Beyond politics and drop in quality, I hate channels that lean too hard into the parasocial stuff. LinusTT is a good example. I stopped watching that channel after every other episode was about Linus’ house, his wife, or his employee’s personal life.
Gonna say Tom Brier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brier
An amazing rag pianist, with the help of a friend he got really popular for various video game songs he would sight read (playing for the first time with no practice) for the camera.
In 2016, he was rear-ended in a car accident and had a brain injury that paralyzed him from the neck down. He has since been healing and as of 2023 was starting to be able to write again but as far as I’m aware still can’t play the piano and may never do so again.
Check out the talent: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hrGrzVqaHaPngRcsE-gNrwxdVvByiiC
This is still one of my favs. He improvised an entire song based on a small melody from Legend of Zelda: https://youtu.be/vhRBGCS8mlc
I remember finding his content on the long ago days of YouTube and really enjoyed it. His accident was truly devastating.
This one from Yoshi’s island is particularly joyous.
As a pianist : whoa. Sad story. Insane talent.
Right? I’ve played piano most of my life, and any one of those would be months of intense practice for me to nail down, and dude just plays it like it’s nothing on his first attempt. It’s wild.
As a pianist, you may also appreciate this one, as I know Joplin is pretty popular in most curriculums.
Breaks my brain how easy he makes it look.
Yeah, I appreciate ! Thank you !
I’m thinking of John Baine aka TotalBiscuit.
Ten years ago he was the only person i watched on Youtube. He did gaming related content, originaly about WOW and Starcraft 2, later branching out into Indi and AAA games. While he could be controversial as a person he had deep knowledge of the industry and made videos that where 100% made with gamers on mind. The man was a fucking ledgend and there is nobody who has been able to take up his work with the same integritity and knowledge he had.
He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2014 and died 2018. In his last videos you can hear him slowly withering away.
RIP TotalBiscuit, he absolutely was a constant for me as well with game reviews. I always went to his channel to get a review. It really sucks there isn’t another that has picked up the mantle.
I’m blessed that I don’t know any YouTube personalities.
It’s hard to drop out of the basement because they don’t have windows, but I’ll throw in Chris-Chan for consideration. Uh… you all can Google that rabbit hole.
ChrisChan is what it would be like if Kanye didn’t have money and talent, just mental illness, an enabling parent, and terminally online
Probably Technoblade or any other youtuber who literally died.
