Wouldn't it be easier to list ones who aren't overrated?
I really don't understand the popularity of the "big" YouTubers. PewDiePie being the prime example from a few years ago, though I don't think he's still making videos.
Pew is still making content but it's more vlogs about him trying to stop being a hyped up youtuber and to find work life balance while now also raising a tiny bebe.
So he moved to Japan so that people wouldn't recognise him as much, started making friends and is now living quite a normal life to what he used to do.
Never use to watch him, but actually enjoying his content as of late.
Edit: probably because he’s an internet goofball around my age.
MrBeast and his many imitators. Don't get the appeal and the constant shouting voice is very annoying to me. I guess I'm just too old.
Almost everyone that is on the popular front page feed. I loath the emotional content, drama, click bait type nonsense.
Yeah, it's amazing how quickly you figure out you're not logged into your account when you load the homepage. Literally none of the videos that are popular is anything I'd ever consider watching.
Veritasium. As soon as he put out a video with sponsored content where he lied with science I immediately knew he could no longer be trusted. I completely stopped watching his videos that day.
I kinda slowed down on his videos since that Tom Nicolas video, but I watched his video from a few days ago about blimps because blimps are cool. But it just seemed like a corporate ad. The amount of the video that's renders of products vs actual products is pretty bad.
It didn't feel like a science video about blimps, it felt like half blimp startup ad, half simple blimp explanation. I don't know, it just felt a little devoid of depth.
Which video?
There was this one from a couple years ago that was about self-driving cars and also sponsored by Waymo. Tom Nicholas made a video which IMO does a good job of covering the problems with that video, and the broader implications of this kind of content on YouTube.
Ha, I wasn't even talking about that one. I think I stopped watching before then because he just went in deep with the sponsors and it was clear he wasn't actually caring about the science anymore. The one I'm talking about he 'proved' that wet wipes are flushable.
found it. https://youtu.be/5zI9sG3pjVU?t=983
there's even people in the comments that don't realize the experiment was bad science and think that maybe these wipes are 'different'
more people actually saying they're going to switch to flushable wipes.
Thanks for the answers! I had a bad taste in my mouth after his dandruff video which felt very corporate but I gave him the benefit of the doubt assuming that the science was solid. I guess my gut instinct was right.
I still think a lot of his videos are good, it's just sad that the obviously sponsored ones are low quality. I'll check out the links and response video someone else posted and keep being skeptical.
I don't remember which video it was, I'd have to go find it. At the end he sets up a 'science experiment' to show that wet wipes are flushable, unlike what everyone says. And the way he 'proves' it is clearly a terrible way to prove it, but if you aren't thinking about it you'll agree. I'll try to find the video.
All influencer types. Influencing kids to be more vain, more selfish, more money focused, more vapid and empty?
So many tech YouTubers are overrated, but one who really stands out to me is JayzTwoCents. Somehow I have several memories of clicking on one of his videos and being shocked at him being confidently incorrect about something. I no longer click on his videos at all.
MrBeast is a horrible example of a person and everyone acts like he's a second coming out Jesus. He fucks up people's lives with his "charity" on a regular basis.
PewDiePie is one of the most annoying people ever born.
How does he fuck up people's lives?
Yeah I want to know as well. His content isn't exactly my cup of tea and can feel dystopia, but my dude flies around the world giving away free surgery to people and shit, and he promotes charities and foundations and actually moves people to donate to them. His thumbnails are creepy as shit, and his content feels like it was made to be cut up into a bunch of 6 second tiktok videos, but I don't really see a dark side here.
Mr Beast and his fucking thumbnails with open mouth and ugly mustache. How come such douche can make 5M views in 2days, it baffles me.
I get why he got popular but I'm amazed that the novelty hasn't worn off
Kurtuzeg. And alot of the "science" channels. They are so full of shit sometimes.
science 'education' channels try not to be extremely biased and corrupt challenge
Their videos about the immune system are really good and educational (according to me, who has no idea if they're just making shit up). But pretty much everything else they make is just pop science.
MKBHD simply because I have absolutely no idea what the point in the channel is.
Obstensively it's a tech review channel, but really it seems to be a look at my cinematography and all this b-roll footage channel. Also iPhones, which is always boring because let's face it the last time Apple did anything close to innovative with the iPhone was the the 5C.
Another one I'd mention is Rooster Teeth (the whole gang). I watched some of their "shenanigans" videos and they were just destroying office furniture, doing shitty pranks and in general being man-childs.
I just thought all the mess they left behind for everyone not on camera and what a shitshow it must be for the production crew to work with a bunch of internet mini-celebrities. They were basically the OG streaming mansion.
Fast forward a few years and you hear all these allegations of terrible work conditions. Go figure.
Mr Beast - all his videos look and feel the same. And there's nothing new that you learn from them.
I find that the majority of the "Big Youtubers" seem to be very overrated. I never got super big into Pewdiepie as a kid, and trying to get into his content during the 100 mil craze made me wonder how he gained such a following (not dissing you if you do enjoy his content, but not my cup of tea).
On the flip side, i really enjoy slimecicles videos. Watching him is like eating a bowl of chicken soup.
most Poketubers
there's this weird conundrum where a lot of Pokemon fans are older, mostly in their 20s, but the big name Poketubers almost universally aim for kids as their prime demographic
like that's fine and all, but why are you aiming for kids when you're playing a Professor Oak challenge, or something stupid hardcore? show the kids the shiny Rayquaza, show me your 900+ hour save file
also the ones that aren't aimed at kids are usually pretty low quality, sorry Johnstone, sorry Bird Keeper Toby, sorry Absol Plays Pokemon
Real Engineering
Some really uncritical videos about "pretty out there" startups. It's basically a PR channel.
Practical engineering is much better imo
It's hard to find someone who makes content that doesn't kowtow to Youtube's terrible system. Content takes time to make and time costs money but youtube will make these people break their spine bending over backwards to make sure they don't get demonitized and get the scraps of ad revenue that Google designs to give them. So now we get people trying to dance around stupid censorship rules, finding more and more sponsors because they don't get paid enough and have to scream figuratively and literally to get enough attention to pay the bills.
Is all of them a valid answer?
No. There are plenty of YouTubers who make excellent content but are struggling to get views, hardly fits the definition of overrated. Just because they chose YouTube as a platform doesn't automatically invalidate their work. Besides, which other platform do you want them to go to?
I don't personally get the appeal of many gaming YouTubers. I'm not personally very into watching other people play videos (not review, but just play). I can kinda understand some people wanting to watch that, but it always surprises me just how many people watch it and for how long.
It also seems all too common that they have very questionable views and their fans will defend them to the death. I don't get that either. There's some YouTuber creators I really enjoy, but if they said horrible things, I sure as hell aren't going to defend them at all, let alone to the degree that some gaming YouTubers get ardently defended.
Pretty much all of the ones we've ever heard of and most of the ones I haven't.
All of them lol
Vox, ig. Their videos are the video essay equivalent of a forgettable action flick.
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