Saccone Joly's

larrlin24

Anyone catch Jonathan Joly's interview this morning on RTE about making money from Youtube? I've always wondered what people here thought of them. Not sure I agree with them filming their kids and essentially taking away their anonymity at such a young age when they really have no say in the matter. What are your opinions on them and what they do for a living?

(For people that don't know them, they're a family living in Cork that make daily videos of their lives. It's now become their full time job!)

michellie

I came across them last year, I like them.

They must be making some money tho!

zetalambda

Attention seeking drama queens with fake mid Atlantic accents, hoping to become the next big thing in reality TV and get picked up by some big American TV network.

Dravokivich

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Matt_Trakker

Just watched their trailer, I don't get why so many people now think that other people care about their inane lives and thoughts.

Fair play if they make a few bob, but not something I'd ever dream of watching.

kneemos

I can always think of something better to do than watch YouTube,even if it's nothing.

Some good instructional videos though ti be fair.

Precious flower

I don't watch their videos due to the reason that I watched a couple but found Jonathan voice so weird and annoying that I just had to turn it off. The dogs are a bit weird too! To document every minute of your life most be so weird. You#d never just enjoy the moment you'd always be thinking 'oh better blog this', it's just strange to me!

AnonoBoy

They're annoying.

Very annoying.

I don't understand why anyone would be interested in watching such inane people on a regular basis.

If they continue to put their kids up on the web in this odd little show then I could see some serious resentment in their offspring's future.

Holsten

How much do they make?

SusieBlue

I find them mildly irritating, their kids are beautiful though. There's a massive community of people online that despise them, they've been reported to the I.S.P.C.A and to social services people hate them so much, which is over stepping the line imo.

They make no impact on me either way, tbh. I'd never film myself giving birth and then put it online though. I feel sorry for the kids in the sense that they have no choice in it and when they're older they'll potentially end up resenting the parents for taking away so much of their privacy. I know I wouldn't appreciate every candid moment of my every day life as a toddler being broadcast to millions of people online.

Precious flower

And whats with their sons name? Eduardo? I mean, WHY, just why?

smurgen

Just watched some of their stuff.your man is.in the top three most annoying people I've ever come across.I really could have gone through life not know he existed.what's worse is he's a fellow cork man.Yer one is a ride all the same.

Jijsaw

Precious flower wrote: »

And whats with their sons name? Eduardo? I mean, WHY, just why?

It's a tribute to Anna's father who passed away a couple of years ago.

Precious flower

Jijsaw wrote: »

It's a tribute to Anna's father who passed away a couple of years ago.

Ah, oops, now I feel bad!:o Still, I really don't like the husband or that fact that they have that many dogs and they put bows in their hair. The wife seems fairly normal though.

mad muffin

Oh those shîts. I had to look the name up on youtube. I had seen a video on one of those popular lists.

No thanks. They ain't making no money from my views… :rolleyes:

Jijsaw

Precious flower wrote: »

Ah, oops, now I feel bad!:o Still, I really don't like the husband or that fact that they have that many dogs and they put bows in their hair. The wife seems fairly normal though.

My cousin is friends with Anna's sister Erika.
To be honest I can't stand their videos either :P

darkpagandeath

Is this a thinly veiled way of boosting your YT views ?

larrlin24

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Is this a thinly veiled way of boosting your YT views ?

Are you accusing me of being Anna or Jonathan? I can assure you I'm not. I was just curious to see if people felt the same way about them as I do!

Precious flower

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Is this a thinly veiled way of boosting your YT views ?

That seems unlikely since the OP was actually remarking that he/she didn't agree with the fact that they were putting their kids on YouTube. He/she just wanted to know if other people had watched their videos and what they thought. You don't have to go look them up if you don't know who they are ya know, looking them up on Google isn't going to add millions to their bank balance.

FizzleSticks

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Frigga_92

I watch these guys and a few other youtubers every now and then.
I think a lot of the negative opinions that Anna and Jonathan and other youtubers get is because people who dislike them just keep watching their videos just to have something to moan about. There is a website 100% dedicated to dissecting every youtuber. This website is contributed to by people who claim to hate them. Now, I don't know about other people but if I hate something that much, I just don't bother with it

I enjoy the videos. They're not perfect people, nor do they claim to be.
All the youtubers earn their money the same way as everybody else, by working, it just so happens that their "job" is easier than others, that's life.

AnonoBoy

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

I enjoy the videos.

This is a genuine question - why do you enjoy the videos?

Caledonia

I watched these for the first time last week. It's decent.

And they are LOVELY. I'd take a guess he is 10 times the man of some of the weasels giving out about him.
They have a really positive outlook on life that kind of gets under your skin. It's surprising how nice it is to see people actually capable of enjoying their lives.

He wakes up the little one going, 'How are you, my friendliest friend.' 'Friend!' The quality or production is v high too, v easy on the eye.

Frigga_92

AnonoBoy wrote: »

This is a genuine question - why do you enjoy the videos?

Why do people enjoy Eastenders? Why do people enjoy football matches? They (and I'm talking about all the youtubers I watch, not just Anna and Jonathan) entertain me. I work in a very demanding job, I have a very full life so once or twice a week I switch off and watch some videos.
The majority of the youtubers I watch do make up/beauty/style advice and review videos. I'm a woman, I think it's fairly self-explanatory why I watch those.

Hell Ram

zetalambda wrote: »

Attention seeking drama queens with fake mid Atlantic accents, hoping to become the next big thing in reality TV and get picked up by some big American TV network.

In other words: tossers.

Caledonia

Tbh Hell Ram they just aren't tossers. (I think I'd recognise one at this stage)

They're nice.

clairek6

I like them, not sure what it us but I do find my self watching regularly, as another person pointed out why do people watch soaps?

Arthur Beesley

larrlin24 wrote: »

Anyone catch Jonathan Joly's interview this morning on RTE about making money from Youtube? I've always wondered what people here thought of them. Not sure I agree with them filming their kids and essentially taking away their anonymity at such a young age when they really have no say in the matter. What are your opinions on them and what they do for a living?

(For people that don't know them, they're a family living in Cork that make daily videos of their lives. It's now become their full time job!)

Is this the lad with the massive mobile phone?

BrianJD

I actually feel like I should be embarrassed by saying I watch pretty much 90% of their vlogs yet I don't know why. I don't watch any other reality TV as it is all staged and faked (I would have enjoyed the first couple of Big Brothers when you had genuine people) but this is as real as can be. Bascially they will have days where they don't even leave the house but yet, because they are positive people with 2 lovely children, it's nice to watch.

I certainly don't think they highlight their haters because they get plenty of abuse online without mentioning it. They have had issues with her car being keyed and this week they had to go to the Guards as they received a card threating the rape of their toddler baby which is nuts...

They have probably on average 160,000 views of their videos every night which is mindblowing considering its just video filmed with a basic canon point and click camera and one man editing it on a laptop. I'm sure RTE would love to have that viewership every single day with such a low production cost.

Anna also has a seperate channel which draws nearly 100,000 views every day so that over a quarter of a million views daily! What RTE shows are doing that?

With people like these two, there is always going to be haters. They have a lovely house, drive a Porche and Mercedes and seem to have a very easy life with minimal work to do, and 2 lovely kids so, I would imagine that they are going to have jealous begrudgers - its what we do well.....

i think fair play to them, they saw an opportunity and took it. This month they are uprooting the whole family and the 6 dogs to move to London, to help further their career and not many would take that risk, particulary with a 1 month baby.

Hell Ram

Caledonia wrote: »

Tbh Hell Ram they just aren't tossers. (I think I'd recognise one at this stage)

They're nice.

Sorry, but people who exploit their infants on YouTube for money and popularity are tossers in my book.

Caledonia

That's a pity they're moving, I liked that it was Irish.
It's like a fecking love letter to Cork.
Agree the views are through the roof.

Caledonia

Hell Ram wrote: »

QUOTE=Caledonia;90144866]Tbh Hell Ram they just aren't tossers. (I think I'd recognise one at this stage)

They're nice.

Sorry, but people who exploit their infants on YouTube for money and popularity are tossers in my book.[/QUOTE]

The last thing you need to worry about is those kids' welfare. Save it for the kids being brought up by actual tossers.

SusieBlue

The last thing you need to worry about is those kids' welfare. Save it for the kids being brought up by actual tossers.

In fairness pictures of their daughter have been copied and used on these creepy role playing profiles on instagram, where the owner of the profile pretends to be the baby (in this case their daughter) and other users comment pretending to be the baby's "mommy", only some of it isn't that innocent. I won't say any more, you can imagine what kind of things are said, its disturbing.

This has been brought to their attention by concerned fans numerous times and they've done nothing to stop it. I know if it was me I'd be getting all public pictures of my child offline immediately.

I know this just from reading the comments under the videos. I used to really like them and watch their videos until they did nothing about the photos being stolen, now I think they're fame hungry idiots because they're putting their child's safety at risk for money.

Hell Ram

BrianJD wrote: »

people like these two, there is always going to be haters. They have a lovely house, drive a Porche and Mercedes and seem to have a very easy life with minimal work to do, and 2 lovely kids so, I would imagine that they are going to have jealous begrudgers - its what we do well......

No everyone is simply a begrudger (I'd no clue about their cars etc), some of us simply like to maintain a certain level of integrity.

smurgen

What's the deal with the accent?that's not a cork accent .

SusieBlue

smurgen wrote: »

What's the deal with the accent?that's not a cork accent .

Anna spent part of her childhood living in America. No idea what Jonathan's excuse is, he's from the heart of Dublin

iForgetMyPW

They make me cringe

Stavros Murphy

Is he still doing the joke with the big mobile phone?

iForgetMyPW

and the fella has the most punchable ugly face i've ever seen. I guarantee his wife will start banging a younger stud behind his back ..well if she is not already

smurgen

iForgetMyPW wrote: »

and the fella has the most punchable ugly face i've ever seen. I guarantee his wife will start banging a younger stud behind his back ..well if she is not already

His over the top zany persona is what gets me.the state of his tattoos .The accent is unforgivable also.if this is the sort of stuff that people are into nowadays then I'm out of touch at a very young age.

Caledonia

WhiteRoses wrote: »

Anna spent part of her childhood living in America. No idea what Jonathan's excuse is, he's from the heart of Dublin

The heart of Dublin? That makes me think of the city centre, from one of the clips he's from Terenure but living in Cork years.

If you actually watch the videos it's very hard not to like them.

I suppose you can say about yourself that you have a lot of integrity...it just seems there's a lot of fairly **** people out there and this couple aren't amongst them.

Caledonia

iForgetMyPW wrote: »

and the fella has the most punchable ugly face i've ever seen. I guarantee his wife will start banging a younger stud behind his back ..well if she is not already

Exhibit A -Actual Tosser.

MRnotlob606

zetalambda wrote: »

Attention seeking drama queens with fake mid Atlantic accents, hoping to become the next big thing in reality TV and get picked up by some big American TV network.

Oh yeah of course they are ! how dare they try to make a living ! seems like a case of tall poppy syndrome to me, I wish them well with their endeavours. They seem like nice people.

SusieBlue

Caledonia wrote: »

The heart of Dublin? That makes me think of the city centre, from one of the clips he's from Terenure but living in Cork years.

If you actually watch the videos it's very hard not to like them.

I suppose you can say about yourself that you have a lot of integrity...it just seems there's a lot of fairly **** people out there and this couple aren't amongst them.

I've watched the vast majority of their videos, I liked them for years. I always found Jonathan to be irritating but I could see he was a good husband and father so it didn't put me off watching. I stopped liking them when they ignored the fact that pictures of their child were being used on creepy websites and they did nothing about it.

I find them mildly irritating these days, I watch from time to time to see how they're doing but I have zero respect for them for not acting on the safety of their daughter.

I think they're good people and parents and I also think they're kind of annoying. The two don't go hand in hand, its not one or the other.

Hell Ram

Caledonia wrote: »

I suppose you can say about yourself that you have a lot of integrity...it just seems there's a lot of fairly **** people out there and this couple aren't amongst them.

Of course they're hardly the worst people in the world, but in this context it doesn't sit right me. Just my opinion.

tk123

They're like a poor mans Shaytards! Shaytards FTW, SacconeJolys FTFail!

Frigga_92

How do you know they've done nothing about photos of the kid being used? I've never actually seen any of what you're talking about with regard to instagram accounts so I don't know much about that side of things.
Maybe they have done all they can but I assume there is no way of instagram stopping people just creating another account and using the photos again?

If there are photos of the kid around the place and they are getting threatened etc. I would assume they have reported it to whoever they need to and are looking after this in the background and are trying to give the crazy people as little publicity as possible.

cena

Sure there biggest viewer ship is in the states. Your man his a company based in the states. Well that is what he tells people. They are all so up and leaving Ireland for a year to London where as far as I can tell is with a different YouTube agent where the u.k top youtubers are.

Sure the wife drives a BMW amd she isnt long drivingand he has a porsche.

They where a great watch when they lived in the last house before this

zetalambda

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Oh yeah of course they are ! how dare they try to make a living ! seems like a case of tall poppy syndrome to me, I wish them well with their endeavours. They seem like nice people.

Yeah but you don't have to prostitute yourself on YouTube.

gg2

BrianJD wrote: »

i think fair play to them, they saw an opportunity and took it. This month they are uprooting the whole family and the 6 dogs to move to London, to help further their career and not many would take that risk, particulary with a 1 month baby.

Their career being what, exactly?

I just tried to watch a couple of video's, but couldn't get past the annoying accents.

Hell Ram

gg2 wrote: »

Their career being what, exactly?.

Pimps.