Or they made good edited youtube videos and then they starting chasing the streaming trend like Critikal and other youtubers I used to watch. Sorry I want to watch a single 10-30 min video once or twice a week and not hours of unscripted rambling. The only person I can watch do that is Nothernlion but even then I don't watch most of his content anyway.
Ugh, I used to follow a wildlife channel. The head of their YouTube had a kid, and then every other video was her repeating "can you say jackal?" over and over and OVER. I'm here for wildlife videos, not to watch your kid ignore the camera getting shoved in their face. But everyone was super positive towards the first kid video and she thought it was encouragement. For shame.
Perun is a fantastic channel to keep up with the Ukraine war. Probably the best resource out there. Pleasant to listen to as well, guy deserves the appreciation he gets.
Only because of the Ukraine channels did I notice that he also used to put out great videos about Dominions 5, a somewhat obscure game. I wish he had enough time to do both.
At this point I suspect half the internet is bots making content for the enjoyment of other bots.
Shout out to EthosLab for doing the exact same format of content for ten years with minimal changes
Veritasium has really gone down hill. I honestly think it started when he did the video on “clickbait” and actually realized how much more lucrative it was to make shittier clickbaity content than make straightforward science content.
It went from “here’s why magnetism is just electric field + relativity” to “I buried myself in cement - you won’t believe what happens!”
Critikal's channel is amazing at this. It died like 3 identity deaths.
Jerma985 was my most favoritest TF2 youtuber, and now look him, a big streamer with wide meme reach. I remember the first Jerma Rumbles, the pinnacle of simulated wrestling and the first inklings of his creative genius. I don't watch streams and I don't watch VODs, but I'm just happy he's shooting for the stars.
Idk if this comment is a joke or not but i have to say you're really missing out. Jerma's new content has really grown so well and I'd say he's one of the few who did shift but ultimately its only grown in quality.
Same here, I stopped watching Jerma after he stopped posting TF2 content, but I’m glad he’s made it and is still doing a bunch of cool stuff.
I know this can be true, but a more predatory trend is Youtubers quitting because these vicious incentives are difficult to navigate compared to Twitch, Patreon, or a regular old career.
I love how Dunkey had a week where he did this sarcastically – and they still ended up being some of his most popular videos. Thankfully he’s stayed himself though and not abandoned what he does best.
LTT is just an apology video channel now
I remember the transition of prank channels from pranking each other in more or less controlled settings to "pranking" (harassing) strangers in public. Not saying that pranking each other was the pinnacle of comedy, there are definitely still problems with it, but why do people like watching random unrelated people being accosted at all, let alone enough for the prank channels to catch on and start catering to that crowd?
Used to love Mutahar, but it's all been downhill ever since he stopped doing creepypastas and is now just a news roundup guy in the most boomer way possible.
Wow, I'm actually impressed that I got mostly upvotes, this is the kind of thing that would get you crucified if you set it on reddit. Sometimes I think they did me a favor by Banning me from the site.
He's just slowly morphing into a standard opinion tech bro with no light between him, moist, and like a dozen other rich dudes.
Wealthy, incredibly insulated from life, experiencing everything through a screen then discussing what they've seen into another screen. Good and bad opinions melt together into a gray mush.
It's so much like Plato's Allegory of the Cave that I don't even want to mention it, it's so fucking obvious.
