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

Fucking sick and tired of clickbait, especially in this modern era where clickbait is already heavily frowned upon. Metatron was a history channel that's now dabbling into commentary/drama with titles/thumbnails akin to shit content that penguinz0 spews out:

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I would have expected this brand of gay shit from low-effort channels like Charlie, but Metatron is supposed to be a history Youtuber.
 
I've seen a specifically bad one of a top X list that had every part of it made so each ranking can be uploaded later as a Youtuber short, with a "like and subscribe" plug. That's like a next level laziness.
yes its no longer like

TOP TEN JRPGS YOU MISSED
its like TEN MORE JRPGS YOU MISSED
 
While I do like retrospectives, I have a pet peeve when the "retrospective" is just a drawn out synopsis where the reviewer talks about what they liked or didn't like in their playthrough. A good Morrowind retrospective might be broken up by faction /questline, maybe including lore about the faction or information about who at Bethesda wrote it, Kirbride or Howard or maybe it was Emil if Bloodmoon. Stuff like that. Show that you have some expertise on the subject or did some research. You don't just explain your playtime in Morrowind.

Doing a synopsis is the longform equivalent of top ten videos. It's lazy and people don't notice just because it's long.
Fully agree, Patrician TV and Running Shine are some of my favorite retrospective channels. While both do talk about their play through, they also bring in why the game was designed that way, who the developers were, things that could be fix, etc. In Patrician's case he does a good job equating the Elder Scrolls games to Table Top games and how they differ and ways they could be brought closer together.

There was some channel that did a Paper Mario "retrospective" and as soon as I realized he was just given a play by play I turned it off and asked youtube to not recommend me the channel. What's they point of just telling me the synopsis? I can just read the Wikipedia page or a gamefaqs walkthrough at that point.
 
Fully agree, Patrician TV and Running Shine are some of my favorite retrospective channels. While both do talk about their play through, they also bring in why the game was designed that way, who the developers were, things that could be fix, etc. In Patrician's case he does a good job equating the Elder Scrolls games to Table Top games and how they differ and ways they could be brought closer together.

There was some channel that did a Paper Mario "retrospective" and as soon as I realized he was just given a play by play I turned it off and asked youtube to not recommend me the channel. What's they point of just telling me the synopsis? I can just read the Wikipedia page or a gamefaqs walkthrough at that point.
Yeah pat is who i based my example on lol
 
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Fully agree, Patrician TV and Running Shine are some of my favorite retrospective channels. While both do talk about their play through, they also bring in why the game was designed that way, who the developers were, things that could be fix, etc. In Patrician's case he does a good job equating the Elder Scrolls games to Table Top games and how they differ and ways they could be brought closer together.

There was some channel that did a Paper Mario "retrospective" and as soon as I realized he was just given a play by play I turned it off and asked youtube to not recommend me the channel. What's they point of just telling me the synopsis? I can just read the Wikipedia page or a gamefaqs walkthrough at that point.
Running Shine does the nice kind of retrospectives but he uploads like one video a year though. I like Majuular and Dungeon Chill although they do fall into the same tired trope of retelling every event in the game in order, but at least their videos are more enjoyable to listen to than most

I think the only people worthwhile still on that shitty aids ridden platform are either small-ish channels that talk about very niche stuff (between 10k and 50k subscribers that never seem to grow past that) and/or people who upload once every full moon.

99.9999% of youtube right now is chatgtp written bullshit that will absolutely spam your feed daily even after you told youtube to stop recommending that shit. The people that do the exact opposite only stand out more because of it but seriously the ammount of trash spam has increased like 100 fold in just the last year or so.

I specially hate podcast channels that post decent content, the podcast itself is good to listen to, but after every episode they upload like 20 short videos with the podcast highligths every day filling your subscription feed with spam until they upload a new episode, it drives me mad.
 
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Fucking sick and tired of clickbait, especially in this modern era where clickbait is already heavily frowned upon. Metatron was a history channel that's now dabbling into commentary/drama with titles/thumbnails akin to shit content that penguinz0 spews out:

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I would have expected this brand of gay shit from low-effort channels like Charlie, but Metatron is supposed to be a history Youtuber.
>moves to America
>becomes clickbaiter
 
May sound spergy but whenever youtubers add background music to their videos. That's not to say I can't stand it, but it's rarely done right and just distracts me from whatever the hell the creator is trying to say.
Even worse when they use animal crossing or undertale music, which seems to be the standard for low effort commentary.
 
I only say this as a gimmick because it seems like a lot of commentators, video essayist, or challenge run youtubers do it, but I really hate it when someone does a scripted dramatic sigh. Like when someone is on a tangent about something, sighs, then says "I guess I'll have to cover that someday," sighs again. Or when doing a challenge run and something fails and in their voice over they do a big sigh and say "well that wasn't supposed to happen" or something similar. If it's in real time and the sigh comes from an actual reaction it's fine, but it's just annoying when scripted.
 
-Changing their voices, I hate it when female YouTubers do that baby-voice thing
This kinda shit specifically has made me kinda schizo level wary every time I hear a high pitched voice on youtube that's not some tranny badly pitching their voice up using some software. You can usually immediately tell if someone's doing a fake voice or not solely by watching shit where they get an unavoidable natural reaction to stimuli but because of the amount of ones I've seen that have like gone from normal voice tone to fake ass baby voice every time i hear some woman with a nasally or whiny/mildly raspy sounding voice even if I know they aren't faking shit it fucking starts eating at the back of my brain if I listen to them for too long.

I only say this as a gimmick because it seems like a lot of commentators, video essayist, or challenge run youtubers do it, but I really hate it when someone does a scripted dramatic sigh. Like when someone is on a tangent about something, sighs, then says "I guess I'll have to cover that someday," sighs again. Or when doing a challenge run and something fails and in their voice over they do a big sigh and say "well that wasn't supposed to happen" or something similar. If it's in real time and the sigh comes from an actual reaction it's fine, but it's just annoying when scripted.
This kinda shit unironically drives me up the fucking wall too, shit's usually paired with a fucking condescending tirade about something extremely petty, accusatory, and unrelated to the video obviously put in to pad out watch time.
 
This kinda shit unironically drives me up the fucking wall too, shit's usually paired with a fucking condescending tirade about something extremely petty, accusatory, and unrelated to the video obviously put in to pad out watch time.

And given "current year", it's almost always going to be some Leftist tirade about bullshit no one in the real world gives a damn about.
 
It feels weird, as someone with a YouTube channel, reading these things and noticing that I have a good chunk of them in my videos. None of the overtly-faggy stuff, but I have a tendency to throw in fake sighs and splatter my script on the screen.
bisexual lighting
Someone please explain to me what the hell this means.

Now, when it comes to MY pet peeves, you know a game review is going to be a fat load of nothing when it starts with a thirty-something-year-old man facing the camera, cartridge in hand, spending the first five minutes introducing himself, the game, and how he first came across it back when he was a wee lad first witnessing the cartridge for Body Conquest on an inconspicuous bookshelf at the humble abode of his dearest companion, and then begging his mom for a copy to himself. And then it cuts to the guy actually reviewing the game over uncut, unedited footage of the first couple of levels where you can still hear the sound effects over his voice.
Far less offensive, though still not great, is when you have a young adult superimposing green screen footage of himself onto standard footage of the game he's talking about, trying to make it look like he's actually part of the game.
 
Someone please explain to me what the hell this means.
It's just overly flashy lighting effects, but in a wider context can refer to excessive attention to aesthetics while the actual content is lacking. It's called "bisexual" because a common technique is to use blue lighting on one side and pink/purple on the other, making the room look like a strip club. Common offenders are Contrapoints, TJ and breadtubers in general.
 
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.
Glad someone already said this.

I’ll add that I really dislike when YouTubers intentionally withhold information (usually in a tutorial) because they “already have a video on that” or “will be making a separate video on that”. Not too bad on its own, but a lot of the time they don’t bother to link the other damn video! And even if they do, they don’t tell you the relevant part, so you have to go scrubbing through a totally different video to get that one bit of information they didn’t want to cover.
 
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*.
This is what I hate about CinnamonToastKen or Oompaville: they're grown men pushing 40 who chaotically edit their videos like they're for Zoomers on TikTok. It gives me a headache to try to sit through one minute of their videos. I tried to watch some of Ken's videos since he reacted to old To Catch a Predator episodes, but I couldn't tolerate the extreme ADHD-style editing.
 
- abrupt volume changes, or music that fades in, overwhelms the narration, then fades out for no reason
The random music is probably some gay ass slide or something. I exclusively listen to people talking in my ears usually while I do something else. Nothing pisses me off as much as say Legal Mindset (who is a much bigger weeb than I had possibly imagined from hearing Josh and Gunt speak of him) having his dumb fucking outro music or whatever being multiple decibels louder than his voice while my hands are busy so I get force ear raped. Pretty sure this was a very recent thing too as I use NewPipe and just queue'd his channel.

Another thing that absolutely fucking kills me for YouTube videos is the soundboard shit as well. While Potentially Criminal's use was kinda funny at some points I still don't like hearing the same audio clip over and over again.
Also, sponsor slots fucking SUCK, I listen to shit like Historia Militum at times and it drives me crazy to have to skip his bullshit ass BetterHelp sponsor segment that goes on for a full fucking 2 minutes. Makes me wish that NewPipe had integrated something for that sponsor block plugin.
sighs, then says "I guess I'll have to cover that someday," sighs again.
This shit makes me violent, especially since it's so unnecessary and just takes your attention off what you're already listening to just to know that you'll get a deep dive of some other bullshit drama. I feel like it should be more of a drama thing but I could totally hear some fag like Mandalore throwing that in mid review of some other game.
 
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