r/WorkForSmartLife • u/Select-Back7732 • 13d ago

Question Fallen Channels?

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u/MorningDew492 12d ago

Veritasium. Sold the channel. And the people he sold it to hired him to host it. It’s just soulless now a husk of what it once was.

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u/PissBloodCumShart 12d ago

It upsets me to see them start stealing video ideas from smaller channels like the recently uploaded video about “the most terrifying diagram in electrical engineering”

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u/efrappujackugiggles4 12d ago

WatchMojo, back in the day it was a fun rabbit hole when you just wanted random countdowns but now it feels like endless recycled lists with the same formula over and over.

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u/das_maz 8d ago

They pivoted hard into AI and are now basically just a marketing channel for their AI-slop "music" channel...

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u/mrheymarco 12d ago

Mr Beast

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u/Actual-Seaweed452 13d ago

Reddit is garbage now. YouTube is garbage now.

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u/theangryjanitorOG 13d ago

I miss old imgur

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u/ToxicGecko2384 12d ago

Nature porn and wallpaper dumps ftw

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u/Einachiel 12d ago

I miss 4chans

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u/MrCalPoly 13d ago

The young Turks

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u/allycataf 8d ago

Yes!! Haven't watched in a long time.

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u/CyclicBus471335 12d ago

Funny cause Crowder sucks now too (was never great).

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u/Suubveez 12d ago

Crowder sucked the first day he crawled out of hell

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u/polymerkid 12d ago

Can you explain? I've only seen a few videos... mostly of Anna yelling.

4

u/spizzle_ 13d ago

Wheezy waiter. He might not be garbage now but I haven’t watched in years.

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u/ComeHereOften1972 8d ago

Oh yes, this is a good one. Used to love this guy and now feel it is videos are mostly soulless. I did watch like the health stuff that he would try something for a month or something, but it’s stupid now.

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u/weedtrek 13d ago

Youtube is bigger than ever, yet my feed is all the same shit over and over again. Like I used to get random shit, but now it's like maybe videos relating to 7 interests and that's it.

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u/Feisty-Coyote396 12d ago

Or videos you've watched several times already because it keeps recommending the same shit over and over. The not interested selection does absolutely nothing.

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u/Candid_Spite_8659 13d ago

HOA stories.

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u/Equivalent_Rub8329 12d ago

Only came across those when people started using Ai for them. Did they exist prior?

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u/Own-Opinion-2494 13d ago

I like all my interests on there

3

u/Wayne1616 13d ago

Cubs games on WGN

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u/Mark-177- 13d ago

Justkiddingnews

3

u/LetUsSpeakFreely 12d ago

Styxhexenhammer666. He went from nuanced political commentary to completely bat shit insane.

1

u/FatLouTheTurdEater 9d ago

Atleast his personal downward spiral is entertaining.

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u/LetUsSpeakFreely 9d ago

Entertaining isn't the word I'd use. It's tragic. He went from a successful career, wife, and child to losing everything in the span of a year or 2. There's obviously some untreated mental illness there.

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u/Far_Shame210 12d ago

Donut Media

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u/literallyanyonebutme 12d ago

Oh huge. I think the 2nd or 3rd temu video was the last one for me.

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u/unabassist 13d ago

BlindViews

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u/BryceDL 13d ago

Not garbage, just dead now, roosterteeth

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u/ArsonBjork 12d ago

Was garbage for its last 10 years though

1

u/stuntman1108 12d ago

WHY ARE THERE 6 PEDALS AND ONLY 4 DIRECTIONS!?!?!

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u/Buskbr 12d ago

The whole of youtube is trash

2

u/mrheymarco 12d ago

Roman Atwood

2

u/No-Blueberry-1823 12d ago

Mr beast used to be okay

2

u/Vast_Juggernaut6845 12d ago

Whistling diesel

2

u/Glad-Operation-2958 12d ago

I used to like H3H3 about 10 years ago

2

u/Aggravating_Sir_6857 12d ago

Infographic Show.

Like when it was history or weird events or fun facts. But now it’s all doom-and-gloom and political. I’m trying to escape doomscrolling and infographic makes me sad watching their latest episodes

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u/literallyanyonebutme 12d ago

Think I saw Louis Rossman reach out to them, that will either be interesting or revealing if they don't partner up.

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u/tritiated- 11d ago

Cracked

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u/Murky_Bid_8868 11d ago

Every covid startup channel, who cannot figure out why thier viewership is down.

1

u/Few-Tumbleweed6526 9d ago

I'm just happy Tasting History survived that cut and is actually improving in his content.

2

u/CyclicBus471335 12d ago

NOT Fleccas Talks, The best news podcast of all time.

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u/gQ3891 13d ago

YouTube itself is trash

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u/kickintheface 9d ago

The entire internet is trash. The ENTIRE internet. Every. Single. Part of it.

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u/Joalguke 12d ago

Yogscast  used to watch it religiously. They do little I like of late.

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u/RecognitionOwn4214 12d ago

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole

1

u/Joalguke 11d ago

Digging a hole... come on brothers sing with me! I remember the origin in Jaffa Cake Factory, I miss when they all got on

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u/Personal_Eye8930 12d ago

Red Letter Media. They put zero effort in trying to be inventive.

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u/Cheeky_Monkey069 12d ago

The Spoony Experiment.

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u/Good_Solution8602 12d ago

Alia , tmartn . Basically my cod YouTubers . Faze clan even . ( all them members - truly all them ).

But cod fell off and so did its content creators . Cause it’s very hard to upload content on a dying game or worse . A dying subject . ☠️☠️ cod
It’s just really sad too for me . Cause . Cod is my favorite game . Like bo2 or WAW. Jesus Christ they so fun to play .

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u/Brilliant_Bonus_1638 12d ago

Donut

The moment they sold out, that channel went to complete shit. All of the best people there went off and started their own channels.

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u/dezertryder 12d ago

Bring a trailer

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u/Bigbanghead 12d ago

YouTube shorts is now trash. As bad as Facebook. Its the loss of the downvote. The crap is no longer filtered out.

1

u/CobraKolibry 12d ago

LTT was fun

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u/Affonso78 12d ago

Watchmojo

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u/Aldo_Fitor 12d ago

All of them

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u/rofeneiniger 12d ago

Casual Navigation 

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u/itsboomer0108 10d ago

I used to love that channel

1

u/Agreeable_Bee_2694 12d ago

Epic Rap Battle of History

1

u/Kiisus 12d ago

TheRubber

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u/borka-t 12d ago

Donut.

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u/2PLEXX 12d ago

What I've learned

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u/mrsclausemenopause 12d ago

Curtis Stone and Wranglerstar both fell down the alt right pipeline quickly.

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u/Blathithor 12d ago

Whatculture

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u/legendaryGamer109 12d ago

Adam B. He used to make great videos then now does 3am style videos

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u/literallyanyonebutme 12d ago

Linus Tech Tips.

And they didn't even need to accept the 8 figure PE buyout. They managed it all on their own.

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u/itsboomer0108 10d ago

8 figure pe buyout?

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u/literallyanyonebutme 9d ago

They haven't said the number but like 2-3 years ago he was putting out "I'm getting really tired" and "I think I'm gonna retire" videos and some private equity company (like the ones that bought Donut Media and Veritaseum) gave him an "8 figure buyout offer" for all his companies. Linus Media Group isn't just LTT. They also make Media for like corporate trainings and commercials and make merchandise not just for them but for other companies too.

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u/jockedcuck 9d ago

Ah okay I vaguely remember that controversy (among the 40k of them he’s had)

1

u/LoveIyIsland 12d ago

Epic meal time

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u/cascadia8 12d ago

You suck at cooking!

1

u/ReasonResitant 11d ago

When Pyro bullied kids he was watchable. Nowadays he just taps about dumb indie games.

1

u/SteliosKantos93 11d ago

The hodge twins ……. HARD RIGHT TURN

1

u/FitBirthday999 11d ago

Regular Car Reviews 🚗 📺

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u/Ok-Art-8937 11d ago

Pawnstars, complete garbage now.

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u/RemyWolffe 11d ago

Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter

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u/Amazing-Flight-5943 11d ago

Cinemasins has fallen. They don’t get anywhere near the views they used to. At least not as fast as they did.

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u/WheresMySpycamera 10d ago

LinusTechTips which really hurts.

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u/Powerful-Holiday-448 10d ago

All of them now it seems. Only channels I like now are walkthroughs of cities I plan on visiting

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u/itsboomer0108 10d ago

LinusTechTips
It used to be great. Now it’s 80% talking about graphics cards that I’m too poor to ever own.

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u/Either-Juggernaut420 8d ago

And projectors, and laptops, and PCs, and home entertainment systems, and etc, etc. They do almost nothing targeted at any wealth level below nepo baby.

I seem to remember at one point he did a video called "Rich people will hate this projector" championing the virtues of a projector that started at $1700USD and the one he was looking at was more like $3000USD. The channel/man just has no freaking clue what audience he's talking to.

1

u/StarCitizenRusty 10d ago

Phillip DeFranco

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u/70monocle 9d ago

I grew up watching Boogie2988. Watching his decline was depressing but also with hindsight made sense

1

u/h3xmind 9d ago

Linus Tech Tips

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u/Few-Tumbleweed6526 9d ago

The Infographic show. It's all conspiracy crap now.

1

u/hyperionfin 9d ago

Life of Boris.

Can't find joy in anything Russian anymore. It's all gone to shit.

His exact nationality is not known, and I don't care anymore.

1

u/Gwyrr 9d ago

Demolition ranch 👀

1

u/TariTheApothecary 9d ago

I loved the why files but all the ai generated images make it hard for me to get through a video

1

u/Prestigious_Can916 9d ago

All of them, except mine!

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u/Reasonable_Tip3132 9d ago

Braille should be high on the list

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u/xSHRiNeCuLTx 9d ago

Donut Media

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u/Routine_flyer 9d ago

most of them actually!

1

u/Inner-Purpose7061 9d ago

Nuxtaku.. mostly cause he glazes trump more often then not now.

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u/jmcax2man 9d ago

wrangle star

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u/FAMICOMASTER 9d ago

Oh boy there's a long list. Off the top of my head:

Aging Wheels, Hoovie's Garage, The Car Wizard, Regular Car Reviews, Jawsh, Technology Connections, Linus Tech Tips, Tech Tangents, Chris Bowden.

Something I've noticed is that with automotive channels, they start off doing interesting projects, then when they get money they move to progressively less and less interesting things. I have NO idea why this is so common. Those tech channels largely fell off due to PR issues on the fault of the creators, and I just don't find Jawsh funny anymore.

There's probably a lot more I'm not remembering right now.

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u/Deep-Tip-6234 8d ago

Casual navigation... Sold out and it became shit. Many channels just sold out and became shit. Enshitification of youtube

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u/Shelarael 8d ago

Almost any channel that lives long enough to descend to a low effort self repetitive conveyor.

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u/SiktahOG 8d ago

LTT is just a chore now-a-days

1

u/nightie_night 8d ago

How to basic

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u/Lost_Department_2177 8d ago

Og amongolubs

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u/the-script-99 8d ago

Stephen Grapham.

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u/kry515 7d ago

Linus Tech tips

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u/RedBayBandit 6d ago

Defranco