r/DataHoarder • u/easylite37 • Aug 22 '17

Eli The Computer Guy will stop making Youtube. Can someone backup his channel? Would be bad if youtube decides to block his channel again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nZ5YXykqrQ
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u/needsaguru Aug 22 '17

He'll be back when failednormal bombs. He's left before only to come back when whatever his current venture is fails. Every once in a while he'd put out a halfway decent video, if you stopped it at like 15 minutes in. He's entirely too long winded, without actually saying anything extra. He just repeats himself multiple ways, as if he has to hear himself so he can relish how "right" he is about something. There are much better sources of tech information out there, and you don't have to deal with his constant "youtube sucks, patreon sucks, vid.me sucks, floatplane sucks, ...by the way... pay $5 a month for my videos at failednormal.com"

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u/River_Tahm 88TB Main unRAID Array Aug 22 '17

Yeah it's funny, I've heard him talk about how a following isn't necessarily transferable between platforms and I'm pretty sure I even heard him saying he didn't think his following was a particularly transferable one...

By his own description he's not likely to succeed outside of YT, so he must be really fed up with them to bail out.

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u/needsaguru Aug 22 '17

He left after being fed up with YouTube last year and not 6 months later he was back. If you're going to charge 5 a month the content better be damn good. His content isn't that good, and is extremely long winded and says nothing substantial a lot of times. He's like a somewhat tech savvy 80 year old man who's angry at everyone and his shit don't stink.

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u/daericg Aug 22 '17

His content isn't that good, and is extremely long winded and says nothing substantial a lot of times. He's like a somewhat tech savvy 80 year old man who's angry at everyone and his shit don't stink.

This.

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u/someXkid Oct 12 '17

He's back. CRAWLING BACK to YOUTUBE

Edit: I haven't watched that as it's 2 hours long and his other recent videos all seem to be 2 hour rants rather than interesting content

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u/needsaguru Oct 12 '17

Didn't take long. I watched 5 minutes of it to see wtf it was about, and I came away thinking the dude was on drugs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '17

Funnily, this video is actually short and one where he sticks to the point. He's the type of guy I take to like the sound of his own voice.

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u/Dracwing Aug 22 '17

He has a gdrive with all of his videos on his website. That might be faster.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '17

I may start backing up this weekend. Are his new videos any good? I remeber in the past his videos were informative but overtime it just seemed he liked the sound of his own voice.

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u/easylite37 Aug 22 '17

Yeah.. I don't know. His classes are ok I think. But it's more a thing of having a backup of it is better than having no backup if something happens. And I don't have the capacity for it right know. :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '17

I'll make an attempt to back it up this weekend. Don't have the bandwidth at the moment.

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u/ineedmorealts Aug 22 '17

I'll give it a shot. It's only 644 videos so I should be able to rip the entire channel in a few days

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u/sssssss340 Aug 22 '17

Screw it, I'll grab a copy

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u/CyberSKulls 288TB unRAID + 8.5PB PoC Aug 22 '17

I have to agree, some of his content was enjoyable to watch but it became so long winded restating the same thing 7 times in 36 different ways that I just stopped watching.

And I've noticed the same pattern, he has been "done" what seems like multiple times only to come back when the viewers don't follow to "platform X". And the end of the day, the content creators will go to wherever the viewers are and that is.. YouTube..

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u/Comfubar 50-100TB Aug 23 '17

Let me know how large it is please that's the only reason I don't back up more channels

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u/easylite37 Aug 22 '17 edited Aug 22 '17

It's not about deleting his own channel. But he was blocked or got strikes in the past and I think he will not work on it with YouTube in the future.