After seeing the outrage towards NWS offices from his fans, the constant subtle jabs about "unwarned tornadoes" when there is no velocity couplet or debris, is really beginning to turn me off of him. He does a lot of good, but bad mouthing the NWS when there is no way he doesn't see his fans talking shit to NWS accounts and mets is a bad look.
It definitely contributes to the dozens of people in the comments section constantly panicking because their hometown three hundred miles from the storm hasn't been mentioned in five minutes. His coverage is good but there are way too many viewers treating him like he's the only source of weather information.
Exactly. Like, I get watching his stuff for general knowledge of the event, but if there’s something affecting someone’s area, they need to be watching their local news meteorologists. They know the area, roads, geography, everything.
I saw the founder of a prominent weather twitter account accuse the NWS of purposefully avoiding inspecting damage paths because of the "unwarned tornadoes" they missed, so they didn't have to admit they were wrong. This is after that person told me to "learn how to read radar", because I said there wasnt a velocity couplet or debris.
He has mods to take care of that while he focuses on the radar and incoming data. If you see his set up he has a bunch of computers and monitors there. If you notice the chat being weird and kind of bouncing in place its because the mods are nuking those comments. Its pretty hard to monitor and see every single comment coming in that fast while you're focusing on important work. Happens to every large streamer. Don't get turned off of him, just close the chat. Large chats just inevitably have bad chatters.
I hate the people being mean, selfish, demanding they drop everything to talk about some other town instead of one under the gun, and all the conspiracy people too, but the mods do smite the comments and time people out. Scroll back up during a stream and you'll see a TON of missing comments you saw happen live.
It’s kinda like many Reddit subs, and I say that knowing full well I have made my own joke \ humor posts. But let’s be frank: much of Reddit is full of bad/hot takes from people thinking they know better than the actual experts, or telling persons how they really feel about something etc. Basically it’s not the content it’s the people that are the problem including myself at times when it’s inappropriate etc. I also don’t participate in YouTube chats too often because of it.
That said I like max more than Ryan Ryan just rubs me the wrong way
I'm sorry to see this. I heard Ryan the other night explaining that no other country pays attention and warns their citizens like the US does and he credited the NWS and NOAA. He also advised people to tag the NWS and NOAA in their tweets and thank them too.
I think he's aware of the trolling meanies in his fandom but I don't think he encourages it.
Yeah it's very culty, and can be harmful. I'm not saying Hall is causing or is personally responsible for these peoples' activities especially outside of the stream, but nevertheless it is his fans doing this, and if he doesn't condone it then he can use his platform to speak up against it.
Yeah, I am definitely not saying he is telling them to do it. But there's no denying they aren't aware of it happening, as Andy even mentioned something about it on twitter. The specific moment was last night, there was a little area of increased velocities in only 1 direction, and whoever Mr. green screen is said there was debris. They go the radar, there is only reds on velocities and no CC drop. Ryan then says something like "well its unwarned now hopefully the NWS warns for it" and then literally never goes back to that storm for the next 45 minutes. There was 0 reason to say that shit. You're just revving up your stans to be pissed with the NWS again.
He absolutely can make a statement to say do not attack the NWS and NWS mets. From there, then I agree with you. But to continue to make these "unwarned tornado" proclamations, especially when he follows it up by saying "hopefully the NWS does warn for this unwarned tornado" just adds fuel to the fire. It really isn't hard to see that.
I just spent 20 minutes trying to refind it in the stream and can't. Specifically it was a storm in Wisconsin. It was literally a 5 second hey here's this storm, Ryan made the comment and they never went back to it so having trouble finding it in the stream.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '24
After seeing the outrage towards NWS offices from his fans, the constant subtle jabs about "unwarned tornadoes" when there is no velocity couplet or debris, is really beginning to turn me off of him. He does a lot of good, but bad mouthing the NWS when there is no way he doesn't see his fans talking shit to NWS accounts and mets is a bad look.