What YouTubers did you used to watch back then but not anymore?

Duamerthrax , 4 days ago

I’m unsure about some of the talents at MSM since it was claimed that they may have a blacklist and the CEO, Seth may be power tripping and gaslighting the smaller talents while treating the big ones with kid gloves to keep them in the company.

When the accusations were first brought up, Seth put out a tweet explaining that they don’t have a blacklist, but do have a list of other streamers who are considered high risk. Which sounds a hell of a lot like a blacklist and comes across as some logic fallacy I don’t know the name up. Basically redefining words to sidestep an accusation. “I haven’t done X because that’s not what X means.”

There’s also some problematic tweets the CEO made when he was 21 and probably contributed to f1nn5ter leaving and while he wasn’t specific to exactly why, LordAethelstan also left after hearing about the accusations and vetting things on his end. Supposedly Seth was also shit talking Mythic, which his girlfriend works with, so that alone would be enough if he could verify it.

I’m using “safe” language here because this is still an emerging story, but going by the response from MSM supporters, they look guilty as hell of something.

Classy , 4 days ago

FLuffee Talks. (Hey… What’s up?)

No particular reason. FLuffee is a major old schooler that’s been pumping out content since the earliest days of YouTube who specializes in pop news and shock-jock content. I used to devour his content when I was like 11-15, and I think I just got overexposed and lost taste for it.

I’ve gone back occasionally over the years and he’s still at it. If his content style works and he can maintain it even some 16-18 years later, I say more power to him.

SirEDCaLot , 4 days ago

Casey Neistat. Back when he was doing his daily vlog thing a lot of it was really interesting, covering him and his wife trying to make shit happen in the city as he was running and riding his powered skateboard around Manhattan. At some point his audience started drifting younger, way way younger, and I don’t know if it was him or me but I just kind of lost interest. It didn’t feel new anymore.

That might be me to be honest. I actually don’t watch YouTube that much at all anymore, unless I’m looking for something specific. Their recommendation algorithm is garbage and it is so obviously going for raw time suck engagement that it leaves me with a bunch of unfulfilling clickbait / ragebait where I could watch it for an hour and then just want my hour back so I end up not returning. The whole platform used to be more full of interesting genuinely entertaining and educational videos, now it just feels like a giant time sink. And every other video is now some paid sponsorship or plug where the creator is basically just whoring out their own influence. Case in point, look up reviews of laser engravers. Every single one that I could find, especially of a couple major brands, the creator got the laser hardware for free. Some of them are just advertisements that reuse the manufacturer’s own stock footage, and some seem more like real reviews, but for one or two brands I literally could not find one video where the creator wasn’t sponsored by the laser manufacturer.

rickyrigatoni , 4 days ago

I watched Inside Gaming/Funhaus a lot but after the whole Adam Kovic thing happened it wasn’t the same. The new crew of people were some cool dudes but didn’t seem anywhere near as into the crude humor or constant 80’s/90’s movie trivia stuff and I couldn’t go back to the old episodes for a couple years after knowing what I knew.

I dropped Nerd3 after he played Metal Gear Rising and called it a mindless button masher when he was just mashing buttons mindlessly and didn’t even go into the movelist. There were instances before that where he didn’t bother learning how to play a game before writing it off as the game being bad because he was bad and that was just the last straw.

I watched InTheLittleWood for a bit but he was just a weenie to be honest.

Can’t watch kitty0706 without getting a little emotional still.

There are plenty of other channels that I just got bored of their content, or they changed their content to something I didn’t gel with. There’s no winning with me.

phlegmy , 4 days ago

Twenty Sided / Shamus Young 😢

Quetzalcutlass , 3 days ago

I followed Shamus Young’s blog in 2007, and kept following him long after I dropped every other blogger. I didn’t always agree with him (cough Dark Souls cough), but his reviews were the best and most in-depth in the business (seriously, his Mass Effect retrospective covers the entire trilogy and is longer than most novels). He had a way with words where even when he was arguing for/against something you hate/love, you’d still be entertained by the read.

His death left a void in my consumption of media criticism. I don’t think anyone I follow is as articulate or entertaining as Shamus was. RIP Shamus.

saigot , 3 days ago

Kurzgesagt went hugely downhill, I’ll still watch the occasional video from them, but most of what they do now is super speculative tenuous science with 5 min of sponsored content.

I remember way back in the day I enjoyed laci green for her sex ed content, but she just suddenly went super right wing.

hexabs , 3 days ago

Although I agree Kurzgesagt has gone downhill, I feel like they’ve still beaten the average youtuber lifecycle.

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling , 2 days ago

I remember back in high school I watched Sexplanations a lot. Introduced me to a lot of concepts I’ve been using to this day. I think I stopped watching her because I outgrew her channel.

HurlingDurling , 3 days ago

LTT due to their amount of scandals

csolisr , 2 days ago

@zachimusprime44 RelaxAlax and ProJared. Sure, they both came with rather flimsy reasons to state that the allegations against them were apparently false, but I didn't buy them.

Resol , 2 days ago

I was a Nas Daily fan back then. I just got bored of him over time, not to mention how insanely corporate his videos feel now.