What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?
Inspired by this post but the other way around. Which channels (any subject) do you think have stayed true to their beginnings and are still worth watching today?
My pick would be Gamers Nexus.
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LockPickingLawyer - Keeps things short and sweet, doesn't waste your time. my mechanics - Restoration channel, doesn't pull any YT tricks or shit. danooct1 - PC Virus showcasing channel.
His quality had definitely fallen around the time he made his site. He would just upload videos of shitting on bad locks and using his own tools. I unsubscribed shortly after. I don't know if it's any better now, but originally he would upload a video when the video had something worthwhile to show.
Nah still the same, pushing his tools hard in every video.
Only the April Fool's videos are worth watching now.
Honestly, while I did recommend him, I have stopped watching his channel a long time ago, like a year and a half ago.
I get it that he's a very experienced lock-picker and almost no lock can withstand his level of skill. But I'm at two minds of this. First off, while he is educating people about bad locks, he is kind of also breeding criminals who'll now have a better understanding as to bypass locks especially his tools. I hope in the back of his mind that he knows this.
The other is, how the hell can we tell whether or not a lock is bad when he makes all of it look so easy? Mind as well just be all the locks available is bad and we just mind as well have a hope and a prayer nobody takes our stashes without locks.
Yeah his channel was fun for a while, but now I just feel like he's being completely smug about his skill. The only video I was remotely entertained by, was when he actually had a few locks he couldn't pick because of their unique design. Maybe once a while something actually is beyond him.
As someone who owns a couple lock picks and plays around with em, let me tell you, knowing how to do it does not make it easy. Info about how to pick locks is easily obtained elsewhere, and honestly his videos aren't exactly helpful in an instructional way. I really doubt he's had a large effect on criminals using lockpicks, especially when it's so much easier to most to cut them with bolt cutters. What I would say he has had more of an impact on is people using more secure locks than masterlocks. I suspect he's had a net benefit on security. I dunno, not like I know the statistics or anything, I think it's a fair estimate though.
Yeah I do sort of wonder what the point of his channel is. Every now and then one of his videos will be recommended and I'll watch it, but I've learnt that there is absolutely no point because they're all exactly the same. He always picks every lock within about 4 seconds.
I'm not really interested in knowing which locks I shouldn't buy. I want to know which locks I should.
All the lock picking channels are like that though, I think they feel that if they upload video where they can't get into a lock, that means that in some way they've failed. So they don't do it.
I want to say the general consensus is not to buy locks that places like Wal-Mart or Harbor Freight sells and he seems to have a particular bone to pick with MasterLock because of how often they show up on his channel.
But it's like, you need some level of protection so it would help to know what would protect our valuables from lock-pickers or those that steal your bikes when locked down somewhere.
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My Mechanics is fantastic. His current restoration of the 240z is excellent, he even supplied parts to Ronald Finger for his 280z.