Is Gizaudio Trustworthy?
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- I really did not want to make this video, but I felt that this could benefit Timmy morally and give the viewers a perspective they have not seen.
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never go to r/headphones lmao. it always cracks me up how everyone is in an endless cycle of save for hifiman>buy trash>breaks>repeat or buy trash>realize its trash but dont know why>buy more trash
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PogA
same with r/iems lmao
This is one of those moments where you can tell Sharur does actually respect Timmy and is trying to reach out with more constructive type commentary. While I never been a fan of call out posts or videos, I'm happy to see you having more tact with people you feel closer to and you feel are good people.
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More constructive = less deconstructive, which in this case is bad 🐸
More importantly, Sharur's insights on some of the systemic problems with the reviewer/OEM/consumer ecosystem are an important thing for audio enthusiasts to be aware of and be careful about. Many people don't want the objective truth to be told about their gear, they want to be lied to, justifying their purchase decisions. However, there are other innocent people who really need to be very conservative and wise about where they spend money and who can fall victim to dishonesty from reviewers.
The FTC and publication platforms like YT have rules around needing to label videos as paid sponsorships, but the definition of "payment" begins to evaporate when someone is given a piece of gear for the purposes of reviewing it. Further contributing to the haze of confusion is how the ability for someone to be objective also evaporates for folks like the Honest Audiophile that might have themselves fooled into thinking that their listening capabilities can hear differences that don't actually exist. Auditory hallucinations are real! Trust the measurement data!
@@BillStrathearn Gear doesn't have to be sent when your formula = views × reflinks for example
@@BillStrathearnwhen I saw the word ,,objective truth,, about audio gear in your comment I immediately started laughing on you and your pretending that you know what you are talking about.
This is the video I'll show people just getting into the hobby that are about to spend their life savings on headphones, specifically 3:10 - 3:49, summed the whole audiophile community up pretty well. Glad i found Sharur back in the day, you've saved me and my friends a lot of money haha
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The hobby will be dead by then ☠️
Me 2 man :))) 3 weeks ago I just bought the Sennheiser 800S and Fiio K9 Pro ESS and after one week when I found this channel with actual facts that I finnaly understood I sold them… after one week…
@@tudortigla6456 i feel ya
Call me crazy but I think there is a strong possibility of significant correlation between believing in the Easter bunny and dac amp bs
and santa claus
Hey sharur, I found you by accident a year ago while looking for iem’s to better my trucking life. I even showed my gf how amused I found you to be. But in reality from the very 1st video, I was incapsulated by your no bs, straight to the point, and surreal nature. Because everyone else was so fake, I was getting discouraged from even trying to learn anymore. Simply put you saved me lots of money and you taught me how to think about audio. Please never stop being you man. Thank you for everything.
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@@Sharur1 your a vampire dracula been sucking your way around on the audiophiles drinking their blood . yep i passed by few dead audiophile channels before stumbling onto this one and then realised your , count audiophileula
may also suggest get some sun its unnatural to stay indoors
so your ranting . maybe drank too much of that cheapaudiophileman blood
I will say i learned alot from your videos compared to other channels. When you hate on something for an IEM, you give us specific examples from tracks in your libraries with timestamps to show exactly where the inefficiency is
You also cite your sources from actual scientific articles, which is a huge boost in credibility.
No other channel does this. Not even crinnacle
Not even crinnacle
Not even crinnacle
The reason i say not even crinnacle is because hes touted as the main guy, but he doesnt do something as simple as citing his thoughts
Oh boy. I hope this video makes it out to the, dare I say, "other side" of the audio community. I really hope this can be a start of more transparency in the audio world. But then again, some reviewers are only here to make money. Keep preaching Sharur.
I hope so too!
Implying it will change something for more than 10 seconds
Sharur when he realises people gotta put food on the table
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These kind of vids are why I watch your channel, transparency and no affiliate links. I love timmy as well cuz he's such a well spoken chill guy (at least from what I've seen) but the smoothening of his videos definitely takes a hit on his opinions
Crinacle light
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He has the Austin Evans / MKBHD / LTT problem. He’s trying to push videos too fast and is quickly becoming a box reader. I like to hear his opinion, but it’s not very deep or useful.
Timmy is one of the few reviewers I trust. However, sometimes you have to read between the lines, just like other reviewers' videos. If a product is praised as excellent, it is probably good. A mediocre one is probably very bad. However, one should not forget that not everyone likes Harman's targets of sound, even if Harman's targets represent people's average preferences.
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His recent review on Juzear 61t is kinda weird. I bought it and have the DaVinci since launch. I really think it’s quite close to DaVinci with less bass but better stage and generally a more neutral but still bassy signature. If I didn’t have the DaVinci I would just get the Juzear 61t and save a hundred. I almost think other reviews praise it so highly and potentially making it the cheaper replacement for his DaVinci, hurting its sales.
I can't think of a single way Timmy is betraying his community. He can be quite negative on some products, and very excited about others. Rather healthy balance. He provides concise reviews mentioning what's good or bad, quick helpful comparisons... And since it's very time consuming to run a YT channel, finding ways to monetize his time makes sense to me. After all, affiliate links are rather harmless. No pressure to click on them whatsoever! As for your attitude towards this hobby, not sure how helpful it is to call 99% of products garbage. Maybe it can boost your ego. But if the industry is so bad, how about making your own iem's and showing the world how it's done?! Just my two cents.
ur a noob
Is it really probable that Sharur is a genius that no business want to employ? Probably... not.
I think there may be a correlation between cable riser believers and flat earthers
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Nice video sharur,
there's no right or wrong to smoothening opinion tbh, I see a video on your channel where you acted like you are about to vomit, that's overreacting man...
Timmy I feel does the right amount, for example, he voices out the exact way I felt about the empire ears bravado mkii, which is to say that if there's truly a bad iem, he will say it without a problem.
We also have to remember that this hobby is subjective, and reviewers try to be objective a bit despite subjectiveness, so it's a mix of both really, trying to show their takes on both sides, so, expecting them to completely shit on an iem when it could actually appeal to a rare minority of people would be detrimental tbh...
The video has a good message but I don't think Timmy is completely sugar coating his words either.
Expecting that ling long review from ye.
That was not an over exaggeration, but more of an accurate expression of my internal feelings
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He was a fragrance reviewer on CZcams called imaginescent, so when I saw him open another channel for audio, I was quite surprised
got the linglong... surprised about the cleanliness for the price... I cant even notice that "mud". Its actually really nice ho** sh**
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Very true.
i dont know much about audio and have only learnt about it from some 20 minute audiosciencereview videos, can you explain why you're so confident in reviewing graphs? amir said it's not an exact science and you must verify the graphs by actually listening, as it's only like 70% accurate
For IEMs it's like 95% accurate because pinna interaction isn't considered but you should also keep in mind that most individual variability happens past the blocked entrance, so this also does not matter much. A peak on the graph will be a peak in real life aside from a select few circumstances like the ~8 kHz peak you commonly see on IEC711 measurements.
Hello @Sharur1, really like your content. I know its not really related to the video's content but could you tell me the eartips you usually use with your iems? And if you think that there is a big difference between the most popular silicone ones in frequency graph response or anything you know its important. Thankss
Zotech 6 Pairs of Ear Tips for... www.amazon.com/dp/B01JF5JPT2?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
It's about marketing not good audio
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Cool lipstick. Still waiting for the beard.
Jokes aside, I honestly admire Sharu for his honesty and consistency on his opinions. He can roast the shit out of HBB in one video, and then genuinely compliment him on the Khan. You know this dude will be speaking the truth cause he's not attached to his own ego and is not afraid of correcting himself
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I don't know Timmy personally and don't know how he talks about things off camera, but in videos he does actually say negative things about products and sometimes says they're just terrible and doesn't recommend. I think he might just be informal talking to friends and say something is shyet and then in a video simply describe it negatively in a well mannered way. That's still being honest and genuine as far as I'm concerned.
The fact that he puts affiliate links for everything mentioned is obviously a source of revenue, but it's not forcing anyone to buy. If you choose to buy something whether it's recommended or not then where's the harm in supporting the channel?
not trustworthy
@@Sharur1 this was the first video of yours I had seen, but now I realise you're either trolling or just a negative Nancy.
Based on graph actually ,I can create looping remove as auto eq first to to be flat 0 db and I adjust again .
Most of these chifi iem reviewers are tailored toward the budget side & that is their target audience. Its pretty easy once you start building a channel to pander to what will help you grow.
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After watching your video, I bought moondrop quarks dsp. They're actually good. Tuned very well. Thanks. Also realised you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to get good sound.
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Most of the audio reviewers are millennials, so they are likely irreligious. I guess they made their own religion, and you are encroaching their territory with facts; you know the result of that.
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I like Timmy, he may be smoothing things over but this might be due to knowing he's just one guy and since audio perception is at the end of the day a subjective experience and the same gear might give different people different impressions. Bashing a product flat out is not a great policy when you base that on just a single person's impressions.
But yeah, there's a lot of placebo and priming in the hobby for sure
might as well just post the graph and be done at that point
@@Sharur1 Not everyone can read graphs beyond "it's a bassy/flat/v-shaped... set". And since eqing one iem to another yields mixed results it's good to have someone who actually listened to it share their impressions. Timmy has been honest enough about that stuff imo and even though I have a different preference, his insights are still added value.
@@zaq9339 You're not considering viewer psychology
@@Sharur1 link relevant paper
So if I use linglong and eq it to variations, I'm basically at end game? I dont mind coping.
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@Sharur god why. Oh well I think it's good enough for my untrained ears. Hope you are still around when I can afford the expensive IEM which is the best, or it changed to a cheap enough IEM for poor me to afford.
@@delmund I sometimes EQ Moondrop Kato to Variations and it sounds 90% similar to variations, i have them. EQ is honestly good enough, you are missing the treble extension though.
Sharur, the KZ Ling Long IEMs that you recommend for a
I don't have them yet
@@Sharur1 in your video "The Moondrop LAN Is GARBAGE (Review)" it looked as if you were actually listening to the LAN as you were giving commentary and cringing, but you never changed the IEM in your ears, which is not the LAN. so, do you use software to emulate listening to these IEMs?
@@wis9 EQ.
@@wis9 he used EQ to emulate the IEMs sound signature
@@wis9 stupid you will not hear anything outside noise when you're listening to music with any in ear earphones
And nobody will ever hear noise leakage from 2 meters away
If you're listening at 70% volume nobody will ever hear anything
Just stop asking weird questions and complaining
Y'all cry over this too much it's also only $15
Next step is to learn what the word Agnostic means
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One thing I can’t argue with is someone that is honest I always respect honesty over anything!!!
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Good points. And yet if everyone was as cheap with audio as I am this hobby would cease to be period. The way I see it, appreciate those rich dudes building 10,000 dollar headphone setups, or 100,000* dollar stereo setups, because they are literally funding further research and development into audio. That goes for the kids buying the hottest bluetooth or IEM for hundred bucks every couple months as well, which is arguably an even larger market. I still have my cheap headphones from the 90s, I can tell you that a 30-40 dollar IEM blows them out of the water today. A more interesting question would be if some of the more expensive headphones from the past (HD600 from 1997 and beyerdynamics) could be spotted in a blind test with modern gear of the same price point, or even above it. Maybe not, but I do think products in the 100-200 dollar range are getting damn close. The arms race has begun, it may be covered in a load of marketing doublespeak but it is there, and we just happen to be here near the beginning.
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Is this like religion? Yes, and I’ve said it myself. So many things are totally “faith-based” with the best example being High Res audio with supposed frequency response being well above the accepted limit of human hearing.
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I often see Timmy videos and a couple months ago Timmy was recommending Tangzu Wan'er. I trust his review and try to buy wan'er with mic because I use it outdoor and for phone call. The sound's is good for me and may please casual listener.
I do trust Timmy recommendation in this one, but idk about other expensive iem that I can't buy or will buy in the future.
wan'er is good for price
@@Sharur1 yeah I think so too, I definitely recommend this to my friend who wants to buy good Iem but not really into audiophile zone
Good point, that's also how I feel about him on camera he is "smoothing out" his opinions, maybe he is afraid to disappoint his subscribers.
yup
Whats the best IEM I can buy at around $500? Still Variations?
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Sharu the type of guy to tell his gf her dress is not the problem.
what?
@@Sharur1 A girlfriend. You know, the kind you hold hands with
@@zaq9339 I know, but what would be the problem
@@Sharur1 dem delicious pop tarts most definitely
Lmfao. Best comment I've read.
golden rule: never trust a reviewer if its the their day job
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Ok question is anything good besides the Variations? That is the only iem I have ever seen you recommend.
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its not helped by the fact that there is a lot of audio snake oil out there like sata cables and hdmi cables and stuff that has a negligible difference on what actually comes out of the drivers. they want to do anything to cope except buy the headphones they actually want to buy in order to hear even their subjective sound target
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*TURBO BASS* was always trustworthy
rip
How do you compare Gizaudio vs Crinacle?
yeah but honesty doesn't sell bro.
they want you to believe endgame gear is like buying a house or something.
nobody wants to hear that a corolla will drive you to work just as well as a ferrari.
i know right
The problem with all the audio reviewers is that they dont have pillar point of dispatching of proper comparison and say, "Yes" this the standard from where everything else below is garbage and above is Class.
Sharer thank you for this video. I hope you keep making these and you saved me from a lot of monetary losses getting into the audio hobby. Thank you very much man
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You gained even more credibility by not caring about revenue. Keep calling out other channels like this.
I knew Gizaudio was not honest without even seeing his DMs. saying he smoothed things 100x is not an exaggeration. Basically he makes everything sound good.
My question is how he chummed up to you. He was a prime target for you, but for some reason, he got to you first? How did he do that?
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He used to make content about fragrances.
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Is Sharur trustworthy?
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im not so sure timmy really depends on gizaudio as his main income tbh… dont forget his day job is as an editor and he has other businesses in more lucrative industries such as casino gambling 😅, seems to me audio is genuinely his passion
gizaudio is a revenue stream
His reviews are a bit inconsistent. He'll praise an iem/headphone but then trash on it in a comparison or on his tier list and vise versa.
affiliate link farm
Are you going to post your list on the best iem list you show on your videos
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Yo, could you do a video on the equipment you have / use rather?
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I agree there are too many salesmen in this community
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Nice lips Sharur-chan
thanks
@@Sharur1 Np
We are grateful for you!
thanks
If you are getting into this hobby, make sure you have friends with many audio gears to be shared with you, or you live near shops that allowed you to audition their products in a quiet room, or live in places with many audio events. Don't blind buy your products they are usually overpriced and not worth it. Once you found the product you like, buy them 2nd hand open box black friday sales etc to cut your costs and increase their value.
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Religious part is definitely a lose for you. Insulting religious people for the seek of insulting people who believe in a myth like amps and dacs is not funny or informative or making any good point out of it.
are you muslim
@@Sharur1 yes
Nah bro religion is a completely different topic. Probably pretty obvious from my profile pic that I am very religious and believe there is a lot of evidence for it. And still I believe in most of the stuff you say as well. To be fair I don't agree on how you represent stuff many times by attacking other creators even if they are wrong about their stuff but I can say that probably around 95% of the stuff ur saying about audio is close to the truth.
Can you give me some of this "evidence"
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czcams.com/video/UM82qxxskZE/video.html
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But basically, the chance of life happening by random chance is so unlikely that its basically impossible. Also science is still not able to create a living organism like a cell by non living material and they are not even close to doing that. Also one of the leading chemist states that time whise it's not even possible to create life by non living material.
czcams.com/video/cymgCKKgzjU/video.html
@@Sharur1 You'll have to unlock my answer since its flagged as spam since it contains links, so it shows in the comments.
Believing there's evidence
There's a big difference between being wrong and knowing the truth and still lying for financial reward. This is the point of the video.
5:18 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣that’s we we are stuck whether what to buy and what not but at the end we don’t buy coz you just tell everythting garbage fuc…
i recommend variations
90% audio community marked you as clown. i came here just want to make sure what they said is true or not.
what was your conclusion
3:21 This is what I've noticed from literally EVERY community. The value they provide isn't within the actual knowledge of the hobby, but the perfectly displayed confidence which attrachs the gullible. There must be someone out there that I can listen to without doubt and that is [insert well known hobbiest]. I would argue the lack of faith in a god would make someone more interested in believing in other bullshit.
All Gizaudio has to do is explain the science in 10min videos. Its free real estate. Just be the Neil deGrasse Tyson for Dr Sean Olive.
the religion thing is interesting
I dont watch Gizaudio because I think people there are salesmen. They are not real reviewers
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Trademark the red/colored lip look. 😂
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Trademark male-to-male felatio
@@znojnyj, so that is how your lips look when you do your male buddies? 🤣
I saw a video from your channel where you called Moondrop Chu garbage even though it's not extremely bad(it's the best IEM in the $20 category. I have used them and others.) But I agree with this video, alot of reviewers are recommending shitty IEMs and headphones just for the affiliate links.
Giz is a nice kid. Just he is concerned about the tuning and what's all. And at his volume and library . Still I never understand why chifi instead of doing colabs with music producers they doing colabs with normal reviewers
lol nah
Timmy's channel is a business. Channels that make videos criticizing niche CZcamsrs are also a way people try to make money which it seems like you're doing here, so you're both guilty of the same sin.
actually no, these videos do not make much money at all
When a reviewer gets paid to hawk wares it kills the efficacy of the review. And timmy and Zeos are most definitely getting paid.
I really liked his older/first videos, but in his current videos, I feel like something is missing and it feels rushed.
I've been waiting for this one lol.
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Wanted this
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ANYBODY who's income depends on youtube and affiliate links becomes a CHILLER and not a reviewer, some are also hype-builders.
I's important to know your own preferences and take advices with a big grain of salt. Something that can be overviewed by your fav reviewer can be a deal breaker for you.
Remember also his audience is composed of the brands that decide to send review units. If all the suddent yt Chillers maintain honesty and point out the product flaws then it will end the freegifts.
Crinacle already pointed the issue in his video on affiliate links, I recommend everybody to check out to understand how it affect reviewers.
Now, We need community peoples to do the reviews in order to keep the standard of sound high and push things in the right direction, if reviewers do poor jobs it take the quality of future items down.
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You will not get free stuff to review if you say bad things about them
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Basically all of these "reviewers" are bad for the consumers since they are tied to the brands sponsoring them and will be clearly biased no matter what, "how can they bite the one feeding them". Typical behavior of these so called "IEM reviewers". I don't know why people are swarming around such channel are they that placeaboed?
Such type of reviewers makes me sick and made me want to leave this "audiophile hobby", tired of the bs hype, bs adjectives they use to describe the sound, flimsy and brand tilted statements, I just want an IEM that is good based on objective facts. Suprisingly there is Sharur the total opposite, very based, objectivist, destroyer of NDA contracts (can't forget the MD4), and statements based on actual studies. Making me somehow hopeful with this hobby.
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Most canzumerist take ever
Look for your equal, Kariya
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Your profile pic, the divine hand guy...
Why are you lips red?
I said
I like Timmy , he's ok
he's ok
First. If you say he's not trustworthy I will dislike
This was a very well-measured and accurate video but I disliked anyways
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why is his lips red?
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Lipstick 💄
Because they're pink?
Gizaudio or rather Timmy is way better now. He can be quite front saying what he dislike. Back then I feel like he's afraid of saying anything bad about an iem
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I hope you roast all the audio influencer.. For me its fun to hear although i like to listen to gizaudio as well lmao
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It was really hard for me to trust any reviewer when I first watched them. It wasn't until I saw the crinacle video about auto EQ that I really only cared about the graphs and finding my preference witch I believe is the most important part about audio period. But if it wasn't for all these graph database sites that the reviewers contribute to id still be lost about what headphone to buy
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Its something I think about because if they dont give a positive review or shill the product than how will they keep getting new headphones to review witch affects the database of graphs. No doubt to reviews are looking alot different than 3 years ago because you can see the graph in the background of the reviewers video while they give a subjective opinion but I feel they havie an obligation to shill to keep getting new headphones to review and update their database or get more views and grow the channel
this is really a small matter. you just focus you and what you do. whatever fact we have today will be overwritten sooner or later, so let people have some fun in their own way.
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@@Sharur1 why?
Don't get self-conscious ,the red lips even looks good on you bro.
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Toxic man spotted.
Every one of us have their own taste in music. This man have the GOLDEN EARS.
Im so sad. Because of this mindset many hobbyist pushing away the new one to this hobby... GROW UP MEN...
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1:40 ❤
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Did I just see tears in Sharur's eyes? Perhaps Giz is unable to use 'honesty' since that virtue is patented to someone else! I do like Timmy's reviews though.
Anyways, this is what I have observed first hand, there is always a difference on what reviewers say on record vs what their actual opinion is privately. Worse, sometimes they even forget what they have said online. This doesn't generate confidence at all. I once saw an online review of some noise cancelling headphones and reviewer saying good things about the ANC (which is justified) and also raving its sound quality! I happened to meet him in an event and just casually asked him about the same headphone and he completely trashed them. Conflict of interest is killing this hobby turning it into a nasty business.
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You’re talking about audio, right? So first get your mic recording, post production to a professional sounding level, before dissing others here.
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I think Timmy should have stayed with Imagine Scent!!! It seems he liked fragrances more!!!
95% do that. If they didn't they would make 0$. Just take it as entertainment. If there is a link to buy then it is safe to take it with a grain of salt.
Gizaudio videos just sounds like an ad video. While I do enjoy some of his videos most just feel like ads.
Gizaudio is the level 1 crook to the crinacles level 100 boss
not wrong lol
if you are brand ambassador 😁 you Will say your Product is the Best 😁 if not this collaboration is over 🤗
nope
The only video that i could agree on
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Are you sure its an icy
it is
Lipstick is so high kindly reduce it
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Timmy is nice guy, but sometimes he recommend weird iems
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Are you wearing lipstick
cherry icee
no reason to believe in God? It's ironic you'd bring how you're tepid about religion and lament how other people just dgaf about the truth in the same vid.
There is no definitive evidence of God existing
@@Sharur1 not a human actually knows why your chair is colliding with you, nor can philosophy prove that other peoples' minds exist. But I bet you still believe in something. Why?
@@lighturpl3 This is disanalogous and you know it. You can infer reasons for things from evidence. For example, gravity. You can't assign reasons to something without evidence. Look up what the scientific method is.
Is Shahur mental?
ur noob
Bought the Salsnotes zero and the tangzu wan’er on timmy’s recommendation. I guess they’re ok for the price, but very underwhelmed. Looking for something better. Maybe your ling long review will bring a better solution.
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handsomest dude
nah