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I don’t think he’s worse than most chuds by any means but Linus Sebastian (Linus Tech Tips founder and to my knowledge owner) annoys the fuck out of me. Not because of his voice or clickbait-ass thumbnails that he sometimes pretends are the only criticisms he gets, but because he genuinely seems like a tyrant who gets a pass on so much bullshit by having good charisma for tech bro standards. And I say this as someone who was charitable to him for way too long because I was young and impressionable and liked LTT videos. Actually I think that is why I bring him up over some far, far worse youtubers.
A few off the top of my head:
- Mark Laita (Soft White Underbelly): poverty porn sexpest
- Andrew Callaghan (All Gas No Brakes): A phrase I’ve heard a lot with regards to the flaws of horizontal organizations is that if you don’t pick a leader, the media will pick one for you. Andrew is the kind of person who will pick a lunatic for you. Also a sex pest.
- MatPat: I think he’s a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.
- MrBeast: No reasons needed
- Kurtzgezuart: I don’t respect them enough to spell their name right. Bourgeoisie dogs.
Kurzgesagt is literally a “lets sterilize all africans” gates foundation guy
Is that a real thing?
As soon as I saw Callaghan on that doomscroll podcast I blocked that garbage instantly. No way am I trusting the judgement of a podcast host who invites a known sex pest on. He had already had several guests with really detestable views (Dasha) but someone who admitted to SA shouldn’t have a platform.
What is Doomscroll’s MO? I keep getting it recommended to me but I never watch it because my podcast backlog is too long as it stands.
It seems like he’s a stupidpol guy who wants to reach the kind of people who like Jreg to get them to like social democracy by going against the stereotypical image of a leftist. I gotta say that it was nice at the beginning, the episode with Yung Chomsky was really good. But as it went on it started to acquire more and more of a “we’re not like the woke left” vibe (pretty obvious when he invited Dasha, but I never watched that episode).
IIRC he had
on who kind of pushed back on him being so self-seriousHe’s not stupidpol, he’s basically Adam Curtis redux. A radlib gawker from the sidelines.
GeneralSwitch2Boycott is Based_Ball is Jreg
Jreg went on Doomscroll
anyone else see the implications of this?
Did Based_Ball call people radlib gawkers or something? I’m not understanding what you’re saying/implying.
i don’t even know who Jreg is, but I know that Based_Ball is Jreg
IDK but I do still think adding “the” to the slur filter would be a great bit.
What is Jreg’s deal? I’ve seen some of their videos and they’re kinda funny, but he does give me sus vibes even though it’s all satire.
He’s doing a really good bit IMO, but it also means he’s normalizing all the different ideologies he portrays. He seems to have a very young audience and a lot of them claim to be fascists or other far right ideologies, probably due to his influence.
Polcomp brain incarnate. I’m unsure if he actually believes in the political compass or just acts like he does as part of the bit under multiple layers of irony, but the result is the same.
I just think it’s funny, yeah polcomp is stupid, but that is the point I think
I’m not casting any aspersions your way. I’ve been entertained by some of his videos as well.
Citarella’s focus is Literally Teenagers
CW: Amber.
Amber.
it’s meta slop
MrBeast
Kurtgefart telling people don’t worry catastrophic events that will wipe out most of humanity like a nuclear Holocaust or climate change aren’t that bad because stragglers will be left on a broken planet. Happy fucking music playing too. Fuck these people
They used to be literally funded by the German government (their German language channel at least), until… they were not allowed to sell merch, because of public funding.
MatPat: I think he’s a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.
I could totally see him having a ProJared style fallout
nah, im gonna try to happy today
Reasonable
it didnt work, thank you for the thread
Mr Beast. Even if he wasn’t a horrible shill for capitalism, the vibe of his video thumbnails alone make me want to punch puppies.
I hate SEO face and his is the worst.
Mr. Beast is so creepy looking. He gives me Patrick Bateman vibes, except Bateman has more emotions. Just completely dead and soulless behind his eyes.
make me want to punch puppies.
:(
I have one subscriber and I hate myself
i will also subscribe to you and cancel that out you can’t stop me
Somehow I have 3 subscribers. I’ve never made a YouTube video
I have 15 subscribers based on a shitty trendseeking video I made 13 years ago.
I barely even know them, but the Green brothers, specifically Hank Green, are self-important dipshits who are not nearly as smart, funny or influential as they believe they are and i will laugh at their downfall
the guy just looks and sounds like a dweeb and thinks he runs tiktok
Hank green always ruins everything he guests in for me. I don’t like his smug face. Whenever he was on lateral with Tom Scott I would just skip it, and I really like lateral.
Based. They are living, breathing, soyjaks.
John Green is slightly less annoying, and mostly seems to stay in his lane, but Hank green is totally insufferable because the dude will not ever accept that he could be wrong about something. The thing he refuses to budge on? Liberalism won’t save the planet. Legitimately thought Biden’s plans for climate were going to begin the solution, and couldn’t see how it was the end game for Democrats, that was it. They weren’t doing anything afterwards they spent too much political capital putting forward something that did next to nothing to solve the problem and failed to address the root cause of climate change (oil and gas extraction which continued to climb under Biden).
I’m sure there is more from both of them but that’s what drove me insane listening to their crap.
They were some of the first bloggers on YouTube. I’ve watched some Crash Course, which is quick explanations of high school curriculum funded by PBS, which the Greens helped start. It’s a nice refresher for adults and helpful for kids taking AP classes or niche electives.
But yes, they’re turbo-lib soyboys. Extremely off-putting for a lot of people and forget they’re only teaching high school material. Like take it down a notch, you are not on a panel reviewing someone’s graduate thesis. You’re a meme to make up for how shit our public education system is.
The US education system would collapse without Organic Chemistry Tutor
The original run of vlogbrothers was very wholesome but I have not followed them since it ended
CGPGrey is at the very least flirting with “rationalism” and might be the smuggest man in existence His content isn’t offensive, he doesn’t hurt anyone, and he’s not actively a bad guy in any meaningful way that I know of. But you asked for youtubers we dislike for their vibes, so that’s my answer.
He actively spreads misinformation, as most of his videos are based on a single source, and he never actually examines how legit the source is. His stuff always “makes sense” and sounds well thought out, but it actively makes its audience dumber, while think they are learning something.
His worst offender is his Americapox videos, in which he literally says Native Americans “are at the bottom of the (video game) tech tree.” because their native animals were too hard to domesticate. Treating development of cultures and technology as a linear video game style progression is bad enough, but the source for his pair of videos is “Guns Germs and Steel” a notorious pop-history book that has recieved a lot of negative criticism from historians for its inaccurate and infantilising depictions of native American civilisations, amongst other things, painting the conquest of the Americas as an “us or them” style thing, portraying it as “inevitable” and making absurd and insulting claims about native American groups, like the Inca being too stupid to know what an ambush was, because they didn’t have horses.
And when the innacuracies and downright racism of his source was called out, CGPGrey doubled down, instead of admitting fault, first he did the standard youtuber tantrum of “if you don’t like it, make your own video/I have more subscribers than you which means I’m right” sort of thing, and then when that didn’t work, he declared his videos were a “joke” and he was just trolling historians with them.
Dude claims to be an intellectual, but can’t ever admit the possibility that he is wrong or did poor research, in turn I think that means we can’t really trust anything he produces. It’s the “guy with a vaguely British accent says a thing with authority, so it must be intelligent and correct.” sort of content.
I was mostly ambivalent towards him until the america pox video, but that definitely turned me off since I had at least two history professors spend lectures talking about how bad guns germs and steel was as a book and threatened to kick out anyone who used it as a source for their classes.
I also briefly listened to his podcast and as smug as he comes off from YouTube, it is controlled compared to his actual real life bullshit. Listen to him decry people who keep mementos of things from their lives and shame his wife for wanting to put pictures of things she likes. This utilitarian only wants things in his life that he actually uses, and I’d be shocked if he hasn’t been divorced at this point for his avoidance of all connections to emotions. He also shilled tesla cars alot, weird he didn’t do any due diligence on Elon and just wanted a cool computer car regardless of who was making it.
Also he would constantly complain that people are too hard him so he takes longer to verify his content is accurate but then his video is always just one source as mentioned and he’s just summarized it. Why did that take 8 months of effort? I hate him as well.
Rick Beato is terminal old man yelling at the clouds about the young’ins not appreciating real music anymore. The poster geezer for toxic rockism.
I love when Emily Hopkins purposefully pronounces his name wrong and then corrects other people when they pronounce it correctly lol
Emily Hopkins is a treasure
god harp lady owns
he’s very funny.
spoiler
unintentionally
Tony Zaret used to mock this guy alot. But in the one Rick Beato video I watched he seemed quite positive, but IDK.
Let’s put it this way, in one video he argued that people not googling the word “music” as much as they did in the earlier days of the internet means people aren’t as interested in music anymore.
He usually is. He’s also a fan of click bait and dropping takes to encourage viewers.
Holy shit, I had no idea who he was until I stumbled onto Pat Finnerty and now Beato lives in my head rent free.
He seems to do it to get people to buy his teaching material.
Marques Brownlee – typical tech bro, was speeding in a school zone for one of his videos.
Linus Tech Tips – so many things, but the worst was probably how they treat their employees. Emily is cool though.
Mark Rober – seems like a genuinely awful human being, has a series where he humiliates and catches porch pirates, because obviously the solution to stealing is to lock them all up. Collabs with MrBeast.
theprimagen – AI bro, over the top, loud.
Almost every YouTuber who makes tech-related content tbh.
theprimeagen is loud and annoying, but he’s been very loudly and annoyingly AI sceptical imo. Ngl I like a lot of his takes wrt coding, but you just know that mf has terrible politics lol
On the note of brownlee speeding, everyone who is recording dangerously while driving should be on everyone’s shitlist. Several of these twitch and youtubers have gotten into accidents and its a miracle no one got killed
Basic answer, but…
I still can’t believe that I used to watch this piece of shit for years. I only stopped because in one of his videos he called trans women disgusting.
The racism didnt stop you???
Correct, it didn’t. Because this happened before the bridge incident (in 2016 I believe).
I still can’t believe that I used to watch this piece of shit for years.
He was pretty entertaining and funny when he was small-time. I was surprised at how fun he made bad games. He lost me, though, when he paid people to say horrendous shit. Showed exactly what kind of shitter he was.
Of course homeless kids living in the global south are going to take money for writing signs. He could have just given them the money with no strings attached and used his platform to show how awful poverty can be. Instead, he made them dance around like circus animals. Might as well funded a human zoo.
I hate Tim Pool. He’s just annoyingly stupid and he has a massive audience.
Non political ones, I hate that bald British guy that just does work for a bunch of channels. Annoyingly prevalent all over the platform.
Is that Simon Whistler? If it is, I’m with you on that one.
I didn’t realize he had a name, I thought he was just an avatar of YouTube itself
List of channels for BlockTube., including Simon Whistler and his bullshit.
Crikey, there’s 13 entries just for this one guy! What a prolific source of shite.
Yeah he’s obviously part of some kind of brand. Really annoying seeing him pop up everywhere because he says things that are wrong, anti-communist, and is smug about it.
I really hate V-tubers. It’s just the same old reaction slop but behind a creepy 3D anime girl and with a creepy high pitched voice. And they really love nazism and pedophilia.
Futakuchi Mana is a comrade though and makes some bangers
But that’s also why she doesn’t like being called a vtuber lol
And they really love nazism and pedophilia.
It’s like near universal if I accidentally click on a vtuber livestream either the tuber themselves or their comments section will be saying something hateful and racist. I legit don’t get it. Maybe it’s something to do with them being kind of creepy and unsettling, only someone who barely speaks to actual humans could find that appealing, and it just so happens that the dregs of the internet are also racist creeps.
not hate but GDF gives me bad vibes, also i think that guy Half as Interesting is a fed but it’s completely vibes based lol
easy to get fed vibes from a lot of “educational youtube” because 100% of their research is reading the natopedia page.
I agree about GDF, the comments to his videos are a big red flag.
Half as Interesting’s videos are definitely slop but I really really like his travel game show called “Jet Lag.” The last season with tom Scott was really fun.
JT from the Deprogram podcast used to work for/with him (Sam from HAI)
I’ll give him one thing though, his videos that touch on China related topics aren’t as bad as many of his kin.
garand thumb
theres a related one called ‘administrative results’ who is even more overtly fascist.
and that brandon herrera guy
‘administrative results’
a zionist bastard
Was he one of those shitheads who fantasizes about shooting Black or LGBT people? Seems common with a lot of gun nuts
Of all the guntubers, he’s the one that most strikes me as eager to participate in a death squad. I used to watch his videos, but his little off-handed comments got genuinely quite frightening.
I used to really like Fantano. I still agree with most of his music takes, even though I don’t really explore much music most of the time when I hear about something he says I agree with it. He’s got good politics AFAIK. But I just kinda don’t like his vibe anymore, he’s a little too annoying even for me. I’m glad he’s around, though, I think a lot of other people in that kind of position where they review a lot of punk/otherwise radical music tend to be more liberal.
as much as I find fantano specifically annoying I just don’t think longform talky video is a great format for dealing with music seriously in an interesting way. I’d rather just…listen to the music. the finnerty style “muso dissects bad music” approach is a lot more palatable and even informative at times
I like long form meta-music talky videos like Todd in the Shadows or Trash Theory but then I’m a dork whose always been more interested in history than music.
Have you watched sideways? They fell off the map a few years ago, but their videos are top notch music slop.
Speaking of music creators, I really don’t like Adam Neely’s vibe. Nothing against the guy, he just rubs me the wrong way.
I have now
It’s that Berklee smug.
heyo finnerty is my fav music youtuber for sure. like at least make it funny right? if you’re gonna talk for half an hour about music 😫
I never watched a single video of his after 2018 because he gave one of my favorite albums at the time [Slowdive’s S/T] a 3 or a 4
That is rough. I think I checked out around the time he gave BCNR’s AFUT a 9/10 which is an amazing score, but his only problem with the album was the mixing of the drums on Snowglobes… which I think was pretty clearly intentional to create some dissonance and discomfort? And it just worked incredibly well to set up Basketball Shoes? Oh well. I did just stop really listening to new music around that time so that had more to do with it.
