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Veritasium. Sold out to private equity.

Sabine Hossenfelder, after she went full anti-science, like "and you can trust me because i am a scientist, but not like those other scientists."

I think i stopped watching when she read a fake email to the camera.

Linus ..

LTT. Linus is a whiny out of touch git and all the good content creators have already left

Essential Craftsman - he's an older guy who knows a hell of a lot about carpentry and blacksmith work. He dedicated a ep. to Charlie Kirk I felt like finding our my favorite uncle was in the klan. Noped the hell out of his channel as did a lot of others.

I ditch anyone who inserts a bible verse or anything similar into their videos

Or if I find out that they are a conservative

Mike Rowe gave a platform to JD fucking Vance to spew his nazi bullshit.

Shadiversity. Guy made some really interesting videos breaking down different kinds of historical melee weapons, showing how, when, and why they were used. Genuinely interesting content until he started randomly spewing right wing nonsense a few years ago.

I used to watch a lot of fishing/outdoors channels.

during covid all but one of the outdoor channels I watched either did straight up covid denial, or went full mask off on their right wing extremism in general and with crazy conspiracy theories about covid, so I dropped them.

I also dropped bigclive around the same time, because he thought people getting sick from vaping was, iirc, some kind of government hoax or something, while also engaging in the whole "covids just the cold, stop being silly" type of denialism, Which really sucked cause I used to love his content.. but I havent watched since.

i dropped Mark Roper when he said he loves his Tesla and plans on buying another. I just can't deal with Nazi fanboys.

Renaissance Periodation. He kept suggesting to his viewers that we should check his facts against Chatgpt. His sex jokes got boring and repetitive.

Mostly, i drop a youtuber when i get bored with their content.

No mentions of MKBHD. Guy had decent reviews of tech stuff, but decides to be a corporative, carfluencing, reckless driving sellout.

Joshua Weissman, he used to have some good cooking content but it got too brain rotted for me.

Similarly I almost dropped Binging with Babish, but he started a new channel for his non-BWB content and actually put up a classic-style video recently!

I block any channel as soon as AI slop creeps into their visuals or their scripts. Sometimes I'll do it even if they use AI slop in their thumbnails. I'm just sick to death of AI slop. Fucking HATE the aesthetics of it.

AvE - got introduced him just before he decided to start talking positively about MAGA and the similar Canadian trucker protests. Plenty of other people out there doing teardown my videos, so I bailed.

Rose Anvil - loved his work boot teardowns, but he gradually started promoting his own collabs and seemed to favor certain brands even if they were doing things he called shoddy in other brands. Then he started doing a lot with Jim Green boots in South Africa and making a lot of comments that felt pro-Rhodesia to me and started giving me the ick for watching.

Forgotten Weapons I still watch if there is something of particular interest to me. I used to watch every one, but as the country got more MAGA invested and gun culture felt like it was becoming more toxic than usual, I wasn't happy with Ian staying neutral. If he's worried about losing viewers and connections with gun manufacturers, I get that, but I also don't have to like it or support it.

Kurzgesagt: their video some time ago about current state of the world in terms of conflicts and violent deaths was disgusting. It was an apology to do nothing about the genocides occurring in the tone of "OH these things always have happened don't be sad :))"

I used enjoy the critical drinker. But his videos got anti-woke instead of just being critical of bad writing.

The last straw was him on a podcast agreeing with right wingers/maga/fascists.

I blocked him since then. Not sure if he was always like that or just fell down a dark rabbit hole.

I used to love H3 back in the early days for their It's Time to Stop videos holding people to account. But then they got big and wealthy and had kids and now everything is aimed at whoever doesn't like them, and I mean who tf would given their stance on killing innocent children and journalists. Threw out the t-shirt I bought. Such a disappointment.

Lewis Rossman.

I have no valid reason for this. I fundamentally agree with the guy on most things for the dozen or so vids I have seen. Right to repair etc etc.

But something about him just comes across as entitled and annoying. Like even if I knew the was right I would want to disagree with him.

IDK that I've really 'dropped' any YouTubers. Just kind of stopped watching because something else caught my attention.

I have several that I check in on now and again, but the only one where I watch everything is Primitive Technology.

AVGN I guess, not because of any controversy but just because he has no passion to make videos and the quality is low and the videos are soulless

Any that use AI/LLMs.

Pretty much every gun youtuber. So many of them have MAGA vibes. I used to like garandthumb, but his constant anti lgbt quips in the intros made it too hard to give him views

Contrapoints for her awful Palestine take.

AvE, supporting the truckers "protest"

Grade A Under A, covid restrictions denier

Car YouTubers.

Turns out I fucking hate cars.

Sjin for touching kids.

The rest of the Yogscast for just generally being shitty people once they hit the six figure earning mark doing things like promising a game and then running away with the crowdfunding.

TotalBiscuit died.

TheSpiffingBrit went from faux elitism to actual elitism and I just don't find him funny anymore.

SomeOrdinaryGamers, because of him lying about being an engineer and because his content amounted to little more than slop drama.

Meidas Touch. Clickbait headlines and thumbnails, unrealistically optimistic takes on things. I want information, not bullshit.

VSauce, all three of them. They were peak YouTube way back when, but there was this long pause in videos shortly after they built their big studio, and VSauce 1 started focusing entirely on shorts about uninteresting things and VSauce 3 stopped making videos entirely. 1 and 2 are kinda back at making videos, but their quality jumped off a cliff. Feels like they're making videos out of obligation.

MxR Mods. Two reasons for this, firstly is that I kinda stopped playing Skyrim. The other being that he started focusing almost entirely on lewd mods.

Kurtzhezacht, because their political stance became more and more apparent (billionaires will save the future).