Not all, but there are a lot of copycats seemingly reading from the same script. And then there's those terrible AI review sites with the AI voice that speaks phonetically and without any personality whatsoever. This AI approach is becoming increasingly popular and is just intellectually lazy at best. There is clues of what sites do this in the channel names of many, with the name being somewhat of AI in nature. Then there's the 30 somethings that is telling us about "old school," even though it's apparent he hasn't been out of the parents home long enough to have hindsight into old anything.
Audioholics kind of sets the bar for what is IMO, believable and professional, non biased reviews with perhaps a bit too much factuality at times, if they can be checked for anything at all. Not a bad quality, really, and more likely just a necessary evil of reviewing technical products so I give that a pass due to my lack of tech geekiness.
A lot of reviewers irk me, though. The cheapaudio guy is one and the Iyagi fellow. Andrew Robinson, yet another. Z reviews I can't take seriously as a grownup and I am compelled to tell him that anime is not real.
Paid shills? Many are. When I start to hear groveling towards consideration to their "need" to make a living at this, just makes me instead tell them to get a real job. I'm not going to have much in the way of pity to so many who are trying to take the shortcut to wealth without the hard work, and what otherwise tends to depict an existence of 'getting over' on the system.
