I forgot about Phil, haven't seen anyone discuss him since the Better Help fiasco. He has always been shit.
I'll add someone who I don't hate but whose recent decisions have frustrated me:
Randy.
In short he's a YouTuber who started uploading devlogs 5 years ago, getting popular 2 years ago with this video
which was quite entertaining and edited well. The videos which followed were also good regarding the development of Arcane. However, it was quite obvious that he had fallen victim to the common dev traps of trying to build everything yourself from the ground up and starting right off the bat working towards your "dream game" meaning he was progressing at a snail's pace (For contrast, Pizza Tower started around the same time ~2018 and is nearly finished with only a bit of finishing polish needed for release). With that said, it didn't seem like the audience cared too much as long as some progress was made and there was an entertaining video put out every couple of months. For all intents and purposes he had made it. But then as time progressed he meandered into even more side projects - web dev, twitch streams, mathematics, optimizing workflow, notetaking apps - frustrating the audience as even less progress was being made and no main channel videos were being put out. Eventually he decided to quit working on the devlogs and streaming to focus on the game (alongside publishing random vids like a DJ stream where he talked about maybe going on vacay to the U.K., which understandably further frustrated the audience since it made him look quite lazy). The story culminates with him finally quitting on Arcane - killing the raison d'etre for the channel. While I'm sure some people cared about the game itself, the biggest source of grief for most is stopping the devlogs. Randy aimed to rectify this issue by switching to making devlogs for smaller projects (a good idea), but recently decided that he doesn't want to feel pressured to pump out a project for the sake of a video and that he can't serve two masters - YouTube and Game Dev - and in turn has chosen to focus on the latter (seems like a false dilemma to me given that people like
Dani or
Sebastian manage to do both all the while improving as developers). That's the state of the channel, seemingly abandoned for game dev (I must add that the small project he was working on hasn't even been released yet). In a recent podcast he floats the idea of making another main channel vid in between describing his plans of going to Mali for vacation, so perhaps there's hope yet for a new main channel video but it seems rather unlikely. To me this whole ordeal is like watching a man pull out his 10X stock market winnings to dump into some shitcoin in the hopes it'll go to the moon, just make the facking devlogs man!
TL;DR Cnile can't into gamedev, gives up free YouTube money to become blogger instead
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