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.
I saw Markiplier do a lets play for some indie roomba game many many years ago, he proceeded to have an almost religious experience, and I was like “fuck yeah, this guy gets it”
Fast forward and he promotes shit like No Mans Sky and TikTok, I automatically unsubscribe from anyone and everyone who promotes TikTok, and he’s got this whole survivorship bias like “ANYONE can make a successful movie or webseries. Anyone! A Heist with Markiplier was only like $30,000 dollars production value… well, okay, thats a lot of money, but still!”
He’s lost touch with reality and now he’s just another salesperson.
Another one that’s kind of downhill is Kurzegast, their recent AI video was really hollow and vacant of all the reasonable criticisms about AI and its immediate effects, some people have theorized that channels like theirs are being sponsored by a company called “Control AI” to muddy the waters and move the discussion away from things like holding companies accountable.
What is your problem with NMS, if I may ask? I’ve not been deeply involved, but from what I saw, it turned from a rushed beta release with poor communication to like 5+ years of free content upgrades more than delivering what they (wrongfully) promised at the beginning, right?
NMS is fine today, but before release Sony and the NMS authors put out this crazy unrealistically ambitious demo video none of which made it into the game, and then on release the game was like a couple of hours of highly repetitive gameplay without any multiplayer and then you beat the whole thing in a single sitting.
Mark was one of those day 1 streamers hyping the fraud up.
And that’s not the first or last time he did this. He also promoted games like World War Z and Back 4 Blood as 1 off videos and never came back to them afterwards. Sometimes he is at least honest about being sponsored for the games but thats more the exception than the rule.
I’ve seen a lot of people speculating that Kurzegast is shilling for various things over the past couple years, and it makes me glad I never really got into their videos. They would normally be the type of content that I watch, and I’m not sure how I even managed to avoid it after all this time.
I disagree with the Kurzegast thing, I think their videos are still as good as ever if not better. Honestly would have been disapointed with them if they would have taken some sort of A.I doomer view instead of a more balanced take. In fact I would love them to go more indepth with A.I especially when it comes to symbolic A.I and expert systems, instead of this generative A.I sillyness that is going on.
Ar you all coping the first guy who spelled Kurzgesagt wrong?
It’s like a brain disease. It’s fucking Kurzgesagt.
They did take an AI Doomerism approach. They said “AI, the last thing humanity ever makes”
What they conveinently don’t talk about is all the ongoing harm AI is doing. Namely, the Red Line statement from the UN General Assembly. https://red-lines.ai/
Thats where the overlap is between Kurzegast and the PR group signed by Sam Altman, “Control AI”, is. It also only talks about the scifi future doomerism without mentioning widespread misinformation, systemic human rights violations, national and international security concerns, or in any way accountability.