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.
LTT comes across as someone who simultaneously wants to be a boss and also do nut taps in the locker room. He himself admits he sucks at PR and then does PR solo style anyways or with Luke held hostage. He often takes things personally when it’s actually a really good opportunity to show growth and standards, but I swear he misses the mark every. Single. Time. This behavior also corroborates the feelings of a staff member who left because someone higher up was creepy to her and wasn’t ever confronted because that’s the environment Linus fostered. You can’t be a boss that’s always joking because sometimes it’s serious, and when it’s serious, it’s not always personal.
MKHD Always seemed like a bit of an Apple shill, but I gotta say it just got worse and worse. It’s like he was shopping for himself and once he became a millionaire everything seemed like it was cheap if it was at all novel. He also handled that app launch insanely badly and seems like the type of dude to be impressed by anything a tech bro presents to him.
Berm Peak completely similar vibes. He’s rich, so crazy expensive bikes and accessories are almost always a great deal because they’re in his budget and high quality.
Ethan Klein I honestly don’t know why I ever liked him apart from the copyright lawsuit with Matt Hoss. I appreciated the goofs, but for some reason it took me way too long to see that some of those people in no way shape or form deserved that treatment. Patrice Wilson for example, not to mention later when he devoted his entire life to hate watching Hasan and Hasan-adjacents while being incredibly deceptive about his and his wifes views on Israel. I ditched him before all that, but man what a massive shitshow he turned his channels into.
EEVBlog got high on his own supply. He’s always been a bit snobbish, especially about sub par equipment that he already made up his mind about before opening, but I saw him talking about running for office with some dogshit platitudes that mean nothing like, “Dave’ll take it apart and fix it all” and seemed very defensive when people were asking what his platform actually would be. God complex vibes from all that.
Gus Johnson because he treated his ex like crap and ran from accountability, and is now sneaking back into YouTube through his and his brother’s account without ever really addressing his failures. He just wants everyone to move on and accept him again.
Cody Ko handled the fallout of sexual assault allegations horribly and is best friends for life with a known rapist, putting that relationship above everything. Gross guy, but before all that came out he was just a funny immature frat guy with a lot of jokes and good reactions. Major failure to meet the moment.
Scott Kilmer - just shitty political takes eventually wore me down.
AVE - shitty political views and then talking about teaching his daughter racist nursery rhymes was the final straw for me.
The LTT allegations were investigated by a third party who was unable to substantiate the claims and were described as “largely unfounded, misleading, and unfair”
I don’t disagree that it’s not diminimous by the legal standards of harassment, but I don’t think that an arbitrator hired by the company is an accurate gauge of public perception given all of the facts. From my understanding she didn’t elevate the issue sufficiently to constitute gross negligence for it going unaddressed. I can clearly see even Ilin their videos that their humor is “that’s what she said” bro humor in what is supposed to be a professional environment. I wouldn’t fault anyone for feeling entrapped by that behavior if they view it as a job and nothing more.
I don’t get that vibe from Berm Peak. If he’s rich I can understand that he’d ride expensive bikes himself, but he seems to often make a point that more reasonably priced or old/used bikes can be just as fun, which I think is great when the marketing around bikes seems to try to push people to always want the newest high end stuff.
To put my own perspective into a box, I was just getting into the hobby and he is the highest quality channel on the matter. It was just disheartening to get the impression that the barrier to entry was so high, but it’s fair if he wants better for his fans so long as he couples that in with statements like “my standards are way higher than a beginner’s” etc. It’d be similar to MKHD propping up phones that are well outside a reasonable expense for a lot of people.
Linus seems like a terrible boss to have
Can you imagine the hemming and hawing he’d do if his employee unionized? He’d crash out for sure.
Yeah, I also used to like AvE’s tool teardowns, I felt he did a good job explaining the little things you wouldn’t think about, where companies cut costs, and if those cost/perf tradeoffs were done in a smart way or if it would bite you.
Enter covid, and he’s ranting about US politics and trucker convoys. Unsubscribed and haven’t watched him since, tbh the channel was going downhill before then, but that was the straw that broke the camels back.
Sad to hear he kept up with the bad views, but not surprising.
I stopped watching when he made a joke about at least another trump term would be more interesting. Fuck you Canadian prick. You didn’t have any skin in this game so I don’t want to hear your shitty political takes. Unsubbed and haven’t looked back.
I used to watch AvE on long nights at work and even his tool teardowns got old quickly and the cracks started to show for me. Like every single one was him pointing out the same 10 things he knows about while bullshitting the rest.
My final straw was before covid when he felt the need to post a video on a crane that collapsed in Seattle acting like some forensic analyst giving us his “expert take” on what occurred based off some grainy news footage. I know people just like him who always want to portray themselves as the expert on everything in the most condescending way, and that drives me up the fucking wall, so I had to dip out.
I watch Berm Peak every now and then. He lives in WNC where I do but he is not a local. Anyway he seems like a nice guy but god damn he rides some expensive shit. The whole Ozark Trial series was interesting. He liked the bike after he did a good tune on it. Talk about how for a casual trail rider it is a great value for he money and then proceeded to put lipstick on a pig by upgrading it. I think at the end the sum of the part on the frame was like in excess of 3000 bucks. I still don’t understand why he closed his AirBNB mountain bike retreat.
I stopped watching eevblog during the pandemic, when he regularly ranted about the strict covid rules in Australia “even though there are barely any cases”. Not realizing how those things are connected. Absolute idiot