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Veritasium. Sold out to private equity.

Linus ..

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.

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.

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

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

Or if I find out that they are a conservative

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 context.. but I havent watched since.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Contrapoints for her awful Palestine take.

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 :))"

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.

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

Car YouTubers.

Turns out I fucking hate cars.

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.

Any that use AI/LLMs.

CinemaSins - it just became cringe

Good Mythical Morning - too 'producrd' and they started doing gross shit

Mysterious Universe (YouTube and podcast) - They became rightwing antivax, anti-abortion, anti-mask, homophobic, transphobic, racist losers over the course of 2 years after COVID.

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.

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

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

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.

Techmoan. I used to be super into his content on old obscure stuff but it fell off a cliff for me a couple years ago. Instantly bored.

AvE when he started getting right wing preachy. Guy had a winning formula and destroyed it.

Electroboom. Similar to techmoan... Booooooring. I don't care about the outlets in whatever country you are visiting this month.

John Oliver. It's too depressing to find out what levels of depravity and corruption the ruling class is up to. I can't handle it anymore.

Surprised it has shown up here already but Bon Appetit. I was watching a lot of it over lockdown in 2020, and then at the end of that year the channel blew up thanks to a mass staff exodus due to discrimination.

Fucking Destiny. After Professor Dave drilled him a new one.