David Pakman and Brian Taylor Cohen after finding out about Chorus.
I stopped watching those two too, but also TYT and anything related to them after the bullshit when Anna Kasparian tried to falsely “me too” Jimmy Dore.
I used to like TYT a long time ago when they were smaller but they eventually became glorified bullies and I was out. The MSNBC thing wasn’t going to work out. Everyone knew that. It wasn’t supposed to. Cenk wanted Fox News dramatics and hostility and thats what he did to cement it.
Hoovies Garage - He stopped finding and fixing vehicles that I can relate to, and went to supercars I couldn’t care less about.
The king of random - went from being mainly constructive to destructive. Even before Grant hired new hosts, he started to do easy break/burn/explode shit. Then he collaborated with Jake Paul and that was the stick that broke the camels back.
He started up a used car dealership. He’s back to buying normal cars.
Haters Garage because I saw a Trump sign in his yard
Building Ugly Machines because they got a nice shop and started building nice machines
I Did a Thing and Boy Boy because of their anti-gun collab video. There’s nothing quite so uniquely ignorant and irritating as loudly having a strong opinion on something you readily admit to knowing nothing about and openly claiming you will never change your mind about it under any circumstances, ever.
Cam Sandwich because he became Scott the Wozz for board games
Every Rust-Tuber because I stopped playing Rust
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.
Have you read his book? If not good because it’ll kill some of your brain cells if you do. But there’s nothing inherently wrong with writing a bad book. Most writers first book won’t be great but shadow of the conquer has more problems than just being bad. In it the main character a former genocidal, mass murdering, serial rapist does nothing to redeem himself but gets forgiven anyhow by all the rape victims who got pregnant from the involuntary intercourse because they’re so happy with their kids.
It has some troubling attitudes towards a great many things (mainly women) and those attitudes are presented by the book as self evident and true. I find it very telling of the man who wrote it.
I’m disappointed that my fascination for sword staves came from his video, and he turned out to be a bigoted pro AI chud that is jealous of his own brother because his brother is reaping the hard work he put up as an artist
And poor Jezza the brother, just saw that his wife has breast cancer now. :(
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
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.
AVGN I guess, not because of any controversy but just because he has no passion to make videos and the quality is low and the videos are soulless
I agree.
I wonder if he’s tired of doing the AVGN character and wants to go on to something else, but he’s carved out too big a rut for anyone that supports him to want to support him as anything but The Nerd.
I haven’t checked his channel in a while, but I thought they did movie stuff occasionally (it is Cinemassacre after all!) and I thought for a minute they might lean more heavily into that since he seemed to have an equal passion for film as he did video games. I’d watch him just being himself nerding out on movies.
Onision and JonTron.
Onision turned out to be a pedo, and JonTron came to believe white people are a minority and other stupid racist shit.
Also GameTheory and all subsequent spinoffs once MatPat left, because despite him saying he was still gonna help out in the background, the shows all became wildly different and are very poorly researched and thought out now.
Shadiversity was a sword youtuber who would get into occasional e-drama, but still produced interesting content about medieval weaponry. Over time they started releasing pro-AI and culture war rants completely unrelated to their sword stuff. They had another channel that was more streamer/podcasty where they pandered to a right-wing crowd which I guess leaked over into their main channel.
CinemaSins - it just became cringe
Good Mythical Morning - too ‘producrd’ and they started doing gross shit
Mysterious Universe (YouTube and podcast) - They became rightwing antivax, anti-abortion, anti-mask, homophobic, transphobic, racist losers over the course of 2 years after COVID.
Donut. Its corporate sellout trend-chasing temu garbage and tiktok reaction algorithm bullshit now. I just hope Nolan and Justin leave and make new channels, because I really like them as hosts, but can’t bear to watch Donut.
Speeed and Big Time are pretty kick ass though.
Speeed turning into a variety and (non-toxic) advice for men channel wasn’t what I think anyone was expecting but it’s worked out great so far.
Big Time feels like they’ll surpass Donut’s peak eventually.
Agreed and agreed. It is nice seeing James with a broey non-toxic masculinity dude channel.
Don’t forget I Can Do That!
Whistlindiesel, I already was getting bad vibes from him when he started doing literal vigelante harassment of folks, when he did a video with cops, and his fawning over the Killdozer idiot. Wrapping a lambo in Trump shit was the most “last straw” last straw in history.
Jeff Geerling, over his past homophobic blog posts, such as: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617080935/https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2011/exodus-app-–-pulled-app-store
Can I get a link to the Jeff Geerling stuff?
A lot of his posts have been pulled from his blog so he at least doesn’t want people to know his thoughts anymore, but he’s never apologized.
He is a devout Catholic so assuming he has church aligned takes isn’t a bad call.
Opinions on Rape/Abortion
One must understand, as I have come to understand, that abortion is evil
Holy Christ Crackers, Batman.
The fact that he’s never repudiated this shit, and apologized for the harm he did, makes you heavily believe that he suppressed this stuff for his own financial and business interests, not because of an earnest change of heart.
I was never a Geerling guy, I watched a video or two at random just because I liked the Raspberry Pi before the pricing on it went loony toons, but Geerling now has the auspicious place of being a channel I actively go out of my way to avoid.
Oh man! Really? Ffs Jeff.
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
Should try out InRangeTV.
As for why? Let me post the first thing you see on their website.
"InRange is a media and community building project that is actively anti-racist, pro human liberation and LGBTQ+ rights. We cover firearms, history, and the sociological impact of these topics with a focus on empathy and humanity. We produce content on modern firearms, historical firearms, competition, training, education, and the social impacts of firearms, the good and the bad. "
He has never fought to preserve a bridge with bigoted, hate spreading assholes. In fact, he burns them like Sherman, and makes sure the public sees it in all its ugliness and glory.
I’ll vouch for this person. Did a brutality.
My only complaint about Karl is he seems a bit like an ass, but that might be a taste thing. Some people like an aggressive, yet well researched, video.
I dont know if I could say aggressive, so much as passionate… Though he can get aggressive against injustice and wrong doing.
but just because I view it one way, doesnt mean you can’t view it different way.
Did Forgotten Weapons ever get that way? I liked his historical backgrounds and detailed breakdown of the mechanics of the actions.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Ian touch on any political topic other than those directly pertinent to whatever he has on the bench in front of him at that exact moment, and even then he’s been 100% factual without appearing to insert any type of opinion into it. It’s really rather astonishing how he manages to do that so consistently especially given the nature of, well, all of his peers.
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.
Techmoan fell off for quite a bit when he got sick. He’s had some better stuff recently, now that he has a better outlook. YMMV
AvE… man I used to dig that guy… When he started going all public right during covid… I go back now and then to watch an episide but it’s just nothing redeeming enough to draw me in. He’s fine, he don’t need us anyway, he’s got enough in his camp.
I think boom should have kept on the electronics training. I still watch him now, but it’s for the travel videos, he’s pretty good at drone footage and going to places I can’t afford.
Oliver I never picked up on.
It pains me to say it, but I don’t watch any new AVGN episodes. James has gotten into that phase where he’s just a parody of himself now. In the old episodes, it seems like he GENUINELY gets angry at the games, but nowadays it’s very clear that he’s acting. His crude humor and angry rants just come off as obligatory and contrived now. The old episodes had a VIBE to them, like you’re in a dark basement playing games with a weird nerd. The new episodes just feel like a polished, scripted show. And I know James has to make money, but seeing the Nerd do an ad read is just too jarring. I hate it.
