I’m really close to dropping Dwarkesh Patel after he gave a platform to AI bros and Musk.
He used to have proper researchers and scientists on. Now it’s unwatchable shit.
Marquees Brownlee 154kmh / 95mph. 3x the speed limit. Absolutely insane
Stephanie Sterling. I like her still, I don’t share many of the complaints that other people field. But her content just didn’t really evolve as my preferences did, and after years of the same complaints it felt like not a good use of my time.
She’s said many times she doesn’t mind dwindling view counts as long as she gets to make content on her own terms, so that’s fair.
Rainman Ray’s Repairs; he went full MAGA and basically told his audience to fuck off if they didn’t like it, so I did.
Same with Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics.
Game Grumps, because
Nah, nevermind. Those guys are awesome.
Philip DeFranco. I watched him for over a decade then after covid I started picking one or two stories from the video to read about and I was pretty disappointed by how often it was mispresented. After a bit its obvious its intentional by what’s being left out. Even though we still had the same politics I dont want to watch someone who intentionally skews the stories by leaving out key facts. I can arrive at the right conclusion with the whole story.
There are a trip of guys that do beamng content. They are generally funny and fun to watch but one of them keeps making mysogynist comments and never gets called out by the other two. Occasionally they’ll join in
asian ytube channel(JKNEWS), had separate for things like “party” and news. during covid they turned magaty after firing one of thier female employees after she spoke up for herself, and trying to ascertain her role on the channel. they did unprofessionally, and then another friend of the channel posted misinformation, just caused a huge backlash and people turned on them. they are still mad that the previous WOMEN employees ruined thier channel, after 5 years getting rid of her.
last i heard thier other businesses were declining and the channel are just them and thier friends ranting about maga related stuff and being elitists asf, they are desperate to keep it alive. they cater soley to incel asian men and muslim men. its actually more to the story than posted, they dont know they are just pushing the stereotype of asians everywhere. they have been a channel since the early 2010s.
one of the co-owners was asking on a video how to skirt some california employee laws(they live in LV). plus bringing on a transphobic, right winger on the channel that makes short quips about how tucker or shapiro was right, nah. and later finding out they made racist video about black people, with shane dawson(another problematic influencer)
the channel though they could pivot to maga-try and stay alive, ASIAN people make too small of audience, that isnt digestible outside of the demographic. they were always right wing, but they also had humility to keep them in check, until the misogyny kicked in. if you know the creepy rich guy bryan johnson(who has the peter thiel youth thing going on) one of the female guests that was heavily featured on the channel was suppose to marry him, but she got breast cancer , rare for a young person and he dumped him, she did unsuccesfully try to sue him.
Contrapoints for her awful Palestine take.
Oh no. Damn it. What’s her Palestine take?
Link for those who don’t want to login
old.reddit requires login? Interesting that it works without javascript then. While new reddit requires javascript.
Yeah it’s a recent thing
Rather annoying, but I don’t give a shit about reddit enough to try to fix it. Honestly, using the new UI keeps me from spending too much time there, so that’s a bonus.
Everyone should have shut up about it so Harris could’ve gotten elected.
I mean… Not that I like it, but… You see where we are?
Was that in the Saw episode? I don’t remember it super well, but it had to do with israelis are bad for murdering palestinians. Also some palestinians were bad once for murdering israelis, but it isnt equivalent. We use moral references to decide when violence is justified. Something like that
Is that what that episode was about? I was so fucking bored by the ten minute mark I turned it off in disappointment and I guess never went back.
It was mostly about Saw tbh
Joshua Weissman, he used to have some good cooking content but it got too brain rotted for me.
Similarly I almost dropped Binging with Babish, but he started a new channel for his non-BWB content and actually put up a classic-style video recently!
I never saw Weissman’s supposed glory days, but I did hear people talk about him and checked him out and found him insufferable.
I also dropped Babish, I just got tired of the slop content and the overall drop in quality.
I genuinely think cooking channels have a finite lifespan, because theres only so much you can cook before your audience basically has all the cooking knowledge they need to do everything.
He’s slowed to the point of years passing between videos (last one was 2 years ago now), but Jacques Pepin is still making new ones (I hope) 😔
Even professional chefs learn new recipes on a fairly frequent basis. You can’t run out of content on a cooking channel.
while there may be near infinite variety in the recipes themselves, theres only so many times you can sit down and watch someone make a soup, or a roast, or a casserole, or what have you, regardless if they have 30,000 different recipes for each.
I genuinely think cooking channels have a finite lifespan, because theres only so much you can cook before your audience basically has all the cooking knowledge they need to do everything.
Chef John from Foodwishes has basically kept the same style and Dad joke humour for ages and he is still pumping good stuff weekly
Chef John is purely videos of recipes. He never did 40 minute episodes about which salt is the best.
Chef John was there when YouTube began.
He will be there when Google pulls the plug.
I used to not be able to deal with Chef John’s voice inflections, but after enough times, I started to find it soothing. Great, straightforward, no nonsense videos. I haven’t tuned into him for a bit, not for any particular reason, but he is a classic.
He was BAD early on with it, he’s calmed it down a LOT. That said, the man has never released a recipe on there that wasn’t an absolute BANGER. Everytime he checks all the right boxes for the fam, I cook it and get rave reviews.
I agree. Everything I’ve made of his has been great.
His delivery is definitely an acquired taste. And as ALwayyyys… ENjoyyyyy.
100 percent. There’s too much potential food for a food channel to ever run dry of content. Only personalities and gimmicks run their course.
Alton brown came back for another round, his new take: here what I did before and this is why it was wrong.
I’m actually down for one more ride there.
Yes exactly for both of them. Babish is still kinda okish but Joshua feels like I’m watching AI.
If you want pure cooking, Alton Brown has been posting weekly on Saturday’s. Good eats style.
So many good cooking YouTube channels. “America’s test kitchen” tend to be excellent, with a wide range of topics. I’m a big fan of “Aaron and Claire” for his breezy, chill takes on Korean fusion.
“Not another cooking show” does amazing recipes out of the NYC cooking scence, and of course the champ, “J. Kenji lopez-alt,” of serious eats fame, just cooking every damn thing the PNW has to offer.
ATK is fantastic!
Lan Lam is a particular standout with her fantastic technique breakdowns.
Alton Brown’s new show is hitting just like I needed it to.
Yep been watching and loving Alton for years.
Alton got me into cooking. Hes brilliant. Can be a bit… big and exuberant at times, but all around excellent guy.
I checked out on Brown during COVID when he went on one of his political/mask rants and I just couldn’t deal with his right wing bent anymore.
I love his old stuff, but even that doesn’t really draw me in like it used to.
Same with Weissman. I did drop Babish entirely, though, and don’t feel like I’m missing anything not adding him back.
I dropped Babish when he bought his brother the car. Don’t feel like I missed out since then.
I miss early weissman…now his head up his ass. I enjoyed living in his cupboard.
He has a new channel called Joshua Weissman recipes, which follows a similar format to his early days (including the cupboard bit). But recently he did a poll about doing a “but better” series on this channel, where 90% said yes. I’m just concerned that this channel might also go down the same path.
Ethan Chlebowski has many very good science and subjective testing based videos. Without any bullshit added in, except maybe his new website and app.
Today I’m going to eat 9 different versions of vinegar and talk about why pickles are great…
Sjin for touching kids.
The rest of the Yogscast for just generally being shitty people once they hit the six figure earning mark doing things like promising a game and then running away with the crowdfunding.
TotalBiscuit died.
TheSpiffingBrit went from faux elitism to actual elitism and I just don’t find him funny anymore.
I was so gutted when TB got diagnosed. I’m still subscribed in memorium; never found any other reviewer nearly as thorough. Every time I play a new game, I check the options menu immediately. I think of him and wonder what he would say about this game.
TheSpiffingBrit went from faux elitism to actual elitism and I just don’t find him funny anymore.
Got an example? I’ve not really noticed any actual elitism, just his regular upper crust british characterism.
Obviously not saying its not possible, just that i havent seen it. Which is why I’d love some examples.
So it was definitely an act for many years, but shortly after the time he did his big cyberpunk video I feel like his character shifted. As I examine the timeline now, that’s around the time he got engaged/married so I can appreciate his priorities shifting. That’s not it, though.
What sold me on him being a bit out of touch now was the recent debacle with YouTube changing how views were counted and him being flippant about the whole thing. JoshStrifeHayes actually did a direct video response to that claim which, IMO, expertly dismantled Spiff and demonstrated why not only was he wrong, but also sitt8ng atop a high horse because he is the Spiffing Brit and losing 10k viewers means little to him. He does it on a Tuesday as an experiment, so his hot take of “people go outside bruh” doesn’t work for people who only have 7k followers.
After that, the changes I perceived in his character clicked into place for me; he’s become elitist and has lost touch with regular working class folks. That’s fine and I’m happy he’s made it like that, but I don’t need to support him any longer. And he’s not at all hurting from my lack of views.
I sometimes wonder what TB would become if the cancer didn’t kill him. I keep wishing he would turned out decent, but the stress of him dealing with cancer starting to show some cracks. I understand, cancer sucks major ass though.
Essential Craftsman - he’s an older guy who knows a hell of a lot about carpentry and blacksmith work. He dedicated a ep. to Charlie Kirk I felt like finding our my favorite uncle was in the klan. Noped the hell out of his channel as did a lot of others.
didnt Hickok45 do something similar?
I generally don’t like Hickock45 because if you watch any of his non-gun content he likes to leave things in a hedging, vague, “all I’m saying is…” context and honestly if he can’t say what side he’s defending then he’s kind of just being a douche.
“if you live in a free state” was the statement that knocked me off Hickock45’s channel.
Tbf gun dudes use that term without hesitation. That’s a technical term for them.
i feel like most gun dudes on youtube are right wingers.
I missed that he did that. I might not agree with that but he really does have a wealth of knowledge, I’m not sure cutting him out entirely is the right call as I haven’t noticed it infecting his other videos.
I was 100% on board and donated $2 every month to keep his channel going. I switched that to Lemmy after the Charlie Kirk comment.
This was tough to learn. He was my para social grandpa. What a letdown. Also, can’t he just Google around and learn that Kirk was an a-hole?
More likely the things that make it clear Kirk was an asshole are the things he likes about him.
Max Miller, fuck that guy. j/k, I just don’t watch TV anymore.
I used to watch a lot of fishing/outdoors channels.
during covid all but one of the outdoor channels I watched either did straight up covid denial, or went full mask off on their right wing extremism in general and with crazy conspiracy theories about covid, so I dropped them.
I also dropped bigclive around the same time, because he thought people getting sick from vaping was, iirc, some kind of government hoax or something, while also engaging in the whole “covids just the cold, stop being silly” type of denialism, Which really sucked cause I used to love his context… but I havent watched since.
Self-Sufficient Me fell into this category for me. Tons of very relaxing videos about growing fruit and vegetables at home… Then COVID hit and he started talking about “prepping” and “Doomsday” in every video. Didn’t work for me anymore after that.
There was another that I just remembered, Survival Lilly, who did survivalist and bushcraft videos. Again, lots of natural outdoor scenery and birdsong and just enjoying the weather and all that, but fell into a bunch of anxiety-inducing Doomsday prepper talk. Just looked her up now and she’s gone completely off the rails and is mostly putting out right-wing conspiracy stuff. Bummer.
Self-Sufficient Me fell into this category for me. Tons of very relaxing videos about growing fruit and vegetables at home… Then COVID hit and he started talking about “prepping” and “Doomsday” in every video. Didn’t work for me anymore after that.
I must have moved on before the prepping and doomsday stuff, because I totally watched him to, for a long time. I checked out and moved on cause, I dont know, he started feeling preachy and sanctimonious? like, I cant put my finger on a specific example as to where, how or why, so it could have very well just been in my head, but it kinda pushed me away from watching his content after that.
Maybe less direct, but I was a big Joe Robinet fan for a while. After he lost his brother and his dirt bike accident, it felt like he was going off the deep end a bit. Felt sorry but also felt uncomfortable watching.
Veritasium. Sold out to private equity.
what?
https://www.electrify.video/news/electrify-completes-majority-investment-in-veritasium
Hadn’t heard of this either, but it wasn’t hard to find
sad noises over here
they gave the channel to a PE firm, its little more than some to push ads.
Some videos are still worth the watch, it’s not a bad channel but it clearly took a quality hit after Derek started being more hands off. Also you can see it on his face how he’s just there because of a contract. Good for him though.
Ah! That’s sad, damn
His contents are still miles better than some other YouTubers that were bought out. While I’m not pleased with the direction he took, I do not have any qualms with the quality or the content or the depth of topics.
Same here, I’d use it as an example of how to do that right.
Yeah I noticed it seemed to be different recently. Used to watch every video he put out but it’s definitely changed :(
He sold several years ago already
I got a weird feeling from him when he did a whole video (or ad) about head and shoulders shampoo.
True, but the change was slow, and Derek still appeared in most of the videos at first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoibAbdQf58
Basically what this video explains. Channel gets sold -> everything as usual -> small changes -> “we need return for the investment” -> bigger changes -> channel ruined.
It was always shit.
