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[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow 176 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LTT is just an apology video channel now

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't come to the comments to be hurt like this.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

Which leads me to our sponsor Raycon. You'll be hurting if you dont use our promptional code LTTSorryNotSorry.

[–] ericbomb 20 points 1 year ago

"What do we do now?"

"Here's the plan"

I'll pour one out for you friend.

[–] rockSlayer 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they do another one for the Madison accusations? Was it on the same level as the other one?

[–] beetus 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. They are back to their regularly scheduled programming. Their recent apology videos aren't even in their top25 most viewed

[–] MooseBoys 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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!”

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So glad I'm not the only one who noticed. Curious if I just became hyper aware of his methods, or if he changed his video style.

The whole light second long cord switching on a light with a delay was super scummy. Milked that "controversy" for months.

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[–] Arthur_Leywin 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

???? His recent videos have been nothing but great. His knot, IQ, Oppenheimer, entropy, and maze solving videos (and more) are all recent and amazing videos. What's your criticism against him?

[–] Hans5958 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think the problem here is that Veritasium these days now covers popular (possibly overrated) science-y topics rather than actually interesting (but not so popular) science content to stay on the radar. It's about the covered topic, not the quality.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I buried myself in cement

He completely watersealed his skin a few years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ericbomb 30 points 1 year ago

And of course head of youtube did youtube things. "Cute kid video" costs pennies on the dollar compared to capturing and editing wild life videos. So even if they got a measly 10% of the views they probably saw it as good business.

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[–] assassin_aragorn 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and not abandoned what he does best

Super Mario 2?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] SpermGoobler 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I stopped watching after I met him at a convention one time.

I tried to say that I was a fan but every time I opened my mouth he just said 'HUH? HUH?' over and over, before he grabbed my Nintendo Labo keyboard, threw it on the ground and stamped on it a bunch of times.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Said he had to stomp each key individually, to prevent electrical "infetterence." I don't even think that's a word.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] ClaireDeLuna 13 points 1 year ago

The only reason shit like that even succeeds is probably because people put on live streams as background noise

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] 3ntranced 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's at its worst now imo. He plays the algorithm so that you can't get the video concept in the preview. You have to click the vid, sit through the ads(unless adblock), and then he spends 2 minutes doing his lead up just making goofy words up to describe the topic to delay mentioning what happened.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Joshua Weissman for me... But I found Anti-Chef and he more than makes up for it! Edit: a word

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] TheOnlyMego 17 points 1 year ago

I guarantee you ZFG doesn't give a single shit about "the algorithm" - he's always played games that he wants to play, which is usually every Zelda release, Mario Kart, Smash, and Pokemon. His only two concerns are going fast and having fun.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] CrayonRosary 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Syrc 18 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Sabine the science channel

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[–] x4740N 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it sucks but its clear enough of the "original" audience stuck around. Growth is important and only appealing to your og audience is a sentence for death if you are trying to make being an influencer a job. There is a reason why many influencers have to diversify even when they originally were primarily making videos of a single game because once that game popularity starts to drop, their audience is all they have and people simply "age out" of content and there is nothing wrong with that. Hell this isn't only to influencers but to most products.

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[–] calypsopub 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] RIP_Cheems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] ericbomb 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Don't worry friend, surely the low effort high viewer ship format won't encourage him to spam his channel with it!...

sweats nervously

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[–] Thranduil 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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