Sounds ridiculous, but somewhat recently stopped watching Jabo cause he started censoring his videos. I can’t stand it, I’m well into my 30s and you can say fuck on the Internet. I get pandering to the algorithm, but it is jarring when every other sentence has a bleep in it
Jabo, the guy that does the fallout videos?
Literally any and all of them. I dropped Google services in 2017.
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.
Best Ever Food Review Show. I was a fan and really enjoyed the content, then they hosted Joe Rogan. I left and never looked back. Fuck Joe Rogan.
Basically, all of them, sort of, not really. I use Invidious to not contribute to the money much. It’s peak entertainment watching the engineering tubers (ALL of them) do nothing related to the video for half of it, most of which is mostly spent shilling corporations.
Can’t think of anyone i dropped for a specific reason since Roosterteeth/Ryan Heywood. I never really dropped AvE even with his dumb conservative shit because he was always a moron and was up front about it. I guess i will not though because I didnt know he want as cookoo as full magat, but i can see how he’d turn that way.
Idk I saw roosterteeth going toxic for a while and got much more sparing with my subscriptions back then. I’ll always shout out Ray Narvaez Jr. And his lovely wife Tina for being some of the best on YouTube for a long time now. Honorary mention to Matt, Chibi, and Nagzz to round out the pissboy crew.
Can’t think of anyone i dropped for a specific reason since Roosterteeth/Ryan Heywood.
Honestly Roosterteeth was vile long before the Ryan incident. They had a serious, vile problem with racism behind the scenes (and if you listen to earlier content and hear about how they talk about gavin and how hes a different person on camera and how he was a piece of shit, and if he was like he was off camera they’d have to censor everything makes me seriously believe he was a big part of the racism), and I wager the racism problem never went away… there was just effort put in to hiding it and not rubbing the black members faces in it, like they did with Mica and her just walking into the office one day to find the N word sprawled in massive letters across a whiteboard.
Roosterteeth in general also had a major problem with exploiting fans for free labor. Which got even worse during their attempt to be an animation studio and basically expecting low/unpaid fans to sleep under their desks and work 18 hours a day in perpetual never ending crunch.
Honestly I think they were all pieces of shit, some worse, some less, but all pieces of shit… Except Ray. Ray seemed like the only actually decent person there… Which is probably why he was the first one to GTFO
and I believe, to this day, that all the Achievement Hunter crew knew what Ryan was doing, because they loooooved to make comments and jokes about what Ryan was doing staying behind a day or two after everyone headed home from a location shoot. . . jokes and comments that disappeared from videos suspiciously quickly when the shit with ryan came out… as if they had time stamps for them and could quickly cut them when the time came.
Armoured Skeptic, because he just became a talking nut job once he got into that beef with Logicked. Also appears to have gotten worse since losing ShoeOnHead.
danooct1, good channel but has stopped making new videos again.
Good Mythical Morning. I got tired of them always covering food. I know good mythical more has more range but I got burned out first before bothering. Oh and Stevie left recently.
I really liked Kyle Hill until he started spouting Rationalist bullshit and advocating the views of Eliezer Yudkowsky. He did a video on Rocco’s Basilisk and I dropped his channel.
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.
Any that use AI/LLMs.
So Hank Green most recently?
That one Canadian dude who says chooch and doll hairs a lot because he started showing his trumpy conservative side and it got weird.
AvE, I had the same experience. Disappointing
Pretty recently I stopped watching Oneyplays. They were a Let’s Play/comedy channel in the same vain as Game Grumps and TheRunawayGuys, and they got me through some really hard times including COVID.
They were always kind of risque, but I assumed they knew their jokes were edgy, and not to be said in the real world. (to be fair, that is true with a lot of the old members)
For the last year or two though, most of the best members have left or aren’t on half as much as they used to be, and they’ve been doubling down on their controversial jokes. Everything’s “cuck this, soy that, estrogen the other” and half the “jokes” are just homophobic and racial slurs that they have to censor out afterwards. Even if you have a thick skin to that kind of stuff, it’s just so repetitive and unfunny now.
A few I’ve watched got outed as creeps or predators (Wilbur Soot, Exurb1a, + a couple others I can’t remember)
There was one space news channel I watched who’s name I can’t remember now (he even showed up in one of Everyday Astronaut’s live streams at one point years ago iirc) who turned out to be MAGA and started making videos about how “nAsA iS aCtUaLlY cOmMuNiSt”
My most recent unsub was Brodie Robertson, he was apparently caught sharing loli images in a discord server or something. Apparently the guy who called him out for it is some alt-right grifter, but Brodie’s defence amounted to “it’s just drawings bro”
I’ve been watching YouTube as my main source of entertainment for 15+ years so there are countless creators who’s content I’ve just lost interest in too.
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.
I followed a couple but I dropped them all about five because parasocial relationships aren’t healthy for anyone.
