We're here for Top Gear archiving and Documentation, not shit slinging match that the other guy doesn't even know he's playing. If you're in the public eye, even on a smaller scale like this, especially if you have a lot of traction in a very specific community, you really need to think twice, or even thrice about what you say and do. Things like this, where you've clearly taken a generalised throwaway comment out of context and ran with it, is going to make you look like a fool. In fact, it has made you look like a fool. Like others have said, the best thing you can do is take a step back, gather your thoughts, and regroup once your head is together again. You are a very talented content creator who is clearly making the content YOU want, not just churning out forgettable slop to please the algorithm. Don't let a horrendous lapse in judgement ruin things for not only your viewers, but yourself
4 months ago | 91
Alex, the issue here is simple. Your original, invented, grievance didn’t hold up, so now you’re reframing “fronted” as a personal insult. But that word isn’t an attack. It's an adjective. You’re turning neutral language into ammunition to try to sustain a narrative that’s already collapsed. Your audience overwhelmingly rejected the idea that Porter threatened you. Instead of reflecting, you’ve shifted to a new grievance. And that’s the pattern. You’re not defending your work anymore. You’re hunting for offense to stay at the center of a story that stopped being about substance long ago. No one claimed you had a team. No one discredited your solo effort. You brought that up to frame yourself as a victim. But this isn’t a rebuttal. It’s a performance. YouTube is full of creators who work alone without turning their struggle into a weapon every time they feel overlooked. Saying you’re proud of what you’ve built means nothing if you’re burning it down with every upload and every post. You’re not being erased. You’re not being “chewed up.” You’re being humiliated. And not because people turned on you, but because you can't let go of the bitterness. Stop chasing conflict. Stop rewriting slights. Stop playing the victim. You had something good. You can again. But not like this.
4 months ago | 92
Alex the more you go on about it the more you lose credibility
4 months ago | 65
Man, i just wanted a channel talking about top gear. Not this, dust yourself off. Focus on the content you're making and leave the drama at the door. No-one wants this.
4 months ago | 44
Alex, nobody is buying this. I stand by what I said in my previous comment. This isn’t a real apology or a resolution. You’ve quietly deleted the more aggressive parts of your original post and replaced them with even more self pity and moral posturing. You’re still pushing the idea that Porter’s “someone’s gonna die” line was aimed at you, even after your entire audience told you it wasn’t. That’s not clarity. That’s refusal to admit fault. And now you’re trying to shift the focus to your struggles and work ethic, things no one ever questioned, to distract from the fact that you made a baseless accusation and won’t fully walk it back. This isn’t accountability. It’s damage control. And it’s obvious. And as for these vague “reprisals” and talk of “counter-action”,What does that even mean? People leaving comments? Sharing their opinions? Nobody is threatening you, Alex. Criticism isn’t a reprisal, and disagreement isn’t harassment. You’re not under attack, you’re being held accountable for your own words. Stop trying to intimidate your audience into silence with veiled legal threats. It’s transparent.
4 months ago | 40
Bro this ain't the demographic that is fond of Victim olympics. Relax and Take a break. You are better than this
4 months ago (edited) | 29
"YouTube needs people like me more than ever." who says something like that lmao
4 months ago | 47
The original post that got deleted by Alex: "In The Road To Success' podcast latest episode, the guest in question, a Mr. Richard Porter, decided to issue what are quite clearly some very undignified threats towards yours truly around the 21 - 22 minute mark. Therefore, I have decided to leave him with a pair of detailed comments that tell him exactly what I think of him in turn. I might have criticised him a fair bit these past 18 months, but I never, not ONCE, said anything to him along those lines. That sort of comment is completely out of pocket. And no, I am not letting this thing go. Not now. You do not insult any man's honour in that sort of way. I don't care what anyone thinks or that I don't have a right to get angry at him because of what he gave to all of us. Someone can still be a visionary creator and an absolutely toxic gobshite all in one. This is a bed Richard Porter himself has made, and he has no-one else to blame. I welcome anyone reading this to leave their objections towards Mr. Porter's comments on the video in a tasteful, civilised, non-confrontational manner. Just to let him know I'm not some clueless pushover who didn't spend his entire winter penning out a 162 page long manuscript on the entire life of Jeremy Clarkson, the most detailed of its kind that has ever been written, just to be equated with some brainless "teen with a Sony" on generic motoring podcast #36782. I myself try to hold in my temper as well as possible, at least compared to my father. If he knew what Porter said about me, I know he'd explode. And that's not good for someone of his age. But at this point, he deserves a humbling of his ego and a right good smack."
4 months ago | 15
How on earth did you ever think this was a threat or about you in any way whatsoever? The "threatening" quote is this: (On talking about health and safety, preparation and and car-related stunts on YouTube) Porter: " There's at least one YouTuber that makes my blood run a little cold in terms of the 'Someone's going to die, probably you, who's fronting the channel'... " (Most likely in reference to WhistlinDiesel) "...It just makes me a little un-easy, with my old-fashioned belt and braces BBC sensible hat on "
4 months ago (edited) | 29
You make great videos, but I must say they are better when they are unopinionated. It is a shame how some people can buy their way into YouTube success, despite having no discernable talent or charisma. You aren't that, your enthusiasm for the subject shines through in every thing you do, the amount of research is crazy, and it makes for good entertainment. Quality editing and voiceover ties it together to make enjoyable YouTube essays. I didn't think there could be enough things to talk about Top Gear, but you manage to have done it for years, so be proud of that.
4 months ago | 18
ladies and gentleman we’re witnessing a full on M-M-M-M-M-ental breakdown!
4 months ago | 31
But Porter wasn't even threatening anybody, especially not you. There certainly wasn't an "informed implication" that it was about you. The "someone's going to die" didn't imply "and I'm going to be the one who kills them!" It wasn't a death threat at all, they were words of warning...
4 months ago (edited) | 18
Just seen the clip from the podcast, its clear he's not talking about you mate. I think you'd do best to delete all comments to do with this affair, it's not a good look for you man.
4 months ago | 19
I'm a silent viewer of your channel, but I just had to come out and say something about this whole situation. First and foremost, please take a week off and relax. It's clear from these posts that you have a lot on your mind, and that is chewing out your common sense. You don't need to explain yourself or justify your position every time Porter gets mentioned, especially for this one time where he legit meant no harm towards you. It's fine to have pride in what you're doing, and you're admittedly a man who clearly has a lot of passion in the content you're making, I genuinely think it's admirable. However, I don't think you should put yourself on a pedestal and look others down who doesn't meet your standards when it comes to share or talk about stuff they also like, badmouthing people like that is uncalled for and frankly rude as all hell, being a bit more humble would do you good and not come off as a twat. Don't put yourself up on a cliff because you genuinely risk being pushed off from it when you speak like that. And lastly, the whole thing about the community being split on your commitment to defend Clarkson's actions. Me personally am a little indifferent as I had always seen the trio for their tongue-in-cheek british humour, with the occasional positive spin of things they initially make fun of. Some people will never see it that way and take offense regardless of what you or anybody else has to say about it, at that point just leave it be as their stand won't change just like yours won't, live and let live a little. To conclude this long message, you clearly are a very articulate and passionate content creator, don't jump to conclusions with people you had or have beef with, take it from me who also struggles with that, it ain't always about you, people doesn't always try to come after you for malicious purposes, take a breather, maybe a week off from this whole situation, and come back after you feel less stressed and paranoid about the whole thing.
4 months ago (edited) | 45
Please just take a break, you aren't in your right mind right now. You make super good videos and scripts, but you need to stop pushing this drama that Porter more than likely doesn't even know is going on. As harsh as it sounds, your opinions don't matter here. You got popular because of your great TG documentaries. Your "downfall" is because you kept putting in your opinions on random people who are barely involved in TG and bloating your otherwise solid videos up. Porter was hostile, sure, but that's how he is. Hostile, but not calling for murder. Your pride is really getting in the way as well. "Youtube needs people like me more than ever". More TG youtubers? You seem to hate every single one that's not you. You haven't fallen off, you can still make great videos. Your most recent video (about Prime's new TGT) had great potenial, but you spent literally 2/3s of the video talking about the same thing you always do, the Clarkson fracas (something that blew over 10 years ago, at this point a footnote in TG history), and not about the subject matter.
4 months ago | 18
Hi Alex, you may remember me. I was the person who you stalked when you owned the Top Gear Community Project Discord Server. You found out where I live, what I looked like, the names of my family members and what they looked like. All because I wouldn’t buy you a DVD for the project. You scarred me for life. You’re a creep. I can’t wait for everyone else to find out who you really are.
4 months ago | 64
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Edited this one to better clarify a few things.
If there aren't any reprisals, I'm happy to move on from this. If there are, as I previously stated, I will be deferring any counter-action to the relevant authorities and keeping my hands clean. I do not believe it is acceptable for anyone, whether in a joking manner or not, to say "someone's gonna die... probably you" with the informed implication that the person they're talking about is you.
That is something I want to be firm on. Given our history, that's how I perceived it. That is why I was so angry. There is pretty much no-one else on YouTube who regularly talks about Top Gear with the following I have. It's easy to jump to the same conclusion I did if you were in my place, especially if you're not in the right frame of mind.
Regardless if whether or not Porter did talk about me personally, it made me realise something when he used the word "fronted".
And I would like to say a few things about that.
I am not, nor have I ever been, in the economic position to hire an editor or anyone else who might be working on my behalf. I simply could not afford it. All you see is me.
Everything you see in my videos, from the first draft to the finished product, is entirely my doing. I write the script based on hundreds of sources. I buy any DVDs I require out of my own earnings. I locate and pre-render each of the clips. I apply all of the effects and transitions. I master the audio levels. I select the soundtrack. I render the final video. I engineer the thumbnail in an ancient copy of Photoshop. The computer I use is mine, built and paid for with my own money. I render at 1440p even though my monitor is only 1080p. The nicest thing I own in life is a Galaxy S22 I used for the face camera in my last video, and that's only because it was bought for me from a store who were offering an unusually generous trade-in policy. I'd have never bought something that expensive for myself. It's not in me to do that.
YouTube needs people like me more than ever. Those who come from nothing, who want to make something of themselves, as opposed to a sea of disinterested middle-class hobbyist podcasters who harbour minimal passion for what they talk about. Again, I am not accusing Fowler of being such a creator. But YouTube is filled to the brim with people who match my description, and I am sick of it.
Mostly, I am sick of the fact that all the friends I had at the beginning of this project, Razor440 (who helped edit my original project), A.G., Justin, Cracc, Nik, Killian and Savidge (who I believe might have even subscribed to my Patreon earlier in the year) are people I'm no longer in touch with. They helped me out a lot during my toughest days and I wish there was a way to get them back with the extremely limited social life I now have.
For my whole life, I was constantly written off as someone who would achieve nothing. I spent 24 years of my life thinking they were right. Then that first Top Gear documentary picked up steam. Tavarish promoted it. Suddenly I was a big deal. But then my growth stunted. More and more people turned against me. My mental state worsened. And when I got unceremoniously chewed up and spat out by Porter in September 2023, that was it for me.
Nonetheless, I remain proud that I am able to garner more views for my videos than a team of amateurs or pros can with several hundred dollars in the swanny with each video they make, and with zero promotion or sponsorship to boot. I am extremely proud of all 50,000 of you who shared and continue to share my creative vision. I love all of you, even if you don't love me anymore.
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