For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.
But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.
His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.
So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.
We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.
Donut Media. They got bought out by an investment company and then all their videos became Buzzfeed style listicles.
I find Speeed is as close to the original vibes as you can get. They’ve actually got some great videos. I want to like bigtime but I’m starting to wonder if they may have been part of the problem
I love all of James’ stuff so much when he was with donut, but speeed isn’t hitting that spot for me. He seems to be just reviewing random stuff. Like I’m not watching his channel because of his hiking gear review, I’m watching it because dude has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of car companies and their history.
I’ve been enjoying BigTime but I think they’re struggling hard behind the scenes trying to replicate their old, expensive production style in one of the most expensive areas in the country (they employ like a dozen people as a fairly new YouTube channel) as if they still have that funding, along with not having the technical expertise to do all the work they want to do to their projects.