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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1916D10C, post: 3311431, member: 97585&quot;]I get very ired and inflamed about YouTube! It&#039;s an incredible point of contention with me, much like American politics!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve spent a decade of my life and counting, learning Numismatics, I&#039;ve read books, I&#039;ve gone to shows, I&#039;ve been mentored by family and still am mentored by friends and acquaintances in the field who know far more than me, and I can attest it&#039;s not a field one learns overnight.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then, bring in the latest generation, and even some folks my age, who haven&#039;t examined but a few dozen valuable coins in their life, they go to Google, pull down photos and read information they themselves have not researched on their own, and suddenly, they are Numismatic experts, and BLAM! pump out bogus content for their YouTube channels to whore themselves, not just for attention, but to make money too! The nerve! The greed! This, then, sets off a chain reaction as those that watch their videos become &quot;experts&quot; as well and feel qualified to share the bogus information they&#039;ve learned! It&#039;s not only deceptive, it&#039;s deeply insulting and offensive to anybody that possesses true passion for this field! You&#039;re taking a field others have been studying for years and want to try to milk it for profit?! Nothing wrong at all with making money in Numismatics, that&#039;s what dealers do, but trying to make money off something you know absolutely nothing about! Yes! It makes my blood absolutely BOIL.</p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, I&#039;ve been tempted to do this and compose a speech on the topic, but if I do, I&#039;ll simply be written off and labelled a&quot;hater&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>ETA: This whole YouTube thing extends beyond just Numismatics. Just yesterday a new video popped up on my feed, a video regarding psychology. It was about mastering one&#039;s emotions. Ironically, it relates to a book I&#039;m currently reading. Now how on God&#039;s green earth is one supposed to learn a complex topic as such, through a 5 minute video, narrated by a kid that sounds like a complete geek? For real, the guy sounded like a complete video game geek who lives in his mom&#039;s basement smoking weed and playing fortnight!</p><p><br /></p><p>YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and most other forms of social media are like a disease! I have to limit my use because the more I watch, the more cynical I become![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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