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.
Philosophy Tube
Took a while to see this one. Even back before Abigale was Abigale, I was deeply connected with some of the truly heartfelt and profound content they produced. So it’s been sad to see a lot of her new content lean harder into performance and less into substance.
Going back to their earliest videos, set pieces and costumes were used here and there to make a point, now it’s way overblown and distracting and silly when the subject matter is also superficial examination of “meh” topics.
Yeah, that resonates with me.
I watched a few of her videos just to have something on in the background while I worked. A lot of the takes presented didn’t sit quite right with me, but I didn’t know why. Then I watched her videos on Nietzsche and realized she hasn’t read and actually understood what he wrote, despite claims to the contrary. I blocked the channel. I later found a sort-of response video from some other YouTuber that went through those videos and confirmed she didn’t understand the material by countering each point with actual receipts.
Contrapoints along the same lines?
Contrapoints/Natalie has a weird history of making her private relationships big public beefs between herself and other creators, or siding with people she’s connected with over factual information.
I dropped her on her refusal to address Palestine in such a performative, midwitted way. I was so disappointed because I had watched her for years, she was part of my furthering left and understanding gender issues in new ways so it was sad to see her obviously facing some kind of ethical dilemma about something so clearly evil and horrendous and easy to call out. Even if she didn’t want to make a whole video on it, she could have just said “Yah it’s bad, I am not sure how to tackle it, I’ll think about how” and probably saved herself from a mass exodus of fans.
Contrapoints keeps showing her hand as a straight up liberal Zionist, so there’s that
I didn’t have any political reasons. I just grew to dislike the writing style. I became disenchanted by the style of the videos.
I’m still up for watching new Contrapoints videos.
Contra is fine
But if you don’t want to sour your opinion on PT even more, don’t look into the history between the two
They’re both in my shitcan. I couldn’t deal with Philosphophy Tube’s escalating her style-over-substance approach to topics, and shallow, sponsor-safe progressivism like her really uneducated take on birth rates. (I’ve only seen part one, but it IS a real problem, and she minimized it. I feel like she is just pandering to lefties who think it’s a conservative talking point only, but I was really, really hoping it would primarily be about our increasing loneliness and lack of relationships in the 2020’s, and global consequences of reduced young populations.)
Contrapoints has a history of choosing her friends over her ethics and values and making her drama weirdly puplic and that lost me a while back. Her refusal to address Israel/Gaza and both-siding it was far worse than if she just didn’t fucking say anything. I do not GET her propensity to placate her friends over her values in such a public way.
Look at how Lindsay Ellise came out of the shadows and tackled Israel/Gaza for an example of how you can produce good content on the right side of history without “covering the same ground” or whatever the fuck Natalie’s whinging was about why she wasn’t going to say anything.