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The School of Life. Terrible channel that sometimes offers potentially dangerous and incorrect info. They paint far too broad a brush considering how complex psychology is. I remember Big Joel did a good video about them a while back.
Every youtuber.
Wouldn’t it be easier to list ones who aren’t overrated?
I really don’t understand the popularity of the “big” YouTubers. PewDiePie being the prime example from a few years ago, though I don’t think he’s still making videos.
It would probably make more sense for them to be evaluated in comparison to similar offerings withing the respective “genres” which would be hard for those that don’t fit in to neatly defined formats, but it seems that most do.
I couldn’t watch PewDiePie, it’s damned irritating, but it’s an entire format and style of video that some people like and he seems presumably to be the king of it and is widely emulated so it would be saying something then if you consider him overrated within that context. I couldn’t venture an opinion though because I would just never watch that kind of video.
While I dislike PewDie as an adult, had I discovered him at the age of 13, I’d have absolutely loved him.
I feel like people frequently forget that internet demographics are very unique compared to the overall demographics of the whole population. It is definitely easier and more fun to spend lots of time on here while you’re still very young, and generally have more free time and open curiosity.
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Pew is still making content but it’s more vlogs about him trying to stop being a hyped up youtuber and to find work life balance while now also raising a tiny bebe.
So he moved to Japan so that people wouldn’t recognise him as much, started making friends and is now living quite a normal life to what he used to do.
That actually sounds pretty cool for him.
Never use to watch him, but actually enjoying his content as of late.
Edit: probably because he’s an internet goofball around my age.
While I agree that most the big youtubers are overrated, I still really like Markiplier for some reason. Idk, he just kinda grew up with me and he still plays games. Plus I like Distractable.
I feel like this is pretty much the path the large majority of YouTubers take. They gain a following. Stay consistent over the years. Slowly grow. And after a while people just watch because that’s what they’ve always done for years. The person could post a video of them just like peeling a potato and plenty people would still watch just cause.
He is rich enough to not desperately beg for likes and comments at every other breath. I don’t even think YouTube paid people back when he got popular. Maybe they did and I’m just dumb, but I don’t remember that being a thing.
That simple omission makes his content easier to watch than most in my opinion. Plus he seems like an actually cool guy. I’ve never heard of a real life scumbag example of him. Not saying he’s a saint or anything, but with his size of an audience, I would think news about him being a jerk would be spread around, but I haven’t heard of any.
Seems like he’s pursuing other career paths at this point, as his posting frequency has gone way down, unless the algorithm isn’t bringing him up as much for me, haven’t really checked into it. But since making his 2nd big “choose your own adventure” project, he seems like he’s doing bigger stuff.
Which I’m happy for him in that regard. I miss the consistency, but he’s just a busy guy now.
Distractible I’m really behind on, but I do like it.
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That’s great to hear. I would probably love to hang with him in a setting where he wasn’t in a “hang out with a random fan” kinda situation, which has good be uncomfortable for famous people.
If there was a legit reason it lived intersected, it would probably be a kick-ass time.
Jenna Marbles was genuinely a great youtuber.
I feel like most youtubers are pretty obvious after money.
I don’t really follow any of the big ones, and the creators I do follow are pretty nice :)
I mainly subscribe to ASMRists, and even then I don’t follow the bigger ones because I don’t enjoy their content.
And one of the gaming channels I follow is brilliant and yet they have so few subscribers. Filthy Casuals, three Australian comedians chatting about games. Their Let’s Plays are great.
None, because I ignore the ones I don’t like.
Isn’t it great, not being defined in opposition to triviality?
But for real, everyone is mentioning the same ten creators. It’s not a great question.
I find them all overrated and I subscribe to zero channels. I only use YouTube when I’m looking for a specific video, and then I watch what I came for and leave without any interaction of any kind with the social aspect of the site.
I subscribe to some YouTubers on the site, but the algorithm seems to understand roughly what I want.
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All of them.
There are a lot of smaller channels that are just people who are really good at something showing off what they do. It’s pretty amazing.
Agreed. Niche channels that I watch (woodworking, ham radio, four wheeling vehicle build tips) are usually pretty good.
I was kind of addicted to pimple popping videos, mini terrarium and horse shoe ones are cool too.
Cow hoof shaving/popping. There are a few channels, but my favorite is “Nate the Hoof Guy,” he’s from Wisconsin and he just travels around to different games as a cow vet and helps trim their hooves. Sometimes it can get disgusting, but it’s also fascinating to watch, and he’s really gentle and loving with all the animals.
This was a guilty pleasure of mine as well for a long time but it started making my feed too fucking weird to the point where I was nervous about even loading YouTube in front of other people.
MrBeast and his many imitators. Don’t get the appeal and the constant shouting voice is very annoying to me. I guess I’m just too old.
The target audience is kids.
That just makes it worse
It’s hard to find someone who makes content that doesn’t kowtow to Youtube’s terrible system. Content takes time to make and time costs money but youtube will make these people break their spine bending over backwards to make sure they don’t get demonitized and get the scraps of ad revenue that Google designs to give them. So now we get people trying to dance around stupid censorship rules, finding more and more sponsors because they don’t get paid enough and have to scream figuratively and literally to get enough attention to pay the bills.
Almost everyone that is on the popular front page feed. I loath the emotional content, drama, click bait type nonsense.
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Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly you figure out you’re not logged into your account when you load the homepage. Literally none of the videos that are popular is anything I’d ever consider watching.
All I see in the “you’re not logged in” frontpage is music videos anyways, and not conventional youtubers. I dunno how someone finds Mr. beast “organically”.
Any video game streamer.
I hate screamer and mumbled streamers so won’t watch any of them if I can do literally anything else. But I frequent “Call me Kevin” on Youtube, his edited videos are production quality but in my opinion his streams are top notch too.
For some reason I can’t get into his current stuff. I liked it before he did the face cam stuff.
RTGame, however, I’ll watch just about anything he puts out.
I watch RT Games too but like Kevin’s new stuff more, different strokes for different folks I guess.
Willjum edits his streams down into wonderful little movies.
If anyone else knows of similar creators, I’m all ears. The game doesn’t matter with content this good. My wife’s never played Rust and still enjoys Willjum (though it may help that I can explain certain things that aren’t easily gleaned from context)
Interesting, I’ll check em out.
I’ll have to check him out, thanks.
Ambiguous amphibian has some great narrative videos, mostly things like rimworld challenges or the Sims. Sonny Evans is great for GTA and red dead stories.
I also really enjoy manly badass hero, his videos are often just straight playthrough of indy horror games with him narrating and adding comments, he’s got the perfect voice for it and really engages with the game well
I don’t personally get the appeal of many gaming YouTubers. I’m not personally very into watching other people play videos (not review, but just play). I can kinda understand some people wanting to watch that, but it always surprises me just how many people watch it and for how long.
It also seems all too common that they have very questionable views and their fans will defend them to the death. I don’t get that either. There’s some YouTuber creators I really enjoy, but if they said horrible things, I sure as hell aren’t going to defend them at all, let alone to the degree that some gaming YouTubers get ardently defended.
If it’s a skill/competitive game I totally get watching. Like if I like basketball I’m gonna watch Steph Curry or an NBA game cause I’ll learn how awesome people play the game. If I liked valorant or something i could totally see watching the top pros (or a really high level YouTuber) or comp matches from tourneys and stuff.
I watch a lot of gaming YouTubers and very rarely play games, I find the content really enjoyable as background while I’m coding or doing something on the computer. They’re great because it’s interesting enough to keep my brain active but also it doesn’t matter if I miss a bit because I’m focusing.
I don’t watch the kind that say questionable things tho
It’s actually amazing how creative and funny a lot of them are.
I watch some game playthrough streamers. I don’t have time or the hardware to play, so I “watch” them in the background while I work. There’s a lot of shitty content out there, but the ones I watch are really decent people, some of them with only <100k subs. Really knowledgeable about the games they play too. I am talking about people like Rhadamant, Quill18, Blindirl, ChristopherOdd…
I’ve really got into watching Willjum play Rust in particular, not stream, but his VODs. My wife doesn’t even play rust, but says he’s got a soothing voice and also enjoys his videos. They’re well edited pieces of Rust television.
Kurzgesagt, literally just a propaganda mouthpiece
Why are you even getting downvoted when someone else said the exact same thing?
100% this. He’s an influencer for hire.
How so? I usually find their content pretty interesting
Often sponsored by organizations who would support the narratives their videos paint.
Often is too harsh a term, but that bioweapons video is 100% sus. It got worse when someone pointed out the video has no birds. It’s as if they quietly aknowledged something stinked with it.
All of them
All influencer types. Influencing kids to be more vain, more selfish, more money focused, more vapid and empty?
So many tech YouTubers are overrated, but one who really stands out to me is JayzTwoCents. Somehow I have several memories of clicking on one of his videos and being shocked at him being confidently incorrect about something. I no longer click on his videos at all.
His alpha nerd persona comes across hard.
Thats crazy I unsubsceibed from him just yesterday
Kurtuzeg. And alot of the “science” channels. They are so full of shit sometimes.
science ‘education’ channels try not to be extremely biased and corrupt challenge
Lol I just said this and got downvoted to the bottom.
Their videos about the immune system are really good and educational (according to me, who has no idea if they’re just making shit up). But pretty much everything else they make is just pop science.
I agree. Like most science channels, they’re really good when they stick to pure science.
The issues usually occur when they decide to weigh in on a social or policy issue that they’re not qualified to talk about. Kurtzgesagt’s blunders all seem to be related to climate policy videos and their wishful thinking regarding Hail Mary technologies saving us.
For other readers, my bias is generally pro kurtzgesagt, I have several of their posters on my wall. Their social policy videos have just been really rubbing me the wrong way.
Sabine has been posting a lot of cringe lately. Such a bummer when a physicist decides to go down the 2009 history channel swerving out of their lane career path.
Great video though.
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