Podcast Doug and car guy Doug is way way better than used car salesman Doug.
I know this sub has cooled on him and Matt is well Matt but honestly this was one of the best car related listens for me this year.
I also love it when throttle house goes on smoking tire podcast.
All I can tell you is first-hand experience with Matt Farah. My 12-year-old son and I drove up to see Matt begin at tire rack in South Bend Indiana for the one lap of America. Son and I happen to bump into Matt and just say hi because we had seen him on the car show.
Didn’t know him before that really much. Just got a selfie with him, and said thanks. He said hey wait a second he goes why don’t you just hang out with us until we head out? So that was pretty cool. Nice enough guy.
Yeah Matt has given me consistent car content for so long and always responds to really dumb shit I tweet at him, it’s good to see people acknowledging that.
He was really kind when he held a WCCS open house for his Playa Vista location. He pretty much let us roam freely around his building and answered every question we had.
Guys who come from money are usually dicks too but Matt actually seems pretty sound
He’s both. Can be a huge dick and also a nice guy
Sums up most people to be honest
He is solid. Never met the dude but probably had like 10 conversations with him online. I don‘t like Dougs content but I have to give credit to him as well for considering and responding to feedback.
Farah and Zack put in so much effort to give the audience exactly what they wanted, listening to feedback, elaborating if there was a reason they couldn‘t give you what you wanted, and acting on it.
Maybe that‘s part of the reason why I hate youtube, content creators are out there servicing every need of their audience and youtube is like „yeah but have you seen this top 10 video that involves no original content whatsoever, that‘s quality content we need to recommend right there“.
If you didn’t watch that stuff YouTube wouldn’t be recommending it to you
Not true at all. And I‘m not talking about my personal feed I‘m talking about the fact that a billion dollar corporation is able to pretend this garbage algorithm is the best they can do.
And even if the average user does click on that content, how braindead do you have to be to recommend top 10 compilations over channels which put a serious budget into original content specifically for your company, don‘t make me laugh.
It sais the algorithm is pushing: „Relevance, Engagement, Quality“
And what relevance is, that‘s entirely up for Youtube to interpret.
Now if you‘re able to login to a computer with no search history and straight face tell me the stuff on the trending pages is relevant when that‘s supposedly their number 1 criteria then you‘re either completely out of your mind or you‘re getting a feed that‘s entirely different from the one they push in Germany.
it’s anecdotal for sure, but my homepage is entirely videos I might genuinely watch. 0 Drama, 0 listicles, 0 bullshit.
If you don’t have any watch history, yeah it’ll be lowest common denomenator crap because they don’t know what you’ll engage with.
It’s not about “the average user” it’s about you specifically - given we’re talking about specific audiences getting or not getting served content from that channel.
This is categorically false. Youtube is constantly trying to recommend shit that you explicitly don’t want. I suspect they try to show you things that make you angry because anger = engagement on the internet.
For example. I have said “do not recommend” and “dislike” every single time I get joe “misinformation” Rogan content. And yet no matter how hard I try it sneaks back in through the algorithm after a few weeks. Same with theo von. I also can’t get rid of breaking bad / better call Saul for some reason.
Don’t dislike it - that’s engagement and requires clicking into the video. Just say don’t recommend the channel and after a while it’ll get the hint
In my experience there are more Matt’s out there than jerks, but the jerks are pretty loud.
I guess that’s probably a microcosm of society in general.
From the couple of times I met Matt, he was really nice, even when a bunch of people were bothering him at a cars and coffee haha
Matt reviewed my car a few years ago for a one tank video.
Obviously I don’t know him on a personal level but to me he was the same in real life as he is in his videos/podcasts. Talked cars and whatnot with me and all the others at the shoot that day till he had to take off.
Definitely a nice, cool dude.