Lindybeige should make episodes of just him advertising products he's not quite sure what they're used for. This is hilarious.

Dollar shave club: *Brutally insults Lloyd's appearance* Lloyd: "Yeah, I see your point."

Dollar Shave Club is genius. They somehow got Lloyd to make an ad that is 1/3 of the entire video in length (Yes, you read that right. The add went on for NINE MINUTES) with maximum amount of British snark. Pure Genius

The Dollar shave club statement: "You serve as a warning" had me in tears.

Sponsored by Dollar Shave Club *doesn't shave* absolute madman

“You serve as sort of a universal ‘Before’ picture.” Classic roast.

"The emergency backup blade". Somewhere, in the Dollar Shave Club offices, a certain employee just got a raise for signing a sponsorship with Lindy.

"I don't have a daily face" "It's like normal ginger, but with more vowels" "For people whose teeth need a kick" "Panic-enducing Amber" "I will give this a try, but not right now, because I'm in the middle of a video" This is the second video of his and also the most entertaining sponsored segment I've seen in my life.

That was the most entertaining dollar shave club ad I've seen.

He's just super honest about the sponsor and it's kinda funny, I love this man's channel keep it up my dude

Lindybeige is like the history teacher we have always dreamed of

"Hmmm, gin." best start to a video I've ever seen.

"I know my relationship with my milk man. And, it's not genetic..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lloyd your ad spot was so disastrous I could not stop watching. So in a sense I guess it worked, well done.

"I don't shave but I do drink milk"

Six blades? Lol I remember back when Saturday night live joked about a 4 blade razor , because back then it seemed crazy. Boy they had no clue how crazy shit was going to get.

"Life has been so cruel to you that you serve as a warning to our customers" Exactly what you want a company to tell you when they ask to sponsor you.

By far the best sponsored video ad / unboxing i've seen so far.

Before: Someone at the Dollar Shave Club must be really stupid. After: Someone at the Dollar Shave Club must be really clever!

The thing that most sways me towards dollar shave club is that they keep sponsoring youtubers to make content for us, even when, like here, the advert is basically five minutes of sarcasm.

I can't tell if this is the worst Dollar Shave Club sponsorship or the best...

I've never had so much fun watching a man who doesn't shave talk about shaving.

After seeing this video it's obvious to me why men run away in battle: they hydrated themselves with panic inducing amber. Duh.

OMG this is definitely the future of advertisement. Choose the least "afin" person and let him trash the product with valid criticism.

Please do a video on military shaving; the changing military fashions, the whys, the hows, the wherefores etc.

Came here for the scientific analysis, stayed here for the Dollar Shave Club sketch. "Don't overdose on water, kids." - Lindybeige, 2019

Absolutely love Lindy - if he was a teacher at my school, i wouldn't have missed one single day! He makes you want to learn and pay attention- never thought I'd ever comment on someone teaching! You are fantastic! I wish u were my Dad- or uncle- even happy with annoying cousin- thanks for making things interesting!

"Superba! For people who need a kick in the teeth." -Loyd 2019

"Hawaiian Ginger, it's like ordinary Ginger just with more vowels." Even the bloody promotion makes fun, stay as you are Lindy.

Gotta say, I loved your product endorsement in this video. I usually skip these, but this was hilarious. A+ sponsorship

"For teeth that need a kick" is now my favorite advertisement slogan

As a knight in the SCA, and someone who's been doing medieval combat for 35 years, your battle scenario for SCIENCE sounds very fun and would be extremely doablewith the number of fighters we have in the SCA

A youtuber who can make an advertisement for products I won't use hilarious, is a youtuber to support. Thank you Lloyd, you are spectacular.

Dollar shave club: that is a realistic beard, I mean it is completely convincing

Ill be honest I skipped half of the advert but heard him say milk and got interested... I have to say that was the best advert I have ever witnessed

This was most assuredly the most hilarious in-video sponsor plug I've ever seen!

The Dollar Shave Club ad could be a standalone video. Good craic.

Medieval II total war had the interesting system where surrounded troops would fight to the death unless you gave them an avenue of escape which I think they should bring back

Lloyd: "And to our sponsor" *rips it to bits*

First of all, you should win a Grammy for your acting! It's brilliant and witty! Second, you could to a degree put this to a test in a military exercise by beforehand informing the soldiers that each one who gets shot must pay an actual fee of £10.000 pounds, if they surrender they only have to pay a £100 pund fine, and all the money collected from this will be shared between the survivors of the winning team.

Why would a company that sells shaving products hire, as their spokesman, someone who has never met a razor or a comb?

how lindy can make a 6-7min ad interesting beats me

This video is gold just for the Dollar Shave Club Scenes alone.

Have you ever thought of proposing this idea to an active army general or something in the lines of that? I honestly think they would be really interested in a study like this :)

I would watch a Lindybeige video that's just him promoting products he doesn't use.

I've rarely sat through 6 (no, actually 9) minutes of ad time without complaining. This is a wonderful example of how to do ads. (but perhaps not always this long)

Lindybeige and Shadiversity are almost everything you need on youtube for your war, especially medieval questions. I will love to see them making few videos together !

That was the most wonderfully condescending advertisement I've ever seen. It's a great ad for Lindybeige's ability to market products, but perhaps not so great for the product being advertised, if that's not entirely paradoxical...

Men run away after smelling their enemies' panic inducing amber cleanser.

Either because of Killer rabbits or the French Taunting was just too much.

Excellent video, and one of the best presentations of a product unknown to the presenter, ever. Brilliant stuff.

I've been in LARP battles where we've broken and run. Or held. Or fought to the last. As far as I can tell the only thing that keeps them fighting is yelling and telling them to keep fighting. You know when you're about to be overrun, you know when the enemy in front of you has the advantage. If you're lucky there's someone behind keeping an eye on the rear and flanks. Unless there's a reason to hold the ground, an objective, or a reason to delay the enemy, it's always more sensible to withdraw, even if you lose a few by breaking contact and fleeing. In our game instead of dying you can literally run away or 'flee' from the battle. You'll live, but your team or warband might lose. So as far as I can tell, the only thing that keeps a unit from breaking is 'nowhere to run' last-stand or some barmy officer yelling 'hold' who you trust is aware of the wider situation.

Come for the military science, stay to see Lindy try and process new agey shaving products.

6:39 "I know my true relationship with my milkman, which is NOT genetic" -Lindybeige, 2019

"For people with teeth! ...that need a kick." I legitimately laughed loud enough to elicit concern from other rooms of the house. I don't always watch paid promotions, but when I do, it's probably a Lindybeige video.

I have seen so many KZfaqrs advertising the dollar shave club but this is the first time I am considering actually subscribing to it

_"I have only embraced the oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. We must fight, to run away"_ *- Capt. Jack Sparrow*

They run because it's faster than walking.

Great vid, as usual. Sponsorship for the next episode: Tampax... "Well dear viewers, you are not gonna believe the angle I am going to pitch..." ;-)

I had an idea much like this once, which would work well in combination with some of Lindy's ideas here: As a film and TV writer I thought of a reality show for television where you take two groups of who are not war enthusiasts or re-enactors. A random sample of humanity, which gives you relatively unskewed results. Put them through several weeks of training as the first part of the show. Then pit the two groups in a series of battles based on different scenarios each time. Use the Laser system the military uses in exercises to determine casualties. Each participant has a large amount of money they gave in their game account. A large amount of money, at least ten thousand if not more. In each battle they can lose some of that money with various negative outcomes for them personally as well as their side collectively (wounded, dead, won, lost, ran away, surrender and so on). Judges, along with the commanders, can award extra money from a secondary prize pool in the form of "|medals that have cash value that goes into the awarded player’s account. Some actions can be both positive and negative, such as running away. If you run away, you cannot gain any award for your side winning that battle, if they do win but at the same time you preserve what is in your account because you pay only a small percentage penalty for running away. If you, on the other hand "die" but do so in a manner that the judges and commanders feel is worthy of a medal, then you are not charged the "death penalty" (which would be substantial in percentage of your account balance), and you would get the cash associated with that particular medal. With drone cameras and other tracking technology it would be possible to know what each player is doing every step of the way through one of these battle, and score their performance with a high degree of accuracy. It would make great TV, and it avoids the problem of getting only people with a lot of money and a keen interest in earfare from being dominating the mix of players. For both competitiveness and scientific results you want a group of average people for such a test. Sorry for any typos I missed.

Bizarrely the dollar shave club endorsement might be the funniest part of this video. Lloyd love your work keep it up matey.

Lindybeige = before picture Matt Easton = after picture

Lindybeige is one of the only KZfaqrs who's ads I enjoy almost as much as the normal content, not to mention a lot of the time they are part and parcel of said content.

"So there we go, this one's NOT optional" killed me

Lindy: promotes shaver Also lindy: doesn't shave Lindy: counts stuff instead

I confess I often double tap through the sponsor section, but this time I didn't... and I don't regret it 😂

Dollar shave club should've payed more for Lloyd to tell history of beards and or rant about his experience with shaving and having a beard. I would happily watch that.

Fascinating that in the same day youtuber Sherlock Hulmes posted video about LARP event, where they went to the skirmish. They had a plan how to beat the orcs, which backfired because orcs already anticipated that and countered that . . . HARD. And there you have it, players who had their characters for multiple years about to die and in all that confusion multiple players just legged it.

One thing to keep in mind is that running away is way worse when you do it alone. If you're alone you are a coward, but if every survivor runs then you are just lucky to be alive.

Maybe you could do a double-blind placebo-controlled experiment with panic-inducing shave butter?

That was the best advertisement i've ever seen on youtube. I'll definetely get one of those razors.

Normally I have no patience with messages from sponsors, but despite the length of this one I was glued to it. Clearly, the reason that soldiers run away is to see if their Dollar Shave Club package has arrived yet.

This is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen. I genuinely enjoyed it. Good sponsorship, DSC. By the way, Scalp Shampoo is basically anti-dandruff shampoo.

I would watch ANY advert presented by Lindybeige. He makes things I'd normally skip fun. :D

It's because you're such a good orator that even an ad for shaving bits sounds interesting and engaging. Great job as usual.

Lindybeige, living the dream as a warning to others.

Normally I skip through the 'promotions', but this was great. Well done Sir.

Lindybeige , the type of guy that trolls his own sponsor

While watching the idea I came up with was to have a pot of money be divided amongst those who survive. So you would be incentivized to “kill” the enemy since that’s more money for you. As well as to run because running means you still get some money. Friendly fire would of course disqualify you.

"I don't have a daily face, mine is weekly or even monthly" : comedy gold

Hey! Can you do a video addressing the topic of wardogs/war hounds in historical battles? How were they used and why?

"For people with teeth...that need a kick." 😂

If you're implementing a team-changing mechanic at the end of each fight, you miss out on the element of morale of fighting for your friends, "fighting for the man next to you" or even just the synergy and efficiency of fighting with someone you can quickly communicate with and whom you know what to expect from.

This is the first time I’ve actually sat through an advertisement for DSC lmao well done feller good stuff

"My relationship with the milk man is not genetic!" pure comedy gold.

"FOR PEOPLE WITH TEETH... THAT NEED A KICK!!" priceless...

This was the first ad i did not skip. Brilliant!

This is the only in-video AD I’ve never skipped it was genuinly funny

"I know my true relationship with my milkman ...which is not genetic" I had to giggle, Gin!

They should change the name from a "cassette" of blades to a "magazine" of blades!

Best advertisement on KZfaq ever. Normally I click through, advance the timer, not this time, no, I want to see this self depreciation to the end. Top quality British humor.

" I am NOT an obvious ambassador for a company that sells men's grooming products."

"For people with teeth that need a kick" lmao

I hit that thumbs up button before the sponsor break... now I wish there was a second one. Gosh, I truly enjoy your sense of humour :)

Lindy literally made 27 minute video just to ask "Why are you running??" in the most British way possible. What a Chad.

name should have been: Lindy waffles about dollar shave club for 10 minutes and also talks about psychology a little bit

Most enterataining sponsorship presentation, but don't expect them to be sponsor for too long

"Peppermint kick toothpaste... In case your teeth need a kick." That was my favorite line in the best advertising segment that I've ever seen on youtube. I can't remember the last time I rewound to rewatch a part of an advertisement.

Lmao the dollar shave club advert in the middle is just golden. I have just rewatched an ad segment in a video rather than skipping it. The brilliance of this man. I'd definitely buy this item for the sake of this advert alone if they delivered where I live. If they didn't go sour after seeing this fit of brilliance that is and congratulated him for how good it is. "The more perceptive of you and I would say the less perceptive of you and I would extend this to those of middling perceptive abilities, may all have drawn the same conclusion which is that I am not an obvious ambassador for a company that sells men's grooming products." "They have favored me cause this, this is no ordinary handle for a razor. No no. This, I see straight away is the executive handle." "You know even the tertiary blade sometimes lets you down." "Hydrating is good of course because some people have a lot of trouble drinking water and so the only way they can get water into them is to rub it through their skin." "I know what cleanser is that just means cleaner but it sounds better." "Hawaiian ginger is like ordinary ginger but with more vovels." "Mystery citrus, I don't know, hope it's grapefruit, that's my favorite. " "Disappearing post shave dew. Are words that I've never seen in that order before. Disappearing? It evaporates? Dew? That's, that's water, right? Post shave? I understand what post shave is." "Easy shave butter. I'm a beginner to this sort of thing so I think it's appropriate that they've sent me the easy version I imagine that others of you will be able to order more advanced shave butter. Butter?" "Superbra! No, I have misread that, it's Superba. Oh it's toothpaste!... And it says peppermint kick. So there you go, Superba, for people with teeth that need a kick." "Here we have hydrating, again. Which is good. Though don't overdose on water kids." "Hair and scalp shampoo... Hair and scalp shampoo? Is that different from normal shampoo? Have I been doing it wrong all these years? Is there such a thing as just scalp shampoo? How do you use that without getting it on your hair? That must be really tricky." "Mandatory prep scrub. So there you go this one is not optional. It's mandatory." "Body cleanser. Which is calming amber and lavender. Calming amber? Is amber even a smell? Does amber smell of a thing. They have quite a wide range of products presumably if you want their panic inducing amber you can get that too." And now I have watched it several more times to get these excerpts. That segment is better than most stand up comedians' entire sets.

The first sentence already made my day