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.
The one that jumps to mind for me the most has got to be Rick Beato.
When I first found out about him he was just a super passionate and likeable dude totally geeking out listening to stems of classic records, just being endlessly appreciative and highlighting things that he thought were cool in a way that was reasonably accessible to regular music listeners. On the side he did some more technical music theory and musicianship stuff, which I could take or leave to be honest. But overall it felt like a channel that was there for sharing this dude’s love of music with others.
Lately it’s just been pounded down into mediocrity, I feel. He spends a lot of time chasing after bullshit trendy stories about AI music, spotify rankings, controversies of the week, long rambling live stream rants about various meta things that nobody has time for. The silver lining to all of that is that he has been doing interviews with musicians, which are generally pretty good, but it really depends on who he’s talking to. I understand that DMCA takedowns get in the way of breaking down songs, and that sucks, but my problem is that it’s often kind of negative stuff that distracts from talking positively about music, musicianship, production, etc.
I think he knows this because he recently put out a video about a big “change of direction” in the channel.
I liked the first video I saw of his a while back, but after the second or third video I realized he likes the smell of his own farts way too much. I can’t watch him anymore.
I don’t really follow him but I watched his Hiromi interview. When she tries to explain something to him by first asking “do you know xxx?”, he answers with “of course I do” like he’s insulted someone would ask him that; even though Hiromi was just innocently trying to set a frame of reference so she could explain what she wanted to say. I agree he’s a bit too smug for my tastes.
I think that’s fair. He seems pretty tired up in his pride. Seems like one of those people who is just afraid to admit he doesn’t know something.
Back in the day when it was just him listening to stems and talking about how good classic songs were it was just a little bit less obvious/annoying. It was less about him and more about the song.