And why did you stop watching them?
Tobuscus was goat but then he got accused of something by his ex or whatever, never cared much about it, but he disappeared and now he just writes books or something. He was one of the old school GOATs next to MatPat, Markiplier, ERB. Sadly missed.
Safety Torch was my childhood
@zachimusprime44 RelaxAlax and ProJared. Sure, they both came with rather flimsy reasons to state that the allegations against them were apparently false, but I didn’t buy them.
I was a Nas Daily fan back then. I just got bored of him over time, not to mention how insanely corporate his videos feel now.
DrLupo. I watched him a bunch when he was on twitch, but he got kinda arrogant and negative over the years. Now I watch the people he used to play with before he changed 🤷♂️
LTT due to their amount of scandals
Breaking points, their geopolitical analysis is out right misinformation
Who do you watch now? I thought Breaking Points was ok.
I’ve been watching Majority Report with Sam Seder. Watched Breaking points since they were on the Rising with The Hill. Something just started to slowly change with them when they broke off. There’s the constant Ad’s (which is understandable, but was excessive), segments hidden behind a paywall, personalities started to change after surgery then Kyle Kulinski got heavily into the mix including romantically. I don’t know, just seemed the show started to take over the lives of the hosts, Sam and Emma have been a breathe of fresh air on Majority (even when Emma drinks a little too much lol). The show is their job and Sam is pretty professional, decent daily live show with clips of segments also being uploaded.
Kinda moved away from milenial political talking heads after them.
They turned out same shit as boomer teeveee jisr packaged for modern audience.
Fediverse comment section under fake new articles provides better coverage imho.
Any good examples off the top of your head?
Stopped watching after early ukriane war coverage.
Binging with babish. I am still subscribed but I find myself interested in fewer and fewer videos. The channel started as recreating meals from tv shows and still is that to an extent but naturally he’s run low on things to do. They’ve added other aspects that I just don’t care for like anime with Alvin. I just don’t watch much anime. I also feel like there is just less content.
Another is Joshua Weissman who used to do fermenting videos and curing etc. Now I feel like I just watch him make some bread buns and then he makes a sandwich. He’s made 100 burgers by now. Who cares. I enjoyed some other series he did like “but faster” or “but cheaper” but they always seem to end after a few episodes and he moves onto something else. I feel like I learn stuff from his videos but just when I’m getting a feel for a topic like fermenting he moves on.
When I was doing the cliche sourdough deep dive during the height of covid lockdown, I really enjoyed Joshua Weissman’s videos about it. He was a little silly and very informative.
Everything I’ve seen in the past couple years have been off putting. He tries WAY too hard to be ‘funny’ and it just comes off as smarmy.
Hoovie’s garage and Tavarish. Both had good channels fixing cars and then they went off the broken supercar deep end, then wound up with the Car Stories channel and decided to rip off the Top Gear format of doing stupid, obviously scripted adventures.
Nobody gives a crap about fixing a completely unattainable car or re-living the demise of Top Gear.
hear hear
Direwolf20, he was mean to the kid
I’m OOTL; what happened with Direwolf20?
Forget the younger guy’s name. Erno? Anyway, I didn’t know if anything actually bad happened, just normal meanness on camera played off as humor.
TheModernRogue about the time Jason left. Just lost its charm.
The Modern Rogue certainly had a heyday. Past tense.
Jason left the Modem Rogue??
Something kind of ironic, is that a lot of the YouTube channels I used to watch have at some point had some pretty terrible things come out about them, mostly after I had already stopped watching them. Boogie2988, Mini Ladd, GeePM and Rooster Teeth are some of the ones I can remember.
For Boogie and Mini Ladd, I don’t remember the specific reason I stopped watching them but I do know that I stopped watching them well before all of the information about them was released.
For Rooster Teeth, there was only two things I watched them for and that was Fails of the Week, which they silently canceled and never gave a reason why, and the other was RWBY which they decided to move it from YouTube to their own website which was so terrible that the episodes would have severe buffering issues at 240p. I don’t remember what the last volume was that I watched but I know I never watched everything.
For GeePM, I watched him pretty much up until the day when he tried to cancel Vinny (Vinesause). In response, people were quick to bring out information about some pretty terrible things that GeePM was doing behind the scenes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a YouTuber just completely vanish from the internet that quickly.
I know for sure that there are more but those are the ones I remember the most and think they are the most notable.
What terrible thing came out about Rooster Teeth?
There was a few things, I can’t remember all of the details but here’s what I remember:
The CEO was arrested for abusing his wife.
I’ve forgotten who but I know one of their content creators was accused of either grooming or at least having inappropriate conversations with a or potentially multiple minors.
There were also staff members who alleged that there was a toxic work environment. I don’t remember if it was misogyny, racism or both.
Then there were allegations that the team that worked on RWBY were severely underpaid, with most of them not getting paid at all.
Just mentioning this here because I literally can’t see @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org’s comment while signed in and hoping they’ll see this.
Duke, you’ve accidentally mislabelled all your comments as being in German. This has the effect that anybody whose account is set to say which languages they speak, but hasn’t included German in that list, won’t be able to see your comments.
On Jerboa it shows up saying “There is no record of this comment”
On lemmy-ui (the default web UI) it’s way worse: it doesn’t show your comments, and it doesn’t show any replies to you either. It shows a “load more replies” button, which spins for a couple of seconds before failing and still showing the load more button when you click it.
Urgh that’s annoying. I am using Voyager and can’t even choose the language of the comment.
Ha. Thanks to the user tag I can see this one from my inbox but if I click through…nothing.
Anyway, that’s unfortunate. Is Voyager being actively developed still, and are the devs responsive to feedback? May be worth filing a bug report with them if so.
Same on my end, that’s why I included it :D
Afaik Voyager is still being developed yes. However I was also unable to change the language of the comment in Jerboa. I can change my general language in the web ui tho. Urgh. No idea.
I’ve forgotten who but I know one of their content creators was accused of either grooming or at least having inappropriate conversations with a or potentially multiple minors.
James Ryan Haywood did some penis crimes at Rooster Teeth conventions. Basically a dozen variations on “not technically rape.” With fans, of questionable age, on the company dime. As soon as credible accusations arose, his ass was gone, and the rest of Achievement Hunter had exactly one emotional-and-drunk livestream to say they were never going to acknowledge him for the rest of their lives.
His whole personality on-camera and in-game turns out to be really close to how he sincerely acts and thinks. He was not playing a heel.
I had completely forgotten how bad it was. I’ll edit my previous comment to fix that error.
I don’t think an edit was necessary, but if you’re gonna edit it, he committed sexual assault against multiple probably-legal-at-the-time fans.
Shane Dawson
Used to religiously watch a guy that played the same video game I was into. He was incredibly good at it, well-known in the game’s community, did how-to guides, build guides, super nice, just wanted everyone to have a good time, wanted everyone to excel in the game, good-natured, just an all-around awesome dude, etc.
Then I dunno wtf happened, but 9 years later he’s become a total fucking elitist asshole who does nothing but complain about the game and the gaming studio, doesn’t seem to give a shit about the little guy just trying to learn the game anymore, it’s like he did a 180 in personality and now has a “git gud” mentality. He made a video of him declaring that he was leaving the game, and he did, for like a month, then promptly returned once his viewership clearly went down. I unsubscribed at that point. He became a total whinebox bitch and I lost all respect for him.
Dr. Disrespect?
True Vanguard
Sounds like a Rust YouTuber.
I watched RocketBoom until suddenly they ran out of money. I don’t know what happened but it seemed like they were on the up and up. They even did videos with Sesame Street. If that isn’t a solid endorsement…
Then one day it was announced it was over.
Man I haven’t heard the name RocketBoom in so long. Wonder what ever happened to MeMe Molly?
Forgotten Weapons: Used to have videos on very cool old guns with interesting historical backgrounds and whatever. Then he made a series of selfish decisions that demonstrated what kind of person he really was, and I no longer had any interest even helping him through the algorithm.
made a series of selfish decisions that demonstrated what kind of person he really was
What’d he do? I also used to watch that channel some time ago, but just kinda ran out of interest and stopped. Seems like I’ve missed something important
Off the top of my head:
-Sold a bunch of merch that was comically oversized and left everyone stuck with unusable product.
-Tried to arrange a deal under the table on an auction gun he got a look at before it went up.
-Doesn’t help his teammates reset stages when at a shooting competition.
-Failed to stand up for Karl when ARFCOM was making up lies about him.
-Failed to give IRTV credit for organizing a 2GAC match, when that’s basically the only request they make for media.
-Took on Lucas Botkin as a sponsor.
-Copy-pasted brutality rules for his own spin-off match after falling out with Karl, and doing such a poor job he left in references to the venue or IRTV (I can’t remember which).
-When asked why he was selling merch with a picture of himself that he hated, shrugged and said “money.”
-Treats his wife more like “the help.”
-Generally just thinks he’s better than you and you don’t deserve his respect.
-Abuses copyright takedown requests.
-Removes comments critical of him on his YouTube channel but claims doing so for other people was not possible (Karl, when ARFCOM happened).
-Has expressed deep distain for his own audience.There’s more but that’s all I can remember right now.
Edit: I should say that he’s generally pretty good at keeping this stuff out of the public eye, these are mostly only things you hear if you know the right people.
Thank you for the information!
I am sad to read this, his channel is so nice because he presents firearms calmly snd friendly.
I stopped watching the channel when he started doing a lot of gun matches instead of talking about the mechanics of guns.
I did wonder why IRTV seemed to just fade away, sad to hear about the falling out.
Like all people in media, his on screen persona is just a character, sad to hear that he is a dick outside of the camera.
Yeah, sucks doesn’t it?
He’s had to fill in with match footage because he lost access to the auction house guns after trying to set up that deal. He has access to a lot fewer old firearms these days.
Karl is still making videos, but Ian is not a part of IRTV anymore.
That explains so much, I have been wondering why Ian suddenly started talking about more modern and common guns, but never saw the drama.
Thank you for filling in the gaps.
