What Are Some Youtube Channels You Used to Watch?

Natetalkstoyou used to be one of my favorites during the early days of youtube, however I stopped following after his upload schedule became inconsistent. The final straw was the ben shapiro transgender video. Granted I hate shapiro, but this video is full of pro-transgender nonsense and garbage.
I once dropped something like sixty musicology/theory channels in a few days because some YouTube analytics genius convinced them all to become Ben Shapiro response channels.

Anything by or about Ben Shapiro has negative value, so I don't know what they all had to say about him, but I guess what happened is he made a comment about not considering hiphop to be musical because it's too repetitive and unmelodic. Somehow this demands refutation by everyone who does so much as own a kazoo. I own something like a thousand rap albums—and at least 90 records by The Fall—so obviously I disagree with Shapiro's idea of musicality. But normal people tend to have the same kind of idea, that music = narrative-analogous sonic developments and "tunes," because most published/recorded music is like that and that's what they like about it.

Who gives a fuck? I don't have to DESTROY anyone with FACTS AND LOGIC in order to make, enjoy, and understand music. A famous person having the same opinion as the average person is fine.

This is a rare contrarian attitude, apparently. I can invent arguments against it, but they're all wrong and dumb—despite their popularity among certain classes of people. Just like "Rap isn't music."
 
Knox's korner.

Then I forgot about him, went back, only to find that he stopped doing klay.
 
i remember some kid who made these crude family guy-style vulgar dubbed-over gamecube (later wii) animal crossing videos in the late 2000s. at one point his channel got suspended due to copyright so he made a new one with "64" added at the end. only video title i can sorta remember is "[protagonist] boycotts tom nook over raising price of milk by 1%". wonder if anyone else is familiar with/remembers this
 
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i remember some kid who made these crude family guy-style vulgar dubbed-over gamecube (later wii) animal crossing videos in the late 2000s. at one point his channel got suspended due to copyright so he made a new one with "64" added at the end. only video title i can sorta remember is "[protagonist] boycotts tom nook over raising price of milk by 1%". wonder if anyone else is familiar with/remembers this
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Here’s the news story covering his arrest.


He also legally changed his name to Xagmus Xeale. He bans anyone that brings it up, has never talked about it. On an old forum someone claiming to be his ex wife or girlfriend said that he had groomed the girl into believing they were in a relationship but since that can’t be verified YMMV dude gives off chomo vibes like crazy though so I tend to believe it
 
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I had always heard he changed his name to Magus Xenoheart.

Lorerunner is a huge fag. I watched some of his stuff like a decade ago when Mass Effect 3 came out and he'd just record rants about the ending while he was "working" in some IT office or something. It'd usually knock me out when I had a hard time sleeping. I'm pretty sure he was actually filming when he got fired and had to edit it out and then do a jump cut to him sitting in his bedroom or something to finish one of his rants.

I quit watching him entirely when I found out about the pedo stuff, but it wasn't that shocking. He always gave off weirdo vibes with his goofy hair and shit. The biggest thing I was worried about was the fact that when I stopped watching him he was living with someone he claimed was his sister and would talk crazy about how his niece was the most important person in his life, and then I found out like a year ago she was't even really his sister just some chick he became friends with in World of Warcraft.
 
Game Theory and Film Theory

Somewhere along the road MatPat realized hey I could manipulate the algorithm by talking about new and trending movies/games and theorize potential plot twists and lore. Clearly not what I came to either channel for, I came for the science and/or history behind games/movies/TV narrative elements (nearly a decade ago). Food Theory still keeps that spirit though, so I watch once a while.
 
Here’s the news story covering his arrest.


He also legally changed his name to Xagmus Xeale. He bans anyone that brings it up, has never talked about it. On an old forum someone claiming to be his ex wife or girlfriend said that he had groomed the girl into believing they were in a relationship but since that can’t be verified YMMV dude gives off chomo vibes like crazy though so I tend to believe it
Now that someone says it all the pieces fall together in my mind. Id listen to his YouTube videos between other channels. Always felt there was something off with him especially with the wigs( I think they were wigs) from his older videos & his habit to over indulge himself, but he seemed just like any other internet content person. But hearing this, I can totally see it
 
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Now that someone says it all the pieces fall together in my mind. Id listen to his YouTube videos between other channels. Always felt there was something off with him especially with the wigs( I think they were wigs) from his older videos & his habit to over indulge himself, but he seemed just like any other internet content person. But hearing this, I can totally see it
Yeah, like @ProblematicUser420 said, I mainly listened to him to help fall asleep (he does have a good voice for that I’ll concede) but the more you pay attention to his oversharing the more you raise an eyebrow at the inconsistencies.

Little things like lying about his age (nobody cares how old you are dude) and his over exaggerated distaste of risqué or sexual scenes in games (he’d always say he’s a prude but knowing what we do about him it just weirds me out him acting that way) his absolute refusal to discuss politics or current events (which I liked) but then follow it up with ACAB in any game that featured cops.

His weird old video on FFVI where he starts crying saying the game saved him from suicide sounds phony as well. I’m honestly surprised there’s not a cow thread on him yet. Might have to do some deep digging and change that
 
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Here's a list of channels I either no longer watch or rarely watch, however it's not meant to be any ill will towards their creators. I have no hatred nor contempt for these Youtube channels, but I no longer keep up with their content for a variety of reasons, but mainly due to them being one-trick ponies who wore out their welcomes.

Again, I don't hate any of these channels -- I just don't have a need to keep up with them:

Joshua Fluke: I used to binge this guy's channel a few years back when I was in a job rut. Josh's whole gimmick is exposing cringey corporate culture for companies as well as complaining about office practices like HR departments, job recruiting hell, working onsite instead of remotely, hustle culture, resumes, Boomers, and every other thing involved with white collar work. In pre-pandemic times, I loved this guy's stuff as he was preaching to the choir, because I was in a shitty job situation where I was sending out hundreds of resumes and getting a handful of interviews for low-paying contract jobs that made me commute an hour and a half onsite. However, since then I've found a really great and comfy job that has excellent pay and benefits, allows me to remotely work, and doesn't make my life a living hell with commuting. That being said, I'm still subscribed to his channel... but I have absolutely no reason to keep up with his outrage porn of "[insert Fortune 500 company] has a new policy and it's cringe!"

Louis Rossmann: He's a tech/repair channel that got big a while back for doing bikeride cam videos of the decay of NYC, but the majority of his content is a hybrid of complaining about "right to repair" laws and the downfall of NYC culture. As a former Brooklyn resident who never goes to the city anymore, I honestly really don't care about the fate of NYC, so I stopped caring about Louis' bike cam videos to show how shitty the city is now; trust me, I take his word for it. Also since right to repair is a one trick pony, I don't need to see multiple uploads per day discussing it. Again, not to hate on Louis (since he seems like a great guy and he does good work), but I lost interest in his content.

Jake Tran: I actually discovered his channel fairly recently and binged his content since he would make really great entryway redpill videos for normies (like uncovering Nestle and Monsanto), but in a short amount of time he devolved into clickbait and fearmongering. If you look at his videos from last year, he would have blatant videos and thumbnails that had titles/art like "Nestle is the most evil company on the planet" but lately his videos have thumbnails with some random CEO with red laser eyes and titles along the lines of "Wow, we're all gonna die next year!". It's a shame, too, because his channel was blowing up and he was dropping some solid redpills.

Joey's TCaP Channel: To be honest, the guy is kind of teetering on cowdom. He was a prominent To Catch a Predator channel from the 2010's prior to the big Chris Hansen controversy, but since TCaP fandom has really subsided since then, the guy has waned into irrelevancy and instead milks TCaP memes by uploading low-effort videos of former TCaP predators in their modern settings. For example, he really has a hardon for Lorne Armstrong (oh cawd!) and has a bunch of candid videos of Lorne in his personal life doing mundane shit. I just don't get it. If you're gonna watch anyone's Predator videos, I recommend Mista GG or O-rested Development -- the latter is criminally underrated.

Camelot331: Similar to the same reason as Joshua Fluke, Camelot331 is kind of a one-trick pony who I lost interest with especially since I'm not working for a shitty company with the boss from hell anymore. Camelot got big because he was a former GameStop employee who left the company on bad terms and made a bunch of rant videos on how bad the company is. They were enjoyable at first, but now his channel devolved into him reading off viewer submissions of horrible shit that wagies are forced to do at low-paying jobs -- but a lot of it seems questionable and exaggerated. I also got kind of annoyed with his accent: I've heard him in a podcast before where he speaks with his normal voice -- he actually has a Southern accent, but it's not nearly as pronounced or thick as his "character" voice where he plays up being from Alabama. Again, I'm not hating on Camelot, but I honestly don't care to see another clickbait video about "You won't BELIEVE what this Taco Bell manager did!". On Twitter, however he's actually really based.

John Michael Godier: Subdued astronomer and sci-fi author who makes list videos about space facts and theories. He made enjoyable background noise a while back because he didn't radiate Vsauce soy energy, but quite frankly I find his videos boring now. I try to occasionally listen to his videos with titles like "10 reasons why might be living in a black hole now" and find myself zoning out and ignoring everything within minutes. The best way to summarize this guy is that he's basically WhatIfAltHist but with astronomy instead of history.

ItsAGundam: Basically more outrage news ala TheQuartering, only with less soy and with more annoying New Jersey accent. I like the guy and agree with his political takes for the most part, but he can milk out a single headline into a 20 minute video. Like Camelot, he's actually more enjoyable on Twitter than he is on Youtube, so there's that.

Whimsu / KnowledgeHub: The former is a spinoff of the latter, and both channels rarely upload and instead release videos sporadically for topics I don't care about such as modern tech and video game consoles. Back in the early days of KnowledgeHub (when he would partner with his brother Cody) the videos were still sporadic but highly-anticipated. Post-2019 KnowledgeHub radically shifted in format, but I still kept up anyway until he changed his style in recent months. I still occasionally watch KnowledgeHub, BUT I find myself less interested in his videos and only watch parts of them before tuning out.

SwankyBox: Gaming channel where the guy explores custom edited versions of Nintendo games (especially N64) to see if he can play them. It was mildly amusing at first, but again, he's yet another one-trick pony. I honestly don't care to see another video titled "Can you beat Super Mario 64 without collecting coins!?"

There are a bunch more, but these are the ones that come to mind. Again, I want to make this very clear that I do not hate any of these aforementioned channels, and that I'm still subscribed to all of them -- I just rarely watch their videos, I don't keep track of new uploads, and for some I don't even have the bell notification clicked because I don't eagerly anticipate their new stuff. Some of them I follow on Twitter, and they seem like cool and reasonable people.
 
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Completely agree with the Rossman take above, seems like a all around good person, and he's fun to return to every few months. But after a week or two I've gotten my fill and thus leave him be for a few months till I randomly have him pop back into my head or my recommendation feed.

Thunderf00t's another one which falls into the same pattern for me, well outside of the whole being a nice person thing, he seems to be a bit of a cunt. Watching a video or two of him debunking bullshit science is fun, watching more than that though becomes tedious. That's especially true if they're apart of a long series, as he really likes reusing older content. Great if you've missed the videos in question or if you haven't watched them in a long time, but really gets on your nerves if you have done so.
 
Clan of the Gray Wolf
Used to really like their 16-Bit Gems videos. Stopped watching one day and forgot about them entirely until just recently. Their channel's been dead for 5 years now, but for their last year of production they had apparently stopped making interesting scripted videos in favor of making Generic Gamer Podcast #4,556,211. I don't think I missed much.

Game Grumps
I thought they were pretty funny until around the time Steam Train ended. I don't know if they got less funny or I just grew out of them, probably both.

Continue?
I just got burned out on them, every video started to feel the same after a while. I'm surprised they're still making videos after all this time. Good on them, I guess.

Channel Awesome
I watched a lot of CA back in like 2009-2011 when I had way too much free time on my hands. I lost interest after Kickassia. I consider a screechy manchild giving Space Jam the MST3K treatment an acceptable level of spergery. The weird meta lore about internet critics saving the world or whatever took them above my sperg threshold.

Cinema Snob
The only CA producer I kept watching after that. I lost interest when he started covering Christian movies like War Room and Kirk Cameron Saves Christmas or whatever. I'm interested in slasher movies and 1960s Italian ripoffs, not boring fundie propaganda.

Zero Punctuation
In the time it takes to watch a ZP video, I can read a dozen Steam reviews that are infinitely more useful in helping me decide if I'm going to like a game or not. I used to watch his reviews for the jokes, but I got tired of his comedy after the 500th iteration of "every AAA first-person shooter is ass-full of more cockwarbling stumpfuckery than a tit-hungry dickwolf."
 
Not sure if this is considered a necro or not, but I've got quite a list.

Armake21: Didn't have much of a choice in the matter, there was some kind of drama among his fanbase, he hopped from channel to channel after his ex-girlfriend deleted his original, going from Nicotine Alien now to TheWaste0Time and now he hasn't posted anything for months at least. Used to be pretty fucking funny and a whole lot edgier than AVGN, his Batman Vengeance review was hilarious.

The Creatures: Their entire business model basically fucking imploded because Jordan [Kootra] decided to hire a girl he wanted to smash, while at the same time making everyone else in the office sign a contract that they wouldn't fraternize with coworkers. Jordan and her became an item, and from what I understand a bunch of drama ensued that resulted in Nova [James] and ImmortalHD [Aleks] leaving to found Cow Chop and taking quite a bit of talent with them out the door. Jordan and Dan [DanzNewz] tried to persist but they were left with the dregs, basically. People that no-one really found entertaining or liked, like Spencer for example. Along with that they tried to pivot toward a less risky, more 'child friendly' atmosphere and I had no interest in that. Eventually The Creatures died, now most of the original members are either livestreaming or working in the gaming industry. Before Cow Chop split off you could tell James was getting fed up with some of the stupid decisions Jordan and Dan made.

Cow Chop: James' and Aleks' "start-up" that resulted from the implosion of The Creatures. Kept the sort of 'edgy' Jackass vibe that The Creatures had lost over the years and rode it pretty hard, making consistently good content. James got shoved into early retirement because he fucked up his leg + shoulder fucking around on a skate ramp, supposedly he left the rest of the crew kind of high and dry but I'm not sure how much of that is true. They persisted after losing quite a few of their primary guys, though, and to give them credit they were pumping out quality content until the end. Not quite as good as the House Era before they were evicted, but still pretty good. Anyway, LA is fucking expensive and crowded and it took a toll on a lot of them, and eventually they had to call it quits. I still think moving to LA was kind of a shit idea but that's where Brett and a lot of the other guys were so it makes sense.

UberHaxorNova: James' solo channel, still a decent channel but he's primarily into livestreaming now and I'm not a big fan of gaming streams. I don't know who the fuck has time to sit and watch someone play a game for six or seven hours but it's not me, and the audience interaction is pretty tiresome. Also, he got deep into GTA RP which isn't my cup of tea.

AmazingAtheist: Other people here have written why they stopped listening to him, my reason is pretty much the same. I realized he was an edgy neckbeard and a grifter, and his pivot from Anti-SJW content over to gargling tranny balls made that all the more apparent. I also listened to his podcast a few times and Paul is a whiny cunt and TJ himself is way too fucking abrasive to listen to for long periods of time.

Undertakerfreak1127: He was part of the atheist YouTube movement and bumped elbows with TJ a few times, found him entertaining for a while but eventually all of his shit got samey, some girl took over his Facebook and posted his dick allover the internet, and then he later moved to Finland or some shit and no longer makes content. I got bored of his shtick long before that.

MuesReviews/MuesProductions/Marc Mues: Used to make primarily music reviews, which I liked because I hated pop music. He also made some riffs on old commercials, old sitcoms, etc. He got into a relationship with some fat dangerhair with tattoos that make her look like a fucking men's room stall at a truck stop and of course the prospect of pussy made him do a 180 on politics, as it often does. Wouldn't have cared if he hadn't felt the need to shoehorn his political beliefs into his videos, but he did. They're apparently in some kind of weird fucking polycule and he posts pictures of his bulge on Twitter for men. Another content creator that ended up with terminal TDS.

Caddicarus: He still makes decent content now and then but he's also pretty obnoxious politically. Protip: if you like someone's YouTube content, don't look at their Twitter page, it's always full of TDS meltdowns and tranny apologia.

NerdCubed: I dipped out sometime around the 4th fucking time he 'rebooted' and 'restructured' his channel, which he would do like every three months. He also allowed his political sperging to breach his videos and suffered from terminal TDS. He also ragequit Reddit because his sub wasn't hugboxy enough for him, and his girlfriend/wife had to get on the sub to defend his honor from mild criticism. As far as I know he now makes videos playing with Legos and plays shitty indie game of the week #3378.

Revenge of the Cis: Show nosedived in quality, very low energy, they spend way too much fucking time looking at Instagram profiles of news anchor ladies. The shtick got boring. All they do is watch Tucker Carlson and commentate over him, if I want to watch Tucker Carlson I can go do that, your show shouldn't be propped up by another show.

Tim Pool/The Quartering: In the case of both, all of their fucking videos are the same, all they do is read a fucking news article out loud and go "wow man this is crazy, CIVIL WAR is coming" with regard to whatever culture war shit got kicked up this week.

I probably have some more I could throw in here but these are the main ones I could recall.
 
Resonant ARC

He makes long form videos about JRPGs but slowly I realised how up his own ass he was. Absolutely cannot handle criticism or being disagreed with. Just a complete arrogant cunt.
 
There was a dude who played call of duty and made videos with him making kids angry, I just zoned out and I dont even play CoD or anything, i just enjoyed people rage in the game

I remember that he had a guitar in his room. That is all.

Because of this thread, I went into my subscriptions and started cleaning it up. I had 402 and right now is 250. Most of the channels were of youtubers that just stopped uploading, some I had to push the bell (holy shit gtv japan, get a better channel name please, your content is great).

Nowadays I use youtube mostly on the TV so tjr subscriptions dont always work. But it is kinda sad that the number went down so much.
 
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InRangeTV - Firearms channel that used to be closely associated with Forgotten Weapons. Dude behind it got more political over the years and well, satanistcommies can fuck off.

Thunderf00t's another one which falls into the same pattern for me, well outside of the whole being a nice person thing, he seems to be a bit of a cunt. Watching a video or two of him debunking bullshit science is fun, watching more than that though becomes tedious. That's especially true if they're apart of a long series, as he really likes reusing older content. Great if you've missed the videos in question or if you haven't watched them in a long time, but really gets on your nerves if you have done so.
Oh yeah. Its great to see him shit on the latest techgrift or fad, but that dude cant help but freebase his own farts.
 
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