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.
Pretty much all the old gaming YTers I used to watch I barely have time for because of how long the videos are. Most of this is down to streaming, and how long and plodding VODS are.
Also, ditto anytime they transition to doing it full-time. I remember YT in the 2000’s when people basically just did it as a hobby.
It’s also because YT drastically changed their payment scheme a while back. They used to pay out based on views, (IIRC a view was counted as 85% of the video watched) which encouraged creators to create short videos. After all, 85% of a 2 minute video is only ~100 seconds. But 85% of a 20 minute video is 17 minutes. And both the 100 second and 17 minute view paid out the same amount. So creators prioritized shorter videos, because not very many people had the time or attention span for the 17 minutes of watch time required for a single view.
But YouTube changed that a while ago, and now they pay out based on total watch time. Now that 2 minute video needs to attract 10x as many viewers, in order to pay out the same as a single viewer on a 20 minute video. Since new viewers are harder to attract, creators began prioritizing longer videos to make the most of their limited viewer base.
Yeah. Seems like most gaming channels are trying to double dip with streaming and YouTube now. Where their content has been replaced with slightly edited streams.
Streaming is a much more predictable, and often more lucrative, income with less effort (generally). Hard to blame the creators that change focus.
As a job, I get it, but as someone who remembers when the idea of doing YT for a living was unthinkable, it’s sad that simply posting stuff on the internet now has become simply yet another soul-crushing job.