what has the beamng youtube community come to

Best BeamNG related series on YouTube, really shows how cars can be pushed to the limits in this game and still behave realistically (except for some mods he used sometimes), and how the game simulates gradual destruction of vehicle components from hard driving. Someone should make a new track for this series, that doesn't have many jumps to prevent oilpan damage.

 

CrashBoomPunk does use the 'third-party' (meaning private made for him, not Russian) mods in the videos themselves, but usually only in the scenes where the thumbnail comes from. I think it's a good compromise because it's technically not misleading but still brings views to the video. Fun fact, my friend does the subtitles to his police chases, and they are half the fun of watching them. And they even have their own lore, you would be really surprised to see how deep it goes, but you'd have to do some research to find all of it... Or keep watching the videos where it's slowly being revealed and would take like 10 years to show it all lol. Also I don't get why some people don't like CrashBoomPunk or judge him as a person by looking at his channel (or only at his thumbnails), he's a really nice person and you can tell that by looking at how he replies to comments on his videos, even to hate comments. Also he reads literally ALL of his comments, even when I once commented on a 4 years old video he made, he still replied, that's some dedication lol
Car Pal is like the only youtuber ever who can make good content with bad mods, idk how he manages to do it. Yes he does use bootleg websites, he metioned it in a reply to a comment years ago, probably nothing changed since then. The content is so entertaining that nobody even cares that the cars don't crash that well.
Frizeris is also great, he made the most action-packed plot in the history of BeamNG movies, and it all makes sense somehow, feels like watching Hollywood movies lol. As far as I know the mods he uses are sometimes made specifically for video purposes so in normal scenarios they probably crash bad. At least they are not Russian.
Neilogical sticks to repo mods in his normal videos, and only uses bootleg ones in multiplayer ones, which is technically not his fault, because he doesn't know what quality the mods on the server are before joining. He's one of the few youtubers who still do proper mod review videos, obviously nowhere near as good as WhyBeAre used to do, but still.
The only time I have seen WhyBeAre use a bootleg mod was many years ago when he just showed how bad it is, and got hate in the comments from kids who liked the mod. But it literally had Jbeam stoled from another mod and a high poly model ripped from some GTA mod, it spiked a lot in crashes, and dumb kids were saying it's an ultra realistic simulation of carbon fiber... that's why he never used a bootleg mod in a video ever again lol

And about the oil pans in Driven Till Destruction... One of the key factors of this series is realistic damage, and making the oil pan indestructible kinda ruins it. It would be better to add some LUA that refills the oil on the car each time it crosses some trigger on the finish line on each lap. Because irl they would just refill the oil instead of replacing the oil pan, to my knowledge that's just what most people do with a leaking oil pan, just keep refilling oil lol

 

That's not quite a bootleg mod, at least the Jbeam fits the shape

 

Used to be called Wreckmeister but now known more as Ziggy because people could never pronounce his last name so now they use the first one lol
And now that the Fiat Uno mod is broken he uses a Wigeon instead

 

The origin of his name was that originally his license plate said "wreckme" so they made a name out of that lol