Me with CinemaSins.
CinemaSins: nitpicks something
Me: “That’s literally answered five minutes from now in the movie.”
CinemaSins: nitpicks the thing that explained the thing they were nitpicking
Me: tears hair out in frustration
This is where Cinemawins comes in, fun positive takes on films (yet often with genuine critique thrown in too).
It’s the channel that introduced me to how excellent the first Trolls movie is :-)
Cr1TiKaL for me. I used to love him like 12 years ago when it was mostly just stupid stories over gameplay clips. Once he started showing his face and doing mostly lazy reaction and drama videos I really lost interest. Good on him for finding success, but man, I miss his old content sometimes.
I watched him since his team noble days.
Just dry ass commentary with a funny story.
Now? It’s all about virtual signaling and commenting on shit he has no involvement in.
His speedruns of unknown games were as good as it got
Oh man yes, video game content aside, the flavor of the month posting and hot take machine from a dude who is incredibly insulated and wealthy now. It’s a drag.
The machine trys to feed it to you when you are trying to get good video game commentary now too. Practically have to block him and analogues of him.
Game Theory is the same where it went to garbage when he started showing his face
It’s hard to tell if the youtubers are getting more annoying or if its my tastes that are changing. Probably both tbh
Hate when that happens
I used to follow HeelvsBabyFace because he liked to do out-of-bounds videos of World of Warcraft (going to places in the game you weren’t suppose to).
Then he suddenly started posting MAGA-style rants (woke this, pronouns that) and I had to bail out.
Not a difficult decision, but I was very disappointed.
Mark Rober for me, seems like he wants to be Mr. Beast Lite or something lately.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say really that his channel has gotten objectively worse, just that he has realized that 90% of people who watch his channel are children and he has aimed his channel towards them - I just have to accept that I am no longer the target audience.
Yup, it was more of a deep dive into the engineering and thoughts about how he tackles difficult tasks. Just watched his recent video where he was pretty much a shitty mythbusters without the engineering or the lead up to the test. Just stupid countdowns to explosions.
My wife was watching it with me and asked if that was a recap or was that the actual video? Because she felt it was so lacking compared to his earlier glitter bomb videos.
Same here, seems like less and less substance each video. They’re all just there to promote his monthly subscription box
That’s like 99% of successful YouTube stars. They get their own product and then boom that’s all their videos are made for ads. Good thing sponser skip exists on non native YouTube players.
A little while back he had a video I think it was the anti-drone one, well over half the videos runtime was an ad.
I get that it’s an interesting product but how can you have a 20 minute video and have 10 minutes of that video be you promoting your own product?
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Mark is very lazy recently. Nothing wrong with that, after doing the same job for so long, it’s only natural, but I don’t enjoy his content as I used to.
He was always very “science for the whole family” but recent videos seem to skew very heavily into kids content without much clever science content
Oh yeah like his recent video of if you pour molten larva over a can of baked beans it blows up. Wow, really interesting.
I would generally agree with this sentiment, but I do enjoy all of the safety 3rd crew showing up regularly.
I assume this is someone else than Roz, Liam and November
The safty 3rd crew have become lazy as hell too, i gave up on them
They’ve all generally been doing the same content as usual aside from William Osman with his project burnout and preoccupation with OpenSauce if you don’t count his second channel vlogs since it’s not the same. Allen, Peter, and Nigel have kept their uploads consistent, Kevin’s have slowed over the years. Even their regular guests have stayed consistent as far as I can tell.
Holy shit, William Osman just posted an hour ago. I guess I’m still subscribed.
Thanks for the heads up lol
I duno to me it feels like the entire bunch has kinda become more interested in their own celebrity than making interesting science videos. The point when I decided to fall off was around the time Allen made that video about snake legs, it felt so lazy and half hearted, its like why am I watching this?
Recently, I noticed that a lot of the YouTube recommendations I was seeing were folks based out of Utah. My wife calls it Mormon YouTube. Outdoors Boys, Matt’s Offroad Recovery, Brandon Sanderson, and a few more Mormon adjacent channels started popping up everywhere. I started wondering what I had watched that started brining all these other things up.
It’s Mark Rober.
Add JerryRigEverything to that list. His wife is literally a Mormon motivational speaker and they built a survival bunker (which is a Mormon thing, in addition to just being kinda cool).
Rich people with free time.
Babish the instant he became the babish culinary universe. No complaints, just unsub and move on.
Alvin is now old babish and is a nice change of pace
Babish is more a personality now. So Alvin is the recreation cook
Funny enough he’s found a new niche he’s been comparing tons of different brands for various food items and ranking them. Actually really informative and useful… I’ve found some new foods I love through that.
I agree. He completely burnt himself out a year or so ago (a bit after BCU) and he wasn’t even creating content for the channel. I’m still subbed, but I just watch the odd thing when I’m a bit bored.
I’m honestly only subscribed for Alvin now. I like Andrew, but I don’t really think “Basics” is basic any more.
Happens with podcasts too. Used to be an avid follower of MFM. Then it stopped being about murders and about mental health, survivors and having nice feefees all the time. Not that I’m against that. I have podcasts I listen to that dedicated to that stuff that built their content to a topic and stick to it.
But when you shift the major focus of your content especially when your title is leading a subject it’s super distracting and annoying and shakes some trust that a person gives an actual shit about their listeners and isn’t just waking off into randomness with an audience. Like just call it ‘the view’ then.
PewDiePie after he reached 100 million.
There’s no effort anymore in his content, just turn on the camera and record whatever is in his mind at the moment.
Eh, it’s not like his videos were ever particularly effort-heavy. He’s always just made what he felt like making, and I respect that even though I don’t like his content anymore either.
He never gave up his integrity and now he’s just doing what he loves and living life, while presumably also providing a great life for his daughter. So when he pops up on my feed I just feel happy for him, and I scroll on by.
I stopped watching after he aided in the platforming of Ben Shapiro and said the glass ceiling didn’t exist. That and the n word scandal.
He never struck me as someone who put any real effort into his videos. It was mostly just him just yelling about stuff.
I never understood his market appeal.
It was mostly just him just yelling about stuff
Seems to be the winning approach to videos, sadly
Basically a family vlogger. We still watch it as it’s cool to see Japan. Also he’s a “familiar face” type of guy.
I hate when single YouTube channels start to become companies. I can see it is already happening with some channels I watch. That is, I can feel them making videos for the money, and not clearly for the enjoyment.
Sampson Boat Co has been solid. Really proud of Leo.
It will be touch and go whether Leo can keep making good content now that the boat is nearly completed though, that will be a big test.
I suspect he will do fine, of course.
He’s a boat builder and a sailor!
And a few years ago he bought a very old and quite famous sailing yacht for the price of 1 dollar.
And he’s been rebuilding it with the help of a lot amazing people.
Yay! Finally a Youtuber in this thread that I’ve actually heard of and watched.
William Osman comes to my mind for this one. He used to do fun, cute projects, but slowly got increasingly “edgier” and clickbaity.
After he did a 10 minute dive on how he stalked, catfished, harassed, and doxxed (never mind fraudulently getting a signature on legal documents from) this guy for calling him a “loser”, I was just left thinking “what the fuck kind of ass are you now”.
I still love the old binging with babish videos, but his new stuff just seems to cater to the algorithm. I only stay subscribed for the anything with Alvin videos. I’m happy for babish and his success, but his new content ain’t for me.
Speaking of Alvin, for anyone who didn’t know, he’s recovered his own channel and has recently uploaded!
“Recently” meaning three months ago lol, but yeah Alvin’s content is great.
Same for me with Josh weismann. I want to watch cooking videos not the 50 tiktok food tends (nr47 Will shock you)
At least YSAC’s still cooking better than ever.
(You Suck At Cooking for anyone wondering)
Joshua was always annoying as fuck
Papa likey
Barf
Dunkey hasn’t released a funny video in years. His new material is just so flat.
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