Bad Review of reviews

I don’t know about any one else, but I have never been a massive fan of video reviews, admittedly in the early stages of my career I too was guilty of doing an online video blog, now affectionately referred to as a VLOG! I used to review my favourite artist of the month, favourite song, favourite movie and arts and culture events. It wasn't bad- but even I after a while found it a little pointless, despite the short-lived thrill of an extra few views in the view counter everyday! 

After much soul-searching (not) I decided to pull the plug on my video channel and vowed to never again put anything out that I myself would not read, watch or listen to- so here I am!  

Whilst I don't want to bash anyone that enjoys posting video reviews, I would encourage them to adopt this same thought and selection process. Not so that my point is misconstrued, I want to make a clear differentiation between video blogs, video reviews and consumer reviews. 

I am a massive fan of well-written, informative, descriptive, expert reviews which have the ability and creativity to transport the reader to share and relate to their experience. Equally I have no problem perusing a review of the latest Italian Restaurant in town, or of a new movie at the box office, or even a new beauty product- infact I especially welcome the gesture of the cosmetics reviewer who in some ways offers the service of a guinea pig, trialling products and giving much needed pre-purchase insight of beauty products- especially the expensive ones!

But one thing I see no benefit from are video reviews, especially when they are posted under the guise of  authentic entertainment content only to find once you have clicked on the image of your favourite reality TV  show it is content filmed by a dodgy webcam, presented by someone sitting far too close to the screen for 45 minutes banging on about their views and opinions of your favourite cast members! Who is this for??!!

And incase you were tempted to believe that you must be one in a million that don’t like them because they have over 20,000 views, you are mistaken. Those viewers only clicked on because like you, they were equally duped into thinking that the content behind it was that of quality.

My verdict; Please don't upload, put it in a diary instead!