For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.
But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.
His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.
So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.
We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.
MKBHD, Linus, Most of the tech reviewing kids who got money and then hired an entire staff and in lots of cases also bought up really good solo YouTubers.
Motherfcking Casey Neistat. He was never an amazing person, his exploitation of his wife’s ass in thumbnails and being comfortable with click bait titles always felt off. But he’s a masterful propagandist and videographer until I saw him waving Israeli flags at pro Palestine protests during a filmed documentary.
Linus was never solo, literally staff day 1. As his staff slowly leave they make some cool new channels though.
All of the Neistats. I got tricked into thinking they had something to say and/or teach. Nope, just a few guys up their own ass.
I think Veritasium is doing it right. They have new people presenting in videos, but Derek is always there tying everything together.
They were sold to private equity and are slowly transitioning it away from Derek. That way it can be a brand not directly tied to him and his face
Their content is at least still fairly high quality. It’s just a lot more now
And Derek is now basically just a taking head / presenter
Yeah, I love the new faces, hope Derek doesn’t leave, but if he does, he’s leaving it in good hands.