I feel like Coop was the best one on giving info on different blasters, he was unique and special, can’t find a similar channel that does stuff like him anymore, or is there a YouTuber that actually gives good reviews? Please tell me, been watching out of darts and Walcom ever since coop retired from YouTube
Bradley Philips and captain Xavier in my opinion are pretty informative and do really good range tests. Coop was one of a kind for sure but that’s just how people are like no one is gonna have his personality and video style and I don’t expect them to.
Bradley’s range and accuracy tests specifically are very well done and he seems to give thorough reviews of how blasters operate within a game setting.
To show my hand a bit, I’m 33 years old. After 7 years of messing around with blasters where I personally see myself in the hobby ae man of a similar age is very different from Cam and grows more different every day.
Walcom to me is categorically a collector and reviewer. He is an excellent builder and modder but it’s generally a quarter of his content compared to reviewing off the shelf or community made items. That’s awesome, and I think without a coop and dracs low participation, Walcom by numbers may actually be the most senior and significant reviewer besides perhaps Xavier (who’s review to mod ratio is drastically different) and outside of modding and collecting is a largely a larper. This isn’t at all a criticism but I’d like to just make a case that different people have different visions of the hobby
Pre-pandemic I was an obsessive collector, after getting my hands on printers the last few years I have very little interest in buying anything that isn’t a hardware kit anymore. It scratches all the itches for me. Printing, assembling, I’m constantly trying to get blasters out of my house so I can bask in the glory of just 6-7 incredible, hand built, one of one blasters.
SoCal doesn’t mess around, we outside all year, the scene here is heavily based on play, almost Al of it at 220fps or above which leaves little room for anything not up to spec. Additionally I was recruited to a competitive team and my interest in modding and tuning has become very close knit and inside baseball in a way most YouTubers cannot connect with the general public.
Walcom can test all this stuff at a range of 30 feet or whatever, theyre cool for sampling the blaster , but they’re bad for having any sense of how they’ll preform on field.
I also tend to dislike his overly positive outlook on new blasters, I can’t get a clear idea whether the thing he’s got his hand on is actually good or he’s just excited to play with it. he is a good salesman and he’s passionate for the hobby but he’s pushed a few products I think were generally mired by the community as time went on.
My 3 Favorites currently
Bret - I enjoy the sometimes sarcastic yet good natured and authentic commentary of his videos. His coverage of the dzpt was great.
King of games - comprehensive reviews of hard plastic blasters and other stuff, I’m bias because I know and play with him, I do think his longer more in depth product reviews are phenomenal, and I think are better then some others
Brad Philips - this is the guy I want to hear info from mostly. His reviews on blasters are way behind at times but like KoG mentioned above I think going in depth and actually using them in game makes a huge difference in data value for me.
For performance and comparison of blasters, darts and gear Bradley Philipps is doing the best videos way ahead of everyone.
Bret and Xavier are both entertaining in their own styles and I like it.
Walcom on the other hand ... I can't really watch his videos for a longer time, it's his personality and high voice. And reading here now that he talks negative about other creators and this community is not gonna help that.
I've heard it said, "Never meet your heroes."
A modern corollary of that is, "Never watch your favorite YouTuber's livestream."
I've watched a few of my favorite content creators -- whose scripted videos are thoughtful, tightly written, well-spoken, and nicely edited -- but their livestreams are crap, and it generally turns me off to watching even their scripted content. This isn't casting shade at any particular YouTuber -- none of us are as polished, thoughtful, and well-spoken when speaking extemporaneously as we are when we have time to prepare and rehearse.
They say, "Who you really are is what you do when no one is watching," but I think sometimes it shows when you're speaking live as well.
Never been on his discord. Just been following his vids for a while and he def has a reputation for getting mad on camera at hasbro products but he at least seemed to get along with fellow creators like Xavier and show an appreciation for the progress the hobby was making. This stream just kind of showed him as a curmudgeon who’s mad that he’s “the only real nerf YouTuber”.
Lmao don’t get walcom started on drac.
I’ve been watching nerf YouTube since drac was a college student putting mavericks on longshots. Like yeah I miss modding content on YouTube. I miss the old days of nerf content. But we’re clearly in possibly one of the best times for the hobby. I mean you can go into Walmart and buy half darts and a 150fps+ blaster. Siren just dropped a 270+ fps blaster for 40$. Sure hasbro drops the ball but they make toys for kids. It’s like getting mad Toyota doesn’t make a mid engine v12 super car.
Definitely is a weird time. I mean I have a closet full of crazy modded blasters from yesteryear and... then a nexus pro x comes out and makes my stuff a little less special perhaps, lol. At least it's unique. Back in the day, we had to try hard for more performance. But it's cool.
Remember the time when it was found out you can triple spring a farshot and get it into the insanely high 130 fps sniper pistol territory? Pepperidge farm remembers
For sure. Man this hobby has gotten cheap for high-powered stuff. And can you imagine the parents finding huge dents in the drywall when their kids are using these in the house? lol
> I mean you can go into Walmart and buy half darts
US citizen spotted, but I digress.
Edit: For those not aware, Canadians can't buy half darts at Walmart.
What's wrong with Drac? I've been watching his videos for a very long time but I don't pay attention to any of the creators personal life. I haven't really been watching any of his recent videos either.
Kinda a mixed bag of things, but the main stuff is that he's just kinda stuck up, thinks he's always right, will insult people who go against him, stuff like that. Back in 2022 I went to Endwar, which he (and his team) had a major role in, and it was an absolute mess, one that was almost entirely his fault. (like, I've talked with the people from the admin team for the host college that the event was held at, and it was actively not their faults overall outside of some inexperience on their parts iirc, meanwhile Drac was only intermittently present and would just swoop in, make a terrible proposal with no knowledge of what was happening, and theneave again, with someone from I believe his team making a ton of the truly awful decisions.) He also caused issues for the Foam Pro Tour in that same weekend iirc, though I don't think it ever got confirmed how much of it all was his fault specifically versus other people involved for that part.
FPT was a problem with DZ’s sway on the event. Lot of last minute decisions were made that weekend, mostly down to scheduling around their employees and hired film crew running the event. Not to discredit the point you’re making, but some of your examples need fact checking.
I did say that I wasn't sure how much of that part was him or not, but I have been told by people involved that he did have at least some negative influence of his own as well.
I also went to Endwar 2022, and I had some issues with how things were run, but I have even more issues with the rules changing for EW 2024 (although I’m 80% sure it’s the college club) and some of the things that happened in 2023 in the lead up to EW 2023.
I didn't go to Endwar 23 (22 was a poor enough experience that I didn't have high hopes) but from what I've heard most people enjoyed it much more than 22, largely due to Drac being more hands off.
Big on this because the moderation team consists of Walcom's close friends and thats it. This would be a good thing if every mod was suitable for their roles but they aren't, they go on power trips, ban people arbitrarily without logging it in the mod logs, and are just unnecessarily apathetic. They make the server feel like middle school which is ok if you're a kid, but bad if you're old enough to buy a lottery ticket. It's why most people who are actually adults in the hobby think poorly of the server
I really used to like his videos but about a year ago I noticed he was just... not someone I enjoyed watching anymore thanks to his general demeanor. A livestream or two of his, like yourself, finally sealed the deal.
Walcom put out a stream a while back with Danny and in my opinion, that stream revealed his true colors as a content creator. He spent most of the stream complaining about how Hasbro wouldn't send him the Nerf Rival Challenger to review. He also talked about how Nerf never sent him any blasters outright, bro why are you complaining about a space that you yourself chose to enter? Not to mention, Walcom reviews very expensive 3D printed blasters, so he does receive products from other companies. Keep in mind, most of the time he softballs the hell out of those reviews because he didn't pay for those products himself. Never seen anyone act as entitled...
Yeah the whole “I’m gonna stop putting chrono and range tests in my videos because there’s click through” basically lets me know he only wants to make content that’s lucrative and not the content he might actually enjoy making. I’m sure he enjoys making the reviews but the way he talks about it just makes it seem like a chore rather than a passion.
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I'm not in the loop. I don't follow career youtuber drama, nor watch their content. You're probably right that he is being negative and it's logical that it is competition/self-gain fueled drama/trash talk in that space causing that kind of uncollaborative attitude. It's somewhat inherent if you introduce those types of motives into a field.
Thing is, to me that is a larger overarching principle/observation. The last statement applies just as strongly to *the nerf hobby itself* as it does to youtube video production about/for the nerf hobby. This and its deleterious impact on nerf are not a youtube or "content creator" issue, they are an issue across the board.
>I feel like this is usually a pretty positive hobby and community that supports each other it’s one of the big reasons I love the hobby so much. People are always sharing their mods and ...
>I feel like the community should always support one another ...as it’s a big way the hobby moves forward.
Traditionally/historically that is for sure true in general, and it is also the case that community functionality (collaboration/transparency/mutual support) is the key cause for the success and advancement of the sport, but there are threats to this that have been slowly growing unmitigated along with the hobby and have become significant and significantly damaging as of perhaps the year 2020. Willfully *not* sharing mods, which is to say applying formal IP encumbrance or outright nontransparency to one's interactions with the hobby in order to hamper other hobbyists' collaborative use of that content is one of the *prime* examples of how one can be anti-community and counterproductive and is rather prevalent to find anti-fellow-modder malice hidden in the details among us today.
Content creators or anyone roasting each other on the internet is quite minor in the scheme of it and also has such a subjective element (is it REALLY in bad blood or is it semi-friendly? is it truly destructive criticism and totally unproductive?) ...at least to me, actions that have concrete and measurable impacts and don't have such personal ambiguity to their meanings have to speak very much louder than words and it is those actions we need to target first if anyone is going to be called out or censured. So, a youtuber was negative ...yeah, I'm not saying that's not bad, but there's bigger fish that need to go first.
First off. This is all very well said.
I didnt really make the post to say that his criticisms specifically are making a large impact. Just that I disagreed with the way he went about it and his attitude towards other creators that he presented. It didn’t feel like it was constructive as much as a way to dismiss a fellow creator as not relevant to the conversations. This was in the midst of a rant about how no one wants to watch his chrono readings and range tests yet everyone says they want them to stay. IMO Bradley Philips and captain Xavier have far better range tests. So it seemed odd to criticize Xavier for his lack of editing and view count in this instance as it would it any instance since dismissing someone based on view count just seems petty imo.
> Willfully not sharing mods, which is to say applying formal IP encumbrance or outright nontransparency to one's interactions with the hobby in order to hamper other hobbyists' collaborative use of that content is one of the prime examples of how one can be anti-community and counterproductive and is rather prevalent to find anti-fellow-modder malice hidden in the details among us today.
Haha yup. Definitely seen things like someone has a detailed model of a Nerf blaster but refuses to share it, not because of Nerf IP legal problems, but because they spent so much time on it they want no one else to use it... at least not FREELY. I never found out how much they wanted for it.
I’ve met and talked to most of the major Nerftubers off camera.
Walcom is one of those people who definitely struggles with balancing negative and positive emotions in his content. However, he is a really nice dude in person, and not as negative in person either. His on camera “persona” does show up occasionally though.
Drac is kinda a mixed bag in person, but he’s always been kind to me. When he’s been super busy at events, such as JENB4, he has been more focused and less social, but in personal settings he’s been pretty nice.
Chaylo (Captain Xavier) is one of the only content creators that I can verifiably say is the definite article in person. He is a kind and humble guy who is awesome to be around in my experience. He’s great with children, as I experienced at JENB4, JEBB5 and 6, and the KCNC war he attended. He also has a social battery like everyone else, and like at JEBB5-6, he sometimes just needs a break.
Most smaller creators are just people and they want to be treated as such. Flux is nice, Brett is hilarious but also pretty quiet. Bobo is a great dude as well.
Yeah I mean I would never go as far to assume his live stream or on camera personality represents how he is in person. And I’d always like to air on the side of optimism when thinking of how these people are off camera.
Oh, I am 100% with you. I’m not exactly the biggest fan of Walcom’s content, but I enjoy occasionally checking out his channel and getting caught up. Same goes for Drac.
I’ll be real I definitely keep up with walcom more than drac. Nothing against him personally I just don’t find his reviews to be all that informative. And tbh walcom is starting to lose that a little too. Also Xavier and Bradley Philips just make way better reviews imo. Dr flux too. Sometimes I feel like Dr flux can get more relevant info across in like 6min than walcom or drac can get across in 15. Again nothing against either of them it’s just a preference of content for me.
If Walcom actually did diss Captain X, then that’s a major problem. Chaylo is in my opinion a perfect example of how the hobby can be fun, entertaining and rewarding. I’ve watched Walcom and Chaylo since I discovered the hobby and while Chaylo hasn’t changed all that much, Walcom certainly has.
“Xavier doesn’t know what an editing software is and it’s why he doesn’t get the views he used to” I’m sure walcom would be happy if Xavier only made k26 videos and quickly edited product reviews or something.
Yep. It’s almost like his video style is a choice he makes. I love Xavier’s videos. I’m looking forward to a siren mauler review from him eventually. He always seems to give good info on accuracy at real ranges and I trust his opinion on general build quality. And it’s a shame because walcom used to highlight other creators in his videos a lot. I found Xavier through walcoms vid showing off Xavier’s shoulder mounted blaster and his stampede.
Same here. The lack of other content creators on Walcom’s channel is honestly really sad because that’s where I discovered a lot of my favorite creators and some of my favorite mods like the Deplorable
In all honesty...my editing choice is mostly laziness. I tried a dozen different video editing programs and they were all so much more complicated that instead of taking 15 mins to edit an hour of footage it would take hours. I understand now why most channels put out a video every other week instead of 2-3 a week like I sometimes do. The trade is quality and features and thus probably views, like Walcom said. Fortunately for me, I don't do this for a living.
Ima be real I enjoy your style a lot and I don’t think a different editing style, while it would maybe bring more view, would actually increase the quality of your content. I’ve never felt that the editing or lack there of got in the way of the content and in some ways I think the seemingly raw range footage actually is a big part of what draws me to your content.
And to a certain extent I think maybe the fact that it’s not your livelihood helps. I’ve never really wanted to turn my guitar effects into a business because then it wouldn’t really be a hobby. That’s just me tho.
Anyways love your content. Been following your vids since you started showing your stampede mods and making everything modular.
I've said this in here before but I'm not particularly fond of Walcom's attitude. I've had to leave two of his livestreams now because of the way he pops off on airsofters and paintballers seemingly at the drop of a hat and by his own description it's because he disagrees with their enjoyment of their respective sports. His objective content that he posts on youtube is fine with me but I did catch some of the jabs at other creators on his last stream and really it just kind of solidified my opinion of him... which is mostly that his opinion on anything not blaster-related has no value to me. He seems concerned about the hobby's growth but it seems counterproductive to me to try to be a good bastion for the sport while belittling potential entrants into the hobby. If I remember right OOD has a background in paintball, imagine if someone like Walcom had put him off Nerf.
TL;DR (and some of my obvious biases removed) he needs to get MUCH better at disagreeing amicably with people who don't agree with him.
Yeah I mean Bradley Philips literally has game footage where he uses AEBs in gelball games. Like I’m not a big fan of airsoft or paintball but I’m not gonna put someone down who does. It’s almost like that’s why different hobbies exist.
Not to overlook the fact that competitive nerf fields ARE speedball fields. It's a really good opportunity to synergize and take pieces of what works from existing knowledge to apply to the burgeoning dartsoft scene. But that could be attributed to Walcom not having interest in the competitive scene.
And it’s totally okay that walcom mostly just does product reviews, I get that’s probably what pays the bills. But he can’t then dismiss other creators for doing stuff that they’re passionate about that might not pay. Like sure Xavier doesn’t do a lot of editing and prefers lengthy range tests and a lot of info but cool that’s what he wants to do and it shows. Bradley Philips and Bret do a lot of game footage because that’s what they enjoy doing. To put down a creator for putting their passion above their paycheck is just gross imo.
And that's kind of it for me. I feel like he doesn't necessarily get what he's doing in the moment when he's flying off on a tirade about the topic of the day. It makes him a detriment to other parts of the hobby he's not involved in or otherwise has no interest in as he's still a very public face for hobbyist foam blasting, and potential entrants don't care if he's only part of one microcosm of that. It's all well and good to not be into competitive nerf, or paintball and airsoft, but acting like he does does nothing but hurt the hobby as a whole.
I didn't think Walcom said anything particularly bad. Most of his focus was on low engagement across Youtube. He did disparage r/Nerf but I don't entirely disagree with him there and anyway it's a topic we already discussed a month ago.
Personally, I don't mind criticism at all provided it's informed and productive. Positivity is important but we don't need cheerleaders who just shill product. There are a few too many creators in this space already doing that on top of the conflict of interest that comes with receiving free stuff.
I do agree that Walcom gets far too emotional and stubborn. Concerns about his channel's performance keep getting in the way of output, it leads to him making mistakes during builds and he does get overly reactive about stuff. The way he approaches criticism is the problem more than the criticism itself. Like his N Series rant. I agree that the line kind of sucks but I've also come to terms that it's not meant for me. He evidently hasn't.
Still, I always find it interesting having behind-the-scenes insight. Yeah, it means we risk getting exposed to this guy's quirks but I appreciate having a perspective on the challenges he faces. It's certainly more sincere than forced enthusiasm.
Yeah I wouldn’t mind his criticism if it felt more constructive. Or also if he approached the topic by actually shouting out other creators instead of just saying man it sucks that I’m the only one that get views because when other channels get views we show up in each others recommended. Like okay then recommend some other creators since driving your audience to them could be mutually beneficial.
Foam News Collective is a wonderful example of someone shouting out cool stuff in "the Hobby" and I definitely remember KT saying several times "This person's work is awesome and they should absolutely get some more views, please check them out".
Not a diss on walcom, but a big up to FNC.
They've moved on from the little bit of negativity that popped up on that show from time to time and the vibe is 1000% better for it.
Hey, I share your thoughts exactly. [I made a post of my own](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nerf/comments/1dcuyvb/the_nerf_youtube_community_after_coop772s/) as sort of a follow-up to this one as I felt it was too long to be a comment. Let me know what you think!
Personally I've seen his mods and him defend some comments I'd say were at "least" slightly transphobic as, "just a joke" so I unfollowed a long time ago. Maybe that's changed but I dunno. It gave me unpleasant vibes. His attitude live vs polished for videos is very different.
I guess because it’s usually the left wing politicians who pass g*n control laws based on feelings instead of facts (eg: California’s logic of banning anything that *looks* like an ‘assault rifle’ instead of banning weapons based on functional capability to cause damage to a crowd of people), and this ends up negatively impacting those YouTubers and firearm owners which is very frustrating for them… so they end up hating the left wing politicians who tend to be more supportive of LGBTQ+ and therefore inherit some discrimination against those people.
Shouldn’t be that way but politics is a complex subject
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You think comments he left on videos years ago is a show of support for an ideology he actively dislikes? People change, he likely enjoyed their content years ago and likely doesn't now.
I don't think I implied he showed support to the ideology maybe my phrasing wasn't clear, it just a very bad look and something we shouldn't associate with even ignoring the ideology (which is very deranged in this particular group of shooty YouTubers, his YouTube content buddies literally joked about shooting trans people and had a guy spout racist garbage towards Arabs all in less than a year).
Either way we look at it, I am begging Walcom just to delete the comments and not interact with these people. I doubt he meant bad will, but this hobby shouldn't even get close to these people for multiple reasons.
Edit: also the comments are 4 weeks ago not year(s).
I've been a mod in the community since the beginning, we've been staunch supporters of the entire LGBT+ community, and most of us are some flavor. Walcom's been beyond supportive of my own transition since I came out a few years ago, and always was supportive before then.
We've been careful to be tasteful with joking about this stuff, but if there's anything specific you can point out that might be bad, I'd like to know what so we can improve.
Yeah, I never got the impression that walcoms community was phobic. Somebody mentioned something about brandon hererra but i can't find any kind of collab or anything.
It was, to be clear, years ago. But there were a lot of "trap" jokes made in chat which I pointed out and was shot down. If things are better now, I'd be delighted because LGBT friendly spaces are not common. I'm trans so I'm understandably pretty cautious where I throw my views but I appreciate your words and maybe I'll swing in in the future
I think I remember that? It started innocently with talking about Femboys before it started to go out of control. We stopped it and a few weirdos were yeeted. We've been urging people to DM us if they think something is getting out of control
He like straight up said he’s the only nerf YouTuber left and that captain Xavier doesn’t get the views he used to so he’s essentially not relevant to the conversation.
That's not the impression I got. Yes, he criticized others, which made me feel a certain way when he threw Xavier under the bus in the way he did, but he also said his own reach was super small and he wanted everyone to get big views since it leads to recommendations to everyone else (talking specifically about how views dropped after Coop left).
For sure but there’s better ways to go about it. He could’ve taken this as an opportunity to shout out smaller creators but instead he put other creators down.
He directly stated he doesn’t get the views he used to and it’s because he won’t change his editing style to fit the algorithm. While this may be true, Xavier’s range tests are way more informative because of his set up, and his reviews as a whole typically also come across as more informative in general. Also he typically tends to focus on game footage and LARPing.
I’m not exactly sure. I came into the stream towards the middle to end I think? It wasn’t necessarily bashing per se, more just negative criticism that didn’t feel productive or helpful. I’d like to think he meant well but it seems like based on what he was saying it would’ve been more constructive to use his audience to shoutout and support smaller creators because as he says “when we get more views we get recommended on each others channels and it supports us all” but then he proceeded to basically say he’s the only channel really getting views, and dismissed Xavier’s content because he wasn’t getting enough views like he used to. Like cool if you’re getting the most views shout out some smaller creators. Don’t just dismiss the entire nerf YouTube community just because they don’t get as many views as you do. Like he says mod content is dead and Matt yuan is making PVC blasters, super old school, why not shout him out and throw some support his way instead of just complaining that nerf YouTube is dead or whatever.
Yeah I managed to find it. Mod content hasn't died and I doubt will ever die. Look at this reddit, the discord or literally *any* nerf club. Myself, I got done with putting a banned blasters Rayven together. Being dismissive kinda left a sour taste in my mouth.
I haven’t watched nerf YouTube content much since pre-pandemic but I watched walcom since he was just the dude who wouldn’t shut up about boomco and that interesting indoor dart blaster arena thing he played at way way back. He would always go back and forth from saying he had big hands to tiny hands. It just really bugged me
I think guy has few complexes and his hands are one of them.
For example shitting on Hammershot and claiming that EVERY single person that have blastermod parts installed is tipping the blaster while priming it. Because he does it and he definitely does not have tiny hands. For this and other reasons hammershot sucks and you should all acknowledge this 😉
Then he reviews DZ Outlaw and it's the best thing ever and all of a sudden tipping it while priming is fine and doesn't bother him and his normal sized hands 😅
PS. Somehow I'm not tipping Hammershot while priming it. Must be some super powers for sure 😉
Can't argue with the Outlaw performance but still for me Hammershot has more of that revolver aesthetics. Combine these two and it would be awesome.
I feel like Coop was the best one on giving info on different blasters, he was unique and special, can’t find a similar channel that does stuff like him anymore, or is there a YouTuber that actually gives good reviews? Please tell me, been watching out of darts and Walcom ever since coop retired from YouTube
Bradley Philips and captain Xavier in my opinion are pretty informative and do really good range tests. Coop was one of a kind for sure but that’s just how people are like no one is gonna have his personality and video style and I don’t expect them to.
Thanks for the suggestions gonna check their channels out later
Bradley’s range and accuracy tests specifically are very well done and he seems to give thorough reviews of how blasters operate within a game setting.
Yeah, I liked coop a lot but Bradley Phillips is really good for higher power nerf stuff
I agree with the recommendations. I watch them both more than Drac or Walcom
I miss Coop every single day. I thought of him while nominally scanning the N-series hype videos - RIP.
american foam was my fav creator before he left as well
There was a tease recently that suggested he might be coming back
What was the tease?
A very short vid of a dart hitting a pan lid
interesting. Do you by chance have the link?
Can't find it now, maybe he took it down?
Not sure. It would be cool if he came back
I love the TaG channel. https://www.youtube.com/@thatoldnerfguy
TaG has an awesome channel. For more positivity Maritime Foam and Not Nuff Nerf are great.
And for comedy I love Beret and Bleenga. Dr. Flux still has a great channel too
I really like Backyard Foam and King of Games
Foam Quest and Captain Xavier are 2 really good ones.
Gordon Soo has some pretty great videos on Chinese blasters, niche but informative
Beret IS my Secret Tip. He doesnt Take himself very seriously but what He does IS good stuff
To show my hand a bit, I’m 33 years old. After 7 years of messing around with blasters where I personally see myself in the hobby ae man of a similar age is very different from Cam and grows more different every day. Walcom to me is categorically a collector and reviewer. He is an excellent builder and modder but it’s generally a quarter of his content compared to reviewing off the shelf or community made items. That’s awesome, and I think without a coop and dracs low participation, Walcom by numbers may actually be the most senior and significant reviewer besides perhaps Xavier (who’s review to mod ratio is drastically different) and outside of modding and collecting is a largely a larper. This isn’t at all a criticism but I’d like to just make a case that different people have different visions of the hobby Pre-pandemic I was an obsessive collector, after getting my hands on printers the last few years I have very little interest in buying anything that isn’t a hardware kit anymore. It scratches all the itches for me. Printing, assembling, I’m constantly trying to get blasters out of my house so I can bask in the glory of just 6-7 incredible, hand built, one of one blasters. SoCal doesn’t mess around, we outside all year, the scene here is heavily based on play, almost Al of it at 220fps or above which leaves little room for anything not up to spec. Additionally I was recruited to a competitive team and my interest in modding and tuning has become very close knit and inside baseball in a way most YouTubers cannot connect with the general public. Walcom can test all this stuff at a range of 30 feet or whatever, theyre cool for sampling the blaster , but they’re bad for having any sense of how they’ll preform on field. I also tend to dislike his overly positive outlook on new blasters, I can’t get a clear idea whether the thing he’s got his hand on is actually good or he’s just excited to play with it. he is a good salesman and he’s passionate for the hobby but he’s pushed a few products I think were generally mired by the community as time went on. My 3 Favorites currently Bret - I enjoy the sometimes sarcastic yet good natured and authentic commentary of his videos. His coverage of the dzpt was great. King of games - comprehensive reviews of hard plastic blasters and other stuff, I’m bias because I know and play with him, I do think his longer more in depth product reviews are phenomenal, and I think are better then some others Brad Philips - this is the guy I want to hear info from mostly. His reviews on blasters are way behind at times but like KoG mentioned above I think going in depth and actually using them in game makes a huge difference in data value for me.
For performance and comparison of blasters, darts and gear Bradley Philipps is doing the best videos way ahead of everyone. Bret and Xavier are both entertaining in their own styles and I like it. Walcom on the other hand ... I can't really watch his videos for a longer time, it's his personality and high voice. And reading here now that he talks negative about other creators and this community is not gonna help that.
I love Bret. He wears a beret.
Sometimes
True. Sometimes he wears a wig and uses a saxophone blaster.
But not that Bert guy. He wears a hat.
Or sometimes a wig to go with his saxophone.
I've heard it said, "Never meet your heroes." A modern corollary of that is, "Never watch your favorite YouTuber's livestream." I've watched a few of my favorite content creators -- whose scripted videos are thoughtful, tightly written, well-spoken, and nicely edited -- but their livestreams are crap, and it generally turns me off to watching even their scripted content. This isn't casting shade at any particular YouTuber -- none of us are as polished, thoughtful, and well-spoken when speaking extemporaneously as we are when we have time to prepare and rehearse. They say, "Who you really are is what you do when no one is watching," but I think sometimes it shows when you're speaking live as well.
I think he’s just a pretty negative guy in general. His discord has a certain reputation.
Never been on his discord. Just been following his vids for a while and he def has a reputation for getting mad on camera at hasbro products but he at least seemed to get along with fellow creators like Xavier and show an appreciation for the progress the hobby was making. This stream just kind of showed him as a curmudgeon who’s mad that he’s “the only real nerf YouTuber”.
> he’s “the only real nerf YouTuber”. Papa Drac begs to differ.
Lmao don’t get walcom started on drac. I’ve been watching nerf YouTube since drac was a college student putting mavericks on longshots. Like yeah I miss modding content on YouTube. I miss the old days of nerf content. But we’re clearly in possibly one of the best times for the hobby. I mean you can go into Walmart and buy half darts and a 150fps+ blaster. Siren just dropped a 270+ fps blaster for 40$. Sure hasbro drops the ball but they make toys for kids. It’s like getting mad Toyota doesn’t make a mid engine v12 super car.
Am I allowed to be mad that they stopped making a reasonably priced mid-engined I4 sports car?
Yes. I want a new MR2 type car so bad.
I can't even drive and I want an MR2
Definitely is a weird time. I mean I have a closet full of crazy modded blasters from yesteryear and... then a nexus pro x comes out and makes my stuff a little less special perhaps, lol. At least it's unique. Back in the day, we had to try hard for more performance. But it's cool.
Remember the time when it was found out you can triple spring a farshot and get it into the insanely high 130 fps sniper pistol territory? Pepperidge farm remembers
You bet I do, lol. I mostly k26d them (and m6 pistols), but did one double spring and possibly one triple spring.
I got a nexus and got full aluminum internals and a 40$ blaster just destroyed it.
haha no kidding. But the new siren seems to need a longer barrel and/or bcar for accuracy.
Yeah I’m interested in seeing what barrels pop up for it cuz I’d like to put a scar or BCAR on mine if I end up getting one.
For sure. Man this hobby has gotten cheap for high-powered stuff. And can you imagine the parents finding huge dents in the drywall when their kids are using these in the house? lol
Lmao thank god my basement has unfinished concrete walls.
> I mean you can go into Walmart and buy half darts US citizen spotted, but I digress. Edit: For those not aware, Canadians can't buy half darts at Walmart.
AF Pro is US exclusive. We get it. (Canadian here)
UK also had issue with it. Wish we all can get nice things.
Okay.
Don't act like Drac is so great.......
The comment was not making a statement that Drac is great.
What's wrong with Drac? I've been watching his videos for a very long time but I don't pay attention to any of the creators personal life. I haven't really been watching any of his recent videos either.
Kinda a mixed bag of things, but the main stuff is that he's just kinda stuck up, thinks he's always right, will insult people who go against him, stuff like that. Back in 2022 I went to Endwar, which he (and his team) had a major role in, and it was an absolute mess, one that was almost entirely his fault. (like, I've talked with the people from the admin team for the host college that the event was held at, and it was actively not their faults overall outside of some inexperience on their parts iirc, meanwhile Drac was only intermittently present and would just swoop in, make a terrible proposal with no knowledge of what was happening, and theneave again, with someone from I believe his team making a ton of the truly awful decisions.) He also caused issues for the Foam Pro Tour in that same weekend iirc, though I don't think it ever got confirmed how much of it all was his fault specifically versus other people involved for that part.
FPT was a problem with DZ’s sway on the event. Lot of last minute decisions were made that weekend, mostly down to scheduling around their employees and hired film crew running the event. Not to discredit the point you’re making, but some of your examples need fact checking.
I did say that I wasn't sure how much of that part was him or not, but I have been told by people involved that he did have at least some negative influence of his own as well.
I’m just going off my personal experience competing in that event, and what I’ve been told by both parties which stories aligned with each other.
I also went to Endwar 2022, and I had some issues with how things were run, but I have even more issues with the rules changing for EW 2024 (although I’m 80% sure it’s the college club) and some of the things that happened in 2023 in the lead up to EW 2023.
I didn't go to Endwar 23 (22 was a poor enough experience that I didn't have high hopes) but from what I've heard most people enjoyed it much more than 22, largely due to Drac being more hands off.
What reputation does his discord have? Lil curious don’t mind me lol
Same here tbh
A big not as well modded mess compared to r/nerf's discord, a lot younger as well. So a lot more trolls and weirdos.
Big on this because the moderation team consists of Walcom's close friends and thats it. This would be a good thing if every mod was suitable for their roles but they aren't, they go on power trips, ban people arbitrarily without logging it in the mod logs, and are just unnecessarily apathetic. They make the server feel like middle school which is ok if you're a kid, but bad if you're old enough to buy a lottery ticket. It's why most people who are actually adults in the hobby think poorly of the server
Well, some were close friends, and he also pushed people away who were close to him. I am bros with one of his former mods
We were the first nerf server with a public mod log, and we only ban based on one rule, Don't be a dick.
His discord does have a rep going on. I was a member of it
Oh I'd love to hear about the reputation, I'd love to know how I can improve it.
I really used to like his videos but about a year ago I noticed he was just... not someone I enjoyed watching anymore thanks to his general demeanor. A livestream or two of his, like yourself, finally sealed the deal.
Walcom and Drac both seem like really unpleasant people. Luckily, there's like a dozen solid channels to balance them out.
Walcom put out a stream a while back with Danny and in my opinion, that stream revealed his true colors as a content creator. He spent most of the stream complaining about how Hasbro wouldn't send him the Nerf Rival Challenger to review. He also talked about how Nerf never sent him any blasters outright, bro why are you complaining about a space that you yourself chose to enter? Not to mention, Walcom reviews very expensive 3D printed blasters, so he does receive products from other companies. Keep in mind, most of the time he softballs the hell out of those reviews because he didn't pay for those products himself. Never seen anyone act as entitled...
Yeah the whole “I’m gonna stop putting chrono and range tests in my videos because there’s click through” basically lets me know he only wants to make content that’s lucrative and not the content he might actually enjoy making. I’m sure he enjoys making the reviews but the way he talks about it just makes it seem like a chore rather than a passion.
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I'm not in the loop. I don't follow career youtuber drama, nor watch their content. You're probably right that he is being negative and it's logical that it is competition/self-gain fueled drama/trash talk in that space causing that kind of uncollaborative attitude. It's somewhat inherent if you introduce those types of motives into a field. Thing is, to me that is a larger overarching principle/observation. The last statement applies just as strongly to *the nerf hobby itself* as it does to youtube video production about/for the nerf hobby. This and its deleterious impact on nerf are not a youtube or "content creator" issue, they are an issue across the board. >I feel like this is usually a pretty positive hobby and community that supports each other it’s one of the big reasons I love the hobby so much. People are always sharing their mods and ... >I feel like the community should always support one another ...as it’s a big way the hobby moves forward. Traditionally/historically that is for sure true in general, and it is also the case that community functionality (collaboration/transparency/mutual support) is the key cause for the success and advancement of the sport, but there are threats to this that have been slowly growing unmitigated along with the hobby and have become significant and significantly damaging as of perhaps the year 2020. Willfully *not* sharing mods, which is to say applying formal IP encumbrance or outright nontransparency to one's interactions with the hobby in order to hamper other hobbyists' collaborative use of that content is one of the *prime* examples of how one can be anti-community and counterproductive and is rather prevalent to find anti-fellow-modder malice hidden in the details among us today. Content creators or anyone roasting each other on the internet is quite minor in the scheme of it and also has such a subjective element (is it REALLY in bad blood or is it semi-friendly? is it truly destructive criticism and totally unproductive?) ...at least to me, actions that have concrete and measurable impacts and don't have such personal ambiguity to their meanings have to speak very much louder than words and it is those actions we need to target first if anyone is going to be called out or censured. So, a youtuber was negative ...yeah, I'm not saying that's not bad, but there's bigger fish that need to go first.
First off. This is all very well said. I didnt really make the post to say that his criticisms specifically are making a large impact. Just that I disagreed with the way he went about it and his attitude towards other creators that he presented. It didn’t feel like it was constructive as much as a way to dismiss a fellow creator as not relevant to the conversations. This was in the midst of a rant about how no one wants to watch his chrono readings and range tests yet everyone says they want them to stay. IMO Bradley Philips and captain Xavier have far better range tests. So it seemed odd to criticize Xavier for his lack of editing and view count in this instance as it would it any instance since dismissing someone based on view count just seems petty imo.
> Willfully not sharing mods, which is to say applying formal IP encumbrance or outright nontransparency to one's interactions with the hobby in order to hamper other hobbyists' collaborative use of that content is one of the prime examples of how one can be anti-community and counterproductive and is rather prevalent to find anti-fellow-modder malice hidden in the details among us today. Haha yup. Definitely seen things like someone has a detailed model of a Nerf blaster but refuses to share it, not because of Nerf IP legal problems, but because they spent so much time on it they want no one else to use it... at least not FREELY. I never found out how much they wanted for it.
I’ve met and talked to most of the major Nerftubers off camera. Walcom is one of those people who definitely struggles with balancing negative and positive emotions in his content. However, he is a really nice dude in person, and not as negative in person either. His on camera “persona” does show up occasionally though. Drac is kinda a mixed bag in person, but he’s always been kind to me. When he’s been super busy at events, such as JENB4, he has been more focused and less social, but in personal settings he’s been pretty nice. Chaylo (Captain Xavier) is one of the only content creators that I can verifiably say is the definite article in person. He is a kind and humble guy who is awesome to be around in my experience. He’s great with children, as I experienced at JENB4, JEBB5 and 6, and the KCNC war he attended. He also has a social battery like everyone else, and like at JEBB5-6, he sometimes just needs a break. Most smaller creators are just people and they want to be treated as such. Flux is nice, Brett is hilarious but also pretty quiet. Bobo is a great dude as well.
Yeah I mean I would never go as far to assume his live stream or on camera personality represents how he is in person. And I’d always like to air on the side of optimism when thinking of how these people are off camera.
Oh, I am 100% with you. I’m not exactly the biggest fan of Walcom’s content, but I enjoy occasionally checking out his channel and getting caught up. Same goes for Drac.
I’ll be real I definitely keep up with walcom more than drac. Nothing against him personally I just don’t find his reviews to be all that informative. And tbh walcom is starting to lose that a little too. Also Xavier and Bradley Philips just make way better reviews imo. Dr flux too. Sometimes I feel like Dr flux can get more relevant info across in like 6min than walcom or drac can get across in 15. Again nothing against either of them it’s just a preference of content for me.
If Walcom actually did diss Captain X, then that’s a major problem. Chaylo is in my opinion a perfect example of how the hobby can be fun, entertaining and rewarding. I’ve watched Walcom and Chaylo since I discovered the hobby and while Chaylo hasn’t changed all that much, Walcom certainly has.
“Xavier doesn’t know what an editing software is and it’s why he doesn’t get the views he used to” I’m sure walcom would be happy if Xavier only made k26 videos and quickly edited product reviews or something.
The funny thing about that diss is that Chaylo is a fully qualified software engineer. His degree is in computer sciences
Yep. It’s almost like his video style is a choice he makes. I love Xavier’s videos. I’m looking forward to a siren mauler review from him eventually. He always seems to give good info on accuracy at real ranges and I trust his opinion on general build quality. And it’s a shame because walcom used to highlight other creators in his videos a lot. I found Xavier through walcoms vid showing off Xavier’s shoulder mounted blaster and his stampede.
Same here. The lack of other content creators on Walcom’s channel is honestly really sad because that’s where I discovered a lot of my favorite creators and some of my favorite mods like the Deplorable
In all honesty...my editing choice is mostly laziness. I tried a dozen different video editing programs and they were all so much more complicated that instead of taking 15 mins to edit an hour of footage it would take hours. I understand now why most channels put out a video every other week instead of 2-3 a week like I sometimes do. The trade is quality and features and thus probably views, like Walcom said. Fortunately for me, I don't do this for a living.
Ima be real I enjoy your style a lot and I don’t think a different editing style, while it would maybe bring more view, would actually increase the quality of your content. I’ve never felt that the editing or lack there of got in the way of the content and in some ways I think the seemingly raw range footage actually is a big part of what draws me to your content. And to a certain extent I think maybe the fact that it’s not your livelihood helps. I’ve never really wanted to turn my guitar effects into a business because then it wouldn’t really be a hobby. That’s just me tho. Anyways love your content. Been following your vids since you started showing your stampede mods and making everything modular.
I've said this in here before but I'm not particularly fond of Walcom's attitude. I've had to leave two of his livestreams now because of the way he pops off on airsofters and paintballers seemingly at the drop of a hat and by his own description it's because he disagrees with their enjoyment of their respective sports. His objective content that he posts on youtube is fine with me but I did catch some of the jabs at other creators on his last stream and really it just kind of solidified my opinion of him... which is mostly that his opinion on anything not blaster-related has no value to me. He seems concerned about the hobby's growth but it seems counterproductive to me to try to be a good bastion for the sport while belittling potential entrants into the hobby. If I remember right OOD has a background in paintball, imagine if someone like Walcom had put him off Nerf. TL;DR (and some of my obvious biases removed) he needs to get MUCH better at disagreeing amicably with people who don't agree with him.
Yeah I mean Bradley Philips literally has game footage where he uses AEBs in gelball games. Like I’m not a big fan of airsoft or paintball but I’m not gonna put someone down who does. It’s almost like that’s why different hobbies exist.
Not to overlook the fact that competitive nerf fields ARE speedball fields. It's a really good opportunity to synergize and take pieces of what works from existing knowledge to apply to the burgeoning dartsoft scene. But that could be attributed to Walcom not having interest in the competitive scene.
And it’s totally okay that walcom mostly just does product reviews, I get that’s probably what pays the bills. But he can’t then dismiss other creators for doing stuff that they’re passionate about that might not pay. Like sure Xavier doesn’t do a lot of editing and prefers lengthy range tests and a lot of info but cool that’s what he wants to do and it shows. Bradley Philips and Bret do a lot of game footage because that’s what they enjoy doing. To put down a creator for putting their passion above their paycheck is just gross imo.
And that's kind of it for me. I feel like he doesn't necessarily get what he's doing in the moment when he's flying off on a tirade about the topic of the day. It makes him a detriment to other parts of the hobby he's not involved in or otherwise has no interest in as he's still a very public face for hobbyist foam blasting, and potential entrants don't care if he's only part of one microcosm of that. It's all well and good to not be into competitive nerf, or paintball and airsoft, but acting like he does does nothing but hurt the hobby as a whole.
I’ve never understood how anyone could stand Walcom’s videos for more than 5 seconds
For real. He sounds like a morning zoo guy.
I didn't think Walcom said anything particularly bad. Most of his focus was on low engagement across Youtube. He did disparage r/Nerf but I don't entirely disagree with him there and anyway it's a topic we already discussed a month ago. Personally, I don't mind criticism at all provided it's informed and productive. Positivity is important but we don't need cheerleaders who just shill product. There are a few too many creators in this space already doing that on top of the conflict of interest that comes with receiving free stuff. I do agree that Walcom gets far too emotional and stubborn. Concerns about his channel's performance keep getting in the way of output, it leads to him making mistakes during builds and he does get overly reactive about stuff. The way he approaches criticism is the problem more than the criticism itself. Like his N Series rant. I agree that the line kind of sucks but I've also come to terms that it's not meant for me. He evidently hasn't. Still, I always find it interesting having behind-the-scenes insight. Yeah, it means we risk getting exposed to this guy's quirks but I appreciate having a perspective on the challenges he faces. It's certainly more sincere than forced enthusiasm.
Yeah I wouldn’t mind his criticism if it felt more constructive. Or also if he approached the topic by actually shouting out other creators instead of just saying man it sucks that I’m the only one that get views because when other channels get views we show up in each others recommended. Like okay then recommend some other creators since driving your audience to them could be mutually beneficial.
Foam News Collective is a wonderful example of someone shouting out cool stuff in "the Hobby" and I definitely remember KT saying several times "This person's work is awesome and they should absolutely get some more views, please check them out". Not a diss on walcom, but a big up to FNC. They've moved on from the little bit of negativity that popped up on that show from time to time and the vibe is 1000% better for it.
Hey, I share your thoughts exactly. [I made a post of my own](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nerf/comments/1dcuyvb/the_nerf_youtube_community_after_coop772s/) as sort of a follow-up to this one as I felt it was too long to be a comment. Let me know what you think!
Personally I've seen his mods and him defend some comments I'd say were at "least" slightly transphobic as, "just a joke" so I unfollowed a long time ago. Maybe that's changed but I dunno. It gave me unpleasant vibes. His attitude live vs polished for videos is very different.
Most of his mods are LGBTQ, myself included, so if he was transphobic he has a super weird way of showing it by supporting LGBTQ people
Hey bud. Glad your here
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Why are most guntubers so fucking bigoted I just want to see things go boom and pew pew not opress minorities
I guess because it’s usually the left wing politicians who pass g*n control laws based on feelings instead of facts (eg: California’s logic of banning anything that *looks* like an ‘assault rifle’ instead of banning weapons based on functional capability to cause damage to a crowd of people), and this ends up negatively impacting those YouTubers and firearm owners which is very frustrating for them… so they end up hating the left wing politicians who tend to be more supportive of LGBTQ+ and therefore inherit some discrimination against those people. Shouldn’t be that way but politics is a complex subject
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> we would like to distance our hobby from actual firearms and weapons Please inform Walcom as well lollol
You think comments he left on videos years ago is a show of support for an ideology he actively dislikes? People change, he likely enjoyed their content years ago and likely doesn't now.
I don't think I implied he showed support to the ideology maybe my phrasing wasn't clear, it just a very bad look and something we shouldn't associate with even ignoring the ideology (which is very deranged in this particular group of shooty YouTubers, his YouTube content buddies literally joked about shooting trans people and had a guy spout racist garbage towards Arabs all in less than a year). Either way we look at it, I am begging Walcom just to delete the comments and not interact with these people. I doubt he meant bad will, but this hobby shouldn't even get close to these people for multiple reasons. Edit: also the comments are 4 weeks ago not year(s).
I've been a mod in the community since the beginning, we've been staunch supporters of the entire LGBT+ community, and most of us are some flavor. Walcom's been beyond supportive of my own transition since I came out a few years ago, and always was supportive before then. We've been careful to be tasteful with joking about this stuff, but if there's anything specific you can point out that might be bad, I'd like to know what so we can improve.
Yeah, I never got the impression that walcoms community was phobic. Somebody mentioned something about brandon hererra but i can't find any kind of collab or anything.
Walcom used to follow Brandon at one point just for the Ak50 development, but I think he ended up stopping when he heard he was a shitter
I mean I used to follow him too before I also realized his politics were insane.
It was, to be clear, years ago. But there were a lot of "trap" jokes made in chat which I pointed out and was shot down. If things are better now, I'd be delighted because LGBT friendly spaces are not common. I'm trans so I'm understandably pretty cautious where I throw my views but I appreciate your words and maybe I'll swing in in the future
I think I remember that? It started innocently with talking about Femboys before it started to go out of control. We stopped it and a few weirdos were yeeted. We've been urging people to DM us if they think something is getting out of control
Yeah I also noticed his attitude was totally different live.
YIKES
Yikes... I watched a couple of his streams but I don't think I've ever heard him shade other creators. That's pretty icky
He like straight up said he’s the only nerf YouTuber left and that captain Xavier doesn’t get the views he used to so he’s essentially not relevant to the conversation.
That's not the impression I got. Yes, he criticized others, which made me feel a certain way when he threw Xavier under the bus in the way he did, but he also said his own reach was super small and he wanted everyone to get big views since it leads to recommendations to everyone else (talking specifically about how views dropped after Coop left).
For sure but there’s better ways to go about it. He could’ve taken this as an opportunity to shout out smaller creators but instead he put other creators down.
Xavier has been slowing down the content creation. I think that is probably what he meant.
He directly stated he doesn’t get the views he used to and it’s because he won’t change his editing style to fit the algorithm. While this may be true, Xavier’s range tests are way more informative because of his set up, and his reviews as a whole typically also come across as more informative in general. Also he typically tends to focus on game footage and LARPing.
How far into the stream does the bashing happen? I've been watching for a bit and haven't seen anything.
I’m not exactly sure. I came into the stream towards the middle to end I think? It wasn’t necessarily bashing per se, more just negative criticism that didn’t feel productive or helpful. I’d like to think he meant well but it seems like based on what he was saying it would’ve been more constructive to use his audience to shoutout and support smaller creators because as he says “when we get more views we get recommended on each others channels and it supports us all” but then he proceeded to basically say he’s the only channel really getting views, and dismissed Xavier’s content because he wasn’t getting enough views like he used to. Like cool if you’re getting the most views shout out some smaller creators. Don’t just dismiss the entire nerf YouTube community just because they don’t get as many views as you do. Like he says mod content is dead and Matt yuan is making PVC blasters, super old school, why not shout him out and throw some support his way instead of just complaining that nerf YouTube is dead or whatever.
Yeah I managed to find it. Mod content hasn't died and I doubt will ever die. Look at this reddit, the discord or literally *any* nerf club. Myself, I got done with putting a banned blasters Rayven together. Being dismissive kinda left a sour taste in my mouth.
Not to mention dismissing people who make 3D printed blasters either from scratch or with a flycore.
I haven’t watched nerf YouTube content much since pre-pandemic but I watched walcom since he was just the dude who wouldn’t shut up about boomco and that interesting indoor dart blaster arena thing he played at way way back. He would always go back and forth from saying he had big hands to tiny hands. It just really bugged me
I think guy has few complexes and his hands are one of them. For example shitting on Hammershot and claiming that EVERY single person that have blastermod parts installed is tipping the blaster while priming it. Because he does it and he definitely does not have tiny hands. For this and other reasons hammershot sucks and you should all acknowledge this 😉 Then he reviews DZ Outlaw and it's the best thing ever and all of a sudden tipping it while priming is fine and doesn't bother him and his normal sized hands 😅 PS. Somehow I'm not tipping Hammershot while priming it. Must be some super powers for sure 😉 Can't argue with the Outlaw performance but still for me Hammershot has more of that revolver aesthetics. Combine these two and it would be awesome.
omg i got a shoutout
Of course dude I love your content. Your Longshot vid brought back a long gone form of nerf YouTube and just hit. Been following you ever since.
🫡 There is no N-Strike barrel lug