Yeah, I had to do that with Nux Taku. The guy made funny videos back in the day, but he slowly became a “Anti-woke” conservative mouthpiece. It’s funny because the video that made me unsubscribe was a video of his saying how another youtuber got cancelled for being too woke.
Is that guy that pointing the gun at the other one Jordan B Peterson?
It’s mitt Romney
I very rarely manually subscribe or unsubscribe now, it just picks up on what I watch generally.
Resist the algorithms, we must
When subscribing does nothing and changing the bell too.
I have some Youtubers who make a video a month or once a year.
I have to follow them on discord to get the new video because youtube won’t show it to me even though I have selected the highest notifications only for them.
Use the subscribe feed, not the home feed to watch your videos.
It shows your subscriptions in reverse chronological order.
Now, I can only imagine a children’s book about Of Mice and Men.
So many people I used to watch when YT first started were discovered to be pedophiles or rapists… 😟
i wonder if the fame turned them into that or they were always pedos to begin with
I’d imagine it’s always been there, but their fame gave them access to a devoted fanbase willing to do anything for them.
And then things just devolve…
🤔
V sauce michael here
Where are your fingers?
AvE. A 3 minute video supporting the truckers “protest” gets a hard NO from me.
He’s why I had to install 3rd party channel blocker because yt kept recommending his videos.
That completely caught me off guard and I was super disappointed.
He had racist and anti trans jokes in all his videos. I wrote them off as just innocent friendly jokes for a while, but they were in ALL his videos. I unsubbed and blocked him after I realized it was a pattern with him.
Para social relationships are hard. You think you get to know someone over the years watching their videos. I would even watch the videos he would put on his daughter’s channel. The videos of him just cooking.
I thought he was a smart guy even with some of his gruff persona.
Oddly enough, one of the first cracks in that facade was a BOLTR video taking apart a Hitachi wand or knockoff. He was so weirdly prudish about the idea of a woman actually using one in a way that didn’t feel like a joke. But I convinced myself it was probably a joke, because…why would he be weird about that?
But the trucker protest videos hit me like a cement truck. It actually really bummed me out. I texted my dad and he said something to the effect of, “Oh well, his videos have been shit anyway.”
Same. I had been subbed since the start, but banished his channel from my feed when he posted that bullshit.
Aliens vs. Editors?
AvE as in AvE. It use to mean “arduinoversusevil”, but the arduino stuff quickly became a memory. He’s tech youtuber out in rural, western Canada who would review power tools and DIY projects. He had a rugged individualism thing going on, but never really got into politics or current events until the he posted the video in support of truckers shit.
And started calling people glowies.
You couldn’t keep your dick in the vice
Mini Ladd moment
SerpentZA loved his hopeful and exciting content, then he became embittered and critical of everything
Dude was like so overly positive of China, then immediately does a 180 and trash China, once he got a visa to the USA. Make me wonder if any of his praises were genuine, or just bootlicking whoever is in power. Bootlicking CCP when he’s there, then bootlicks USA when he gets here. A “White-Monkey Job” as he and his friend laowhy86 calls it.
Also, dude is super weird. Why does he use “My Chinese Wife” in his video titles. Asian-fetishism? 🤔 A normal person would just use “my wife” and you can add their face to the thumbnail if you want, or just mention by name. Using “Chinese Wife” is a odd phrase to say. Like imagine a white American Youtuber uses “My Black Wife” in the video title, like that’s just super weird.
Cleetus McFarland. Glad he diversified and got successful, but death by product placement made me unsubscribe a year or so ago.
This was me with Linus Tech Tips, it’s just not the content i subscribed for all those years ago.
writing was on the wall after the overwork allegations, sexism allegations and nosediving quality. ltt was being run like a corporation and it was a matter of time. i left them then expecting it to tank further and it did.
For a while I thought that he hadn’t changed all that much, and while I still mostly do I think that, what broke the camels back for me (and I guess GN and Louis Rossmann) was when the GN PayPal Honey thing came up, they basically all spent a month and change throwing jabs at each-other while vaguely shoving the actual, important story of PayPal Honey scamming customers and shopkeepers that they were supposed to be focusing on out of the way.
Same. I was there when he was small, I cheered when he got bigger. Then the channel started going down a path I didn’t want to follow. Click baity titles with no info were the last straw for me.
There’s a browser extension to replace click bait by user-generated descriptive titles. I always forget the name tho. It also works with Freetube.
dearrow
Did I accidentally follow a song’s lyrics?
Agreed. It just felt like all paid ads when I unsubscribed a year ago.
Its been way longer than a year
I come back to Shortcircuit (unsubscribed) to see if they let Dan Besser do another video. He’s entertaining
Mark Rober is headed this direction for me.
Mark Rober lost me with his porch pirate booby traps.
First of all, booby traps are illegal for a reason. Second of all, a lot of it was staged and it was pretty obvious.
the instant crunch labs was announced I got out of there, it turned from kid friendly content to content for kids
“Hey George, like and comment on my videos again.”
“Sure, Lenny, I’m gonna write a real nice comment on your latest video right now.” *sniffle*
I find new channels around new hobbies constantly so they just kinda drift away.
What are some of your favorite hobbies to watch videos about
Right now it’s blacksmithing. I just bought a forge and anvil and have been watching Black Bear Forge.
A perennial favorite is 3D printing, I’ve followed news and videos about that since the RepRap project.
I watch a few music and electronics channels, I got a circuit board from Look Mum no Computer to build a synthesizer and learn soldering.
Rockhounding, like Michigan Rocks, my friend and I have been getting into looking for rocks on beaches.
For a period in my mid 30’s I tried Skateboarding and longboarding and watched a lot of that.
I used to watch a lot of disc golf, carpentry, RC and cooking.
I really just like knowing how to do a little bit of everything.
Ha! I loved back bear forge during my year of blacksmithing obsession!
He’s a really good teacher and super talented.
He’s also calm which I appreciate. I don’t like being yelled at from the screen.
not oc, but for my hobbies
chemistry:
- Explosions&Fire and his second channel Extractions&ire
- Nilered and his second channel NileBlue
- Nurdrage
- Prussian blue
- Chemiolis
- Cody’s lab
- The Thought Emporium, even if it’s more biology then chemistry
- Doug’s lab, even if the channel has been dead for a while
- Labcoatz
- Thy labs
- MrGreenGuy
Electronics & mechanics
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Hyperspace Pirate (if you are gonna search one of these channels, do this one, like, really, it’s so good)
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Works by design
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styropyro
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William Osman
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AlphaPhoenix
