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> All my guitar playing friends watch the same fucking videos on Youtube I see the echo chamber effect in a lot of these communities. You need one of the 5 ap
by doubled112 4y ago
> All my guitar playing friends watch the same fucking videos on Youtube
I see the echo chamber effect in a lot of these communities. You need one of the 5 approved amps for X style, or are you even a guitarist? These arguments amuse me more than anything.
But is everybody really like that? If I'm watching YouTube videos on guitar gear I'm trying to get a feel for something, and then I try stuff. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't, but at the end of the day I choose what I like.
I hadn't played in quite a few years and am recently back at it. Back then, I certainly owned things the Internet community collectively agreed sucked. Now that I'm back at it, some of this gear is now considered good to great, and I have to laugh about it. No regrets for having my own opinions.
I don't have many friends who play though, so perhaps being all on my own shelters me from the monotony. Or perhaps you need to find different people?
- ratww 4y agoWell it kinda is, in the online communities it kinda is. The vocal majority watches the same things, buys the same things, decides to sell the no-longer-new things after the hype cycle is over, has pedalboards organized in the N approved ways, has the same trendy guitar, the same amps. In those internet communities there’s people who don’t play this game but they barely post. In real life, there’s also the people who don’t care, but then again they won’t really talk about it as a hobby. But the people who actually had some interesting insights 10 years ago are now only parroting the “mainstream” guitar influencers. Which themselves are often parroting things from 10 years ago. I’m not complaining, btw: it is what it is. It’s just that it is homogeneous and boring!