This is bad but it's endemic to the platform now. You have channels with actual useful info ran by seemingly decent people that change their title or thumbnail, sometimes both several times if a video isn't immediately doing well enough. If you have to resort to this seo manipulation to do well, when is enough enough? When do you just jump ship? Grey is no longer one of the good edutainers, though. His ego has skyrocketed within the last few years and something just rubs me the wrong way about him.
I can't speak for you, it always rubbed me the wrong way when
Colin Gregory Palmer Grey (mostly on his podcast) played into the image of him as a rational and logical robot while revealing himself to be anything but. For example, one early episode of Hello Internet where he emphatically dismissed the idea of keeping sentimental value items, preferring to live with only "useful" things, mocking his cohost for not doing the same. This reached truly insane levels with his woe-is-me attitude towards getting sent a gold play button for reaching a million subs on Youtube, even going as far as to dread the subscriber milestone because it threatened to disturb his minimalist paradise.
That and his constant dicksucking for Apple (coining phrases like 'MultiPad Lifestyle' that would make even their marketers blush), his less frequent dicksucking for Disney Star Wars, and his more recent dicksucking for the Fauci Ouchie (
"Life already feels so different!" - barely an hour after getting it) have all rubbed me in various ways, but none of them the right way.
Then again, podcasters who talk about mostly themselves often end up doing this, and Grey is no different. But as much as he kinda annoyed me, I still enjoyed HI. And it was a dick move to end that show without an announcement, leaving listeners to await a new episode that never came. Neither he or Brady ever said why they ended it, but the timing of the final episode (28/Feb/2020) led me to believe that Grey was just too traumatised by the prospect of the WuFlu to even continue his work as a podcaster.
On that note, he is far more of a podcaster than he is a Youtuber, having released a mere three (3) high-effort videos in the last 12 months (and I've said before that
the new ones aren't even that good). So when he stopped working on
his main show – but continued to use Cortex to talk about his office space, his productivity apps, the fucking Theme Journal™ – that was when Grey moved firmly into the category of lifestyle gurus who couldn't find success by taking their own advice.