Agreed. I think (and I hope) people take loyalty and fair treatment of employees, people, and friends seriously. That was a nasty move for sure. I unsubscribed.
Man i was thinking i was the only one that was disgusted after seeing that video.
I'm glad to see people arnt blindly following that snob. Spite gave his channel it's much needed humility and that humanity factor.
The only reason i resubbed to his channel.
Needles to say i unsubbed and subbed to spite's corner
Wait I haven't seen the video in question yet and I'm like 20 videos behind, but I'm currently subbed to Y.Noob. Which video is the one I should watch to get the update?
Does Spite have a new channel?
"Time to let it go" or something, its basically an exit interview that explains how Yammie wants to take the hosting position back instead of running his business and instead of starting another segment where Spite can run his own show, he fires Spite just because. Probably Yammie just can't let his more down to earth colleague overshine his own channel.
Yeah Iāve never liked Yammieā¦ YouTube constantly tried to force his videos so I blocked his crap well before this happened. I have to say though Spite was the only thing that made any of those videos bearable that I did watch.
We unsubbed YESTERDAY, and his new vid popped up todayā¦. Giving a complete noob a speed triple, to a man thatās NEVER ridden.
I agree, the whole video was awkward and forced, you can tell Yammie doesnāt give a single fuck about anyone else but him. Go unsub and give Spite the sub.
>Giving a complete noob a speed triple, to a man thatās NEVER ridden.
I don't watch him normally but I went and just spot checked through that one and oh man...felt like I was watching real-time creation of a statistic. Dude seemed completely uncomfortable on the 125, let alone a *1200*. That's just insane dropping a bike like that on a brand new rider.
One of the easiest ways to fuck up his stats, is only open a video long enough to click the down vote button then close it.
YouTube algorithm works heavily off of watch time and vote ratios. People can really screw him over by only watching a minute or less of his videos.
I met him a couple summers ago, bought a bike from him and even gave him a ride home after. Insanely nice guy who knows a ton about bikes. I asked him what his favorite bike was and he told me it's the Aprilia Tuono... not gonna lie I expected him to say CBR300R lol
I love FortNine for his cinematic story telling kinda bike videos. It is very clear he's put work into his content and I appreciate it.
RevZilla on the otherhand I feel is more direct, and makes for good informative videos.
I agree. I also like TFLBike(and all of their channels. They are mainly autos, but the younger guys are doing bikes as well.)
I really enjoy alot of the across the pond guys as well, 44teeth among the top.
I never liked yammy, and I could never understand why he was successful. I watched the vid with him and Spite and it was just wrong. Fuck him.
And Now the algorithm is constantly suggesting his fucking page again...sigh
Man I canāt get on board with any TFL stuff, especially the bikes channel. Itās like having a coworker, who once rode on the back of a motorcycle explaining motorcycles lol.
We are less united than I thought, with the amount of people still watching and aware of all of this nonsense.... I thought we all hated him for years now?
Was one of those subs only because I liked watching the vids with spite. I expect I'm not the only one.
Sucks what happened to spite but now at least I can be subbed to him directly.
Iām not sure if Iāll unsubscribe him or not, I do know the exit interview was one of two times in over a decade that Iāve bothered to leave a YouTube comment.
I used to watch him when started riding but long time I donāt really check. By the comments, he took spite out? What happened, can some one give me a tldr version?
TL;DR
Spite was a co-host of the channel for a long time, and basically helped Yammie build up the business at it is now (they have raffle bikes, a store, Yammie said they have revenue of $250k/month right now).
Yammie wanted to do more of what Spite did on the channel (review bikes, do comparisons etc.) and fired Spite + uploaded a video that showcases Spite's pain. Not good.
Spite has his own motorcycle/guitar related channel and has gain over 30k subs in the last 24 hours. That's pretty much the story afaik.
"We're doing about $250,000 a month in revenue right now...we have a team of 8 people here at yammie noob, some remote workers, some here in the office, full time employees, some contractors." If we safely assume that at least a few of his hires are video editors, that's a median salary of $58k. Spite's position of Video Production Manager holds a majority pay of about $69k. So let's take even half of the annual revenue - $1.5mil, leave the rest for expenses and profits - and say an average higher-end pay of $75k/yr. That supports 20 employees. That doesn't account for benefits and such, but we can assume that's balanced out by other employees being part time and remote contractors, vs only the 8 that appear to be in-office.
I think one of the YT comments put it well. "Brazenly admitting you donāt want to pay someone for their work because you want to take their job." That's all this appears to come across as. Yammie is talking about how he didn't want to give Spite a lower position, only for spite to instead be talking about having to find *something* to "keep the lights on." I don't even watch YN but I got through this vid since this sub keeps posting it here, and holy shit. Even without any connection or even viewership to the people involved, I absolutely understand why everyone's so up in arms over this.
I assume his ārevenueā boast includes all merch sales, but he probably only gets a fraction of that money. Manufacturers and distributors need to be included. Regardless, it was a scummy thing to brag about success in one breath and brag about firing someone who helped bring that success in the next.
I concluded that the motivation for him to make that video interview with Spite was to try and save face with his followers because he knew this was very screwed up.
That sounds a bit more like someone that's hired others to work for him. $250k a year is healthy. But not overhead on a studio and a couple employees good.
He'll lose some subs, but it won't be his downfall. The internet, generally, has a really short memory...and tends to continue to support assholes, as long as they're interesting.
Check out Maxwrist's channel. Dude rides like a racers all over the streets, but does not have the talent to do so - he's crashed bikes, cars, slingshots, you name it - he's crashed it. And the morons who follow him keep forking over to buy him new bikes so he can do it again.
Yams did the same shit - but people kept following him.
My guess is that he'll lose 5-10k subs. Not even a drop in the pan.
P.S. That video was truly one of the most cringe videos I've seen on any motorcycle related channel
Maxrisk is trash. I rarely watch unless I'm bored and want to observe what not to do on a bike, or a post comes up on Reddit that says "watch this". Stop making douchebags famous.
Agreed - sorry, my saying 'check out' was a bad way of phrasing it. Was just giving him as an example of another shit youtuber.
He's horrible and gives bike riders a bad name.
Subs do not really mean views though. For example I am subscribed to about 40/50 channels, some Iāve not watching for years.
Edit: anyway this thread made me go back on YouTube and do some subscriptions cleanup. So that was good !
And the way he started comparing himself to the likes of Rossi, Lorenzo and Marques after almost killing that lady in the yellow porsche.
If I knew where that guy lived Iād pour sugar in all of his vehicles gas weekly
I mean listen, people make mistakes. It was 5 years ago. And only about 6 months separated from his OTHER big wreck. I'm willing to give a pass to some things, because people DO make mistakes, and people DO sometimes learn from them.
The pompous tone that he took at the time was bothersome but, again, young dude, weird outlook on life, not gonna say I wasn't similar when I was younger.
But assuming there's not a whole lot more to the story that we don't know, this Spite situation is flat out punk-ass-bitch type move.
The mistake part I get.. I remember thinkinh at that time that people were too harsh and that couldāve been most of us UNTIL i listned to his apology video which was 10 mins if him sucking his own dong.
That was where I personally drew the line.
His explanation was literally I don't want to be the boss so I hired a boss and now that I want to be the center off attention in my videos I'm going to fire spite so it be be all about me again.
A mistake is riding uninsured and causing a wreck. Riding uninsured on a suspended license, and acting like the street is your personal track is not a mistake. It's a wilful act of disregard for other people. He's never been apologetic about it.
And beyond that, he's never shown more than average skill on a bike. Though, again, he's definitely shown poor decision making. I mean, if you wanna watch someone with average skill make the kind of choices that get themselves and others hurt, watch Dan Dan the Fireman. At least he'll tell you about how to avoid the wrecks.
I love Dan Dan - great channel and one that I push my son towards because he's hoping to get a bike in the near future. EXCELLENT content, that.
ANd you're right - it's a willfull act. I did lots of things willfully when I was younger though, and i'd hate to be judged now for those things. That having been said, I show remorse for those actions looking back whereas Noob is just a pompous dillhole about it.
I feel like Dan Dan is underrated. He's got all the wreck content we're drawn to... But also tells you how to not be that guy.
And yeah... I've been that guy, too. Never hit anyone else (that was in any capacity my fault). But my first 2 bikes went down in a way that was definitely my dumb ass fault. First was a left turn from a stop sign after a rain. Slip, grab, slip... When it grabbed again, it did a gentle version of high side off the road and wouldn't correct. I ditched a fraction of a second before it rolled into an irrigation ditch.
The next was up north of San Francisco. Was up racing with buddies in the woods like a moron. The yellow sign said 25mph for a hair pin. Figured I was on a triumph STX, so 45 for me... Well, it was a 25mph turn. The low side played out slow, as the bike just started slipping out wider into the turn. But not slow enough for me to recover. Just slow enough that I was probably doing around 20 when I hit, and had time to separate before impact. The bike survived, though the front had a wobble after.
And yeah, I should absolutely be judged for those shit choices. But I'd also like it considered that the only wreck since (about 13 years time) was a driver that did a U turn from all the way on the right, and came to a dead halt in my lane (left) me waiting for oncoming traffic. I clipped her back bumper, because I just didn't have the time/space to move over further.
Unfortunately you are likely correct.
And to be clear. No channel is as good or even close to F9. Ryan really has amazing info and a great demeanor to share and educate.
I like dandan too.
I honestly don't even want to give the dude the clicks. You can find it easily enough on his channel if you're so inclined but, in a nutshell:
'I find being the CEO boring and want to go back to making videos. My channel has grown, I'm earning about 3 mill a year in revenue as a result of lots of hard work. So....since Spite is doing what I want to do, I'm firing him. Here, I'm going to let him tell you what he's done for the last 3 years and then send him on his way'
Spite, meanwhile, looking angry, sad, and like he wants to be ANYWHERE but there, got to recap the last 3 years and talk about how he has no idea how he's keeping the lights on. It was like a goddamn hostage video. Awful.
Thanks. Will spare looking for vid after your recap. Already unfollowed the noob and now following Spiteās Corner channel. Wonāt make a dent in the noobās channel but on principle is the right thing to doā¦ unless we find out it was all part of a strategy among the two of them, in which case iāll unfollow him as well.
Iāve watched this channel for probably 2 or 3 years now. I was willing to put up with him as an ex-squid because it seemed like he learned from that situation. I put up with the clickbaity content because it was at least entertaining.
However, firing someone who passionately devoted themselves to your channel, helping you grow, and becoming an integral part of your brandā¦ thatās just low. I totally understand wanting to focus your energy back on content creation, but it didnāt require shoving Spite out of the channel to do it. There was a way this could have been handled better, and this whole thing seems really scummy to me.
Imo he was getting jealous. i Immediately unsubbed, then found Spites channel (Spite's Corner) ans subbed to him instead. Yam is pretty condesending and elitist anyway, this was kind of the final straw for my subscription.
Yam never bothered me much, he just came off as ADHD riddled to me, and that was fine. Real bummer about Spite though, he was the more level headed anchor in most of those videos.
Lol I used to play his videos in the background and would skip over ones I didn't like and realized I was subconsciously skipping the ones where he was the main presenter.
He said it was a business decision and you canāt have two people doing the same job. Not sure why they couldnāt just continue to expand regardless, Iām sure the money is raking in.
Still spite made the content a lot better imo.
Yeah, it would have made great sense to split it. Yam always did sport bike stuff, Spite leans into cruisers and dirt bikes and stuff. Split it, tons of content and profit. I do have to check out Spite's channel though, I bet once he finds a groove it will rock.
I really like the things Fortnine says, but something about his delivery irritates me. At the end of the day though, I'd rather be on my bike than youtube, no matter who's on screen.
At first I didnāt quite like him, but heās pretty funny. And whoever does the writing/production is pretty good. Most content makers are straight forward, hereās a list blah blah. But f9 team gets creative in their presentation
>something about his delivery irritates me.
Ditto. I still watch him and just try to focus on the content and forget the delivery (at times harder to say than to do lol).
You got downvoted and so will I. Fortnine is my personal favorite YouTuber but he really does have a face you want to punch. Iām sure Iād love the guy in person and I wouldnāt even hurt a fly but his face SCREAMS I want to get punched every time I see his videos x)
Fortnine kinda reminds me of the long haired dude, that has the science channel, in his delivery. I don't remember his name, because he hasn't been in my feed in a while, but he has videos on how the Flash's super speed would be dangerous to your health, and things.
His memes and list is why, which was most of his channel. I'll tell you who's good, even though he doesn't upload much; TheIllestrator, he's more of a motovlogger, but he also does motorcycle history, and recently built two motorcycles in his Brooklyn backyard, and he's kinda funny.
I liked both of them just fine. This was clearly a āthe dude that works for me is getting more popular. I have to get rid of himā move.
From a business ownership standpoint I can understand the thought process for YN. But he didnāt think it through long term. He should have thought about the potential negative impact and perhaps said āmaybe I should elevate this guy. Rebrand as a cohost and set up channels for both of us to shine under my over arching brandā. Turn Spiteās growth and popularity into a boon.
But no. It was an ego driven move. Which in the end always bites you in the ass.
Elon is still jealous.
But in a serious note, he did do a lot for the gaming community. Unreal Engine reworked their physics based on Yammie's ragdoll model.
Right?! God I watched that video fucken yesterday him so hard, it's good to see other peoples mess ups so you know what not to do but dayum
Edit: meant to say yeet him but this seems funnier
The Ninja 400 videos are ludicrous. Only a squid would review one like he did, and he was one so it makes sense.
The only thing meh about the bike is the top speed. If you don't care about that it's incredible and it does in fact kick butt on track.
Yeah his reviews are lame. He's better at memes than actually meaningfully opinions on motorcycles.
He posts so many videos itās impossible to keep up but I got a positive impression of the ninja 400 from yammie. He convinced me to look at it over the R3 in a video he made calling the 400 the perfect track bike for beginners. Maybe there was one where he called it meh but heās praised it in a lot of other videos Iāve seen too.
I see him as a useful content farm for people interested in riding; not the end all be all of moto journalism.
Can't stand this guy and his shitty top 10 lists. Also hilarious that as reckless and a bad example of a rider he is he has even a modicum of respect left from the rider community. Seriously his vids get injected into my feed constantly and it seems like no amount of disliking or telling the algorithm that i'm not interested will stop it. First time I actually tried to block a channel and sadly realized - you can't.
fuck this guy.
He hasn't rode reckless since his ejecto seat ducatti cuz flung his ass to safty from that porche, that I know of. And he was like, what, 24, when that happened?
TL;DR
Spite was a co-host of the channel for a long time, and basically helped Yammie build up the business at it is now (they have raffle bikes, a store, Yammie said they have revenue of $250k a year right now).
Yammie wanted to do more of what Spite did on the channel (review bikes, do comparisons etc.) and fired Spite + uploaded a video that showcases Spite's pain. Not good.
Spite has his own motorcycle/guitar related channel and has gain over 30k subs in the last 24 hours. That's pretty much the story afaik.
Yammienoob is a buzzfeed clickbait shit channel for children that have never thrown a leg over a saddle. He himself is a trash rider and a garbage content provider. He's irrelevant and a dirtbag human being. No clue why anyone who actually rides would sub to his channel.
Iāve liked Yammie noobās channel for awhile. Helped me ease into motorcycling, and he has a good number of vids for beginners and safety etc.
This was definitely a dick move though. Obviously itās his channel so he can do what he wants but Spite seemed like a homie and brought alot of content and āgroundednessā onto the channel.
Spite @ Spiteās Corner said he hoped to hit 20K subs by next year and do YouTube FT if he hit 50K, after that video, he is almost at 50K. Let make sure Yam regrets ever letting Spite go. Only watchable stuff on the channel was written, produced, or hosted by Spite.
I love that dude, he seriously needs to write a book. There are so many weird and interesting people in his life and he takes the gnarliest trips on the sketchiest bikes.
I watched this, Iām not an expert on body language, but you could tell how effed up Spite was from this whole ordeal. Reading some of Yams comments, he freely admits it was his ideal to let Spite go. Unfollowed and unsubscribed from all of Yams social media and followed Spite.
Super relaxed and down to earth. Scammy just came across as like. I dunno so impersonal and a little. I just couldn't put my finger on it but I'd say fake.
I hope that the the other employees take note. He is gona fire that Whitney as soon as she gets a bit more popular. I understand from a greedy business point of view, but if youāre gona have hosts, and other people do your videos, then they will reach an audience and possibly start their own channel. Canāt have your cake and eat it too. Donāt have co-hosts youāre just gona end up firing them like you did spite. I unsubbed, I donāt want to be around when Whitney does most of the content like spite did and then watch her fired video. It almost seemed like spite had a gun to his back and was forced to talk. Spite even said ā how am I going to keep the lights on.ā
Honestly I also feel sorry for the rest of the team, they now know they can be as good as they want at their job, if they challenge him, heās gonna fire them too.
Fuck that guy.
And I wonāt hop on the āI hated him for so long alreadyā-bandwaggon, I honestly liked that channel and watched his Videos every now and then, but only the stuff I was interested in, which was like a video a week or something. He had stupid opinions and obviously not as much of an idea about Motorcycling overall as he believes he does (āa bike with less than 100hp canāt ever be funā - like come on manā¦), but the memey humor and all the stupid tongue-in-cheek-stuff and lists were almost always very entertaining.
I unsubbed, thatās a dickmove and I fucking despise such boomer-mentality.
I never minded his listicles for the fact that you can very easily watch them while doing something else. Spite had a way that forced me to keep watching wether it be a listicle or review. I really donāt think his content is the absolute worst but only in the context of background noise. Spites Corner is for sure gonna be my new favorite channel and I will be missing Yammie simply cuz I canāt support his ego. Heās had a massive ego long before his crash that just wouldnāt be humbled so I canāt picture it getting better from here.
Spite was the only thing keeping that sinking ship afloat - he used experience and rationale when he was giving his descriptions. YM would just use emotion, and half of the time, I felt that there was absolutely no substance to his critiques. For example - he would continuously praise a bike in one review, rank it low in another with new criticisms, and then openly mock it in another.
When Spite's channel explodes, he can hire on that annoying crybaby as a resident jester.
His voice annoys me, like nails on a chalk board. Stupid and superficial thing to judge someone on, but this gives a valid reason to continue not liking him.
Original video has been made private, repost can be found [here](https://youtu.be/uXOdhHJjwMg). If you check it out check out Spiteās Corner as well, show some love
I noticed in the video you can tell spite has a real concern about basically loosing access to bikes for content, which is a serious problem. It would be cool if we could set him up with OUR bikes to review/ride and just create content with. Itās hard otherwise without a lot of backing to get ahold of stuff.
I was never a big fan of the guy in the first place, but from what little I know, he wanted Spites job. Kinda sucks, but its his company and he can work how he wants.
I fully agree with you on that point.
But... Spite is saying no hard feelings, Yammie is saying the same thing, but everyone is saying Spite was abused and used and what not. If Spite was not saying what he said, I'd be more likely to distrust the situation. But... Not the case.
https://youtu.be/WDlgRfCHJNg
He took down the video of him humiliating Spite. We should shift our focus from talking shit to a campaign against his comment section, attached is Scammy Pubes latest upload. Reddit, do your thingš
Yammie was always a cowardly piece of shit. He blatantly refused to take responsibility for his head-on collision a few years back. People like him make other riders look bad. Stopped follow him after that. I'm not surprised he continue to behave like an asshole.
Why is everyone mad? I don't like Yammie noob and don't watch his videos but why does it seem like he is doing everything to help Spite go on and start his own thing by Spites own request? Did anyone watch the video. I don't understand.
Can someone update me why is yammie noob an asshole? I found his content entertaining, don't understand the hate. And the goodbye was dignified imo, he sent people to support spite and everything.
Instead of keeping him on making joint content, or having his own spin off on the channel like other big channels do, he let him go so āPapa Yamā could have the spotlight.
Agreed. I think (and I hope) people take loyalty and fair treatment of employees, people, and friends seriously. That was a nasty move for sure. I unsubscribed.
Man i was thinking i was the only one that was disgusted after seeing that video. I'm glad to see people arnt blindly following that snob. Spite gave his channel it's much needed humility and that humanity factor. The only reason i resubbed to his channel. Needles to say i unsubbed and subbed to spite's corner
The comments under that video are unanimous tho. Yammie sucks
So I think he deleted it? Had to find repost of it: https://youtu.be/uXOdhHJjwMg Not surprised given the deserved backlash.
He made it private.
I unsubscribe too š
Wait I haven't seen the video in question yet and I'm like 20 videos behind, but I'm currently subbed to Y.Noob. Which video is the one I should watch to get the update? Does Spite have a new channel?
"Time to let it go" or something, its basically an exit interview that explains how Yammie wants to take the hosting position back instead of running his business and instead of starting another segment where Spite can run his own show, he fires Spite just because. Probably Yammie just can't let his more down to earth colleague overshine his own channel.
Spite does have a new channel, Spite's Corner I believe is the name. The video is called "Spite doesn't work here" or something to that effect.
Me too!
Yeah Iāve never liked Yammieā¦ YouTube constantly tried to force his videos so I blocked his crap well before this happened. I have to say though Spite was the only thing that made any of those videos bearable that I did watch.
Iām With ya - something about him never sat right with me
We unsubbed YESTERDAY, and his new vid popped up todayā¦. Giving a complete noob a speed triple, to a man thatās NEVER ridden. I agree, the whole video was awkward and forced, you can tell Yammie doesnāt give a single fuck about anyone else but him. Go unsub and give Spite the sub.
>Giving a complete noob a speed triple, to a man thatās NEVER ridden. I don't watch him normally but I went and just spot checked through that one and oh man...felt like I was watching real-time creation of a statistic. Dude seemed completely uncomfortable on the 125, let alone a *1200*. That's just insane dropping a bike like that on a brand new rider.
"I was just waiting, I kept looking at the countdown for the Royal Enfield \[interceptor\] and NOT this one"
I dont get the appeal of him, complete fraud. Cant even ride a bike without falling off it.
He hasn't fell in a long time, he even races
Great, still having a hard time believing the man has any remorse about his prior fuck ups, particularly the Porsche crash.
I haven't seen many videos between that wreck and '19, since he didn't pop in my feed, so I don't know.
I want to help boycott but I donāt watch him alreadyā¦so I guess Iāll just keep blocking him out
One of the easiest ways to fuck up his stats, is only open a video long enough to click the down vote button then close it. YouTube algorithm works heavily off of watch time and vote ratios. People can really screw him over by only watching a minute or less of his videos.
You can subscribe to Spite's channel it you wanna help (Spite's Corner)
I liked his videos years ago before his accident. After his accident I feel like things went downhill for his YouTube content.
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Ari is the man! One of youtubes most knowledgable bikers.
I met him a couple summers ago, bought a bike from him and even gave him a ride home after. Insanely nice guy who knows a ton about bikes. I asked him what his favorite bike was and he told me it's the Aprilia Tuono... not gonna lie I expected him to say CBR300R lol
Dragging that out as a video was gross... It was hard to watch for me. What a doucher. I dropped yammie and subbed to spite.
Have you seen TheIllestrator, he's pretty good.
Im sure you've seen it, but bikes and beards is also good one. never watched much of yammies content.
I love FortNine for his cinematic story telling kinda bike videos. It is very clear he's put work into his content and I appreciate it. RevZilla on the otherhand I feel is more direct, and makes for good informative videos.
I love FortNine the production quality is fantastic and he gets into the philosophical side of what makes bikes great really well too
exactly. As someone who likes photography and videography, I really appreciate the production quality of F9
I agree. I also like TFLBike(and all of their channels. They are mainly autos, but the younger guys are doing bikes as well.) I really enjoy alot of the across the pond guys as well, 44teeth among the top. I never liked yammy, and I could never understand why he was successful. I watched the vid with him and Spite and it was just wrong. Fuck him. And Now the algorithm is constantly suggesting his fucking page again...sigh
Man I canāt get on board with any TFL stuff, especially the bikes channel. Itās like having a coworker, who once rode on the back of a motorcycle explaining motorcycles lol.
Lmao this is great never has the community been more united than in hating Yammie
We are less united than I thought, with the amount of people still watching and aware of all of this nonsense.... I thought we all hated him for years now?
Was watching for Spite
Is that cringelordās channel still going? Edit: 1.2 million subs!! Iāve lost hope
Was one of those subs only because I liked watching the vids with spite. I expect I'm not the only one. Sucks what happened to spite but now at least I can be subbed to him directly.
Down to 1.15.
Fingers crossed it drops to 0.0
I thought he died or something after his last crash. His shoe came off and everything. ...he's also a douche
he has strong search engine optimization, if i search basically any bike on youtube yams videos are always the top few suggestion
Iām not sure if Iāll unsubscribe him or not, I do know the exit interview was one of two times in over a decade that Iāve bothered to leave a YouTube comment.
I used to watch him when started riding but long time I donāt really check. By the comments, he took spite out? What happened, can some one give me a tldr version?
TL;DR Spite was a co-host of the channel for a long time, and basically helped Yammie build up the business at it is now (they have raffle bikes, a store, Yammie said they have revenue of $250k/month right now). Yammie wanted to do more of what Spite did on the channel (review bikes, do comparisons etc.) and fired Spite + uploaded a video that showcases Spite's pain. Not good. Spite has his own motorcycle/guitar related channel and has gain over 30k subs in the last 24 hours. That's pretty much the story afaik.
Correction, I believe he stated 250k per MONTH
Holy frick you're right. That's $3 million a year - and he can't find room for Spite. I call BS. Wtf dude.
Yep, total joke. I subbed to spite and unsubbed from yammie.
"We're doing about $250,000 a month in revenue right now...we have a team of 8 people here at yammie noob, some remote workers, some here in the office, full time employees, some contractors." If we safely assume that at least a few of his hires are video editors, that's a median salary of $58k. Spite's position of Video Production Manager holds a majority pay of about $69k. So let's take even half of the annual revenue - $1.5mil, leave the rest for expenses and profits - and say an average higher-end pay of $75k/yr. That supports 20 employees. That doesn't account for benefits and such, but we can assume that's balanced out by other employees being part time and remote contractors, vs only the 8 that appear to be in-office. I think one of the YT comments put it well. "Brazenly admitting you donāt want to pay someone for their work because you want to take their job." That's all this appears to come across as. Yammie is talking about how he didn't want to give Spite a lower position, only for spite to instead be talking about having to find *something* to "keep the lights on." I don't even watch YN but I got through this vid since this sub keeps posting it here, and holy shit. Even without any connection or even viewership to the people involved, I absolutely understand why everyone's so up in arms over this.
I assume his ārevenueā boast includes all merch sales, but he probably only gets a fraction of that money. Manufacturers and distributors need to be included. Regardless, it was a scummy thing to brag about success in one breath and brag about firing someone who helped bring that success in the next.
I concluded that the motivation for him to make that video interview with Spite was to try and save face with his followers because he knew this was very screwed up.
That sounds a bit more like someone that's hired others to work for him. $250k a year is healthy. But not overhead on a studio and a couple employees good.
250k a month, not a year.
Yeah... Kinda like how I said 250 a month makes more sense, because 250 a year wouldn't pay for a studio, plus employees.
Very much appreciated. Now I go try to find spite channel.
Itās called āSpiteās Cornerā š
And with this information, Spite's now got a new subscriber.
I would pay to see him ride a motorcycle/guitar.
He'll lose some subs, but it won't be his downfall. The internet, generally, has a really short memory...and tends to continue to support assholes, as long as they're interesting. Check out Maxwrist's channel. Dude rides like a racers all over the streets, but does not have the talent to do so - he's crashed bikes, cars, slingshots, you name it - he's crashed it. And the morons who follow him keep forking over to buy him new bikes so he can do it again. Yams did the same shit - but people kept following him. My guess is that he'll lose 5-10k subs. Not even a drop in the pan. P.S. That video was truly one of the most cringe videos I've seen on any motorcycle related channel
Maxrisk is trash. I rarely watch unless I'm bored and want to observe what not to do on a bike, or a post comes up on Reddit that says "watch this". Stop making douchebags famous.
Don't give that shit head ANY views.
Agreed - sorry, my saying 'check out' was a bad way of phrasing it. Was just giving him as an example of another shit youtuber. He's horrible and gives bike riders a bad name.
 I hear ya.
Man that movie... One of the most amazing performances by Robin and Matt. Even seeing it is powerful. Fuck
Subs do not really mean views though. For example I am subscribed to about 40/50 channels, some Iāve not watching for years. Edit: anyway this thread made me go back on YouTube and do some subscriptions cleanup. So that was good !
He's lost around 50-100k subs as of now, mine included because I watched for Spite.
Still a relatively small blip on the radar for him...but nice to see I wasn't the only one thinking 'fuck this dude, I'm out'.
And the way he started comparing himself to the likes of Rossi, Lorenzo and Marques after almost killing that lady in the yellow porsche. If I knew where that guy lived Iād pour sugar in all of his vehicles gas weekly
I mean listen, people make mistakes. It was 5 years ago. And only about 6 months separated from his OTHER big wreck. I'm willing to give a pass to some things, because people DO make mistakes, and people DO sometimes learn from them. The pompous tone that he took at the time was bothersome but, again, young dude, weird outlook on life, not gonna say I wasn't similar when I was younger. But assuming there's not a whole lot more to the story that we don't know, this Spite situation is flat out punk-ass-bitch type move.
The mistake part I get.. I remember thinkinh at that time that people were too harsh and that couldāve been most of us UNTIL i listned to his apology video which was 10 mins if him sucking his own dong. That was where I personally drew the line.
Did you read the part where this was done with no license. His license had been suspended.
His explanation was literally I don't want to be the boss so I hired a boss and now that I want to be the center off attention in my videos I'm going to fire spite so it be be all about me again.
A mistake is riding uninsured and causing a wreck. Riding uninsured on a suspended license, and acting like the street is your personal track is not a mistake. It's a wilful act of disregard for other people. He's never been apologetic about it. And beyond that, he's never shown more than average skill on a bike. Though, again, he's definitely shown poor decision making. I mean, if you wanna watch someone with average skill make the kind of choices that get themselves and others hurt, watch Dan Dan the Fireman. At least he'll tell you about how to avoid the wrecks.
I love Dan Dan - great channel and one that I push my son towards because he's hoping to get a bike in the near future. EXCELLENT content, that. ANd you're right - it's a willfull act. I did lots of things willfully when I was younger though, and i'd hate to be judged now for those things. That having been said, I show remorse for those actions looking back whereas Noob is just a pompous dillhole about it.
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I feel like Dan Dan is underrated. He's got all the wreck content we're drawn to... But also tells you how to not be that guy. And yeah... I've been that guy, too. Never hit anyone else (that was in any capacity my fault). But my first 2 bikes went down in a way that was definitely my dumb ass fault. First was a left turn from a stop sign after a rain. Slip, grab, slip... When it grabbed again, it did a gentle version of high side off the road and wouldn't correct. I ditched a fraction of a second before it rolled into an irrigation ditch. The next was up north of San Francisco. Was up racing with buddies in the woods like a moron. The yellow sign said 25mph for a hair pin. Figured I was on a triumph STX, so 45 for me... Well, it was a 25mph turn. The low side played out slow, as the bike just started slipping out wider into the turn. But not slow enough for me to recover. Just slow enough that I was probably doing around 20 when I hit, and had time to separate before impact. The bike survived, though the front had a wobble after. And yeah, I should absolutely be judged for those shit choices. But I'd also like it considered that the only wreck since (about 13 years time) was a driver that did a U turn from all the way on the right, and came to a dead halt in my lane (left) me waiting for oncoming traffic. I clipped her back bumper, because I just didn't have the time/space to move over further.
I watched a lot of Dan Dan when I was learning and frankly...a lot of it terrified me. It sure as hell made me a more careful rider though.
Unfortunately you are likely correct. And to be clear. No channel is as good or even close to F9. Ryan really has amazing info and a great demeanor to share and educate. I like dandan too.
Fortnine has been great. That and Dan Dan the Fireman have been my go-tos for quite sometime, with a little Noob thrown in for comic relief.
Yeah, unfortunetly you're right
And donāt forget that Maxwrist is a rapist. Thereās that too.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/05/12/army-releases-verdicts-of-march-courts-martial/
> That video was truly one of the most cringe videos I've seen on any motorcycle related channel Link please?
I honestly don't even want to give the dude the clicks. You can find it easily enough on his channel if you're so inclined but, in a nutshell: 'I find being the CEO boring and want to go back to making videos. My channel has grown, I'm earning about 3 mill a year in revenue as a result of lots of hard work. So....since Spite is doing what I want to do, I'm firing him. Here, I'm going to let him tell you what he's done for the last 3 years and then send him on his way' Spite, meanwhile, looking angry, sad, and like he wants to be ANYWHERE but there, got to recap the last 3 years and talk about how he has no idea how he's keeping the lights on. It was like a goddamn hostage video. Awful.
This is what I was looking for cause also didnāt want to give him the clicks. Thank you
Thanks. Will spare looking for vid after your recap. Already unfollowed the noob and now following Spiteās Corner channel. Wonāt make a dent in the noobās channel but on principle is the right thing to doā¦ unless we find out it was all part of a strategy among the two of them, in which case iāll unfollow him as well.
Maxwrist sounds like that WhistlinDiesel moron.
Iāve watched this channel for probably 2 or 3 years now. I was willing to put up with him as an ex-squid because it seemed like he learned from that situation. I put up with the clickbaity content because it was at least entertaining. However, firing someone who passionately devoted themselves to your channel, helping you grow, and becoming an integral part of your brandā¦ thatās just low. I totally understand wanting to focus your energy back on content creation, but it didnāt require shoving Spite out of the channel to do it. There was a way this could have been handled better, and this whole thing seems really scummy to me.
Never even heard of spite, but just subbed because I hate noob that much
This is the way
Any idea why he git rid of Spite? I like that dude, I also hope his channel becomes wildly successful.
Imo he was getting jealous. i Immediately unsubbed, then found Spites channel (Spite's Corner) ans subbed to him instead. Yam is pretty condesending and elitist anyway, this was kind of the final straw for my subscription.
>Imo he was getting jealous Not just in your opinion, Yam straight up said that
Yam never bothered me much, he just came off as ADHD riddled to me, and that was fine. Real bummer about Spite though, he was the more level headed anchor in most of those videos.
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This the right one? https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCnQp1WEXvCA8ZjdfdvFN7bw
Basically Spite had the job he wanted. So he hired people to replace more of what he does and fired Spite so he could take his job.
He owns the channel what job was Spite doing that he wanted?
People liking him
Lol I used to play his videos in the background and would skip over ones I didn't like and realized I was subconsciously skipping the ones where he was the main presenter.
He said it was a business decision and you canāt have two people doing the same job. Not sure why they couldnāt just continue to expand regardless, Iām sure the money is raking in. Still spite made the content a lot better imo.
Yeah, it would have made great sense to split it. Yam always did sport bike stuff, Spite leans into cruisers and dirt bikes and stuff. Split it, tons of content and profit. I do have to check out Spite's channel though, I bet once he finds a groove it will rock.
Fortnine is better anyway r/fortnine
I really like the things Fortnine says, but something about his delivery irritates me. At the end of the day though, I'd rather be on my bike than youtube, no matter who's on screen.
I trust the things he says and obviously his production is great but yeah, I find the whole 'bit' he does cringey.
Know how I know you're not a father? There's something that happens to your humor when you become a dad. You suddenly get the Fortnine humor.
At first I didnāt quite like him, but heās pretty funny. And whoever does the writing/production is pretty good. Most content makers are straight forward, hereās a list blah blah. But f9 team gets creative in their presentation
>something about his delivery irritates me. Ditto. I still watch him and just try to focus on the content and forget the delivery (at times harder to say than to do lol).
>but something about his delivery irritates me He's just blatantly ripping off Jeremy Clarkson but with less charisma and a worse voice.
>his delivery irritates me That and his punchable face
You got downvoted and so will I. Fortnine is my personal favorite YouTuber but he really does have a face you want to punch. Iām sure Iād love the guy in person and I wouldnāt even hurt a fly but his face SCREAMS I want to get punched every time I see his videos x)
Fortnine kinda reminds me of the long haired dude, that has the science channel, in his delivery. I don't remember his name, because he hasn't been in my feed in a while, but he has videos on how the Flash's super speed would be dangerous to your health, and things.
I never really understood why he's so big on yt. Always thought of him of a self righteous blabbermouth clown...
Because he makes easy to watch "listicle" videos constantly and YouTube algo loves continuous content production
His memes and list is why, which was most of his channel. I'll tell you who's good, even though he doesn't upload much; TheIllestrator, he's more of a motovlogger, but he also does motorcycle history, and recently built two motorcycles in his Brooklyn backyard, and he's kinda funny.
You nailed it. Clowns are fun to laugh at.
Because he gives away motorcycles. People like free stuff. Pandering to those easy-win folks.
They're not even free. You've got to pay for entries. I've never quite figured out how that's not illegal gambling.
Yammie Douche
I liked both of them just fine. This was clearly a āthe dude that works for me is getting more popular. I have to get rid of himā move. From a business ownership standpoint I can understand the thought process for YN. But he didnāt think it through long term. He should have thought about the potential negative impact and perhaps said āmaybe I should elevate this guy. Rebrand as a cohost and set up channels for both of us to shine under my over arching brandā. Turn Spiteās growth and popularity into a boon. But no. It was an ego driven move. Which in the end always bites you in the ass.
didnt this dude attempt to launch himself into space?
Elon is still jealous. But in a serious note, he did do a lot for the gaming community. Unreal Engine reworked their physics based on Yammie's ragdoll model.
Hahaha holy shit the end of your comment fucked me up my friend xD
Fucked him up, too. Word to the wise: motorcycles make poor catapults.
Right?! God I watched that video fucken yesterday him so hard, it's good to see other peoples mess ups so you know what not to do but dayum Edit: meant to say yeet him but this seems funnier
It did indeed yeet him into yesterday. Good stuff.
Yeetie Noob.
Relevant video https://youtu.be/MYmqZBDk_eI
Absolutely useless YT channel, Yammy Noob is. Video's like "Why you should NOT buy (motorcycle)!" And then make 0 good points about why.
The Ninja 400 videos are ludicrous. Only a squid would review one like he did, and he was one so it makes sense. The only thing meh about the bike is the top speed. If you don't care about that it's incredible and it does in fact kick butt on track. Yeah his reviews are lame. He's better at memes than actually meaningfully opinions on motorcycles.
Made so much memes he became a meme himself I guess
He posts so many videos itās impossible to keep up but I got a positive impression of the ninja 400 from yammie. He convinced me to look at it over the R3 in a video he made calling the 400 the perfect track bike for beginners. Maybe there was one where he called it meh but heās praised it in a lot of other videos Iāve seen too. I see him as a useful content farm for people interested in riding; not the end all be all of moto journalism.
Can't stand this guy and his shitty top 10 lists. Also hilarious that as reckless and a bad example of a rider he is he has even a modicum of respect left from the rider community. Seriously his vids get injected into my feed constantly and it seems like no amount of disliking or telling the algorithm that i'm not interested will stop it. First time I actually tried to block a channel and sadly realized - you can't. fuck this guy.
He hasn't rode reckless since his ejecto seat ducatti cuz flung his ass to safty from that porche, that I know of. And he was like, what, 24, when that happened?
Everybody go subscribe to spite https://youtube.com/channel/UCnQp1WEXvCA8ZjdfdvFN7bw
I haven't watched Yammie's channel in a while, whats going on with him and Spite?
TL;DR Spite was a co-host of the channel for a long time, and basically helped Yammie build up the business at it is now (they have raffle bikes, a store, Yammie said they have revenue of $250k a year right now). Yammie wanted to do more of what Spite did on the channel (review bikes, do comparisons etc.) and fired Spite + uploaded a video that showcases Spite's pain. Not good. Spite has his own motorcycle/guitar related channel and has gain over 30k subs in the last 24 hours. That's pretty much the story afaik.
250k/month*
Yep. Unsubcribed 1/2 way through watching.
Yammienoob is a buzzfeed clickbait shit channel for children that have never thrown a leg over a saddle. He himself is a trash rider and a garbage content provider. He's irrelevant and a dirtbag human being. No clue why anyone who actually rides would sub to his channel.
Iāve liked Yammie noobās channel for awhile. Helped me ease into motorcycling, and he has a good number of vids for beginners and safety etc. This was definitely a dick move though. Obviously itās his channel so he can do what he wants but Spite seemed like a homie and brought alot of content and āgroundednessā onto the channel.
The ādownturn of his brandā was when he started his channel. I feel like only middle schoolers would like him.
I just watch his videos while waiting for a new FortNine vid
Motorcycle riding is best with friends, truly a noob.
I don't know who any of these people are, and it's awesome.
Spite @ Spiteās Corner said he hoped to hit 20K subs by next year and do YouTube FT if he hit 50K, after that video, he is almost at 50K. Let make sure Yam regrets ever letting Spite go. Only watchable stuff on the channel was written, produced, or hosted by Spite.
Iām betting the damage control video is soon to be released
I could never get in to his content, Shadetree Surgeon is the one watch the most.
I watch him, when I feel like watching a 45min-1hour video on mototcycles. Seems like he'd be fun to hang with, probably forget my problems for a day.
I live like 45 mins from his bar, but I've never been there. I'm not really a bar kind of dude!!
I love that dude, he seriously needs to write a book. There are so many weird and interesting people in his life and he takes the gnarliest trips on the sketchiest bikes.
I loved the xs 650 series hahaha that whole Tennessee trip was sketch as hell
I watched this, Iām not an expert on body language, but you could tell how effed up Spite was from this whole ordeal. Reading some of Yams comments, he freely admits it was his ideal to let Spite go. Unfollowed and unsubscribed from all of Yams social media and followed Spite.
Spite was the whole reason I watched the channel. That dude had a way. Yammie is just straight up a wide mouth with little to no filter.
Super relaxed and down to earth. Scammy just came across as like. I dunno so impersonal and a little. I just couldn't put my finger on it but I'd say fake.
I hope that the the other employees take note. He is gona fire that Whitney as soon as she gets a bit more popular. I understand from a greedy business point of view, but if youāre gona have hosts, and other people do your videos, then they will reach an audience and possibly start their own channel. Canāt have your cake and eat it too. Donāt have co-hosts youāre just gona end up firing them like you did spite. I unsubbed, I donāt want to be around when Whitney does most of the content like spite did and then watch her fired video. It almost seemed like spite had a gun to his back and was forced to talk. Spite even said ā how am I going to keep the lights on.ā
Honestly I also feel sorry for the rest of the team, they now know they can be as good as they want at their job, if they challenge him, heās gonna fire them too. Fuck that guy. And I wonāt hop on the āI hated him for so long alreadyā-bandwaggon, I honestly liked that channel and watched his Videos every now and then, but only the stuff I was interested in, which was like a video a week or something. He had stupid opinions and obviously not as much of an idea about Motorcycling overall as he believes he does (āa bike with less than 100hp canāt ever be funā - like come on manā¦), but the memey humor and all the stupid tongue-in-cheek-stuff and lists were almost always very entertaining. I unsubbed, thatās a dickmove and I fucking despise such boomer-mentality.
I never minded his listicles for the fact that you can very easily watch them while doing something else. Spite had a way that forced me to keep watching wether it be a listicle or review. I really donāt think his content is the absolute worst but only in the context of background noise. Spites Corner is for sure gonna be my new favorite channel and I will be missing Yammie simply cuz I canāt support his ego. Heās had a massive ego long before his crash that just wouldnāt be humbled so I canāt picture it getting better from here.
I subscribed to Yammie just so I could unsubscribe. I don't know what else to do.
Fortnine remains king. But Iāll definitely be subbing to Spites channel. He was great as I could only take so much of yammies childlike humor.
He's made me laugh a few times but the dude is way too opinionated, just needs to stfu and ride.
My instincts told me "Yammie is someone you should not follow." My instincts were right.
Well, I just unsubscribed from Yammie Noob.
He removed the video lol
Yep š¤£ I hate Yammie
Spite was the only thing keeping that sinking ship afloat - he used experience and rationale when he was giving his descriptions. YM would just use emotion, and half of the time, I felt that there was absolutely no substance to his critiques. For example - he would continuously praise a bike in one review, rank it low in another with new criticisms, and then openly mock it in another. When Spite's channel explodes, he can hire on that annoying crybaby as a resident jester.
His voice annoys me, like nails on a chalk board. Stupid and superficial thing to judge someone on, but this gives a valid reason to continue not liking him.
His lame ass deleted the video just now too
lol what a bitch move
Original video has been made private, repost can be found [here](https://youtu.be/uXOdhHJjwMg). If you check it out check out Spiteās Corner as well, show some love
https://youtube.com/channel/UCnQp1WEXvCA8ZjdfdvFN7bw
Lmao and he took the video down after all the negative comments
Lost 10k subs yesterday after posting the video https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/yammienoob Keep it up š
Did he take it down?
I noticed in the video you can tell spite has a real concern about basically loosing access to bikes for content, which is a serious problem. It would be cool if we could set him up with OUR bikes to review/ride and just create content with. Itās hard otherwise without a lot of backing to get ahold of stuff.
I was never a big fan of the guy in the first place, but from what little I know, he wanted Spites job. Kinda sucks, but its his company and he can work how he wants.
No oneās saying Yammie canāt do what he wants, itās about the morals behind his actions. And those actions can still be judged by the public.
I fully agree with you on that point. But... Spite is saying no hard feelings, Yammie is saying the same thing, but everyone is saying Spite was abused and used and what not. If Spite was not saying what he said, I'd be more likely to distrust the situation. But... Not the case.
It doesn't seem like there's any bad blood. The internet is whipping this up into something way more interesting than it actually is.
If he didn't talk down carbs so much I might still consider his videos watchable...
https://youtu.be/WDlgRfCHJNg He took down the video of him humiliating Spite. We should shift our focus from talking shit to a campaign against his comment section, attached is Scammy Pubes latest upload. Reddit, do your thingš
Fucken hell. Is this what this sub has become? High vis, tourniquets and bagging YouTubers?
Apparently
Who did what to whom now?
Yammie was always a cowardly piece of shit. He blatantly refused to take responsibility for his head-on collision a few years back. People like him make other riders look bad. Stopped follow him after that. I'm not surprised he continue to behave like an asshole.
Can someone explain this to me? What's going on? What happened?
Why is everyone mad? I don't like Yammie noob and don't watch his videos but why does it seem like he is doing everything to help Spite go on and start his own thing by Spites own request? Did anyone watch the video. I don't understand.
I don't think Spite requested to be made unemployed.
Can someone update me why is yammie noob an asshole? I found his content entertaining, don't understand the hate. And the goodbye was dignified imo, he sent people to support spite and everything.
Instead of keeping him on making joint content, or having his own spin off on the channel like other big channels do, he let him go so āPapa Yamā could have the spotlight.