He still makes incredible YouTube content daily.
Yeah same. I still watch his vlogs but Iām starting to dislike them more and more. Especially after his latest one
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Since Iām still relatively new to the world of yo-yos, Iām enjoying some of his earlier YT content. Iāve probably watched his binding video at least a dozen times! Some of the older stuff like that is pure gold for someone like me.
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Same here man. Watching all the yoyo YouTubers old stuff lol. Or Iāll throw on some A-rt and One Drop trick videos. I donāt even use tik tok but I see their stuff posted on Instagram and itās almost like they know itās cringe esp Brandon and I would imagine itās hard to keep coming up with new video ideas all the time but I question why he puts so much effort into the tik tok side with hes just a dancing monkey for them at this point lol
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Which is why I unsubscribed (on Youtube) to a few of those people. Their Youtube channels turned into a bunch of silly tiktok junk. I feel sorry for those people. Theyāre making yoyoing seem pretty stupid while using yoyoing to monetize their content.
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I have no idea what making that kind of content (DNA requests) ends up doing for him when it comes to actual money. Everyone has to pay the bills, so I get it if itās a way to make ends meet. But Iām still amazed that the scripts are basically all the same: āDo the DNA with X? Oh, thatās going to be tough! If I can do it, I think that deserves a like and a follow. Wow, I did it!ā I stopped following IG and TT accounts like that because theyāre all pretty much the same and I donāt even have enough interest in the DNA to learn how to do it myself 
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Uhā¦ thanks for the explanation
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Brandon explained the reasoning behind it in a video from a month or two ago. Short version: āItās what gets views.ā
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I saw that video and he pretty much says that itās to get attention or bring new folks to yoyo but heās milked it too the point where heās divided his fan base and kinda gets pissed that the real yoyo community doesnāt like that type of content.
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Exactly. When a few yoyoers post a particular trick to Tik Tok and it gets a lot of attention, thatās called getting the message out to a new audience. When that same trick is posted over and over and over and over to what I would argue is essentially the same audience at that point, itās called pandering and itās no longer about expanding the yoyo community and bringing in new blood, itās about collecting views and landing on the ātop creatorsā lists.
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Attention = Currency
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I like the potential of TikTok for promoting the hobby, but I donāt use it because of itās history of privacy invasion and the fact that the CCP literally has access to itās entire database on demand. I get why some politicians consider it a national security threat.
I donāt share my info with Mark Zuckerberg, Iām sure not gonna go out of my way to contribute to the Communist big-data engine just for a little extra attention! LOL
So Iām gonna sit this wave out and see what the next popular social media platform turns out to be.
Ivan
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Like all social media there are good and bad aspects. I personally think TikTok and Facebook or whatever they renamed to are the worst ones. Itās nice that people are finding new hobbies but people can become addicted and develop mental health issues do to the toxic nature of social media not to mention all the misinformation. There is even a cult side to TikTok that once I saw how many people feed into this stuff and take it as fact I just deleted the app.
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Lol you see that chimp play pong with the neurolink. Could you imagine if one of those ever overheated. I wouldnāt mess with that. Iāll practice the old fashion way lol
Dude. Do you like SUNN O))) or Boris? Some of my favorite music.
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SUNN O)))'s Black One is some of the most eerie and dark stuff ive ever heard.
As for Boris, I love them. Flood, Amplifier Worship, Feedbacker, and Heavy Rocks are all basically masterworks. Ive seen them live and it was incredible.
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Hate to rain on your parade but, as a gigging musician I can tell you that Rock/Metal are certainly not doing better (especially financially) today than in years past, its just become a smaller and more dedicated group of bands/fans.
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I love Black One. I saw Boris live in Minneapolis a couple years ago. Absolutely amazing. My favorite album by both of them is Altar from 2006. INCREDIBLE.
Not seen the neurolink chimp playing pong! I have seen the roach R/C kit and thought about trying one.
When you can just download a skill set, without having to love what it is you are doing, what will that actually look like?
Similar to what the movie Vivarium ask maybe? What would the human do if separated from the ārealā natural world. And of course triggers the Mitch Hedberg joke āwith a stick and a leaf to simulate its natural environmentā. 
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