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I really hate V-tubers. It’s just the same old reaction slop but behind a creepy 3D anime girl and with a creepy high pitched voice. And they really love nazism and pedophilia.
And they really love nazism and pedophilia.
It’s like near universal if I accidentally click on a vtuber livestream either the tuber themselves or their comments section will be saying something hateful and racist. I legit don’t get it. Maybe it’s something to do with them being kind of creepy and unsettling, only someone who barely speaks to actual humans could find that appealing, and it just so happens that the dregs of the internet are also racist creeps.
Futakuchi Mana is a comrade though and makes some bangers
But that’s also why she doesn’t like being called a vtuber lol
CGPGrey is at the very least flirting with “rationalism” and might be the smuggest man in existence His content isn’t offensive, he doesn’t hurt anyone, and he’s not actively a bad guy in any meaningful way that I know of. But you asked for youtubers we dislike for their vibes, so that’s my answer.
He actively spreads misinformation, as most of his videos are based on a single source, and he never actually examines how legit the source is. His stuff always “makes sense” and sounds well thought out, but it actively makes its audience dumber, while think they are learning something.
His worst offender is his Americapox videos, in which he literally says Native Americans “are at the bottom of the (video game) tech tree.” because their native animals were too hard to domesticate. Treating development of cultures and technology as a linear video game style progression is bad enough, but the source for his pair of videos is “Guns Germs and Steel” a notorious pop-history book that has recieved a lot of negative criticism from historians for its inaccurate and infantilising depictions of native American civilisations, amongst other things, painting the conquest of the Americas as an “us or them” style thing, portraying it as “inevitable” and making absurd and insulting claims about native American groups, like the Inca being too stupid to know what an ambush was, because they didn’t have horses.
And when the innacuracies and downright racism of his source was called out, CGPGrey doubled down, instead of admitting fault, first he did the standard youtuber tantrum of “if you don’t like it, make your own video/I have more subscribers than you which means I’m right” sort of thing, and then when that didn’t work, he declared his videos were a “joke” and he was just trolling historians with them.
Dude claims to be an intellectual, but can’t ever admit the possibility that he is wrong or did poor research, in turn I think that means we can’t really trust anything he produces. It’s the “guy with a vaguely British accent says a thing with authority, so it must be intelligent and correct.” sort of content.
I was mostly ambivalent towards him until the america pox video, but that definitely turned me off since I had at least two history professors spend lectures talking about how bad guns germs and steel was as a book and threatened to kick out anyone who used it as a source for their classes.
I also briefly listened to his podcast and as smug as he comes off from YouTube, it is controlled compared to his actual real life bullshit. Listen to him decry people who keep mementos of things from their lives and shame his wife for wanting to put pictures of things she likes. This utilitarian only wants things in his life that he actually uses, and I’d be shocked if he hasn’t been divorced at this point for his avoidance of all connections to emotions. He also shilled tesla cars alot, weird he didn’t do any due diligence on Elon and just wanted a cool computer car regardless of who was making it.
Also he would constantly complain that people are too hard him so he takes longer to verify his content is accurate but then his video is always just one source as mentioned and he’s just summarized it. Why did that take 8 months of effort? I hate him as well.
The whole platform. It’s the 21st century’s reinvention of trash tv, but worse. At least in the days of broadcast tv everyone watched the same shitty broadcast so led to a sense of a collective experience and the slop was made by tv production workers in a union.
Basic answer, but…
I still can’t believe that I used to watch this piece of shit for years. I only stopped because in one of his videos he called trans women disgusting.
I still can’t believe that I used to watch this piece of shit for years.
He was pretty entertaining and funny when he was small-time. I was surprised at how fun he made bad games. He lost me, though, when he paid people to say horrendous shit. Showed exactly what kind of shitter he was.
Of course homeless kids living in the global south are going to take money for writing signs. He could have just given them the money with no strings attached and used his platform to show how awful poverty can be. Instead, he made them dance around like circus animals. Might as well funded a human zoo.
The racism didnt stop you???
Correct, it didn’t. Because this happened before the bridge incident (in 2016 I believe).
Nigel Ng, Joshua Weissman
Haha isn’t Joshua Weissman a cook? What’d he do?
Ah, you mean the Joshua Weissman that proved only through his mastery of all things culinary that he can make a better cheap fast food burger by using $100+ worth of ingredients?
oh god that joshua weissman video thumbnail grin. we need that as an emoji, it’s at least as iconic and awful as the mr beast death grin
Watch one kenji lopez video and your reccos will be full of orange shirt minstrelism and a four eyed fuckhead who thinks playing the pornhub sting beneath a montage of diced heirloom tomatoes is the last word in comedy
My man Kenji doesn’t deserve this kind of association
I don’t really like any “drama” YouTubers, like Keem, Spill, or Iilluminaughtii. It all seems like low effort slop with literally no value.
The only good gossip happens in-person.
Marques Brownlee – typical tech bro, was speeding in a school zone for one of his videos.
Linus Tech Tips – so many things, but the worst was probably how they treat their employees. Emily is cool though.
Mark Rober – seems like a genuinely awful human being, has a series where he humiliates and catches porch pirates, because obviously the solution to stealing is to lock them all up. Collabs with MrBeast.
theprimagen – AI bro, over the top, loud.
Almost every YouTuber who makes tech-related content tbh.
On the note of brownlee speeding, everyone who is recording dangerously while driving should be on everyone’s shitlist. Several of these twitch and youtubers have gotten into accidents and its a miracle no one got killed
theprimeagen is loud and annoying, but he’s been very loudly and annoyingly AI sceptical imo. Ngl I like a lot of his takes wrt coding, but you just know that mf has terrible politics lol
Mr Beast. Even if he wasn’t a horrible shill for capitalism, the vibe of his video thumbnails alone make me want to punch puppies.
I hate SEO face and his is the worst.
make me want to punch puppies.
:(
Mr. Beast is so creepy looking. He gives me Patrick Bateman vibes, except Bateman has more emotions. Just completely dead and soulless behind his eyes.
I barely even know them, but the Green brothers, specifically Hank Green, are self-important dipshits who are not nearly as smart, funny or influential as they believe they are and i will laugh at their downfall
the guy just looks and sounds like a dweeb and thinks he runs tiktok
The original run of vlogbrothers was very wholesome but I have not followed them since it ended
John Green is slightly less annoying, and mostly seems to stay in his lane, but Hank green is totally insufferable because the dude will not ever accept that he could be wrong about something. The thing he refuses to budge on? Liberalism won’t save the planet. Legitimately thought Biden’s plans for climate were going to begin the solution, and couldn’t see how it was the end game for Democrats, that was it. They weren’t doing anything afterwards they spent too much political capital putting forward something that did next to nothing to solve the problem and failed to address the root cause of climate change (oil and gas extraction which continued to climb under Biden).
I’m sure there is more from both of them but that’s what drove me insane listening to their crap.
They were some of the first bloggers on YouTube. I’ve watched some Crash Course, which is quick explanations of high school curriculum funded by PBS, which the Greens helped start. It’s a nice refresher for adults and helpful for kids taking AP classes or niche electives.
But yes, they’re turbo-lib soyboys. Extremely off-putting for a lot of people and forget they’re only teaching high school material. Like take it down a notch, you are not on a panel reviewing someone’s graduate thesis. You’re a meme to make up for how shit our public education system is.
Based. They are living, breathing, soyjaks.
Hank green always ruins everything he guests in for me. I don’t like his smug face. Whenever he was on lateral with Tom Scott I would just skip it, and I really like lateral.
Nearly all reaction channels because they all turn into nazi lite chuds. They’ll be seeing a fucking Confederate say the dumbest shit and they’ll be like “hmmm you know he has a point”. Its like seeing a person radicalized in realtime. I hate these people with every fiber of my being. I hate how stupid they are and I hate that their audience is every bit as brain dead.
I hate how influential these talentless hacks are and the fact that so many get influenced by them and throw away their weak convictions and just hop on racist dick. I despise how the Poc ones buck their eyes or play to a racial stereotype for their followers anf know exactly what the fuck they’re doing but act dumb. I absolutely despise… Let me not go further it will be fed posting.
I used to watch reaction channels a lot, and yeah 99% turned out to be either radlibs or straight up chuds…
But I still watch and enjoy Drew Gooden. He’s just funny, and seems to not be completely brainwormed. Correct me if I’m wrong tho lol
Drew Gooden seems to have decent beliefs
yeah he’s a great launch pad for anti-capitalist thought by showing how corporations only exist to make things worse
I noticed that the YouTubers I thought I hated, I just found that their content wasn’t my cup of tea, like I dont actually hate them, my brain just automatically hates them (which speaks more about me but anyway) Do genuinely despise muta and pewdiepie. I have a guilty pleasure for slop channels
I hate Tim Pool. He’s just annoyingly stupid and he has a massive audience.
Non political ones, I hate that bald British guy that just does work for a bunch of channels. Annoyingly prevalent all over the platform.
Is that Simon Whistler? If it is, I’m with you on that one.
List of channels for BlockTube., including Simon Whistler and his bullshit.
Crikey, there’s 13 entries just for this one guy! What a prolific source of shite.
I didn’t realize he had a name, I thought he was just an avatar of YouTube itself
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Was he one of those shitheads who fantasizes about shooting Black or LGBT people? Seems common with a lot of gun nuts
Of all the guntubers, he’s the one that most strikes me as eager to participate in a death squad. I used to watch his videos, but his little off-handed comments got genuinely quite frightening.
theres a related one called ‘administrative results’ who is even more overtly fascist.
and that brandon herrera guy
‘administrative results’
a zionist bastard
The only ones I really hate are the usual suspects of outrage/culture war chuds whining about the latest woman/poc/etc. in fiction. If I get even a whiff of them in my recommended, I block the whole channel to purify my algorithm.
A few off the top of my head:
- Mark Laita (Soft White Underbelly): poverty porn sexpest
- Andrew Callaghan (All Gas No Brakes): A phrase I’ve heard a lot with regards to the flaws of horizontal organizations is that if you don’t pick a leader, the media will pick one for you. Andrew is the kind of person who will pick a lunatic for you. Also a sex pest.
- MatPat: I think he’s a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.
- MrBeast: No reasons needed
- Kurtzgezuart: I don’t respect them enough to spell their name right. Bourgeoisie dogs.
Kurtgefart telling people don’t worry catastrophic events that will wipe out most of humanity like a nuclear Holocaust or climate change aren’t that bad because stragglers will be left on a broken planet. Happy fucking music playing too. Fuck these people
They used to be literally funded by the German government (their German language channel at least), until… they were not allowed to sell merch, because of public funding.
MatPat: I think he’s a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.
I could totally see him having a ProJared style fallout
Kurzgesagt is literally a “lets sterilize all africans” gates foundation guy
MrBeast
As soon as I saw Callaghan on that doomscroll podcast I blocked that garbage instantly. No way am I trusting the judgement of a podcast host who invites a known sex pest on. He had already had several guests with really detestable views (Dasha) but someone who admitted to SA shouldn’t have a platform.
What is Doomscroll’s MO? I keep getting it recommended to me but I never watch it because my podcast backlog is too long as it stands.
It seems like he’s a stupidpol guy who wants to reach the kind of people who like Jreg to get them to like social democracy by going against the stereotypical image of a leftist. I gotta say that it was nice at the beginning, the episode with Yung Chomsky was really good. But as it went on it started to acquire more and more of a “we’re not like the woke left” vibe (pretty obvious when he invited Dasha, but I never watched that episode).
What is Jreg’s deal? I’ve seen some of their videos and they’re kinda funny, but he does give me sus vibes even though it’s all satire.
He’s doing a really good bit IMO, but it also means he’s normalizing all the different ideologies he portrays. He seems to have a very young audience and a lot of them claim to be fascists or other far right ideologies, probably due to his influence.
IIRC he had
on who kind of pushed back on him being so self-seriousHe’s not stupidpol, he’s basically Adam Curtis redux. A radlib gawker from the sidelines.
GeneralSwitch2Boycott is Based_Ball is Jreg
Jreg went on Doomscroll
anyone else see the implications of this?
Did Based_Ball call people radlib gawkers or something? I’m not understanding what you’re saying/implying.
IDK but I do still think adding “the” to the slur filter would be a great bit.
i don’t even know who Jreg is, but I know that Based_Ball is Jreg
it’s meta slop
Citarella’s focus is Literally Teenagers
CW: Amber.
Amber.
