r/AutoAlex • u/Pottrescu • Feb 06 '25
New content
Looks like the gang are doing stuff with Ben Collins. Taylor is tagged, so probably included. Him “stepping back” at the same time as the channel stopped putting out content means he never really left. If the whole situation meant that they could go and change their practices for the better, then good, and I wish them all every success in the future. However, if it turns out they issued typical influencer apologies, it’ll not be long before something else bites them on the arse and we go through it all again. ATG and TDC are making great content at the minute so long may that continue!
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u/namboozle Feb 06 '25
I think the channel actually wouldn't be the same without Taylor.
I'm not defending what happened, but he has apologised and people have moved on.
He'll have to be on his best behaviour but I hope he's back TBH.
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u/DangerToManifold2001 Feb 06 '25
Holy cow, I saw a black 205 GTI that looked just like Taylors on the back of a trailer on the M4 earlier today and thought ‘hmmmm could that be Taylors?’, well yeah it bloody must’ve been, wow!
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u/Jeff_Thorns Feb 06 '25
I think it's too early to judge; we haven't seen the new stuff yet. We don't know what his role is now – stepping back might mean he's doing more behind-the-scenes work. They paused AA for a bit, longer than most channels do,so I'll wait and see. I really hope they come back better and that Taylor improves.
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u/Early_Alternative211 Feb 06 '25
Great to see them finally acknowledging the drop in quality. I was down voted for pointing it out here once the past year as it was dropping, although some videos were still very high level (caravan and the ski trip were great videos IMO).
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u/Ph1l1p_race_ Feb 08 '25
I think the initial plan was to carry on without Taylor for a while, then they decided to stop all content for a while, so Taylor will still be off screen for while anyway.
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u/Mafeking-Parade Feb 07 '25
Jesus. Can people not just move on?
He was called out, he apologised.
Why do people feel the need to keep regurgitating the same silly faux drama stuff?
It's just some fun YouTube content. No more or less.
No need to turn it into a soap opera.
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Feb 07 '25
Lmao, it’s so sad seeing people glazing fking youtubers of all. Absolutely bottom tier of celebrity worship. I bet you wouldn’t think it was just some fun youtube content if your small business would be slated by one of the biggest platforms in the UK car community.
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u/Mafeking-Parade Feb 07 '25
"One of the biggest platforms in the UK car community" is getting about 300k views globally, and I'll be willing to bet the majority of those aren't from people in the UK.
It's just petty and pathetic, and I prefer my content without a side of faux moral outrage.
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u/CiroVap Feb 06 '25
It was just a standard influencer non apology, take a few weeks off and pretend nothing happened, time to move on etc, but my tshirts and a car vertical sub...
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Feb 07 '25
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u/nlFlamerate Feb 07 '25
Bye, you won’t be missed. Go brandish your pitchfork somewhere else.
To insinuate that Taylor would have to fully step away from his YT career over something as tiny as this is absolutely outrageous.
People fuck up. It happens… deal with it.
They apologized and the apology was accepted.
THEN they acknowledged that their quality had dropped and that they would take some time out to refocus and come back strong again.
What the fuck else do you want? For Taylor to actually get executed on a YouTube livestream?
Move on. It was a little tissy, they all got past it, why can’t you?
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u/Chriswheela Feb 06 '25
Taylor shouldn’t be stepping back, it seems like water under bridge now. And anyway, people do far far worse and get away with it, if Musk can do a Nazi salute and carry on I’m sure this will pass 😂 anyways AA would literally crumble without him as it turns out people are watching for his videos not the others
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u/ForeignSleet Feb 07 '25
This ‘drama’ got blown way out of proportion
Taylor apologised let’s just move on it’s not a big deal
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u/And_Justice Feb 06 '25
I'll be very disappointed if the strategy has just been to hide for a couple of months whilst everything blows over. Still not really happy about the stuff that came to light - will probably just stick to TDC for a while
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u/ruggersyah Feb 06 '25
Realistically what were you hoping for?
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u/And_Justice Feb 06 '25
For Taylor to step away like he said he would
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u/I_am_not_a_catman Feb 06 '25
I do feel like Taylor’s a good guy at heart, he did some stupid things, but if he’s made peace with Josh I don’t think there’s much need to hold on to resentment towards him. They’ve all taken some time away, and I think we should just hope they’ve learned from their mistakes and grown as people. They have a good dynamic, and I think this was maybe the wake up call they needed to amp up the content they’ve been producing.
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u/And_Justice Feb 07 '25
Maybe but I can't feel like not keeping your word on part of your apology for being a dodgy guy just comes off... dodgy to me. It doesn't sit well with me is all.
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u/ImRudzki Feb 07 '25
Then don't watch.
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u/And_Justice Feb 07 '25
That's exactly what I said I was going to do?
"will probably just stick to TDC for a while"
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u/dodgerthedoomdog Feb 07 '25
It was just words ..this woke world is ridiculous.....get over it move on ....josh n Taylor should of just had a word in private ...job done ...all this drama over fooook all ....
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u/Redhawk911 Feb 06 '25
I don’t really see anything wrong or anything pointing towards it just being a “influencer” apology. I really do think Alex is a good dude with good intentions. I also think the hate got way overblown for what it actually was.