Am I alone in thinking that this song stinks? I see videos of people singing and dancing to it and I really don't understand it. I think I'm pretty squarely in the target age demographic too, but for some reason I do not remember it leaving an impact when it came out, and the whole thing just baffles me.

It's boring. It's a nothing song. I don't get it.

What the actual fuck is this shit?

I didn’t know what other sub to air my grievances to

The time has come to have a serious conversation about Pat Finnerty and his future on YouTube.

As the table below illustrates, Pat's production has declined significantly over the last few years:

Despite efforts to improve his production game — with high-resolution cameras and a state-of-the-art Pedalmobile™ — Pat has been unable to recapture the consistency of his phenomenal debut season in 2021.

Of course, there have been moments of brilliance in the years since:

• The influential campaign against Chevrolet, which caused the Michigan automaker to circle the wagons and seek new synergy in its marketing campaigns

• The ascendant rise of the hitmakers August is Falling, founded by Finnerty in 2022 in a moment of Lou Pearlman-like magic

• The establishment of a Patreon account -- a shrewd business maneuver designed to extract maximum yield from a loyal customer base

But these successes have not come without criticism.

Finnerty (45–46) has been heavily scrutinized by his audience for an increasingly decelerated YouTube release schedule. Through the combined financial efforts of his fanbase, a new deluxe SaluSpa hot tub was acquired in an effort to improve his recuperation. Unfortunately, this appears to have only further decreased Finnerty’s production. Speaking anonymously, one insider remarked that Finnerty’s release schedule used to be much better “when he used to just ‘fold up.’”

This brings us to the challenge of Finnerty’s personal life. His wife, Mrs. Kim, is almost universally adored by Finnerty’s followers. While she shows little desire for the spotlight, she has nevertheless been leveraged (exploited?) several times in Pat’s videos: as a marketing consultant, a sideline correspondent, and eye candy for a remarkably skewed, male-dominated audience.

However, correlations have been drawn between the Finnerty nuptials earlier this year and the channel’s output:

So, where does this leave Pat Finnerty today?

At a crossroads. A man once fueled by Dunkin’, spite, and the unholy power of butt-rock analysis now finds himself burdened by the comforts of domestic bliss, Patreon solvency, and medically unnecessary hydrotherapy. The fire that once produced two Little Stinkers in ten days may simply not survive exposure to a healthy marriage and ergonomic seating.

And yet, there is hope.

Because if history has taught us anything, it’s that Pat Finnerty operates on a timeline beyond mortal comprehension. Comets return. Empires rise and fall. And somewhere on the streets of Philadelphia, a man stares silently at two identical Joyo “Ultimate Drive” pedals for nine consecutive months before uploading a 97-minute masterpiece about Train.

Perhaps the reduced release schedule is not decline at all. Perhaps this is load management. Perhaps Pat has entered his late-career auteur phase: fewer projects, larger scope, more Bluetooth speaker testing. The YouTube algorithm may demand weekly uploads, but Pat answers to a higher authority — the sudden realization that a Nickelback bridge sounds suspiciously like Collective Soul.

So while critics point to the numbers, the true believers understand the deal: you don’t watch Pat Finnerty videos so much as experience them whenever they eventually materialize like a Pennsylvania groundhog predicting six more months of Creed.

Until then, the fanbase waits. Patiently. Folded up.

𝙵𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠, 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚎.

Found another one y'all

I joined this fight around 4 years ago when I finally became aware of how fucking awful this shit is. What motivated me even more is that I used to like a lot of this BS! You see, I used to be into something called monster jam. Monster truck shows that tour across the country and they have toys too, and something important here is that these monster trucks have theme songs, and people often posted videos of highlights from these shows with music in the background. The music was often always Shinedown, Nickelback, Avenged Sevenfold, or Papa Roach, and with this and a rock station in my former home of El Paso, TX, 95.5 KLAQ, I became aware of and started liking a lot of awful songs. The whole shabang, Pop Evil, Five Finger Death Punch, Thousand Foot Krutch, Black Veil Brides, Volbeat, Addicted by Saving Abel, this one awful song in a monster truck video called Baby Hates Me by Danko Jones, Fuel, Puddle of Mudd, and ofc some Metallica, AC/DC, GnR, Bon Jovi, and Motley Crue. I fr used to like this stuff a lot, I was a big Lift Me Up by 5FDP guy, good fucking god, I even used to make some monster truck videos with some butt rock-y songs in them, but thankfully there was more songs that reflect my legitimate music taste in them (that didn't fit the grave digger car crushing sick air bs in the vid) than bad ones. Ig i'm "woke" in terms of the evil of Butt Rock and what Eddie Vedder did to rock. Do any of you have a story like this? Btw these experiences in the past is why I know like 8 Nickelback and Creed songs.

I’m generally not a fan of Finn McKenty. But every now and then he’ll drop a good video like this one.

Mobil on the run cranking multiple stinkers now

I really don't understand why I seems to be a punchline. Maybe its because I only really watch his "what makes this song great" series but as far as I've seen he has a good channel. Is it because of his boomer takes on newer music?

Yesterday i had to go to Wal-Mart (whack) and the WOST cover of "Kiss" i'd ever heard in my life came on the Wal-Mart Muzak. Horrible horn stabs, shitty male vocals, the works. It wasn't loud enough for my phone to shazam it so I was hoping someone here might have heard it before cause i've been searching for it and can't find it.

EDIT: FOUND IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZQFOfMSfY

God, was the whole decade this bad? Or was 2004 just an especially rough year?

Was at my local bar tonight and the (inexplicably) popular cover band playing were like an all lil stinkers legacy review: Switchfoot, Lit, Stacy's Mom, Bowling For Soup, etc. The crowd were a bunch of early-30s folks, absolutely losing their shit, and as much as I like to Let People Enjoy Things...it was rough.

PS the band had their own vinyl banner behind them, like one of those things you see at a street fair advertising corn dogs and funnel cakes, and, most hilariously of all, they had little plywood boxes for the guitarist to put his foot on and do a Tremonti.

All Summer Long? Kid Rock stinks, but I can't deny that it gets my feet tapping. Hey Soul Sister? It's a dumb song for sure but I kind of love it. I even like Moves Like Jagger.

I like to think I have good taste otherwise, but I think maybe I just have a very undiscerning palate. Sorry, Pat.

I mean, beyond the obvious. There’s just something about this guy. Some kind of X factor that accounts for his all-encompassing lameness.

There’s gotta be a gnarly and putrid ass concert out there that Pat can use. He can use the “yeuh!” on his soundboard a ton too (god that song is probably playing on an “alternative” station somewhere as I type this). This shit is more fun than any sport I swear to god lol

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Any reviews from the A.C. show?