Lol, totally agree about Techmoan, AvE and Electroboom. I hadn’t thought of why I’ve not watched them in forever but I think you hit the nail on the head.

Colin Furze is another I think fits into this, when all his stuff was janky and sketchy as all hell, like a attaching a pulse jet hydroformed using a pressure washer to a bike, great, loved it. It was really like he just thought something would be fun and made it with the tools he had. But ever since he got a youtube series everything started getting less janky and more properly thought out. All the things were bizarre contrived contraptions that have no use and made using fancy CNC machines, expensive specialty parts and he even has time to make fancy decorations for it all now rather than looking janky by design. Or otherwise hes digging under his house again and I’m just not interested.

“Woke brigade” - go on, do elaborate