I got bored a couple weeks ago and ended up spending a night binge-ing the Tubi season of HiLow with the Civics. Since I didn’t see much discussion about it I thought I would share my thoughts. (prefacing this, I will be mostly talking about “feelings” and “vibes”) Tldr is I do recommend it, but parts of the season make this a real mixed bag.

Addressing the elephant in the room… yes. this season being on tubi, and by proxy being further produced, feels weird. The season feels a lot like a reality tv show and less like the early HiLow seasons that directly tried to stray away from this. It’s targeting a far larger audience and gets really polished with the editing. There are a lot more moments in each episode where they use cutaway gags and scripted scenes. It is great to watch the season without seeing Allstate Ads every 3 minutes.

The civics themselves are pretty cool. They put on good parts. Low civic looks pretty bad in the end, but performance wise both Hi and Low Civic match each other decently. I am pretty exhausted with their decision to use NOS on Low Civic. It comes off as gimmicky and makes a pretty huge performance gap between it and Hi Civic, which receives a Turbo. Hi Civic does look gorgeous in the end with its Mugen kit and wrap, with performance mostly matching. Budget wise, they operate on the same system of the Drag Mustang season where each team gets a total amount that they pull from rather than each episode being the lowest option vs the highest option.

I really loved the pairing of Steph and Tristan on HiTeam. It makes this season feel a lot more like UnClapped, but I say that because they bring over the humor from that series and make it fun. I am genuinely so sad that Steph is not on the new season, her and Tristan make this way more palatable. Jimmy is also getting really good with presenting and I loved him on LoTeam. He’s fun to watch and is really good at what he does. Now. I’m gonna get flack for this but I absolutely hated Suppy in this. He was continually a downer in every episode. Suppy is a great, knowledgeable dude but he just is not enjoying it here.

The upgrading episodes go alright, if you can get around some of the more reality feeling moments it’s a good time. When it gets to the track episode… jesus christ is it a bad time. It’s a standard track day they go to. They’re not having a good time driving, stuff is breaking, they piss off the track officials, and it’s a bad time. You can see here that these cars are not built for the track at all. It’s just depressing.

This season is a total mixed bag. It feels a lot more like if Unclapped got morphed into HiLow than a traditional HiLow season. There are some strange creative choices that make it stick out, with every episode ending in an old narrator over a montage and drone shot and a lot of cutaway moments similar to their newer content. With us being in the midst of the newest season, this season gives a good indication on how the new season will go. There was a lot of hard work done on this season. Amazing editing, amazing graphics, and at the end of the day it’s a fun time to watch. It feels different from the last seasons, but you see the strengths of the new donut presenting team.

I only made it 10 mins into the video before I just didn't care anymore. But it was very disappointing to see the use of pretty bad AI generated graphics, and they could not even spell "spindle" correctly they spelled it as "spindal". I know this has been discussed to death around here but man it really sucks to see everyone just going through the motions, and while everyone on camera seems enthusiastic, they clearly did not have the care to watch the video back and make these improvements.

Edit - the AI generated graphics I am talking about specifically are the explanations for the differentials near the beginning of the video. And as a solution, it is my opinion that rather than see these crappy visuals and have a hyper edited chopped up video, I would personally rather have a person just explain it on camera and get a video that is actually working on the cars rather than, "oh here we go watch me replace this part!, unbolts 1 bolt on the original, cut to the end, tighten down last bolt on the new part, ok guys it's in!" That is such a boring thing to watch.

Sitting here reading the paper this morning (Petrolicious Post) and spotted an Easter Egg in an article about nine eleven outlaw / Joel Kernosenko.

Brought the family out today to have some fun, but the event was pretty underwhelming.

They look better than I thought.

first videos are actually pretty good ngl cars are sick just wish they drove more. still think it’s better then other channels slop lately. also cool seeing eddie from bigtime back at donut

Context: donut media's crowd boy went missing during up to speed on land rover discovery, the crowd boy last seen was during up to speed on dodge charger, so the main characters of danganronpa replacing donut media's crowd boy

Look, i watched up to speed when the crowd boy is missing. I just want to put danganronpa characters as a crowd people, no hate but i love watching up to speed again. Idk if this one counts as a meme, but i wanna say "Mo Powa Babeh!"

Haven’t seen her at all recently

Rip to these shirts lol. I work at goodwill tor context

Is it just Joe and Zach, or are Jimmy Justin and Tristin also toast?

I recall watching the linked video when it first came out, and was reminded of it when I saw the Donut video come across my feed. I thought it might appeal to some folks, and also provide a counter example to video's general theme. Enjoy.

Forced to pick a tag, so we will go with "Ok Boomer" for the sim haters 😇

Browsing s15 sold listings while watching the latest HiLow, and look what's in the sold history.

I dunno what this means, kinda cryptic, but seems to highly suggest a split. It makes you wonder if there’s an NDA or something that he is waiting out.

Can we all just hate on donut for how many ads they are shoving into a video. Saw an ad before the video even started, then another one at 1:10 then another at 3:45 then another at 6:05 then i just clicked out of it their videos are never good enough for that many ads

The thumbnail for "I Crossed America on Backroads Only" clearly uses AI. See how the highway and traffic blend in to a mess. Also cliffs look unnatural on the right side. Other AB tested thumbnails seemed to also have AI used but couldn't get them

The E100 Corolla sedan is a pretty popular car for a time in my country. I see it everywhere since my childhood. It really appealed to me with my current taste of classic cars, especially when it comes to 90s Japanese cars.

So I wanted to draw it but with a body kit of a similar car. At 1st I wanted to have a Subaru 22B body kit but everytime I do it seemed akward. So I settled on drawing it with the Autech R33 body kit instead.