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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

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.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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 :(

craigers ,
@craigers@lemmy.world avatar

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.

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.

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.

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 🤷‍♂️

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.

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.

AceFuzzLord ,

Pretty sure a lot of people could relate, but watching a variety of various game players who years later you lose interest in (mostly because of how cringe they are) or in my case at some point somehow find out some terrible news about them despite avoiding all the real world drama.

People like Bijuu Mike, Gloom, Logdotzip, etcetera.

Can’t find another example I wanted to use since I couldn’t remember the account name nor does it matter since I’m pretty sure it was found out he was a horrible person.

Also it’s pretty interesting to see some people you’re following on yt who you don’t remember why you subbed to because there are definitely both active and dead channels I’m currently subbed to that I forgot even existed.

theshatterstone54 ,

What’s the logdotzip drama? I’ve been trying to find out just now and there doesn’t seem to be any.

AceFuzzLord ,

He’s just one I stopped watching put of boredom and disinterest in his content. I don’t know if there’s any drama with him specifically.

theshatterstone54 ,

Oh, alright. Similar story here. I watched him when I was younger, but his content is just focused on a younger audience I no longer seem to fit in.

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.

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?

jaykay ,
@jaykay@lemmy.zip avatar

All gaming YouTubers, except for Byze. I can’t stand screaming every 5 seconds for no reason anymore. I’m getting old

mediOchre ,

there are some gaming youtubers that i follow that doesn’t scream a lot. beelz, aliensrock, superautogaming, the backlogs. though i guess it really depends on the type of games they play. and i agree about screaming, the moment they get their voice loud enough for no good reason i unsubscribe lol

braxy29 ,

erhoslab is still around, last i checked. nice guy, nice voice, no screaming.

tiredofsametab , (edited )

Binging with Babish - the content just drifted away. He started doing a show with another guy and I just didn't watch those episodes. Then, the content went further and I stopped watching.

Joshua Weissman - he just became insufferable at some point. I liked his older content.

Shadiversity, Sabine Hossenfelder - they have positions that cause hurt to people and that I morally do not agree with and won't give watch time or ad/sub money to. There are probably more here, but I don't recall. They're welcome to their opinions, but I'm not entitled to view them or fund them.

First we Feast - mostly watched it for Hot Ones (the Motz's stuff was fantastic!) but I got tired of Hot Ones, didn't know most of the guests for a long stretch (not living in the US or really consuming US media made me lose track of things). I also kinda got burnt out on the format.

Linus Tech Tips - to me, it just became the arrogant, egotistical Linus show. There was some other stuff that kinda put me off as well. Maybe it's better now, but I haven't watched in a long while at this point.

A number of creators I'm not thinking of - I hate when prescription meds are advertised (which isn't even legal in the vast majority of countries) and how they just want to sell dick pills without a real, non-conflict-of-interest doctor involved when the cause may not even be physical. I worked in healthcare for a long time and that just rubbed me the wrong way, particularly when creators in countries where it would be illegal for them on TV do it (and it may not even be legal/available in their country but it is in the country of at least US-based audience members).

Edit: and the 8-bit guy now, based on others mentioning things, checking other sources, and even checking up a follow-up video he made a year ago. I'll pass.

hypertext ,

Have dropped Joshua as well since he turned more and more annoying trying to capitalize on memes.

And Linus… well i think everyone that follows/ed him knows about the gamers nexus incident which was just the tipping point after, as you said, he got more and more arrogant

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Shadiversity

Oh boy. I do HEMA, and let me tell you, he is not popular among people who actually have any understanding of historical fighting. The guy preaches his own opinion based on vague vibes and what seems right to him, and I think he’s even put out some videos saying how HEMA is terrible and wrong. Meanwhile, we read actual historical texts from people who were using these weapons and techniques at a time when it was actively being used, and we regularly train and fight people to prove to ourselves just how effective they are.

And that’s without even getting in to the very clear bigotry he demonstrates on his second channel, and which occasionally makes its way subtly into the main channel.

Anyway, as far as bigotry and people interested in swords are concerned, Jill Bearup. I haven’t watched her since she did the collab with Tom Scott and as a result her history of transphobia and refusal to denounce those beliefs became more widely known, leading to Tom Scott taking down the collab, and Nebula kicking her off their platform.

Brutticus ,

Oh boy Jill. I was crushed to learn about her transphobia. And also her cringe book.

dethedrus ,

Same! Such an utter disappointment.

randint ,
@randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

Sabine Hossenfelder - they have positions that cause hurt to people

Can you elaborate on this? I haven’t really watched much of her content, so I am not quite sure how she’s causing hurt.

tiredofsametab ,

You can search for her takes on trans people and that will probably, but basically against basic things like gender-affirming care and positing that trans is a social fad amongst youth.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

This video is a pretty good response to it.

randint ,
@randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

thanks, I see now. really well made response video.

pineapplelover ,

Mrwhosetheboss. Dude seems like he sniffs a line before every video. I’ll probably need to watch one of his videos right now to explain more reasons but it’s just not something I would like to watch now.

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