Or does he? You be the judge.
HISTORY:
Brad Linzy, The Guitlogist, has had a YT channel for 10+ years with about 680 videos. The videos are mostly him repairing and testing vintage amps like National/Valco, Fender, Magnatone, etc. He's also a decent player. The channel has 120k subs (7/22/2020).
Some time ago he started a second channel, The Guitologist 2, for off-topic stuff. There is also off-topic stuff on his main channel. This channel has around 15k subs (7/22/2020).
He's a proud Libertarian and doesn't hide his views. He started what I think is a hilarious repeating series of videos called SPF - Shit Post Friday. It's a combination of guitar related stories, off-topic, and whatnot. Personally, I think if he kept the main channel as non-opinionated amp repair and the second as his pro-Libertarian and off-topic channel he would have had the best of both worlds. But now his personal and political beliefs have bled over onto the main channel.
Lastly, he's publicly mentioned (otherwise I wouldn't bring up) that he's going through a divorce and it involves young children. He recently moved into his own house and has started broadcasting content again.
CURRENT:
Yesterday, he posted this to the YT Community:
By itself, just his opinion and who cares. But then people commented that believed the current narrative of mainstream news, governments, medical experts, etc... and people also commented that were conspiracy theorists. Brad defended his "views", but seemed to get "meaner" and go deeper down the conspiracy hole... (e.g. masks don't work, the numbers are being faked, people are being put on ventilators to kill them not to save them, etc.):
And lastly, he told everyone that unsubscribed good riddance... and anyone that posted contradictory views to him would be banned from commenting on his channel:
Anyways, this sucks for me because I really like the guy. I'm vehemently anti-Libertarian - I think they're all wannabe anarchists with unrealistic world views and ideology that could never work in practice (and never has). But that is my opinion. I still enjoy listening to his views, which until now were presented with humor. It seems like his world is collapsing and he's lashing out... and I hope this ends well, but I'm afraid it won't.
Anyone else seeing stuff like this where maybe the stresses are overwhelming people they like, follow, adore, worship, whatever?
HISTORY:
Brad Linzy, The Guitlogist, has had a YT channel for 10+ years with about 680 videos. The videos are mostly him repairing and testing vintage amps like National/Valco, Fender, Magnatone, etc. He's also a decent player. The channel has 120k subs (7/22/2020).
Some time ago he started a second channel, The Guitologist 2, for off-topic stuff. There is also off-topic stuff on his main channel. This channel has around 15k subs (7/22/2020).
He's a proud Libertarian and doesn't hide his views. He started what I think is a hilarious repeating series of videos called SPF - Shit Post Friday. It's a combination of guitar related stories, off-topic, and whatnot. Personally, I think if he kept the main channel as non-opinionated amp repair and the second as his pro-Libertarian and off-topic channel he would have had the best of both worlds. But now his personal and political beliefs have bled over onto the main channel.
Lastly, he's publicly mentioned (otherwise I wouldn't bring up) that he's going through a divorce and it involves young children. He recently moved into his own house and has started broadcasting content again.
CURRENT:
Yesterday, he posted this to the YT Community:
By itself, just his opinion and who cares. But then people commented that believed the current narrative of mainstream news, governments, medical experts, etc... and people also commented that were conspiracy theorists. Brad defended his "views", but seemed to get "meaner" and go deeper down the conspiracy hole... (e.g. masks don't work, the numbers are being faked, people are being put on ventilators to kill them not to save them, etc.):
And lastly, he told everyone that unsubscribed good riddance... and anyone that posted contradictory views to him would be banned from commenting on his channel:
Anyways, this sucks for me because I really like the guy. I'm vehemently anti-Libertarian - I think they're all wannabe anarchists with unrealistic world views and ideology that could never work in practice (and never has). But that is my opinion. I still enjoy listening to his views, which until now were presented with humor. It seems like his world is collapsing and he's lashing out... and I hope this ends well, but I'm afraid it won't.
Anyone else seeing stuff like this where maybe the stresses are overwhelming people they like, follow, adore, worship, whatever?
