@Starving Always As the post is about mantids and unboxing, I put it in the General section where the box packing thread and others are - but depending on the point of the post it may need moved elsewhere as promotion/advertising/related belong in the classifieds section only.
I've seen a few videos of unboxing, usually tarantulas or beetles, as you pointed out mantids are rather uncommon. I guess the idea behind your post though is free seller promotion from videos mentioning their site primarily. Of course it could possibly get others interested in the hobby that stumble across a such video. If though you are looking for free mantids to make promotion videos for them, that belongs in the classifieds.
Although for those "people have made it big" I'm not sure what your saying. "Big" in regards to YouTube viewers, Facebook subscribers, or what exactly?
I know member
Precarious obviously as he is a active member and has been for years, and his video/photography work is very well known.
For
Moonlight Mantids (aka Serpentarium Surplus aka Kevin Young) I only know of him as he got infamous for some voicemail...
The others you mentioned I do not, so I assume they are only on the Facebook groups, or YouTube. A couple of those names do have a MF account, but all are newer accounts from 2012 to last year 2015 - and all are well under 100 posts each and not been online for at least a year. So if they were around since the "early times of the community" it must be Facebook or YouTube's community.
Just throwing some of it "out there" to see what this topic thread is really about as it could go in several directions.