Airgun YouTubers buying Subscribers?

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I think a lot of it is what it is. 

Airguns are an industry, and there’s strong ties between the industry and the youtube personalities they sponsor. It may be that what’s happening is that some channels quickly plug other channels that share the same sponsors and their subscriber base all jumps in together. 

Its a double-edged sword. I remember when Youtube cracked down on Airgun channels some of the big names circled wagons around each other and left others out to dry. I’m sure eliminating competition and corporate ties was a motivation for at least some of the selection as to who got saved and who didn’t. Youtube listens to money. 

I’m glad to be a maverick that isn’t owned by anyone in the industry and speaks my mind freely. Yet I’m also glad there is an industry that has a financial motivation to protect airgunners’ rights. One has to accept the bad with the good. 

The true bad guy is Youtube. And I’m glad I didn’t grovel before them when the bans happened. I called them out instead, while many of the more popular airgun channels begged. And yes, I paid the price. My popular airgun videos were blacklisted and traffic has been cut off to them. But that tells me all the more that Youtube isn’t an entity who’s rear is worth kissing. 

I dig your videos Dana. I know what it feels like to pour everything into a video only for some dweeb to flag it and another dweeb at Youtube to label it something silly like “terroristic.” But that’s the price we have to pay so long as dweebs are running the show. Who knows what change may happen in the near or far future that causes the algorithm to be turned on its head and what is now blacklisted becomes popular again?
 
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I think a lot of it is what it is. 

Airguns are an industry, and there’s strong ties between the industry and the youtube personalities they sponsor. It may be that what’s happening is that some channels quickly plug other channels that share the same sponsors and their subscriber base all jumps in together. 

Its a double-edged sword. I remember when Youtube cracked down on Airgun channels some of the big names circled wagons around each other and left others out to dry. I’m sure eliminating competition and corporate ties was a motivation for at least some of the selection as to who got saved and who didn’t. Youtube listens to money. 

I’m glad to be a maverick that isn’t owned by anyone in the industry and speaks my mind freely. Yet I’m also glad there is an industry that has a financial motivation to protect airgunners’ rights. One has to accept the bad with the good. 

The true bad guy is Youtube. And I’m glad I didn’t grovel before them when the bans happened. I called them out instead, while many of the more popular airgun channels begged. And yes, I paid the price. My popular airgun videos were blacklisted and traffic has been cut off to them. But that tells me all the more that Youtube isn’t an entity who’s rear is worth kissing. 

I dig your videos Dana. I know what it feels like to pour everything into a video only for some dweeb to flag it and another dweeb at Youtube to label it something silly like “terroristic.” But that’s the price we have to pay so long as dweebs are running the show. Who knows what change may happen in the near or far future that causes the algorithm to be turned on its head and what is now blacklisted becomes popular again?
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Thanks for posting Travis,

I know out of the many YouTubers you can understand most all of what I'm feeling. For me this has gone beyond just a hobby and for the most part have made a living the past year doing video and photography work. Most of these companies want to see a large following, thankfully our website generates that well over the YouTube channel. Not worried on my end, just find it interesting how many are getting away with this in the "Airgun Industry" lol Most aren't familiar enough to spot these fraudulent wannabe Airgunners. My original post was to let the community know this is happening and to let those I'm speaking of know "I C U" 😊
 
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I've been doing Youtube videos for going on 10 years, and still don't get anywhere near enough views to monetize. There was a time when people could fake numbers of views. I never did any of that. I just wish I could get near the same number of likes vs views. I think even that would help. One look at my channel and you can see I'm not cheating the system.
 
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