Philip DeFranco. I watched him for over a decade then after covid I started picking one or two stories from the video to read about and I was pretty disappointed by how often it was mispresented. After a bit its obvious its intentional by what’s being left out. Even though we still had the same politics I dont want to watch someone who intentionally skews the stories by leaving out key facts. I can arrive at the right conclusion with the whole story.
Game Grumps, because
Nah, nevermind. Those guys are awesome.
The Young Turks.
It was annoying me for a while but I had been a paid member for years and watched their whole show every day. I noticed them giving a bit too much ground to the right and Anna swinging too right for my taste but Cenk was still left enough to let it pass.
I don’t remember what finally convinced me but my yearly subscription was coming up and I just couldn’t see myself watching it anymore so I unsubscribed and cut off my membership.
I pay for The Majority Report, The Humanist Report, and Kyle Kulinski and those are people I don’t think will be betraying the left.
All of them because youtube blows
Marquez Brownlee. I lost trust in his sincerity and in his personal life he’s an asshole with multiple speeding offenses.
Unbox therapy. Infomercials. The whole influencer thing does not influence me.
Wassabi Productions once Rio started indulging in more kid oriented elsagate-esque extreme stunt challenge videos and toy reviews. Thought he was great when he was doing his own stuff instead of pandering to the algorithm.
Also SMG4 when they started becoming more story driven which is the last things a string of goofy Mario Gmod skits where Mario goes on a road trip and Weegee haunts the mushroom kingdom needed to be.
Assmongold. Reason:
Literally Satan himself.
Vaush:
He stretches his content too much with a whole lot of nothing, takes forever to find whatever he put in the thumbnail.
Nobody got time for that.
PewDiePie:
Not enough time for that many big YouTubers.
Mark Rober: I don’t want my views converted to money that goes to the Mormon cult.
I click “Don’t recommend channel” whenever I detect bullshit, like if the word “banned” is in the title. Those are never about anything that was actually banned.
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.
I feel like an alien in these comments.
I… “subscribe” to YouTubers. But I watch videos à la carte, only if the subject seems interesting.
I don’t follow them.
I sympathize when they open up about personal stuff mid-video, but that aside I have zero interest in their lives/feed. Why should I? I don’t have a relationship with them.
So I never had the chance to drop any because I don’t follow them in the first place.
…Is this a neurodivergence thing?
I feel like it is.
There are a trip of guys that do beamng content. They are generally funny and fun to watch but one of them keeps making mysogynist comments and never gets called out by the other two. Occasionally they’ll join in
Pewdiepie, after all the controversies it just pushed us away as we weren’t really comfortable with that even though he was our childhood and got us through a lot. Recently he became more of a family vibe vlogger and personal video stuff which we found really interesting and thought to give him another shot but then he made a server to run ai… Expected brofist fun vibe, instead we got a browhatthefuck?? And it hasn’t been the same. Watch some just for the morbid curiosity but actually started watching Jack septic eye and mariner’s game plays and while they don’t hit as good as the good old days, they’re fine to have in the background or for a game we want to watch but can’t play due to oof brain or not having money for it.
Sadly, Joe Robinnet. Canadian camping dude. He went through some personal issues, which understandably he discussed on the channel. But then every video started becoming some personal jouney story. I’m doing a bad job of explaining it, but the content just became depressing to the point i couldn’t watch him anymore.
The Gaming Historian - he stopped making videos (good for him to stop before it became a chore)
The Escapist - everyone left for Second Wind after they tried to lay off people
