A_Random_Idiot, (edited )

I used to watch Big Clive and supported him on Patreon.

Then he started going off on wild shit about weird conspiracy theories about vapes being harmless, and government just wanting to get rid of them and lying about the lung damage or something to that accord… and of course, Covid had to come into it to, where he made wild claims about it just being a regular flu and the whole response was blown out of proportion and really dismissing it as a threat.

I dont know how far he’s fallen since then since I cancelled my patreon and fucked off from viewing.

gila,

JW what “the lung damage” you’re referring to? EVALI is widely understood to have been the result of people vaping black market thc carts with a thickening agent that is unsafe to vape. There hasn’t really been any specific general “damage” done to the lungs of the population by vaping otherwise. And as someone from Australia it’s hard to imagine ‘government just wanting to get rid of them’ as a conspiracy theory. They have been trying to get rid of them, they just suck at doing it.

Never heard Big Clive deny covid though, that’s off-putting.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Where does he go off on conspiracy rants? I only ever watch his circuit teardown videos

A_Random_Idiot,

I dont know, it was like 3-4 years ago now. I didnt stick around to find out how much further down the stupid hole he planned to go.

padge,

Idubbbz. It’s fine that he grew out of his edginess, I largely have too, but most of his videos now just feel like he needs to pay the bills and just cranks something out.

vxx,

Louis Rossman.

I enjoyed his board repairs, now he’s only rambling.

lud,

Yeah, just took at his more recent thumbnails and titles. It feels like just ragebait. He is just angry at everything.

I stopped watching his videos when he started to put some effort into making clickbait thumbnails, because I felt the videos became much worse.

iodine0320, (edited )

Agreed. Northridgefix is the new Rossman

A_Random_Idiot,

I’unno. I’ve seen a few of his videos too, and he strikes me as a cunt as well. I will admit I’ve not watched enough to say that for an absolute fact that he is actually a cunt, but I can say that what I have seen has definitely done nothing but encourage me to avoid him.

A_Random_Idiot, (edited )

I agree with a lot of Rossman says with regard to right to repair and stuff.

but hes just an insufferable cunt.

DeepGradientAscent,
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev avatar

hes just an insufferable cunt.

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yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

t. Company abusing the lack of right to repair

zbyte64,
@zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That’s fine, I actually like that. They likely mean his more “culturally” aware stuff

13617,

Agree to disagree

flop_leash_973,

Yeah, he is more about outrage content these days it seems. What he is railing against is usually something I broadly agree is bad from the sounds of it. But he rarely goes any deeper than “this article or 2 claims this corpo is fucking us, you should steal their shit, move to another state, or just in general be as unproductively outraged as me about it.”

And he has started to branch so far into things he doesn’t really know anything about at times that he is either flat out wrong, or so uninformed as to not have an opinion worth listening to on the subject to begin with.

He seems to want to be some kind of investigative journalist reporting on the wrongs of the big guy, but he doesn’t want to leave his house and risk getting into uncomfortable real world situations to do it unless it is a hearing about right to repair. You don’t find Rossman doing much deep diving into details, just surface level rage baiting I guess is what I am trying to say.

Zangoose,
@Zangoose@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t call necessarily call it “unproductive” though? He has been lobbying in cases and contributing to the right to repair movement for several years now. It’s not like he’s doing nothing, he’s doing everything that he has the power to do.

qevlarr,
@qevlarr@lemmy.world avatar

I actually like this stuff.

chitak166,

H3H3

FrowingFostek,

Would you mind elaborating? I never really watched Ethan that often. I thought his show with Hasan was pretty good.

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

Absolute trash zero effort content. People just watch because they are sooo invested lmao. Losers

Coskii,
@Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Commanders quarters. Started as an interesting budget build magic the gathering commander deck channel and in less than a year went from that to click bait, 7 videos a day between 10-15 minutes about spoiled cards from whatever the new set coming out is. It absolutely flooded my feed and was completely worthless.

There was also some drama about the lead guys opinions about other IPs getting cards (the walking dead being the first) and how it was the end times for that particular flavor of inked up cardboard.

TheDoctorDonna,

I was a big fan of Illuminaughtii/ Blair Zon for a long time. Now she’s so controversial, other creators make content on her.

NoMoreCocaine,

Is it “controversial” to be a plagiarist now? Depending on how it’s done, it’s edging on a crime or a full blown crime, rather than controversy. I don’t really think there’s much to make an dispute about.

That said there’s certainly a lot drama about her, not that I’ve looked at any of it. So I am not in the know of anything that’s going on, beyond the plagiarism.

Duamerthrax,

I just started getting into Illuminaughtii when the controversy started. I stopped watching her, but was on the fence because at the time, ONLY drama channels were talking about her. The easiest info to find all had a profit motive for her to be wrong. Now that the issue has expended to a wider area, it’s pretty clear that she is a plagiarist.

TheDoctorDonna,

There’s a lot of legal stuff and then generally the way she treats people (especially people who were supposed to be her friends, employees or housemates) is pretty controversial, but technically not illegal yet. She tried to take Oz’s house away from him through convoluted legal practices and used her power over him to turn him in to a slave.

Kichae,

The way she treats people isn’t “controversial”, either. Being a shit stain of a person isn’t controversial just because it hasn’t crossed the line into being illegal.

What you mean to say is that she’s polarizing, because she has fans that don’t realize she’s an awful person.

TheDoctorDonna,

She gives rise to public disagreement, I think she fits the controversial definition as well, but I didn’t realize I was supposed to be pedantic when I comment.

dangblingus,

H3H3. As soon as they got notoriety for their defamation lawsuit against the cringe pickup artist guy, they abandoned making reaction videos and instead became a trashy podcast.

Twelve20two,

Hey, that was around the time I fell off, too!

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Does the podcast primarily cover internet drama?

vox,
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

two minute papers

victorz,

I’m gonna just jump into the deep end and blurt out that I can’t freaking stand the cadence of his voice. It’s so choppy. And the inflections are just so off. I know he’s not a native speaker and all that but… God. It’s almost unbearable to me. I can’t compensate for it.

Daxtron2,

How so?

Fisk400,

I stopped watching because it turned into the AI channel and doesn’t actually talk about papers.

Daxtron2,

I mean Dr. KZF is a PhD in computer graphics and machine learning, his channel has always been on those two subjects. There’s just been a lot more papers about AI the past year, he still does graphics stuff.

Fisk400,

And is was interesting when he went trough a paper on light calculations when rendering object and new physics calculation on fluids. The bulk of his content now seems to be “LOOK AT THIS STABLE DIFFUSION!” With “CHATGPT! Look at the AI do stuff!”

Daxtron2,

I mean it’s objectively the direction that computer graphics is going, we’re seeing more and more ML based rendering papers. It’s a rapidly evolving field so I wouldn’t expect it to have less papers in the future.

jol, (edited )

I never thought of that but yeah. I started watching shortly before ChatGPT exploded. The videos are really uninteresting after a while. It’s basically all just reaction videos but worse.

quams69,

Cinemassacre/AVGN.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

i think its been a lot better this year than when screenwave was “helping”

Emerald,

You know what’s BeeeeS?

my content quality

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

Absolutely got to pay the bills videos lmao

OR3X,

SVSeeker. At first it seemed like a really inspirational channel about a guy building a giant boat in his backyard in Oklahoma that was going to be used as a free to anyone research vessel, but as time went on everyone slowly realized the dude had basically no idea what he was doing and was super hostile to anyone telling him otherwise. Now it’s been two years since lunching the boat and he has done none of the things he promised to do with it (like even leave the coast) and it seems pretty clear everyone got duped into helping him build a retirement house boat instead of a research vessel.

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

i am saving this one for when i get old

Thats a real capper

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

A Brazilian named Poladoful used to make funny videos playing smaller concept games like Soda simulator, with funny commentary done by a robotic voice. One year after I found him he pivoted to become a kids focused channel.

Jordan117,

Sinfest. Used to be a charming and funny daily webcomic about an eclectic cast of colorful characters getting into surreal and philosophical situations. Then one day in 2011 it suddenly swerved hard into radical feminism. I’m not anti-feminist myself, but the comic became obsessed with it – literally every strip was related to The Patriarchy in some way and it became extremely preachy and boring.

I checked out for the better part of a decade, and when I randomly revisited a couple years ago it turned out that the author had transited the TERF-to-fascist pipeline and turned into an extreme-right antivax conspiratorial fascist loon, of the “teachers are secret pedos” and “the war in Ukraine is a hoax” variety. Super sad to see.

hydrospanner,

On a similar note, Questionable Content needs to just stop already if it hasn’t. That turd’s been circling for years and years, proving everyone wrong every time they insist it couldn’t possibly get any worse.

wookiepedia,

Oh no. I used to look forward to sinfest every day.

MrValdez,

That sucks! I also dropped off when it was The Patriarchy all the time. So sad to see where it ended up.

piskertariot,

Sinfest

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in 20 years. Not sure it qualifies for “downhill very quickly”

theherk,

In this thread I see broadly two types of complaints:

  • Videos have degraded in presentation or production in some way.
  • Person said something I disagree with so I don’t like them anymore.

Both fine, but I think the latter is just a bummer and really reflects a much deeper problem of the times in which we live.

OhmsLawn,

I think an implosion is more than that.

It’s not the expression of opinion that sinks a channel, but a pivot from topic-focused to issue-focused. AvE didn’t go downhill for getting frustrated about the pandemic, he fundamentally changed the focus of his channel.

It’s one of the things I appreciate about the better firearms channels. I know they’re probably unpalatably conservative (to my taste), but by largely sticking to a topic (rather than the multitude of issues that are doubtless important to them), they manage to reach a wider audience.

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Less “downhill” and more “dropped into a sinkhole straight to the pits of hell,” but Creepshow Art. I thought she was really fun to listen to, and it was interesting hearing tea spilling from a community I’m not privy to. At some point she opened up about a stalker who’d been following her for years, harassing her constantly, trying to get her fired from her job by sending compromising photos from her past to her boss, threatening her life… And then it turns out she was the stalker, and the victim was Emily Artful! She was the psychopath threatening someone’s life and trying to get them fired and shit! And I was planning on donating to her patreon!

viking,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Mark Rober.

He got louder, flashier, less techy and more talky and is doing a gazillion reruns of the same general idea over and over. Can’t really enjoy it anymore.

TodaviaTyler,

Came here to say this too (actually did but didn’t scroll enough to see yours first). I totally agree. I feel like he’s not creating content for the same reasons he used to.

Annoyed_Crabby,

I like what he do, no problem on that, but his voice is neither loud nor quiet. It has the tone of a loud speak but the audio come out soft, it hurt my ear when my brain trying to adjust to whatever that volume is.

Also yes another glitter bomb and animal puzzle maze.

theherk,

You type like beltalowda.

Annoyed_Crabby, (edited )

What is that even mean

Sir_Fridge,

Beltalowda, sasa ke?

theherk,

Assuming English isn’t your mother tongue, I meant no offense. But “beltalowda” is a demonym referring to the group of humans occupying and mining the asteroid belt and other outer planetary areas in the science fiction story The Expanse. Your grammar is surprisingly close to their speech patterns.

Annoyed_Crabby,

Huh, i went and look for that term and some slang does resemble asia/south east asian language and i’m from south east asia lol

theherk,

Please forgive me if I offended. That’s pretty neat though. I think the linguistics, while made up take examples from many languages.

Annoyed_Crabby,

Ohh no no, i’m not offended, just that it’s so random and i never heard of that term, no worries.

smackjack, (edited )

No one gives me Fellow Kids vibes more than Mark Rober.

Chriswild,

That’s exactly the vibe but he went to BYU so that totally fits.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Mark is a Mormon? That’s news to me.

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