Can SmarterEveryDay dip too please? That Destin guy used to make weapons for the military. Do not like him one bit.
I generally dislike basically everybody in the "Youtube Smart Person Who Tells You Information For 10-30 Minutes" sphere for various reasons (Tom Scott and 3Blue1Brown are the least aggravating for me as they're pretty good at staying in their lane), but by far the funniest (and most aggravating) part of their whole project is when they get onto China or the USSR in the middle of a video that doesn't immediately seem like it would be about that, and it just turns into a whole spiel like: "The totalitarian regime of China/USSR is well-known for their extensive censorship and the iron hand they have on the media, with many human rights abuses. According to recent estimates, the gulag system murdered 50 quintillion people under Stalin's terror alone, and not a single person was allowed to speak their mind. If you were the first to stop clapping during a Stalin speech, you would be executed. Anyway, as I was saying, this new flavour of ice cream was invented in the USSR in 1976..."
Like, wow, you're really doing a great job with that Bill Gates grant money.
Kurzgesagt has to be the worst one, especially their
"We'll totally fix climate change, guys!" video. They're also literally funded by Bill Gates.protip: it's only whataboutism if you're mentioning bad things the USA does.
Tom Scott
neoliberal NPC who thinks 'rich people should build more nice fountains, wow!"
you're really doing a great job with that Bill Gates grant money.
https://redsails.org/on-anthony-bourdain/
a celebrity is “only” an A- or B-lister, until they are inspired to put aside childish things, as Obama said during his inauguration, quoting scripture. This celebrity then throws themselves into the world of humanitarian-branded, progressive-looking activism, generally three-letter State Department-connected NGOs which have been described more accurately as “the human rights-imperialism racket.” This celebrity then transcends mere stardom and becomes someone to whom we should look for not only entertainment, but moral and political guidance.
every neoliberal micro-celeb is a wannabee imperialist propagandist
It's impressive the opportunities for any media to devolve into that sort of propaganda. I was reading about micro-studios around the world on some totally innocuous seeming home decor site. The first half had tiny but beautiful Japanese studios with luxury amenities, other similar ones, then the second half was all supposed warehouses of cages that poor people live in in China, in 6x8 metal wire framed boxes basically, and other horrible conditions like that, it was odd as the site was basically HGTV vibes up until that.
One time he went to a US submarine in the Arctic and thanked the soldiers for protecting the USA. AGAINST WHO? Polar bears? What a bootlicking loser.
Worse was the one where he had some interview with the general in charge of psyops who pointed out that he was disseminating US military propaganda in his videos and he was just like "wow I can't believe it that's so interesting".
SmarterEveryDay is also one of those guys who makes his kids call him sir
I quit watching after that video came out. Fuck that guy.
I think the conspiracy lot (Bright Inside, Voyager etc) need to take a break..
The day he revealed his real job was the day I stopped watching him, and his creepy factor increased 1000 fold.
YouTube has gotten more annoying for creators and less profitable, so some of the ones with enough in the bank are dipping out?
I only watched Tom Scott's because he is/was actualy decent and basicaly its the same thing you probably already know, over the years when you're successful it becomes a full time job with no benefits no vacation and an absurd requirement for a regular uninterrupted schedule. You end up sacrificing everything, your body, your mind and even your family.
Eventualy as we know either you sell out and put your face behind someone's editing and script turning your channel into a "business" or you scale down/retire. He chooses to take a break but I am confident it is likely retirement from at least that sort of regularly scheduled content.
I don't think it is necessarily about profitability, if anything some niches are paying better than ever but obviously it is very top side heavy and a small channel can barely afford minimum wage while these celebrities are richer than ever.
Tom Scott is just stopping weekly uploads. But he is still online. He's just going to be a bit more laidback
MatPat sold his channel last year. This was gonna come up soon. He's handing the reins to a company and employees that worked with him. I'm assuming the corp is now responsible for his former employees?
Eventualy as we know either you sell out and put your face behind someone's editing and script turning your channel into a "business" or you scale down/retire.
AVGN lol. I know he has a family but damn it must be soul sucking to see your creation reduced to a shit load of fuck
Yeah I watch a medium sized game of thrones symbolism channel (100k subs) and the creator is about to quit too because of how much he gets jerked around. Videos constantly getting pre-reviewed and approved, then flagged and de-monitized, then re-monetized after the algorithm has tossed it aside
New US propaganda department?
I can't wait to see a Joel Haver pro-war add. Him just awkwardly arguing to a depressed looking girl why nuking Iran is good, and then Trent shows up and... idk says he's out of toothpaste or something else quirky.
i wake up, there is another psyop
So between this, that recent upsurge in struggle against ad blockers, and the timing for the beginning of a quarter, one can expect some horrible copyright mutation or a real ethically reprehensible new development. Like you have to become a YouTube employee with US army oversight to use Nintendo IP or something
No idea what did you said but yeah
timing is extra weird IMO, because I think the real dystopian economic inflection point is closer to 1-10 years away, so these people should be grinding while their over-paid careers still exist. But maybe they already have enough in the bank and in the monthly passive incums to retire early or fund their real dream projects. It's like how dark matter explains a gap in the math, but nobody knows what dark matter is. Definitely expecting to find out something.
I feel like they'd have a better grasp of the situation than you would, because they're inside and privy to more information and experience of how it works. I can also imagine some people see the same thing they do and are using the strategy you've suggested, but we can't see that. Tom Scott and matpat both try to avoid problems and real controversy, so if they felt something coming they would naturally dip before getting close to it.
Haver isn't retiring though, he's just going to focus on longer form projects, which I'm sure everyone here will hate.
He wants to put out a feature length film every month, he's ramping up.
Wasn’t that his shift in focus last time? To move around and film what he considered more personal and thoughtful stuff. But it seemed like he just filmed the same type of skits lol. But tbf I wasn’t too in tune with his releases so idk if they were just side content during that era.
English guyy in the top left pane wanted to use unpaid work and ideas for his videos as he'd run out of ideas.... Nobody called him out on it.
Are you talking about the AI content or something else? Because using it to come up with ideas is honestly not a problem in my opinion. If someone suggests something in conversation it's not stealing to do it, especially if it's vague like the AI prompts usually are
Is the tweet suggesting we can infer the existence of youtube with the loss of creators? I mean.....I guess? Not a major revelation though.
I think the implication is that the US has a clandestine memes of mass destruction project
no they're suggesting there's a social media nuclear weapon being built
There is not a small enough number to express how little of a fuck I give about any one of these people quitting
Hey, don't dump on Tom Scott
Yeah Tom Scott is good
come on he's a lame ass lib
so they're implying that a bunch of internet celebs are....building a bomb?
Maybe if it was NileRed I could believe them
they're building the ultimate propaganda
Anybody checked on Extractions&Ire ?
why is bro's name "aids"
bit idea: youtubers who are quitting make one last video of themselves playing with a demon core
Permanently Deleted
Is scient people a way of saying scientists or are they the Sient people of the Scient Nation?
Did they thank anyone for fish? If so, that is a bad sign...
Joel Haver isn't quitting, he actually entering a phase where he is going to do more YouTube work. That video was him saying he's done with he weekly video and is now going to do a film length video every month.
Seth Everman too
