I used to follow a youtuber who slowly realized that the earnings when using her talent and profession fell short of just doing OF and showing bikini photos.
Honestly, James Stephanie Sterling.
I had been following them since The Escapist days, but a few years ago I just couldn’t do it anymore. I was only interested in their Jimquisition stuff, and that had gotten really samey week over week.
It felt extra bad because this was after they had already lost like 20% of their subscribers for other reasons. I really hate that I might be lumped in with all those lovely folks when my reasons for leaving were entirely separate.
I still appreciate their message, though. I still think the Digital Homicide saga is one of the more interesting Internet dramas I’ve been witness to. And I still check in from time to time, mostly for their year-end lists and if something specific has happened in the gaming industry that I want their opinion on.
What I’m trying to say is, thank God for JSS, but only in small doses for me personally.
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?
I thought this was a Of Mice and Men reference.
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.
When subscribing does nothing
what? You have a subscribe feed. use it.
As someone else already pointed out - yes, subscribing does do something because you can (and should) use the Subscription feed (which is below the Home and Shorts feeds on the left hand menu). This allows you to curate your own content rather than rely on algorithms. Which is not to say you can’t or shouldn’t use the Home feed - chances are you will run into new things that you find you like. But as it is right now, over 90%% of all video views on YouTube come from the Home feed meaning the vast majority of users are influenced by opque algorithms.
I believe most people don’t even know about the Subscription feed even though its right there
Use the subscribe feed, not the home feed to watch your videos.
It shows your subscriptions in reverse chronological order.
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…
🤔
Now, I can only imagine a children’s book about Of Mice and Men.
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.
Same. I had been subbed since the start, but banished his channel from my feed when he posted that bullshit.
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.
Yes I started to notice it pick up in frequency and stopped for a while because of that. Gives me the ick. Then when he went on the tirade I realized his intentions. Ugh.
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.”
Yep he was always a bit off color and said some eyebrow raising things at times. I wrote most of it off as banter and general crude joke style. Hell… my trans friend is the one that showed me the channel. It made me really question peoples’ true intent when they pull that crap now.
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.
He touched the outrage spice and saw how effortlessly he could get views? Yeah… happens from time to time.
And started calling people glowies.
You couldn’t keep your dick in the vice
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.
The Chinese doesn’t refer the ethnicity in this context but cultural. So it would be more like saying “My Nigerian wife”. Viewers then have an expection to see stuff cultural stuff. It also helps the search algorithms I suppose.
But yea I did kinda stop watching them as well. It was getting too much I guess.
Mini Ladd moment
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.
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.
That doesnt really matter here, I’m against those practices. I would be ok however, if he had a different channel that posted videos without clickbait, which is not the case so… yeah
dearrow
Did I accidentally follow a song’s lyrics?
For a while I thought that he hadn’t changed all that much, and while I still mostly do think that, what broke the camels back for me to give them up (and I guess GN and Louis Rossmann as collateral) was when the PayPal Honey thing came up, what was at worst a bullet point in the pre-amble to the main story became the story, they basically all spent a month and change throwing vague jabs at each-other in turn shoving the actual, important story of PayPal Honey scamming customers and shopkeepers that they were supposed to be focusing on out of the way.
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
I generally prefer it if YouTubers can self-fund based on merch, as opposed to hawking shavers, VPNs, and overpriced TV dinners. That said, the drop in quality has been noticeable from that point on. The drone defense video was particularly noticeable for being military propaganda.
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.
Jimmy Diresta is my role model, creative Jack of All Trades. He’s living my dream life just collecting skills and making cool shit.
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
I watch some of those, I really dig AlphaPhoenix, and Styropyro, Osman rubs me the wrong way though.
Thought Emporium is the growing cells to play Doom one right? That channel blew my mind.
Have you seen James Bruton and his crazy robots and vehicles?
Osman rubs me the wrong way though.
yeah, it has been slowly transforming into a mark rober clone, but his second channel still has some good stuff
Thought Emporium is the growing cells to play Doom one right? That channel blew my mind.
yup, the same guy that genetically modified himself to cure his lactose intollerance and it actually worked
Have you seen James Bruton and his crazy robots and vehicles?
I actually saw his ball bike thingy last week and forgot to subscribe, reason why he’s not in my list, but I’ve now added him!
My favorite Osman moment was when he realized he was really annoying Peter Sripol the time they collaborated. I was like, I’m certainly annoyed by you.
I’m glad I reminded you, Bruton is so talented and smart.
“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*
