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Originally Posted by Whitespeed
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That article from Tavarish is from 2015, seven going on eight years ago, and Scotty Kilmer's channel has kept growing steadily since then, with a huge and loyal following. Meanwhile, Tavarish still only has less than half of his subscriber count even after this many years.
I think what happened here isn't that he is giving out impeccable advice (far from it, and let's not even discuss the relentless clickbaiting in his titles and descriptions) but hat he has eased into an important niche, that of the independent advisor that does not do sponsorships and is happy to espouse his views, financial implications be damned.
The overwhelming majority of online reviewers are biased or downright tainted one way or another, and, taking a step back, there is a general information quality crisis—it seems that his opinionated and often obsolete yet genuinely honest advice found its way to people. Of course, this can be done a million times better, too (take Project Farm as a prime example of a channel providing insanely useful and impartial reviews), but Kilmer doesn't really owe any of us anything, be it factual perfection or a complete lack of inadvertent bias.