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jeeva ,

Another vote for Binging with Babish - though my interest waned when he started going from “hey, I could try making that!” to episodes requiring ever more complex and expensive niche machines (e.g. dehydrators), I completely lost interest around the time he started doing the “going round buying folk things” series. Never really got back into it, unsubscribed after a while.

Bon Appetit was great, then everything happened, many folk changed (for good reason) and it just lost the appeal for me. I’ve watched some of the spun off channels, but some of the appeal for me was the interactions.

I used to religiously watch everything Shut Up and Sit Down put out, but found myself watching less and less over the last few years - turns out, they changed primary content creators and editor (if I understand correctly) around that time, and announced that they did so recently. Still watch occasionally, but it’s a very subtly different style that hits less reliably for me. May also be related to me managing to play fewer boardgames, lately.

Brutticus ,

I stuck with Babish through his expensive weird era because I still felt like I was learning something about cooking, even if i couldnt make his three day Troy pizza casserole or whatever. I still felt like I was becoming a better cook. Recently he switched up his editing style to less voice over, hands only content and more click baity listacles, and more videos where hes messing around in the kitchen. I liked watching the hands only stuff because I could see what he doing, and there wasnt any emphasis on his face, so there less emphasis on his personality, and therefore I felt a little less intimidated as far as trying it myself. The voice overs were also really concise. The end result was also really light weight, and felt like a recipe that didn’t have all the SEO “my grandma taught me how to make this cake before she died” garbage.

Alvin is still making videos in the classic “Babish” style on the Babish channel, and I still watch the vids Andrew puts out in that style, but if i can see his face, I wont even click on the video.

GrayBackgroundMusic ,

I don’t watch babish because he stopped making the videos about a food in a show or movie.

toastal ,

I get really close to pressing the button for anyone who is talking of anti-corporate speech or pro-privacy then goes into joining their Discord chatroom to slap you in face with hypocrisy.

Ledivin ,

DrLupo. I watched him a bunch when he was on twitch, but he got kinda arrogant and negative over the years. Now I watch the people he used to play with before he changed 🤷‍♂️

SuperSaiyanSwag ,

JonTron

AquaTofana ,

God he was so fucking funny. It was a legit travesty when he let the mask slip and showed us he was actually a huge prick that shouldn’t be supported.

hexabs ,

Out of the loop… What happened?

don ,

After a quick search, this came up.

mindbleach ,

That one hurt.

stoy ,

I was into the ThatGuyWithTheGlasses community about 15 years ago, I watched NostalgiaCritic every week, and tye Spoony Experiment often as well as some other channels.

When Doug killed his NC character and tried to start a new series with a character based of a failed movie director, I stopped watching, then I saw a video about the drama at tgwtg and lost all interest in the team.

I have watched one or two video from them since when NC was revived, but it is completely uninteresting now.

BruceTwarzen ,

Around that time i was in a hospital and was bored to shit. I watched every one of spoony and Doug’s videos. I loved it, it was the only thing that kept me entertained, because i was awake most nights. I knew it was flawed in many ways, and doug kinda refused to make the jump to youtube or something and i just stopped watching and kinda assumed his project died. Only last year i found out that he made several movies and a gameshow and all quit like 4 times. So i watched his movie, that looked really bad and thought: what does a movie look like from a guy who made it his career to nitpick about movies. It’s really bad. It’s so bad. It’s not funny bad, i felt bad watching this movie. He hasn’t evolved as a person, his film making qualities have not improved at all. All his stuff looks like he’s still using the same camera. I had fever one day and watched his game show, this gave me the worst fever dream imaginable. The next day i was convinced that shit was not real. Then i read up about how hi kick started all this stuff and wondered where the money goes. This stuff is truly bizarre to me and i think that would actually make a good move that is not made by him.

craigers ,
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Maybe I’m going too old school here but the first 2 that came to mind were CommunityChannel and Phillip Defranco

GrayBackgroundMusic ,

I love Philly d, I like him better than traditional news channels, but watching just made me depressed.

Squizzy ,

Still with Phil, my god it has been so long. I was there for the lost mountain dew video. My interest goes up and down, he can go through periods of very celeb focused or very america focused which can be boring but overall I like him and what he creates.

He needs to stop with the “news studio” shit and commit to something, let it grow and see where it ends up. I have lost like totally awesome, sourcefed and now rogue rocket.

cupcakezealot ,
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stef sanjati. she was the first trans person i saw irl and got me the courage to come out.

i only dont watch cause shes not a youtuber anymore :(

kamen , (edited )

That Canadian tech guy. The channel has some good content, but that whole drama with the ex-employees, even without knowing the whole story, stinks of a toxic workplace, and I don’t want to support that. Plenty of other good tech-related content that I still follow - Level One Techs, Gamers Nexus, Hardware Canucks, Hardware Unboxed, JayzTwoCents.

Fro Knows Photo - used to have some good content years ago when I watched it, but started becoming more and more annoying, with clickbait thumbnails on almost every video.

SMoD - a good source for getting to know new/unknown bands in the doom/stoner/sludge metal realms, but unsubbed after the scandal.

Etterra ,

Rooster Teeth. They stopped being watchable a few years ago. Now they’re gone. Never sell your baby to a giant, faceless corporation or it will either die ugly or be mutated into a cancerous abomination.

grasshopper_mouse ,
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Same. I’ll occasionally download some of their old podcasts if I’m flying and just need something to pass the time, but their new stuff was dull. It’s a shame that it ended the way it did.

Etterra ,

Well a lot of the old guard left and all the new “talent” sucked ass. Mostly I just liked RvB until it outlived itself.

Evotech ,

Was rip once ray left

hexabs ,

Lofi girl. I just outgrew her.

Nomecks ,

Hoovie’s garage and Tavarish. Both had good channels fixing cars and then they went off the broken supercar deep end, then wound up with the Car Stories channel and decided to rip off the Top Gear format of doing stupid, obviously scripted adventures.

Nobody gives a crap about fixing a completely unattainable car or re-living the demise of Top Gear.

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

hear hear

grasshopper_mouse ,
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Used to religiously watch a guy that played the same video game I was into. He was incredibly good at it, well-known in the game’s community, did how-to guides, build guides, super nice, just wanted everyone to have a good time, wanted everyone to excel in the game, good-natured, just an all-around awesome dude, etc.

Then I dunno wtf happened, but 9 years later he’s become a total fucking elitist asshole who does nothing but complain about the game and the gaming studio, doesn’t seem to give a shit about the little guy just trying to learn the game anymore, it’s like he did a 180 in personality and now has a “git gud” mentality. He made a video of him declaring that he was leaving the game, and he did, for like a month, then promptly returned once his viewership clearly went down. I unsubscribed at that point. He became a total whinebox bitch and I lost all respect for him.

Trae ,

Sounds like a Rust YouTuber.

zingo ,

Dr. Disrespect?

grasshopper_mouse ,
@grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world avatar

True Vanguard

vortexal ,
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Something kind of ironic, is that a lot of the YouTube channels I used to watch have at some point had some pretty terrible things come out about them, mostly after I had already stopped watching them. Boogie2988, Mini Ladd, GeePM and Rooster Teeth are some of the ones I can remember.

For Boogie and Mini Ladd, I don’t remember the specific reason I stopped watching them but I do know that I stopped watching them well before all of the information about them was released.

For Rooster Teeth, there was only two things I watched them for and that was Fails of the Week, which they silently canceled and never gave a reason why, and the other was RWBY which they decided to move it from YouTube to their own website which was so terrible that the episodes would have severe buffering issues at 240p. I don’t remember what the last volume was that I watched but I know I never watched everything.

For GeePM, I watched him pretty much up until the day when he tried to cancel Vinny (Vinesause). In response, people were quick to bring out information about some pretty terrible things that GeePM was doing behind the scenes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a YouTuber just completely vanish from the internet that quickly.

I know for sure that there are more but those are the ones I remember the most and think they are the most notable.

Duke_Nukem_1990 , (edited )

What terrible thing came out about Rooster Teeth?

vortexal , (edited )
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There was a few things, I can’t remember all of the details but here’s what I remember:

The CEO was arrested for abusing his wife.

One of their content creators, James Ryan Haywood, was accused of having very inappropriate interactions with multiple fans. Some of which being of questionable age.

There were also staff members who alleged that there was a toxic work environment. I don’t remember if it was misogyny, racism or both.

Then there were allegations that the team that worked on RWBY were severely underpaid, with most of them not getting paid at all.

mindbleach ,

I’ve forgotten who but I know one of their content creators was accused of either grooming or at least having inappropriate conversations with a or potentially multiple minors.

James Ryan Haywood did some penis crimes at Rooster Teeth conventions. Basically a dozen variations on “not technically rape.” With fans, of questionable age, on the company dime. As soon as credible accusations arose, his ass was gone, and the rest of Achievement Hunter had exactly one emotional-and-drunk livestream to say they were never going to acknowledge him for the rest of their lives.

His whole personality on-camera and in-game turns out to be really close to how he sincerely acts and thinks. He was not playing a heel.

vortexal ,
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I had completely forgotten how bad it was. I’ll edit my previous comment to fix that error.

mindbleach ,

I don’t think an edit was necessary, but if you’re gonna edit it, he committed sexual assault against multiple probably-legal-at-the-time fans.

half_built_pyramids ,

Direwolf20, he was mean to the kid

drbluefall ,

I’m OOTL; what happened with Direwolf20?

half_built_pyramids ,

Forget the younger guy’s name. Erno? Anyway, I didn’t know if anything actually bad happened, just normal meanness on camera played off as humor.

NauticalNoodle ,

EEVBlog. The guy is a brilliant electrical engineer but his arrogance prevents him from realizing that his electrical engineering intelligence doesn’t translate to other unrelated subjects. I tuned into a live-stream of his once and he started to discuss international geopolitics. His views were ill-informed and half-baked at best. When a couple of viewers (not including myself) simply requested he change subjects, he became indignant and started telling people not to tell him what to do on his own YouTube channel. He eventually told his viewers to leave if they don’t like what he had to say. So I did. I have not watched one of his videos since. I did watch Adam Something’s witty rebuttal to his video that reviewed and criticized one Adam Something’s videos.

slingstone ,

Adam Something is a favorite of mine.

Duamerthrax ,

Adam Something is pretty good. Sometimes he gets finer details wrong, but overall, he’s worth watching.

COASTER1921 ,

Absolutely this. AvE had exactly the same thing happen but Canadian and with tools. Now they’re both just too political for me to put up with sticking around for the technical stuff.

I’m not Australian and I’m not Canadian, so if I’m watching a technical video why do I need to know their political opinions?

BruceTwarzen ,

Oh god i watched that guy for quite a bit and he always made weird remarks about things he doesn’t like in a weird way and conspiracy theories that were just “jokes”. Then he went full right wing asshole.

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