Perhaps I am the only one who has noticed this, but is it me or is there a really weird part of YouTube lol.... A cross between wannabe soldiers (the 13 year old kind...) and men with combat boot fetishes....
Those two examples come to mind because I was looking for some reviews on boots, since at the rate this Wildfire season is going, I am going to need new boots soon (some of the seams are starting to say 'Just waiting for that next puddle so that I can leak....'. So I was browsing a supply store's website and long story short, I found that combat boots tend to be on the cheaper side of things and would probably be what I am looking for (Relatively cheap, sturdy, and designed for hard use...) Hell, Ill wear pink-polka-dotted cowboy boots if they're both physically and economically sound enough... So being me I decided to YouTube it: 'Combat Boots', 'Corcoran boots', etc.
The first result: Some 13 year old talking about the excellence of such and such boots. How durable they are, and in particular their excellence in 'combat situations'... yep... So being the curious bloke I am, I looked to see what his other videos were... needless to say the image that I got was funny to say the least, since I can now picture some pre-pubescent 13 year old walking around in freakin' Jumpboots and fatigues acting like GI-Joe... lol
The Second bit: 'Silent Film' some guy walking back and forth in a pair of Corcorans touting his greatest 'badass walk'... the only exercise the guy looked like he had done was running after the ice-cream truck... All of his other videos 'Corcorans crushing cigarette' 'Corcorans crushing abc' 'Corcorans....' Needless to say I am now mentally scarred...
Another, unrelated bit, that I found whilst I was looking at one of the scarring results, was one of those side bar 'suggestions'. Apparently due to my interest in boot reviews, YouTube found that a video titled 'He has his foreskin!' to be to my interest... I fell over, both in laughter and in creeped-out-ness... A: Why the hell is that a video, and B: Why the hell was it recommended to me?
And I have a feeling that I just scrapped the surface of the YouTube oddity...
I figured that I should share some of my mental anguish with you guys, as well as the comedy. Has anyone else found this part of Youtube? lol
Those two examples come to mind because I was looking for some reviews on boots, since at the rate this Wildfire season is going, I am going to need new boots soon (some of the seams are starting to say 'Just waiting for that next puddle so that I can leak....'. So I was browsing a supply store's website and long story short, I found that combat boots tend to be on the cheaper side of things and would probably be what I am looking for (Relatively cheap, sturdy, and designed for hard use...) Hell, Ill wear pink-polka-dotted cowboy boots if they're both physically and economically sound enough... So being me I decided to YouTube it: 'Combat Boots', 'Corcoran boots', etc.
The first result: Some 13 year old talking about the excellence of such and such boots. How durable they are, and in particular their excellence in 'combat situations'... yep... So being the curious bloke I am, I looked to see what his other videos were... needless to say the image that I got was funny to say the least, since I can now picture some pre-pubescent 13 year old walking around in freakin' Jumpboots and fatigues acting like GI-Joe... lol
The Second bit: 'Silent Film' some guy walking back and forth in a pair of Corcorans touting his greatest 'badass walk'... the only exercise the guy looked like he had done was running after the ice-cream truck... All of his other videos 'Corcorans crushing cigarette' 'Corcorans crushing abc' 'Corcorans....' Needless to say I am now mentally scarred...
Another, unrelated bit, that I found whilst I was looking at one of the scarring results, was one of those side bar 'suggestions'. Apparently due to my interest in boot reviews, YouTube found that a video titled 'He has his foreskin!' to be to my interest... I fell over, both in laughter and in creeped-out-ness... A: Why the hell is that a video, and B: Why the hell was it recommended to me?
And I have a feeling that I just scrapped the surface of the YouTube oddity...
I figured that I should share some of my mental anguish with you guys, as well as the comedy. Has anyone else found this part of Youtube? lol
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