For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.
But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.
His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.
So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.
We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.
It’s been a while, but AvE. Dude used to be some chill guy who would take apart tools or do some deep dive into a manufacturing process. But then the covid nation attacked and all of a sudden the guy is sprinkling an opinion in here and there that made me say, eh, and then the Canadian trucker thing happened and dude was all in on that shit. AvE was the first thing I ever donated money to on patreon and the first one I yanked my monthly from because the content had changed to something it once wasn’t.
Big Clive might fill that gap for you. He does teardowns of dodgey electronics, and remains extremely down to earth, making good commentary about cost effectiveness and energy efficiency. For a while recently he was on a kick of trying to reverse engineer every single LED light bulb design and show how to modify them to run the LEDs less hard making them last much longer and run more efficiently (with reduced light output of course)
He also uploaded a video without warning describing his experience caring for his mother as she passed from Alzheimers. That video with his down to earth way of describing things really helped me to better understand dementia not long before I had family members start declining from dementia
Oh I love me some big Clive
Between the clownvoy support and his inability to learn how to use his CNC machine properly…yeah. Dude sucks.
Very much agree, liked his old content a lot, don’t care to hear about his politics or opinion outside of tools.
I still think about the guy sometimes. It’s perplexing how someone so smart turned out to be so dumb.
as somebody somewhat in circles with people like him up here in Canada, there’s a lot of people out there just like him. smart about how things work, but oh so dumb about how other things work.
Yup, dropped him when he came out in support of the convoy and then got annoyed when people told him to stfu.
Sadly he’s gained back and surpassed his subscriber numbers since the big drop around that time.
covid seemed to have broke many channels owners mind, all the lockdown made them delusional and paranoid, hence why they all fall into the maga manosphere. the channel i was following had the same path, lockdown made them question vaccine/mask mandate, then when the incidents happened they went full maga.
Stopped watching around COVID but before that he was a great teacher about how home objects were created. It really made me understand how everyday objects are made and why they’re made a certain way. There’s a niche there of an experienced manufacturing engineer to teach the masses
Yeah. I liked him a lot and watched him for a while but the creep alarm started beeping and red flags started going up. His takes on disasters were pretty good too. Shame he got weird.
If you want chill tool (repair) videos check out Dean Doherty. It’s that plus Irish accent.