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My longest subscribed channel, Nerd3, has somehow remained almost the exact same channel for over a decade. I don’t know how he does it.
Probably the same way SteveMRE1983 does - finding a niche and having no need to "spice it up for modern audiences".
He unintentionally stumbled in to an algorithmic gold mine though legitimate passion for an obscure and oft overlocked type of thing.
Unboxing video + international food + millitary stuff. Like, it’s the perfect algorithm bait, and he just… was unironically interested in the history, functionality, and development of military rations.
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Because he leaned heavily into Patreon to fund his channel, and now makes content that he wants instead of content to feed the algorithm. Been following him for over a decade and was more than happy to throw him a dollar
Same for his friend Ashens. Which reminds me, their Xmas Advent calendar collabs are my favorite part of the holidays now.
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If you start a YouTube channel where you find decent sized rocks outside you can sand them down into a smooth dick shape and sell them to hippies as all natural hand crafted dildos for like 1450 bucks a piece.
Rock Hard Dildos Incorporated, LLC, GmbH
They're called "lingams" tyvm
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NEVER look up what any of those Minecraft youtubers are up to today.
They either turn out to be really wholesome people, or absolute pieces of shit with little in between.
I'm guessing we watched different Minecraft youtubers then, because the ones I watch are still cool and wholesome.
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Pretty sure I saw that Captain Sparkles is still doing MC. Same with Direwolf20? DW was the main one I watched. And some Syndicate before that, but he stopped after having a kid IIRC
Edit: Turns out they're both still active, seems Syndicate has shifted to more vlogs?
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Works in reverse with Joji:
“I haven’t checked what Joji did before this music”
“oh”
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Technology connections remains awesome thankfully. Hell him touching on politics made me respect him more as he did it sparingly because he felt an obligation to use his platform to speak up
He tapped perfectly into that zeitgeist where the world is falling apart but we are still making entertainment, having kids, doing laundry. So many others refuse to acknowledge the oligarchical elephant in the room (looking at you, Legal Eagle) and I get that's how they make their living so can't go off the deep end but the tone deaf-ness of NOT acknowledging is so frustrating.
Thanks, Alec, for helping me feel like I'm not losing my mind in a world that is pretending we're not hurtling headlong toward the worst parts of the 19th century.
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Ben Krasnow of AppliedScience is still going strong and has yet to be revealed as an asshole - same for the WellTheresYourProblem crew, Jenny Nicholson, Hbomberguy, OutOfDarts... Im sure theres more, but there's a few if folks are looking for recs!
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"I wonder what F1nn5ter is doing theze days. Wait, who is this chick?
In November 2025, F1NN5TER revealed he was involved in establishing non-profit private trans healthcare provider Anne Healthcare in the United Kingdom, having provided early financial support during the organisation's founding in 2024. Anne Healthcare confirmed in a statement published alongside F1NN5TER's announcement video that his contribution had secured the organisation's first prescriber, stating that the clinic "would not have happened without the money F1NN5TER contributed."
Huh. Another dollar for the "sex workers at the front of the fight for civil rights" jar, I guess.
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Spent about 20 minutes listening to Jerma describe some bizarre snack with bread, hummus, and olives recently. Sometimes youtubers just end up being wonderfully normal people
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I bet it was Ethan
I hope it wasn't a huge amount of money riding on that bet. I don't know who that is.
H3h3, but it’s probably for the best
I know of his more recent fuckery, but wasn't he always a bit of a problem child of YouTube? Maybe I'm misremembering.
He got a lot of good will for being on the right side of a fair use lawsuit back in the day, and gained more credibility after distancing himself from his edgy past. He was in enough with the left to start a podcast with leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Unfortunately for him, the podcast only radicalized a lot of his community, so when he got into a fight with Hasan over Israel and associating with tankies, most of the viewers took Hasan's side. He spiralled from there into the litigious monster he is today.
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Out of curiosity, who is it actually?
It was Moviebob. After leaving the Escapist he's become... let's use the word "unpleasant".
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Fucker has been acting like a paid shill for Israel for 3 years now.
I mean, I've never seen a single person wearing Teddy Fresh in the US. Are all their "orders" being made from Israel?
I actually just had this happen today but it kinda went the other way. I just realized that the Curry Barker behind the new horror film Obsession was the same guy behind one of my favorite YouTube channels, so I actually got a good reminder instead of a bad one.
The one that disappointed me the most was kliksphilip. I would've been able to move past the Hogwarts Legacy shit for simply being an ignorant normie, but what he said about Brianna Ghey was truly unforgivable.
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I swear tg if Moist Critikal ever does something cancel-worthy, I'm leaving the internet for good.
My situation is crazy
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The STEAM, arts & crafts bit of YouTube has kinda remained the same in most cases or even gotten better. Think of any creator that would go to Open Sauce and they're likely still as good as you remember.
I watch a lot of arts and crafts YouTubers and my kids love anyone doing wacky engineering projects. I’ve been disappointed by Mark Rober’s trajectory though. He was always a bit of a bro, but it’s ramped up big time and he seems to be more focused on flair and less on the engineering.
That's true, Mark Rober is kinda the "Mr. Beast" of the wacky engineering community
I grew up on builder youtube and I've had to leave channels like Veritasium and Mark Rober in the past due to the clear corporate influence that ruined the content for me. What was really the line for me was when a bunch of big channels started pushing pro-military slop disguised as engineering content. No Mark Rober i don't neef to hear you glaze the military. A few smaller channels have also done military content but i mostly excuse it because its usually years in the past and I'd bet most of them vehemently disagree with the actions of the US military. Like do I love that William Osman did an egg drop off a Navy ship? no. Do i think Big Willy would glaze the military? absolutely not. is he still part of my dream blunt rotation? yes.
This but in reverse with The Amazing Atheist: last i checked he'd come out as bi, hates that he spawned a lot of shitty stuff, and seems generally fine though a bit abrasive.
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Idk Kyle from WhiteLightning is now trans and the channel is now DoorMonster and they mostly make vlogs about stuff they care about instead of skits now
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