Veritasium. Sold out to private equity.
Sabine Hossenfelder, after she went full anti-science, like “and you can trust me because i am a scientist, but not like those other scientists.”
I think i stopped watching when she read a fake email to the camera.
Linus …
LTT. Linus is a whiny out of touch git and all the good content creators have already left
Essential Craftsman - he’s an older guy who knows a hell of a lot about carpentry and blacksmith work. He dedicated a ep. to Charlie Kirk I felt like finding our my favorite uncle was in the klan. Noped the hell out of his channel as did a lot of others.
I ditch anyone who inserts a bible verse or anything similar into their videos
Or if I find out that they are a conservative
Mike Rowe gave a platform to JD fucking Vance to spew his nazi bullshit.
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.
I used to watch a lot of fishing/outdoors channels.
during covid all but one of the outdoor channels I watched either did straight up covid denial, or went full mask off on their right wing extremism in general and with crazy conspiracy theories about covid, so I dropped them.
I also dropped bigclive around the same time, because he thought people getting sick from vaping was, iirc, some kind of government hoax or something, while also engaging in the whole “covids just the cold, stop being silly” type of denialism, Which really sucked cause I used to love his content… but I havent watched since.
No mentions of MKBHD. Guy had decent reviews of tech stuff, but decides to be a corporative, carfluencing, reckless driving sellout.
i dropped Mark Roper when he said he loves his Tesla and plans on buying another. I just can’t deal with Nazi fanboys.
Renaissance Periodation. He kept suggesting to his viewers that we should check his facts against Chatgpt. His sex jokes got boring and repetitive.
Mostly, i drop a youtuber when i get bored with their content.
Joshua Weissman, he used to have some good cooking content but it got too brain rotted for me.
Similarly I almost dropped Binging with Babish, but he started a new channel for his non-BWB content and actually put up a classic-style video recently!
I never saw Weissman’s supposed glory days, but I did hear people talk about him and checked him out and found him insufferable.
I also dropped Babish, I just got tired of the slop content and the overall drop in quality.
I genuinely think cooking channels have a finite lifespan, because theres only so much you can cook before your audience basically has all the cooking knowledge they need to do everything.
I genuinely think cooking channels have a finite lifespan, because theres only so much you can cook before your audience basically has all the cooking knowledge they need to do everything.
Chef John from Foodwishes has basically kept the same style and Dad joke humour for ages and he is still pumping good stuff weekly
I used to not be able to deal with Chef John’s voice inflections, but after enough times, I started to find it soothing. Great, straightforward, no nonsense videos. I haven’t tuned into him for a bit, not for any particular reason, but he is a classic.
His delivery is definitely an acquired taste. And as ALwayyyys… ENjoyyyyy.
He was BAD early on with it, he’s calmed it down a LOT. That said, the man has never released a recipe on there that wasn’t an absolute BANGER. Everytime he checks all the right boxes for the fam, I cook it and get rave reviews.
I agree. Everything I’ve made of his has been great.
Chef John was there when YouTube began.
He will be there when Google pulls the plug.
100 percent. There’s too much potential food for a food channel to ever run dry of content. Only personalities and gimmicks run their course.
Chef John is purely videos of recipes. He never did 40 minute episodes about which salt is the best.
Alton brown came back for another round, his new take: here what I did before and this is why it was wrong.
I’m actually down for one more ride there.
He’s slowed to the point of years passing between videos (last one was 2 years ago now), but Jacques Pepin is still making new ones (I hope) 😔
I used to watch Cowboy Kent Rollins a lot +2 years ago. Great cooking outdoors channel with a family vibe, and his dogs “helping” cooking, with a little bit of history thrown in. Then his content shifted to less of that and more long form podcasts, which I don’t do on youtube cuz idgaf about everyone having a podcast now.
Even professional chefs learn new recipes on a fairly frequent basis. You can’t run out of content on a cooking channel.
while there may be near infinite variety in the recipes themselves, theres only so many times you can sit down and watch someone make a soup, or a roast, or a casserole, or what have you, regardless if they have 30,000 different recipes for each.
Ethan Chlebowski has many very good science and subjective testing based videos. Without any bullshit added in, except maybe his new website and app.
Today I’m going to eat 9 different versions of vinegar and talk about why pickles are great…
Same with Weissman. I did drop Babish entirely, though, and don’t feel like I’m missing anything not adding him back.
I dropped Babish when he bought his brother the car. Don’t feel like I missed out since then.
I miss early weissman…now his head up his ass. I enjoyed living in his cupboard.
He has a new channel called Joshua Weissman recipes, which follows a similar format to his early days (including the cupboard bit). But recently he did a poll about doing a “but better” series on this channel, where 90% said yes. I’m just concerned that this channel might also go down the same path.
Yes exactly for both of them. Babish is still kinda okish but Joshua feels like I’m watching AI.
If you want pure cooking, Alton Brown has been posting weekly on Saturday’s. Good eats style.
Alton Brown’s new show is hitting just like I needed it to.
Yep been watching and loving Alton for years.
Alton got me into cooking. Hes brilliant. Can be a bit… big and exuberant at times, but all around excellent guy.
So many good cooking YouTube channels. “America’s test kitchen” tend to be excellent, with a wide range of topics. I’m a big fan of “Aaron and Claire” for his breezy, chill takes on Korean fusion.
“Not another cooking show” does amazing recipes out of the NYC cooking scence, and of course the champ, “J. Kenji lopez-alt,” of serious eats fame, just cooking every damn thing the PNW has to offer.
ATK is fantastic!
Lan Lam is a particular standout with her fantastic technique breakdowns.
I checked out on Brown during COVID when he went on one of his political/mask rants and I just couldn’t deal with his right wing bent anymore.
I love his old stuff, but even that doesn’t really draw me in like it used to.
Literally reruns with lower production value.
Real nostalgia-jerk, though.
I left Weissman on sub, but I skipped a lot of his shit. When he draws in othe chefs to fuck with recipes, i’m cool with it and his last one of going to casa bonita and other crazy ass places was more entertaining that it should have been.
fuck I feel this. I used to watch Joshua Weissman videos ALL the time. Then he went from cooking content in his apartment or whatever, got a little popular, wrote a cookbook, and sold out. Now all his content is crappy click baity I ate all the chicken nuggets in Texas so you don’t have to. Such low hanging content is worthless to me.
I block any channel as soon as AI slop creeps into their visuals or their scripts. Sometimes I’ll do it even if they use AI slop in their thumbnails. I’m just sick to death of AI slop. Fucking HATE the aesthetics of it.
AvE - got introduced him just before he decided to start talking positively about MAGA and the similar Canadian trucker protests. Plenty of other people out there doing teardown my videos, so I bailed.
Rose Anvil - loved his work boot teardowns, but he gradually started promoting his own collabs and seemed to favor certain brands even if they were doing things he called shoddy in other brands. Then he started doing a lot with Jim Green boots in South Africa and making a lot of comments that felt pro-Rhodesia to me and started giving me the ick for watching.
Forgotten Weapons I still watch if there is something of particular interest to me. I used to watch every one, but as the country got more MAGA invested and gun culture felt like it was becoming more toxic than usual, I wasn’t happy with Ian staying neutral. If he’s worried about losing viewers and connections with gun manufacturers, I get that, but I also don’t have to like it or support it.
Kurzgesagt: their video some time ago about current state of the world in terms of conflicts and violent deaths was disgusting. It was an apology to do nothing about the genocides occurring in the tone of “OH these things always have happened don’t be sad :))”
