For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.
But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.
His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.
So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.
We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.
Mark Rober
He’s been going harder and harder into the Mr Beast format, and it’s off-putting. I’m still subscribed for now, but I almost never watch his videos unless the topic seems interesting.
Yeah, his more recent videos seem to be more about the spectacle, rather than the education or interesting subject matter.
He’s just part of a huge machine now. And he looks tired as hell sometimes.
I dislike Mark Rober.
Here is Mark Rober shilling for Anduril, an AI weapon company.
anduril is one of THIELs creation too, for people not aware.
He creeps me out. Some uncanny valley thing, like maybe plastic surgery?
He’s definitely been working out a lot, potentially juicing.
i took a glimpse at one of his recent videos, collabing with christiano (a questionable characther thats tied to SA and panama papers) he definitely look like beefed up
I gave up watching Rober when he proclaimed he loves his Tesla and will buy another one. This is was said well after Musk went full Nazi dirtbag. Rober has enough money to buy another electric, he doesn’t have to support that man.
The one Video I’ve seen of him was a sponsored look at an Anduril combat drone. Never bothered looking at anything else he did after.
Yeah that was uh
Since he started that subscription box company his focus shifted from telling a cool story through a creation or robot to creating a video that can sell the most boxes for him
If he stopped SHOUTING ALL THE FUCKING TIME, his content would be just about tolerable.
That hotel demolition video could have been really cool
Instead it was just… Boring and weirdly edited
I feel exactly the same. I’ll still watch his glitter bomb videos, or if he makes another squirrel obstacle course, but his stuff has become very child oriented recently.
Are there any good science/education channels left? Veritaism, smarter every day, Kurzgesagt all seem to have fallen off. Didn’t like Johnny Harris from the start.
3b1b, perhaps?
Depends on what exactly you’re looking for. Technology Connections, Steve Mould, ElectroBOOM, Practical Engineering, Hank Green’s various enterprises, Cody’s Lab, and the various “mad scientist” types like StyroPyro, NileRed, and the various people William Osman hangs out with.
Technology Connections is brilliant. You truly learn something when you watch his stuff.
Me getting a 1 hour long crash course on dishwasher powder (I do not use dishwasher powder) and enjoying it
I saw a great comment that he really enjoys boxes that make things hot/cold/wet/dry
Tech ingredients is really good too. The anti drone laser, radiant cooling, and various diy evaporative cooling projects especially. Homemade hootch too, but I tend to doze off during those.
They also got better during the pandemic, instead of worse, like AvE and some of the bigger channels. And have had some good protester related experiments like protecting from microwave and audio type police dispersal weapons.
I know it’s his brand, but it’s mostly useless stuff that you learn. His recent video about 8-tracks was fascinating, but I can’t imagine a single scenario where that info will be useful.
That said, I still recommend it to everyone.
so, just scrolling through my subscriptions. this isn’t a list of just science channels, lots of maker/diy stuff in here, but sometimes there’s videos from those channels that overlap with the topics the more educational-type channels might have
technology connections Chris Boden Louis rossman Steve mould good work Mike Boyd this old Tony Matthias wandel bigclivedotcom fortnine Marius hornberger essential craftsman everyday home repairs project farm mujin pask makes superfastmatt Marcin plaza notanengineer inheritance machining John heisz ibuildit Michael Reeves blondihacks Laura kamph UnderDunn
also shout-out to Hunter Direction for just making amazingly beautiful videos lately, the algorithm delivered him to me recently and holy shit does his newer stuff just tickle me in exactly the right spot
All of those are still pretty good, honestly.
A great channel that ive been really enjoying is alpha phoenix. His old videos inside his crystal growing lab are super cool. I’d recommend air tight vs vaccumn tight that was cool
yea i follow some science channel, mostly around biology, paleontogy, not huge influencers. im not “fluent” in physics content so i barely follow those.
oh yea i saw the thumbnails, it seems to eerily like mr beast, i dont follow him. but his thumbnails are starting to resembling the “reaction channel” influencers thumbnails.
I cancelled him when he faked the porch pirate videos years ago.
I no longer get excited about a new Veritasium video.
I also don’t get excited when the title and thumbnail change 5 times in a week.Why? I still love their stuff. The thumbnail shit is annoying though, he’s said in the past they do it to boost engagement or something.
A lot of the videos aren’t even made by him anymore.
The ones made by his producer (the blonde Nordic looking one) are really good tho
New thumbnails mean people are more likely to click thinking it’s a new video
Yesnt. Channels are A/B testing different thumbnails to see which ones work better. It can have massive effects.
It’s not a simple “thumbnail gets changed, get more clicks”
Yea he said they do basically A/B testing and their user base is so large they get to see in real time what works and what doesn’t.
I did this on one of their videos just last week. Annoyed the piss out of me. I think they changed the title too.
Wouldn’t surprise me to know they changed the title. I haven’t seen it personally as the people I follow seem to be honest. But it doesn’t surprise me given that clicks increase revenue.
Even news headlines change if they’re not seeing uptake at what they think they should be for a particular story
Youtube has a feature to ABC test different thumbnails to test which one will be the most popular. You might see one or all of them depending on whether you click right away. Eventually the channel will choose the most successful one.
Kurzgesagt is pretty bad for that.
I enjoyed their recent video on power law distributions and why they dramatically change how you should operate in those domains.
They also did some good content a short while ago explaining why Monsanto and Dupont are problematic.
That said you are right about the thumbnails since when I looked at the channel to double check that it was veritasium I was thinking of the title and thumbnail are completely different for all of them.
That PFA video was wild. That stuff messed me up good.
Their most recent video on Dirac was also super interesting to me.
Dirac was his own person, despite having Charles Boutin’s consciousness in his brain.
Same for me. There’s still the occasional really good video, but there’s too many that are basically ads for some big tech thing
The only one that I unsubbed to pretty fast was the 8bit guy. I generally enjoyed his videos and then in one of them, he had a fairly rare IBM PC and for some reason, he sticks a screwdriver into the power supply and blows a component.
But what really turned me off was when footage of him turned up on Reddit, taken by himself, of shopping in a place like Costco with his assault rifle on his back. I think he was taking pleasure in scaring some of the customers too.
(I think I’ve remembered that correctly)
Anyway, never went back to his channel after that.
EDIT: I found this Reddit page where someone asked what he did. Didn’t realise that was 5 years ago now!
What the fuck
Smashing that unsubscribe button now. Like, fucking ew dude, don’t fucking open carry at Costco you numpty fuck. Ugh…
You make a good point. I should really unsubscribe from all US content.
I remember the backlash he got from that with the IBM PC prototype. He didn’t handle the reception well if I recall, having made one big or two ‘woe is me’ videos.
There’s something about that guy’s demeanor that I never liked, like he fits the quirky, socially inept, wimpy kind of a nerd. It’s astounding he even has a wife at all, much less one he fucked to have a kid with.
He never shuts up about his crappy games too.
I used to love that channel. Such a shame.
I still cringe about the moment he used a Dremel on that old prototype because he couldn’t be bothered to get the correct screwdriver
That video was the exact one that made me stop watching him too. Hadn’t heard about the rifle thing, what the fuck
Jesus. I always thought that guy was a shoddy self-centered Texan dweeb who always did totally half-assed projects, but I had no idea the extent of his shittiness as a person. People who treat weapons like toys are the last people who should have them.
Oh, I always sensed something was off there. Oof.
Yup, that’s the video that made me instantly done with him. I have Adrian and his Digital Basement to get my vintage computer content and unlike David, Adrian actually knows what he’s doing and doesn’t wreck his computers.
What a fuckwit.
Just unsubscribed as well.
It’s been a while, but AvE. Dude used to be some chill guy who would take apart tools or do some deep dive into a manufacturing process. But then the covid nation attacked and all of a sudden the guy is sprinkling an opinion in here and there that made me say, eh, and then the Canadian trucker thing happened and dude was all in on that shit. AvE was the first thing I ever donated money to on patreon and the first one I yanked my monthly from because the content had changed to something it once wasn’t.
I still think about the guy sometimes. It’s perplexing how someone so smart turned out to be so dumb.
as somebody somewhat in circles with people like him up here in Canada, there’s a lot of people out there just like him. smart about how things work, but oh so dumb about how other things work.
Yeah. I liked him a lot and watched him for a while but the creep alarm started beeping and red flags started going up. His takes on disasters were pretty good too. Shame he got weird.
Stopped watching around COVID but before that he was a great teacher about how home objects were created. It really made me understand how everyday objects are made and why they’re made a certain way. There’s a niche there of an experienced manufacturing engineer to teach the masses
Yup, dropped him when he came out in support of the convoy and then got annoyed when people told him to stfu.
Sadly he’s gained back and surpassed his subscriber numbers since the big drop around that time.
covid seemed to have broke many channels owners mind, all the lockdown made them delusional and paranoid, hence why they all fall into the maga manosphere. the channel i was following had the same path, lockdown made them question vaccine/mask mandate, then when the incidents happened they went full maga.
Very much agree, liked his old content a lot, don’t care to hear about his politics or opinion outside of tools.
Between the clownvoy support and his inability to learn how to use his CNC machine properly…yeah. Dude sucks.
If you want chill tool (repair) videos check out Dean Doherty. It’s that plus Irish accent.
I don’t know if they degraded over time, but I unsubscribed from SmarterEveryDay because 1.) he kept trying to slip religious BS into videos and then I couldn’t unsee his whole generic youth pastor schtick, 2.) he kept posting weird Physics Girl health update stuff. It just lost me. Not for me. I feel like the glory days of vsauce are also well behind us.
Yeah I have the same impression. In one of his last videos, the one about Pompeii he advised against kids watching because a cartoonish dick showed on a wall. I’d agree, kids shouldn’t watch, not because the dick, but his sickening puritism.
So it is because of the dick… narrating\hosting.
I wasn’t an avid watcher but did enjoy his content until the Pompeii video. I get that in his mind he was giving context, but when he sat there reading directly from the bible I felt pretty gross. How people juxtapose heavy religious belief with scientific method astounds me.
He was very butthurt about Roman brothels and acted like Christianity ended them yep.
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Agree with point 1.
His holier-than-thou attitude is exhausting. Stop trying to spread your fantasy friends around, we don’t want them.The one that got me was trying to make a grill scrubber made entirely in the US, failing to source all the parts domestically, being somewhat xenophobic in the process, and then having the audacity of selling the thing for $80 (or more) when the exact product exists already for half the price. At some point the whole point of the video changed from “rebuilding manufacturing in America” to “China bad”. I assume the attempt was in defense of the Trump tariffs, but the takeaway is the US is not in a position to manufacture things on a small scale, and throwing tariffs on it won’t change and people will just have to pay more to import items since they can’t be made locally.
Especially funny since grill scrubbers in Latin America is half an onion sliced in half and does the job
Not just Latin America. I’ve seen almost everyone do this.
I was somewhat hooked by the chainmail idea, and then I saw my in-laws cleaning the grill with half an onion… that saved me.
Shit is fucking delicious right‽
half an onion sliced in half
So a quarter of an onion?
The thing that killed me about the grill scrubber was them bringing up Amazon ripping off products that are listed on its site (valid) but like you said the product they came up with is a clone of many others already on the market. The way he presented it is going to give people the impression that the preexisting ones are the imposters. You just know there are going to be fans review bombing competitors who predate his brush.
He went through something before trying to capitalize on privacy. Ended up trying to sell someone else’s reskinned VPN. Seems like he isn’t above exploiting the trust of his viewers.
I’ll always appreciate the videos he did on the eclipse though. Got me convinced to go see the 2017 eclipse and it was fucking amazing.
I agree with his premise that the knowledge and ability to manufacture stuff needs to be maintained. Not from a xenophobic/sinophobic position, but for practical reasons. If it’s forgotten then no one can compete to make a cheaper or improved/different product. There’s also an issue of if a war breaks out and supply lines are stopped (whether that’s war with China or someone else who can attack supply lines). It’s best if everyone in the world has access to manufacturing so people can have access to different jobs they may be better at or having the capability to create things that they couldn’t otherwise.
Now, there is an argument that a reliance on international trade prevents war. That is something to consider. China and the US are reluctant to go to war because they’d both be crippled by it even without considering combat. I don’t think this is great justification though, but it is something to think about.
MKBHD, Linus, Most of the tech reviewing kids who got money and then hired an entire staff and in lots of cases also bought up really good solo YouTubers.
Motherfcking Casey Neistat. He was never an amazing person, his exploitation of his wife’s ass in thumbnails and being comfortable with click bait titles always felt off. But he’s a masterful propagandist and videographer until I saw him waving Israeli flags at pro Palestine protests during a filmed documentary.
All of the Neistats. I got tricked into thinking they had something to say and/or teach. Nope, just a few guys up their own ass.
I think Veritasium is doing it right. They have new people presenting in videos, but Derek is always there tying everything together.
They were sold to private equity and are slowly transitioning it away from Derek. That way it can be a brand not directly tied to him and his face
Their content is at least still fairly high quality. It’s just a lot more now
And Derek is now basically just a taking head / presenter
Yeah, I love the new faces, hope Derek doesn’t leave, but if he does, he’s leaving it in good hands.
Binging with Babish - used to be a fantastic set of recipes and takes on cooking that I really enjoyed trying to make, then got into the serious money and jumped the shark, both in “I bought my brother a Tesla/fulfilled a fan dream” and “this week we’re using this dehydrator” ways (that meant I just wasn’t going to be able to even imagine using the techniques and knowledge on show).
It was the migration from cooking demonstrations to celebrity presence content (Babsih tries every X, Babish ranks every Y).
Cooking demos keep the focus on the food; techniques, presentation, and results. Plus having an entertaining and charismatic host.
Now those videos lean on the now-recognizable host being entertaining and charismatic, and doing… whatever. And it kind of makes sense in a marketplace-y sort of way. I can watch anybody cook, but Babish has the corner on Babish content, so why not lean into that? Also I’m sure the guy gets tired of making the same content over and over again, so he’s trying to find something interesting that catches on.
I see Nat from Nats What I Reckon doing the same thing. And good on them for trying new stuff.
Babish did recently do a bit of a “Yeah, even we’re bored with this now” video and has gone back to his roots a bit.
Ohhh same. I use to love his stuff then realized I hadn’t watched for awhile. I went to the channel, saw the videos and remembered why I stopped lol
Alton Brown is making a comeback to YouTube though, there’s someone who hasn’t changed since ever 😁
Yeah but Alton Brown hates fat people. As a fat person I can’t make myself watch him.
People throw around the word “hate” pretty quickly these days.
[citation needed]
I loved his channel when it was simpler and was just about trying to recreate recipes. Granted, he was going to run out of movie/tv ideas eventually. 💀💀
I stopped watching once most of the videos became “watch me rate and eat every Mac and cheese.” At least the episodes marked “Anime with Alvin” still featured cooking.
Linus Tech Tips. It used to be good informative content. After they moved from the house in particular it started to really ramp up the clickbait. It just didn’t feel like it was still about technology. It felt like it was about whatever gags they could throw into technology related videos.
The all the controversies happened after I had already unsubbed. Yeah, I don’t know how people still engage with that channel.
Tbh, they always had the gags in their videos. I think the do make some really informative and interesting content. Especially their tours of factories or other industrial equipment.
Where they have irked me is with their reaction style videos or their ‘top things to buy for whatever holiday’. Whilst they can be entertaining, it is low effort content that often isn’t that great. I wish they didn’t do them and did more reviews rather than just doing unbox+ on short circuit
They had gags before, but they were part of the video. Now it seems like they do videos to have the gags. (Well, I don’t know about now, but many years ago.) It went from informative videos only into a content mill that sometimes creates informative content. Gamers Nexus is much better if you just want the information.
I unfollowed Tech Jesus after they dragged LTT way too hard for my comfort. They had a full 60 minutes style expose about them for … some reason?
I mean, Linus’s video about a fire truck toy was a gag and that was ages ago. The gags have always been big parts of the videos.
If you want pure information and performance metrics, ltt isn’t the place to go for sure. But not every video needs to be dense on plots and performance metrics. They didn’t even start out doing that, they transitioned to that from doing unboxings. He’s said himself they aren’t doing that on the main channel anymore cause others have carved that niche for themselves.
They definitely do more shovelware content these days but unfortunately it does seem to be what big creators do to stay relevant
Also the anti-union bullshit Linus tend to puke out sometimes.
This is not true. What he said is that he would consider it a personal failure if his employees felt the need to unionise, but he would support them in doing so. There is nothing “anti-union” about that sentiment.
Unless of course he also said something else that I don’t know about, but then I would love a source.
The problem is the first half. Where he spewa the capatistic view of unions with no question.
It could be a great statement of employee values and empowerment, but instead he takes it as a personal Digg, which has to influence employee views on some level.
The issue is that “finding it a personal failure” is missing the point of a Union and the conversation entirely. The entire point is that there is an inherent power imbalance and with everyone’s livelihoods relying on each other having a concrete set of mechanisms in place beyond “trust me brow” is very important.
For the sake of argument let’s say that every employee feels 100% comfortable discussing issues with Linus and that he is 100% reasonable in his response such that his statement about feeling like a failure is valid. What if he were to suffer some kind of brain injury where cognitively he seemed to make a full recovery but over the course of a couple of years he seemed to be more selfish, less willing to take feedback, and more willing to order people to do things or they are fired?
It wouldn’t be severe enough for family or anyone to legally take control, but it could harm workers, and that is exactly what how a Union could help balance and smooth things out in that scenario.
This is a discussion you can absolutely have. But “missing the point of a union” and being “anti-union” are very different things.
“Anti-union” is Rockstar for firing 31 employees in a union bust, or Amazon for having employees watch mandatory propaganda videos about how unions are evil. Lumping them together with a business owner who basically said “I hope the good relationship I have my employees lasts and nobody starts feeling like they need additional support when talking with me” is at best misleading.
I think your for the sake of the argument example is exactly what Linus had in mind, where he would consider it his failure if it happened and hopes it won’t. But if it does and employees unionise, so be it.
Yeah, the moment they started treating as a business it started going downhill
i heard the incident with the employees, sleeping around or something. and he never seem genuine after that, plus he became more involved somehow with the production than before.
These conversations always feel weird to me because i just never liked the guy. His “oh look i dropped expensive hardware” schtick was never funny to me, and him trying to push expensive hardware to people who can’t really afford it was kinda gross. He never seemed to be knowledgeable enough for his massive ego, so i never cared for it. The other day i watched a video of someone else who was in his studio, and holy shit, it all makes sense. He has so many employees, a big ass studio, podcast studio, you name it. All to make some shitty videos?
I find most channels will degrade once the creator makes Youtube their full-time job. Afterwards, it’s all about selling products, donations, sponsors, and memberships.
Survival Lilly and SirSic and two channels that come to mind.
Survival Lilly also seemed to have a switch a long time ago where she sexualized the channel, leaning heavily on being scantily clad to attract attention. Then the APO-1 knife came into play, sponsorships, etc…
I looked at her channel. Judging from the thumbnails it seems to be a lot of politics and “the sky is falling” content. She used to be about bushcraft.
science channels remain consistent though, although i suspect most of them do it as a part time thing and its relavent to thier fields.
MKBHD. He used to be, IMO, the best tech channel out there. The reviews were honest, well produced, and held companies’ feet to the fire. The old MKBHD poked fun at the companies’ shortcomings (I specifically remember him telling iPhone users to add a widget - then going “oh, wait…”). The new MKBHD interviews Tim Cook and doesn’t properly question any of the BS he speaks.
He’s really good at trying to mow down kids in suburbs, though
I don’t really agree with this take.
He still seems fair and mostly unbiased.
Even if he indeed was more critical in the past, he was never very knowledgeable about the actual technical side of the products he reviewed.
Not sure if this counts, but CGP Grey. The frequency of the videos was always a joke, but the most recent video is a 3 month old paywalled vid of an early preview for a video still unreleased publicly. I still enjoy the videos when they’re released, so it’s not the quality, but the channel is clearly on autopilot. I hope everything’s ok with him and maybe he’s just using YouTube as passive income now that he hit it big?
cgp grey has some quite bad takes that go way back. e.g. his take on self driving cars, on British monarchy, etc.
I’m not sure of the specifics you’re referring to, but seemed with most of his content, he was pretty clear with the data that formed his opinions, and was pretty honest when he was either wrong or changed his mind on something, which I respect.
On self driving cars, watch these videos that point out why he was wrong
Well this is why i wish he would put out more videos, to see his reflection of this almost 10 years later knowing what we know now that self driving cars are here, and not stuff that was in highly controlled environments. To me, Grey always seemed like someone who trusts computers more than people, so maybe he’d still hold the same stance, but i would be interested in hearing his thoughts rather than dismissing him because of something he said 10 years ago which hasn’t come true. I also vaguely remember hearing in one of his podcasts that he had gotten into a really bad car accident and actually didn’t drive for many years after that, so I’d imagine some of his admiration with self driving cars at the time was focused on them reporting being safer than human drivers. Who knows, but I for sure would like to see a 2026 version of the end of that video about solving traffic from him.
lol I forgot about that one. that was an eye opener to his engineering knowledge.
one of those “when somebody speaks about something in your field” type situations
Eh, you can have good content or frequent content
I can’t believe I listened to the entirety of Hello Internet only to not remember CPG even existed.
Still waiting on episode one of that American Indians series…
I am ok with upload frequency dropping instead of upload quality, plus doesn’t he do other things like a few podcasts now?
I don’t think he does any podcasts anymore. He stepped away from Cortex about 6 months ago, and Hello Internet has been gone for years now. Agreed with maintaining upload quality and sacrificing frequency, which had been the status quo for years, but i’m afraid the channel is more abandoned now.
Ahh, perhaps he has just gone for semi retirement then, can you really blame him?
This is VERY recent but NetworkChuck. He’s such a great speaker and his videos were good intros into tech (Linux, networking, etc.) but with practical applicability. I liked that he skewed family-friendly and family positive, and some of the solutions he presented were from his perspective as a father. He was never shy about him being religious and being religiously involved. Imo 100% wholesome.
This year, several weeks of his videos were paid sponsor content for very corporate Cisco BS. Then, he comes back from that and it’s AI stuff that’s kind of a strech for a typical home user… Then “I’m going to end my videos in a prayer”. I unsubscribed right there.
I mean … if he’s using Cisco gear, he’d better be praying.
Cisco’s mitigation consisted of making the router firmware blacklist the user agent name for the ‘curl’ command-line tool …
Religious plus over-produced quality always gives me the ick. Like there’s something hidden and they’re hiding it behind an overly smooth and suave exterior.
There was always something slightly off about him. Like he always felt evangelicalish, but the prayer thing set off the alarms fast.
LTT comes across as someone who simultaneously wants to be a boss and also do nut taps in the locker room. He himself admits he sucks at PR and then does PR solo style anyways or with Luke held hostage. He often takes things personally when it’s actually a really good opportunity to show growth and standards, but I swear he misses the mark every. Single. Time. This behavior also corroborates the feelings of a staff member who left because someone higher up was creepy to her and wasn’t ever confronted because that’s the environment Linus fostered. You can’t be a boss that’s always joking because sometimes it’s serious, and when it’s serious, it’s not always personal.
MKHD Always seemed like a bit of an Apple shill, but I gotta say it just got worse and worse. It’s like he was shopping for himself and once he became a millionaire everything seemed like it was cheap if it was at all novel. He also handled that app launch insanely badly and seems like the type of dude to be impressed by anything a tech bro presents to him.
Berm Peak completely similar vibes. He’s rich, so crazy expensive bikes and accessories are almost always a great deal because they’re in his budget and high quality.
Ethan Klein I honestly don’t know why I ever liked him apart from the copyright lawsuit with Matt Hoss. I appreciated the goofs, but for some reason it took me way too long to see that some of those people in no way shape or form deserved that treatment. Patrice Wilson for example, not to mention later when he devoted his entire life to hate watching Hasan and Hasan-adjacents while being incredibly deceptive about his and his wifes views on Israel. I ditched him before all that, but man what a massive shitshow he turned his channels into.
EEVBlog got high on his own supply. He’s always been a bit snobbish, especially about sub par equipment that he already made up his mind about before opening, but I saw him talking about running for office with some dogshit platitudes that mean nothing like, “Dave’ll take it apart and fix it all” and seemed very defensive when people were asking what his platform actually would be. God complex vibes from all that.
Gus Johnson because he treated his ex like crap and ran from accountability, and is now sneaking back into YouTube through his and his brother’s account without ever really addressing his failures. He just wants everyone to move on and accept him again.
Cody Ko handled the fallout of sexual assault allegations horribly and is best friends for life with a known rapist, putting that relationship above everything. Gross guy, but before all that came out he was just a funny immature frat guy with a lot of jokes and good reactions. Major failure to meet the moment.
Scott Kilmer - just shitty political takes eventually wore me down.
AVE - shitty political views and then talking about teaching his daughter racist nursery rhymes was the final straw for me.
Yeah, I also used to like AvE’s tool teardowns, I felt he did a good job explaining the little things you wouldn’t think about, where companies cut costs, and if those cost/perf tradeoffs were done in a smart way or if it would bite you.
Enter covid, and he’s ranting about US politics and trucker convoys. Unsubscribed and haven’t watched him since, tbh the channel was going downhill before then, but that was the straw that broke the camels back.
Sad to hear he kept up with the bad views, but not surprising.
I stopped watching when he made a joke about at least another trump term would be more interesting. Fuck you Canadian prick. You didn’t have any skin in this game so I don’t want to hear your shitty political takes. Unsubbed and haven’t looked back.
I used to watch AvE on long nights at work and even his tool teardowns got old quickly and the cracks started to show for me. Like every single one was him pointing out the same 10 things he knows about while bullshitting the rest.
My final straw was before covid when he felt the need to post a video on a crane that collapsed in Seattle acting like some forensic analyst giving us his “expert take” on what occurred based off some grainy news footage. I know people just like him who always want to portray themselves as the expert on everything in the most condescending way, and that drives me up the fucking wall, so I had to dip out.
I stopped watching eevblog during the pandemic, when he regularly ranted about the strict covid rules in Australia “even though there are barely any cases”. Not realizing how those things are connected. Absolute idiot
i followed asian youtube channel, and one of the owners complained the same way, yup eventually unravelled to bea dumb magat truck owning meathead/ while the owner is a “j peterson” type of person. and after firing a female employee who sorta exposed thier dirty little secret how they treated past female employee and even a "token “black” that kept on the channel. they were discussing news and opinion about , which was fine for the old fans, but eventually turns into “wokeness” whining.
Linus seems like a terrible boss to have
Can you imagine the hemming and hawing he’d do if his employee unionized? He’d crash out for sure.
His response in the past has been that he doesn’t think his employees should have to unionize. That tracks with his overall mindset…
I can understand his take on that. There were a few jobs I was thinking about applying for, but ultimately decided not to because “They have a union because working there was so shitty that they needed a union.”
Yeah, it’s not an incoherent position, just one that could cause potential issues if the need to unionize does arise and it’s used as an excuse for why that shouldn’t happen. I don’t know that LTT would do that, but I’m also not confident that he wouldn’t.
Yeah, he would totally try and union bust.
he seems to be more “involved” since the incident with the employees a while back.
Yeah, I really used to like LTT but man, he does come across as a really cool guy that list his way and the constant product placement just like it for me.
Scotty Kilmer was always click bait. I mean how many times did he have the title, “Goodbye, it’s been nice” or similar?
Berm Peak isn’t the only one that does that. I’m a car guy and one by one most of the channels I watch lose me because they are all buying cars to work on that are so expensive, not only will I never own one, but I’ll probably never even stand next to one. I agree with you.
teaching his daughter racist nursery rhymes
AVE did what? I bailed with his support of the trucker’s protest, but it shouldn’t surprise me.
It’s been too long to try and find it, but the gist was he was talking about how his daughter got in trouble at school or maybe a daycare for singing it the racist way instead of tiger. He went on to say he told her that she can only sing it that way at home. Barf
The LTT allegations were investigated by a third party who was unable to substantiate the claims and were described as “largely unfounded, misleading, and unfair”
I don’t disagree that it’s not diminimous by the legal standards of harassment, but I don’t think that an arbitrator hired by the company is an accurate gauge of public perception given all of the facts. From my understanding she didn’t elevate the issue sufficiently to constitute gross negligence for it going unaddressed. I can clearly see even Ilin their videos that their humor is “that’s what she said” bro humor in what is supposed to be a professional environment. I wouldn’t fault anyone for feeling entrapped by that behavior if they view it as a job and nothing more.
I watch Berm Peak every now and then. He lives in WNC where I do but he is not a local. Anyway he seems like a nice guy but god damn he rides some expensive shit. The whole Ozark Trial series was interesting. He liked the bike after he did a good tune on it. Talk about how for a casual trail rider it is a great value for he money and then proceeded to put lipstick on a pig by upgrading it. I think at the end the sum of the part on the frame was like in excess of 3000 bucks. I still don’t understand why he closed his AirBNB mountain bike retreat.
Damn didn’t know that about Gus. Spot on about LTT. Who is AVE?
He was a Canadian material science nerd with a lot of industrial knowledge and dirty humor. He would open up tools and talk about where he felt the company cheaped out, how good their molds were, and sometimes give ideas about what might break first.
Cool. Shame that he showed he wasn’t as knowledgeable about politics as he was about matsci.
Donut Media. They got bought out by an investment company and then all their videos became Buzzfeed style listicles.
I find Speeed is as close to the original vibes as you can get. They’ve actually got some great videos. I want to like bigtime but I’m starting to wonder if they may have been part of the problem
I’ve been enjoying BigTime but I think they’re struggling hard behind the scenes trying to replicate their old, expensive production style in one of the most expensive areas in the country (they employ like a dozen people as a fairly new YouTube channel) as if they still have that funding, along with not having the technical expertise to do all the work they want to do to their projects.
I really hope that garage space doesn’t blow up in their faces…
Me too. Not even having a ramp into the garage seems like a huge issue but the area seems like a good fit for them since there’s other youtubers/speed shops next door.
They do seem to be trying to grow too fast, but we’ll see. There were a lot of comments warning them about fire/insurance risk due to the style of roof their old building they bought has.
I love all of James’ stuff so much when he was with donut, but speeed isn’t hitting that spot for me. He seems to be just reviewing random stuff. Like I’m not watching his channel because of his hiking gear review, I’m watching it because dude has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of car companies and their history.
I like what they’re doing with the channel though. I’m kind of tired of channels only doing one thing, and then eventually they run out of content and start producing clickbait and what the algorithm wants. or just high budget stuff that the average person doesn’t have a chance of doing themselves.
I want them to make videos that they care about, because that is what results in a quality video. and if it’s not a topic I care about, then I just don’t watch the video.
like that hiking gear video - I’m not interested in watching his opinion on that stuff. I’m not interested in a review from three people who probably know less about that stuff than I do doing a semi-clickbaity comparison. but I did click through the video just to get the vibe, and the vibe did not turn me off. idk, I’d have to watch more to be sure.
Fair. To each their own.
I’m in the same boat here. I think that video was great and didn’t read as an attempt to sell me on anything. They talked generally about the technology differences and it was more of a history lesson that I’m sure dispelled some nostalgia for items that I used when I didn’t have aching joints, leaving me to think they were more comfortable.
glad to hear my impression from skipping through was pretty consistent with how you found it
it’s not a video I’d sit down to watch, but I probably wouldn’t turn it off if it were in the background while I was working on something
They also lost all their content creators, but BigTime is boring and clearly they have no good ideas for content.
Well Wranglerstar is pretty good example. Used to be about homesteading and tools, then turned into politics, grifting and Jesus talk. There’s even a subreddit dedicated for hating him for it.
Van Neistat (Casey’s brother) is another one for me. It’s actually one of those channels that went from me utterly loving it to entirely stopping watching it the quickest. I can’t really put my finger on why but I think I just started to get the sense that this is a job for him, not a passion.
Wranglerstar was a huge disappointment, I hope he realizes his failure when he looks at Project Farm’s success. Another victim of Covid mania maybe.
I had followed Wranglerstar’s descent off the cliff, but I never knew about the subreddit till now. Much obliged.
Same here with Van. I thought he had something to say or there was something I could learn from him. But really he a just really into himself and thinks hes way more important than he could possibly be.
Wranglerstar’s comments are a cesspool. One video had an Easter egg of a radio playing some rightwing trash and people were yukking it up. Between the Jesus stuff, and the closeted dick riders, I was done.
