Louis Rossman is well, Louis Rossman
I like Louis a lot. I've spoken to some Youtubers over Facetime/ Skype during the huge break from work due to covid.
Louis and Zeos Pantera ( Zreviews) are the two most down to earth and friendly persons amongst them. Zeos sounds like a maniac in his YouTube videos, but in reality he's a great guy and a fantastic cook, overall an awesome friend one can have.
I sent him a 200 EUR pair of headphones for review and thought he will never return it.
He not only returned it well within the stipulated time period but also sent a Starfield IEM as a gift!!
I was desperately looking for a HD560S as it was not available anywhere about a month ago, he not only bought and sent one for me, but refused to take any money ( instead he requested for the hmt Jawan watch I was wearing...bought it for few hundred rupees in India years ago...I sent him all the mechanical hmts I had...the guy was over the moon!! He literally asked me to pick anything from his jaw dropping headphones and amps collection including the ones on the wall..the headphone wall he has is a gold mine and I'm still undecided)
Rossman is another story!! He's a really sharp person and worked very very hard to reach where he's now. We shared our struggle stories and he's absolutely fascinated with India. For the record, Louis doesn't actually hate Apple, he fixes motherboards from all manufacturers, but only upload the Apple ones.
He's pretty good with data recovery also. This guy never had a chance to go college and grew up in a very rough neighborhood. He donates a major portion of his YouTube revenue in various charities working for homeless people, shelters etc. He never talks about any of that in his videos. His partner Erika is also a very nice and polite lady.
Another huge Youtuber, I should mention about...Mr.Linus G Sebastian...many of you hate his channels.
Linus ignored my emails for months ( at least 5, he was the only person who didn't even bother to reply once..don't know why,almost every tech Youtuber replied when mailed from my work email mentioning I'm a fan despite being from a complete different field) Anyway I was rather rude in my last mail.
Someone from his forum finally replied mentioning a rather unique Apple email ID. I saved the ID and didn't probe any further. Couple of days back ( in Vienna) a facetime call came to my wife's phone ( she uses an iphone with my Apple ID as she is too lazy to change her password in 5 years after forgetting the password!!) and it was Linus himself!!
You wouldn't believe what he did!! He asked if it's Dr.Banerjee, to which my wife said, yes ( as she's also technically Dr. Banerjee and it causes confusion almost everyday in our life..no big deal) I was lying/ dozing off right beside her and only paid any attention after full 5 minutes or so as she was speaking in English ( we rarely speak English these days as most of our colleagues/ friends either speak Czech or French, few German) By that time they were talking about kids' mental health, online classes etc.( Len has zero idea about tech, let alone tech youtubers..she didn't even realise what Linus said and thought he's a close friend of mine!!) Anyway I finally came into the frame and asked him WTF!! Both of us couldn't stop laughing for few minutes and Len was like WTF is happening!!
Think what you may, but I liked Linus ( the person, not what we see in YouTube) after that first video call...he's a lot younger than me and seemed very mature..he has become incredibly wealthy at a very young age but he thinks a lot about his kids' future, their college funds etc... according to him, money has changed only one thing in him...he has become a smooth talker ( specially with the opposite sex..it was very evident) and he's a genuinely good family man, a great husband, great father...I have started admiring him a lot as a human being after another rather VERY lengthy conversation last weekend. Linus often appears very irritating in his videos, but in real life, he's mostly a very serious person, specially when it comes to his work and business. His work ethics is actually legendary among the YouTube community.
I've managed to speak to a few more youtubers, but they are not popular in India and some of them are not into tech ( mostly musicians...Steve Terreberry, Jared Dines etc. Steve is another awesome individual, still incredibly shy..my wife doesn't watch YouTube that much and has no interest in youtubers, even she likes Steve a lot...he was the first major youtuber I've spoken to during this break..watch his channel if you like guitars..he deserves even more success...a mind-blowing talent!!)
I've also spoken to some prison life based YouTubers too, except for Yonnie ( the most hated guy with best video edits) didn't like much..they are into show off and flexing etc.things I don't really fond of.
Arun ( Mrwhosetheboss) will possibly call tomorrow.. looking forward for some lessons in polished accent and dry humour.
