Road Trip Troubles

I guess I'll throw a post on here!

When Katers and Cory first started their road trip, I'll admit, I was pretty bored of the vlogs. It had gotten to the point that I was just skipping along through them, which is usually a sign that an unsubscribe is in the not-so-distant future. I was busy during the time, too, which didn't help. Though I've been busy in the past, and still made time for the vlogs. But anyhow, I don't know what happened, I just started enjoying them again, for the most part. Funny stuff happened, meet-ups happened, etc. So while I don't look forward to the vlogs like I once did, I at least don't sigh to myself at the thought of watching another 20-30 minute episode as I was doing for a while there. I'd kind of expected the road trip to ruin them, much like such things always did to most other peoples' vlogs.

Here's the thing I don't get about this road trip, though. Cory hired this Josh guy to be his camera man, who I don't know if we ever even saw before that day. I asked myself why does Cory need a camera man, when that's what he already pays Kate to do?  Stranger still, vlog after vlog happened, and we never really saw Josh even holding a camera. In fact, I had a "wat" moment when Josh had to ask Cory one time whether he needed to use the flash to take a picture of something while they were outside. So I just don't know what the deal is with him coming along, particularly since there's no indication that he's any kind of professional photographer. He might be filming actual SMP Films videos for him which we don't see on the vlogs, but still, again, why isn't Kate just filming them like before? She's the one who actually studied up on how to operate the cameras. But anyway, that all being said, Josh has turned out to be kind of entertaining, particularly when paired with Shaun.

There's also the thing with Kate getting all upset in that recent vlog. Obviously it had something to do with Cory, because she commented something along the lines of "that doesn't help" when showing people holding hands and stuff together. I guess the internet rumor machine immediately assumed this meant her and Cory broke up, but I don't know if I'd go that far. My brother has actually assumed that they've been broken up for a little while already, and that they were just keeping up the illusion for the fan's sake, but I would disagree. He actually got bored enough of it to unsubscribe, so his info isn't really up to date anymore.

One thing I kinda get tired of is this Keek thing. It's starting to rub me the way that things like City Story did. It just doesn't feel like something she just naturally wants her fans to check out. And Cory just made a video wanting people to jump on Keek as well, so if that's not proof enough to me that they're being sponsored by them, then I don't know what is. I mean, the Gung Ho stuff doesn't bother me, because they admitted they're a sponsor. It's when somebody tries to push something under the guise of it being something they personally like when it bugs me. It's that kind of stuff that turned me against people like Leo Laporte. He'll claim he loves just about any product that's given to him, then in a week or two he's back to using what he used to use. Anyway, I digress. I was going on Keek at first to see if Kate made any videos I'd be interested in, but apparently now you have to be logged in to even watch anything, so fuck that.

Shaun has turned out to be the entertainment of the trip. Most of the stuff he does is amusing to some degree, which is usually enhanced when Josh is involved. I had a few actual laugh-out-loud moments. Whether that gets annoying when riding in a car with him/them for hours though is another story!

I keep thinking there was something else I meant to touch on, but heck if I know what it was.

TL;DR version: Katers vlogs are still entertaining, but fuck Keek.


UPDATE: Naturally, the day after typing this, we see Josh filming an SMP Films video.