And why did you stop watching them?

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The 8 bit guy. I loved his retro computing channel and then one day, he acquired a rare IBM computer and promptly destroyed the power supply by sticking a screwdriver into it (if I remember correctly).

    For some reason, I googled about this and discovered he’s a gun nut. They’re videos of him going grocery shopping with his rifle on his back which apparently he does this knowing it will annoy people.

    Unsubscribed from the channel and never looked back.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    11 months ago

    CGPGrey. I even listened to his podcasts.

    For someone who tried to sell productivity tools at one point, he was very unproductive.

    Also, given what happened with Standard and Nebula, I got to say I side with Nebula over him.

    • anothermember@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, it’s weird, CGPGrey videos used to be the most must-watch of all YouTube for me and I subscribed to his Patreon at one point. I listened to Hello Internet loyally and I was even unhurt about how it ended. I still think he’s an interesting guy and would follow his stuff again but he doesn’t seem to be doing anything of interest to me any more.

      What happened with Standard/Nebula?

  • lemmeout@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Veritasium. Over time I realized his content is mostly about flashy half baked “sciencey” content like Discovery Channel. It’s meant to get an audience and nothing more. It lacks quality control, and fact checking. I only realized how many errors his videos have when he covered a topic I know more about. Also, the whole electricity thing and self driving car debacle only reinforced my views on his content.

      • Contravariant@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Not sure about the self-driving, but he had a video challenging the idea that electrons in wires that carry electricity. Basically arguing that it was the electric fields themselves that carried the power, which is largely outside of the actual wires.

        Not sure if that’s the same one where he asked what would happen if you used a light switch connected to a lamp by two wires. Apart from some truly egregious mistaken units (1s/c as unit of time), I vaguely recall thinking it was basically a huge clusterfuck of misunderstandings about what an electrical circuit diagram even is (stuff like real vs idealized components, parasitic capacitance / inductance etc.)

        They’re the kind of ‘Well actually’ half true factoids that you never hope to encounter in the wild if you actually understand the stuff. For someone claiming to be enthusiastic about science communication he did one heck of a job poisoning concepts with subtly wrong/misleading explanations that make it a lot harder to explain stuff to anyone with the misfortune to encounter his version first.

  • bathalumang_peppa@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    LTT and their other channels. I only watch because of Emily/Anthony. Now that she’s not active in videos anymore, I just lost interest and realised that Linus and those two hosts of Techquickie annoys the hell out of me.

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    We used to watch a lot of game theory. Really enjoyed the over analysis. Stopped part way down the 5 nights at Freddie’s rabbit hole when all the drama started.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    Demo ranch. Started making comments about the George Floyd protests and I was out

    AvE started praising the trucker convoys

    Shadiversity got super homo/transphobic and also is just an arrogant douche since his book.