This was me with Linus Tech Tips, it’s just not the content i subscribed for all those years ago.
Same. I was there when he was small, I cheered when he got bigger. Then the channel started going down a path I didn’t want to follow. Click baity titles with no info were the last straw for me.
There’s a browser extension to replace click bait by user-generated descriptive titles. I always forget the name tho. It also works with Freetube.
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That doesnt really matter here, I’m against those practices. I would be ok however, if he had a different channel that posted videos without clickbait, which is not the case so… yeah
Yeah I know, I just jumped on the opportunity to promote that :)
They actually do, they do post all their videos with normal titles and separate no clickbait thumbnails on separate channels.
Agreed. It just felt like all paid ads when I unsubscribed a year ago.
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For a while I thought that he hadn’t changed all that much, and while I still mostly do think that, what broke the camels back for me to give them up (and I guess GN and Louis Rossmann as collateral) was when the PayPal Honey thing came up, what was at worst a bullet point in the pre-amble to the main story became the story, they basically all spent a month and change throwing vague jabs at each-other in turn shoving the actual, important story of PayPal Honey scamming customers and shopkeepers that they were supposed to be focusing on out of the way.
I still mostly do think that
Yeah, he hasn’t changed much. We know a little more about him and that changes things.
FWIW, I think the allegations are “mostly unfounded”. I think he does work people a bit too hard, which I don’t REALLY care that much about. Him hiring a CEO to manage things he was shit at was probably the smartest thing he’s ever done.
I’ve seen plenty of people complaining about going up to meet him and him going why are you important and why would I want to talk to you? Self admitting no friends. He’s probably either a narcissist or a sociopath in a personality suit.
I stopped watching regularly after the 17th video of them installing shit in his Mc Mansion turning everything into a write-off. I was still listening to WAN show once in a while to catch up with tech news, even if he has stupid takes, it was still getting me the news. Once the GN stuff started , I just turned off the TV. He’s not wrong, but he’s an asshole and goes to great lengths to pick small details to be correct. Yes, he should have done a follow up when he dropped honey like he did when he dropped a VPN sponsor. Absolutely. OR he could have just responded to GN and said my lawyers said to leave it alone. Nobody really cared. But the back and forth whining, I don’t care to watch either of them anymore.
Does anyone know any long-form tech news creators? I need something that’s about an hour long.
Gamer’s Nexus does an excellent hardware news segments
TechAltar does a great segment on Fridays called the Friday Checkout
TechAltar
Thanks for that.
I’ve having trouble stomaching GN these days, he’s as complicit with whining on the LTT crap as LTT is :)
Can’t find anything that’s like Techlinked, but The Vergecast seems to be a decent alternative, it’s a podcast though so it’s conversational and they look like they go up to 2 hours sometimes.
Yeahh. All the newer videos feel extremely rushed, and low thought. Its sad coming back to it after years.
Mark Rober is headed this direction for me.
the instant crunch labs was announced I got out of there, it turned from kid friendly content to content for kids
I generally prefer it if YouTubers can self-fund based on merch, as opposed to hawking shavers, VPNs, and overpriced TV dinners. That said, the drop in quality has been noticeable from that point on. The drone defense video was particularly noticeable for being military propaganda.
I remember thinking highly of some of his early content. Like this guy could be a decent educator.
Now every time I see him, he just comes across as a walking breathing brand rather than an interesting individual.
This is completely unfounded and I have zero facts to back this up, but he comes off as creepy with kids. It’s just a hunch, but if I had kids, I would not let them near the man.
I guess the votes so far disagree with you, but I could see your icky feelings coming from the same stuff that I perceive with the “walking brand.”
Everything is planned and rehearsed. He reminds the viewer repeatedly how he can be trusted. But it still feels like every word was passed through a committee to make sure nothing bad leaks out.
In my social circles I’m the fun parent that the kids like to play with, and maybe some acquaintances have gotten creepy vibes on occasion, but that’s more a reflection on society at large and how fear and negativity sell news. Nothing that can’t be solved with transparency and consistently just being a decent person.
Eh, I expected downvotes, but I felt I should speak my mind.
Creepy in a way similar to mr. Beast. I don’t think he’d be bad with kids, he just comes off as incredibly fake to me.
Mark Rober lost me with his porch pirate booby traps.
First of all, booby traps are illegal for a reason. Second of all, a lot of it was staged and it was pretty obvious.
Booby traps are illegal if there is an intent to do harm. Something like this, or rigging your sprinklers to turn on when someone steps on your lawn wouldn’t be.
If you intentionally turn on your sprinklers as a deterrent, and it does damage to a person or property, you’d be liable for that.
What if someone had important papers that you ruined. Or you broke their non-waterproof phone? What if someone was stepping off the sidewalk to let a wheelchair pass and you just doused them and the person in the wheelchair?
What if your automated sprinkler starts spraying the EMTs or Firefighters coming to help you cause you fell in your bathroom and can’t get up? What if it shorts out the Lifepack they were going to use to check your heart and deliver an AED shock, and now someone died?
Automated booby traps are always bad because you can’t judge the intent of the person, or animal, that might trigger it.
This was me with Ethan Klein/H3H3 over the past ~14ish months. Their podcast content used to be lighthearted Internet drama with funny soundbytes, but now the dude is having a major crashout about Gaza after rotting his brain with Israeli state
propagandamedia coverage. He’s always been an out-of-touch rich asshole, but now he’s so far out of pocket it’s unbearable to watch.At this point Ethan’s final act will be picking a fight with reddit and losing.
His wife is Israeli isnt she? I also thought they were pretty anti israel and she tried turning away from that life… I havent watched any of his videos since the “hugh mungus” era so I’ve no clue.
They support Israel’s right to exist and were disgusted by October 7th. Idk what the OC is talking about, but this platform is filled with Hamas/Russian propaganda - as much as people see the Russian tankies, they don’t see the connection, apparently.
You can’t be a Tankie and a supporter of Russia today. The USSR is gone. What are you even talking about? Do you even know what the words your using mean?
An apartheid state does not have a right to exist. It must dismantle it’s systems of apartheid if it wishes to continue to exist.
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Turns out his free use of using the Nword and calling hasidic jews “dirty and nasty” meant he was actually just a bad guy. He just needed to find an outlet for hating brown people that people would support. He’s found it now.
This is so dumb. Ethan s always been anti apartheid and settlements, but the Hassan fans got into a tiffy because he called them out for their unhinged - and they really are unhinged takes
AvE. A 3 minute video supporting the truckers “protest” gets a hard NO from me.
He’s why I had to install 3rd party channel blocker because yt kept recommending his videos.
That completely caught me off guard and I was super disappointed.
Para social relationships are hard. You think you get to know someone over the years watching their videos. I would even watch the videos he would put on his daughter’s channel. The videos of him just cooking.
I thought he was a smart guy even with some of his gruff persona.
Oddly enough, one of the first cracks in that facade was a BOLTR video taking apart a Hitachi wand or knockoff. He was so weirdly prudish about the idea of a woman actually using one in a way that didn’t feel like a joke. But I convinced myself it was probably a joke, because…why would he be weird about that?
But the trucker protest videos hit me like a cement truck. It actually really bummed me out. I texted my dad and he said something to the effect of, “Oh well, his videos have been shit anyway.”
Yep he was always a bit off color and said some eyebrow raising things at times. I wrote most of it off as banter and general crude joke style. Hell… my trans friend is the one that showed me the channel. It made me really question peoples’ true intent when they pull that crap now.
off color and said some eyebrow raising things at times.
Yeah, I know some tradesmen and have some backwoods family. Most of them walk the line on crude step over here and there. About the time he started rallying with convoy and antivax, I realized he could both be smart and really f’ing stupid. I can’t watch him now, just gives me the ick. Everything he says is hey look at me.
I first stumbled on him via his cooking videos (the one where he cooks breakfast for dinner at the request of his daughter), stayed for the interesting technical/fabrication videos.
And then COVID happened and it’s like half his brain shut off.
He had racist and anti trans jokes in all his videos. I wrote them off as just innocent friendly jokes for a while, but they were in ALL his videos. I unsubbed and blocked him after I realized it was a pattern with him.
Yes I started to notice it pick up in frequency and stopped for a while because of that. Gives me the ick. Then when he went on the tirade I realized his intentions. Ugh.
I didn’t watch him regularly enough to pick up on a pattern at the time. The one trans joke I do remember sounded more like he was making fun of himself for not being able to keep up. More of a yellow flag then a red flag for me.
Same. I had been subbed since the start, but banished his channel from my feed when he posted that bullshit.
Aliens vs. Editors?
AvE as in AvE. It use to mean “arduinoversusevil”, but the arduino stuff quickly became a memory. He’s tech youtuber out in rural, western Canada who would review power tools and DIY projects. He had a rugged individualism thing going on, but never really got into politics or current events until the he posted the video in support of truckers shit.
He touched the outrage spice and saw how effortlessly he could get views? Yeah… happens from time to time.
Ah, I only watch occasional video of his and wondered what AvE meant and why there was a microcontroller on the icon of a dude who mainly does tool reviews. I figured he was probably conservative being rural, but I never heard anything concerning in the few videos I watched. Guess that changes things.
And started calling people glowies.
You couldn’t keep your dick in the vice
One of his more endearing terms, I also miss the swedish thumb fucker and only the tip in just for a minute.
And of course whatever makes you chooch.
I liked his merch
Another algorithm casualty here, another out of touch rich guy there.
There but for the like and subscribe go I.
“Hey George, like and comment on my videos again.”
“Sure, Lenny, I’m gonna write a real nice comment on your latest video right now.” *sniffle*
Of Mice and Men
No. It’s clearly two men. I don’t see any mice.
The mice are in their pants!
Little little mice that scurry and scrape hoping nothing more in life but to manage to exist escaping the notice of those who’s interest could only mean a swift death.
This guy tends rabbits
Is that why he’s being unexpectedly shot by George?
Well he’s not very good at tending the rabbits.
Or little girls.
Nah, he was good with bunnies. He can pet them hard as he wants and they are okay.
Mice and dresses, yeah.
Lenny needed a muscular doggo lol
I only know it because of King’s 221163 book
So many people I used to watch when YT first started were discovered to be pedophiles or rapists… 😟
i wonder if the fame turned them into that or they were always pedos to begin with
I’d imagine it’s always been there, but their fame gave them access to a devoted fanbase willing to do anything for them.
And then things just devolve…
Probably caused a feedback loop. He could have grown out of being a douche, but his audience was built on him being a douche and fed that behavior.
So many of these early youtubers gave me bad vibes turned into shitheels later on doesn’t surprise me.
I think it depends on which definition of pedophile you’re using. If you mean the act of abuse, then the fame gave them the opportunity and unless pre crime is wrong they weren’t pedophiles prior to the act so in some sense it did make them a pedo (but obviously they’re still responsible for their own actions). If you mean the mental disorder of being attracted to minors, then it’s likely they always were, I don’t think fame would make you suddenly desire that.
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i briefly watched Onision until it dawned on me what a massive narcissistic douche he is…
How right i was
Videogamedunkey
His jokes just don’t land anymore. Can’t remember the last time I found one of his videos entertaining. On the contrary, watching his newer content actually makes me feel sad.
His indie game company is a really cool thing though
Bigmode is fine, but… Slightly controversial opinion here - I don’t actually care that much for indie games. I think they are healthy for the gaming ecosystem, and certainly there have been indie games I’ve played in the past that have absolutely blown my socks off, but I usually just wait for someone to tell me if there are any indie titles out there worth playing. I wouldn’t watch his channel just to get that info.
Check out “arctic eggs” haha
I find new channels around new hobbies constantly so they just kinda drift away.
What are some of your favorite hobbies to watch videos about
not oc, but for my hobbies
chemistry:
- Explosions&Fire and his second channel Extractions&ire
- Nilered and his second channel NileBlue
- Nurdrage
- Prussian blue
- Chemiolis
- Cody’s lab
- The Thought Emporium, even if it’s more biology then chemistry
- Doug’s lab, even if the channel has been dead for a while
- Labcoatz
- Thy labs
- MrGreenGuy
Electronics & mechanics
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Hyperspace Pirate (if you are gonna search one of these channels, do this one, like, really, it’s so good)
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Works by design
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styropyro
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William Osman
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AlphaPhoenix
I watch some of those, I really dig AlphaPhoenix, and Styropyro, Osman rubs me the wrong way though.
Thought Emporium is the growing cells to play Doom one right? That channel blew my mind.
Have you seen James Bruton and his crazy robots and vehicles?
Osman rubs me the wrong way though.
yeah, it has been slowly transforming into a mark rober clone, but his second channel still has some good stuff
Thought Emporium is the growing cells to play Doom one right? That channel blew my mind.
yup, the same guy that genetically modified himself to cure his lactose intollerance and it actually worked
Have you seen James Bruton and his crazy robots and vehicles?
I actually saw his ball bike thingy last week and forgot to subscribe, reason why he’s not in my list, but I’ve now added him!
My favorite Osman moment was when he realized he was really annoying Peter Sripol the time they collaborated. I was like, I’m certainly annoyed by you.
I’m glad I reminded you, Bruton is so talented and smart.
It’s not a hobby but I really been watching a lot of drainaddict, it’s just this dude in Australia water jetting sewer lines and storm lines apparently they’ve got a really bad problem with tree roots everywhere down there. You wouldn’t think an hour-long video watching somebody run a pressure hose through a sewer line would be interesting but I just zone right the fuck out. He’s very religious but it never really comes out other than the end of each video he has some Jesus thing on his water container in the truck. But he never brings it up and daily work. He’s had a couple of videos where he answered q&a and talked about it he is very religious, like metal music is the devil. But you know, he doesn’t cram it down your throat and he just regularly provides the same content and for no apparent reason I love it…
Right now it’s blacksmithing. I just bought a forge and anvil and have been watching Black Bear Forge.
A perennial favorite is 3D printing, I’ve followed news and videos about that since the RepRap project.
I watch a few music and electronics channels, I got a circuit board from Look Mum no Computer to build a synthesizer and learn soldering.
Rockhounding, like Michigan Rocks, my friend and I have been getting into looking for rocks on beaches.
For a period in my mid 30’s I tried Skateboarding and longboarding and watched a lot of that.
I used to watch a lot of disc golf, carpentry, RC and cooking.
I really just like knowing how to do a little bit of everything.
Jimmy Diresta is my role model, creative Jack of All Trades. He’s living my dream life just collecting skills and making cool shit.
Ha! I loved back bear forge during my year of blacksmithing obsession!
He’s a really good teacher and super talented.
He’s also calm which I appreciate. I don’t like being yelled at from the screen.
Not Lenny!
Northernlion is all audience interaction now.
I found him searching super meat boy when he was about 50 videos into the binding of Issac, I couldn’t stand that games themes at the time, but after he posted the hundredth video or so I decided to give it a shot, it was relatively entertaining and very easy to fall asleep to.
Now he just interacts with his audience, and it’s really not my jive, still subscribed, but haven’t watched a video in probably over a year.
His style drastically changed since he had his daughter.
I think it’s okay that he doesn’t seem to care that people come and go.
It’s way more healthy for him at least.
I subscribed to him years ago when he was doing a regular “indie impressions” type series. He stopped doing it; I haven’t watched since. Still subscribed on the off chance that he’ll start it back up again…
It’s surprisingly hard to find channels that are eclectic; usually the host will stick to a specific genre of games, which makes it hard to find new and unique ones.
Joe Rogan podcast, unsubbed and stopped watching about 5-6 years ago when he stopped being progressive and started sucking billionaire dick nonstop
My brother finally got me into him like two months before he started going downhill. It was a shocking transition even for a new listener like me.
Yea… It was such a nice thing to have on in the background at work. Sad
Fucking AvE…
I hung on every damn vidjeo
I still watch him how and then, I probably even agree with some of his hot takes, but he’s just fucking tonedef heading into the conservative crap.
His content took a sharp decline when COVID happened. Pretty sure the whole thing gave him severe brain damage.
This is like every ASMR creator with more than ~10k subs. I’m sorry but “go to my second channel/Patreon/linktree/whatever other shameless self plugging bullshit” for 5 minutes at the beginning of every video doesn’t help me fall asleep even if you are whispering it.
