Veritasium. Sold out to private equity.
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.
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.
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
i dropped Mark Roper when he said he loves his Tesla and plans on buying another. I just can’t deal with Nazi fanboys.
Renaissance Periodation. He kept suggesting to his viewers that we should check his facts against Chatgpt. His sex jokes got boring and repetitive.
Mostly, i drop a youtuber when i get bored with their content.
JerryRigEverything for similar reasons regarding Tesla. Cybertruck = unsub
Theres something about JerryRigEverything that just makes me think that, one day, there will be news that breaks about him that will make Josef Fritzl look like a saint in comparison.
Totally irrational, but I just cant shake that gut feeling.
I’m still subbed, pretty sure he sold the cybertruck, but I get it.
He’s a Mormon and that’s a huge red flag for me.
No I got the creepy vibe too even when I was watching.
You missed the doctorate drama with Mr. Mike
Mark does rub me the wrong way. He’s just a very positive guy and clearly cares about being a good guy. But is way too buddy buddy with the big man.
I honeatly never liked that guy. He’s smart, and he’s kinda like mr. Beast light, he always know how to oplay the algorithm and how to make a buck. Not necessarily a bad thing i guess, but not my cup of tea.
I get creeper vibes from him, always have. Something about the way he behaves around kids, as a dude who has gotta be in his 40s-50s at this point… Yeah it’s weird.
I also get kiddie diddler vibes about him, and I have felt the ick when I see him for a few years now.
See that’s the thing for me too. He had this creep factor I couldn’t put my finger on. Seems wholesome and just wants kids to learn. Put entertaining science videos out, collaborates with other channels, and has the occasional mischief video where he screws with scammers. But the ick is still there for some reason.
Then he keeps shilling for Tesla knowing full well what that means and it becomes clear. You can have ick and be innocent of any crime. Some people just encode differently. But to have the ick and celebrate Tesla this late in the game…that combination always ends with missing kids under his backyard.
It might be the Mormonism leaking through, a lot of people who are in deep with them have the happy shiny person vibe.
Ok glad I’m not the only one.
I don’t like putting that kind of thing into the ether, generally, especially when it’s based entirely on how they behave online.
But still… I dunno maybe it’s just Peter Pan syndrome or whatever. Though I feel like it’s rare that people like that excel enough in science to work at NASA (while having an actual personality lol)
He sketches me out every time I see him. He seems to be involved in every bogus YouTube humanitarian scam. I don’t trust that guy.
he looks like STEM mr beast, i think there was a post last year about how he lost touch, and currently look like hes on peds too.
LTT. Linus is a whiny out of touch git and all the good content creators have already left
Jakkuh is to me what LTT was when it started. The farm content is really fun to watch.
Zip Tie Tuning is really good. I was never into car stuff, but Alex is a good host.
Alex is so fucking good to watch, I can actually watch is car stuff that I have no interest in and not hate it. I don’t go out of my way to watch it, but if i’m through my subs for the day and he’s up, i’ll watch him. I even still learn some shit.
Is it actually good, I got out off by the click bait titles.
Is it actually tech, or just business drama?
No drama on Jakkuh’s channel. Just him trying to modernize an old farm to turn it into his tech and cars workspace.
The host from mac address also has started a similar channel called “think different”.
Yeah, they imploded pretty quickly. The fight between him and GN, I hate them both now. I was mostly watching because I liked the hosts, the new hosts just aren’t as imformed. TBF the old hosts weren’t much more informed but they were entertaining. I used to watch them just to see them learn while i was screaming at the screen not to do something. The HR fiascos, the loss of talent, the “hot takes” that he self admits so he obviously knows better but can’t control himself.
I find GN’s scandal-chasing for clicks very tiring, but I still appreciate the no-nonsense work they put out. There’s not many tech channels doing these time-intensive, actually data-driven deep dives.
what scandal chasing?
The only reason anyone hyper focuses on GN is because Linus had a big narcissistic meltdown over being “betrayed” cause he thought his relationship with steve gave him the inside line to shutdown/have editorial say on stories about him/ltt, and thus went on an enormous goddamn tantrum over GN and its “betrayal” of him, when all it did was report facts.
Thats the only reason anyone hyperfocuses on GN. all GN did is repudiate claims and report news, and they did it with facts and receipts, to disprove all the bullshit that LTT spread in a desperate bid to save his image.
LMG had 3 big controversies that deserved being covered.
One was his “Just trust me bro, y u not trustin me bro” warranty on overpriced backpacks.
the whole controversy around billet labs video card heatsink which linus did so much wrong with that you’d be hard pressed to think it wasnt malicious, between using it on the wrong video card that it didnt fit and calling it shit, to not giving it back when requested, to selling it at auction, to lying about having spoken to billet and that they accepted his apology and made a plan to make amends while also having a big public meltdown making a joke of the whole thing and basically sic’ing his fans on GN for not talking to him privately so he could convince steve to not run the story or edit it in his favor. GN was not the only place reporting on this shit, GN was only the focus because Linus thought he could exert control and like a typical narcissist melted down when he couldnt.
And the latest one was the honey issue, Which he knew about, and silently stopped doing honey spots… while sitting back and watching honey steal from all his co creators.
Any one of which is a valid news thing to report on.
Oh no question, GN is a fucking quality outlet with quality data, and If I wanted to know how something preformed, or if a powersupply was shit, I’d go there first.
I just don’t need to know that info very often :)
And almost every major face on the channel (but his) quit and left in a relatively short period of time, Which screams about how healthy things are behind the scenes.
Mark Rober: I don’t want my views converted to money that goes to the Mormon cult.
he became too much mr beast in the end. also allegedly taking PEDs for some reason as well.
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.
Sabine Hossenfelder, after she went full anti-science, like “and you can trust me because i am a scientist, but not like those other scientists.”
I think i stopped watching when she read a fake email to the camera.
Her defending Eric Weinstein, the crackpot who pretty much everybody knows is a Peter Thiel-funded dickhead with a fake theory of everything, was especially crazy.
I also remember her defending Trump’s threats of taking away funding from a certain university, because the university was “anti-semitic” for allowing anti-Zionist protests, but can’t find the video now.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EERX9QyS-Xc - timestamp is 4:30 for her Zionism, though I recommend watching from the start to see her takes on ‘communism’ as well.
Her defending Eric Weinstein
That made me like 99% sure shes bought and paid for by Thiel or some such person. Seeing a actual receipt of a payment from Thiel to her would make me 100% sure.
i wouldnt be surprised, people like thiel, musk, bezos tries to be “pseudointellectuals” themselves, but because thier names are so well known, they have to use people with PHDs washouts.
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i actually never heard of that guy. i heard of another crackpot like frank greene whos peddling his own theory.
thats whats happening to her, i guess she far right herself. her video first caught notice, after her “why i left academia, or gave up being a physicist” im guessing she wasnt telling the whole truth to that video, she probably was so difficult to work with in academia, or a job that nobody wants to hire her, or her political leanings were annoying asf, at first she said something about being a woman and being ignored in the field dominated by men. im guessing people in the comments were right: she was the troublemaker.
Her mission is to advance an anti-intellectual agenda to further divide people and keep us stupid, and she’s lied many many times in pursuit of that goal.
im guessing that video of her "Claiming she left academia, because it was caused by issues for men. was her telling a half-truth.
The problem with Youtubers is that they need to understand we don’t watch the vids to get a personal relationship with them.
You’re not speaking for a large audience who are indeed engaging parasocially.
I tried to get into her like 5 years ago, absolutely couldn’t do it. Her whole personality feels off to me.
I liked her covering science, but her takes on politics were either shallow or just wrong.
I didn’t kniw her, but heard her name critisized in an Angela Collier video once. I get sad at the state of social media sometimes
I unsubbed her when she started going anti-feminist and pro-merz
At some point I noticed that she always sounds like she’s talking with clenched teeth, as if she was on speed. Kinda ruined it for me, also her format is kinda lame.
Didn’t know about those other things so… Yikes…
How do you go full anti-science?
Just because she questions mainstream consensus science which has very little evidence going for it?
That’s what a good scientist does. They formulate hypothesis… Theories. Maybe they’re right or maybe they’re wrong. Who knows.
You don’t have to be infallibly correct to be a scientist.
Mike Rowe gave a platform to JD fucking Vance to spew his nazi bullshit.
I block any channel as soon as AI slop creeps into their visuals or their scripts. Sometimes I’ll do it even if they use AI slop in their thumbnails. I’m just sick to death of AI slop. Fucking HATE the aesthetics of it.
Any that use AI/LLMs.
So Hank Green most recently?
All his channels were a lazy slop content factory even before AI. Color me not surprised at the latest news.
Any that promotes them. Exploring and knowing what it’s all about is necessary, but repeating it’s the best thing ever for half an hour, no thanks
Lewis Rossman.
I have no valid reason for this. I fundamentally agree with the guy on most things for the dozen or so vids I have seen. Right to repair etc etc.
But something about him just comes across as entitled and annoying. Like even if I knew he was right I would want to disagree with him.
I love what he’s doing, I love that he exists, I do have a hard time listening to him angrily agree with me for 30 minutes straight on youtube.
I used to just have him on the background talking to the camera when he was fixing a laptop. Then would listen to his random takes on stuff and then his political activism.
As much as I agree with him, I am just raged out. I can’t do John Oliver, I can’t do so many left-leaning ones because they clip right-wingers and I don’t want to hear about how everything’s getting worse …
I agree with 99% of everything he’s said in the videos I’ve watched, but the whole thing with that company doing fake “open source” stuff is weird.
I like him and he’s doing great things, but he does come off as an astounding arrogant asshole. I also don’t keep up… Watching randomly.
I refer to him now and back when it was technical videos.
It really depends on the topic. He’s very self-assured, rightfully so on most subjects he addresses, but some of his politics and commentary on certain subjects I don’t vibe with. Still watch his stuff occasionally but only on tech that interests me.
He’s passionate and found his “calling”, so yeah, zealots can be tiring. He also happens to be right, and I appreciate that he’s sticking his neck out for that conviction. If he ran for national office, I’d vote for him. He’s exactly the sort of bulldog we need to stir up Congress. However, unless he learned to catch flies with sugar, I don’t think he’d be very effective--but, maybe he could do that.
Strongly agree with this one. He turned into a professional complainer.
Louis is fine and does the good political work, no one else is willing to do. But I already am a pirate and against copyright and patents - which is way more anti-corporations than his stance. So there is no point in watching him preach.
I still watch his other videos when I stumble upon them. He just doesn’t do them that often anymore.More people need to be annoying for right things if they have done all things right that also happens to help everyone
I also asked a question, “do I constantly want depressing or aggressive videos in my feed everyday?” He does good work but it’s always combative towards bad companies which isn’t necessarily bad but it’s tiring when it’s everyday.
Yep that’s it. He’s perfect for what he does but I don’t need to follow him because it’s bad for my brain.
I think you just hit what I subconsciously hated. It’s this underlying aggressive position and combative approach that I just don’t enjoy listening to. Like sure, John Deer or whoever is in the shit books this week deserves it, but I don’t want those vibes on my weekend.
For me the videos were just all the same.
It became repetitive.
Absolutely love what he’s doing, though. Just bored watching his videos
Louis Rossman is 1000% a insufferable fucking cunt.
Just cause hes typically on the correct side of an argument and supports good things doesnt magically make his awful personality issues disappear, and his awful personality issues do matter when it comes to him wanting you to sit down for an hour and listen to him angry rant about shit.
If it were anyone but Rossman doing what Rossman does, they’d be accused of being a plant setup by the other side to make right to repair and its supporters look like unhinged assholes with his attitude and how he acts. (Edit. I am NOT saying thats what Rossman is, to be clear. I’m just saying if someone less known pulled the same shtick that is how it would come across)
I used enjoy the critical drinker. But his videos got anti-woke instead of just being critical of bad writing.
The last straw was him on a podcast agreeing with right wingers/maga/fascists.
I blocked him since then. Not sure if he was always like that or just fell down a dark rabbit hole.
Shadiversity. Guy made some really interesting videos breaking down different kinds of historical melee weapons, showing how, when, and why they were used. Genuinely interesting content until he started randomly spewing right wing nonsense a few years ago.
Pretty much every gun youtuber. So many of them have MAGA vibes. I used to like garandthumb, but his constant anti lgbt quips in the intros made it too hard to give him views
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.
Techmoan. I used to be super into his content on old obscure stuff but it fell off a cliff for me a couple years ago. Instantly bored.
AvE when he started getting right wing preachy. Guy had a winning formula and destroyed it.
Electroboom. Similar to techmoan… Booooooring. I don’t care about the outlets in whatever country you are visiting this month.
John Oliver. It’s too depressing to find out what levels of depravity and corruption the ruling class is up to. I can’t handle it anymore.
