thats how all big things start man, at home. Christ once said "First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." When people see the positive changes you make in your own life theyll want to emulate you, and you'll be a in position to properly and credibly instruct them.
@@marblemarble7113 Im not religious at all but I love that quote. It has stuck with me since my first year of catholic school, despite being a total outcast in that environment and being kicked out within 2 years, i learned quite a bit about myself and the world at that young age.🤙
Louis, this is such a great story. I found you because I was trying to fix my laptop myself years ago. You were Jack, and you helped me fix something myself that I had no idea I could. Keep being jack.
I hate it when these creators say "I've been using X product for months now" when you just KNOW the sponsor segment is the first time they ever actually used it in their life and after the video they just threw it away/sent it back to the company and never thought about it again
Even if they have used it for months. I know colleagues in tech alongside me who have used things their whole lives, and still don't know why/what/how.
And this is why I hate those fucking people, lying to their subscribers. They are horrible people, someone who's legit and care would never lie, even if it means to earn a paycheck.
Or they have an issue then talk about how great the customer service is. Of course you got white glove service, they need you to keep shilling the product.
I'm just a truck driver by day and XDA developer by night helping people with roms and kernels in 2024 for no money. Your channel is my favorite of al time. Merry Christmas Rossman!
Oh wow, I am a truck driver here also. I did C++ developer work for the largest used Second Life client years ago. I still do developer stuff in my spare time.
This right here is why I have a problem with the current economy and system. I understand it is what it is and we all need to get on as best we can, that's fine I get it. Hes driving a truck but developer on xda for fun by night.... to my mind he should be driving things for fun and doing software development for fun AND a job. Am I crazy?! Im in a similar boat, different, but we are both wet and don't need to be, if that makes sense. Many Rossmann fans probably are also or at least can sympathize.
There was a financial product I looked at purchasing a year and a half ago. The way it works is if the S&P 500 goes up, you get to keep it. But if the S&P 500 goes down, they will eat your losses up to a certain amount. I asked _"How the hell is possible? and how you are able to sell me this product and get paid yourself on something that sounds too good to be true?? If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense; and a bank is not going to repay my losses just because they're good Christians! "_ He told me that enough people ask for their money back before the maturity of the product and pay the early-penalty to be able to pay out individuals who lose money if the S&P went down, and that when that fails, most of their revenue comes from selling zero-day expiry options to degenerates on Wall Street bets. this revenue allows them to make me whole(to an extent) if the market goes down. TL;DR, transfer of money from gamblers to long-term, boring investors. He spoke my language, and he got a sale. I think he got a $1,000 commission for selling me that financial product, and I don't mind paying it. I didn't know that thing existed, and it made me feel a lot more secure about putting money into something that I maybe otherwise would not have put money into. It got me out of a gambling mindset; he educated me, he got money for educating me, and I wound up doing better financially as a result. A lot of people are afraid to be honest about how they make their money. And some of them, *SHOULD* be afraid to be honest about how they make their money because they are actively screwing people. Some are not. You should never be afraid to ask. Conversely, if someone offers you value, be ok to pay for it... you get bullshit like honey from a society where nobody is willing to pay fro anything & everyone wants money for nothing(and their chicks for free)
the thing that sucks the most is that even if you did your due diligence and decided to avoid a honey sponsorship if the viewers installed it from someone else it might still steal your affiliate even if you had nothing to do with them. truly scummy behavior.
If they item didnt actually cost what you were paying. Then both sides were trying to scam the consumer. This is like the theif calling the burgler a crook. We dont make laws to protect sales people. So there is no wrong doing here. Not legally anyway.
thats the part im surprised nobody else said, its not even the fact that it scams the people who promoted it, it scams anyone with an affiliate program no matter what. like, you could make an affiliate link for a product you genuinely have interest in and tell anyone whos interested in it, they all agree to buy it. you wake up excited that you might finally get to pay this months rent, then you see you have 0$ in your bank account because they all used a malicious browser extension you didnt even know existed and it just robbed you of all your commissions. its actually terrifying that they got away with this for so long, i couldnt imagine the amount of gaslighting people did to themselves by saying "its just a bug" or "maybe i should refresh the page..?" and never getting it...
@@franktkalcevic5342 because people like Louise keep repeating this "it was actually ripping off the creators who were shilling it!" stuff, as if non-sponsored affiliate links were unaffected.
I was checking out my purchases on a website last night and Honey said it found the best deal for me which was nothing. None of their coupon codes worked. It took me 3 minutes on my own to find a coupon code for $15 off. Honey is a scam and I uninstalled it. Thanks for your video.
@@katlee8778 what's being cheap have to do with being scammed? the scam in this case was telling the customer that nowhere in the world would a coupon exist. not trying to put in a coupon would've just resulted in the same anyway.
Hey Louis I've been a silent watcher for many years, but the story about your grandpa inspired me to write this. You probably never gonna see this, but still worth writing down. As said I've been following for some years and even tho i don't agree with some of your opinions, which i think is fine. You inspired to think more about right to repair. Soo when my lamp broke a month ago, I've decided to fix it myself. It may not be a motherboard but your videos over the year still helped me to find that broken chip and solder a new one. Amd now my lamp is working again. So thank you for inspiring me and many others. Even if it's only small steps
Many years ago I worked for my Uncle on the farm. A neighbor who had moved from the city asked him how to get the county to cut the grass along the road so nicely like the road past my uncle's farm. His answer provided all you need to know about him: "I have no idea. I do it myself as the county is busy doing things I can't do. Cutting the side of the road a couple times a month is simple, and as you say it looks so nice, plus it gives satisfaction and a sense of pride in my farm."
So, your story includes a local government that is no underfunded that it cannot even trim the grass that is technically on their property and the normal people who then do its job for it - sold on propaganda on what that agency should and should not do. just because I can do something right around my property does not actually mean we stop having the local government do the similar thing for everyone else. "from the city" lol
@@DarkForce2024 They were a pretty big sponsor several years ago. The Google Ads Transparency Center shows that "joinhoney" is still making Google Search ads, but not image or video ads.
I once tried honey to see if it could save me money with how hard people were shilling it. I tend to look up coupons codes or try to find deals, and I thought it'd be pretty cool to have some sort of extension that would already scrape the internet for these codes and give them to me. Turned out, 100% of the time it literally couldn't find a coupon or anything of value, even when I would use websites like Papajohns (SM25 for 25% off btw), which has insane amounts of coupon codes online - nothing. At that point I realized honey couldn't live up to any of its advertising and uninstalled it.
i think the problem is that the term is "influencer" at all. Like there are influential people, and there are things or events or forces that influence you; but the idea that someone is just "influencing" is.... well that isn't really how it's supposed to work. The Influence is supposed to be an after effect, not the motive.
That was the definition long before you were born, none of this is new, not the political rot or anything else "these days" - its rot started long ago and yes, perhaps you should do something different about it beyond just guffawing over the current state.
I got a similar speech from my dad when I was in my early teens, late 80's. I had got in trouble for some indiscretion I had committed at school, honestly can't remember what is was. Now I started my explanation as to why I had done what I had done by expressing "What's the point if the whole world is in such disarray and there so many other problems, political and environmental, that make my indiscretion look absolutely insignificant". He stopped me and said "You can't go around trying to clean up the backyards of the whole world when your own backyard look terrible, you need to clean your backyard first before you can even think of going out into the world and helping other people fix their backyards."
@@reshpeckIf that's a quote from that person in particular, then it could very easily be that their dad heard it and repeated it because it's a good analogy.
@@reshpeck Oddly enough my dad has a unique Scottish name which literally means "Wise/Fair Celtic Warrior". On top of that he was also a martial arts (Judo) instructor.
It's almost like he did that on purpose. He purposefully, through great technical skill, dropped the videos fps just to demonstrate his obviouse devious lie, thus turning him into that perfect Rapscallion (aka bullshitter). There is so many levels of comedy in that clip.
I've watched this twice. It really resonated with me. When I was a young man, I would mention to older guys that I was interested in electronics. Next time I saw them, they would give me books, parts, old test equipment and knowledge. Now that I'm older than they were I try to give back. They were my influencers.
manscaped, raid shadow legends, the couple of different ones involving food, I also make it a point to avoid any videogames that get glowing reviews from all the game review channels, they're bought and paid for as well
That story about your grandpa is really lovely, I'm glad it got to be shared with the world so a piece of him can be remembered. It's rare to see such a thoughtful response to a student asking about an industry they're interested in. Modern influencers sure do influence, but it's rarely in positive ways. It's good to be reminded sometimes that the impacts we make on our smaller circles of influence are sometimes the most impactful
I viewed this at 1 am, Christmas morning. This is one of the most amazing Christmas gifts I've ever received. I hope your, and everyone else's, holiday is grand. Thank you.
Thanks for being such a positive influence, Louis! I want to share a story that really highlights your integrity. Back in 2017, iirc, I used to watch your videos for the repairs and the amazing commentary you added during the process. I live in Brazil and had a MacBook Pro with a display issue. I carried it all the way to NYC and took it to your store. I even caught a glimpse of you working in the back, which was super exciting! Your employee brought my computer over to you, and after checking it out, you told him to let me know that Apple had a recall for the issue and that I should take it to them for a free fix. You essentially "lost" $200 by being honest, and sure enough, Apple fixed it at no charge. (Though, in true Genius Bar fashion, they forgot to put back one of the internal speakers-I only realized that after returning to Brazil!) Thank you again for your honesty and for all the knowledge you share
Louis, I, an ex-NY'r who started life in one of those destined-to-be-abandoned South Bronx hell-hole tenements, where the heat would regularly go out in the dead of winter and the incinerator would occasionally fill the hallways with stinking smoke, and fled NYC in '76, loved your story about your grandfather. I really hope I get to meet you someday and maybe I will, having moved back to the rural East, with friends still living in the city. Be blessed and continue influencing in the best of ways. 🙏
I mean, he was right to be skeptical, even then. You really do have to always ask yourself "but what is the catch?" I'm glad I was brought up this way, my father would have said the same thing.
This video puts into words why I like my job. I'm a Tier 3 support tech for a mid-size IT support company based in Texas. I work tickets others struggle with, answer the questions of the techs around me when they're stumped, and I train a lot of the new techs in my "style" of working a ticket. I've been offered to become a team lead, but then most of my job would be watching metrics and checking others' work. I've been offered to move over to be a sysadmin, and while that would pay substantially more, I'd also be on call on weekends and at night sometimes and not work as directly with the clients. And either of those would be a stepping stone to management, which is not where I want to be because I wouldn't be putting my actual talents to work. I may not make as much as I could, but I like being able to help clients in my little corner of the world be happier and more productive. And I like being able to help new techs become great techs by teaching them what I know and showing them how to do the work efficiently. And I've turned down other offers for much more money to stay where I am.
@@johnfreeman2956 - I have, and gotten them. They just don't want to go too far past the "cap" for the position, lest everyone expect as much as I make.
Go for the sysadmin... you still work with the clients and you get a bit more pull in the operation of the system, plus the $$$. Not gong to BS you about the hours. 1st level supervision isnt that bad.. you get a bit better view of the company as a whole.. It's the old Birds on a post meme... "everytime the people on the bottom look up they see assholes and all the people see when they look down is shit". Only problem with the sysadmin is you're more easily replaced by offshore resources.
What matters in life is happiness. Sometimes you need more money, sometimes better or different job. Doesn't matter, those are all means to get there. If you are happy where you are that's awesome. Just be honest with yourself and think long term as well. Best of luck.
I lost so much respect for everyone that was sponsored by Established Titles. The only product I have gotten because a channel was sponsored is Displate.
Lots of people asked _"how would you know honey is a scam?"_ You don't need to examine browser cookies or click inspect element to do any of this. You only need to do one thing: Ask the person offering you thousands of dollars to promote a browser extension that provides you with free coupon codes how they are making the money to pay you. Anytime somebody offers me something that seems even remotely too good to be true, I ask them how they make their money. If they cannot provide me with a reasonable explanation, I tell them to go away. Nothing is free. And nobody's paying me without benefiting themselves.
Honey has always been in a kind of "grey area" where it was like "obviously a free browser extension has to be doing something shady under the hood, but maybe it's just selling your personal data - other than that, it seems semi-OK." No-one could have really known the depths of the scam until it was exposed, so I'm not really disappointed about creators who have taken Honey sponsorships (as long as they address the situation honestly). Established Titles, on the other hand, was fully known to be a scam from the very start. To the point where even minutes after the first video with Established Titles as its sponsor was posted, that creator's viewers rushed to the comments to call it out for how obviously a scam it was. So I also have zero respect for creators who ever took sponsorships from Established Titles, as all creators should have higher standards and not just care about their bottom line, even though there's only so much they can reasonably be expected to be aware of.
@@FuturesPast1 Not the same company, but many of the people who originally developed Honey are developing Pie. I don't know for certain whether they are doing the same thing, but it certainly sounds similar and with their track record I think it would be wise to be cautious about them.
Having just stumbled across your channel, I've only watched a couple of your videos. This video alone has earned you a follower. Respect, to you, your father and your grandfather. It seems as though you know and understand integrity quite well, thanks to them. Love from Alabama brother.
I don't trust blindly. I don't trust you either, although your stance is usually more trustworthy to me than others. Regardless, that story made me feel better. To the point that I'd rather it be true, and be okay with it not being true but inspiring anyways. I feel generally better as a whole after watching/listening to a video on this site, which is rare and very welcome. You rock for this, so thank you.
You sir are wise beyond your years! Your grandfather affected more than his little corner of the world by influencing you which has in turn influenced me! You are appreciated my friend!
Your grandfather's (and your) attitude towards cleaning up your own little corner is so aspirational, Louis. It's how everyone should live their life, and sometimes we all just need that little push in the right direction to try and make a difference. I appreciate you. Merry Christmas!
People like your grandpa is one of the reasons I'm volunteering as much as I can, and I'll try to pass it on as much as I can too. And even if I suffer from several chronic conditions, I'll try to help clean up my little corner of the world, help other people, give others a smile or a hello regardless if it's a CEO or a homeless person. Thank you and merry Christmas.
I can't stress how much I have grown to appreciate you and your channel over the years, thank you for everything you do and stand for - the world is lucky to have you in it!
thank you Louis, you are a big part of the reason I am picking up a soldering iron in the face of mental health breakdowns. im just getting started, but cant help but feel like maybe you helped save my life. thank you.
Thanks for this video Louis. I was depressed yesterday because I didn’t know what to do to be happy with my life after graduating and getting a job. I’ve been thinking about my future and my role in the society for years. I searched and read articles and watched videos about what I could do but it didn’t give me the click in my mind. I was at the gym while watching this video today, and I gotta say I think I found what I should do. Don’t try to change the world or shit, just try to clean my part of the world. Being a ‘good influencer’ to the people in my world, that’s the thing I should do. Thanks once again.
@ Affiliate revenue isn’t something anyone is owed, but it is something that partners and platforms agree upon as a fair exchange for driving business to their site. Sniping affiliate revenue undermines trust and damages the program for everyone involved.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 ??? Yes, they are owed affiliate revenue. If I say to you "If you do X for me, I will give you money," and then you do the thing.... you think it's okay for me to just say "nah, never mind. I don't owe you anything. Adapt or perish?"
You make such a great point about trauma and healing through repairing things. Personally, I found it to be the most healing to learn to repair and restore broken or unwanted things. It started from looking at doctors instagram pages overseas where surgeons would repair peoples limbs and they would restore their functionality. Some of the destruction on peoples limbs were so incredibly displacing it seemed hopeless to even try but their limbs healed and they were cared for so lovingly. After the surgeon phase I began to find things and restore them. To this day almost everything, every physical object I own, is acquired secondhand or from discards. I even make my own shoes. Not only does it bring you joy to repair and create things, it shows that we care about our world and we have respect for our lives and the lives of others. Thinking critically with an open mind can bring you everything you need with what you've already got, even if it's only your two hands and the thoughts of the potential to manifest particular necessities and/or conveniences. Great video.
Never expected that a YT video lazily watched on a Sunday would impact me like this. Looking forward to cleaning my little corner. What an amazing, life changing point of view.
Wow, you really brought me to tears on this as you really get it. We have been conditioned to hold power over each other instead of empowering each other. We are programmed to debate instead of conversation. The best way of teaching is through epiphany as it doesn't trigger the fight, flight or freeze response. Thank you.
I really liked that story, and I agree with your definition of "influencer". Funny enough, that's how you make societies better. Instead of clout and popularity concentrated to a small handful of "influencers" who are doing random shit for recognition, you have everyday people doing what they can to make "their corner of the world" a little bit better.
the story about your grandfather hit me in the chest like a golf club against a window. it's genuinely a beautiful story, and one i wish to reflect with my own action in the coming new year. thank you for inspiring me, Mr.Rossmann. i really appreciate the effort you've put into your little corner of the world.
Going into a corner of society and not just helping, but getting others to follow along as well is an excellent guiding purpose. I may just be a college student just starting out, but this principle is why I went into tech and is why I do what I do every day. Well said Louis, we need more people like your grandfather in this world.
I got honey a long time ago. I deleted it the same day when I tested it on amazon and amazon ended up giving me better discounts than honey. Also other than amazon, Honey gave me very little to no coupons, and the very few ones I got were like only 3-5% off.
Same many years ago, gave it a shot, took no time at all to realise it was garbage that didn't work, uninstalled. Not surprised now to know it sucked for the same reason most things do now: for the sake of profit. All the more reason to block ads and sponsors, it's nearly all scams, no point wading through them
Honey makes more money on the commission if they offer you a 3% discount than a 30% discount. Store makes more and honey gets the same % on a bigger sale.
I deleted it a few years ago when I realized how scammy paypal was and froze a lot of people's money for no reason. They were always scammy. Now, you know it's a REAL scam company, and not just scammy.
@@solidhyrax You don't need an account to use paypal. They can process CC's without an account. Deleted mine 5 years ago as well. They are a bunch of fuckwits.
Louis, thanks for that. I am one of those that have looked up soldering kits to repair small electronics. I was willing to spend hundreds of dollars to swap out a slider switch on my PCs headset but I couldn't justify the $160 to buy a new headset. You taught me that investing in a skill to fix things is better than throwing away something and replacing it. Merry Christmas Louis, to you and your Grandfather.
Good man. Long term thinking is your job, as a man, for the benefit of society as a whole. I spent $30,000 on tools to get a minimum wage job as a kid. Spent nearly a decade paying that off, making less than I should have for such an investment. But you know what I never had to do? Pay somebody else to fix my car. Retired at 38 because sooo many people never thought that far ahead.
It's not that they hate each other, though I do feel ya. Integrity (and honor) is doing the right thing, even when there is no benefit to you to do so. Normally, we see 'benefit' as "getting paid" in today's consumerist society. So that is why it would feel like they hate each other, which isnt exactly true. A company or person with good integrity, will retain customers that care, and will, over the long term, get paid. Louis here made this channel, and all it's riches on integrity alone (because you know, he even admitted he cant do any of the production quality, fancy words, or entertainment one would usually expect from video content).
Extremely grateful for decent humans such as Louis. Inspires me to look beyond just identifying a problem, but to solve the problem and be the solution. You practice what you preach, and you don’t just ask people how to be better but show them. Thank you Louis! 🙏🏾🐺
After years of watching you Louis i’ve come to realize that you’re a really good person, I know you don’t like labels like that, but you’re one of the good ones. Very principled and honest.
I like your definition of influencer! My son and I this christmas repaired an old dvd player, PS2 and VHS vcr all of which had stopped working since they were purchased over 18 yrs ago (but not replaced), he has always seen me repair what I can. He wanted to try, so we worked together- sucess was achieved costing just time and carefull thought.
That is true. He was not just an influencer, but a true leader that left a legacy behind for others to strive to have the same impact on other people's lives. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Love when you cover things like this like the products you have recommended that I remember were that chair, label printer, phone, and head phones I think that were all clearly things that you actually used. I tend to either skip ad segments or tone it out but when the youtuber clearly supports the products that's different.
Hey Louis, sorry for my bad english... but thank you so much for the great story! You are a living treasure for humanity with your philosophy. I wish there were more people like you. I'm weak because of my alleged autism. Unfortunately I also have bad parents, which makes the suffering even worse, so I can't change the world for the better at the moment, but you do. I'm convinced that people will still remember you in 100+ years as the wise man who showed people that you can be successful without fooling or harming other people. Take care and have a healthy new year! Kind regards Santino
I don't only hear your words, I feel them. From the first video I viewed of yours, you are a true influence, my corner is smaller than any platform, but I share the same desire. It feels so good to see you have made a difference and you just gave me more confidence to keep working on my corner. Thanks Louis.
Of course. I'd imagine the reason LTT only ended their contract and didn't make any video on this when they found out years ago is because it'd open them up to legal action.
What I want is a "How to solder" series of videos from you. I want to learn it, if only for modding Gameboys and stuff, but I just don't really know where to start...especially because I am visually impaired and thus almost blind. Videos would help me, cuz they're big. Not soldering under a microscope is probably never gonna be a thing for me lol. That aside, I am always happy to see others remember and live what "influencer" means and entails. It stems from "to influence". And we should influence for something we believe in.
That is what a hero is, and what everyone should aspire to follow. Somebody who does great deeds for fame and glory, isnt a hero. It's the people who do the right thing just to be good people. All of civilization is built upon such people.
Thank you for this. So many people complain about the state of the world, or their country e.g., but then don't even try to do something to make things at least a tiny bit better. I'm doing my part in cleaning up my little corner of the world. Repairing electronics, fixing Wifi and providing locals with cheap refurbished computers. All the while making others excited too when something is fixed again!
Of all the creators on TH-cam, tiktok, Twitter, all social media tbh…that kid picked the best possible one. Videos like this one are the reason I friggin’ love you!
I'm sure you won't like me saying this but I would DEFINITELY trust you blindly! You are someone who earned that trust through your actions and your consistency so, I'm sorry, Louis, BUT THAT'S ON YOU! ;) Thanks again for everything you do, you truly are an example! Cheers and a happy new year to you and yours! You're the man!
Eh... some of us DID read the blog list with all you hardware on it, and actually bought a couple items because you'd been using them/we could see they were good tools. The thing is... WE didn't see a need to ask you, or say anything, really, because what are we doing? Bragging that we bought the thing you have? It would be weird. So... thank you for the list, as it's not useless, at least not to everyone. Been watching your videos for decades now, and I STILL am very grateful for your beginner soldering tips video a few years back. It was good for some of us who had been soldering for longer than half your viewers had been alive, as you gave very clear, concise instructions, with lots of detail, and most importantly, showed us how to not worry about it and be nervous when working on expensive, sensitive parts. I'll always be thankful for that, as it's improved my skill greatly over the years since watching it. Your videos have always been the best lessons for me, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Thank you, and especially thank you for being able/willing to stand up so strongly for our rights as consumers/tinkerers/repair techs. You have made a huge difference, and continue to do amazing things. Thank you! o7
I watched the other video a few days ago and shared it to everyone I know but you do a much better job of explaining the situation :) Also that vpn stuff you talked about infuriates me, "You will be safe from hackers because you use our VPN". I die inside every time I hear one of these channels talk like that. You are a blessing to society, thank you Louis!
This was great! I had a guest of honour speech I had to do once, and my core message was that you may not be able to change the world, but you can change your little corner of it. And in doing so, maybe, just maybe, someone else will see that and decide they're going to follow your example. And maybe someone else will see them, and they'll make some changes. Pretty soon there's maybe 10 people doing things differently, and maybe it'll never move beyond that, but that's 10 more people than there was before you started. I've loved your channel and work for a while, and yeah, your grandfather rocked and so does his grandson :)
I am glad that i have followed your channel years back and not unfollowed. This redefined meaning of influencer is very inspiring and cleansing to what it should stand for. Merry Christmas and may God bless you Mr. Rossmaan your grandpa will be proud of what you are doing. Keep up the good work.🙏💐
Caring more about his values than making the most amount of money possible, and having the intestinal fortitude to use his platform of 2M+ subs to say the quiet part out loud, the part that's on the minds of way too many people who just push it out of the head to toe the line or make the most money.
Exactly! To both @CZpersi and @Morpheus-pt3wq 🙂 The worst thing that bothers me, is - “secure” yourself when in public WiFi’s. Sure it helps to have a secure tunnel, but if you’re doing anything on a legitimate HTTPS website, the data is already secured by the nature of SSL. The fear mongering of security with their service is unbearable. It gets under my skin so much. Granted, I can see value in location spoofing if you want to get access to restricted content, but (and I do think this is just mainly because of my background and interest in software development, but I’d rather have my own VPN set up on a server that I control. Similar to what Louis has mentioned before with WireShark. If some other company is controlling the end nodes, who’s to say that VPN company isn’t selling your data right back to the people that they claim they’re “protecting” you from. Nah fam, I’m good 🙂
Most of them just advertise it as a way to watch foreign netflix now, it's funny. The average person isn't going to have good opsec even if you taught them how and what it is, they would mess it up. Even then, with vpns, the only two people should be using are mullvad and proton. Even then I'm not sure if proton have previously handed over data, I'm a bit behind myself... I know mullvad still tells nation states to gtfo though.
I still can't believe how many people are still shilling NordVPN in particular. Once it was revealed that NordVPN had data breaches and hid them from customers instead of reporting them, that should have been the end of Nord. And yet they still exist, people keep shilling it and people keep using it. I can't imagine trusting those scumbags with anything.
This is a good example of why I've never called myself an influencer none of the people I've worked with if you ever call themselves influencers and we predate all of the internet idea of what influencers were we've done the entire job for decades now for free non-profit never an affiliate link no money no ads nothing it's actually cost us money but we have integrity and we call it as we stand with only the brutal honest truth very few places could ever say that sadly keep up the good work Lewis you're one of the few as well
This is one of my favorite videos ever. My son asked me the other day why I fix things when I have the means to hire someone else to do the work. I told him that I like to get new skills even if the fix fails. Today I had him watch a portion of the video when you mention something similar. Learn not t depend on others and fix your corners of the world. By the way, honey used to be cool but then pay pal bought it and now is crap.
one of the most messed up thing about Honey is that small creators were disproportionately screwed over because sponsored ones at least got paid by their own screw up.
It always rang my bells. But I couldn‘t tell exactly why - and as an IT guy myself (for whatever that‘s worth), I think they had a really advanced way of scamming their promoters. It appears just once more, when something is free, you’re the product (and in this case even worse, even ripping off their patrons). Thanks for raising more awareness. => And Merry Christmas !
what an incredible video, I really moved about everything you say. It's incredible how the "influencer" name has been tarnished over the years, as someone that loves technology I'm pushed away to buy more and more expensive products because the big brands pollute the videos with advertisement and I can't discover brands that are more budget oriented.
@15:30 - 16:15 timestamp.. "Do i know how to make videos with good production quality?.. no".. while video slows and blurs.. Planned?... lol.. if so... weeeell played good sir..
The NVMe drive in that computer has been dying since April of 2023. It's still there, not backed up either. I have a PC3000, and I'm not afraid to use it :D
@rossmanngroup you'se gotta do what you'se gotta do.. Bada Bing Bada boom.. lol.. joking aside.. i watch your videos all the time and never have i been disappointed in doing so.. keep up the great work brother.. 👍
was sat here watching , agreeing vigerously , and then realised I aint doing Sh"t, and so have decided to go and do something helpful iin my corner , example in fact . thax for keepiing it real my brother
Always wondered why internet celebrities were called influencers as opposed to just celebrities. It struck me as odd, Orwellian even. Wish we would just go back to calling them celebrities.
I agree. I always found "influencer" name to have negative connotation which struck me the wrong way. I always used words like TH-cam personality and such instead.
@@MaaZeus I think the negative connotation is exactly why we call them influencers. The negative connotation when I call a garbage channel like MKBHD or Linus Tech Tips influencers is very much intentional. I'm putting them down on purpose.
Exactly. I've been thinking the job description "influencer" is the exact perfect description because it denotes authority AND responsibility. These people SHOULD feel the weight of their public facing job to change lives, and in that way, change society, when they are using their words to influence people. These people ARE influencing people, and I hope that responsibility crushes those that can't hack it and really strengthens those that can.
I couldn't agree less on the responsibility part and couldn't disagree more on the authority part. No one is forced to fall for them. Responsibility goes both ways. That's why It's *really* long overdue that people get taught media competence. Never understood this whole "Influencer" BS to be begin with tbh.
@1337Shockwav3 every person has a responsibility to seek truth and be diligent in what they present and represent to others. It's each of our responsibilities as members of a greater whole. If you willingly take on a public face, your responsibility is even greater because you have taken a mantle of informer, teacher, truth teller. Even the Bible says the public facing person in the church, the pastor, has more responsibly than the laity, and awaits a bigger punishment for messing with people in that capacity. This has always been true. It's why kings got assassinated by their people, and peasants only got beaten by other peasants when they did something wrong. (Not exclusively of course, but overall.) Influencers take on that mantle of informer, truth teller, "bringer of light," touchstone for all the people willingly, and they should consider that when they do. The very foundation of a low trust society is the idea of "I do what I want, it's your responsibility to make sure I'm not fucking with you, straight up lying, or purposefully trying to do you harm." Influencer is still the perfect title for their job. And I hope it CRUSHES those who can't hack it and strengthens those that can. Have a merry Christmas. I hope the reason for the season speaks light into all our hearts. Be blessed.
@1337Shockwav3 every person has a responsibility to seek truth and be diligent in what they present and represent to others. It's each of our responsibilities as members of a greater whole. If you willingly take on a public face, your responsibility is even greater because you have taken a mantle of informer, teacher, truth teller. Even the Bible says the public facing person in the church, the pastor, has more responsibly than the laity, and awaits a bigger punishment for messing with people in that capacity. This has always been true. It's why kings got assassinated by their people, and peasants only got beaten by other peasants when they did something wrong. (Not exclusively of course, but overall.) Influencers take on that mantle of informer, truth teller, "bringer of light," touchstone for all the people willingly, and they should consider that when they do. The very foundation of a low trust society is the idea of "I do what I want, it's your responsibility to make sure I'm not fucking with you, straight up lying, or purposefully trying to do you harm." Influencer is still the perfect title for their job. And I hope it CRUSHES those who can't hack it and strengthens those that can. Have a merry Christmas. I hope the reason for the season speaks light into all our hearts. Be blessed.
@1337Shockwav3 every person has a responsibility to seek truth and be diligent in what they present and represent to others. It's each of our responsibilities as members of a greater whole. If you willingly take on a public face, your responsibility is even greater because you have taken a mantle of informer, teacher, truth teller. Even the Bible says the public facing person in the church, the pastor, has more responsibly than the laity, and awaits a bigger punishment for messing with people in that capacity. This has always been true. It's why kings got assassinated by their people, and peasants only got beaten by other peasants when they did something wrong. (Not exclusively of course, but overall.) Influencers take on that mantle of informer, truth teller, "bringer of light," touchstone for all the people willingly, and they should consider that when they do. The very foundation of a low trust society is the idea of "I do what I want, it's your responsibility to make sure I'm not fucking with you, straight up lying, or purposefully trying to do you harm." Influencer is still the perfect title for their job. And I hope it CRUSHES those who can't hack it and strengthens those that can.
Louis, there needs to be far more "influencers" like you in the world. Please keep doing what you are doing, you do change people, you do motivate them in positive ways. My life isn't completely changed watching your videos, but I do come away feeling like there are still people who care and it makes me want to be better person. Keep up the good work.
I love everything you said and it touched me emotionally. I am a migrant from Germany and have changed my job and will hopefully soon be a social worker. I now have so much respect for your grandfather that I would like to find out more. These are people who are actually genuine and authentic and who deeply touch other people who have had contact with them.
I would triple like this video if I could! Very good story with a lot of meaning! Thank you! Respects to your grandfather Mr. Jack Rossmann! Keep on doing what you're doing. Merry Christmas!
"Clean up my little corner in the world" - Thank you Louis, I can do that.
"You can't make a difference to the entire world, but you can make an entire world of difference" is what I tell myself
thats how all big things start man, at home.
Christ once said "First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
When people see the positive changes you make in your own life theyll want to emulate you, and you'll be a in position to properly and credibly instruct them.
@@marblemarble7113 Im not religious at all but I love that quote. It has stuck with me since my first year of catholic school, despite being a total outcast in that environment and being kicked out within 2 years, i learned quite a bit about myself and the world at that young age.🤙
Louis, this is such a great story. I found you because I was trying to fix my laptop myself years ago. You were Jack, and you helped me fix something myself that I had no idea I could. Keep being jack.
It's just Jordan Peterson's "Clean your room."
How to become a real influencer
Step one - Don't call yourself one
It's in line with "Any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king."
They should make a movie based on Mr. Jack. I’d watch it.
Step two - advertise scams or overpriced garbage products
Which literally is 99.9% of stuff advertised by youtubers
@@savedemperor8024 You're missing the point. It is about how to become a real influencer, not a shitty one.
True. An influencer should be someone who promotes peace, shares wisdom etc, not someone who tells you to buy crap.
I hate it when these creators say "I've been using X product for months now" when you just KNOW the sponsor segment is the first time they ever actually used it in their life and after the video they just threw it away/sent it back to the company and never thought about it again
Even if they have used it for months. I know colleagues in tech alongside me who have used things their whole lives, and still don't know why/what/how.
And this is why I hate those fucking people, lying to their subscribers. They are horrible people, someone who's legit and care would never lie, even if it means to earn a paycheck.
Or they have an issue then talk about how great the customer service is. Of course you got white glove service, they need you to keep shilling the product.
Well since people are so stupid & believe these "influencers" we wouldn't have that problem. They got the name "influencers" for a reason
Everytime I see a british you tuber shilling for Factor and saying they use the product I roll my eyes, it's not even available in this country!
The story about your grandpa is astounding, the world needs more people like that. Thank you for sharing.
your comment made me watch the whole video 😂
Imagine if Louis could find one of those kids influenced by his Grandpa.
Yep. Very inspiring.
*We need to be more like that.
They should make a movie about him.
I'm just a truck driver by day and XDA developer by night helping people with roms and kernels in 2024 for no money. Your channel is my favorite of al time. Merry Christmas Rossman!
Oh wow, I am a truck driver here also. I did C++ developer work for the largest used Second Life client years ago. I still do developer stuff in my spare time.
Some heroes wear capes.
fighting the good fight. saving tons upon tons of e waste
This right here is why I have a problem with the current economy and system. I understand it is what it is and we all need to get on as best we can, that's fine I get it.
Hes driving a truck but developer on xda for fun by night.... to my mind he should be driving things for fun and doing software development for fun AND a job.
Am I crazy?!
Im in a similar boat, different, but we are both wet and don't need to be, if that makes sense. Many Rossmann fans probably are also or at least can sympathize.
Thank you for your service sir!
Imagine if more people just asked the simplest of questions ever when approached by a salesman:
"What's in it for you?"
There was a financial product I looked at purchasing a year and a half ago. The way it works is if the S&P 500 goes up, you get to keep it. But if the S&P 500 goes down, they will eat your losses up to a certain amount.
I asked _"How the hell is possible? and how you are able to sell me this product and get paid yourself on something that sounds too good to be true?? If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense; and a bank is not going to repay my losses just because they're good Christians! "_
He told me that enough people ask for their money back before the maturity of the product and pay the early-penalty to be able to pay out individuals who lose money if the S&P went down, and that when that fails, most of their revenue comes from selling zero-day expiry options to degenerates on Wall Street bets. this revenue allows them to make me whole(to an extent) if the market goes down. TL;DR, transfer of money from gamblers to long-term, boring investors.
He spoke my language, and he got a sale. I think he got a $1,000 commission for selling me that financial product, and I don't mind paying it. I didn't know that thing existed, and it made me feel a lot more secure about putting money into something that I maybe otherwise would not have put money into. It got me out of a gambling mindset; he educated me, he got money for educating me, and I wound up doing better financially as a result.
A lot of people are afraid to be honest about how they make their money. And some of them, *SHOULD* be afraid to be honest about how they make their money because they are actively screwing people. Some are not.
You should never be afraid to ask. Conversely, if someone offers you value, be ok to pay for it... you get bullshit like honey from a society where nobody is willing to pay fro anything & everyone wants money for nothing(and their chicks for free)
@@rossmanngroup Thanks for taking the time to say that. A good experience and a great lesson.
That last sentence is how photographers feel. Nobody wants to pay for pictures and expect them for free.
I asked that question in many high school and college job interviews and was not hired due to visibly cringing at their answers.
WII FM - my favorite radio station!
16:00 "Do I know how to make videos with good production quality? No."
Video framerate drops
Damn I thought it was issues with Firefox on my Linux desktop.
@@saiv46 Firefox users panicking whenever something on the internet acts up:
Me too mate, me too.
@@saiv46 lmao same here.. Linux sometimes gives me an audio delay aswell XD
I think it's Louis' best joke as he says "Do I know how to make videos of good quality? No... " And the frame rate drops. GOLD. 😂
Had to be on purpose...
I hope it was..
If not its still based AF
the thing that sucks the most is that even if you did your due diligence and decided to avoid a honey sponsorship if the viewers installed it from someone else it might still steal your affiliate even if you had nothing to do with them. truly scummy behavior.
Honey should be prosecuted. Incredibly invasive.
This. I don't think many people realise they take all affiliate payments, not just from big influencers that have advertised honey
If they item didnt actually cost what you were paying. Then both sides were trying to scam the consumer.
This is like the theif calling the burgler a crook.
We dont make laws to protect sales people. So there is no wrong doing here. Not legally anyway.
thats the part im surprised nobody else said, its not even the fact that it scams the people who promoted it, it scams anyone with an affiliate program no matter what. like, you could make an affiliate link for a product you genuinely have interest in and tell anyone whos interested in it, they all agree to buy it. you wake up excited that you might finally get to pay this months rent, then you see you have 0$ in your bank account because they all used a malicious browser extension you didnt even know existed and it just robbed you of all your commissions. its actually terrifying that they got away with this for so long, i couldnt imagine the amount of gaslighting people did to themselves by saying "its just a bug" or "maybe i should refresh the page..?" and never getting it...
@@franktkalcevic5342 because people like Louise keep repeating this "it was actually ripping off the creators who were shilling it!" stuff, as if non-sponsored affiliate links were unaffected.
I was checking out my purchases on a website last night and Honey said it found the best deal for me which was nothing. None of their coupon codes worked. It took me 3 minutes on my own to find a coupon code for $15 off. Honey is a scam and I uninstalled it. Thanks for your video.
Same, had it last year, and always got the same... coupons that NEVER worked.
"Honey said it found the best deal for me which was nothing".........it's soo laughable, you could not write this
@@katlee8778 think about your comment for five minutes, and then delete it……
@@katlee8778 So you NEVER use discounts?
@@katlee8778 what's being cheap have to do with being scammed? the scam in this case was telling the customer that nowhere in the world would a coupon exist. not trying to put in a coupon would've just resulted in the same anyway.
Hey Louis
I've been a silent watcher for many years, but the story about your grandpa inspired me to write this. You probably never gonna see this, but still worth writing down.
As said I've been following for some years and even tho i don't agree with some of your opinions, which i think is fine. You inspired to think more about right to repair. Soo when my lamp broke a month ago, I've decided to fix it myself. It may not be a motherboard but your videos over the year still helped me to find that broken chip and solder a new one. Amd now my lamp is working again. So thank you for inspiring me and many others. Even if it's only small steps
Hello from South East London 2nd January 9.45am...love your reply 🤜🏿🤛🏻‼️
Many years ago I worked for my Uncle on the farm. A neighbor who had moved from the city asked him how to get the county to cut the grass along the road so nicely like the road past my uncle's farm. His answer provided all you need to know about him: "I have no idea. I do it myself as the county is busy doing things I can't do. Cutting the side of the road a couple times a month is simple, and as you say it looks so nice, plus it gives satisfaction and a sense of pride in my farm."
So, your story includes a local government that is no underfunded that it cannot even trim the grass that is technically on their property and the normal people who then do its job for it - sold on propaganda on what that agency should and should not do. just because I can do something right around my property does not actually mean we stop having the local government do the similar thing for everyone else. "from the city" lol
I knew something was wrong about this because Honey was pushed in advertising as much as a credit card.
Crazy but until someone else made a video on it yesterday, I never heard of it. Is it because I block ads and skip sponsors?
@@DarkForce2024 They were a pretty big sponsor several years ago. The Google Ads Transparency Center shows that "joinhoney" is still making Google Search ads, but not image or video ads.
@@DarkForce2024 They used to push for sponsorships a lot more back 5-6 years ago than they do now I think.
@@DarkForce2024 They don't advertise as much as they used to. They were much more aggressive with advertising around 2015-2018
I once tried honey to see if it could save me money with how hard people were shilling it.
I tend to look up coupons codes or try to find deals, and I thought it'd be pretty cool to have some sort of extension that would already scrape the internet for these codes and give them to me.
Turned out, 100% of the time it literally couldn't find a coupon or anything of value, even when I would use websites like Papajohns (SM25 for 25% off btw), which has insane amounts of coupon codes online - nothing.
At that point I realized honey couldn't live up to any of its advertising and uninstalled it.
You nailed the definition of what an influencer is today: no values, no ethics, just bullshit
i think the problem is that the term is "influencer" at all. Like there are influential people, and there are things or events or forces that influence you; but the idea that someone is just "influencing" is.... well that isn't really how it's supposed to work. The Influence is supposed to be an after effect, not the motive.
That was the definition long before you were born, none of this is new, not the political rot or anything else "these days" - its rot started long ago and yes, perhaps you should do something different about it beyond just guffawing over the current state.
I got a similar speech from my dad when I was in my early teens, late 80's. I had got in trouble for some indiscretion I had committed at school, honestly can't remember what is was.
Now I started my explanation as to why I had done what I had done by expressing "What's the point if the whole world is in such disarray and there so many other problems, political and environmental, that make my indiscretion look absolutely insignificant".
He stopped me and said "You can't go around trying to clean up the backyards of the whole world when your own backyard look terrible, you need to clean your backyard first before you can even think of going out into the world and helping other people fix their backyards."
Clean your room!
Was your dad Jordan Peterson?
@@reshpeckIf that's a quote from that person in particular, then it could very easily be that their dad heard it and repeated it because it's a good analogy.
JP: First clean your room.
Concise wisdom.
@@reshpeck Oddly enough my dad has a unique Scottish name which literally means "Wise/Fair Celtic Warrior". On top of that he was also a martial arts (Judo) instructor.
16:00 "Do I know how to make videos of good production quality? No." He says as the video is at 3fps. I appreciate the honesty
The video sync couldn‘t cope with LR‘s words per second ratio.
It's almost like he did that on purpose. He purposefully, through great technical skill, dropped the videos fps just to demonstrate his obviouse devious lie, thus turning him into that perfect Rapscallion (aka bullshitter). There is so many levels of comedy in that clip.
maybe it is just obs choking lol
I thought my $6000 machine was on the fritz rofl
I've watched this twice. It really resonated with me.
When I was a young man, I would mention to older guys that I was interested in electronics. Next time I saw them, they would give me books, parts, old test equipment and knowledge.
Now that I'm older than they were I try to give back. They were my influencers.
Established titles, Kamikoto knives, Honey...
Basically if any "influencer" recommends me a product, I automatically avoid it.
Yes, but what about those earbuds that Mike Tyson swears by?
If Mike Tyson uses them they must be good, right?
@@markboz3366 RayCONNS, I mean it's even in the name
manscaped, raid shadow legends, the couple of different ones involving food, I also make it a point to avoid any videogames that get glowing reviews from all the game review channels, they're bought and paid for as well
@@markboz3366 I'm good with the $20 earbuds DankPods recommended.
@@markboz3366 Only if they can protect you from him biting your ear off.
That story about your grandpa is really lovely, I'm glad it got to be shared with the world so a piece of him can be remembered.
It's rare to see such a thoughtful response to a student asking about an industry they're interested in.
Modern influencers sure do influence, but it's rarely in positive ways. It's good to be reminded sometimes that the impacts we make on our smaller circles of influence are sometimes the most impactful
I viewed this at 1 am, Christmas morning.
This is one of the most amazing Christmas gifts I've ever received.
I hope your, and everyone else's, holiday is grand.
Thank you.
You must be very young.
Thanks for being such a positive influence, Louis! I want to share a story that really highlights your integrity. Back in 2017, iirc, I used to watch your videos for the repairs and the amazing commentary you added during the process. I live in Brazil and had a MacBook Pro with a display issue. I carried it all the way to NYC and took it to your store. I even caught a glimpse of you working in the back, which was super exciting!
Your employee brought my computer over to you, and after checking it out, you told him to let me know that Apple had a recall for the issue and that I should take it to them for a free fix. You essentially "lost" $200 by being honest, and sure enough, Apple fixed it at no charge. (Though, in true Genius Bar fashion, they forgot to put back one of the internal speakers-I only realized that after returning to Brazil!)
Thank you again for your honesty and for all the knowledge you share
Thank you for sharing. 🌻
Louis, I, an ex-NY'r who started life in one of those destined-to-be-abandoned South Bronx hell-hole tenements, where the heat would regularly go out in the dead of winter and the incinerator would occasionally fill the hallways with stinking smoke, and fled NYC in '76, loved your story about your grandfather. I really hope I get to meet you someday and maybe I will, having moved back to the rural East, with friends still living in the city. Be blessed and continue influencing in the best of ways. 🙏
I told someone recently that we make the world, so we have to be the good guys. Thanks for reinforcing that lesson.
Louis you are genuinely good person. The world needs more people like you
Years ago Markiplier was right about Honey. He asked where the money came from and how it benefited anybody.
It was 2 years ago when he made the prophetic statement
I mean, he was right to be skeptical, even then. You really do have to always ask yourself "but what is the catch?" I'm glad I was brought up this way, my father would have said the same thing.
@@HattieLankford-24how was that being an a-hole? Maybe take your own advice
@@UruzVIthey literally wrote "years" meaning more than 1 which includes 2
Wow dude no way omg we care so much
This video puts into words why I like my job. I'm a Tier 3 support tech for a mid-size IT support company based in Texas. I work tickets others struggle with, answer the questions of the techs around me when they're stumped, and I train a lot of the new techs in my "style" of working a ticket. I've been offered to become a team lead, but then most of my job would be watching metrics and checking others' work. I've been offered to move over to be a sysadmin, and while that would pay substantially more, I'd also be on call on weekends and at night sometimes and not work as directly with the clients. And either of those would be a stepping stone to management, which is not where I want to be because I wouldn't be putting my actual talents to work.
I may not make as much as I could, but I like being able to help clients in my little corner of the world be happier and more productive. And I like being able to help new techs become great techs by teaching them what I know and showing them how to do the work efficiently. And I've turned down other offers for much more money to stay where I am.
ask for a raise in your current position
@@johnfreeman2956 - I have, and gotten them. They just don't want to go too far past the "cap" for the position, lest everyone expect as much as I make.
Go for the sysadmin... you still work with the clients and you get a bit more pull in the operation of the system, plus the $$$. Not gong to BS you about the hours. 1st level supervision isnt that bad.. you get a bit better view of the company as a whole.. It's the old Birds on a post meme... "everytime the people on the bottom look up they see assholes and all the people see when they look down is shit". Only problem with the sysadmin is you're more easily replaced by offshore resources.
What matters in life is happiness. Sometimes you need more money, sometimes better or different job. Doesn't matter, those are all means to get there. If you are happy where you are that's awesome. Just be honest with yourself and think long term as well. Best of luck.
Thats a good perspective to have. Thank you for sticking to what you feel is right.
I lost so much respect for everyone that was sponsored by Established Titles. The only product I have gotten because a channel was sponsored is Displate.
Lots of people asked _"how would you know honey is a scam?"_
You don't need to examine browser cookies or click inspect element to do any of this. You only need to do one thing: Ask the person offering you thousands of dollars to promote a browser extension that provides you with free coupon codes how they are making the money to pay you.
Anytime somebody offers me something that seems even remotely too good to be true, I ask them how they make their money. If they cannot provide me with a reasonable explanation, I tell them to go away. Nothing is free. And nobody's paying me without benefiting themselves.
@@rossmanngroup That's something Markiplier asked himself back in 2020 and went off on a 5 minute tangent in the middle of a random stream.
@@themastersb It was in 2019, so 5 years ago. "I survived 2019"
@@themastersb I'd love to see that
Honey has always been in a kind of "grey area" where it was like "obviously a free browser extension has to be doing something shady under the hood, but maybe it's just selling your personal data - other than that, it seems semi-OK." No-one could have really known the depths of the scam until it was exposed, so I'm not really disappointed about creators who have taken Honey sponsorships (as long as they address the situation honestly). Established Titles, on the other hand, was fully known to be a scam from the very start. To the point where even minutes after the first video with Established Titles as its sponsor was posted, that creator's viewers rushed to the comments to call it out for how obviously a scam it was. So I also have zero respect for creators who ever took sponsorships from Established Titles, as all creators should have higher standards and not just care about their bottom line, even though there's only so much they can reasonably be expected to be aware of.
Now there is a company called "Pie" that is being advertised aggressively..
It is owned by the same company.
yeah i seen those ads on here
Honey
Pie
Whats next?
Chocolate Cake?
@@FuturesPast1 Not the same company, but many of the people who originally developed Honey are developing Pie. I don't know for certain whether they are doing the same thing, but it certainly sounds similar and with their track record I think it would be wise to be cautious about them.
Technically not same company. Guy that started Honey sold it for $4 Billion. Then he started PIE
Your definition of influencer is definitely aspirational,and infinitely preferable to the way they generally operate.
Having just stumbled across your channel, I've only watched a couple of your videos. This video alone has earned you a follower. Respect, to you, your father and your grandfather. It seems as though you know and understand integrity quite well, thanks to them. Love from Alabama brother.
I don't trust blindly. I don't trust you either, although your stance is usually more trustworthy to me than others. Regardless, that story made me feel better. To the point that I'd rather it be true, and be okay with it not being true but inspiring anyways. I feel generally better as a whole after watching/listening to a video on this site, which is rare and very welcome. You rock for this, so thank you.
You and your grandfather are the real influencers we need more of ❤
We need more Grandpa Jacks ❤
We gotta be the Grandpa Jacks
@@maxz69 Right on!
You sir are wise beyond your years! Your grandfather affected more than his little corner of the world by influencing you which has in turn influenced me! You are appreciated my friend!
Your grandfather's (and your) attitude towards cleaning up your own little corner is so aspirational, Louis. It's how everyone should live their life, and sometimes we all just need that little push in the right direction to try and make a difference. I appreciate you. Merry Christmas!
True! This was the best message for me in 2024 (so far). Thanks, Louis
People like your grandpa is one of the reasons I'm volunteering as much as I can, and I'll try to pass it on as much as I can too.
And even if I suffer from several chronic conditions, I'll try to help clean up my little corner of the world, help other people, give others a smile or a hello regardless if it's a CEO or a homeless person.
Thank you and merry Christmas.
Finally, a creator who calls out sketchy TH-camrs for shilling scams. I can't help but think that they were only upset because they were scammed too.
he's been calling them out for a long time
Welcome to the best one on TH-cam
How you process things , it’s completely correct . A lot of TH-camrs are happy to shovel crap into the viewers mouths
Calling out youtuber scams is its own genre at this point where have you been
There were many YTers who had no affiliate links. There are YTers who will continue to shill.
13:55 hidden gem right there if anyone wants a timestamp. VERY well said!!
I can't stress how much I have grown to appreciate you and your channel over the years, thank you for everything you do and stand for - the world is lucky to have you in it!
thank you Louis, you are a big part of the reason I am picking up a soldering iron in the face of mental health breakdowns. im just getting started, but cant help but feel like maybe you helped save my life. thank you.
Thanks for this video Louis. I was depressed yesterday because I didn’t know what to do to be happy with my life after graduating and getting a job. I’ve been thinking about my future and my role in the society for years. I searched and read articles and watched videos about what I could do but it didn’t give me the click in my mind. I was at the gym while watching this video today, and I gotta say I think I found what I should do. Don’t try to change the world or shit, just try to clean my part of the world. Being a ‘good influencer’ to the people in my world, that’s the thing I should do. Thanks once again.
Came for the drama input, stayed for the words of wisdom. You moved something within me today, Louis.
The real problem is that honey steals money from creators that don’t promote honey.
You aren't owed affiliate revenue. Adapt or perish.
@ Affiliate revenue isn’t something anyone is owed, but it is something that partners and platforms agree upon as a fair exchange for driving business to their site. Sniping affiliate revenue undermines trust and damages the program for everyone involved.
@thewhitefalcon8539 by the contract with the seller, yes you are. What is “adapt or perish“ even supposed to mean in this context? Start scamming?
Companies that have affiliate programs shouldn’t allow Honey/PayPal to be affiliate partners.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 ???
Yes, they are owed affiliate revenue.
If I say to you "If you do X for me, I will give you money," and then you do the thing.... you think it's okay for me to just say "nah, never mind. I don't owe you anything. Adapt or perish?"
You make such a great point about trauma and healing through repairing things. Personally, I found it to be the most healing to learn to repair and restore broken or unwanted things. It started from looking at doctors instagram pages overseas where surgeons would repair peoples limbs and they would restore their functionality. Some of the destruction on peoples limbs were so incredibly displacing it seemed hopeless to even try but their limbs healed and they were cared for so lovingly. After the surgeon phase I began to find things and restore them. To this day almost everything, every physical object I own, is acquired secondhand or from discards. I even make my own shoes. Not only does it bring you joy to repair and create things, it shows that we care about our world and we have respect for our lives and the lives of others. Thinking critically with an open mind can bring you everything you need with what you've already got, even if it's only your two hands and the thoughts of the potential to manifest particular necessities and/or conveniences. Great video.
That's awesome. I'd love to see what type of shoes you made!
Never expected that a YT video lazily watched on a Sunday would impact me like this. Looking forward to cleaning my little corner. What an amazing, life changing point of view.
Wow, you really brought me to tears on this as you really get it. We have been conditioned to hold power over each other instead of empowering each other.
We are programmed to debate instead of conversation.
The best way of teaching is through epiphany as it doesn't trigger the fight, flight or freeze response.
Thank you.
I really liked that story, and I agree with your definition of "influencer".
Funny enough, that's how you make societies better. Instead of clout and popularity concentrated to a small handful of "influencers" who are doing random shit for recognition, you have everyday people doing what they can to make "their corner of the world" a little bit better.
the story about your grandfather hit me in the chest like a golf club against a window.
it's genuinely a beautiful story, and one i wish to reflect with my own action in the coming new year.
thank you for inspiring me, Mr.Rossmann. i really appreciate the effort you've put into your little corner of the world.
Going into a corner of society and not just helping, but getting others to follow along as well is an excellent guiding purpose.
I may just be a college student just starting out, but this principle is why I went into tech and is why I do what I do every day.
Well said Louis, we need more people like your grandfather in this world.
Really inspiring story, thanks for the video
I got honey a long time ago. I deleted it the same day when I tested it on amazon and amazon ended up giving me better discounts than honey. Also other than amazon, Honey gave me very little to no coupons, and the very few ones I got were like only 3-5% off.
That's part of the scam. Websites can set a maximum percentage off that Honey will give customers and tell them it's the best deal.
Same many years ago, gave it a shot, took no time at all to realise it was garbage that didn't work, uninstalled. Not surprised now to know it sucked for the same reason most things do now: for the sake of profit. All the more reason to block ads and sponsors, it's nearly all scams, no point wading through them
It only gives discounts if the company your buying from partners with them
Now, give up Amazon or do you hate everyone including yourself?
Honey makes more money on the commission if they offer you a 3% discount than a 30% discount. Store makes more and honey gets the same % on a bigger sale.
I watched it today. It is unfucking believable. I closed both of my PayPal accounts.
I closed my PayPal a couple years ago with alot of people when they said they'd fine people for $2,500 if they thought you were toting misinformation.
To y'all, please uninstall/remove Honey if installed
I'm happy that you are able to do that. Some places you MUST have paypal or you can't make any purchase at all.
I deleted it a few years ago when I realized how scammy paypal was and froze a lot of people's money for no reason. They were always scammy.
Now, you know it's a REAL scam company, and not just scammy.
@@solidhyrax You don't need an account to use paypal. They can process CC's without an account. Deleted mine 5 years ago as well. They are a bunch of fuckwits.
Thanks Louis. Your corner is just fine. You are an inspiration to us all.
Great story. I feel like we know that bad deeds can ripple through the generations, but often forget that good deeds do the same.
Louis, thanks for that. I am one of those that have looked up soldering kits to repair small electronics. I was willing to spend hundreds of dollars to swap out a slider switch on my PCs headset but I couldn't justify the $160 to buy a new headset.
You taught me that investing in a skill to fix things is better than throwing away something and replacing it.
Merry Christmas Louis, to you and your Grandfather.
Good man. Long term thinking is your job, as a man, for the benefit of society as a whole.
I spent $30,000 on tools to get a minimum wage job as a kid. Spent nearly a decade paying that off, making less than I should have for such an investment. But you know what I never had to do? Pay somebody else to fix my car.
Retired at 38 because sooo many people never thought that far ahead.
8:53 he forgot the screenshot
Guess we will have to watch the coming video he mentioned... Well played. 😂
Noone said he makes videos with good production quality ;-)
*Integrity and money really seem to hate each other.*
Don’t skip honor
Courage, duty, honor - almost nonexistent in modernity.
It's not that those don't go well together, it's that most people avoid other people who have integrity.
the go ok together, but without money flows a lot more "freely" ;-)
It's not that they hate each other, though I do feel ya.
Integrity (and honor) is doing the right thing, even when there is no benefit to you to do so.
Normally, we see 'benefit' as "getting paid" in today's consumerist society. So that is why it would feel like they hate each other, which isnt exactly true. A company or person with good integrity, will retain customers that care, and will, over the long term, get paid.
Louis here made this channel, and all it's riches on integrity alone (because you know, he even admitted he cant do any of the production quality, fancy words, or entertainment one would usually expect from video content).
Extremely grateful for decent humans such as Louis. Inspires me to look beyond just identifying a problem, but to solve the problem and be the solution. You practice what you preach, and you don’t just ask people how to be better but show them. Thank you Louis! 🙏🏾🐺
After years of watching you Louis i’ve come to realize that you’re a really good person, I know you don’t like labels like that, but you’re one of the good ones. Very principled and honest.
I like your definition of influencer! My son and I this christmas repaired an old dvd player, PS2 and VHS vcr all of which had stopped working since they were purchased over 18 yrs ago (but not replaced), he has always seen me repair what I can. He wanted to try, so we worked together- sucess was achieved costing just time and carefull thought.
That is true. He was not just an influencer, but a true leader that left a legacy behind for others to strive to have the same impact on other people's lives. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Possibly one of the best videos I've watched on this platform. Bless your grandad, may he rest in peace.
Love when you cover things like this like the products you have recommended that I remember were that chair, label printer, phone, and head phones I think that were all clearly things that you actually used. I tend to either skip ad segments or tone it out but when the youtuber clearly supports the products that's different.
Hey Louis, sorry for my bad english... but thank you so much for the great story! You are a living treasure for humanity with your philosophy. I wish there were more people like you.
I'm weak because of my alleged autism. Unfortunately I also have bad parents, which makes the suffering even worse, so I can't change the world for the better at the moment, but you do.
I'm convinced that people will still remember you in 100+ years as the wise man who showed people that you can be successful without fooling or harming other people.
Take care and have a healthy new year!
Kind regards Santino
I don't only hear your words, I feel them. From the first video I viewed of yours, you are a true influence, my corner is smaller than any platform, but I share the same desire. It feels so good to see you have made a difference and you just gave me more confidence to keep working on my corner. Thanks Louis.
I bet that the people who were touting Honey wound up signing an arbitration agreement with their contract too.
Of course. I'd imagine the reason LTT only ended their contract and didn't make any video on this when they found out years ago is because it'd open them up to legal action.
What I want is a "How to solder" series of videos from you. I want to learn it, if only for modding Gameboys and stuff, but I just don't really know where to start...especially because I am visually impaired and thus almost blind. Videos would help me, cuz they're big. Not soldering under a microscope is probably never gonna be a thing for me lol.
That aside, I am always happy to see others remember and live what "influencer" means and entails. It stems from "to influence".
And we should influence for something we believe in.
Mr. Jack sounds amazing.
This is the best Christmas story I've ever heard. Thanks.
Agreed
That is what a hero is, and what everyone should aspire to follow.
Somebody who does great deeds for fame and glory, isnt a hero. It's the people who do the right thing just to be good people. All of civilization is built upon such people.
Thank you for this. So many people complain about the state of the world, or their country e.g., but then don't even try to do something to make things at least a tiny bit better. I'm doing my part in cleaning up my little corner of the world. Repairing electronics, fixing Wifi and providing locals with cheap refurbished computers. All the while making others excited too when something is fixed again!
Thanks!
Your making a change louis 😊 keep teaching & sharing knowledge
Thank you for that story Louis. We need to hear more stories like this. Have an awesome Christmas and all the best for the New Year 💙
Of all the creators on TH-cam, tiktok, Twitter, all social media tbh…that kid picked the best possible one. Videos like this one are the reason I friggin’ love you!
I'm sure you won't like me saying this but I would DEFINITELY trust you blindly! You are someone who earned that trust through your actions and your consistency so, I'm sorry, Louis, BUT THAT'S ON YOU! ;) Thanks again for everything you do, you truly are an example! Cheers and a happy new year to you and yours! You're the man!
Eh... some of us DID read the blog list with all you hardware on it, and actually bought a couple items because you'd been using them/we could see they were good tools. The thing is... WE didn't see a need to ask you, or say anything, really, because what are we doing? Bragging that we bought the thing you have? It would be weird. So... thank you for the list, as it's not useless, at least not to everyone.
Been watching your videos for decades now, and I STILL am very grateful for your beginner soldering tips video a few years back. It was good for some of us who had been soldering for longer than half your viewers had been alive, as you gave very clear, concise instructions, with lots of detail, and most importantly, showed us how to not worry about it and be nervous when working on expensive, sensitive parts. I'll always be thankful for that, as it's improved my skill greatly over the years since watching it.
Your videos have always been the best lessons for me, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Thank you, and especially thank you for being able/willing to stand up so strongly for our rights as consumers/tinkerers/repair techs. You have made a huge difference, and continue to do amazing things. Thank you! o7
I watched the other video a few days ago and shared it to everyone I know but you do a much better job of explaining the situation :) Also that vpn stuff you talked about infuriates me, "You will be safe from hackers because you use our VPN". I die inside every time I hear one of these channels talk like that. You are a blessing to society, thank you Louis!
I always asume they stole user's data or installed malware. There's no such thing as a free ride.
If a product is free you are the product.
Given that it can overwrite your cookies, I say it is a form of malware.
HE HAS FINALLY SPOKEN
This was great!
I had a guest of honour speech I had to do once, and my core message was that you may not be able to change the world, but you can change your little corner of it. And in doing so, maybe, just maybe, someone else will see that and decide they're going to follow your example. And maybe someone else will see them, and they'll make some changes. Pretty soon there's maybe 10 people doing things differently, and maybe it'll never move beyond that, but that's 10 more people than there was before you started.
I've loved your channel and work for a while, and yeah, your grandfather rocked and so does his grandson :)
I am glad that i have followed your channel years back and not unfollowed.
This redefined meaning of influencer is very inspiring and cleansing to what it should stand for.
Merry Christmas and may God bless you Mr. Rossmaan your grandpa will be proud of what you are doing.
Keep up the good work.🙏💐
How is Louis so damn based
Caring more about his values than making the most amount of money possible, and having the intestinal fortitude to use his platform of 2M+ subs to say the quiet part out loud, the part that's on the minds of way too many people who just push it out of the head to toe the line or make the most money.
For real. This is one of the deepest videos I’ve ever watched.
Apart from the honey scandal. I cannot stand the VPN ad sponsors; being a software developer, I hate how they bluntly lie about how it works 🙄
Like "protect your privacy" by actually routing all of your internet traffic through our black-box serveru?😂
They also tend to lie about how "good" that exact VPN service is and make it look better, than it really is.
Exactly! To both @CZpersi and @Morpheus-pt3wq 🙂
The worst thing that bothers me, is - “secure” yourself when in public WiFi’s. Sure it helps to have a secure tunnel, but if you’re doing anything on a legitimate HTTPS website, the data is already secured by the nature of SSL. The fear mongering of security with their service is unbearable. It gets under my skin so much.
Granted, I can see value in location spoofing if you want to get access to restricted content, but (and I do think this is just mainly because of my background and interest in software development, but I’d rather have my own VPN set up on a server that I control. Similar to what Louis has mentioned before with WireShark. If some other company is controlling the end nodes, who’s to say that VPN company isn’t selling your data right back to the people that they claim they’re “protecting” you from. Nah fam, I’m good 🙂
Most of them just advertise it as a way to watch foreign netflix now, it's funny. The average person isn't going to have good opsec even if you taught them how and what it is, they would mess it up.
Even then, with vpns, the only two people should be using are mullvad and proton. Even then I'm not sure if proton have previously handed over data, I'm a bit behind myself... I know mullvad still tells nation states to gtfo though.
I still can't believe how many people are still shilling NordVPN in particular. Once it was revealed that NordVPN had data breaches and hid them from customers instead of reporting them, that should have been the end of Nord. And yet they still exist, people keep shilling it and people keep using it. I can't imagine trusting those scumbags with anything.
I started fixing old lighting that was being thrown away. They may be less efficient, but when it one to flicker to life, it feels amazing.
This is a good example of why I've never called myself an influencer none of the people I've worked with if you ever call themselves influencers and we predate all of the internet idea of what influencers were we've done the entire job for decades now for free non-profit never an affiliate link no money no ads nothing it's actually cost us money but we have integrity and we call it as we stand with only the brutal honest truth very few places could ever say that sadly keep up the good work Lewis you're one of the few as well
This is one of my favorite videos ever. My son asked me the other day why I fix things when I have the means to hire someone else to do the work. I told him that I like to get new skills even if the fix fails. Today I had him watch a portion of the video when you mention something similar. Learn not t depend on others and fix your corners of the world. By the way, honey used to be cool but then pay pal bought it and now is crap.
I saw a video about Honey on Lehto's Law earlier today. Seems to be a hot topic. The internet has certainly evolved.
one of the most messed up thing about Honey is that small creators were disproportionately screwed over because sponsored ones at least got paid by their own screw up.
It always rang my bells. But I couldn‘t tell exactly why - and as an IT guy myself (for whatever that‘s worth), I think they had a really advanced way of scamming their promoters.
It appears just once more, when something is free, you’re the product (and in this case even worse, even ripping off their patrons).
Thanks for raising more awareness.
=> And Merry Christmas !
what an incredible video, I really moved about everything you say. It's incredible how the "influencer" name has been tarnished over the years, as someone that loves technology I'm pushed away to buy more and more expensive products because the big brands pollute the videos with advertisement and I can't discover brands that are more budget oriented.
Thanks for taking care of your little corner of the world! Happy Holidays!!!
Happy christmas Mr. Rossmann. Thank you for your down to Earth and honest videos.
The 96mph thing is never gonna go away, and deservedly so 👍🏻
@15:30 - 16:15 timestamp.. "Do i know how to make videos with good production quality?.. no".. while video slows and blurs.. Planned?... lol.. if so... weeeell played good sir..
The NVMe drive in that computer has been dying since April of 2023. It's still there, not backed up either. I have a PC3000, and I'm not afraid to use it :D
I thought my computer was acting until he said that line which haha
Noted this also!! Lmao
@rossmanngroup you'se gotta do what you'se gotta do.. Bada Bing Bada boom.. lol.. joking aside.. i watch your videos all the time and never have i been disappointed in doing so.. keep up the great work brother.. 👍
"there are no mistakes, just happy little accidents" -bob ross
Thanks
was sat here watching , agreeing vigerously , and then realised I aint doing Sh"t, and so have decided to go and do something helpful iin my corner , example in fact . thax for keepiing it real my brother
Always wondered why internet celebrities were called influencers as opposed to just celebrities. It struck me as odd, Orwellian even. Wish we would just go back to calling them celebrities.
I think people don’t consider online personalities to be “real” celebrities (unlike people who became famous on legacy media or professional sports).
I agree. I always found "influencer" name to have negative connotation which struck me the wrong way. I always used words like TH-cam personality and such instead.
@@amicaaranearum imagine people's shock when they discover there's no meaningful difference 😂
@@MaaZeus I think the negative connotation is exactly why we call them influencers. The negative connotation when I call a garbage channel like MKBHD or Linus Tech Tips influencers is very much intentional. I'm putting them down on purpose.
They are celebrities and I won’t accept anything else. I don’t even like the word TH-camr, it makes me sick.
Thanks for this Louis!
And truly, thanks for all your efforts!
Exactly. I've been thinking the job description "influencer" is the exact perfect description because it denotes authority AND responsibility. These people SHOULD feel the weight of their public facing job to change lives, and in that way, change society, when they are using their words to influence people.
These people ARE influencing people, and I hope that responsibility crushes those that can't hack it and really strengthens those that can.
I couldn't agree less on the responsibility part and couldn't disagree more on the authority part. No one is forced to fall for them. Responsibility goes both ways. That's why It's *really* long overdue that people get taught media competence. Never understood this whole "Influencer" BS to be begin with tbh.
@1337Shockwav3 every person has a responsibility to seek truth and be diligent in what they present and represent to others. It's each of our responsibilities as members of a greater whole. If you willingly take on a public face, your responsibility is even greater because you have taken a mantle of informer, teacher, truth teller. Even the Bible says the public facing person in the church, the pastor, has more responsibly than the laity, and awaits a bigger punishment for messing with people in that capacity. This has always been true. It's why kings got assassinated by their people, and peasants only got beaten by other peasants when they did something wrong. (Not exclusively of course, but overall.)
Influencers take on that mantle of informer, truth teller, "bringer of light," touchstone for all the people willingly, and they should consider that when they do. The very foundation of a low trust society is the idea of "I do what I want, it's your responsibility to make sure I'm not fucking with you, straight up lying, or purposefully trying to do you harm."
Influencer is still the perfect title for their job. And I hope it CRUSHES those who can't hack it and strengthens those that can.
Have a merry Christmas. I hope the reason for the season speaks light into all our hearts. Be blessed.
@1337Shockwav3 every person has a responsibility to seek truth and be diligent in what they present and represent to others. It's each of our responsibilities as members of a greater whole. If you willingly take on a public face, your responsibility is even greater because you have taken a mantle of informer, teacher, truth teller. Even the Bible says the public facing person in the church, the pastor, has more responsibly than the laity, and awaits a bigger punishment for messing with people in that capacity. This has always been true. It's why kings got assassinated by their people, and peasants only got beaten by other peasants when they did something wrong. (Not exclusively of course, but overall.)
Influencers take on that mantle of informer, truth teller, "bringer of light," touchstone for all the people willingly, and they should consider that when they do. The very foundation of a low trust society is the idea of "I do what I want, it's your responsibility to make sure I'm not fucking with you, straight up lying, or purposefully trying to do you harm."
Influencer is still the perfect title for their job. And I hope it CRUSHES those who can't hack it and strengthens those that can.
Have a merry Christmas. I hope the reason for the season speaks light into all our hearts. Be blessed.
@1337Shockwav3 sorry if I replied several times. The Tube keeps erasing my replies.
@1337Shockwav3 every person has a responsibility to seek truth and be diligent in what they present and represent to others. It's each of our responsibilities as members of a greater whole. If you willingly take on a public face, your responsibility is even greater because you have taken a mantle of informer, teacher, truth teller. Even the Bible says the public facing person in the church, the pastor, has more responsibly than the laity, and awaits a bigger punishment for messing with people in that capacity. This has always been true. It's why kings got assassinated by their people, and peasants only got beaten by other peasants when they did something wrong. (Not exclusively of course, but overall.)
Influencers take on that mantle of informer, truth teller, "bringer of light," touchstone for all the people willingly, and they should consider that when they do. The very foundation of a low trust society is the idea of "I do what I want, it's your responsibility to make sure I'm not fucking with you, straight up lying, or purposefully trying to do you harm."
Influencer is still the perfect title for their job. And I hope it CRUSHES those who can't hack it and strengthens those that can.
Louis, there needs to be far more "influencers" like you in the world. Please keep doing what you are doing, you do change people, you do motivate them in positive ways. My life isn't completely changed watching your videos, but I do come away feeling like there are still people who care and it makes me want to be better person. Keep up the good work.
I love everything you said and it touched me emotionally. I am a migrant from Germany and have changed my job and will hopefully soon be a social worker. I now have so much respect for your grandfather that I would like to find out more. These are people who are actually genuine and authentic and who deeply touch other people who have had contact with them.
I would triple like this video if I could! Very good story with a lot of meaning! Thank you! Respects to your grandfather Mr. Jack Rossmann! Keep on doing what you're doing. Merry Christmas!