The King of Random comes to mind. When Grant started to go crazy with liquid nitrogen videos it just went downhill for us curious DIYers. The new hosts didn't help at all and instead of showing creative and useful ideas and projects, it tuned into a TikTok style kiddies experiment churning machine.
Anyone noticed recent Linus O'Tech Tips thumbnails have him giving the same rictus-like grin of the Abomination (Mr Beast)?
Doesn't surprise me, Mr Beast recently posted that A/B testing showed that the classic open-mouth YouTuber Face thumbnails don't perform as well as the creepy dead smile does. Linus thinks Mr Beast is a YouTube Algorithm God (and should be president of the US!), so I'm sure he jumped on that.
Pretty sure he mentioned on WAN show a while back that those thumbs do much better for them when they trialled it initially.
A bunch of channels are doing the same now lol
@ericbomb I used to watch a YouTuber called Skip the Tutorial, and he would make these challenge run videos, such as Punch Out Wii without dodging. This later extended to modded Minecraft runs, and this led to the whole channel just becoming Minecraft trivia videos since these came out during a massive nostalgia boom for the game. Sometimes I look back to see if he’s made any more challenge runs, but nope.
Boo I love stupid challenge videos and feels like so many youtubers burn themselves out and so cut back to trash as a result.
Stupid algo that rewards garbage and won't reward creators who spend the time. Like they make a 30 minute video of talking and will get as much reach as a 20 minute video that took weeks of work. Like just to get their own subs to see their vids they have to play games, and the algo loves the trash.
It was gamegrumps for me. It started too feel to corpoare and not just 2 dudes on a couch. Censoring swearing removing numbers in episodes so you dont even know which order it is.
I seriously do not understand how removing numbers was a good idea. That, more than anything, was when I practically stopped watching altogether.
Probably some weird AB testing where it was found people don't like clicking on episode 107 of a long series because they don't know if it's something they need to start from the beginning of.
I hate it though when yt channels do that because they often reference previous or even spoil stuff in previous and I'm like... I had no way of knowing this was ahead of that!
Storror, a UK parkour collective. Amazingly talented, made an unbelievable documentary about doing parkour on the rooftops of Asia. I still watch every week but they've done parkour like once in the last 3 months. Everything else is
Then there are "water challenges", ie fairly easy jumps but you fall in a canal if you miss. One guy already had a career ending injury doing this and is now a camera man, another hurt himself badly and you can tell he's lost patience with it.
I never heard of them and pulled up the channel... that's a lot of circles and arrows pointing at things.
Even the best soldiers can fall to click bait.
It's sad because they're capable of so much!
Oof, I blame youtube. They pay jack all on videos like that, even with 15 million views. The price is anywhere $1,200 to $6,000 per million views, based on view length. A short video like that probably was on the lower side in pay, but the time investment probably was immense. The practice, the planning, the editing, the probably hours of parkour that was cut, just the travel and flights alone...
Compared to them just going up a weird tent thing that is padded with 20 minutes of them reacting, and I'm going to "bet" has some sort of ad/product placement.
youtube was dead to me when they introduced the custom thumbnail. fundamentally anti-user move, designed entirely to let people obscure the actual contents of their video with photoshopped soyfaced slop
There are web extensions to use a random frame instead
H3h3
How about the ones that seem to have just fucking quit? Barely Sociable popped up, produced a bunch of pretty cool videos, and has just fucking disappeared. Same with Fredrick Knudsen or however you spell the name of the "Down The Rabbit Hole" guy. Apparently some noise about making a 5 hour video followed by months of radio silence. Like my dude...break that up into parts.
I follow a channel called MightyCarMods that recently bought into a trend of cheap vs expensive parts, but it seems like it was just something they tried because they've gone back to their old format of multi part car builds
Every YouTuber who starts catering to 10-15yos.
Enterelysium used to be one of my favourite youtubers for playing stuff like From the Depths but he lost his way to the algorithm and now just seems to play whatevers new and trending.
there was 1 youtuber who discussed things that i struggled with and made the information very relatable, and i was able to do them/overcome my emotional block. now all she posts are videos about tv shows :(((
Or worse, your favorite channel gets bought by someone else and they turn it into something COMPLETELY different. Always hurts a little unsubscribing at that point, but what ya gonna do!
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