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Pirating the Pirates

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  1. alexpotato · · focus · HN ↗
    > Spencer Draper—best known as the Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader on YouTube, where he reviews the technical and historical aspects of digital releases with a rigor usually reserved for scholarly peer review

    I will occasionally think about various topics "I'm really into <thing> but is anyone else in to <thing>??"

    And then I read a quote like the above and I realize that, for lack of a better phrase, "it's a big world out there" and people have many varied interests.

    Plus, if folks are REALLY into <thing> then they want different perspectives about <thing> even if it's a sub-topic that has been covered before.

    In other words, write blog posts and make videos. Someone will consume that content and you never know where that leads.

    1. toyg · · focus · HN ↗
      This is what the early web was all about: people sharing their obscure hobbies and obsessions with everyone else, building small communities across the world. It was beautiful. It is still out there, to a degree, but unfortunately the socials have sucked the air out of publishing on external websites. Back in the day, this guy would have had his own blog or specific AV/cinephile forum, and now he's just another guy on youtube.
      1. user3939382 · · focus · HN ↗
        Kagi has a cool app called Small Web around this
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