Would you like to be famous?

Ever wanted to be famous?

  • Hell naw. Hate social media, I don't even use my real name here

    Votes: 17 41.5%

  • Not really. I'm not interesting enough

    Votes: 9 22.0%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 12 29.3%

  • Secretly I would like to be famous

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • I would love to be insta famous

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • I'm Handsome Jay...I'm already famous. Have you even SEEN my epic life?

    Votes: 2 4.9%
  • Total voters
    41
StretchASU said:
There is a decent viewership base for modern trade/farm stuff on YouTube to the point that my wife and I have considered starting to film some of the projects and general fuckery we get into around her family farm. Not with the goal to be famous, but to cash in on the ad revenue if it grew enough just to help pay the operating costs. Her dad who is a very quiet and humble man was blown away at the economics of even moderately popular YT channels. Then I remember how toxic the Internet is and how money fucks with family dynamics and just go about our lives and sharing it with friends occasionally on IG.
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my best friend and his wife started a part time "Farm/ bakery" that they did really well at last year and are expanding again this year. they have considered starting a youtube channel, because if anything it just gets their stuff out there and long term has the potential to have added revenue for them.
 
also going to add i entered me and him into a "reality TV show" that will be on YouTube, but its more for the experience, items we would get for free and hunting opportunities than to be on the show. (IE cost a 100 for the two of us to enter if we are picked, they cover license, tags, cost to get there and lodging, vehicle, and all food for a 7 day hunt. that doesnt include all the gear they give you to wear from their sponsors or the extra stuff you get if you win. even if you dont win thats probably worth 5-10,000 of gear and tags they cover)
 
Loganwayne said:
my best friend and his wife started a part time "Farm/ bakery" that they did really well at last year and are expanding again this year. they have considered starting a youtube channel, because if anything it just gets their stuff out there and long term has the potential to have added revenue for them.
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Is the bakery around here?
 
I’ve debated a long time about if I wanted to start a channel. I have “car guy” friends that pretty much ask everytime they see me. I’m in a unique position where I could just fuck around and do that all the time. I just recently started following some channels and I know enough to know a lot of those guys are so full of themselves and have no clue wtf they are trying to explain. Maybe its because I’ve got a background of actually working on stuff at a dealership and through those trainings and experience I understand stuff more and can point out the tards of YouTube. But I also don’t feel like I’m not in any position to brag or feel as if I’m a subject matter expert because of how many folks I know that are far smarter than I am on Offroad stuff.

Ive had a few run ins with insta famous folks, I’ve had some drag my name through the mud while omitting from their bad mouthing to our agreements, or responsibility on their end. I don’t like helping folks who want to rely solely on me. I would rather you start something then realize you’re in over your head then I swing by your house to guide you along or offer a little bit of advice and encouragement. I hate babysitting folks who have no desire to invest in themselves to learn. Ive realized I’ve helped folks in the past that shouldnt have had empathy for their situation. And I felt used to the point I have done a lot of work on a persons jeep, dude gave me credit a handful of times and hasn’t tagged me in a bunch of work I did to his Jeep to fix his fuckups and whatnot in the last 4 years. I’ve had folks attempt to pass my work off as their own, I’ve seen the butthurt egos of folks that literally get mad at the build plans I’ve got for my own stuff. it makes me feel like an asshole saying this because I wouldn’t be jealous of how long it takes me to finance my builds, but they are jealous of what I’m doing. Ive turned down offers of using folks CNC plasma cutters because of their attitude, I got the gut feeling they were gonna steal my files if I did so. I’ve had folks call me a narcissist when I told them I don’t have time to show them how to chase wires and make their harness work for a LS swap in a JK, others have gotten butthurt in front of me when I told them the answers are out there if you just use the search button. I’ve got screen shots of a member on here attempting to seem like the go to guy when he accidentally texted me back the info I just told him when was passing along to a new Instagram famous friend of his.

I get annoyed with posers, I get annoyed at folks who dog on skills they do not poses at all, I can’t stand one uppers, I can’t stand folks that feel people should know them just by their social media presence. I honestly cannot stand many folks in the Jeep community because they are trying so hard to get famous with changing the name of their of their Jeep or accent colors. I peeled the built not bought sticker off the back of my JK when I saw someone using that hashtag that didn’t even own a welder, know how to weld, or did anything to build the Jeep they own, literally another member on here built that Jeep years ago. Its not just the younger crowd that tries hard to be insta-famous, it’s the folks lacking trade skills in order to build stuff they see other build.

Sorry for my rant but I’d rather just finish my shit boxes and enjoy them with folks that we can laugh about the fuckups we did while building them ourselves, then impress randoms on the we, YouTube, or wherever.
 
iwaxmyjimmy said:
I get annoyed with posers, I get annoyed at folks who dog on skills they do not poses at all, I can’t stand one uppers, I can’t stand folks that feel people should know them just by their social media presence.
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iwaxmyjimmy said:
I can’t stand one uppers
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Me either....I think that's one of the more annoying traits of people I can't stand.

I get excited sometimes...both online and in person, when someone talks about something they've experienced, or had issues with and I've been right there. Be it a good experience or bad, I want to share that "hey I feel you brother...I was right there myself." attempting to share in an attempt to show compassion or understanding. But, sometimes my brain works faster than my mouth/keyboard and I leave a few things out like "Hey I'm not one upping, rather sharing my experience to let you know I know where you're coming from" and afterwards I feel like I came across as a one upping douche :rolleyes:
 
iwaxmyjimmy said:
I’ve debated a long time about if I wanted to start a channel. I have “car guy” friends that pretty much ask everytime they see me. I’m in a unique position where I could just fuck around and do that all the time. I just recently started following some channels and I know enough to know a lot of those guys are so full of themselves and have no clue wtf they are trying to explain. Maybe its because I’ve got a background of actually working on stuff at a dealership and through those trainings and experience I understand stuff more and can point out the tards of YouTube. But I also don’t feel like I’m not in any position to brag or feel as if I’m a subject matter expert because of how many folks I know that are far smarter than I am on Offroad stuff.

Ive had a few run ins with insta famous folks, I’ve had some drag my name through the mud while omitting from their bad mouthing to our agreements, or responsibility on their end. I don’t like helping folks who want to rely solely on me. I would rather you start something then realize you’re in over your head then I swing by your house to guide you along or offer a little bit of advice and encouragement. I hate babysitting folks who have no desire to invest in themselves to learn. Ive realized I’ve helped folks in the past that shouldnt have had empathy for their situation. And I felt used to the point I have done a lot of work on a persons jeep, dude gave me credit a handful of times and hasn’t tagged me in a bunch of work I did to his Jeep to fix his fuckups and whatnot in the last 4 years. I’ve had folks attempt to pass my work off as their own, I’ve seen the butthurt egos of folks that literally get mad at the build plans I’ve got for my own stuff. it makes me feel like an asshole saying this because I wouldn’t be jealous of how long it takes me to finance my builds, but they are jealous of what I’m doing. Ive turned down offers of using folks CNC plasma cutters because of their attitude, I got the gut feeling they were gonna steal my files if I did so. I’ve had folks call me a narcissist when I told them I don’t have time to show them how to chase wires and make their harness work for a LS swap in a JK, others have gotten butthurt in front of me when I told them the answers are out there if you just use the search button. I’ve got screen shots of a member on here attempting to seem like the go to guy when he accidentally texted me back the info I just told him when was passing along to a new Instagram famous friend of his.

I get annoyed with posers, I get annoyed at folks who dog on skills they do not poses at all, I can’t stand one uppers, I can’t stand folks that feel people should know them just by their social media presence. I honestly cannot stand many folks in the Jeep community because they are trying so hard to get famous with changing the name of their of their Jeep or accent colors. I peeled the built not bought sticker off the back of my JK when I saw someone using that hashtag that didn’t even own a welder, know how to weld, or did anything to build the Jeep they own, literally another member on here built that Jeep years ago. Its not just the younger crowd that tries hard to be insta-famous, it’s the folks lacking trade skills in order to build stuff they see other build.

Sorry for my rant but I’d rather just finish my shit boxes and enjoy them with folks that we can laugh about the fuckups we did while building them ourselves, then impress randoms on the we, YouTube, or wherever.
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I can echo alot of those sentiments. With the race shop we tried doing some Youtube videos, facebook live, etc etc. Amazingly, the entire internet has always been there, done that, did it better, bought it for less, sold it for more, etc etc. So that pretty much killed off any tech related videos, due to sheer frustration. Then we looked at my facebook groups...noticed a hub cap painted ford blue would get 10,000 likes, where a $25k engine or $100k restoration would get like 10 views...so we decided maybe if we just dumb down the content it would appeal to a larger market...then everyone on the internet feels some kind of way about that, and you're 'professional' so you should do better. Then you have folks you've never met accusing you of stealing their cam specs...or some turd burglar runs out of money and wants a full refund because there were finger prints on a valve cover, so they start trashing you in every comment (seriously, that happened, after he left the engine in customs for 18 months). Frankly, it wasn't worth it...ended up stripping out 80% of the clientele and viewership, and 80% of the headaches went away. Much smoother, and much much much more profitable when you're not appealing to dumbfucks to put food on your table.
 
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CasterTroy said:
Me either....I think that's one of the more annoying traits of people I can't stand.

I get excited sometimes...both online and in person, when someone talks about something they've experienced, or had issues with and I've been right there. Be it a good experience or bad, I want to share that "hey I feel you brother...I was right there myself." attempting to share in an attempt to show compassion or understanding. But, sometimes my brain works faster than my mouth/keyboard and I leave a few things out like "Hey I'm not one upping, rather sharing my experience to let you know I know where you're coming from" and afterwards I feel like I came across as a one upping douche :rolleyes:
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Oh I definitely understand that, it probably is why I over explain myself to let folks know that’s not my intention and exactly where I’m coming from. Empathy for folks situations can be a double edge sword.
 
UTfball68 said:
I can echo alot of those sentiments. With the race shop we tried doing some Youtube videos, facebook live, etc etc. Amazingly, the entire internet has always been there, done that, did it better, bought it for less, sold it for more, etc etc. So that pretty much killed off any tech related videos, due to sheer frustration. Then we looked at my facebook groups...noticed a hub cap painted ford blue would get 10,000 likes, where a $25k engine or $100k restoration would get like 10 views...so we decided maybe if we just dumb down the content it would appeal to a larger market...then everyone on the internet feels some kind of way about that, and you're 'professional' so you should do better. Then you have folks you've never met accusing you of stealing their cam specs...or some turd burglar runs out of money and wants a full refund because there were finger prints on a valve cover, so they start trashing you in every comment (seriously, that happened, after he left the engine in customs for 18 months). Frankly, it wasn't worth it...ended up stripping out 80% of the clientele and viewership, and 80% of the headaches went away. Much smoother, and much much much more profitable when you're not appealing to dumbfucks to put food on your table.
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Don’t get me wrong there are some super talented folks that, I’ll admit to learning stuff from there. And you wonder if the appeal is because they want to see and average Joe do it not someone who plans everything out to a T. Like for example I’ll be critical of the wreckless wrench guys. They seem like decent folks but you can tell they have this false sense of confidence in stuff they are clueless about. At the same time, dudes got a pretty good fab skills. However his most viewed video is of a botched truss he built that snapped off Bc his short ass didn’t lift off the throttle jumping it. Sad part he didn’t it twice, he broke the pinion off a dana 70 twice because of that. When we all know trusses of that nature have even covered plenty of times over the 25+ years pirate4x4 was around. It’s either lack of research or lack of knowledge, and/or both. As much as the JK platform brought many people to the offroad world and expanded the market and industry like crazy. But the amount of yuppie folks and chicks showing their buttholes on the hood of their jeeps really killed off a lot of my desire to see where a career in the offroad scene would take me. I also drop F bombs every sentence because it’s an adjective in my vocabulary.
 
I once considered putting shit out on the 'tube but I lost interest. In order to get a following you have to constantly put out videos which can be very time consuming if they need editing. I also like catchy tunes but they made it damn near impossible to throw them on there because of copyright infringement or whatever they call it. My problem is I like to put out quality stuff. Slapping shit together isn't my style (don't look at my jeep).

I think now when I look at it, it's more about the fun those people are having with their friends. It can be about whatever but I think it boils down to, under the surface, is people being out there living it up and having some laughs with friends. Yeah, it's cool to say, "hey, you're the guy that...." but really you'd like to be the guy that built a turbo lawnmower and did donuts in your driveway.

I also think if it were me, if I was ever in the scenario, that I wouldn't want to be thinking the whole time that I had some responsibility to record my life for people at home. I'd rather be in the moment. I'd probably still record it but those are memories for me and my kids when they turn 30. Not so some one upper can call me a douche canoe and tell me what I did wrong.

Then again I could be completely full of shit and secretly want to be famous...but just for the money.
 
Something that just popped into my head:
If I ever did become famous, it wouldn't be from pure self divination, but rather the documentation of an event lived out by a group of people I was with.
Say like a 30 minute short film of a multiple day road trip wheeling trip.

Think of like the Peterson's Ultimate Adventure. I've always always been a huge fan of this. I wish I had the time and skill to film and produce movies about the people I meet, ride, and wheel with. That would be a major highlight for me.
 
StretchASU said:
There is a decent viewership base for modern trade/farm stuff on YouTube to the point that my wife and I have considered starting to film some of the projects and general fuckery we get into around her family farm. Not with the goal to be famous, but to cash in on the ad revenue if it grew enough just to help pay the operating costs. Her dad who is a very quiet and humble man was blown away at the economics of even moderately popular YT channels. Then I remember how toxic the Internet is and how money fucks with family dynamics and just go about our lives and sharing it with friends occasionally on IG.
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X2. We have talked about it as well. The editing part doesn't bother me, as I have the stuff to do it through my job. I will never naturally pick up a camera to film myself. The wife tried to film once while I was doing farm chores, but it was deleted since I don't really talk about what I am doing, just do it. At the end of the day, I just want to get the word out so people will buy product from me, and I can enjoy the animals and not spend Saturdays at Farmer's Markets. The only time I have thought to pickup a camera, was when I was building something. There is so much junk on the internet, I think it would be good if more people with half a brain posted content. But typically I am using crap that's laying around, and I have no clue if it will actually work.
 
XJsavage said:
Something that just popped into my head:
If I ever did become famous, it wouldn't be from pure self divination, but rather the documentation of an event lived out by a group of people I was with.
Say like a 30 minute short film of a multiple day road trip wheeling trip.

Think of like the Peterson's Ultimate Adventure. I've always always been a huge fan of this. I wish I had the time and skill to film and produce movies about the people I meet, ride, and wheel with. That would be a major highlight for me.
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There’s a lady in one of my Bronco groups that did something similar...Always wanted to do something like that myself.

www.onallcylinders.com

Project Road Warrior 2.0: Building a 1978 Bronco to Tackle a Trip to the Arctic - OnAllCylinders

EDITOR’S NOTE: Courtney Barber loves driving, wrenching on vehicles, and road trips—big, BIG road trips! You may know Courtney from her “Project Road Warrior” 1965 Mustang, which she drove to …
www.onallcylinders.com www.onallcylinders.com
 
UTfball68 said:
There’s a lady......
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Step 1. Be pretty
Step 2. See step 1, the rest will fall into place

In that documentary "Fake Famous" they picked a cute 22yr old white girl, a narcissistic black guy, and a gay white dude. The 2 men couldn't handle the feedback and negative comments. The white girl ended up getting free trips, make-up and modeling contracts, and product thrown at her like she was a Kardashian. Men will click and comment #becauseleghumpers and women...well...women will "follow" women for no real reason that makes sense to me...but they DO. But men won't leghump other men...typically, nor follow another dude unless he's really putting out some good stuff (Cletus McFarland, Vice grip garage....etc)
 
CasterTroy said:
Step 1. Be pretty
Step 2. See step 1, the rest will fall into place

In that documentary "Fake Famous" they picked a cute 22yr old white girl, a narcissistic black guy, and a gay white dude. The 2 men couldn't handle the feedback and negative comments. The white girl ended up getting free trips, make-up and modeling contracts, and product thrown at her like she was a Kardashian. Men will click and comment #becauseleghumpers and women...well...women will "follow" women for no real reason that makes sense to me...but they DO. But men won't leghump other men...typically, nor follow another dude unless he's really putting out some good stuff (Cletus McFarland, Vice grip garage....etc)
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Very valid point...I see that all the time too...hey I have tits and was just sponsored some big name part most folks will never be able to afford...LEB with a beard, hey we actually race and go to events. We’ll give you a $100 off coupon for orders over $10k.

Also know a guy I’d put in the same category as Kaase builds...he didn’t need street cred, but he hired a smoking hot driver for his race team...guess what happened in the comments section when a post with her in picture happens. Post traffic increases about 900%. I’m not bitter, but damn.
 
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