Daymon Patterson aka Dayum Drops became YouTube famous and made/makes a good living doing food reviews from his car since 2010.
People who can't be original try to replicate success, I guess.
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They practically live in the damn things.
Have you seen rent prices
literally the only option for many.
because car companies in the us lobbied everyone to make cars that ubiquitous.
Because there are kids and spouses and often parents and other family at home, can't shoot a video with all that noise.
And constantly eating fast food from disposable dishes with a plastic fork. 🙄
What? Do you want fast food places to give you reusable dishes and silverware with a carry out order?
Do you bring it back or is fast food just gonna get really expensive?
You must have missed the upgrade. They are cardboard forks now.
I'd be fine with this as long as the packaging was also cardboard. When I see a drink in a full plastic cup with a soggy paper straw I'm baffled.
TBF you want the food to be fresh and you also want an isolated place to review it alone.
TBF I would eat and simply "review" later, the guide michelin doesn't show pictures of the food their testers had in the examined restaurants either.
Seriously I find all this review channels to be quite awkward. React channels... shure. Restaurant critics... everyone is a frogging critic nowadays... even me. But I remember those reviews are always subjective.
But I somehow I find a lot studios of "content creators" , especially TikTakTok, are created in the front seat of their cars.
Some people like to see the food, and judging how it is far more popular than the reviews you've mentioned, I would say your opinion is probably in the minority. I don't say this as a fan; in fact I'm not really interested in streaming or review videos for the most part, but that puts me in a minority too.
Even content creators I like, like for instance ProZD or CalebCity, I love their short form videos, but I don't watch ProZD's review videos nor Caleb's streams.
As long as there are consumers, a product will sell, even if we aren't interested ourselves or think it's dumb.
Of course it's a minority opinion... my opinion. One mans opinion.
Also I don't like YT shorts. I'm still able to focus on a topic for more than 30 seconds. There are a few creators that do interesting content. I'm probably too old for content that is created for people born around the year 2000. I prefer stuff that doesn't make me feel the creator is an Idiot entertaining a bunch of morons.
Yes, as a teen/twen I also was all for fun... but back then there wasn't the WWW, Facebook, Youtube or what other long/shortlived platforms there are.
Maybe that's why I seldome consume content that isn't on the mental fast food side.
Oh, I'm not really young, and I do like long form stuff, but less in the form of video content. Either reading, audio books, or podcasts are generally my longform type entertainment. I so occasionally watch 10-30 minute videos, but again most of my intake like that, especially informational instead of just comedy, is in the form of either podcast or straight text.
I work IT and I don't like video demonstrations, but instead prefer web pages that explain and give either images or text examples.
i was driven by an uber driver yesterday who seriously thought cycling should be illegal.
his rationale was that bicycles are "unregistered vehicles and so if they cause accident who is going to pay?!" when i pointed out that probably they should pay just as anyone else he just dismissed it like this: "that is not possible. if a cyclist crashes into me and kills me who is gonna pay me?!" i was speechless after that.
That's a one star trip for sure.
I guess walking should be outlawed too, after all someone could be walking on a sidewalk and accidentally bump into you and knock you into the street. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shoes are unregistered vehicles!
Hey! No walking over 2km/h! 🚫
Actual reason: acoustics for media presentation. A car is a vocal booth.
Also posting from affluential areas to increase the chances of the algorithm pushing their videos to more people
Yeah, reviewing in the restaurant would be rude and reviewing at home would get cold.
But then again. If I'm buying take-away from a restaurant, I'd prefer the review to be as close to my experience as possible. So I'd rather they had to drive 10-15 minutes and review a slightly colder product.
My thoughts exactly. The privacy aspect of not capturing other people in the video, not being bothered by other people, not taking up a table for too long, etc.
Not going to lie, I'm definitely not a fan of car-dependent infrastructure, but in this world we currently have, the car does provide a convenient enclosure for this purpose
Yeah exactly this. Can't give an accurate food review if you can't eat it immediately as presented. And if one-sided phone calls in restaurants weren't bad enough presenting loudly to a camera would likely get you walked out.
I was at an airport waiting at the gate and this guy was trying to film a snippet for some "outrage" thing. The funniest part is he would do his little "yelling speech" listen to it and rerecord it. It must have been around 8 takes until he got it. Everyone else was just glancing at each other and trying not to laugh.
I can think of few places that are more uncomfortable to dine on than a car seat.
...actually, car seats are pretty uncomfortable places to do anything, really. You expect to be able to do stuff comfortably there, but you just can't. It's weird. And at the same time it's not so uncomfortable that you stop doing stuff there entirely. And you're like "what's wrong with me?" but then you realise it's not your fault after all - it's the cars that are weird.
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