I didn't come to the comments to be hurt like this.

Did they do another one for the Madison accusations? Was it on the same level as the other one?

So glad I'm not the only one who noticed. Curious if I just became hyper aware of his methods, or if he changed his video style.

The whole light second long cord switching on a light with a delay was super scummy. Milked that "controversy" for months.

???? His recent videos have been nothing but great. His knot, IQ, Oppenheimer, entropy, and maze solving videos (and more) are all recent and amazing videos. What's your criticism against him?

I buried myself in cement

He completely watersealed his skin a few years ago.

I think you overly critical of him. His content is still good, and the video you mentioned is called "I buried myself in cement to explain how it works", and even if you dislike this one, it's one of many

That's just the thumb, the content itself is still the same.

And of course head of youtube did youtube things. "Cute kid video" costs pennies on the dollar compared to capturing and editing wild life videos. So even if they got a measly 10% of the views they probably saw it as good business.

Is the channel you're talking about SaveAFox?

and not abandoned what he does best

Super Mario 2?

He has another channel where he still plays games occasionally. https://m.youtube.com/...

I remember those!

Heck, I remember mine craft prank wars with h20delerious. They were all happy to participate, stakes were 0, but the best pranks were creative and over engineered.

Did they over react for content? Yes, of course.

Was it fun seeing creative pranks in totally harmless ways anyway? Yes. Yes it was.

I stopped watching after I met him at a convention one time.

I tried to say that I was a fan but every time I opened my mouth he just said 'HUH? HUH?' over and over, before he grabbed my Nintendo Labo keyboard, threw it on the ground and stamped on it a bunch of times.

Same here, I stopped watching Jerma after he stopped posting TF2 content, but I'm glad he's made it and is still doing a bunch of cool stuff.

The Jerma vs STAR videos almost gave me a hernia once upon a time.

At least Jerma is still within the same field of entertainment.

I have the opposite opinion regarding ster.

Idk if this comment is a joke or not but i have to say you're really missing out. Jerma's new content has really grown so well and I'd say he's one of the few who did shift but ultimately its only grown in quality.

I have yet to meet any person in real life who has spoken of Subscribing to a YouTube Channel. I have never subscribed to any YouTube channel or even smashed the Like button on any YT video. I find the social media oriented facet of YT to be completely useless and irrelevant to my purpose of finding and viewing certain videos.

This whole pretend culture around youtubers is as alien to me as it would be for a Commanche Indian from the old West to be given an electric hairdryer.

The only reason shit like that even succeeds is probably because people put on live streams as background noise

hours of unscripted rambling

i actually really enjoy long form interviews. i watch 5 hour interviews and want more, but not everyone can host them and only a certain kind of content is good long form.

Adam Ragusea is the worst for this.

Title: interesting topic.

Video: 3 hours of rambling with five minutes of addressing interesting topic.

I could hardly stand his actual videos before but at least he experimented and showed some conventions to be useless traditions but recently it's really been garbage long form rambling.

It's at its worst now imo. He plays the algorithm so that you can't get the video concept in the preview. You have to click the vid, sit through the ads(unless adblock), and then he spends 2 minutes doing his lead up just making goofy words up to describe the topic to delay mentioning what happened.

I don't watch his current content but it was bittersweet seeing the transition from his original style. He mentioned at the time that he had depression during that period and it seemed like the change was a lifestyle one as well; he seemed pretty happy around that time.

Oh man, I haven't watched any of his videos in forever but I'm so glad he's stuck to what he likes doing.

I guarantee you ZFG doesn't give a single shit about "the algorithm" - he's always played games that he wants to play, which is usually every Zelda release, Mario Kart, Smash, and Pokemon. His only two concerns are going fast and having fun.

Literally finally made an account to respond to you. I don't really watch streams much anymore, but he has a main channel (highlights and records) and a VOD channel on YouTube. I used to go to sleep watching Clint Stevens every night, and now I use the VODs a lot of the time. Anyway, the point I was actually trying to make is that there is a ton of old content available if TotK isn't doing it for you.

Maybe I started watching late but Weissman always kind of struck me as trying too hard on the comedy bits, but I don't mind because it is good knowledge nonetheless. My biggest issue is that he's a little on the pretentious side and he occasionally uses fancy/expensive/inaccessible ingredients or tools, but that's really just a personal problem for me.

I don't really watch his videos, what is he doing now? What did he do before?

She's still doing science, though.

I recently found her channel and it's fun to watch the difference from a 4y old video to last weeks uploads. Gotta clickbait.

Funny you mention her because in only subscribed recently. Her science news episodes are corny but very informative while lacking hype. Her deep dives are also informative, but a bit off topic sometimes.

Contrast that Two Minute Papers idiot. Every fucking video is hype, and he gets called out for it routinely. Everything is sO aMaZiNg... HOLD ONTO YOUR PAPERS! He once expressed awe at noise in an AI generated image. 🤦‍♂️ That's when unsubscribed.

So compared to YouTubers like him, Sabine is a breath of fresh air. (Not that they cover the same topics, I'm just talking about tone and delivery.)

I unsubbed Veritasium when he made that video on electricity and the speed of light and didn't once mention induction. He went over the top to make it seem like magic. Fuck that guy. Unforgivable!

I mean it sucks but its clear enough of the "original" audience stuck around. Growth is important and only appealing to your og audience is a sentence for death if you are trying to make being an influencer a job. There is a reason why many influencers have to diversify even when they originally were primarily making videos of a single game because once that game popularity starts to drop, their audience is all they have and people simply "age out" of content and there is nothing wrong with that. Hell this isn't only to influencers but to most products.

that's how i got into watching people make art/do creative stuff with art. that always cheers me up... also lots of options.

He's just slowly morphing into a standard opinion tech bro with no light between him, moist, and like a dozen other rich dudes.

Wealthy, incredibly insulated from life, experiencing everything through a screen then discussing what they've seen into another screen. Good and bad opinions melt together into a gray mush.

It's so much like Plato's Allegory of the Cave that I don't even want to mention it, it's so fucking obvious.

Don't worry friend, surely the low effort high viewer ship format won't encourage him to spam his channel with it!...

sweats nervously

Hah, to be fair the guy is literally producing a movie. Honestly I think his semi regular content has taken dives a few times while he works on big projects, but YMMV whether it bothers you or not.

I seriously do not understand how removing numbers was a good idea. That, more than anything, was when I practically stopped watching altogether.

I never heard of them and pulled up the channel... that's a lot of circles and arrows pointing at things.

Even the best soldiers can fall to click bait.

As Linus (and other YouTubers for that matter) have said, awful thumbnails and clickbaity titles work.

And when YouTube is a side gig you can refuse to do it on principle, but when you need to pay 100 folks (in case of LMG) - I don't think it's much of a choice.

Let's face it, we're fricking old. The demographic of YouTube is getting younger and younger and the young 'uns engage more in cringey reaction face of thumbnails. It's not a coincidence that YouTube/Google is going hard on anything that might not be "kid friendly". They de-monitised lots of historical YouTube channels for being "age inappropriate". Unfortunately, there are no alternative to YouTube. I love Nebula, but sometimes you'd just want videos and channela where you can just turn your mind off.

Doesn't surprise me, Mr Beast recently posted that A/B testing showed that the classic open-mouth YouTuber Face thumbnails don't perform as well as the creepy dead smile does. Linus thinks Mr Beast is a YouTube Algorithm God (and should be president of the US!), so I'm sure he jumped on that.

Pretty sure he mentioned on WAN show a while back that those thumbs do much better for them when they trialled it initially.

A bunch of channels are doing the same now lol

Yes, because they change it after a few weeks when the videos have done their job

Lol he talked about how he was gonna do that

Boo I love stupid challenge videos and feels like so many youtubers burn themselves out and so cut back to trash as a result.

Stupid algo that rewards garbage and won't reward creators who spend the time. Like they make a 30 minute video of talking and will get as much reach as a 20 minute video that took weeks of work. Like just to get their own subs to see their vids they have to play games, and the algo loves the trash.

It amazes me how long MCM has been going. At least from what I remember, they definitely had a lot of "doing stuff for cheap" content, so I don't think it's too out of line that they also now have the budget to actually do it "right" with expensive parts and compare.

Better die a hero rather than live long enough as a villian.

The way you phrase this comes off as incredibly entitled. Sometimes, a lot of times even, people make something and put it out there; then something else in their life happens that just pulls them away.

They're not beholden to continue to make anything for anyone.

Love Fredrick. That seems to be his MO for years now. A couple releases a year that are hours long. I just hope he's doing well.

There was a very early YouTuber and Something Awful Goon that went by the YouTube handle Research Indicates.

Dropped the gold standard for Let's Play videoes and then never uploaded another one again.

What happened?

I miss spleens :(

his my summer car lets play was great then it went downhill very steep i looked up his channel recently and non of his videos make even the slightest bit of sense

I like the new stuff, sorry

Sorry pal, low spec makes solid videos. I mean there's o lying so many builds he can make before he can't anymore.

I still resent YGS for not being called and never making the "You're Grandma Sucks" joke.

YIAY gone now too

I liked mind field

The Modern Rogue has done a lot to make it difficult to be a subscriber of theirs

Yeah they lost me when they went to pretty much all shorts and the occasional video every month or so. I fucking hate shorts.

I see what you're saying about moving away from smarmy pop culture videos, but the claim that all the "random smart things" ultimately don't matter is weak when you're comparing them to topics that literally do not matter at all. I'm not invalidating your example, just pointing something out.

Animation is pretty hard for youtube, since you need at least 10 mins I believe, which is difficult for animation. And there's already a large overlap between vtubing and animating so I would expect some channels to switch over, but not all.

I know JaidenAnimations has a vtuber model, but I do not think she uses it too often.

Just wait until AI can do animation...

Oh no! What will I play in the background while I do the dishes???

How so?

It's not like people weren't already just putting a single frame in the video that they could select as the thumbnail before the fully custom thumbnail option was added.

There are web extensions to use a random frame instead

Well except people were making thumbnails inside their video and referencing it via timestamp, so it wasn't a huge change.

"You know the format and hosts you've come to enjoy? They're gone. Support our patreon."

If you'd like a VERY thorough explanation, check out QuentinReviews video on Fred. The very condensed version is that he got tired of the character and sold the channel, which immediately started producing generic throwaway content and quickly failed.

Well yeah, they’re constantly getting death threats. Being a well known trans person is in itself radicalizing because of all the shit to wade through

The algorithm tends to fight this kind of content. So if a trans person succeeds in the algorithm, they likely already had in mind that they wanted to educate about how they can empathize with transgender people.

Oh, I thought they said trains

Some YouTubers I know who are trans or who have come out as trans since I started watching and are still doing their own thing: GameChamp3000 (game challenge videos and recently some trivia), DaThings (YTP style videos), Shammy/Joy (game review/critique), and probably a few others that aren't coming to mind right now. I'd argue Jim (Stephanie) Sterling hasn't really changed though trans issues do come up more often. I haven't watched Philosophy Tube recently but I do believe she still does videos on general philosophical concepts.

What's with the downvotes? If you think I said anything bad about trans people or trans issues, that's all in your head.

I know at least one that just occasionally makes videos about ttans stuff