hello everyone my name is brett and sometimes i wear a beret and welcome back to another
educational video of wikihow sorry no it's not contrary to popular belief wikihow
is in fact always on my mind i love making wikihow videos i always have wikihow has been
with me since before my channel even started i loved the craziness the silliness of those
articles which is what ultimately led to me making review videos on them way back when
i have been away from them for a while have i not it's been over a year now and i keep saying i'm
going to work on them and then i and then i don't so sometimes to kind of get the creative juices
flowing i checked back on my old videos and see what really gave me that inspiration in the first
place and i was going back and watching some of my first reviews which is really weird it's always
odd to see where you were four plus years ago i didn't link all the articles in my videos i only
did it for the very first one which is how to win a nerf war a classic but out of curiosity i did
click on that link since i had posted there and i found something kind of disappointing it's gone
my original wikihow video not the video itself sorry the article the article that that video is
based off of it's gone okay well sorry it's more like this how to win a nerf war we're sorry this
article is currently in quality review this article either has not yet passed our initial
quality review process or has been flagged by a wikihow editor for potential content concerns that
would make it unhelpful to readers very sad day and i don't actually know how long this has been
because i remember going back and checking on this article to see what had changed over the years i
actually went back and did a re-review of the wikihow how to make a nerf gun out of household
items because that turned out to be one of my most popular wikihows ever and after seeing some of the
changes to that article i then re-reacted gave some new stuff and i thought maybe this article
would be another good one to check back in on and update you to see if anything had changed because
if you don't remember there are some questionable things in this article but it's also one of the
reasons that i absolutely love it we know it's not true we know that some of the things in that
article are things you shouldn't do so i saw that and was a bit sad because part of me feels like
that's my fault there are a number of reasons why an article might go into review my videos
for wikihow took off a lot on my channel they're the first big series on my channel that got a lot
of extra views and ultimately what helped grow my channel in the very beginning so some of you might
be here from those initial reviews perhaps some people then felt the need to go in and
comment on the original articles and then get it taken down whatever i do put out will put
extra eyes on a certain article and it will then change forever maybe it will change for the good
and that being it'll actually be updated to have good information but it won't have funny
information which is bad you see the problem i love to react to articles that are not great
they kind of live in this fantasy land and that's why it's fun to laugh at them
but i also at the same time now being a slightly larger channel than even when i first made review
videos have the power to destroy them what a weird world we live in we really do live
in a nerf society um hold on sorry real quick the next sentence if you would like to view this
article even though it's in quality review please log in or create a wikihow account
oh it's that it's that simple let's see right here well minor false alarm that
was a lot easier than i actually thought it was seriously i did not know it was that easy to then
go in and check on these things here's the little flag that pops up when an article is in review
this article has been tagged as a stub that means it's off to a good start but still has
room to grow into a more helpful resource until this article reaches its full potential it will
be hidden from search results can you help it flourish if you think the article offers complete
and accurate instructions feel free to remove this tag i now have the power to save wikihow articles
i am the harbinger of death and resurrection this is a weird feeling to have here it is how
to win a nerf war it has 186 000 views it was last updated in march of 2021 that sounds about right
holy smokes 111 co-authors 111 people worked on this article i'm sorry 84 of readers found this
article helpful that's very interesting only 52 votes and if i scan through this article really
quickly i think this is what i saw earlier in the year when i first checked in on it yes the article
has completely changed since my initial review over four years ago that is the positive change
you know it's actual reasonable information to the point where i don't think it would make sense to
even go in and make a read review or revisit this article because the graphics are better
the instructions are better less questionable dangerous advice so in that sense it's not
actually fun to talk about that kind of article i'm glad that it's been updated positively but i
suppose it's not even been updated enough because it's still in this state of limbo still i do see
holding an enemy hostage if the rules allow it you know what maybe this article isn't free from sin
yet maybe there's still hope so i apologize for being dramatic no my video reviewing this wikihow
article is not gone and no technically this article is not completely gone it's been changed
many many times yet it still remains in some way shape or form so what's my real excuse the
biggest reason why i don't think i make wikihow videos as often as i used to is because oh shoot
there's another one the pandemic made it harder to hang out with people and i really like doing
collaborative stuff for my wikihow videos that's another one but the big one is actually because
wiki how was that big first series that took off on my channel people began to really really expect
wiki hell videos for me and i really liked doing them but it got put up on this massive
massive pedestal and so anytime i would think to try and jump back into one i constantly fought
in my mind on getting it perfect and as i slowly upgraded my editing over the years that mountain
just seemed more and more ginormous i've put a lot of effort into my other videos but wikihow still
just feels like some monumental task that i will not get right or i'll let people down
because that's what they expect even though they probably don't any content creators out there know
exactly what i'm talking about probably something that you're most well known for or your favorite
thing to work on and it's just this impossible ask that while other people would be like oh just
we don't care if it's the best just put it out and you're like no no
it's not that simple i have like four scripts i'm not joking you ready for wikihow videos different
articles ones that i've never talked about and i just haven't gotten around to filming them
because of that feeling it's tough to get in the right headspace to do a video from a series that
has become so synonymous with your youtube channel and again if you are here from those
initial wikihows or maybe you've seen some recently because i do constantly get comments
on my wikihow videos thank you i love making them and i'm glad people have still enjoyed them
over the years so that's where my head is when it comes to wikihow videos i apologize if i've made
claims that i was hoping to get to them as soon as possible because clearly that hasn't happened
but i would like to if i do put out a wikihow video i'll give you my 110 best effort
um or i should probably get back to that grenade review because people were really unhappy that i
just dropped some of those on my desk gotten a lot of negative comments from that one love
to hear what you guys think thank you so much for watching and i will see you next time with
another educational review maybe it'll be from wikihow or maybe it will be from somewhere else
you