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His jokes just don't land anymore. Can't remember the last time I found one of his videos entertaining. On the contrary, watching his newer content actually makes me feel sad.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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Joe Rogan podcast, unsubbed and stopped watching about 5-6 years ago when he stopped being progressive and started sucking billionaire dick nonstop
My brother finally got me into him like two months before he started going downhill. It was a shocking transition even for a new listener like me.
Yea… It was such a nice thing to have on in the background at work. Sad
Fucking AvE...
I hung on every damn vidjeo
I still watch him how and then, I probably even agree with some of his hot takes, but he's just fucking tonedef heading into the conservative crap.
His content took a sharp decline when COVID happened. Pretty sure the whole thing gave him severe brain damage.
So many people I used to watch when YT first started were discovered to be pedophiles or rapists... 😟
i wonder if the fame turned them into that or they were always pedos to begin with
I'd imagine it's always been there, but their fame gave them access to a devoted fanbase willing to do anything for them.
And then things just devolve...
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Yeah, I had to do that with Nux Taku. The guy made funny videos back in the day, but he slowly became a "Anti-woke" conservative mouthpiece. It's funny because the video that made me unsubscribe was a video of his saying how another youtuber got cancelled for being too woke.
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Honestly, James Stephanie Sterling.
I had been following them since The Escapist days, but a few years ago I just couldn't do it anymore. I was only interested in their Jimquisition stuff, and that had gotten really samey week over week.
It felt extra bad because this was after they had already lost like 20% of their subscribers for other reasons. I really hate that I might be lumped in with all those lovely folks when my reasons for leaving were entirely separate.
I still appreciate their message, though. I still think the Digital Homicide saga is one of the more interesting Internet dramas I've been witness to. And I still check in from time to time, mostly for their year-end lists and if something specific has happened in the gaming industry that I want their opinion on.
What I'm trying to say is, thank God for JSS, but only in small doses for me personally.
I'm in the same boat. I quit watching right before they came out as trans because their videos were the same thing every week. "Video game industry bad, publishers bad." Which is a message I agree with, 100%, but when that's literally all you say in every video its hard not to lose interest.
I forgot about them after that for a few years and was admittedly surprised by the change. Things seem to be rough for them lately, getting a divorce and moving to a new city right before COVID. I want to support them, but I watched their latest videos and it was exactly the same as before I quit. Nothing content-wise had changed.
I think a big part of that is that video game criticism really has evolved since then. Folks like shaun, hbomberguy, and many others share the same philosophy and ideas as JSS, but offer so much more depth than the "video games bad!" ranting that JSS has never been able to get beyond.
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Member Thunderf00t? Had to un-sub after he went full misogyny during gamergate, and I've popped in since it's not gotten any better it's still him doing the same shtick hasn't evolved even a little... Usually about Elon Musk, which sounds like it would be good content, but not when you exposed your biases and don't change anything.
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I used to follow a youtuber who slowly realized that the earnings when using her talent and profession fell short of just doing OF and showing bikini photos.
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Is that guy that pointing the gun at the other one Jordan B Peterson?
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Now, I can only imagine a children's book about Of Mice and Men.
I very rarely manually subscribe or unsubscribe now, it just picks up on what I watch generally.
Really? I found the algorithm had really gone to shit maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Half my recommendations were stuff I'd already seen and another quarter were shorts.
Since then I'm fully subscription based.
one time i subscribed to someone and a week later they shifted to youtube kids clickbait slop
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