Marquez Brownlee. I lost trust in his sincerity and in his personal life he’s an asshole with multiple speeding offenses.
Unbox therapy. Infomercials. The whole influencer thing does not influence me.
The Young Turks.
It was annoying me for a while but I had been a paid member for years and watched their whole show every day. I noticed them giving a bit too much ground to the right and Anna swinging too right for my taste but Cenk was still left enough to let it pass.
I don’t remember what finally convinced me but my yearly subscription was coming up and I just couldn’t see myself watching it anymore so I unsubscribed and cut off my membership.
I pay for The Majority Report, The Humanist Report, and Kyle Kulinski and those are people I don’t think will be betraying the left.
Mark Rober: I don’t want my views converted to money that goes to the Mormon cult.
I click “Don’t recommend channel” whenever I detect bullshit, like if the word “banned” is in the title. Those are never about anything that was actually banned.
Game Grumps, because
Nah, nevermind. Those guys are awesome.
Crazy Russian Hacker/Taras Kul, videos were really explaining science in an interesting and funny way but now seem like TeleShopping but for useless items.
VSauce, all three of them. They were peak YouTube way back when, but there was this long pause in videos shortly after they built their big studio, and VSauce 1 started focusing entirely on shorts about uninteresting things and VSauce 3 stopped making videos entirely. 1 and 2 are kinda back at making videos, but their quality jumped off a cliff. Feels like they’re making videos out of obligation.
MxR Mods. Two reasons for this, firstly is that I kinda stopped playing Skyrim. The other being that he started focusing almost entirely on lewd mods.
Kurtzhezacht, because their political stance became more and more apparent (billionaires will save the future).
I feel like an alien in these comments.
I… “subscribe” to YouTubers. But I watch videos à la carte, only if the subject seems interesting.
I don’t follow them.
I sympathize when they open up about personal stuff mid-video, but that aside I have zero interest in their lives/feed. Why should I? I don’t have a relationship with them.
So I never had the chance to drop any because I don’t follow them in the first place.
…Is this a neurodivergence thing?
I feel like it is.
The Gaming Historian - he stopped making videos (good for him to stop before it became a chore)
The Escapist - everyone left for Second Wind after they tried to lay off people
All of them because youtube blows
Meidas Touch. Clickbait headlines and thumbnails, unrealistically optimistic takes on things. I want information, not bullshit.
Lewis Rossman.
I have no valid reason for this. I fundamentally agree with the guy on most things for the dozen or so vids I have seen. Right to repair etc etc.
But something about him just comes across as entitled and annoying. Like even if I knew the was right I would want to disagree with him.
Pewdiepie, after all the controversies it just pushed us away as we weren’t really comfortable with that even though he was our childhood and got us through a lot. Recently he became more of a family vibe vlogger and personal video stuff which we found really interesting and thought to give him another shot but then he made a server to run ai… Expected brofist fun vibe, instead we got a browhatthefuck?? And it hasn’t been the same. Watch some just for the morbid curiosity but actually started watching Jack septic eye and mariner’s game plays and while they don’t hit as good as the good old days, they’re fine to have in the background or for a game we want to watch but can’t play due to oof brain or not having money for it.
Flesh Simulator gave off subtle vibes of being kind of a chud, but he made interesting videos; then he partnered with MDE and put longform content behind a paywall there. I am not giving money to MDE, so MDE can give it to Sam Hyde, so Sam Hyde can give it to neo-nazis, no matter how good the content is; and the fact he defends this at all (and still does, to my knowledge) was enough for me to say “nah let’s just watch someone else”
CinemaSins - it just became cringe
Good Mythical Morning - too ‘producrd’ and they started doing gross shit
Mysterious Universe (YouTube and podcast) - They became rightwing antivax, anti-abortion, anti-mask, homophobic, transphobic, racist losers over the course of 2 years after COVID.
