Ask Lemmy

Pretty recently I stopped watching Oneyplays. They were a Let's Play/comedy channel in the same vain as Game Grumps and TheRunawayGuys, and they got me through some really hard times including COVID.

They were always kind of risque, but I assumed they knew their jokes were edgy, and not to be said in the real world. (to be fair, that is true with a lot of the old members)

For the last year or two though, most of the best members have left or aren't on half as much as they used to be, and they've been doubling down on their controversial jokes. Everything's "cuck this, soy that, estrogen the other" and half the "jokes" are just homophobic and racial slurs that they have to censor out afterwards. Even if you have a thick skin to that kind of stuff, it's just so repetitive and unfunny now.

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?

When an engineering youtuber arms a robot, I block.

Gamermuscle, when he started just making rant videos talking a lot of nonsense about force-feedback and other general whingeing..

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

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.

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.

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.

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.