LTT is just an apology video channel now
I didn’t come to the comments to be hurt like this.
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“What do we do now?”
“Here’s the plan”
I’ll pour one out for you friend.
Did they do another one for the Madison accusations? Was it on the same level as the other one?
No. They are back to their regularly scheduled programming. Their recent apology videos aren’t even in their top25 most viewed
Veritasium has really gone down hill. I honestly think it started when he did the video on “clickbait” and actually realized how much more lucrative it was to make shittier clickbaity content than make straightforward science content.
It went from “here’s why magnetism is just electric field + relativity” to “I buried myself in cement - you won’t believe what happens!”
??? His recent videos have been nothing but great. His knot, IQ, Oppenheimer, entropy, and maze solving videos (and more) are all recent and amazing videos. What’s your criticism against him?
I think the problem here is that Veritasium these days now covers popular (possibly overrated) science-y topics rather than actually interesting (but not so popular) science content to stay on the radar. It’s about the covered topic, not the quality.
Knot theory, entropy and maze solving are things most people don’t know about though. If this critique is pointed at the Oppenheimer video because there was a popular movie then I would say that it’s ok to talk about something trending if most of his videos are relatively niche.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I’m fairly knowledgeable in the natural sciences, but I still used to learn a lot from watching his videos. These days, more often than not my reaction is just “well thats obvious”. It reminds me of the MythBusters episode when they shot a ball out of the back of a moving truck, and when they confirmed the ball dropped without moving, Carrie just sarcastically said “Yay we did vector addition…”
to be fair the last video, the nuclear near misses one, did seem like a bunch of things stuffed together to make… something? I guess the people who didn’t know about it will find it interesting but it’s easy to see the difference from the old videos, the ones about niche topics with very in depth explanations
still, most of the other videos are great
That video is a thinly veiled listicle.
I thought his most recent knots video was pretty interesting, way more interesting than i anticipated from the clickbait title.
I thought it was interesting, too, but I didn’t really learn anything from it. He just doesn’t go into the same depth he used to.
True, that is a fair argument, I didn’t learn anything either, except how knots are counted, but that is pretty surface level, and kind of common sense if you think about it for more than 2 minutes.
I think you overly critical of him. His content is still good, and the video you mentioned is called “I buried myself in cement to explain how it works”, and even if you dislike this one, it’s one of many
That’s just the thumb, the content itself is still the same.
I love how Dunkey had a week where he did this sarcastically – and they still ended up being some of his most popular videos. Thankfully he’s stayed himself though and not abandoned what he does best.
Perun is a fantastic channel to keep up with the Ukraine war. Probably the best resource out there. Pleasant to listen to as well, guy deserves the appreciation he gets.
Only because of the Ukraine channels did I notice that he also used to put out great videos about Dominions 5, a somewhat obscure game. I wish he had enough time to do both.
He has another channel where he still plays games occasionally. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCPYJiiMoA0yOMHI-aiB44RQ/videos
I use to get stuck watching his invictus videos for hours. Man’s got a good mind.
Yeah, I know that one, but it’s not filling the gaps in the dominions 5 nation guide collection.
I remember the transition of prank channels from pranking each other in more or less controlled settings to “pranking” (harassing) strangers in public. Not saying that pranking each other was the pinnacle of comedy, there are definitely still problems with it, but why do people like watching random unrelated people being accosted at all, let alone enough for the prank channels to catch on and start catering to that crowd?
I remember those!
Heck, I remember mine craft prank wars with h20delerious. They were all happy to participate, stakes were 0, but the best pranks were creative and over engineered.
Did they over react for content? Yes, of course.
Was it fun seeing creative pranks in totally harmless ways anyway? Yes. Yes it was.
Or they made good edited youtube videos and then they starting chasing the streaming trend like Critikal and other youtubers I used to watch. Sorry I want to watch a single 10-30 min video once or twice a week and not hours of unscripted rambling. The only person I can watch do that is Nothernlion but even then I don’t watch most of his content anyway.
The only reason shit like that even succeeds is probably because people put on live streams as background noise
hours of unscripted rambling
i actually really enjoy long form interviews. i watch 5 hour interviews and want more, but not everyone can host them and only a certain kind of content is good long form.
I haven’t watched a streamer yet that could pull it off except NL. People get into this young with no education or lived life outside of streaming and honestly it’s a pain listening to them try to be relatable to talk about something for hours. Even NL starts getting tiring after the 5000th take on peloton.
Podcasters are usually better at this than streamers. There’s a Canadian political podcast I follow that’s great for hour-plus interviews. Really good for “politics in complete sentences” stuff.
I’m not sure what a “steamer” is. Is it video game related only?
The content that I watch is for 40+. The example that I was thinking about was of Mormon stories podcast host. He has a phd in psychology. Hearing him interview ex Mormons is really interesting. I always learn something about myself during 5 hour interviews.
Streamers usually people who play games for 4-8+ hours almost every day with a face cam and a running chat. Twitch is the main website for these people.
LTT’s WAN show pulls of (maybe 2/3rds the time) 3-4 hour streams with only outlines of recent news and a live-feed of merch messages as direction.
Adam Ragusea is the worst for this.
Title: interesting topic.
Video: 3 hours of rambling with five minutes of addressing interesting topic.
I could hardly stand his actual videos before but at least he experimented and showed some conventions to be useless traditions but recently it’s really been garbage long form rambling.
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Jerma985 was my most favoritest TF2 youtuber, and now look him, a big streamer with wide meme reach. I remember the first Jerma Rumbles, the pinnacle of simulated wrestling and the first inklings of his creative genius. I don’t watch streams and I don’t watch VODs, but I’m just happy he’s shooting for the stars.
I stopped watching after I met him at a convention one time.
I tried to say that I was a fan but every time I opened my mouth he just said ‘HUH? HUH?’ over and over, before he grabbed my Nintendo Labo keyboard, threw it on the ground and stamped on it a bunch of times.
Said he had to stomp each key individually, to prevent electrical “infetterence.” I don’t even think that’s a word.
Same here, I stopped watching Jerma after he stopped posting TF2 content, but I’m glad he’s made it and is still doing a bunch of cool stuff.
The Jerma vs STAR videos almost gave me a hernia once upon a time.
At least Jerma is still within the same field of entertainment.
I have the opposite opinion regarding ster.
Idk if this comment is a joke or not but i have to say you’re really missing out. Jerma’s new content has really grown so well and I’d say he’s one of the few who did shift but ultimately its only grown in quality.
Critikal’s channel is amazing at this. It died like 3 identity deaths.
It’s at its worst now imo. He plays the algorithm so that you can’t get the video concept in the preview. You have to click the vid, sit through the ads(unless adblock), and then he spends 2 minutes doing his lead up just making goofy words up to describe the topic to delay mentioning what happened.
Yup. Unsuited a long time ago but actively blocked his main channel and clip channels now. It’s gotten very bad.
Shout out to EthosLab for doing the exact same format of content for ten years with minimal changes
Oh man, I haven’t watched any of his videos in forever but I’m so glad he’s stuck to what he likes doing.
Occasionally he uses star wipes instead of jump cuts between scenes, but the style is incredibly consistent.
I’ve been watching ZFG (OoT streamer) for a while. Lately he’s only been playing Tears of the Kingdom, which… I don’t like or care about, much. Looks like he’s actually going to do runs of it, so it might be a while.
Someone else already mentioned Joshua Weissman, “comedian” cook who refuses to realize he can’t sing and the “papa” thing is… cringe. Channel was much better when he didn’t try so hard to be funny. Cooking stuff itself is still fine though, he does know his stuff.
I guarantee you ZFG doesn’t give a single shit about “the algorithm” - he’s always played games that he wants to play, which is usually every Zelda release, Mario Kart, Smash, and Pokemon. His only two concerns are going fast and having fun.
Literally finally made an account to respond to you. I don’t really watch streams much anymore, but he has a main channel (highlights and records) and a VOD channel on YouTube. I used to go to sleep watching Clint Stevens every night, and now I use the VODs a lot of the time. Anyway, the point I was actually trying to make is that there is a ton of old content available if TotK isn’t doing it for you.
Fuck the algorithm. My favorite Youtubers still do quality videos, luckily, but now they take longer because they have to fill their channels periodically with less inspired stuff or the all-seeing algorithm will toss them out. I hate it.
YouTubers and streamers aren’t your friends. They are just trying to make money.
If you could switch jobs and make double your salary, would you? What about all your coworkers you’d be letting down by suddenly quitting? Oh well. You’re getting paid.
If you work in retail or fast food or something you probably don’t give a shit about your coworkers, but if you’ve worked a production job on a small team, you know what I mean. And you still would taken double the salary for the same sort of work.
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Joshua Weissman for me… But I found Anti-Chef and he more than makes up for it! Edit: a word
I don’t really watch his videos, what is he doing now? What did he do before?
He’s “funny”. Except if you don’t think he’s funny, then you might think he’s extremely unfunny. He used to not try so hard, and IMO made better videos for it. Now it’s off-pitch singing, cringe catchphrases, clickbait, and general “funny stuff”.
So it’s not getting better. I see. Thanks!
Yeah agree with amio. He used to do actually useful instructional cooking videos - his sourdough series is great. Now he’s really leaned into the mega high energy persona, clickbaity concepts ($1,000 waygu in a HOTDOG?! kind of thing).
Sigh. This happened, sort of, to my favorite channel. It was a fun channel all about her hamsters - cute videos of their antics and informative videos of how to care properly for them. Then she got a chronic illness and switched to only posting about the illness and awareness of it. And that’s her prerogative. But she took down all the cute stuff. I was devastated. They were my go-to when I needed cheering up.
that’s how i got into watching people make art/do creative stuff with art. that always cheers me up… also lots of options.
Sabine the science channel
She’s still doing science, though.
True. The ratio is just getting worse
I recently found her channel and it’s fun to watch the difference from a 4y old video to last weeks uploads. Gotta clickbait.
Funny you mention her because in only subscribed recently. Her science news episodes are corny but very informative while lacking hype. Her deep dives are also informative, but a bit off topic sometimes.
Contrast that Two Minute Papers idiot. Every fucking video is hype, and he gets called out for it routinely. Everything is sO aMaZiNg… HOLD ONTO YOUR PAPERS! He once expressed awe at noise in an AI generated image. 🤦♂️ That’s when unsubscribed.
So compared to YouTubers like him, Sabine is a breath of fresh air. (Not that they cover the same topics, I’m just talking about tone and delivery.)
I unsubbed Veritasium when he made that video on electricity and the speed of light and didn’t once mention induction. He went over the top to make it seem like magic. Fuck that guy. Unforgivable!
So true about two minute papers. I unsubbed from him so quick. Veratasium took a nose dive too, like you said.
Yeah that’s why I’m sad about Sabine. She was so good for so long
