Before anyone gets really bummed, his channel's not going away. He's just taking a much deserved break from ten years of weekly uploads (which is an absolutely insane record considering the quality of his content).
I don't know about not enough recognition, there's plenty of awesome channels with only 1K subscribers. He has 2M subscribers and 1M views per 30 min+ video about random old appliances. That amount of recognition is impressive.
Totally agree. YouTube is a place I can watch someone tinker with some 30 year old CAD software on 30 year old hardware for an hour, and somehow there’s 100k other weirdos enjoying the same content.
God I wish discovery features were better. There’s so much great stuff out there but it’s so hard to find it.
A couple of years back he did stop the park bench with Matt cold turkey though..
So I can see him stopping or massively slowing down his main channel stuff, but he will keep doing other things on the side for sure!
Man, I thought he was quitting for something that happened but it’s just a (well deserved) break, good for him.
I hope he takes all the rest he deserves and starts uploading again whenever he feels like it (even switching to an irregular schedule would be fine, most channels that keep a weekly one end up getting stale at some point and the fact he’s been doing it for ten years with this level of quality is amazing)