VSauce, all three of them. They were peak YouTube way back when, but there was this long pause in videos shortly after they built their big studio, and VSauce 1 started focusing entirely on shorts about uninteresting things and VSauce 3 stopped making videos entirely. 1 and 2 are kinda back at making videos, but their quality jumped off a cliff. Feels like they’re making videos out of obligation.
MxR Mods. Two reasons for this, firstly is that I kinda stopped playing Skyrim. The other being that he started focusing almost entirely on lewd mods.
Kurtzhezacht, because their political stance became more and more apparent (billionaires will save the future).
Flesh Simulator gave off subtle vibes of being kind of a chud, but he made interesting videos; then he partnered with MDE and put longform content behind a paywall there. I am not giving money to MDE, so MDE can give it to Sam Hyde, so Sam Hyde can give it to neo-nazis, no matter how good the content is; and the fact he defends this at all (and still does, to my knowledge) was enough for me to say “nah let’s just watch someone else”
Didn’t entirely drop, but I’m watching less and less of Well There’s Your Problem. I was lucky to find them very early on, when it was still Donoteat01’s channel. They’re doing their own thing now and don’t care what anyone says, that’s great, but now they’re 90% banter and only 10% content. They are funny but you can’t have so much filler. Why are these episodes hours and hours long?
While I don’t drop video creators, many have retired over the decades. It is part of life for me, seeing media fade from existence.
Mighty cad mods. They went from “how to install a new suspension” to “let’s put a 2JZ on a random car for the 25th time” and that got boring really fast.
Meidas Touch. Clickbait headlines and thumbnails, unrealistically optimistic takes on things. I want information, not bullshit.
Asmongold. He was really chill and a good watch for a while. But then he suddenly started to talk about politics all the time.
Lewis Rossman.
I have no valid reason for this. I fundamentally agree with the guy on most things for the dozen or so vids I have seen. Right to repair etc etc.
But something about him just comes across as entitled and annoying. Like even if I knew the was right I would want to disagree with him.
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).
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.
YouTube. So…all of them, I guess. Nothing about the format ever clicked for me. I can’t listen to someone spend ten minutes telling me ten seconds of content. I abhor what YouTube did to content creation on the internet.
I do enjoy cat videos.
Techmoan. I used to be super into his content on old obscure stuff but it fell off a cliff for me a couple years ago. Instantly bored.
AvE when he started getting right wing preachy. Guy had a winning formula and destroyed it.
Electroboom. Similar to techmoan… Booooooring. I don’t care about the outlets in whatever country you are visiting this month.
John Oliver. It’s too depressing to find out what levels of depravity and corruption the ruling class is up to. I can’t handle it anymore.
CinemaSins - it just became cringe
Good Mythical Morning - too ‘producrd’ and they started doing gross shit
Mysterious Universe (YouTube and podcast) - They became rightwing antivax, anti-abortion, anti-mask, homophobic, transphobic, racist losers over the course of 2 years after COVID.
KingOfRandom :/
Just didn’t feel the same without him
Surprised it has shown up here already but Bon Appetit. I was watching a lot of it over lockdown in 2020, and then at the end of that year the channel blew up thanks to a mass staff exodus due to discrimination.
It pains me to say it, but I don’t watch any new AVGN episodes. James has gotten into that phase where he’s just a parody of himself now. In the old episodes, it seems like he GENUINELY gets angry at the games, but nowadays it’s very clear that he’s acting. His crude humor and angry rants just come off as obligatory and contrived now. The old episodes had a VIBE to them, like you’re in a dark basement playing games with a weird nerd. The new episodes just feel like a polished, scripted show. And I know James has to make money, but seeing the Nerd do an ad read is just too jarring. I hate it.
