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Philip DeFranco. I watched him for over a decade then after covid I started picking one or two stories from the video to read about and I was pretty disappointed by how often it was mispresented. After a bit its obvious its intentional by what's being left out. Even though we still had the same politics I dont want to watch someone who intentionally skews the stories by leaving out key facts. I can arrive at the right conclusion with the whole story.

The Gaming Historian - he stopped making videos (good for him to stop before it became a chore)

The Escapist - everyone left for Second Wind after they tried to lay off people

Shadiversity. Guy made some really interesting videos breaking down different kinds of historical melee weapons, showing how, when, and why they were used. Genuinely interesting content until he started randomly spewing right wing nonsense a few years ago.

Mike Rowe gave a platform to JD fucking Vance to spew his nazi bullshit.

Crazy Russian Hacker/Taras Kul, videos were really explaining science in an interesting and funny way but now seem like TeleShopping but for useless items.

A long time ago I watched DistroTube a lot. He made content about Linux and Emacs, just chatting about it into a mic. It was relaxing content.

Then one day he uploaded a video about his gun, why he has a gun and gun rights and shit. He had all sorts of dumb takes, I don't even remember. After that I just couldn't watch him anymore.

I used enjoy the critical drinker. But his videos got anti-woke instead of just being critical of bad writing.

The last straw was him on a podcast agreeing with right wingers/maga/fascists.

I blocked him since then. Not sure if he was always like that or just fell down a dark rabbit hole.

I used to watch a lot of fishing/outdoors channels.

during covid all but one of the outdoor channels I watched either did straight up covid denial, or went full mask off on their right wing extremism in general and with crazy conspiracy theories about covid, so I dropped them.

I also dropped bigclive around the same time, because he thought people getting sick from vaping was, iirc, some kind of government hoax or something, while also engaging in the whole "covids just the cold, stop being silly" type of denialism, Which really sucked cause I used to love his content.. but I havent watched since.

Pretty much every gun youtuber. So many of them have MAGA vibes. I used to like garandthumb, but his constant anti lgbt quips in the intros made it too hard to give him views

Whistlindiesel, I already was getting bad vibes from him when he started doing literal vigelante harassment of folks, when he did a video with cops, and his fawning over the Killdozer idiot. Wrapping a lambo in Trump shit was the most "last straw" last straw in history.

Jeff Geerling, over his past homophobic blog posts, such as: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617080935/https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2011/exodus-app-%E2%80%93-pulled-app-store

Best Ever Food Review Show. I was a fan and really enjoyed the content, then they hosted Joe Rogan. I left and never looked back. Fuck Joe Rogan.

Stephanie Sterling. I like her still, I don't share many of the complaints that other people field. But her content just didn't really evolve as my preferences did, and after years of the same complaints it felt like not a good use of my time.

She's said many times she doesn't mind dwindling view counts as long as she gets to make content on her own terms, so that's fair.

SomeOrdinaryGamers, because of him lying about being an engineer and because his content amounted to little more than slop drama.

I used to love H3 back in the early days for their It's Time to Stop videos holding people to account. But then they got big and wealthy and had kids and now everything is aimed at whoever doesn't like them, and I mean who tf would given their stance on killing innocent children and journalists. Threw out the t-shirt I bought. Such a disappointment.