I've been watching a youtuber called NavaTheBeast who is a US Marine. I find his vlogs quite interesting and I was wondering why there are no big Royal Marine youtubers. Do the RM have a policy against vlogging/recording? I was thinking because I would maybe like to video my experiences/work outs/ time within the royal marines as a sort of time capsule of my life and to look back on. So is there a ban on cameras or is there just a stigma against recording because I know Brits don't necessarily find people vlogging the norm, even I find it strange when people go out recording themselves sometimes.
The big one is PERSEC or OPSEC, personal security and operational security.
You can open yourself up, especially in this day and age to some sort of retaliation.
Plus it’s not just you, you could be filming lads that don’t want filmed, could have come from bad areas, or trying to escape something, or have aspirations to go SF.
Another reason is because it’s absolutely horrendously cringey, embarrassing and just pointless. The majority of that sort of stuff is looked down on. It’s awkward, silly, cringey and quite narcissistic. A lot of lads deliberately avoid doing anything with recruitment/pictures/TV stuff purely for that reason.
If you want something to look back on, I recommend doing what lads have done since the invention of the camera, take pictures, or if you have to film, keep it private.
