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.
Not sure if this counts, but CGP Grey. The frequency of the videos was always a joke, but the most recent video is a 3 month old paywalled vid of an early preview for a video still unreleased publicly. I still enjoy the videos when they’re released, so it’s not the quality, but the channel is clearly on autopilot. I hope everything’s ok with him and maybe he’s just using YouTube as passive income now that he hit it big?
I am ok with upload frequency dropping instead of upload quality, plus doesn’t he do other things like a few podcasts now?
I don’t think he does any podcasts anymore. He stepped away from Cortex about 6 months ago, and Hello Internet has been gone for years now. Agreed with maintaining upload quality and sacrificing frequency, which had been the status quo for years, but i’m afraid the channel is more abandoned now.
Ahh, perhaps he has just gone for semi retirement then, can you really blame him?
Eh, you can have good content or frequent content
cgp grey has some quite bad takes that go way back. e.g. his take on self driving cars, on British monarchy, etc.
God that “solution to traffic is to have robot cars” video is so dumb.
What if we use robot cars to invent the train?
He also did a video where, Brityank that he is, flew to America, and drove a Tesla from California to somewhere in the Mid-West, purposefully outside of the supercharger network. He doesn’t drive much in England, says he’s not that interested in cars, but likes the Tesla for being “a computer on wheels.” Which is reason number 3,447 why I don’t want one.
lol I forgot about that one. that was an eye opener to his engineering knowledge.
one of those “when somebody speaks about something in your field” type situations
I’m not sure of the specifics you’re referring to, but seemed with most of his content, he was pretty clear with the data that formed his opinions, and was pretty honest when he was either wrong or changed his mind on something, which I respect.
On self driving cars, watch these videos that point out why he was wrong
https://youtu.be/oafm733nI6U https://youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0
Well this is why i wish he would put out more videos, to see his reflection of this almost 10 years later knowing what we know now that self driving cars are here, and not stuff that was in highly controlled environments. To me, Grey always seemed like someone who trusts computers more than people, so maybe he’d still hold the same stance, but i would be interested in hearing his thoughts rather than dismissing him because of something he said 10 years ago which hasn’t come true. I also vaguely remember hearing in one of his podcasts that he had gotten into a really bad car accident and actually didn’t drive for many years after that, so I’d imagine some of his admiration with self driving cars at the time was focused on them reporting being safer than human drivers. Who knows, but I for sure would like to see a 2026 version of the end of that video about solving traffic from him.
Still waiting on episode one of that American Indians series…
I’d really be down for it but I don’t think we’ll ever get it.
The thing that kinda bothered me is that he made it so only people who give him money can comment on videos. Or at least he said he would move forward it and a decent chunk of his comments said “this is a bad idea, it will make an echo chamber or limit you to topics they wanna pay for.”
I miss the podcasts.
Just checked … and the videos that are paywalled on youtube aren’t even on patreon :(
I can’t believe I listened to the entirety of Hello Internet only to not remember CPG even existed.