When he didn't engage after the 3rd or 4th Welcome, I thought it wouldn't be suprising if we don't hear from him again.
True, he could be busy with vids or whatever else, but then even more so, why post up here in the first place with a huge paragraph all about ME. Nobody who is humble and down to earth with a normal sized ego carries on like that right off the bat. And asking for something from us, to watch and respond to his vids. If you think about it, it doesn't seem like an approach from someone who would have any long term interest in this place.
And, while I'm ranting, would it be fair to say that having some sizable level of youtube following definetly seems to change folks and their outlook? August never checks in any more, and from what little I've followed his recent offerings, because they just aren't appealing to me unlike his much earlier efforts, he seems to be heavily into vidding and live streaming his take on the world. It seems ultra boring to me. Could be just me. Maybe he has thousands of followers and they are getting good feedback off each other and it just isn't relevant to a tree forum anymore.
And sir Reg. Seems to have said fook off to the House. Maybe MB's passing caused him to lose faith. But his vids, which I do still watch and dig the tree work parts, are full of long ass sections on his view of the world and all sorts of boring chit and also him lashing out, in his low key way, about youtube commenters who are negative to him. August and Reg, solid tree guy and bit of a legendary tree guy, respectively imo, their non tree work-related material simply is not interesting. At all. Again, maybe its me missing the boat, but these former strong contributing members seem to have gone some degree of Hollywood on us. Whatever they may have found appealing here in the past, they no longer do. Which is OK of course, but it definetly says something.
Hey maybe they are making money off of views. If so, that would certainly be a compelling reason to focus on youtube. But it still doesn't help make their non-treework content wothwhile.