I am indifferent on Matt Farah in general. He's fine. I don't watch his content anymore, but that's mostly algorithmic, not based on taste. But this irks me:

The very fact that he produced contents with those owners and their cars makes him the exact opposite of out of touch.

What? No.

Being "in touch" means understanding and being able to empathize the choices someone makes when they are young, love cars, don't make a lot of money, and are have a different set of influences. It means having gone through the same thing yourself or at least "getting" it.

It means understanding the cultural heft of certain cars and why people love them. It means understanding why the group of tuners huddled at your local Cars and Coffee break their necks when they see a piece of shit drift missile vs. yet another guy in an exotic.

It doesn't mean you have to be like them, or have the same tastes, or have the same opinions. You don't have to like some kid's MR2. If it's not for you, it's not for you. But spending 10 minutes talking about how it sucks because it's not an Evora means that you do not get it. You're in the car, yeah, but you're a tourist.

Going into a modded MR2 and saying, "this doesn't drive like a $100,000 car," is functionally no different than going into a Miata and complaining that there's no back seat. You're correct, but you've missed the point.

RCR made an entire channel that rips apart cars and makes fun of them, and I often hate his opinions, and yet I never in a billion years say he was out of touch because even if he hates the car, he sounds like a car person being deranged, not, like, someone who can't comprehend the concept of why comparing a shitbox to an entry-level exotic is a bad idea.

If Matt Farah ran a channel about food and not cars, he'd be similarly out of touch for walking into a decorated pizza joint and complaining that no one was serving him wine, unlike his favorite LA eatery. Just going there, just showing up, would not mean he was "in touch."

Using that same metaphor, Anthony Bourdain was similarly wealthy (if not more so), but could you imagine him doing the same?

Once again, no dog in this fight. I don't own an MR2. But I remember seeing that video and just thinking he came off like a douchebag. I mean, even he thought that, given it's hidden.

I know people like to me contrarians (especially toward the majority opinion of Redditors) but I think it's completely understandable why Reddit has a grudge and brings that video up.