Youtubers teetering on the edge of cowdom - Who is next to fall from grace, and why?

Apparently his video on EVE Online is almost complete. It's 6 hours long and was extremely difficult to make. It's insane to think someone would waste months to make a multi-hour video for a platform as unstable as YouTube but that seems like an actual meta nowadays? I've seen a 21-hour-long Berserk retrospective and it had 4 million views.
Video essays are an algorithm meta currently, since Youtube recommends content based on watch time these days so I guess the logic is make a somewhat well crafted narrative and story and ensure the audience retention lasts as long as possible.
 
I've seen a 21-hour-long Berserk retrospective and it had 4 million views.
Yeah but that retrospective (if it's the one I think) is actually a whole bunch of videos the guy made gradually and then compiled into a single one.
But then you also have all the Bad Longman videos and that Patrician guy making game retrospectives around 7 hours a pop.
 
I think one thing I've thought on and off about over the years is the whole idea of companies associating with eCelebs. For example, seeing people like Arlo slowly descend into madness has left me to believe that trying to bring these people on to promote stuff or make then ambassadors isn't a good idea at all because of how much a liability they could potentially become.

I've seen many vids/tweets of people praising major names in the Smash eSports scene like HungryBox and how Nintendo is evil and "anti-consumer" for not supporting them, then the whole accusation apocalypse happened in 2020, and I was somehow proven right all along. The fact remains that so many of these people are mentally unhinged, whether they try to hide it or not. Back in, say, the 90s or 2000s, you never really saw the popular people of the day put front and center to promote the N64 or GCN when they were coming out. Looking at old console promotions just makes me think of a time well removed from these people.

"Man, wouldn't it be something to live in an era without Arlo, RGT, Beat-em-ups, or any other YTer trying to act over-the-top for clicks and watch time?" I think Nintendo is in the right to separate themselves or at least tread with caution when it comes to "supporting" major names in their community. Given how many them are ticking time bombs that could go off at any moment.

It also begs the question of where all these people will be in 5-10 years. I remember when people like Alex Rochon and Joshscorcher were at their peak in relevancy, and now they've mostly moved on the content they used to make back then. I'm amazed people like Arlo, RelaxAlax, Scott, etc. have lasted as long as they have, but will they still be around by, say, 2030? YouTube's algorhtyhm making it harder for new names to gain a foothold hasn't helped, either.
 
Super Eyepatch Wolf. Aside from being a gross furry, he does make entertaining videos and he's great at editing in particular, but I have a suspicion that his "perpetually on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown" schtick isn't an act. When he detonates, it's going to be quite the spectacle.

Well, he IS Irish poet William Butler Yeats, so I'm prepared to cut him some slack. It can't be easy being a Time Traveler.


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Saberspark is getting dangerously close to cowdom at this point. I casually watch his videos on weird animation as background noise, and I remember raising an eyebrow during a face reveal. I don’t know why I expected him to be less of a fat slob living in a cave surrounded by children’s toys, it was just a bit jarring. The ‘totally not a furry’ joke is beyond stale, and I’m incredibly tired of seeing his rule 63 character shake his (her?) tits. You just know he’s getting off to it himself, surely there aren’t that many of his viewers that want to bang him…right? Seems to reek of AGP.

Troon saga soon.
 
Apparently his video on EVE Online is almost complete. It's 6 hours long and was extremely difficult to make. It's insane to think someone would waste months to make a multi-hour video for a platform as unstable as YouTube but that seems like an actual meta nowadays? I've seen a 21-hour-long Berserk retrospective and it had 4 million views.
This one? I didn't realize it had 4 million views. Most of channel's content has under 50k.
 
Saberspark is getting dangerously close to cowdom at this point. I casually watch his videos on weird animation as background noise, and I remember raising an eyebrow during a face reveal. I don’t know why I expected him to be less of a fat slob living in a cave surrounded by children’s toys, it was just a bit jarring. The ‘totally not a furry’ joke is beyond stale, and I’m incredibly tired of seeing his rule 63 character shake his (her?) tits. You just know he’s getting off to it himself, surely there aren’t that many of his viewers that want to bang him…right? Seems to reek of AGP.

Troon saga soon.
Speaking of Saber:
https://twitter.com/Saberspark/status/1706743189472756008?t=CdzUYr2-lH1FFFtfz8ITng&s=19 (Archive)
Dude's kinda always been a political sperg, dating back to 2016 when pretty much everyone became one.
 
So I like the guy, and my deepest hope is that he gets some coaching from professional entertainers on how to handle a hostile audience to avoid a scenario like this reoccurring, but it'd be wrong of me to let my bias get in the way: Nerdslayer's on that precipice.

So this guy does the Death of a Game series, which is often a pretty interesting and well-researched little romp into how certain titles wind up down the crapper. Sometimes, he has editorial videos. With this editorial video, he happened to offend one of the biggest blights to the genre of MMORPGs by calling a spade a spade and asking the question, "Why do antisocial people insist on being catered and pandered to in a genre that is inherently based around socialization?" with a little overmuch qualification and semantic obsession. No big deal, and even if he could have phrased things more clearly, eh, I agree with him and it's anyways an editorial.

But in the comments, oh man. He responds to many (oh yes) in a massively passive-aggressive way, up to and including malding about other people having more upvotes than he does. It's not a good showing. There's a lot of very mild comments where someone disagrees with him in a milquetoast way, and homie just comes out yawping. The latest video, meant to address the reaction to the earlier one, has a lot of that same energy and even includes the vaunted promise to ban people who don't participate in 'discussion' the way that he happens to like.

My hope is that the guy calms down, takes a step back, just cools off. Might be he's just got no stomach for the pushback editorializing has, might be he learns to just throw it out there and then not worry about the aftermath, might be he learns to stop himself before he starts raging at upvotes. But it might also be that he keeps chimping out and makes a circus out of something he's clearly put a lot of work and passion into.
 
There's a yotuber named Ben Armstrong fka BitBoy Crypto. Originally known for
a)promoting basically every pump & dump + rugpull going
b)threatening a lolsuit against another youtuber who made a video about BitBoy and said scam promotions.

However something has happened recently where he was forced out of his company. He's claiming all sorts of weird/illegal shenanigans, but has also gone fucking batshit to the point where he got arrested livestreaming himself outside a former employees house yelling about how the dude stole his lambo.
 
I only used the search function, and I’m not sure how accurate it was, but is there really not a thread for TheActMan? I expected there to at the very least be a PG thread. If I weren’t such a retard I’d do it myself.

I was kinda with him on the whole beef he had with QuantumTV or whatever, but TAM just hasn’t lost that spergy energy brought out by Quantum ever since. Now recently, he released a video gushing about how Payday 3 is god’s gift to gaming, immediately after which he went on vacation to Hawaii.
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Which some people gave him light flak for:
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To which he responded in his usual spergy, defensive tone:
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There’s a ton more, but I’m on mobile and lazy. Anyone else enjoy keeping an eye on him?
 
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I only used the search function, and I’m not sure how accurate it was, but is there really not a thread for TheActMan? I expected there to at the very least be a PG thread. If I weren’t such a retard I’d do it myself.

I was kinda with him on the whole beef he had with QuantumTV or whatever, but TAM just hasn’t lost that spergy energy brought out by Quantum ever since. Now recently, he released a video gushing about how Payday 3 is god’s gift to gaming, immediately after which he went on vacation to Hawaii.

There’s a ton more, but I’m on mobile and lazy. Anyone else enjoy keeping an eye on him?
For some reason, he looks just like RelaxAlax IRL. So it wouldn't be surprising if he acts like him, too.
 
Speaking of Jacksfilms he just did another video, on his main channel, complaining about The Sssniperwolf Question and that ilk of reactors.


I think it is a pretty good video because he actually makes fun and shows off some much more interesting things than his Sssniperwolf mockery. The SullyG freebooters who made a fucking Android app invested with ads to freeboot his content is insane. No idea who this Derulo retard is but the idea a Hollywood actor would be shameless enough to engage in this sort of bottom of the barrel shit is super in line with current Hollywood.

The real juicy bit comes later on when he starts talking about his own Sssniperwolf retard war and the people he encouraged to copyright strike her for stealing content without fair use. It shows that the copyright strikes work and the clips were removed. But the videos are still there. It used to be you needed to have a real special position to be able to cut and edit a video or change it drastically, like a big record label. But no longer, even someone like Sssniperwolf who is on the good graces of google can now 1984 edit her videos at will. The only way you can tell the videos were edited since release is the fact Jack has recordings of the original lenght and of course the fact these cuts are so crude they will literally cut the vapid cunt attempts at "content" mid word to jump.

Jacksfilms then shits all over and finishes off the video shilling BetterHelp, who have succefully memory holed the fact they were already exposed as a scam back in 2018 and now have a brand new ad campaign to shill their pseudoscience and trick retards into thinking a voice chat is mental health.
 
I only used the search function, and I’m not sure how accurate it was, but is there really not a thread for TheActMan? I expected there to at the very least be a PG thread. If I weren’t such a retard I’d do it myself.

I was kinda with him on the whole beef he had with QuantumTV or whatever, but TAM just hasn’t lost that spergy energy brought out by Quantum ever since. Now recently, he released a video gushing about how Payday 3 is god’s gift to gaming, immediately after which he went on vacation to Hawaii.
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Which some people gave him light flak for:
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To which he responded in his usual spergy, defensive tone:
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There’s a ton more, but I’m on mobile and lazy. Anyone else enjoy keeping an eye on him?
"Check doesnt come in for another month child. Enjoy prison"
 
Speaking of Jacksfilms he just did another video, on his main channel, complaining about The Sssniperwolf Question and that ilk of reactors.
last year I was thinking Jack was on the road to being a lolcow himself, but seems like he's managed to redirect his autism to a worthy shit bag to beat on, good for him, I just hope he can stay sane and not go down like most of old youtube.
 
Speaking of Jacksfilms he just did another video, on his main channel, complaining about The Sssniperwolf Question and that ilk of reactors.


I think it is a pretty good video because he actually makes fun and shows off some much more interesting things than his Sssniperwolf mockery. The SullyG freebooters who made a fucking Android app invested with ads to freeboot his content is insane. No idea who this Derulo retard is but the idea a Hollywood actor would be shameless enough to engage in this sort of bottom of the barrel shit is super in line with current Hollywood.

The real juicy bit comes later on when he starts talking about his own Sssniperwolf retard war and the people he encouraged to copyright strike her for stealing content without fair use. It shows that the copyright strikes work and the clips were removed. But the videos are still there. It used to be you needed to have a real special position to be able to cut and edit a video or change it drastically, like a big record label. But no longer, even someone like Sssniperwolf who is on the good graces of google can now 1984 edit her videos at will. The only way you can tell the videos were edited since release is the fact Jack has recordings of the original lenght and of course the fact these cuts are so crude they will literally cut the vapid cunt attempts at "content" mid word to jump.

Jacksfilms then shits all over and finishes off the video shilling BetterHelp, who have succefully memory holed the fact they were already exposed as a scam back in 2018 and now have a brand new ad campaign to shill their pseudoscience and trick retards into thinking a voice chat is mental health.
She has to have something on someone at YouTube. It just doesn't make sense how Alia gets away with blatant copyright abuse. She's been doing shady shit behind the scenes for years. This has to be my favorite JohnVideos arc.

The betterhelp ad really threw me off. I thought it was going to be a bit for some reason, but it was a full-on ad. I'm surprised BetterHelp is still a thing, but then again I see ads on YouTube to "play animal crossing with a licensed therapist!!!" I guess pretending to be someone's friend is now Online Therapy™.

last year I was thinking Jack was on the road to being a lolcow himself, but seems like he's managed to redirect his autism to a worthy shit bag to beat on, good for him, I just hope he can stay sane and not go down like most of old youtube.
Jack is self-aware juuuuust enough to not become a cow. He's walked that line for a long time.
 
Jack is self-aware juuuuust enough to not become a cow. He's walked that line for a long time.
Last year his wife got called fat and he took down a video and made a tweet calling people incels, so I'm really shocked he managed to back from the edge then, really seemed like he was about to tumble down the staircase of lolcowdom.
 
I only used the search function, and I’m not sure how accurate it was, but is there really not a thread for TheActMan? I expected there to at the very least be a PG thread. If I weren’t such a retard I’d do it myself.

I was kinda with him on the whole beef he had with QuantumTV or whatever, but TAM just hasn’t lost that spergy energy brought out by Quantum ever since. Now recently, he released a video gushing about how Payday 3 is god’s gift to gaming, immediately after which he went on vacation to Hawaii.
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Which some people gave him light flak for:
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To which he responded in his usual spergy, defensive tone:
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There’s a ton more, but I’m on mobile and lazy. Anyone else enjoy keeping an eye on him?
ActMan looks like the poster child for someone who would say "Actually, it's ephebophile" when you call him a pedo. I only ever watched one of his videos, something about a recent Diablo 4 controversy, dude's a total creep.
 
ActMan looks like the poster child for someone who would say "Actually, it's ephebophile" when you call him a pedo. I only ever watched one of his videos, something about a recent Diablo 4 controversy, dude's a total creep.
Yeah, I'm excited to see what spectacular way he BTFO's himself. The speed at which he seems to take offense to everything is perfect drama fuel.
 
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