patrick_y[PuristSPro Moderator]
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Total waste of time. Classically, I find Jenni Elle's videos to be very shallow, pointless, and biased...
Feb 27, 2021,16:00 PM
Hi Eklektic, I didn't find anything true about her video. I totally disagree with you. Other than her historical summary, there was nothing factual nor accurate about her opinions. A total waste of time.
First Jenni Elle waxes poetically about JLC's history for the first 4 minutes before even starting to mention the "problems" of the JLC brand. Then her "problems" are all very small problems (in my opinion) which are not universally accepted as problems. In other words, her video is a little pointless, and she's just trying to use her influence to remind her watchers of her opinions. Furthermore, Youtubers need to create regular content (one to two videos a week of around 10 minutes each) and content of a certain length to best utilize the YouTube algorithm. While I'm not saying that Jenni Elle is suffering the following, many YouTubers are unable to come up with cool ideas and sometimes ramble about nothing in order to create useless content to satisfy the algorithm.
Here's a concrete example of why this video is bad. Quoting her at the 5:00 mark, "people always associate JLC with other brands or at least the calibers they make for them" this is so biased, and a very narrow viewpoint. I've actually heard significantly more people talk about JLC as a standalone brand rather than remember their associations with other brands as an ebauche or movement supplier. While in Europe (where Jenni Elle is based) and in some parts of Asia (Singapore, Taiwan, but not China) I do agree, European and some Asian watch collectors do recall that JLC supply movements to other brands, but this is rarely a significant talking point. Ok, so, Jenni Elle's first problem is a small one, and debatable one at that. What a waste of time.
A second concrete example: Her second point didn't resonate with me at all, nor will it resonate with the many fans of JLC's chronographs (especially Duometre) and JLC's alarm watches on this forum. Again, totally biased towards her own subset of narrow experiences. And how is this even a "problem" for JLC? The title of her video indicates JLC has "SERIOUS PROBLEMS."
Perhaps this is why this video has a 7% negative rating (which is a fairly high negative rating).
What a total waste of time from an individual who just wanted to get on her soapbox and spread her totally biased and opinion and had she had no facts to support it. In court, we'd call this all opinion and hearsay. There's not one ounce of fact in here (except in the historical summary she mentioned). She didn't identify any "serious problem" but only extremely minor ones.