When an engineering youtuber arms a robot, I block.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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The Young Turks.
It was annoying me for a while but I had been a paid member for years and watched their whole show every day. I noticed them giving a bit too much ground to the right and Anna swinging too right for my taste but Cenk was still left enough to let it pass.
I don't remember what finally convinced me but my yearly subscription was coming up and I just couldn't see myself watching it anymore so I unsubscribed and cut off my membership.
I pay for The Majority Report, The Humanist Report, and Kyle Kulinski and those are people I don't think will be betraying the left.
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Ads and background music. Ads seems to be a trajectory (second stage stopping videos that i only had marginal interest in when ads appear, third stage skipping over videos/channels that have developed an "ad-ick"), BGM is stranger... like they don't test their videos with headphones or i can't hear than talking over the music, or binaural beats make my head feel like it's going to explode.
I'm really close to dropping Dwarkesh Patel after he gave a platform to AI bros and Musk.
He used to have proper researchers and scientists on. Now it's unwatchable shit.
Can't think of anyone i dropped for a specific reason since Roosterteeth/Ryan Heywood. I never really dropped AvE even with his dumb conservative shit because he was always a moron and was up front about it. I guess i will not though because I didnt know he want as cookoo as full magat, but i can see how he'd turn that way.
Idk I saw roosterteeth going toxic for a while and got much more sparing with my subscriptions back then. I'll always shout out Ray Narvaez Jr. And his lovely wife Tina for being some of the best on YouTube for a long time now. Honorary mention to Matt, Chibi, and Nagzz to round out the pissboy crew.
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Didn't entirely drop, but I'm watching less and less of Well There's Your Problem. I was lucky to find them very early on, when it was still Donoteat01's channel. They're doing their own thing now and don't care what anyone says, that's great, but now they're 90% banter and only 10% content. They are funny but you can't have so much filler. Why are these episodes hours and hours long?
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YouTube. So...all of them, I guess. Nothing about the format ever clicked for me. I can't listen to someone spend ten minutes telling me ten seconds of content. I abhor what YouTube did to content creation on the internet.
I do enjoy cat videos.
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Haters Garage because I saw a Trump sign in his yard
Building Ugly Machines because they got a nice shop and started building nice machines
I Did a Thing and Boy Boy because of their anti-gun collab video. There's nothing quite so uniquely ignorant and irritating as loudly having a strong opinion on something you readily admit to knowing nothing about and openly claiming you will never change your mind about it under any circumstances, ever.
Cam Sandwich because he became Scott the Wozz for board games
Every Rust-Tuber because I stopped playing Rust
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Sounds ridiculous, but somewhat recently stopped watching Jabo cause he started censoring his videos. I can't stand it, I'm well into my 30s and you can say fuck on the Internet. I get pandering to the algorithm, but it is jarring when every other sentence has a bleep in it
With all the "AI" demonetization on yt I am not surprised some have gone a bit heavy handed.
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