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.
Lunduke and Sabine Hossenfelter felted took similar paths downward towards more money in the rage economy.
Lunduke went full conspiracy brained and Sabine went full grift. I cringe every time I think of either of them now.
I used to subscribe to her a couple years ago but stopped. What do you mean by grift?
She has some good stuff but lately she has gone off the deep end. She has built up her audience and now she’s feeding into science denial: https://youtu.be/70vYj1KPyT4
Her videos that are on subjects other than physics are poorly researched if any research goes into them at all: https://youtu.be/s7XAxiJGJdg
She also just does things that tell me she cares about the money a little too much like paywalling her list of sources. Her content is not all bad but that’s the stuff that made me stop watching her.
Ok, well I wouldn’t call that “grift” to be honest. The video you linked repeatedly says “Sabine is not a charlatan”. I do think she leans into science controversy a bit more than she should, and branches out from where she’s an expert, but those are less serious “crimes”. I also think her gripes about academia are not completely without warrant and I can’t blame her for acquiring a following of people that are trying to use her criticisms to further their own phony conspiracies.