The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

If we all report that page we can get it closed down and that would be another win for the LetsRun Community, after the bib muling case 🐴

It's also just a money making scam now - which was probably the plan from the start.

You have to join their Patreon to submit someone you'd like them to investigate. It's £3.50 a month. No idea how many people are paying that, but probably explains why they investigate so many people no one has heard of. It's all fueled by bitter followers of smaller influencers who pay the money to have them called out.

I'm so hyped for the what she'll eat over there reveal.

I'm glad we're all still trashing this OMTIU nerd. I've noticed a bunch of instagram mutuals have unfollowed him too. The way he only goes after influencers with a small enough following so he feels he won't get blowback is pathetic. It feels very much like punching down on new rec runners at this stage.

I feel like if he's going to appoint himself the arbiter of timing integrity, he should reveal his identity so we can provide him with the same scrutiny.
If it is indeed that Callum Goddard-Mocklow guy as mentioned above, then I think part of it might be insecurity because the bloke looks like a total spud.

I came across this account when they first launched - they kicked off investigating the Melbourne marathon I believe - and all the stories were going up in the middle of the night UK time. So I think it’s someone based in Australia - I could be wrong but evidence suggests so.

An Australian based runner spending too much time on socials and picking weird fights with randoms?

Well I'm at a total loss to think who that could be.

What is odd is that Ben did a huge block of cross training when he was coming back from injury, acknowledged that running high mileage isn't something his body can tolerate, attributed his fast 5K & 10K times post-injury to the cross-training, then seems to have just given up with it. I know that running is the best way to train for running, but by his own admission he can't run high enough volume consistently for where he wants to be, so the bike is a sensible move.

The account has just enough smugness to either be Heapsgoodrunners or Joel Tobin White lmao

Matt Fox is not smart enough for an account like this. His ego is also too big. He would have put himself as a profile pic the moment it got over 10k followers.

That is just so nasty. I hope they get some kick back for that.

The other thing that irrationally annoys me is the way that whenever they reply to a comment ON THEIR OWN POSTS they put the initials at the end of it. Like you need to sign a comment under your own handle!? Its so dumb

Has anyone seen Evan Runs? Pretty relatable for high school anyway. That's the only running vlog channel I solidly enjoy.

But other than that, Total Running Productions, Jumpman, and Adam Jansen with their analytics of the professional scene and relevant news rise above them all.

I feel like most of them would call out the British influencers though, even fox, this person is absolutely brown nosing any run influencer with over 50k followers. They give the just wanna be accepted by the cool kids vibe

On a more positive note it’s been so lovely to see the Tokyo collabs between some of the nicest, most upbeat YouTubers. Actually really cool to see they are all mates.

The meet up between This Messy Happy, Nick Bester, Donato, Aubrey, Running Channel was actually so cool. Really hilarious when they were at that bar post race and Nick got the tequilas in. What a party you’d have with that group of legends

Also Mr Fox said on his podcast that he met up with This Messy Happy in Thailand recently.

What I think is so sad is that Nick Bester and Mr Fox have obviously had this public falling out but that’s both RTJ and ThisMessy who have been in contact with both recently. Cole and Fenton also seem to know both? Just hoping Mary & Ben can act as peacemaker here and get these two wonderful friends back together. Nick & Matt are so similar and work so well together. Life is too short for this guys. You are made for each other. Reach out and bury the hatchet

Donato we know it’s you mate, give it up

It’s crazy how obvious it is the majority of runfluencers don’t actually like running and simply like the attention and kudos.

Goddard openly says “all the easy stuff in the week is crap, I think no one really likes it but it’s just a box tick”

personally jogging is very enjoyable and probably my favourite part.

if you hate ~ EIGHTY PERCENT of your hobby, why would you do it

London runclub / runfluencer bunch all hate running. They're just doing it for the Instagram/Tiktok clout. I guarantee if Strava shut off the servers they'd all be doing something else within a week

I'd take the London crowd over the BPN influencers, who come across like a bunch of AI people springing forth fully-formed out Nick Bare's basement to sell creatine enemas or whatever.

Nick has a machine that 3D prints clones that are 5'10, shaggy black hair under a BPN cap, black shorts, shirtless with chest tats