Why don’t they film in 4K?

I work with video. They usually have a 3 camera setup each recording ~ 1-3 hours - if all this is shot in full color gradable 4k It'll be an absolute shit ton of data. 4k 60fps prores is around 500gb per hour. Complicates everything and makes everything in production more expensive. Can't edit a 5tb video on your macbook pro from 2021. Youd also not be able to just turn on cameras and leave them there for 3 hours. Theyll overheat, even somewhat expensive cameras are prone to overheating when shooting 4k continously for this long. And for what? Almost absolutely nothing.

How many more subscribers or patreon subs will filming in 4k bring?

RLM is relatively editing intense, at least compared to most longform slop out there. It probably comes down to having to set up new editing PCs and/or using a proxy workflow (which suck ass btw)

Nah I want them to be tape recording

I was listening to something where they discussed QLED television and realised I have zero interest in further technological developments in flat screen TVs

Whatever TVs were destined to be, they've already achieved that final form

Anything else that happens is just bells and whistles. I feel the same as I did when magazines were trying to convince me I needed a Bluray player, or when an athlete knocks 0.2 of a second off the world record

Rich Evans' nose hairs looked like fuckin' BX cables

My TV already upscales so it looks like it's 4k already.

I'm pissed they're not shooting on VHS anymore. I want them to go a step further back than that, if it doesn't feel like I'm watching a snuff film made by Bagool I'm not watching their shit. 8mm Lawn Mower scene or bust.

 I wanna see everyone’s greasy pores in HD

So you do acknowledge yourself that there's no practical reason for it?

Most of the time, I just listen to them, and they watch old shitty movies on VHS. Could be 480 for all I care, lol