LTT is just an apology video channel now

Veritasium has really gone down hill. I honestly think it started when he did the video on “clickbait” and actually realized how much more lucrative it was to make shittier clickbaity content than make straightforward science content.

It went from “here’s why magnetism is just electric field + relativity” to “I buried myself in cement - you won’t believe what happens!”

Ugh, I used to follow a wildlife channel. The head of their YouTube had a kid, and then every other video was her repeating "can you say jackal?" over and over and OVER. I'm here for wildlife videos, not to watch your kid ignore the camera getting shoved in their face. But everyone was super positive towards the first kid video and she thought it was encouragement. For shame.

I love how Dunkey had a week where he did this sarcastically -- and they still ended up being some of his most popular videos. Thankfully he's stayed himself though and not abandoned what he does best.

Perun is a fantastic channel to keep up with the Ukraine war. Probably the best resource out there. Pleasant to listen to as well, guy deserves the appreciation he gets.

Only because of the Ukraine channels did I notice that he also used to put out great videos about Dominions 5, a somewhat obscure game. I wish he had enough time to do both.

Jerma985 was my most favoritest TF2 youtuber, and now look him, a big streamer with wide meme reach. I remember the first Jerma Rumbles, the pinnacle of simulated wrestling and the first inklings of his creative genius. I don't watch streams and I don't watch VODs, but I'm just happy he's shooting for the stars.

I remember the transition of prank channels from pranking each other in more or less controlled settings to "pranking" (harassing) strangers in public. Not saying that pranking each other was the pinnacle of comedy, there are definitely still problems with it, but why do people like watching random unrelated people being accosted at all, let alone enough for the prank channels to catch on and start catering to that crowd?

At this point I suspect half the internet is bots making content for the enjoyment of other bots.

Critikal's channel is amazing at this. It died like 3 identity deaths.

Or they made good edited youtube videos and then they starting chasing the streaming trend like Critikal and other youtubers I used to watch. Sorry I want to watch a single 10-30 min video once or twice a week and not hours of unscripted rambling. The only person I can watch do that is Nothernlion but even then I don't watch most of his content anyway.

I've been watching ZFG (OoT streamer) for a while. Lately he's only been playing Tears of the Kingdom, which... I don't like or care about, much. Looks like he's actually going to do runs of it, so it might be a while.

Someone else already mentioned Joshua Weissman, "comedian" cook who refuses to realize he can't sing and the "papa" thing is... cringe. Channel was much better when he didn't try so hard to be funny. Cooking stuff itself is still fine though, he does know his stuff.

I know this can be true, but a more predatory trend is Youtubers quitting because these vicious incentives are difficult to navigate compared to Twitch, Patreon, or a regular old career.

YouTubers and streamers aren't your friends. They are just trying to make money.

If you could switch jobs and make double your salary, would you? What about all your coworkers you'd be letting down by suddenly quitting? Oh well. You're getting paid.

If you work in retail or fast food or something you probably don't give a shit about your coworkers, but if you've worked a production job on a small team, you know what I mean. And you still would taken double the salary for the same sort of work.

Sabine the science channel

Joshua Weissman for me... But I don't Anti-Chef and he more than makes up for it!

Shout out to EthosLab for doing the exact same format of content for ten years with minimal changes

Fuck the algorithm. My favorite Youtubers still do quality videos, luckily, but now they take longer because they have to fill their channels periodically with less inspired stuff or the all-seeing algorithm will toss them out. I hate it.

That happened to some Minecraft youtubers that I was subscribed to, they switched over to fortnite to appeal to young children and I unsubscribed from them

They forgot about their original audience

Edit: autocorrect caused typo

Sigh. This happened, sort of, to my favorite channel. It was a fun channel all about her hamsters - cute videos of their antics and informative videos of how to care properly for them. Then she got a chronic illness and switched to only posting about the illness and awareness of it. And that's her prerogative. But she took down all the cute stuff. I was devastated. They were my go-to when I needed cheering up.

Oh no. Makrkiplier upload another smash or pass video recently.

Used to love Mutahar, but it's all been downhill ever since he stopped doing creepypastas and is now just a news roundup guy in the most boomer way possible.

Wow, I'm actually impressed that I got mostly upvotes, this is the kind of thing that would get you crucified if you set it on reddit. Sometimes I think they did me a favor by Banning me from the site.