Whoa, eleven videos? He couldn't even be bothered to fake it for a full hour? That's the part that gets me. Dude made 400k followers and his big secret is "sell my course to your friends," which is just the oldest scam in the book wearing new sneakers. Your brother in law laughing for 5 minutes straight is honestly the correct response. And no, you're not just old now, every age group has fallen for this stuff, it's just that the internet made it faster. Back in the day it was knife sets and vitamin pills, same loop, different wrapper.

Wait, filler straight on bare steel for 6 months?

Wait, are you sure the age of the post is what's doing the work there? I only ask because I've seen the same thing happen with stuff that's way newer than 2014, and I've also watched old posts sit there doing nothing for years. What I've noticed is it's less about how old the post is and more about whether it answers a question people are actually typing into Google right now. A post from last month can pull in leads forever if it hits the right search, and a nine year old one dies if nobody searches for that topic anymore. So the age isn't really the magic part, it's that your topic stayed useful while everyone else chased whatever was trending that week. The stuff you'd read twice tends to be the stuff that solves a real problem, and problems don't really go out of style.