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The one that disappointed me the most was kliksphilip. I would've been able to move past the Hogwarts Legacy shit for simply being an ignorant normie, but what he said about Brianna Ghey was truly unforgivable.
NEVER look up what any of those Minecraft youtubers are up to today.
They either turn out to be really wholesome people, or absolute pieces of shit with little in between.
I actually just had this happen today but it kinda went the other way. I just realized that the Curry Barker behind the new horror film Obsession was the same guy behind one of my favorite YouTube channels, so I actually got a good reminder instead of a bad one.
It always seems to be the comedians who make the best horror
So true, the more it happens the more I have been thinking the approaches used writing the absurd and the horrific must have a ton of overlap.
I also think it's the sort of person both fields attract. Comics are often cynical and edgy while still having a lot of empathy for people, which is a really helpful perspective for writing great horror.
I swear tg if Moist Critikal ever does something cancel-worthy, I'm leaving the internet for good.
Don't worship people? ╮(︶▽︶)╭
My situation is crazy
What has he been up to lately? I dropped off after the weed game series ended
The STEAM, arts & crafts bit of YouTube has kinda remained the same in most cases or even gotten better. Think of any creator that would go to Open Sauce and they're likely still as good as you remember.
I watch a lot of arts and crafts YouTubers and my kids love anyone doing wacky engineering projects. I’ve been disappointed by Mark Rober’s trajectory though. He was always a bit of a bro, but it’s ramped up big time and he seems to be more focused on flair and less on the engineering.
That's true, Mark Rober is kinda the "Mr. Beast" of the wacky engineering community
Ben Krasnow of AppliedScience is still going strong and has yet to be revealed as an asshole - same for the WellTheresYourProblem crew, Jenny Nicholson, Hbomberguy, OutOfDarts... Im sure theres more, but there's a few if folks are looking for recs!
Is this a reference to YouTube trends or Google ai search
Neither. It's a reference to a creator I used to watch in high school having some truly wild takes now.
I bet it was Ethan
Fucker has been acting like a paid shill for Israel for 3 years now.
I mean, I've never seen a single person wearing Teddy Fresh in the US. Are all their "orders" being made from Israel?
I hope it wasn't a huge amount of money riding on that bet. I don't know who that is.
Out of curiosity, who is it actually?
It was Moviebob. After leaving the Escapist he's become... let's use the word "unpleasant".
H3h3, but it’s probably for the best
I know of his more recent fuckery, but wasn't he always a bit of a problem child of YouTube? Maybe I'm misremembering.
He got a lot of good will for being on the right side of a fair use lawsuit back in the day, and gained more credibility after distancing himself from his edgy past. He was in enough with the left to start a podcast with leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Unfortunately for him, the podcast only radicalized a lot of his community, so when he got into a fight with Hasan over Israel and associating with tankies, most of the viewers took Hasan's side. He spiralled from there into the litigious monster he is today.
If you start a YouTube channel where you find decent sized rocks outside you can sand them down into a smooth dick shape and sell them to hippies as all natural hand crafted dildos for like 1450 bucks a piece.
Rock Hard Dildos Incorporated, LLC, GmbH
Did I hear a Cock and Bone?
They're called "lingams" tyvm
My longest subscribed channel, Nerd3, has somehow remained almost the exact same channel for over a decade. I don’t know how he does it.
Because he leaned heavily into Patreon to fund his channel, and now makes content that he wants instead of content to feed the algorithm. Been following him for over a decade and was more than happy to throw him a dollar
Same for his friend Ashens. Which reminds me, their Xmas Advent calendar collabs are my favorite part of the holidays now.
Probably the same way SteveMRE1983 does - finding a niche and having no need to "spice it up for modern audiences".
Nice!
Game Sack!
That shit has been solid for over a decade
Haven't watched him in years and I immediately heard 'hello Internet' in my head reading that
Mandy and Sseth are basically the same (the former more than the latter, Sseth is markedly more stable now) and have also stayed relevant for a decade or so in the adult gaming "subculture". And thank God for that. Charlie (penguinz) fell off like half a decade (EDIT: actually, over a decade ago, I'm just in my 30s so time is starting to mesh) ago at least, but he seems to be a nice and overall normal dude so I wish him the best even if I no longer find him entertaining. 🙏
My problem with Penguin0 is that he's an outrage junkie.
Anytime there's even a morsel of drama, he's got a video out for it within 30 minutes.
And there is a possibility that one of his videos ended up getting the pedophile lead singer of the lost prophets killed in prison, or at least contributed to the awareness of the situation for the prisoner that killed him.
And he seems rather chuffed at that.
I cannot remember a single video he made that has actually been good and worth watching that wasn't him clowning on somebody for being a piece of shit.
I'm just surprised he hasn't gone full chud, which is kinda impressive given his niche. He must be good at not getting radicalized by some single issue crusade like so many similar influencers.
Ah shit, I didn't know about any of it, I haven't even been subscribed ever since he started posting videos showing his face. Slightly disappointing, NGL. Believe it or not, he used to host a silly, short-form, gaming commentary channel, kinda like Dunkey (another one I used to watch almost religiously but he's now a husband and a father so he gets a pass, lol) but slightly less autistic. I still remember the Happy Wheels, Mr. President and Safety Driving series... and a quick YT check showed me those videos are at least 11 years old. 🥲
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