Favorite internet personalities that did not turn into LOLCows over the years?

[QB 290]

Sips

Somehow his content has aged like wine, his old stuff is just as good now as when he made it yet he keeps hitting higher notes with his playthroughs and streams to this day. It helps that behind the screen, he's a hard worker and a great dad.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

NightMind, VSauce, and Cinemassacre.

Although, the latter two do have pretty lulzy fanbases.

 

[SugarSnot]

Chuggaaconroy is the one that speaks to me the most. He's been chugging along doing youtube Let's Plays of games that he enjoys for a decade without any public drama, at worst it has been some wholesome goofs spurred by his own innocence like doing Daisy on hard with wood. His voice and humor is not for everyone, definitely a big dork, but he has heart and puts a lot of love into the content he creates. If I was a game developer I would be overjoyed to have him play my game on his channel, because he goes out his way to show all the hard work the game devs poured into it.

 

[NormanMarkus]

A lot of good ones have already been mentioned, but I feel it's fair to bring up Vinesauce Vinny. He's got a pretty okay band, too.

 

[Tampon Head]

BlackBusterCritic. Probably helps that he actually made sure to get a life and remained a hard worker, so he's doing pretty well for himself last I heard, especially since he has a little boy to take care of. Internet's probably too crazy for him to tackle anymore, though I at least hope he heard about SolidMario's return.

I was going to say him too! BlackBusterCritic is one of my personal favorite channels and I can always sit back and watch his old videos. It's a shame what's been happening with his son and child custody.

My favorite personality has always been NintendoCaprisun. Very chill guy who has been through shit but continues to create quality entertainment. Some of the people he works with are also great, most notably Lucahjin.

 

[sasazuka]

HELLO, I'M GURU LARRY!!!

JonTron, Guru Larry and James Rolfe so far.

Larry Bundy Jr. went through a lolcow phase in the mid-2000s when he was showing up on obscure anime forums to debate pretty much anyone who took issue with press releases hyping his Natural Born Kittens project as being "the first western anime". It was to be an animated series about catgirls that were re-incarnated Egyptian goddesses or something like that. There was a website with a few webcomics on it that weren't very funny. I know he was in talks with British animation studios, I want to say Aardman was amongst them, but ultimately they seemed to have passed on the project.

But that was well over a decade ago, I think possibly even 15 years ago now. Larry seems to have grown out of taking unkind comments from random Internet people personally and I certainly enjoy the content "Guru Larry" puts out today, although it's been a couple of months since his last "Fact Hunt and Random Potshot at Peter Molyneux" video. I dare say I might even have enjoyed Natural Born Kittens had it been made into a cartoon series, since you can't always judge shows by their early promotional material.

 

[Autopsy]

ricesnot because he's still the exact same autist he was 6 years ago with the exact same sense of humor and the exact same content despite accruing notoriety almost instantly. Youtubers who make even minimal efforts to remain anonymous are refreshing.
All of the more enduring and longer term ones are either already in thread or would be proxy :powerlevel:ing, I was tempted to say Neil Cicierega too as the longest running dedicated netizen to not troon out but he's done some pretty fucking dumb shit as of the past two years, possibly due to acute TDS.

NightMind

NightMind feels like YMS 2.0 for various reasons, including fitting almost the exact same portfolio of deviant. I enjoy his content, but he's not the safest bet for a 'not lolcow' thread. Contrasting ricesnot, who does content arguably even more outlandish than analyzing ARGs, NightMind has cultivated a real life fanbase and slowly trickled in personal details about how he looks, his sexuality, specific fandoms and even his personal tastes. Give him a couple beers and a misplaced tweet or two, or dig up a few old accounts...

 

[Count groudon]

Chills, the dude with the weird ass voice who does the top 15 vids, seems like he’s generally a pretty chill guy. I remember a few months ago when he started blowing up as a meme he absolutely adored the fact that everyone was trying to take the piss out of him, and I’ve heard he’s generally a pretty likable guy irl too.

Edit: now that I think about it, most horror YouTubers seem to be pretty laid back. It’s like the one online community that doesn’t seem to be a breeding ground for cows.

 

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

AntDude, I guess JonTron, all the Red Letter Media Bros, Ian from Forgotten Weapons, GameHut guy, Pewds but don't watch him, RalphtheMovieMaker but he's crazier as he ages, and that one bald dude that talks about music and music theory while doing piano skits as video intros.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

LGR, Ashens, James Rolfe are the only ones i know of, James Rolfe is a particular case, since as far as i know, he's been in YT longer in than most critics/reviewers, he started, when? in 2004? he's been in YT for almost 15 years, without any major misstep, being able to do that when many e-celebs seem to crash and burn in less than 5 years is something

 

[sasazuka]

LGR, Ashens, James Rolfe are the only ones i know of, James Rolfe is a particular case, since as far as i know, he's been in YT longer in than most critics/reviewers, he started, when? in 2004? he's been in YT for almost 15 years, without any major misstep, being able to do that when many e-celebs seem to crash and burn in less than 5 years is something

Youtube's only been around for 13 years, I think the earliest "Angry Nintendo Nerd" videos which predate Youtube (and which were made before James Rolfe changed the title to "Angry Video Game Nerd" to avoid any possible lawsuit from Nintendo) were hosted on Cinemassacre.

 

[Mimic]

Most I'd list have already been mentioned (LGR, Vinesauce, Guru Larry), but I'd like to add Proton Jon and ProJared. Pretty decent dudes with entertaining content.

Edit: Welp...
Edit2: He's a weirdo but he's still a good boy dangit.

 

[Gutpuke]

Cinemassacre, Night Mind, Cinema Snob, Count Jackula and Good Bad Flicks haven't gone full retard as far as I know.

 

[GreenJacket]

Jim

 

[ES 148]

ElectricalBeast (the Jolteon of Let's Plays)

 

[Hakurei Zero]

Pewdiepie

 

[TokiBun]

BlameitonJorge is a great Youtuber who covers obscure knowledge and lost media. Check him out if you can. Bedheadbernie is another good Internet personality about lost media.

I guess he’s kind of a lolcow but Pan Pizza is my favorite Youtuber.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

I'd say Fredrik Knudsen, the guy who makes the Down the Rabbit Hole videos. He can make anything interesting.

On a lesser note, I'd also include Chills, BlameitonJorge, JonTron, James Rolfe and the guys from Internet Today.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Recently I've come to respect Fran Blanche of FranLab. She's a fully transitioned MtF who does amazing teardowns, analysis and repairs of old analogue electrical gear. She also owns a company called Frantone where she hand builds extremely high quality guitar pedals which have been used by some massive acts. Being trans, she's been targeted by all sorts of 4edgy2u internet legends who want to get a rise from her but she flat refuses to get involved in any of the gender identify politics bullshit. She's a great example of how a genuine trans person handles themselves in a world dominated by transtrenders simply because absolutely none of her identity is in any way tied to being trans.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

Larry Bundy Jr. went through a lolcow phase in the mid-2000s when he was showing up on obscure anime forums to debate pretty much anyone who took issue with press releases hyping his Natural Born Kittens project as being "the first western anime". It was to be an animated series about catgirls that were re-incarnated Egyptian goddesses or something like that. There was a website with a few webcomics on it that weren't very funny. I know he was in talks with British animation studios, I want to say Aardman was amongst them, but ultimately they seemed to have passed on the project.

But that was well over a decade ago, I think possibly even 15 years ago now. Larry seems to have grown out of taking unkind comments from random Internet people personally and I certainly enjoy the content "Guru Larry" puts out today, although it's been a couple of months since his last "Fact Hunt and Random Potshot at Peter Molyneux" video. I dare say I might even have enjoyed Natural Born Kittens had it been made into a cartoon series, since you can't always judge shows by their early promotional material.

That sounds fairly amusing tbh