I'll be honest, I'm mostly here for the music videos. I started with The Guns for Hire and have been enjoying your stuff ever since, especially some of the lesser known things like A Civil Disturbance. As an Afghan Vet, I'm very fond of the Forever War video you did a few months ago, I think it might be your best video. It's up to you where you take your channel and what you put out, but just know that for some of us your music videos are very special.
3 years ago | 155
You do you my dude. I feel you when it comes to the motivation slump - been there myself with videos recently too.
3 years ago | 313
The first video of yours I saw was "The beartrap" , Which promptly ended up hooking me completely , the reason I liked it is because it was immersive , I knew about the Soviet-afghan war but I didn't really have a feeling for it at the time but the music mixed with the clips gave me a good impression of the overall feeling of that war . Your magic is that if you try you can transmit a clean feeling of an event
3 years ago | 18
I have to imagine, just judging from the quality of content you've already made, whatever you decide will turn out to be incredible work. Keep up the good work.
3 years ago | 147
Hello Sir. I was captivated by your video about Congo ‘64 and the mercenaries it depicted. I was born in 1964 and the (ongoing) conflict in Congo has always interested me. I have been down range four times myself, and would give platinum to hear these Old geezers tell about their service in Congo at the time. You have a fascinating channel, please never stop making content and look after yourself and the ones you love. Best regards from Tino, Denmark :-)
3 years ago | 1
I really enjoyed that Malta documentary. I learned something about my grandfather's country that I had not known previously. Like I had heard of the name "Mintoff" but I didn't know what it meant. I dunno, keep making content if you want. I enjoy whatever you put out, and I'm also exposed to new music. So it's cool shit, Sam.
3 years ago (edited) | 7
I want to thank you for the effort you have put into these videos and the little details in them.I have yet to watch through all the content this channel has to offer ( mostly those from about 5 years back). This channel really helped to communicate with someone that I really appreciate with the South Africa '94 video by assisting me in realising what they went through as a riot officer in those days. Edit: Thanks.
3 years ago (edited) | 1
Youre channel is amazing. Ive discovered so many facets of history that otherwise would have passed me by, and it's greatly influenced my writing. Thank you.
3 years ago | 3
Just wanted to say, thank you for all the effort you put into all your videos. Your Japan drifting videos are truly wonderful and I can't wait for the next video or documentary you put out. Have a great one man.
1 year ago | 0
First off, big fan of your content, looking forward to whatever you decide to do next! Q&A: Are you bothered by the type of people who see your content and rush to use it to venerate their favorite belligerent in a conflict? (The people who don’t get the anti-war stuff) Keep it up man and take care of yourself!
3 years ago | 12
You have a fricken gift my friend and I'll seek out your talent as long as you're inclined to share with us. Bless from Arizona
3 years ago | 1
Only found your work a short time ago. I love watching your work then researching the conflict behind it. the Kargil video is my fave.
3 years ago | 1
Q: What's your favorite book, and why? As for the rest... There's a few channels that make music videos, War Aesthetics being the obvious example. These are cool but the term 'aesthetic' is apt, they're usually only skin-deep. I've always felt like your stuff manages to look a bit deeper, to capture the story and the feel of the subject in a way that goes beyond cool military hardware and nice beats. Make what you want to make. It's clear that the way you break things down and understand them so you can bring them to us is what makes your channel special. The quality of your work speaks for itself, and that's all we really need to hear.
3 years ago | 25
Your music videos typically send me down the rabbit holes of war history and for that I appreciate the work. Clearly conflict is endemic to the human race, and I feel like your videos help to capture the period of conflict succinctly.
3 years ago | 1
Well, I've liked what you've been doing, and I feel like I can get documentaries other places, but I hope you follow where your passion leads and that you're rewarded for it. Can't promise I'll be interested in the new stuff, but I trust you as an artist enough to give it at try at the very least
3 years ago | 30
As many have said, just do what makes you happy, I personally enjoy your videos. I look forward to what you put out in the future as your a great context creator.
3 years ago | 1
I'd rather wait one (or two) month to enjoy a video of great quality, than to see an upload every two weeks. I'm sure that a big chunk of your audience appreciates both the music and the historic content, so i don't see why small documentaries or video essays should fail. Your content is already awesome in terms of quality, i, and i'm sure many of your subs, look forward to see the evolution of the channel.
3 years ago | 5
I love the documentary style and music videos, came for guns for hire, stayed for the rest of your content, whatever it may be
3 years ago | 1
I'll stick along for the ride! "The Forever War" in my opinion is your most powerful work.
3 years ago | 1
MajorSamm
A LONG CHANNEL UPDATE.
So I've been thinking this over for the last month or two and I've decided to make some pretty big changes to the channel. This has been fueled in part by the life stuff that happened late last year and also a trend I've been seeing on YouTube increasing recently. ALSO I'M DOING A Q&A SO PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTIONS THAT AREN'T "DO X VIDEO" IN THE COMMENTS.
As anyone who's watched one of my live streams will know, I play WarThunder from time to time and because of that I get recommended some WT YouTubers sometimes too, there's a guy called Ash [youtube.com/c/Ash0077] and he's not been doing great, so if you happen to watch him go give him some support, but he posted something that was kind of eyeopening, he had uploaded a video that hadn't done so well in the first couple hours and so a few hours later he removed that video entirely, posting an apology for removing it and explaining that he did it because YouTube has taken it's algorithm to the extreme and he actively has to remove certain videos so not to tank his channel.
This isn't the first time I've seen posts or videos like this in recent months, and it's coming from channels of all types, and combined with the aforementioned other factor has made me want to step back a bit and focus on quality rather than quantity.
I'm not happy with the videos I've been putting out for a while now, simply because I'm not making what I want to be making, of the last 6 months of videos, the Philippines and Kuwait music videos have been the only one I've been enthusiastic about. My comments sections after the first day or two seem to end up being a request list, I end up rushing to make something at the end of the week because I have no motivation to make music videos in general, I've boxed myself into a corner where I'm "the music video guy" and I feel like the quality of my channel is suffering greatly for it.
All of this to say I'm going to be making some changes, I'm going to try put out at least one video a month, but it's going to be what I want to make. It may be a music video, but it'll be one I want to make and it'll be with a topic and a song I want to use. It may be a documentary like the Malta or US Civil War video. It may be a video about an unknown topic or an old book I have or a documentary that I think people should see. It may even be alternate history, which pre-2019 viewers may remember from my World War 3 adaptation I made a test video of. I'm also going to try stream a bit more.
I realise this may alienate a good chunk of subscribers but I think it's what's best for me and I'm going to be unapologetic for that. We're living in interesting times which are effecting everyone and I'm not going to allow myself to keep doing something that, if I carry on doing the way I'm doing, I will come to hate, especially considering it's a hobby I've had a lot of fun doing for almost 10 years now.
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Anyway, the thing you're all probably here for. It's been 2 years and 110,000 subscribers since the first Q&A so I think it's time for another, especially since I keep getting a lot of the same things that weren't covered in the first Q&A asked in streams.
Leave questions below, I'm going to be ignoring any "Do a video on x topic" questions, I don't mind the super outlandish ones I get in streams, but they're not really great for standalone Q&A videos where I can't discuss them with the question-asker.
3 years ago | [YT] | 2,333