And why did you stop watching them?

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    made a series of selfish decisions that demonstrated what kind of person he really was

    What’d he do? I also used to watch that channel some time ago, but just kinda ran out of interest and stopped. Seems like I’ve missed something important

    • Liz@midwest.social
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      Off the top of my head:

      -Sold a bunch of merch that was comically oversized and left everyone stuck with unusable product.
      -Tried to arrange a deal under the table on an auction gun he got a look at before it went up.
      -Doesn’t help his teammates reset stages when at a shooting competition.
      -Failed to stand up for Karl when ARFCOM was making up lies about him.
      -Failed to give IRTV credit for organizing a 2GAC match, when that’s basically the only request they make for media.
      -Took on Lucas Botkin as a sponsor.
      -Copy-pasted brutality rules for his own spin-off match after falling out with Karl, and doing such a poor job he left in references to the venue or IRTV (I can’t remember which).
      -When asked why he was selling merch with a picture of himself that he hated, shrugged and said “money.”
      -Treats his wife more like “the help.”
      -Generally just thinks he’s better than you and you don’t deserve his respect.
      -Abuses copyright takedown requests.
      -Removes comments critical of him on his YouTube channel but claims doing so for other people was not possible (Karl, when ARFCOM happened).
      -Has expressed deep distain for his own audience.

      There’s more but that’s all I can remember right now.

      Edit: I should say that he’s generally pretty good at keeping this stuff out of the public eye, these are mostly only things you hear if you know the right people.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
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        I am sad to read this, his channel is so nice because he presents firearms calmly snd friendly.

        I stopped watching the channel when he started doing a lot of gun matches instead of talking about the mechanics of guns.

        I did wonder why IRTV seemed to just fade away, sad to hear about the falling out.

        Like all people in media, his on screen persona is just a character, sad to hear that he is a dick outside of the camera.

        • Liz@midwest.social
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          Yeah, sucks doesn’t it?

          He’s had to fill in with match footage because he lost access to the auction house guns after trying to set up that deal. He has access to a lot fewer old firearms these days.

          Karl is still making videos, but Ian is not a part of IRTV anymore.

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            That explains so much, I have been wondering why Ian suddenly started talking about more modern and common guns, but never saw the drama.

            Thank you for filling in the gaps.