What are some Youtuber gimmicks that make you instantly dislike them or their content?

[FedPostalService]

This is going to be controversial but I don’t like it when they groom kids. There, I said it.

 

[TapewormSalesman]

Skits that last longer than actually talking about the subject at hand, like, holy shit you don't need your comedic example to take up half the video, it's not funny anymore.

 

[D.Angus]

- Does appearance count? Specifically facial hair. Most of the time it's whatever they decided to grow out which is not kept neat or they make it their whole personality.

- Annoying generic intros. Nothing makes a video worse then some overy loud generic EDM music followed by some shitty logo with thick and/or sharp outlines only for the video start and the guy is far too quiet with his 10 dollar Wal-Mart Mic.

- Anytime Social Issues are brought up and it's not apart of the topic.

- Annoying overused sound effects from Tiktok or w/e.

- Tranny.

 

[whatever I feel like]

>reviewer has an evil twin
>reviewer talks about a bad movie/game/anime and pretends to go LE HECKIN CRAZY!!!! XDDDDDDDD
>reviewer acts like a slightly weird movie/game/anime is LE INCOMPREHENSIBLE PRODUCT OF DRUGS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA and makes no effort to actually try and understand anything
>reviewer pads out the video's runtime with boring and gay "skits"
>reviewer has sponsorship segments in general, but this one is especially egregious if there are no timestamps or any clear indicators of where I should skip to if I just want to get to the rest of the video

So, Linkara.

 

[DickMain]

-Creators like Nexpo that love to video essays with a 5-10 minute long cinematic intro + after-intro video explanation-intro segment. Alongside video essay creators that start a simple video topic with a completely unrelated intro for watchtime.

>reviewer pads out the video's runtime with boring and gay "skits"

I could never get into Coffeezilla for this exact reason.

Kind of hard to come up with any since I don't feel like I watch a lot of big youtubers. Not sure if you could call it a gimmick per-se, but it irritates me when some video is not done in one take and suddenly cuts to "okay so while I was editing this..." You're already editing the video, how is this at all ad-libbed and why do I need to know that?

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

i hate the cracking jokes thing that video essay people do the whole mcdonalds fries rock then insert black and white replaying the joke justin whang does this alot its very annoying

 

[Sand Mega]

I despise those shitty thumbnails where it's a photoshop of a fake tweet or those of every commentary channel where they put themselves in the thumbnail in fron of some social media post

 

[Breadbassket]

The video essay videos that put "quick" in their title but are actually several hours long.

 

[The Backwards Man]

Another one - British narrators. As we all know, the British are subhumans who should be spat on so it's only natural to be repulsed by their gross voices and accents.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Not being Clown Core.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

When they talk like a faggot

This, Super Eyepatch Wolf in particular turned the gay voice up to eleven and is just impossible to listen to.

I'll add having an actual five minute of content surrounded by 15 minutes of bullshit to reach that 20 minute video goalpost.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Obviously fake reactions to whatever weird me out for some reason. I get it that you need to up yourself a bit for the show, but live streamers get way overboard with this shit where I saw some of them go completely over the top one moment over a superchat or a reaction and then immediately snap back to being natural. It just puts the whole thing they're doing into question.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

When they start pushing their dumb side shtick/persona into their content and/or buy wholly into the parasocial relationship bullshit with the viewers. Night Mind's a good example of how bad it can get, the guy went from fairly dry and in-depth horror media analysis to adopting his little logo monster as a fursona (complete with unnecessary sexualization, of course) and vtubing with it and the quality of his content tanked pretty hard when that happened. Rekieta fits the category too, in a sense.

Tangentally related, streamers/youtubers who use soundboards. Devon Stack's one of the worst offenders, his streams being basically racist/antisemetic uncle at thanksgiving simulators can be fun background noise but holy shit he has the most annoying soundboard clips ever and they're always twice as loud as he is when talking and are completely jarring juxaposed with the rest of his content.

 

[cia-log]

that generic nice guy youtuber voice that they all use. You watch early AVGN videos and his voice is obviously relaxed and his cadence is natural, then you watch literally any modern youtuber and the amount of strain you hear feels like you got cornered by a car salesman who's about to have his house repossessed. It's annoying.

 

[.iota.]

generally, i only listen to, and sometimes watch, ancient history / anthropology / archaelogy videos on yt.
if i encounter any of the following, i'm out ...

- "the hidden truth about ... ", "things they don't want you to know about ... ", "what really happened to ..."
- the content creator's physical appeal (or lack thereof) is the focus of the thumbnail
- ai generated content, especially completely unremarkable history content that's narrated by ai
- abrupt volume changes, or music that fades in, overwhelms the narration, then fades out for no reason
- a limited selection of images, in ten second intervals, over and over again, especially if it's generic stock images

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

God, I could publish a fucking book on what pisses me off about Youtubers...and I'm sure I've bitched about these issues numerous times here. So here's just a few:

• Vague titles/thumbnails with no description, so I end up wasting 15 minutes hearing some fat doofus ramble about nothing, and there's no indication by the description, intro, nor comments what the video was about. Breadtube does this a lot.
  • Penguinz0 somewhat does this: each upload has a title like "wow, this is bad", the thumbnail is just his face, there's no description, and it takes him about 5 minutes to finally get to the video's subject after he does some long intro full of scatological references and Zomerspeak. It's so fucking annoying, and just an extension of clickbait.
• When they put their faces in the thumbnail, and I'm not familiar with the channel so I have no clue who the hell the person is. I'll see some takedown video essay with a title like "This person is bad!", and the thumbnail contains the video's subject's face as well as the creator's face in the thumbnail, and I have no idea who's who.
• Censoring words and not being consistent with it: I had to ragequit out of a Lazy Masquerade video just recently because he actually fucking censored the word "depression". What a faggot. I also exited from a Zoomer's video about radio/TV hijackings, because he would occasionally censor the word "Nazi" but then forget to at other times, which made it hard to listen to. It was like "During WW2, Nazi Germany hijacked a British radio station and played N_zi propaganda over the airwaves." Turkey Tom has been doing this a lot like censoring the words "abuse" and "groom" in videos. Barley Sociable censored the names of weapons, censored the word "drugs", and "murder". TheQuartering pauses before saying "gun" and instead refers to it as "a pew-pew thing". What a bunch of faggots.
• When channels jump onto bandwagons and change their format to virtue signal. Examples are when Slopes Gameroom (a U.K. video game channel) did a video on BLM in 2020, or how ReviewTechUSA (fat, bald New Yorker who does tech/gaming content) randomly uploads e-drama videos like how lately he's been attacking a female right-wing creator by accusing her of being a grifter. Stay in your fucking lanes.

EDIT: here's a great example of point #2 of a video which just got recommended to me -- some literal who in a thumbnail with other literal who's, and I have no idea who the fuck any of these people are. People think that just because MrBeast and Pewdiepie have brand recognition, that this automatically entitles them to assume their faces have enough recognition too:

 

[BiggestKai]

When *fart sound* every *tongue click, noice* sec- *guy laughing from the look at the top of his head video* on- *vine boom* d *ear rape sfx* needs *undertaker gong* a *OOOOHHH MY GAAAAWD* meme *pewdiepie bridge clip* edit *some jojo clip*.

 

[Local FloRida-man]

There's been a trend recently of videos that, instead of just going straight into the main topic, decide to spend 1/3 to 1/2 the video runtime slowly and agonizingly narrating the entire history of the world instead. It's frustrating because they almost always pull the info from Wikipedia so every video, regardless of creator, sounds exactly the same for the first half. And the history often barely has anything to do with the topic. A video about why modern streetlights are turning purple does not need to begin with the invention of fire.

Another example would be youtubers like Rusty. , a youtuber who does long-form content on Elden Ring. He's does this thing I don't have a word for where he will use this annoying self-deprecating "meta-humor" with every point he makes that is so cringe I had to unsubscribe. He'll make a joke, comment about how the joke is bad, say "why did I put this joke in here" with a fake laugh, mention the joke makes him a bad person, then comment about how long the bit is taking and how pissed people will be about it, and the whole time I just want him to die.

 

[Chao Garden]

ADHD zoomoid editing where there's just a million things going on at once and there's a bunch of shitty unfunny meme references, it's so obnoxious. I think that dumbsville guys videos are like that as an example

 

[Yeah!]

sperg voice. that is all