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Originally Posted by Outoftime44444
Boski turned his joke about other people's vlog, into his story about he's a man with a phone and free software. There was more to it, than just "creating drama." Some light hearted fun, he used to point out what makes him different.
It's hard to know the exact tone Jeff is employing in his vlog. In the past he seems to have had a decent relationship with Andrew, Brad, and others. I'm not sure if these have soured but I feel his latest upload was a direct response to Neeme's new association with Sommerville and RUI.
I've never really liked when people claim to have the correct way of doing things. Boski says a vlog should only be done on a phone and with free editing software. He criticizes different vloggers use of certain techniques and conventions then rolls out the lets re watch my first vlog trick. This of course could be some level of trolling but then we should not take any of his critiques of others vloggers for anything other than a joke.
I think that there is some real resentment in the vlog though, why I dont quite understand. In one of Neeme's first vlogs he mentions Gary Vaynerchuk which means Andrew is using the vlog to increase his social media awareness and grow a brand that can open new revenue streams to him. Some of this smacks as the kind of "sell-out" phenomenon that is associated with music acts. If someone makes it big and grows beyond their original audience they have turned their back on their original fans and other acts in their genre.
Jeff has used his own platform to profit by assocations ACR, pokertube, staking/backing from fans and his (what i find to be cringy) buy me free dinner. It makes a lot of his critiques of other vloggers fall flat. I imagine a lot of poker vloggers are using their platform to find new opportunities. I would imagine that most professional poker players would want to find new revenue streams due to the high amount of variance in their profession and the current landscape of the poker economy(most pros are saying the games are getting tougher of drying up).
His most direct critcizims of certain "poker entertainers" hamming it up for the cameras don't really ring true either. Johnny Vibes has offered some of the most authentic vlogging out there, he has really shown a lot of vunrabilty during his most recent downswing and I think that his
'positive personality" is more or less who he is or how he tries to interact with life on a daily basis. Tonkaa seems to me be a kind of "wears his heart on his sleeve type of guy and is just as likely to show anger, disappointment/depression as his is excitement. I do have some issue with how Andrew portrays the life of a professional poker player, he has in the past been reluctant to give much details about his struggles which I think is a bit disingenuous. I think people should really know some of the real pitfalls of trying to play poker for a living. Jamie Staples well he is an employee of pokerstars like Jeff Gross and DNegs so their job is to portray poker in as positive light as possible.
I have a lot more thoughts but I think I might save them for a thread about New Media and the current state of Poker in an NVG thread one day.