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Dunkey hasn’t released a funny video in years. His new material is just so flat.
Understandably a lot of talk about YouTubers who have changed for the worse, but there have been a few who IMO have changed for the better. Granted, a good number are more towards the burnt-out end of the spectrum, and considering retirement within a few years.
Jacksepticeye for example, used to put on a more energetic “youtubery” persona that appealed to the algorithm, and now he’s a lot more down to earth and considerably more pleasant to watch. That’s not to say the persona wasn’t still him, or that he was entirely fake for all those years, but I find his new content much more enjoyable than his older stuff - even if there is less of it.
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.
They’re slaves to the algorithm. The algorithm favors the obnoxious.
go tell the dude doing the sitting and smiling stream about the algorithm.
not every creator cares unconditionally about it
Says a lot about where our society is going.
I know someone is going to make it sound easier than what it really is, but having to sift through the site, fighting against the algorithm’s sorting to find something you like is hard.
I hate how it somehow decided I was interested in Brexiters’ woes and keep pushing an insane amount of videos about it in my feed, and the more I tell it I’m not interested, the more they pop up. it legitimately makes me reconsider my YouTube premium membership.
Laggin24x used to make incredible COD Custom Zombies videos. Then he switched to ARK and Fortnite clickbait and his content fell off a cliff.
Mark Rober for me, seems like he wants to be Mr. Beast Lite or something lately.
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.
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?
I assume this is someone else than Roz, Liam and November
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.
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.
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?
SponsorBlock*
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.
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.
Codebullet. Went from absolute gem of niche content to over the top low-effort content aimed at teens, who presumably bring in the most ad revenue.
Yeah I agree. He jokes about things being low effort but they actually are as it feels. Maybe it’s gotten better I haven’t watched in quite some time but he uploads very infrequently too last time I checked.
idk man his videaos are still entertaining and hes been doing this for a long time i honestly think that because hes done this for a while hes mellowing out on the effort part and just enjoying being a creator no need to burn yourself out for every vid
I’m pretty sure he said as much when he started doing more short-form facecam videos.
Yeah he was very straight up with it. And I think kept it to the other channel as promised?
I understand that he had reasons. I personally prefer one good video per year over what he outputs now. I used to be a Patreon for years, also in the one where he didn’t post anything. I am prepared to wait for quality, but this is of course an antithesis to YouTube’s algorithm.
If you want similar, yet opposite, I would suggest Sebastian Lague. He has a slow output of high quality videos, which are interesting “coding adventures” where he goes in depth about learning some aspect of software. He’s much more relaxed than Code Bullet, but he’s similar in that the videos are primarily about the process of implement some project and showing the failures along the way.
Oh I’ve been watching Sebastian for years! But codebullet was just so funny and light. Sebastian has some humour, sure, but his videos are all about progress, discovery and learning. I appreciate the suggestion though, thanks!
Did the YouTuber regress, or did you outgrow the content? CB always took shots at the low prod values and laziness of his videos.
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.
Same for me with Josh weismann. I want to watch cooking videos not the 50 tiktok food tends (nr47 Will shock you)
Joshua was always annoying as fuck
Papa likey
Barf
At least YSAC’s still cooking better than ever.
(You Suck At Cooking for anyone wondering)
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.
Hm… I don’t get easily attached to people and I easily get detached to people. I was a fan of Patrick Bet David, until I realized he’s just another Zionist shill. Same with Jordan Peterson, another Zionist shill.
You were a fan of the pos Jordan Peterson and only stopped watching that bigoted shit because his views of Israel? Says more about you than him tbh
Patrick Bet David is a right wing, jingoist, religion pushing, bigot who’s primary income come from an MLM financial services company. So… yeah.
Oh looking at their comment history, eugenics idealization, anti-democratic sentiments, anti-DEI virtue signaling, and this is all before I had to hit next.
Did you come across someone with a differing view than yours? ::GASP::
Grow up, manchild.
Awww, the eugenicist, who wants to get rid of democracy thinking that will make authoritarianism less likely, is calling people names. How cute.
Now, go back to your online MLM gurus, and pseudoscience beliefs, sweetie.
I have my principles. Chitting on stupid people is perfectly okay with me. Being a Zionist is not okay with me.
I was legitimately sad when I had to stop watching AvE.
His content quality had dropped but I still watched because I enjoyed his delivery. But when he started praising the Canadian convoy protestors, it completely ruined his channel for me. And then he kept espousing awful politics and I couldn’t watch anymore.
I definitely know what ave is. No need to type out the whole thing.
He just goes by AvE. If you search for that on YouTube, his channel comes right up. I wouldn’t suggest doing that, though.
Ah, I stand corrected
Yeah, same here. Genuinely a sad moment when I decided I couldn’t separate the art from the artist.
The warning signs were there earlier when he pushed a crypto pump and dump on his channel. I’d already pretty much stopped watching his videos after that and then the covid stuff happened. I was also a bit sad to hit unsubscribe.
But thankfully years ago I discovered This Old Tony who scratches a similar itch for me, but better. Much slower uploads, but far higher quality.
Try Hand Tool Rescue
This Old Tony is awesome.
NNKH also is good too, a bit different but if you like watching a mechanically knowledgeable dude just fixing on shit, it’s good stuff. Seems like a genuinely decent guy too.
I somehow missed the crypto thing. Gross.
I dropped him when he showed a picture of snow outside his garage and said it was proof there was no such thing as climate change.
People who say shit like that don’t just need to be unsubbed from, they need a special department of the US government to land a chopper outside their house, deploy a team of skilled face-slappers to smash through the person’s window with flashbangs, tie him to a chair and just slap him across the face as hard as they can and then leave.
I would pay my share in taxes to make this unit a reality.
AvE is Canadian but they need a similar department too.
I might have given that a pass as a joke because at one point I thought he was a smart man. Knowing what I know now about him, I probably wouldn’t.
Came here to say this.
Me too. What a waste.
Despite dropping him from my subscribers list for a while, I still occasionally say doll-hairs and scookum as fuck.
Many of his sayings have stuck with me, too. But I’m find myself using them less and less due to the association.
COVID turned his brain inside out.
I agree, when he started shitting on bourbon moth woodworking for some conspiracy theory about him faking content I had to quit his channel.
I never had to do that. But somehow I got subbed to Sniperwolf or whatever and I have no idea who they are but their notifications were booming until I unsubbed.
…and now she knows where you live.
H3 / Ethan and Hila.
I thought they stopped doing YouTube to be honest, they stopped getting recommended to me years ago even though I was subscribed
Edit: Turns out their latest upload was 3 years ago so I wasn’t far off
I stopped watching them while they were still making YouTube vids. The peak for me was the 2016 H3 Summer Look video. https://youtu.be/vDDCKvCQ0RA I haven’t rewatched it recently but some of the stuff I’ve rewatched I haven’t enjoyed as much. It’s a combination of not aging well but mostly my tastes changing. But I loved the more casual videos on the Ethan and Hila channel. It looks like it has been renamed now though.
I know he awful and his content has gone down hill but I still have a soft spot for jontron
You’re telling me you don’t like waiting 9 months for him to spend 2 minutes advertising the shittiest pay to win mobile game followed by watching some mid 2000s bullshit with a few reactions? Maybe you just aren’t a real fan
