Kind of a trend, the amount of youtubers who i had loved but their content became generic after gaining popularity is quite a bit, most drastic one being mrwhosetheboss, his uniqueness went down faster than MH27 MH17
AAVE. He used to be a cool tool review channel who really got into the nitty gritty of how electric tools worked and what made them quality. Now he’s an anti-vax spouting asshole who loves the truckers who blocked the bridge in Canada. Spiraled into the right-wing like a waterslide
I didn’t see anyone mention streamers. For me that has to be Asmongold. He is now just drama farmer and reacts to videos and reddit all day. I would even say he is slowly turning into another Andrew Tate.
I miss Zackrawr introspective posts in the treehouse.
I feel like he basically retired after his mom died
Called it on Lemmy a few months ago! Something about him and MoistCritical just give me bad juju. Can’t explain it except as a father you learn to trust your gut sometimes and it was run of those times.
If this makes sense. YouTube algorithm aggressively pushes Joe Rogan. In that sphere are other trends that come with it. Sadly they come into that picture
Kind of related but I follow lilAggy on twitch. He pissed off some of chat one day because he told them to fuck off with their Andrew Tate bullshit and full on explained bluntly how Andrew Tate is a mysogynistic fuckwad.
I just realized it only recently, but Asmongold was going downhill for a few years. He wasn’t my favorite streamer, but watched him here and there.
List of my streamers is slowly shrinking. Nowdays I mostly watch Lirik. He just became a dad like a year ago. As far as I know he has no problems. Only thing that some people are not liking about him is that when NFTS came out, he wanted to make some, he didn’t at the end. I don’t really blame him. When NFTS came out even I thought it was interesting for little while.
My second most watched streamer is probably Elajjaz, I discovered him only a year ago. He is a variety streamer who really likes Dark Souls and similar games. I don’t think I acually saw him “react” to videos. He just plays games.
LilAggy’s stream looks interesting, I gave him a follow. Will see if we click.
Check out Josh Strife Hayes, a very sensible streamer/Youtuber who steers clear of the drama. He and the guy from Pirate Software are my new favourites.
I know about both of them, but Josh doesn’t stream in my free time, so I only watch his youtube videos here and there. Pirate Software doesn’t play games. I knew about him even before he blew up, but I like streamers who play games, like sure, talk about interesting stuff, your life, etc but I need some game in the background. Don’t get me wrong, his stream is great and I check on him sometimes. But he mostly talks about how to make games and how to start making games. I don’t really need that.
LilAggy’s stream looks interesting, I gave him a follow. Will see if we click.
He fully acknowledges you should never trust chat and that chat are morons. I like him.
Oh wow, I liked watching his speedruns, and this makes me respect LilAggy even more.
Yeah. I’ve been pleasantly surprised. He stays in his lane alone with the other souls streamers. That community seems to be pretty good at being good people.
Agreed, souls community is definitely one of the most wholesome communities I’ve seen/been in on twitch. Drama free (afaik) and everyone’s super nice and supportive of everyone else even when they’re in direct competition. It’s great.
MoistCritical looks like an unwashed hobo 90% of the time and sounds like the most disinterested person in the world.
I used to think that was intentional and he’s just a character like Francis. After a while I started to think otherwise.
Same here with Asmon, and it all ended with some video where he actively pushed a wrong statement calling people dumb.
I mean he is right people are dumb. Lol
That said, yeah get bad juju from him
two minute papers
PhoenixSC. They used to create very interesting niche technical Minecraft videos. Then they once made a “cursed Minecraft” video which became very popular and created a lot of memes. I still liked it then but they kept going that direction and now their channel is just stupid memes.
Rooster Teeth
They have had so many issues back to back that I don’t enjoy them anymore. From Ryan coming out to fucking fans when he has a wife, to the underpaid and crunch heavy work they put staff to, and then firing Matt who was one of the most beloved members.
When they sold their company to WB they sold their ethics at the same time.
SVSeeker. At first it seemed like a really inspirational channel about a guy building a giant boat in his backyard in Oklahoma that was going to be used as a free to anyone research vessel, but as time went on everyone slowly realized the dude had basically no idea what he was doing and was super hostile to anyone telling him otherwise. Now it’s been two years since lunching the boat and he has done none of the things he promised to do with it (like even leave the coast) and it seems pretty clear everyone got duped into helping him build a retirement house boat instead of a research vessel.
Joshua Weissman. He started out super chill, most of his recipes were pretty approachable, the editing wasn’t over the top, the b-roll stuff at the end was tasteful.
Now it’s like he’s catering to a whole different crowd. The editing is over the top and jammed with memes, he’s more idk, psychotic isn’t quite the right word, but it’s way less chill, he’s constantly saying stuff like “if you don’t use XYZ ingredient then what are you even making this recipe for?”, his recipes are more over the top, and he has a much more elitist opinion of himself and his food. The change happened so quickly too, it was kind of shocking.
Cold Ones.
The interviews are interesting but all the other vids are just trash click bait.
Their editor is incredible though.
Legit never heard of this one. I thought you were cheekily referencing Hot Ones until I did a search.
Not going to watch but goddamn are those thumbnails atrocious.
I have the opposite problem where Youtubers who I watch because I enjoy their unedited, off-the-cuff content keep deciding to put more effort into their channel and start producing videos that are scripted and edited well, which I find way less interesting and watchable than their stream-of-consciousness rambling was. WolfeyVGC is a big one. He theoretically has a second channel for low effort content but he rarely posts to it.
I can relate to this, i also really enjoy more raw, down to earth, simple content which is very rare these days
This is why I love SlowMoGuys, their stuff still feels unscripted.
You might like Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t if you like that style of video. It’s a crass low brow approach to botany and ecology presented by a Chicago Italian. Been going for years now and has improved his quality but it’s still off the cuff rambling.
I second, Crime Pays is a great channel
Not sure if this counts, but I’ll nominate Unidan.
Now that’s a blast from the past
People still crowing about Unidan.
Here’s the thing…
Now hold on I think you’re confusing crows and jackdaws…
Cinemassacre/AVGN.
Pengest Munch aka Chicken Shop Connoisseur. It’s a UK thing really though.
Man’s churning through editors. He really dropped the ball by going on an insane break when he was peaking.
Episode 100 out yet?
Gardiner Bryant I liked him when he was doing Linux News updates and talking about Linux gaming but after he blew up with the LTT Linux challenge.
It’s like his personality shifted and has that I’m being managed vibe and doesn’t hide it very well. I’m glad he found success but he is just not for me anymore.
I just checked back in and I guess he is just a generic gaming handheld reviewer now like we don’t have a million of those.
ThatGuyWithTheGlasses fell harder than any I have seen.
For real, what happened with that whole family of creators? I haven’t watched any of them in over 10 years.
Google #changethechannel, but to sum up, people got fed up with the mistreatment by the Walkers (Doug, the NC, and Rob) as well as Mike the ceo, especially after one of the best liked members was fired from the site.
And THEN it came to light that they had known about a pedo in their midst and protected him for years. Justin Carmical, Aka JewWario.
George Lucas
