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

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    Pretty much every car repair channel starts off good, then quickly changes to fixing exotic cars that nobody can afford.

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      Scotty has the most clickbait titles. “If you have a car you will REGRET this ONE SIMPLE TRICK and DESTROY YOUR ENGINE” (video is about winter octane stabilizers or something completely mundane)

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        Man he has truly become unwatchable as of late, it sucks. That said a lot of other car/hardware channels have lost the plot like AvE

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          Yeah they sort of follow the same trajectory. I do like DeMuro still but it really depends on the car he’s reviewing for how interested I am. Leno is also decent and I prefer his car content to anything he did on late night or comedy-wise. He has that professionalism as a presenter and has so much money that he can just buy like a Merlin engine or have anything he wants to professionally restored. Really cool to see some of that stuff.

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            Doug has always been iffy for me. I think it’s his voice that grates me. If I watch one video, my feed gets loaded up.

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              I’m not a huge fan of his voice and all that but he’s super enthusiastic and if the car is genuinely interesting it’s fun.

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      Check out Garbage Time. It’s a channel about an Aussie and his mechanic buddy repairing old, shitty cars. Many of the cars are Australian specific too.

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      Donut Media during the 350z hi car/low car thing was really good, but feels like they are just repeating the same content over and over now without getting much useful/interesting info now.

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      Aging Wheels, Rainman Ray’s Garage, and Garbage Time are all fantastic channels you should look into.

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      I used to like Rebuild Rescue, it was just 30-45 min of him alone fixing a car. Now it’s endless content about trying to fix planes.