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

Basil II said:
unfortunately he's killing his channel with that pay to view youtube red shit.
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Yep, and the episodes behind the paywall aren't as good as the free ones. One of them in season 2 is a weird one that investigates which race is the most heroic, with a cockamamie experiment where they stage an unconvincing burglarly and see how their test subjects react.

Michael Stevens never talks about race, and it's nothing really like the rest of the series. It just screams "Google is paying for this, and they're requiring me to do an episode that shits on white men." I could see this episode getting a pretty big dislike ratio and a bunch of comments ripping it to shreds if ever it goes free.

There was also the episode where he tried ayahusca and was way too apprehensive to have it work properly, and another episode where he makes people angry and then has them smash stuff, or not smash stuff, and finds out that catharsis is, in fact, real. Who knew, right?

It's not a very good show. The free episodes are by far the best ones. You can tell that series is just a paycheck and a bunch of free trips on Google's dime.
 
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I'll throw my hat in for Justin Scarred - he seems like a genuinely awesome person who got out of a seriously nasty divorce that fucked him over and had to make big life changes. Now he makes a living as a travel blogger just doing what he loves while supporting his now-fiance and kid. His route 66 videos are excellent and I've bought a few of his pins, too.

Ashens is also great, I'm amazed he's not more well known. He seems to have moved away from some of the more gimmicky running jokes like Chef Excellence and, thankfully, the stupid inflatible crowns from Lootcrate. His fixation on obscure computer technology from the 80s is also strangely interesting, with his off kilter wit and humor keeping it fun.

More recently, I've been watching videos from a channel called 'GrayStillPlays' where the guy basically takes games and pretty much tries to come up with unusual ways to play games. He's hilarious.
 
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Northernlion, his content is regular, he is very level headed and has a main job programming.
I wouldnt be suprised if he lurked here at all.
 
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Ross Scott
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Glad somebody else brought him up. I love hearing his takes on games that aren't the same games people are playing, and his longform stuff is surprisingly great for the length. Plus he didn't let Freeman's Mind go to his head.

I was wanting to ask about Jerma, specifically. I'd not heard of him, and suddenly kept seeing him everywhere in my suggestions. Is he an old guard player I'd just never heard of, or just somebody that got explosively famous? I'd seen his name pop up in a few search results on here, and the general opinion seems to be that he's well-received. Thumbnails led me to believe he was another screamer streamer, but I seem to be wrong.
 
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LazarusOwenhart said:
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.
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Holy shit, I just realized now that Fran was trans. I saw a few of her videos back in the day and just assumed she was a really ugly chick with a weird voice. She's still a cringy SJW with TDS, though.
 
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Michael Jacks0n said:
Holy shit, I just realized now that Fran was trans. I saw a few of her videos back in the day and just assumed she was a really ugly chick with a weird voice. She's still a cringy SJW with TDS, though.
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Yeah she's kinda gone downhill since I made that post. It's a pity, because if she just stayed in her lane she'd have an amazing channel.
 
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LazarusOwenhart said:
Yeah she's kinda gone downhill since I made that post. It's a pity, because if she just stayed in her lane she'd have an amazing channel.
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I mean, I discovered her channel in probably 2017 or so, and only found her videos to be mildly interesting. Even in 2017 her Twitter was just an endless stream of pink pussy hat shit and anti-Trump sperg posts. I can only assume she's gotten 100x worse since then.
 
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Michael Jacks0n said:
I mean, I discovered her channel in probably 2017 or so, and only found her videos to be mildly interesting. Even in 2017 her Twitter was just an endless stream of pink pussy hat shit and anti-Trump sperg posts. I can only assume she's gotten 100x worse since then.
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I only ever dipped in for the tear down and repair videos of some of the super rare display devices she collects. Those are my bag.
 
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Probably Red Letter Media. Maybe there's some horrible thing I don't know about, but I think they're still pretty funny.
 
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I'd go with SomeOrdinaryGamers, I've love using their deep web browsing sessions as background noise.
 
Scott Manley, Tim Dodd/Everyday Astronaut, Ian McCollum/Forgotten Weapons/InRangeTV, Othais/C&Rsenal, Matt Easton/Scholagladiatoria, Ramsey Dewey, and Indy Neidell/The Great War are great. I would say that if you look at serious history/science/hobby YouTubers lolcows are actually more uncommon than not. It's more in comedy, review, and gaming content that they accumulate.
 
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