking shavers, VPNs, and overpriced TV dinners. That said, the drop in quality has been noticeable from that point on. The drone defense video was particularly noticeable for being military propaganda.
Mark Rober lost me with his porch pirate booby traps.
First of all, booby traps are illegal for a reason. Second of all, a lot of it was staged and it was pretty obvious.
Booby traps are illegal if there is an intent to do harm. Something like this, or rigging your sprinklers to turn on when someone steps on your lawn wouldn't be.
If you intentionally turn on your sprinklers as a deterrent, and it does damage to a person or property, you'd be liable for that.
What if someone had important papers that you ruined. Or you broke their non-waterproof phone? What if someone was stepping off the sidewalk to let a wheelchair pass and you just doused them and the person in the wheelchair?
What if your automated sprinkler starts spraying the EMTs or Firefighters coming to help you cause you fell in your bathroom and can't get up? What if it shorts out the Lifepack they were going to use to check your heart and deliver an AED shock, and now someone died?
Automated booby traps are always bad because you can't judge the intent of the person, or animal, that might trigger it.
Every single video he's made, even the early ones, had an uncomfortable level of editing to them for me.