Building Glitterbomb 1.0 with Mark Rober

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ipsum2 · 2024-07 · Criticism

Mark Rober doesn't do any engineering himself, he's the CEO who claims credit for what other people do. For example, he didn't create the glitter bomb, his most viewed video. That was done by Sean Hodgins (making-of video: [VIDEO] ). Sean's name was not mentioned at all in the glitter bomb video. Instead, Mark Rober claimed he built it by himself.

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fxtentacle · 2020-12 · Criticism

This is clearly marketing, and clearly good one. From what I can tell, it's a course that was mostly produced by someone else and will be delivered by someone else, but they recorded Mark Rober - the guy famous on YouTube for glitterbombing people - as the instructor. But their FAQ already states that he will "be able to" look at what students are doing and "may occasionally [..] give feedback", so most likely he won't be around to run the course. Also, from watching the videos, I had the impression that the technical work is mostly done by other people, e.g. the famous glitterbomb was built by Sean Hodgins: [VIDEO] So first and foremost, it appears that Mark Rober is a great showman and a great narrator. Plus he's collaborating with people like Mr Beast who have the power of a skilled agency behind them (nightmedia.co) to produce just the right narrative to go viral. And his first videos appear to be sponsored by a marketing agency. So I'm not surprised that this course is hyped up and not actually done by Mark Rober. I'd treat this more as a case study on how to perfect your social marketing ;) That said, their core promise of building 3 own projects within 30 days sounds reasonable if they have skilled instructors running the course. And the price seems reasonable for such a learning experience. When I was younger, my dad built some technical projects with me. Over the course of a weekend, I would learn more about electrics and physics than in a year in school. And once yo

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root_axis · 2018-12 · Criticism

I think he's lying and making up excuses because he got caught. He also misrepresented his role in the creation of the device (i.e. he didn't create it, someone else did, you can view their youtube channel here [VIDEO] ). IMO there is no reason to trust anything that guy says.

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