Mine are Michael Sugrue (philosophy) and hasoyi (asian music mixtapes).
Jenna Marbles. I miss her so much and I think her leaving really changed the wholesome face of YouTube. I miss her content.
I also couldn’t ever get myself to remove unus anus from my subscribed list even if I can’t view it. It got me through the early months of the pandemic. Those two goofy youtubers helped me keep my sanity.
BirgirPall - a pair of Icelandic guys who would play games together, and their “We Broke…” series was an utter delight. I’m an old bastard who dislikes pretty much the entire genre of “watch someone else play a video game and yammer over it” entertainment, but BirgirPall were a major exception due to their talent for finding weirdass bugs and glitches, cracking up infectiously at the results, and editing them down into excellent little short videos. The guys behind the channel seem to have left it behind these days, and their individual channels just aren’t the same.
I’m also a longtime fan of YouTube Poop, and stay subscribed to a lot of the early poopers from the old days. Every now and then one of them will come back and post something cool.
TotalBiscuit :(
Hopefully heaven has a fov slider…
Epic
RIP in peace.
Seth Everman still makes me laugh
Coding-with-Yalco, bro showed up, dropped some best-in-class software concepts tutorials, then disappeared. I think he’s still active on another channel in Korean language tho.
Epic Rap Battles of History isn’t exactly dead but they don’t post content nearly as much has they used to. And there are some bona-fide classics on there worth watching again and again.
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Begin!
They started a career doing advertising work for niche businesses. The Chuck Testa ad was their doing.I was mistaken
Wikipedia disagrees with you about chuck testa. That advertising was done by comedians Rhett & Link.
Wait you’re RIGHT! Good fact check, I didn’t realize Rett&Link was a different group. I said some straight up disinfo there
Loved Chuck Norris vs abe Lincoln. “I gotta bucket full of my head and I’m about to make it raaaiiin”
There’s a new one coming this weekend!
Does Veritasium count? It’s not exactly dead, but its a zombie.
Every Frame a Painting… Come back to us
That channel isn’t dead? He hasn’t uploaded a video this year, but he uploaded a number of videos in the 2 years before, after the 7 year gap.
I really miss Jack Stauber.
I miss Brian David Gilbert hosting polygon, his absurd videos like cooking every recipe in Zelda were great. AnyAustin has kind of stepped in to fill the void (and then some!), but BDG was doing great stuff. He’s still around with his own channel which can be very funny but it’s not quite the game related stuff I miss.
totalbisquit, though more out of respect than rewatching
I recently re-watched a few episodes of Lord of the Arena and Shoutcraft. Good stuff :'^(
Hbomberguy
New video is about to drop real soon. 4.5 hour version is already on patron. Final version will probably be even a bit longer
PhotonicInduction
I aint ‘avin it.
Man what an incredible trip that channel was.
Back in the day there was a whole slew of crackpots (in the best way). There was another who took the washing machine crown from PhotonicInduction, went by the name Aussie50. Used to love his content but he very sadly passed away quite some time ago (I won’t go into details out of respect).
These days the crazy backyard scientist vibe on YouTube has nearly dried up. So glad we still have StyroPyro.
I want to go back.
We still have NileRed I suppose, he does some outrageous shit on his NileBlue channel sometimes. BackyardScientist hasn’t uploaded in ages either.
Allen Pan still puts out something amusing once in a while.
I miss the days of 3 minutes of insanity. Now every video is 25 minutes, and it’s all personality driven. It’s turned into regular TV.
We need a classic YouTube type site back again where people share shit for the fun of sharing. Monetization killed the platform.
I miss photonic
We have Styropyro now, but even his imagination isnt quite as unhinged as Photonic Induction
I don’t know, I think the destructive potential makes up for any lack of imagination. StyroPyro is hands down my favorite YouTuber.
He probably got killed by some of the shit he did.
Nah.
He got married around the time of the videos drying up. It’s likely his wife said “you’re a family man now, time to cut down on the Volts and videos”
I still stay subscribed, just in case the photonic power is switched back on.
You sayin’ ‘e done popped hisself?
Jenna Marbles, it’s been like 6 years since she stopped. Her videos are lots of fun though.
Hell yeah!
Oh, my wife was a fan of hers. What happened to her channel??
She got called out for doing blackface around summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd and she put an apology video out saying she’s going to take accountability by going on an indefinite hiatus. She’s followed through with that, the apology seemed sincere.
Ah that’s too bad. But good onher for taking accountability. Hardly anyone does that anymore.
She retired after some stuff resurfaced.
Hello Internet
Technically a podcast, but I listened to the YouTube version for whatever reason and occasionally go back for my favorite episodes.
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There’s been a lot to come out where Grey wasn’t the best in a lot of business dealings/situations. For instance, Nebula would have been a lot worse if Grey was still in charge.
However, even with that, it is surprising how slow moving this self proclaimed efficiency except is.
That was an interesting watch, thanks for sharing! I had a laugh when he said the Flaggy Flag rebels now have control of the subreddit.
I agree with your frustration about how the podcast ended. I get that listeners weren’t owed anything and that it was a very Grey way to go, but it just felt rude. At least we got an official announcement when Cortex said Grey was going on hiatus (and one that every HI listener knew how to interpret), but the lack of videos on his main channel over the last year is just plain odd.
Nevertheless, I hope this is all simply Grey being impolite and not, like, health problems or anything.
I was a big fan of HI and Grey, until I started to notice that a lot of the stuff Grey talked about was a bit misleading or straight up wrong. Theres now quite a bit of “CGP Grey debunked” style videos by people who actually know their stuff, based on what those are saying, I have no interest in watching any more Grey content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpbSIUJOdOA
Oof, I always wondered if there were more things of his that were inaccurate.
What I caught was the hexagon video and his claim about triangles (combined to make hexagon) being the best for building rockets. I worked in the launch side of aerospace at the time, and true Atlas V and Delta IV were built with triangles… But only on their booster tanks. Their upper stages had a completely different design structure, as do Vulcan, Falcon 9, Starship, New Glenn, Electron, etc etc
Triangles were only used on Atlas V and Delta IV because CAD in the 90s didn’t do rectangles very well. That’s not a problem anymore, so triangles don’t get used
Sadly quite often these youtubers and others who speak a lot about a lot of different topics with a sort of surface level understanding are very often quite badly wrong. Especially the ones who say stuff like “X is best because its used in Y application”
That level of simplification is not very healthy for most stuff. Of course, there are some channels that do talk about a lot of topics but do very good research and/or ask for experts to help out with their script.
I listened for a while but really fell off the more I realized that CGP grey is kind of an idiot.
