Why would he put on a fake accent? Thats like Hillary Clinton putting on a fake black accent when she talks in front of the NAACP. Or when Madonna was living in England she used a fake British accent.
Seems stupid.
Why not? And, no, it's nothing like Hillary or Madonna. He does it to promote his website - which appears to be his business also. He markets a line of T-shirts (and even pokes fun at
himself with one that says, "Irresponsible Gun Owner" - an accusation which has been made in this thread). Businesses have been using advertising gimmicks for decades, perhaps centuries. The Russian accent is simply an advertising gimmick - a way to have his "product" (guns he gets to shoot for free) remembered. There's no excuse at all for Hillary, and Madonna? There are people who train to develop a particular accent, and there are those who pick up accents very easily without trying. My eldest daughter is one of the latter... she sounded like a hillbilly when we lived in NC, and after 3 months in Australia, she sounded like an Ozzie. If
you had over 2 million subscribers, and 6 million hits on
your business site, would it still be "stupid"?
Pax...