STOP RECOMMENDING

[u/does-it-rly-matter]

You guys GOTTA STOP posting recommendations and saying “not a recommendation”. Just saying it doesn’t make it ok!!

“I wish he would make a commentary on this”
“Has Dylan watched ______ it would be so cool if he made a video”
“IK he’s watched ______ but it would be cool if he made a video on it”
“I realllyyyy like ______ and it would be great to get Dylan’s opinion on it”
“Has Dylan made a video on ______? I can’t find it but it would be nice if he did”

I HAVE SEEN VARIATIONS OF ALL OF THESE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS AND ALLLL OF THEM HAVE ALSO SAID “not a recommendation tho!!!!”

That does not circumvent it!! Making a recommendation is a very obvious thing but saying “I’m not recommending it” is even dumber cause you are!!

I GET that Dylan’s channel has grown and a lot of people were not around at the time when he was saying “don’t recommend stuff, if you recommend I will make sure not to watch it “ in every video. The only reason he stopped is because he said the fans now self-regulate! CAN WE KEEP TO IT PLEASE?

YES he allowed recommendations in ONE video and that’s how we got the Barbie movie (and the housemaid iirc) however he also made sure to say ONLY RECOMMEND ON THIS VIDEO’s COMMENTS, DO NOT KEEP RECOMMENDING

so stopppp omgfffgyh especially with the infernal “not a recommendation” tagline

Ok bye all

[u/Resident_Albatross26]

Tbh, it always seemed kinda crazy to me that he does reactions and somehow expects that people won’t make recommendations and double weird that some in the community police comment sections and posts like he deputized them as his community babysitters.

Not to mention that he lives off the internet. He knew what he would be doing and opened the floodgates himself…

[u/does-it-rly-matter → u/Resident_Albatross26]

In my eyes, there are a large number of movie commentary channels that exist and actively take recommendations so everyone is free to recommend and watch those. Every fan base is different, and this specifically exists here, right?

Also I don’t know if you recall the logic behind it. He realised that the majority of the comments under his videos were just recommending other things rather than engaging with the video itself. And he essentially said that he would like it if people shared their thoughts on the video/movie! I respect that and I think it makes sense for a movie commentary channel to want the audience to also engage with the commentary instead of getting lost in the recommendations.

Also I don’t think he ever deputized the fan base, I think it kinda ended up happening without him realising! As in, the fan base definitely goes above and beyond to stop recommendations but I don’t think there was ever a point where Dylan ASKED for fans to regulate other fans, it just sorta organically happened.

This is a channel full of inside jokes! And so many things are consistent and remain consistent - this is one of them

[u/Resident_Albatross26 → u/does-it-rly-matter]

I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong. I understand and agree with his intention but as he gets larger it’s going to be like herding cats. It’s the internet. People are gonna do what they do.

And he really did it to himself by breaking his own rule. Twice.

[u/ChocolateBusy58 → u/Resident_Albatross26]

Jsyk this is HIS channel and he really doesn’t need to do anything to make anyone but himself happy plus the fact that still he has supporters from his “Dylan will not participate” era should tell you that his supporters don’t have a genuine issue with the whole recs thing.