I love Louis and I’ve been following his videos for a long time. What he does is supremely important to our messed up society.
But here’s the thing: for the past few months, I’ve had the distinct feeling than each of Louis’ videos is slightly more unhinged than the previous one.
I mean I’m fully aware Louis’ videos are not mainstream, and until recently, I’ve always felt there was a clear method to the randomness. But lately, it¨s been more randomness than method for me, and it’s reached a point where I feel it’s doing a disservice to the causes of right to repair and sovereign ownership.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
I really hate to come out saying this, but I really think there’s something going on with Louis, and beyond the causes he fights for on our behalf - and goodness knows I’m eternally grateful for what he’s achieved - I’m honestly a bit worried for him.
I think this puts it very well.
Additionally, if every problem is worthy of a rant video, the rants lose impact. He’s not wrong, but at this point I almost feel like it would be more useful for him to make some sort of wiki site where he documents these problems, then just do like a weekly summary video. Of course still do the videos on current happenings too, but just… slow the roll a bit and make an easy way for people to look up these issues at a glance before they make purchasing decisions or something.
One of his “recent” videos was a rant about how one of his former employees got banned from a hardware repair subreddit, and it just felt like useless shit flinging. I can understand and appreciate him using his platform to shout out a friend and try and help his friend build an audience, but I highly doubt any of his viewers needed a reminder of the shittyness of Reddit and all its little tyranical mod fiefdoms. Just point people to your old videos about it, give a sentence or two saying “it’s only gotten worse since then”.
I completely understand the autism spectrum (fairly certain he’s admitted to being on it) and engineer need to explain everything out deeply and explicitly but it just gets exhausting to watch/listen to. And for all his ranting, he didn’t do the one thing that would be actually useful/positive: point his viewers towards reddit alternatives like lemmy.
Yes, Rossmann is autistic. The “repeat the same point ten times in a row” trait he has is sort of a love/hate thing I guess. As I said in another comment, he was on a hot streak a while ago commenting on important and/or interesting topics and I didn’t mind it then. It’s only grating to me now because, as you say, not all of his current videos are related to interesting issues.