Ask Lemmy

I might be playing Devil's Advocate here, but Psivewri.

I started watching him years ago for his tech videos, usually restoring mundane computers, and I still enjoy that content.

However, he started getting into automotive, and I'm glad that he's stretching out into other areas. It's clear he's still learning and probably on my level of mechanics (backyardie who can watch videos and read a workshop manual), but my issue is how he presents the videos like he knows what he's doing, almost like a tutorial - giving random tips throughout.

His Dad assists him with the work he does on cars (like myself) and in that sense, I'd rather hear tips from the Dad than him because I'd have more confidence he knows what he's talking about.

Otherwise maybe PhoenixSC? I started watching him when he was uploading redstone contraptions to r/Minecraft and he had 4K subscribers. His older, experimental videos were always interesting, and his work on adventure maps like PokeCA was amazing to watch.

Today, most of his videos boil down to the following:

• Meme reactions
• Takes on Mojang controversy and how he believes the community should respond
• Joke Minecraft creations

I'm glad that he's grown to be more confident in himself and in general, become more entertaining when he talks, but I feel he's gone too much into the mainstream over the last few years rather than keeping to his lane.

Most degrade over time as they either grow tired of doing it after years of treating it as a job/ buisness with mutliple employees or they move on to other things and its just no longer a priority besides keeping the revenue going. Similar to watching a TV series or a podcast, they are all eventually must end but some go way past their time or upload frequency that worked and just end up a either corporate style mess since it is a job to sell ad space now or just too exhausted from the years to keep up the effort of being good. The second part is moreso for those that switched over to mainly streaming to make clips of them reacting to other people's content.

OG Youtube watcher since back with the Lonely Island being the only thing on there at The start. Ironically they're still pushing 20 years later as a podcast now vs their SNL style skits.

Casual Navigation

The creator sold it and the last time I was looking it was AI slop

Skallagrim huffs his own farts almost as much as Matt Easton. I miss Mr. Chickadee.

Philosophy Tube

. . . All? . . . of them?

Used to love Flossy Carter. His long form videos and overall style weren't for everyone, but personally I thought he was massively entertaining and funny. Hasn't been the same since he was called out for promoting a scam and then doubling down and using homophobic slurs against people who criticised him. An apology would have went a long way.

Regular Car Reviews definitely peaked long ago.

They've largely stuck to the same formula for the past decade-plus, hiding masters-level literary theory, and copious amounts of toilet humor, under the guise of automotive journalism. And there's nothing wrong with sticking to the tried-and-true.

I still enjoy their videos, I make sure to watch them every Monday morning like clockwork. But they just don't hit the same anymore. There's not much that's memorable about their commentary these days, unless the vehicle in question is unusual on its own, like the shuttle bus RV conversion they reviewed... four months ago. I had to scroll past a bunch of videos for cars I honestly forgot they'd reviewed, when I checked their channel just now.

I miss the anger. I miss the passion that resulted from it. Brian's acknowledged this, and he's mentioned how he's just generally calmer and happier these days. And there's nothing wrong with that. I admit to souring a bit to all the giveaway cars he'd review/advertise... especially how you'd enter these giveaways by paying FIFTY dollars, pre-shipping, for a crappy camping mug, with a vaguely car-culture-related picture on it. But not an RCR mug. And I respect him for having (largely) stopped doing those giveaways.

But, like, the last video of RCR's that has actually stuck in my mind, was when they absolutely ripped into an Oldsmobile Bravada. And that came out nearly 5 years ago.

Skallagrim! I am subbed to him also.

He is and has always been the weird metalhead kid in high school who is really obsessed with medieval weapons and not very socially apt. I don't mind his takes personally.

It's off topic to the rest of the thread, but I also want to point out that LGR has been consistently good for more than a decade.

Channels that are in the process of going down the tubes would include Skeeter Jean, Jidion and Predator Poachers. which are really three flavors of the same thing but they're all going downhill fast - although Predator Poachers (or more specifically, the guy behind him, Alex Rosen) has always been a scummy person.

The why files feels very AI generated now, both visuals and story telling.

I've been watching the Kings and Generals channel for a number of years now and I'm noticing the quality starting to waver a bit in the last couple years.