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Oh come on. You're saying he's posting free educational board repair videos to advertise for his brand? Do you watch those videos? Like this one [1]? They're bo

Oh come on. You're saying he's posting free educational board repair videos to advertise for his brand? Do you watch those videos? Like this one [1]? They're boring as hell. Their target audience is his competitors. You don't see the world flooding with repair shops doing the same thing if it's so profitable, do you? There's so much better advertising he could do if that was his goal. And I haven't even touched on everything else he has done to help other people get started doing board repairs. It's such a cynical and uncharitable distortion of reality to claim he's doing this for advertising. What's a guy supposed to do to make it even less of an advertisement if he wants to post tutoring videos and pay it forward? Does he need to talk trash about his own business & skills too (which he sometimes does btw)? While simultaneously claiming he's good enough that people should learn from him? With this kind of logic it's practically impossible for a mere mortal to start a business toward a good cause and provide free tutoring to his competitors without getting accused of doing it for his own self interest. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR94QHGlYRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR94QHGlYRs

kiba 6y ago
I am not saying that he intended it to be advertising for his brand, but that it works out to be advertising for his brand.
- addicted 6y ago
  Anytime someone does something good it works out to be advertising for their brand, whether that brand is a company or just a personal brand. Unless they do it in a way no one ever hears about it. In which case no one will ever be discussing it. So your comment is less than trivial, unless you’re implying that it’s a bad thing to do something good if you benefit from it even in the slightest.
- imtringued 6y ago
  Why is advertising bad? Because it is done in a manipulative, coercive, harmful or annoying way? In what way does he commit those advertising sins? If anything, his non repair videos are pretty awful emotional clickbait, but hey at least they are not advertising, right guys?

kiba 6y ago

I am not saying that he intended it to be advertising for his brand, but that it works out to be advertising for his brand.

addicted 6y ago
Anytime someone does something good it works out to be advertising for their brand, whether that brand is a company or just a personal brand. Unless they do it in a way no one ever hears about it. In which case no one will ever be discussing it. So your comment is less than trivial, unless you’re implying that it’s a bad thing to do something good if you benefit from it even in the slightest.
imtringued 6y ago
Why is advertising bad? Because it is done in a manipulative, coercive, harmful or annoying way? In what way does he commit those advertising sins? If anything, his non repair videos are pretty awful emotional clickbait, but hey at least they are not advertising, right guys?