Crazy Russian Hacker/Taras Kul, videos were really explaining science in an interesting and funny way but now seem like TeleShopping but for useless items.
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All of them.
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Youtube
This is the way.
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Max Miller, fuck that guy. j/k, I just don’t watch TV anymore.
Joshua Weissman, he used to have some good cooking content but it got too brain rotted for me.
Similarly I almost dropped Binging with Babish, but he started a new channel for his non-BWB content and actually put up a classic-style video recently!
I never saw Weissman’s supposed glory days, but I did hear people talk about him and checked him out and found him insufferable.
I also dropped Babish, I just got tired of the slop content and the overall drop in quality.
I genuinely think cooking channels have a finite lifespan, because theres only so much you can cook before your audience basically has all the cooking knowledge they need to do everything.
Alton brown came back for another round, his new take: here what I did before and this is why it was wrong.
I’m actually down for one more ride there.
He’s slowed to the point of years passing between videos (last one was 2 years ago now), but Jacques Pepin is still making new ones (I hope) 😔
I genuinely think cooking channels have a finite lifespan, because theres only so much you can cook before your audience basically has all the cooking knowledge they need to do everything.
Chef John from Foodwishes has basically kept the same style and Dad joke humour for ages and he is still pumping good stuff weekly
100 percent. There’s too much potential food for a food channel to ever run dry of content. Only personalities and gimmicks run their course.
I used to not be able to deal with Chef John’s voice inflections, but after enough times, I started to find it soothing. Great, straightforward, no nonsense videos. I haven’t tuned into him for a bit, not for any particular reason, but he is a classic.
He was BAD early on with it, he’s calmed it down a LOT. That said, the man has never released a recipe on there that wasn’t an absolute BANGER. Everytime he checks all the right boxes for the fam, I cook it and get rave reviews.
I agree. Everything I’ve made of his has been great.
His delivery is definitely an acquired taste. And as ALwayyyys… ENjoyyyyy.
Chef John was there when YouTube began.
He will be there when Google pulls the plug.
Chef John is purely videos of recipes. He never did 40 minute episodes about which salt is the best.
Even professional chefs learn new recipes on a fairly frequent basis. You can’t run out of content on a cooking channel.
while there may be near infinite variety in the recipes themselves, theres only so many times you can sit down and watch someone make a soup, or a roast, or a casserole, or what have you, regardless if they have 30,000 different recipes for each.
Yes exactly for both of them. Babish is still kinda okish but Joshua feels like I’m watching AI.
If you want pure cooking, Alton Brown has been posting weekly on Saturday’s. Good eats style.
Alton Brown’s new show is hitting just like I needed it to.
I checked out on Brown during COVID when he went on one of his political/mask rants and I just couldn’t deal with his right wing bent anymore.
I love his old stuff, but even that doesn’t really draw me in like it used to.
Yep been watching and loving Alton for years.
Alton got me into cooking. Hes brilliant. Can be a bit… big and exuberant at times, but all around excellent guy.
So many good cooking YouTube channels. “America’s test kitchen” tend to be excellent, with a wide range of topics. I’m a big fan of “Aaron and Claire” for his breezy, chill takes on Korean fusion.
“Not another cooking show” does amazing recipes out of the NYC cooking scence, and of course the champ, “J. Kenji lopez-alt,” of serious eats fame, just cooking every damn thing the PNW has to offer.
ATK is fantastic!
Lan Lam is a particular standout with her fantastic technique breakdowns.
I miss early weissman…now his head up his ass. I enjoyed living in his cupboard.
He has a new channel called Joshua Weissman recipes, which follows a similar format to his early days (including the cupboard bit). But recently he did a poll about doing a “but better” series on this channel, where 90% said yes. I’m just concerned that this channel might also go down the same path.
Same with Weissman. I did drop Babish entirely, though, and don’t feel like I’m missing anything not adding him back.
I dropped Babish when he bought his brother the car. Don’t feel like I missed out since then.
Ethan Chlebowski has many very good science and subjective testing based videos. Without any bullshit added in, except maybe his new website and app.
Today I’m going to eat 9 different versions of vinegar and talk about why pickles are great…
AVGN I guess, not because of any controversy but just because he has no passion to make videos and the quality is low and the videos are soulless
The poor guy has got to be burned tf out.
I stopped watching for a similar reason but also bc of time. If it’s just one game that I wasn’t really going to play (especially not pay for), I didn’t need a whole production. Just need someone I can trust to quickly lay out some key points and move on.
I agree.
I wonder if he’s tired of doing the AVGN character and wants to go on to something else, but he’s carved out too big a rut for anyone that supports him to want to support him as anything but The Nerd.
I haven’t checked his channel in a while, but I thought they did movie stuff occasionally (it is Cinemassacre after all!) and I thought for a minute they might lean more heavily into that since he seemed to have an equal passion for film as he did video games. I’d watch him just being himself nerding out on movies.
Even before AVGN got bad he was under admission his passion for films is much bigger than his passion for video games.
the movie reviews and stuff are just James Rolfe as James Rofle, from what I gather… he certainly seems much more comfortable and happy doing them, too.
Folding Ideas’ video about AVGN summed it all up well
Sjin for touching kids.
The rest of the Yogscast for just generally being shitty people once they hit the six figure earning mark doing things like promising a game and then running away with the crowdfunding.
TotalBiscuit died.
TheSpiffingBrit went from faux elitism to actual elitism and I just don’t find him funny anymore.
I was so gutted when TB got diagnosed. I’m still subscribed in memorium; never found any other reviewer nearly as thorough. Every time I play a new game, I check the options menu immediately. I think of him and wonder what he would say about this game.
I sometimes wonder what TB would become if the cancer didn’t kill him. I keep wishing he would turned out decent, but the stress of him dealing with cancer starting to show some cracks. I understand, cancer sucks major ass though.
TheSpiffingBrit went from faux elitism to actual elitism and I just don’t find him funny anymore.
Got an example? I’ve not really noticed any actual elitism, just his regular upper crust british characterism.
Obviously not saying its not possible, just that i havent seen it. Which is why I’d love some examples.
So it was definitely an act for many years, but shortly after the time he did his big cyberpunk video I feel like his character shifted. As I examine the timeline now, that’s around the time he got engaged/married so I can appreciate his priorities shifting. That’s not it, though.
What sold me on him being a bit out of touch now was the recent debacle with YouTube changing how views were counted and him being flippant about the whole thing. JoshStrifeHayes actually did a direct video response to that claim which, IMO, expertly dismantled Spiff and demonstrated why not only was he wrong, but also sitt8ng atop a high horse because he is the Spiffing Brit and losing 10k viewers means little to him. He does it on a Tuesday as an experiment, so his hot take of “people go outside bruh” doesn’t work for people who only have 7k followers.
After that, the changes I perceived in his character clicked into place for me; he’s become elitist and has lost touch with regular working class folks. That’s fine and I’m happy he’s made it like that, but I don’t need to support him any longer. And he’s not at all hurting from my lack of views.
Car YouTubers.
Turns out I fucking hate cars.
“Wait, why have I been watching car videos for years? I don’t even like cars!”
Same but for a different reason. Im from the countryside so I don’t have the same hate of car centric infrastructure as most on feddi, what I hate is theres nothing for opensource or real DIY. There is fully open source Arduino based ECMs, jerry rig a turbo and teach us how to dial in fuel and air mixture, or 3d print a cool dashboard with clicky buttons and dials
But nope, all your find on youtube is sponsored aftermarket carplay screens that are ugly as hell or $10k upgrade kits that drop into place. You wont learn any DIY or diagnostic skills
Low buck garage will take an old engine and pile of parts and make it into a working vehicle or he will fix old stuff and tells his thought process along the way. There are some decent youtubers out there but not the big ones
Watch wes work, müjin, the doubtful technician, grind hard plumbing co, there are lots of amazing builders, fixers, DIYers but you gotta find them
There’s plenty of channels doing DIY stuff with cars. Open source is indeed a rare sight though.
I enjoy Wesley Kagan a lot, although he might be too much of an engineer to qualify as DIY…
Essential Craftsman - he’s an older guy who knows a hell of a lot about carpentry and blacksmith work. He dedicated a ep. to Charlie Kirk I felt like finding our my favorite uncle was in the klan. Noped the hell out of his channel as did a lot of others.
This was tough to learn. He was my para social grandpa. What a letdown. Also, can’t he just Google around and learn that Kirk was an a-hole?
More likely the things that make it clear Kirk was an asshole are the things he likes about him.
didnt Hickok45 do something similar?
I generally don’t like Hickock45 because if you watch any of his non-gun content he likes to leave things in a hedging, vague, “all I’m saying is…” context and honestly if he can’t say what side he’s defending then he’s kind of just being a douche.
“if you live in a free state” was the statement that knocked me off Hickock45’s channel.
Tbf gun dudes use that term without hesitation. That’s a technical term for them.
i feel like most gun dudes on youtube are right wingers.
I missed that he did that. I might not agree with that but he really does have a wealth of knowledge, I’m not sure cutting him out entirely is the right call as I haven’t noticed it infecting his other videos.
I was 100% on board and donated $2 every month to keep his channel going. I switched that to Lemmy after the Charlie Kirk comment.
David Pakman and Brian Taylor Cohen after finding out about Chorus.
I sorta went tyt, Parkman, BTC, and have sorta landed at majority report for a couple years now.
I stopped watching those two too, but also TYT and anything related to them after the bullshit when Anna Kasparian tried to falsely “me too” Jimmy Dore.
I used to like TYT a long time ago when they were smaller but they eventually became glorified bullies and I was out. The MSNBC thing wasn’t going to work out. Everyone knew that. It wasn’t supposed to. Cenk wanted Fox News dramatics and hostility and thats what he did to cement it.
Comicstorian, because he died.
RIP Benny
@slazer2au It was sad. I watch this streamer who was torn up over Benny dying.
Was a subscriber to game/film/food/fashion theory since Matpap was single nerd recording in a closet. When I moved to watching on pipe pipe I didn’t add them to my list. I’m not a fan of indi horror chucky cheese lore, there’s no fan theory stuff at this point, and they just got too big for their genre.
Binging with Babish used to be an automatic suggestion to anyone looking to cook more. I loved that he made it accessible, fun, and owned his mistakes. It made it feel like I could do it too and that’s why I can now. Now it’s all rich white boi vlogs and guest cooks. I’ll pass.
Doesn’t matter if he never posts another video, I’m never going to unsubscribe from shoddycast. Austin is the only parasocial bond I will allow myself and I miss his content.
Hasanbi… I never trusted him and I always knew he was a DNC plant. Was always waiting for his liberal fascist shift. Now he is a full turd butterfly. I watch more constitutional libertarian types now… and communist.
For the record, I find him obnoxious, but holy cow every single one of these sentences is hilarious.
How is he a DNC plant? He’s been backing anti-establishment candidates the whole time?
Edit: oh, do you mean you just don’t like communists, and therefore the DNC must be using him to prevent libertarian candidates succeeding?
A hint, this guy used the term ‘liberal fascist’, this isn’t a serious person.
Also anyone who gets kicked out of a DNC event mid-event probably isn’t a DNC plant but I guess the DNC spending millions to out-advertise candidates he promotes could be some sort of weird funding scheme.
Fwiw I’m not defending Hasan, but it’s a really interesting exercise to see if Hasan haters are even intelligible in their points when they show up.
Veritasium. Sold out to private equity.
Ah! That’s sad, damn
what?
they gave the channel to a PE firm, its little more than some to push ads.
https://www.electrify.video/news/electrify-completes-majority-investment-in-veritasium
Hadn’t heard of this either, but it wasn’t hard to find
sad noises over here
Some videos are still worth the watch, it’s not a bad channel but it clearly took a quality hit after Derek started being more hands off. Also you can see it on his face how he’s just there because of a contract. Good for him though.
His contents are still miles better than some other YouTubers that were bought out. While I’m not pleased with the direction he took, I do not have any qualms with the quality or the content or the depth of topics.
Same here, I’d use it as an example of how to do that right.
Yeah I noticed it seemed to be different recently. Used to watch every video he put out but it’s definitely changed :(
He sold several years ago already
I got a weird feeling from him when he did a whole video (or ad) about head and shoulders shampoo.
True, but the change was slow, and Derek still appeared in most of the videos at first.
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It was always shit.
I used to watch a lot of fishing/outdoors channels.
during covid all but one of the outdoor channels I watched either did straight up covid denial, or went full mask off on their right wing extremism in general and with crazy conspiracy theories about covid, so I dropped them.
I also dropped bigclive around the same time, because he thought people getting sick from vaping was, iirc, some kind of government hoax or something, while also engaging in the whole “covids just the cold, stop being silly” type of denialism, Which really sucked cause I used to love his context… but I havent watched since.
Maybe less direct, but I was a big Joe Robinet fan for a while. After he lost his brother and his dirt bike accident, it felt like he was going off the deep end a bit. Felt sorry but also felt uncomfortable watching.
Self-Sufficient Me fell into this category for me. Tons of very relaxing videos about growing fruit and vegetables at home… Then COVID hit and he started talking about “prepping” and “Doomsday” in every video. Didn’t work for me anymore after that.
There was another that I just remembered, Survival Lilly, who did survivalist and bushcraft videos. Again, lots of natural outdoor scenery and birdsong and just enjoying the weather and all that, but fell into a bunch of anxiety-inducing Doomsday prepper talk. Just looked her up now and she’s gone completely off the rails and is mostly putting out right-wing conspiracy stuff. Bummer.
Self-Sufficient Me fell into this category for me. Tons of very relaxing videos about growing fruit and vegetables at home… Then COVID hit and he started talking about “prepping” and “Doomsday” in every video. Didn’t work for me anymore after that.
I must have moved on before the prepping and doomsday stuff, because I totally watched him to, for a long time. I checked out and moved on cause, I dont know, he started feeling preachy and sanctimonious? like, I cant put my finger on a specific example as to where, how or why, so it could have very well just been in my head, but it kinda pushed me away from watching his content after that.
AvE - got introduced him just before he decided to start talking positively about MAGA and the similar Canadian trucker protests. Plenty of other people out there doing teardown my videos, so I bailed.
Rose Anvil - loved his work boot teardowns, but he gradually started promoting his own collabs and seemed to favor certain brands even if they were doing things he called shoddy in other brands. Then he started doing a lot with Jim Green boots in South Africa and making a lot of comments that felt pro-Rhodesia to me and started giving me the ick for watching.
Forgotten Weapons I still watch if there is something of particular interest to me. I used to watch every one, but as the country got more MAGA invested and gun culture felt like it was becoming more toxic than usual, I wasn’t happy with Ian staying neutral. If he’s worried about losing viewers and connections with gun manufacturers, I get that, but I also don’t have to like it or support it.
ave was a huge disappointment. watched him for years and then he started dropping his political beliefs. I get it, people have opinions, and they’re entitled to those opinions. hell, feel free to share your opinions on your platform you spent years building. but when you share your political opinions on your nonpolitical platform don’t get angry when people leave.
dude was straight dumb as shit for throwing it all away.
Sometimes I question if it’s hypocritical to get mad at AvE for sharing opinions I don’t like while also being disappointed at someone like Ian at Forgotten Weapons for not bringing up his opinions to try and stay neutral. But at the same time, not addressing a worldwide wave of discrimination and prejudice still feels like taking a stance. Like, is there an acceptable degree of nuance I am missing? Is there some degree of religious intolerance or racism or gender discrimination that should be seen as tolerable? Most things do have some gray area to the conversation, but I just am not feeling that with all the comfort a lot of people now seem to have with treating fellow humans and our planet like crap.
I’m not expecting everyone to draw a line in the sand or anything. I think conversation has lost a lot of nuance. Even just saying something like “I didn’t know enough about this topic to have an opinion” is much better than either changing ahead while being ignorant or just rejecting anything you can’t currently understand. Refusing to say anything though feels like “I support the thing that is going to make you mad, I’m just afraid to say it.”
AvE, for better or worse, at least made it clear who he was. I can respect that to some degree. He at least has conviction. With Ian, I would guess he is something like a conservative libertarian that would support more old school Republicans, but the thing is we’ll never know, so while he may support shitty policy to further his personal interests and career, that is still kinda a shitty position when we’re talking people’s rights and safety being the price for that. And that’s the best case scenario. If he’s harder right wing than that, it only gets worse.
Talking guns/wati/history I feel it’s much harder to dodge taking some stance, because no matter what, every part of that learning ties in with politics. AvE tearing apart stuff and doing shop things rarely needs to lean into politics, so him leaning into it was all on him. I didn’t notice anyone calling on him in comments for his political insights.
I suspected AvE was right wing because he always made wife bad jokes. Gotta tip toe around muh wife ey guys hue he hue. But I watched since his teardowns of tools were informative.
Then he bought a CNC machine that probably still filters him to this day, and when I saw the first anti vaccine video during covid with a comment section full of supporters, that was it.
I never know how much of these guys is an act/character for the channel and how much is really them. I took AvE as hamming it up at first, with the jokes and language, exaggerating the blue collar “traditional” humor, but joking or not, venture into science denial or supporting fascist types, I’m out.
I would have been fine if he hadn’t used the platform for that shit. No question where his heart lies. but he has no business growing the nazi base with that shit,
I agree with you on Forgotten Weapons. Also got kinda skeezed out with all the giveaways that required to to buy ridiculous and overpriced crap for an entry into the raffle.
You might like InRangeTV then, it hits all the stuff. Pro LGBT, Anti Maga, Anti Racist, while producing excellent videos about guns, history, etc.
I sound like i paid shill dont I :\
Thanks for recommend InRangeTV. I was kind of lost about which historical weapon channel to follow, after Forgotten Weapons getting increasingly uncomfortable to watch.
Inrange and and Ian from forgotten weapons had like a big falling out over inrangeTVs politics being too critical of rightwing bs if I’m not mistaken
I do somewhat recall some things with Brownells and the ARs, but at that point I was getting tired of the behind the scenes infighting.
I just assumed they decided to split with each other professionally before they started to dislike each other personally.
Ian not wanting to bite the hand that feeds is understandable to a degree, but him walking that path only helps him and the toxic parts of the fanbase.
Oh I dont recall fully, so don’t take what I’m about to say as facts…
But I believe the “official” reason was that InRange was taking up time Ian needed to travel to do episodes for Forgotten Weapons.
and I believe the unofficial reason was something to do with the company that originally made the What Would Stoner Do AR, And how they ended up outing themselves as assholes for using like…right wing dog whistles and antiLGBT things for discount codes, Which Karl has zero issue calling out on, but Ian was more interested in avoiding making a public stance on any of it and risking being political, and causing any harm to his relationship with that company. So Ian parted ways and, if I recall, has had zero interaction with InRange since.
Again, I reiterate, its been a while since i last brushed up on it, and I may have details wrong, so do not take this as hard and true fact.
I’ll take the added context with the appropriate grain of salt, thanks for the additional info!
ultimately, I don’t think we’ll ever know the true depth of details until Karl or Ian come out and lay them out in a video. Which will probably never happen
I was going to mention Karl at InRange as a good example. As a lefty gun owner, it is so rare to find someone in the gun community willing to speak up if they want to have any kind of standing.
C&arsenal I still kinda like, because they seem to steer more clear of any politics in a way better than Ian does, though I don’t think I’ve ever watched their Q&A videos, kinda out of fear at being disappointed after getting meh on Ian. Their videos, while great, are just so dang long! I can’t watch 90+ minutes of details on every iteration of rare guns, so I stick to the ones I’m more familiar with.
Finding out AvE was really dumb as fuck was a gut punch. I really enjoyed his content and it sucked to walk away. But I dropped it cold turkey when the first video supporting the trucker convoy came out.
I miss AvE sometimes. Last video I watched he something about at least trump isn’t boring, or something to that effect. No thank you.
Yeah, I got no time for anyone who finds any entertainment in anything trump related. My extended family is about 80% Trump lovers, and since I can’t get rid of them, I can sure as heck choose to ignore anyone I’m not related to.
