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MrBeast and his many imitators. Don’t get the appeal and the constant shouting voice is very annoying to me. I guess I’m just too old.
The target audience is kids.
That just makes it worse
Almost everyone that is on the popular front page feed. I loath the emotional content, drama, click bait type nonsense.
Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly you figure out you’re not logged into your account when you load the homepage. Literally none of the videos that are popular is anything I’d ever consider watching.
All I see in the “you’re not logged in” frontpage is music videos anyways, and not conventional youtubers. I dunno how someone finds Mr. beast “organically”.
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All influencer types. Influencing kids to be more vain, more selfish, more money focused, more vapid and empty?
Veritasium. As soon as he put out a video with sponsored content where he lied with science I immediately knew he could no longer be trusted. I completely stopped watching his videos that day.
I kinda slowed down on his videos since that Tom Nicolas video, but I watched his video from a few days ago about blimps because blimps are cool. But it just seemed like a corporate ad. The amount of the video that’s renders of products vs actual products is pretty bad.
It didn’t feel like a science video about blimps, it felt like half blimp startup ad, half simple blimp explanation. I don’t know, it just felt a little devoid of depth.
I would really like a channel that covers start-ups well, like explaining their idea and what they hope to accomplish then going into some of the challenges they face.
Far too many seem to be nothing but reading the press release and the first couple of paragraphs of Wikipedia.
Which video?
There was this one from a couple years ago that was about self-driving cars and also sponsored by Waymo. Tom Nicholas made a video which IMO does a good job of covering the problems with that video, and the broader implications of this kind of content on YouTube.
Ha, I wasn’t even talking about that one. I think I stopped watching before then because he just went in deep with the sponsors and it was clear he wasn’t actually caring about the science anymore. The one I’m talking about he ‘proved’ that wet wipes are flushable.
here’s the video. https://youtu.be/5zI9sG3pjVU?t=983
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found it. https://youtu.be/5zI9sG3pjVU?t=983
there’s even people in the comments that don’t realize the experiment was bad science and think that maybe these wipes are ‘different’
Thanks for the answers! I had a bad taste in my mouth after his dandruff video which felt very corporate but I gave him the benefit of the doubt assuming that the science was solid. I guess my gut instinct was right.
I still think a lot of his videos are good, it’s just sad that the obviously sponsored ones are low quality. I’ll check out the links and response video someone else posted and keep being skeptical.
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I don’t remember which video it was, I’d have to go find it. At the end he sets up a ‘science experiment’ to show that wet wipes are flushable, unlike what everyone says. And the way he ‘proves’ it is clearly a terrible way to prove it, but if you aren’t thinking about it you’ll agree. I’ll try to find the video.
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Thanks for sharing that. I’ll agree it’s pretty dubious, but not enough to stop me enjoying their other content. But I have a pretty high skeptic quotient for everything online to begin with so, a little light shilling isn’t enough to turn me off of a channel that’s otherwise entertaining and often thought-provoking.
That “experiment” definitely deserves the mythbusters treatment, though. Even if that brand breaks into pieces faster, that doesn’t account for total breakdown or even what happens to its individual fibers after flushing. More data needed.
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Damn, really? His concrete video was pretty interesting
yeah. honestly it stinks because he did have good science videos. but as soon as he sold out and the way he did so I knew he was no longer an educational channel.
So many tech YouTubers are overrated, but one who really stands out to me is JayzTwoCents. Somehow I have several memories of clicking on one of his videos and being shocked at him being confidently incorrect about something. I no longer click on his videos at all.
Thats crazy I unsubsceibed from him just yesterday
His alpha nerd persona comes across hard.
Mr Beast and his fucking thumbnails with open mouth and ugly mustache. How come such douche can make 5M views in 2days, it baffles me.
I get why he got popular but I’m amazed that the novelty hasn’t worn off
None, because I ignore the ones I don’t like.
Isn’t it great, not being defined in opposition to triviality?
But for real, everyone is mentioning the same ten creators. It’s not a great question.
I find them all overrated and I subscribe to zero channels. I only use YouTube when I’m looking for a specific video, and then I watch what I came for and leave without any interaction of any kind with the social aspect of the site.
I mean that’s great if it’s what works for you but that’s kinda like saying because there are bad books written you avoid all of them.
I’m guessing you’re not using other video hosting platforms like tiktok so are you saying you only watch content from corporate content farms like netflix and Disney? Or that you avoid video as a medium?
MrBeast is a horrible example of a person and everyone acts like he’s a second coming out Jesus. He fucks up people’s lives with his “charity” on a regular basis.
PewDiePie is one of the most annoying people ever born.
How does he fuck up people’s lives?
Yeah I want to know as well. His content isn’t exactly my cup of tea and can feel dystopia, but my dude flies around the world giving away free surgery to people and shit, and he promotes charities and foundations and actually moves people to donate to them. His thumbnails are creepy as shit, and his content feels like it was made to be cut up into a bunch of 6 second tiktok videos, but I don’t really see a dark side here.
I’m no Mr beast fan, but the dystopia you feel isn’t his fault. It’s the fault of our society. It’s the fact that some people have to rely on a clickbait youtubers generosity to have vision surgery, instead of it being freely available. It’s the fact that inequality is so rampant and ever growing due to our infinite capacity for greed.
Another one I’d mention is Rooster Teeth (the whole gang). I watched some of their “shenanigans” videos and they were just destroying office furniture, doing shitty pranks and in general being man-childs.
I just thought all the mess they left behind for everyone not on camera and what a shitshow it must be for the production crew to work with a bunch of internet mini-celebrities. They were basically the OG streaming mansion.
Fast forward a few years and you hear all these allegations of terrible work conditions. Go figure.
Kurtuzeg. And alot of the “science” channels. They are so full of shit sometimes.
Lol I just said this and got downvoted to the bottom.
science ‘education’ channels try not to be extremely biased and corrupt challenge
Their videos about the immune system are really good and educational (according to me, who has no idea if they’re just making shit up). But pretty much everything else they make is just pop science.
I agree. Like most science channels, they’re really good when they stick to pure science.
The issues usually occur when they decide to weigh in on a social or policy issue that they’re not qualified to talk about. Kurtzgesagt’s blunders all seem to be related to climate policy videos and their wishful thinking regarding Hail Mary technologies saving us.
For other readers, my bias is generally pro kurtzgesagt, I have several of their posters on my wall. Their social policy videos have just been really rubbing me the wrong way.
Great video though.
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Sabine has been posting a lot of cringe lately. Such a bummer when a physicist decides to go down the 2009 history channel swerving out of their lane career path.
MKBHD simply because I have absolutely no idea what the point in the channel is.
Obstensively it’s a tech review channel, but really it seems to be a look at my cinematography and all this b-roll footage channel. Also iPhones, which is always boring because let’s face it the last time Apple did anything close to innovative with the iPhone was the the 5C.
I mean you nailed it. It’s entertainment - validation for people who want to buy the shiny new Apple thing. “Look how cool it looks in these artsy shots”, forgetting it’s a carbon copy of last year’s model.
I use MKBHD as a source of surface information to find quick info about certain products. Of course the info he gives out is a little biased but the videos are short and entertaining. Still end up doing my own research before purchasing though.
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Mr Beast - all his videos look and feel the same. And there’s nothing new that you learn from them.
Real Engineering
Some really uncritical videos about “pretty out there” startups. It’s basically a PR channel.
Practical engineering is much better imo
Same with Undecided. Dude it’s basically just a shill for random startups. He’s basically just Popular Science magazine, the YouTube channel.
I find that the majority of the “Big Youtubers” seem to be very overrated. I never got super big into Pewdiepie as a kid, and trying to get into his content during the 100 mil craze made me wonder how he gained such a following (not dissing you if you do enjoy his content, but not my cup of tea).
On the flip side, i really enjoy slimecicles videos. Watching him is like eating a bowl of chicken soup.
It’s hard to find someone who makes content that doesn’t kowtow to Youtube’s terrible system. Content takes time to make and time costs money but youtube will make these people break their spine bending over backwards to make sure they don’t get demonitized and get the scraps of ad revenue that Google designs to give them. So now we get people trying to dance around stupid censorship rules, finding more and more sponsors because they don’t get paid enough and have to scream figuratively and literally to get enough attention to pay the bills.
