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Channel 5 after the allegations

It pains me to say it, but I don't watch any new AVGN episodes. James has gotten into that phase where he's just a parody of himself now. In the old episodes, it seems like he GENUINELY gets angry at the games, but nowadays it's very clear that he's acting. His crude humor and angry rants just come off as obligatory and contrived now. The old episodes had a VIBE to them, like you're in a dark basement playing games with a weird nerd. The new episodes just feel like a polished, scripted show. And I know James has to make money, but seeing the Nerd do an ad read is just too jarring. I hate it.

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

That one Canadian dude who says chooch and doll hairs a lot because he started showing his trumpy conservative side and it got weird.

I really liked Kyle Hill until he started spouting Rationalist bullshit and advocating the views of Eliezer Yudkowsky. He did a video on Rocco’s Basilisk and I dropped his channel.

Mark Rober: I don't want my views converted to money that goes to the Mormon cult.

Ordinary Sausage. His Mark Ruffalo scale is complete bullshit.

Just kidding. Best channel on YT ever

Edit: Adventures with Purpose. The lying pedo was a major scumbag. Met him once. Knew something was off.

Linus tech tips, after letting his son go through and pick parts to build a computer on top of everything else I just couldn't stand it.

SV Seeker nuked everything so it's not like I would watch it i could but I found the channel because of the build stuff.

Mike Patey, the man had money... yes he works hard. Some people can run on that little sleep. Then he pulled a derp and wrecked the plane on takeoff. Next I start seeing the new mansion build.

Abom79, again I loved the build videos. When my shoulder was healing and I had to sleep sitting up (which sucks so bad they had to give me ambien to sleep just 3 hours) I would watch his videos and get some naps in no clue why but watching the machining was so fascinating but it would make me nod off like a drunk redneck watching NASCAR. Pretty soon it's let's talk about my new tool that some company gave me. And vacation travel.

There was one where a guy in Asia built a house and cleared the land diverted a stream for water and Tools. Had the fish pond etc. No talking just doing things. Then his sister started a channel and things just flopped.

There have been a few others who changed their identity when they got popular. ___

I really liked William Osman back in the day. But there definitely was a tonal shift in his videos after his house burned down and for some reason I just completely lost all interest in his content. I'm not even sure what it is, I just get bummed out whenever I try to watch anything of his.

I forget the channel names because it’s been awhile and I blocked them from my algorithm. But one literally yelled at his audience for criticizing his gross overuse of AI and the other person (who is white) started saying shit like “black fatigue.”

Dropped them both real quick.

Marquez Brownlee. I lost trust in his sincerity and in his personal life he's an asshole with multiple speeding offenses.

Unbox therapy. Infomercials. The whole influencer thing does not influence me.

Mighty cad mods. They went from "how to install a new suspension" to "let's put a 2JZ on a random car for the 25th time" and that got boring really fast.

Asmongold. He was really chill and a good watch for a while. But then he suddenly started to talk about politics all the time.