Maybe they really are wayward souls, and deep down are desperate to find a hobby or an ingroup to call home, but I’m not so sure after knowing and talking with some over the last few years.ĭouchetubers are sort of an indicator species. Instead of being a wayward teen looking for their place in the world, the YouTube posers he’s referring to are a sort of morally bankrupt opportunistic fame chaser, and in this case, they’ve coalesced upon ham radio. These aren’t the kind of poser I remember in middle school. More generally, YouTube posers (I like to call them douchetubers) are very common on the platform. They are bringing amateur radio to a whole brand new audience and generation of hams right into their phones and devices. One of the best “boots on the ground” are the growing body of Ham Radio YouTube Creators (a.k.a. And if nothing is done to address that cliff, the hobby (and service) will die. There is a new kind of poser in the ham radio YouTube space, and it’s causing problems for seekers of amateur radio knowledge on the platform and, in my opinion, ham radio in general.Īs we may or may not be aware, ham radio, in general, has a significant demographic cliff ahead of itself. Randon, KN4YRM, actually had a good point in the video. And at some point I became a ham, and the rest was history.
I struggled to find my friends until I hit a wall, got depressed, and…joined the high school marching band lol.
I was a goth poser, an emo poser, a nerd poser…point was that I didn’t really fit in for a while. Everyone was one at some point, unless you were popular.
In my middle and high school, posers were people who posed as people who they weren’t. In other words, their motivations are selfish, wherein the creator seeks attention with drama and unsubstantiated clickbait, rather than altruistic (seeking to share knowledge or a worthwhile experience) or generally neutral.įirst of all, poseurs isn’t a misspelling I thought it was, but turns out it’s just another way to spell posers. The video highlighted ham radio "poseurs" who post videos on YouTube in order to gain an audience and views, ONLY to gain an audience and views. I assume he received a lot of backlash from it and subsequent critical videos he made and removed his videos from the internet. Update: unfortunately, the video that was posted here was removed by its creator. However, something in my head just said give it a chance. I was watching YouTube (I watch a lot of YouTube) and I scrolled past a video with hardly any views, a creator with not many subs, and a title and thumbnail that wasn’t very attention-getting. I’m on a plane so I found time to write a thing I’ve been thinking about.
If you don't, and you message me about it, I'm just going to ignore it like I've ignored the other 12 messages I've gotten since publishing.smh. Steer clear if you're offended by profanity. Author's note: I use - and this is a real quote from an angry reader - the language of the devil that I should be ashamed of using - in this post.
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