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[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 46 minutes ago

Honestly, James Stephanie Sterling.

I had been following them since The Escapist days, but a few years ago I just couldn't do it anymore. I was only interested in their Jimquisition stuff, and that had gotten really samey week over week.

It felt extra bad because this was after they had already lost like 20% of their subscribers for other reasons. I really hate that I might be lumped in with all those lovely folks when my reasons for leaving were entirely separate.

I still appreciate their message, though. I still think the Digital Homicide saga is one of the more interesting Internet dramas I've been witness to. And I still check in from time to time, mostly for their year-end lists and if something specific has happened in the gaming industry that I want their opinion on.

What I'm trying to say is, thank God for JSS, but only in small doses for me personally.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 points 21 minutes ago

I used to follow a youtuber who slowly realized that the earnings when using her talent and profession fell short of just doing OF and showing bikini photos.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, I had to do that with Nux Taku. The guy made funny videos back in the day, but he slowly became a "Anti-woke" conservative mouthpiece. It's funny because the video that made me unsubscribe was a video of his saying how another youtuber got cancelled for being too woke.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Is that guy that pointing the gun at the other one Jordan B Peterson?

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 40 minutes ago

I thought this was a Of Mice and Men reference.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

It's mitt Romney

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I very rarely manually subscribe or unsubscribe now, it just picks up on what I watch generally.

[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Resist the algorithms, we must

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

When subscribing does nothing and changing the bell too.

I have some Youtubers who make a video a month or once a year.

I have to follow them on discord to get the new video because youtube won't show it to me even though I have selected the highest notifications only for them.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 minutes ago

When subscribing does nothing

what? You have a subscribe feed. use it.

https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 2 points 48 minutes ago

As someone else already pointed out - yes, subscribing does do something because you can (and should) use the Subscription feed (which is below the Home and Shorts feeds on the left hand menu). This allows you to curate your own content rather than rely on algorithms. Which is not to say you can't or shouldn't use the Home feed - chances are you will run into new things that you find you like. But as it is right now, over 90%% of all video views on YouTube come from the Home feed meaning the vast majority of users are influenced by opque algorithms.

I believe most people don't even know about the Subscription feed even though its right there

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

Use the subscribe feed, not the home feed to watch your videos.

It shows your subscriptions in reverse chronological order.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 7 hours ago

Now, I can only imagine a children's book about Of Mice and Men.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

So many people I used to watch when YT first started were discovered to be pedophiles or rapists... 😟

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

i wonder if the fame turned them into that or they were always pedos to begin with

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I'd imagine it's always been there, but their fame gave them access to a devoted fanbase willing to do anything for them.

And then things just devolve...

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[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

V sauce michael here

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Where are your fingers?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago (9 children)

AvE. A 3 minute video supporting the truckers "protest" gets a hard NO from me.

He's why I had to install 3rd party channel blocker because yt kept recommending his videos.

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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

SerpentZA loved his hopeful and exciting content, then he became embittered and critical of everything

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Dude was like so overly positive of China, then immediately does a 180 and trash China, once he got a visa to the USA. Make me wonder if any of his praises were genuine, or just bootlicking whoever is in power. Bootlicking CCP when he's there, then bootlicks USA when he gets here. A "White-Monkey Job" as he and his friend laowhy86 calls it.

Also, dude is super weird. Why does he use "My Chinese Wife" in his video titles. Asian-fetishism? 🤔 A normal person would just use "my wife" and you can add their face to the thumbnail if you want, or just mention by name. Using "Chinese Wife" is a odd phrase to say. Like imagine a white American Youtuber uses "My Black Wife" in the video title, like that's just super weird.

[–] Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 minutes ago

The Chinese doesn't refer the ethnicity in this context but cultural. So it would be more like saying "My Nigerian wife". Viewers then have an expection to see stuff cultural stuff. It also helps the search algorithms I suppose.

But yea I did kinda stop watching them as well. It was getting too much I guess.

[–] anonymous_in_atl@ani.social 1 points 6 hours ago

Mini Ladd moment

[–] Franklin@lemmy.ca 92 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

This was me with Linus Tech Tips, it's just not the content i subscribed for all those years ago.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

writing was on the wall after the overwork allegations, sexism allegations and nosediving quality. ltt was being run like a corporation and it was a matter of time. i left them then expecting it to tank further and it did.

[–] chrislowles@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

For a while I thought that he hadn't changed all that much, and while I still mostly do I think that, what broke the camels back for me (and I guess GN and Louis Rossmann) was when the GN PayPal Honey thing came up, they basically all spent a month and change throwing jabs at each-other while vaguely shoving the actual, important story of PayPal Honey scamming customers and shopkeepers that they were supposed to be focusing on out of the way.

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