He was a Canadian material science nerd with a lot of industrial knowledge and dirty humor. He would open up tools and talk about where he felt the company cheaped out, how good their molds were, and sometimes give ideas about what might break first.

Seeing unexpected gore has ruined my day before. It’s not that hard to give a warning.

Hopefully just survivors of the lead epidemic.

This is some how more out of touch than Dr Oz and his charcuterie board shopping trip. Yes, you don’t need pencils, the suddenly luxury good in my economy.

It’s been too long to try and find it, but the gist was he was talking about how his daughter got in trouble at school or maybe a daycare for singing it the racist way instead of tiger. He went on to say he told her that she can only sing it that way at home. Barf

I’m in the same boat here. I think that video was great and didn’t read as an attempt to sell me on anything. They talked generally about the technology differences and it was more of a history lesson that I’m sure dispelled some nostalgia for items that I used when I didn’t have aching joints, leaving me to think they were more comfortable.

To put my own perspective into a box, I was just getting into the hobby and he is the highest quality channel on the matter. It was just disheartening to get the impression that the barrier to entry was so high, but it’s fair if he wants better for his fans so long as he couples that in with statements like “my standards are way higher than a beginner’s” etc. It’d be similar to MKHD propping up phones that are well outside a reasonable expense for a lot of people.

Can you imagine the hemming and hawing he’d do if his employee unionized? He’d crash out for sure.

I don’t disagree that it’s not diminimous by the legal standards of harassment, but I don’t think that an arbitrator hired by the company is an accurate gauge of public perception given all of the facts. From my understanding she didn’t elevate the issue sufficiently to constitute gross negligence for it going unaddressed. I can clearly see even Ilin their videos that their humor is “that’s what she said” bro humor in what is supposed to be a professional environment. I wouldn’t fault anyone for feeling entrapped by that behavior if they view it as a job and nothing more.

Obvious attack line: “Sensitive baby scared of criticism. Cry more, it won’t make your hyperbolic language any more effective when we can all see how scared you are of opposing views.”

Been waiting a long time for someone to just call out his microdick energy and follow it up with how you’re going to materially improve people’s lives when he’s gone.

I find Speeed is as close to the original vibes as you can get. They’ve actually got some great videos. I want to like bigtime but I’m starting to wonder if they may have been part of the problem

LTT comes across as someone who simultaneously wants to be a boss and also do nut taps in the locker room. He himself admits he sucks at PR and then does PR solo style anyways or with Luke held hostage. He often takes things personally when it’s actually a really good opportunity to show growth and standards, but I swear he misses the mark every. Single. Time. This behavior also corroborates the feelings of a staff member who left because someone higher up was creepy to her and wasn’t ever confronted because that’s the environment Linus fostered. You can’t be a boss that’s always joking because sometimes it’s serious, and when it’s serious, it’s not always personal.

MKHD Always seemed like a bit of an Apple shill, but I gotta say it just got worse and worse. It’s like he was shopping for himself and once he became a millionaire everything seemed like it was cheap if it was at all novel. He also handled that app launch insanely badly and seems like the type of dude to be impressed by anything a tech bro presents to him.

Berm Peak completely similar vibes. He’s rich, so crazy expensive bikes and accessories are almost always a great deal because they’re in his budget and high quality.

Ethan Klein I honestly don’t know why I ever liked him apart from the copyright lawsuit with Matt Hoss. I appreciated the goofs, but for some reason it took me way too long to see that some of those people in no way shape or form deserved that treatment. Patrice Wilson for example, not to mention later when he devoted his entire life to hate watching Hasan and Hasan-adjacents while being incredibly deceptive about his and his wifes views on Israel. I ditched him before all that, but man what a massive shitshow he turned his channels into.

EEVBlog got high on his own supply. He’s always been a bit snobbish, especially about sub par equipment that he already made up his mind about before opening, but I saw him talking about running for office with some dogshit platitudes that mean nothing like, “Dave’ll take it apart and fix it all” and seemed very defensive when people were asking what his platform actually would be. God complex vibes from all that.

Gus Johnson because he treated his ex like crap and ran from accountability, and is now sneaking back into YouTube through his and his brother’s account without ever really addressing his failures. He just wants everyone to move on and accept him again.

Cody Ko handled the fallout of sexual assault allegations horribly and is best friends for life with a known rapist, putting that relationship above everything. Gross guy, but before all that came out he was just a funny immature frat guy with a lot of jokes and good reactions. Major failure to meet the moment.

Scott Kilmer - just shitty political takes eventually wore me down.

AVE - shitty political views and then talking about teaching his daughter racist nursery rhymes was the final straw for me.

I felt that the outrage was solely related to vaccines and the gates foundation was the nail in the coffin for those people. Good riddance imo, why are anti science people watching a science channel anyways?

Wranglerstar was a huge disappointment, I hope he realizes his failure when he looks at Project Farm’s success. Another victim of Covid mania maybe.

I used to love AVE, but there was a video where he seemed very proud of the fact that he taught his little girl the racist version of “Eeny Meanie Minnie Moe” and I couldn’t find excuses for him any more. Then he cheered for the small business tyrant trucker revolt later and it affirmed my decision to unsub earlier.

I think the admins have a lot of ways to approach it, the question is the applicability to the problem, which can quickly change as bots adjust their approach, whether it will affect regular users negatively, and how it herds scripts into patterns that are immediately recognizable when it doesn’t fully work.

From the mod perspective I can certainly tell you it’s an issue, however the risk of making a bad call on a new user exceeds the risk of letting one through, which will self delete anyways. It seems like an admin would need to solve it through any of a bunch of methods such as allowing posts to stay up past an account’s deletion, restricting new users from posting, requiring a certain amount of community engagement first, figuring out their script to autoban, or some better solution I haven’t thought of.

“Because he’s not a republican billionaire” the sugar babies on the court only respond to one stimuli and it’s lavish gifts/vacations