Nine Club needs to take a break from interviewing YouTubers. No disrespect to luis Mora and his story but it just feels like Crob and co are pushing the YouTube thing too hard. It feels like interviewing these guys gives the nine club some extra views or likes by piggybacking their guest or just some free consultation on how to improve their stats.
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Well, I guess I really ruined Chris's day with my comment.
Listen Chris, because I know you're lurking, I'm a fan of the nine club and I respect the hard work you put into the show to entertain us. Here's my issue: You guys have a major platform with the possibility to interview all kinds of people in the skate industry. A vast majority of your listeners are guys like me who have a few decades of skating under their wheels so it's natural that guests from bygone eras are going to pique our radars more than a younger fresher face we've never heard of. Especially in the case of youtubers who found their niche on a platform that's only really been exploited by the skate industry in the last few years. I see Pedro Delfino. I see Tom Asta. I see Gas Giants. These are skaters on youtube that interest me because besides their youtube channels providing great content, they're in the streets, the parks, the shops, the magazines, the videos... Not so much Luis Mota, NKA Vids, Ira Ingram, Chris Chann, Gary Veynerchuk et al. That said, I still listen to the episodes because maybe they have a great story to tell. Perhaps I jumped the shark with my extra views and stats comments but I can't help but feel somehow the analytics reflect it when such guests feature on the show.
I will say one thing though, it shows that you and the others are starting to do some homework on upcoming guests and the interviews are better for it. However, don't rely so much on your Ol' buddies for emotional support. There are plenty of us skaters out here and elsewhere who listen your show, like your show, respect your show but we'll also critique your show. If you enter the public sphere which are now very much a part of, you have to accept criticism. Granted some of it is baseless (nowadays faceless) but some of it is valuable. And, why not just say "so-and-so posted on Slap" rather than "someone commented" like you're trying to deny you follow this topic and forum closely? I can almost guarantee you that if you posted up here like Cliff, DGKalis, ISUCK etc did in the past, you'd probably get a ton more support and respect than you think.
Fuck, this post is too long. Apologies slappals, I just got a kick out of Chris reacting so fast to my earlier post that bumped the thread from page 3 to the front.