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captain_aggravated ,
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The Engineer Guy just stopped uploading.

Same with Afrotechmods. TOP NOTCH electronics tutorial videos, he just stopped posting.

Pushing Up Roses, as she explained it herself, has pretty much said what she wanted to say about retro video games and largely does TV now with the occasional modern adventure game review thrown in. I wish her well but I’m no longer her audience.

DistroTube. Did Linux related content who might have an 88 tattooed on his neck by now.

Scott Manley. Similar to PUR, the content he makes kind of drifted out from under my interests; I became a fan of his Kerbal Space Program playthroughs and demonstrations of space flight concepts, but as far as I know now he basically does space news stuff now, which is perfectly cool but my attention wandered elsewhere.

Bright Sun Films. Once again there wasn’t a “nope not watching this anymore” moment, I think I just had my fill of Abandoned.

(dis)Honorable Mention: The Escapist. I no longer watch that channel but I am still a fan, viewer and patron of the talent themselves. Their new channel Second Wind is the most hilarious instance of owning the means of production I’ve ever seen.

overload ,

Distrotube hits hard. I remember the video showing everyone his collection of increasingly larger guns was the checkout moment for me. Even saying one of them was great for kids. As a non American maybe I just don’t get it.

ssm ,
@ssm@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Distrotube, Luke Smith, and Mental Outlaw all give me bad vibes. Shame they’re (minus distrotube) at the forefront of OpenBSD youtube content.

theshatterstone54 ,

Yeah, I’ve dropped DT and Mental Outlaw. As for Luke Smith, I’m going through some of his older, purely technical videos about vim, grep, sed, awk, etc. and that’s it. I’m dropping him too after that

Red_sun_in_the_sky ,
@Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml avatar

Luke smith is a freak. Just gross.

GreatRam , (edited )

The engineer guy recently uploaded a video on duct tape. I liked it a lot

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

He has published his audio book about the airship R101 under a creative commons license, if you haven’t seen that yet I’d check it out.

Red_sun_in_the_sky ,
@Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh shit distro tube. Yeah that’s true.

PeterLossGeorgeWall ,

Binging with babish. I am still subscribed but I find myself interested in fewer and fewer videos. The channel started as recreating meals from tv shows and still is that to an extent but naturally he’s run low on things to do. They’ve added other aspects that I just don’t care for like anime with Alvin. I just don’t watch much anime. I also feel like there is just less content.

Another is Joshua Weissman who used to do fermenting videos and curing etc. Now I feel like I just watch him make some bread buns and then he makes a sandwich. He’s made 100 burgers by now. Who cares. I enjoyed some other series he did like “but faster” or “but cheaper” but they always seem to end after a few episodes and he moves onto something else. I feel like I learn stuff from his videos but just when I’m getting a feel for a topic like fermenting he moves on.

dethedrus ,

When I was doing the cliche sourdough deep dive during the height of covid lockdown, I really enjoyed Joshua Weissman’s videos about it. He was a little silly and very informative.

Everything I’ve seen in the past couple years have been off putting. He tries WAY too hard to be ‘funny’ and it just comes off as smarmy.

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 ,
@grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

CurlyWurlies4All , (edited )
@CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net avatar

Watched a lot of Binging With Babish and just got tired of his schtick I think. Same with the How To Drink guy.

Wootz ,

To be fair, its probably pretty hard to stay ahead of the curve when your format is limited to “guy in kitchen / bar makes food / drink from relevant pop culture series / movie”

That said, completely agree on Babish. Dude tried to grow his channel way too aggressively and burned out I think. Went from uploading a main video every week to showing up once a month at most, with regular uploads mostly featuring other people.

CurlyWurlies4All ,
@CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net avatar

Yeah sometimes things just have a natural shelf life.

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.

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.

SORROW ,

AVGN… Is a corporate now and the guy is just a failed movie director that is stuck in the one thing that made him popular so he just doesn’t put the passion on it anymore.

And his last 3 year of videos are TERRIBLE.

OfficerBribe ,

While some of his stuff interested me, the whole shit / diarrhea ″joke″ shtick put me off right from beginning.

SORROW ,

That’s prime AVGN, if you don’t like it then you missed the best part of it

mediOchre ,

for a second there i thought you were talking about AVNJ (the fish biology guy) and was immensely worried lol

13esq ,

Even it was AVNJ, you shouldn’t let some random strangers on the internet ruin things you like. Every one has a skeleton in the closet but if you like the videos, watch them.

BruceTwarzen ,

I stopped watching when i read that he’s just the “actor” now. Now i watched two of his recent videos and they were way better than i expected. Not great, but it’s not like it went full unwatchable garbage. I can see someone discovering his new video and go way back to see more. So i guess it’s not that bad.

It’s kinda sad t h at they seem to never to be able to make an actual good movie.

jeeva ,

Out of interest, have you seen hbomberguy’s recent video on plagiarism in YouTube and the section on AVGN?

Fake4000 ,

Ask a Ninja.

Wootz ,

AvE.

He used to be a bulwark against idiocy and koolaid drinkery, advocating for calmness and common sense.

…and then he called Justin Trudeau a Nazi and bought into vaccine skepticism.

nathan ,

Yeah I noticed the same thing and I also don’t watch that channel for the same reason. I used to watch every video! Then he started saying weirder and weirder shit haha

mindbleach ,

Some people get addicted to being right all the time.

hexabs ,

Lofi girl. I just outgrew her.

Sam_Bass ,

King of Random til he died, veritasium, john greene and his brother, and that goofy dude that likes to play dumb around electricity

NickwithaC ,
@NickwithaC@lemmy.world avatar

ElectroBoom!

Passerby6497 ,

I actually didn’t realize that KoR died because I gave up on him a few years before that when he and his wife put out that stupid video where they were denying they were doing click bait shit in a video with the same problem. It was just a bunch of whiney bullshit that showed he wasn’t what is signed up for anymore.

Was rather surprised a few years ago when I went to watch some random video and it was all new people. Still not very interesting.

skulblaka ,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

that goofy dude that likes to play dumb around electricity

You’re probably talking about Electroboom, but also check out StyroPyro. Especially now, guy needs the views, he’s going through some serious medical issues. Probably my favorite YouTube channel that exists.

Snowpix ,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

And Photonicinduction! He uploads rarely but every video is great.

Jourei ,

He seems to upload every other leap year or so. :D

mindbleach ,

Crash Course was some good shit.

200ok ,

Most beauty “influencers”

I watched them before they were “influencers”, and then I couldn’t trust the products they were using or recommending.

PeepinGoodArgs ,

Contrapoints and PhilosophyTube were two big ones. I’d still watch Carlos Maza if he produced anything, but he hasn’t in like two years, so…I’ll include him, too.

Evkob ,
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Contrapoints and PhilosophyTube were two big ones

Care to share why you stopped watching their channels? Because without context, the only potential reason that comes to mind is that they’re both trans women…

PeepinGoodArgs ,

That’s not exactly wrong, but it’s not the only reason. I’ve never been particularly interested LGBTQ+ issues, and Contrapoints’s transition first was kinda like, “K, I’m glad I’m learning about this stuff, I guess, but I have other interests.” After all, what drew me to both in the first place were their philosophical analyses and how they applied it to social issues. They were important to me for how they showed me how philosophy can be used, as opposed to DarkMatter5555 (I think that’s his name. Also, add him to the list), who I also used to watch, but that dude never grew out of the same stale template of animating god and the angel and regurgitating the most basic atheistic ideas.

So, my purpose in watching them was to learn how to apply principles to reality with a little learning along the way. But when they started focusing in on their transition, I just dropped off.

Arn_Thor ,

Contrapoints’ latest video is a very good one you might find interesting. It’s sort of a PhD in video form, very deeply researched. The topic is heterosexuality, framed through the Twilight stories. It’s long and pretty meaty

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