[ SECRET POST #5539 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5539 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 45 secrets from Secret Submission Post #793.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/aq3kGcA.png

[(Anonymous)]

Funnily enough this is probably the worst example you could've chosen. The video that's screencapped is Uncle Roger (the youtuber) featuring an already uploaded video in which Ramsay mentioned him, not the other way around - it's right in the title! Plus Ramsay not only replied, he literally namedropped Uncle Roger and tried to impress him and failed...

It's clearly not real beef though because he also sent Uncle Roger some nice frying pans. lol

So I guess, in the end, they do it because it works, as shown in the example? If you consider 5.3 million subscribers two-bit. Still loling at the worst possible secret example

[(Anonymous)]

MTE Uncle Roger is the absolute worst choice for an example lol (puts foot down). Also, he is brilliant and I adore him so disclaimer.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't be surprised to see Ramsay do a video collaboration with Uncle Roger one of these days, so yeah, bad example.

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently they also hung out and talked shit about Jamie Oliver and I am SO UPSET that no one taped that.

[(Anonymous)]

Um, but Mr. Ramsay actually did interact with him in the comment section of another one of Uncle Roger's videos, so...

[(Anonymous)]

I think most of the time the 'beef' is a bit on both sides, and as others have said this is a poor example as Ramsay did mention him in the video and jokingly calls him out to take issue with his cooking.

A swing and a miss...

[(Anonymous)]

Nigel Ng is a comedian, "Uncle Roger" is an online persona, any "beef" he has with a celebrity is very, very clearly a joke and Gordon Ramsay is 100% in on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5zLvsJZAwA

I don't want to dogpile you, OP, but this secret is so wrong it's pretty funny!

[(Anonymous)]

so yall are gonna get caught up in the example and not actually address the secret, ok.

fwiw I get you OP. I don't youtube much, but when I do I end up with shit like this in the recommended feed and it all looks so dumb and fake. and even if you know it's dumb and fake on purpose, that doesn't stop loads of people clicking on it anyway, perpetuating the cycle. sigh.

[(Anonymous)]

I did address the secret in my comment. It claims they're never gonna get a response and the example shows a response someone got lol. That's why everyone's talking about the example, because it hilariously proves OP's entire point that it'll never ever work, wrong

[(Anonymous)]

If OP uses a really terrible example for their argument that completely undermines it, then yeah, people are going to focus on that. Surprise!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I can't think of any other example of this phenomenon off the top of my head, and the one OP referenced I already know doesn't fit, so idk what I can say about it that others haven't covered.

[meadowphoenix]

Excepting this dude...

I think it's half viral-making content, which it is, I'm willing to bet the ~callout~ videos get more hits than other content, and half the fact that plenty of PR managers hired by firms straight up pay attention. I would just skip them if you don't like them.

[(Anonymous)]

this seems like such a weird assumption when the more likely explanation is that namedropping celebrities/responding to them gets you more views and so more money.

[(Anonymous)]

That too. It's like, yes, it's attention-seeking but their entire business model is about getting your attention.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm not sure if this is considered related or not but it's bothered me when i've seen a few people use much bigger names than them in the thumbnail or title of their videos only to actually only talk about them for a few second, or to do something like "why (big name youtuber) left youtube". it just smacks of them adding the name to get more views (there was one case where the person who was the focus of the latter's thumbnail/topic came back to youtube like a week later, which felt karmic).

another thing i don't like (which is more related to what the OP was talking about) is when people do reviews of products (makeup in this case) with a negative title/thumbnail only for them to generally talk very positively about whatever they're reviewing. if you actually don't like whatever you're talking about, fine, but in this case it feels like you do like it and you're making it look like you don't because it's more dramatic and therefore more intriguing for a casual viewer.