Asklemmy

Wouldn't it be easier to list ones who aren't overrated?

I really don't understand the popularity of the "big" YouTubers. PewDiePie being the prime example from a few years ago, though I don't think he's still making videos.

Almost everyone that is on the popular front page feed. I loath the emotional content, drama, click bait type nonsense.

Veritasium. As soon as he put out a video with sponsored content where he lied with science I immediately knew he could no longer be trusted. I completely stopped watching his videos that day.

All influencer types. Influencing kids to be more vain, more selfish, more money focused, more vapid and empty?

So many tech YouTubers are overrated, but one who really stands out to me is JayzTwoCents. Somehow I have several memories of clicking on one of his videos and being shocked at him being confidently incorrect about something. I no longer click on his videos at all.

MrBeast is a horrible example of a person and everyone acts like he's a second coming out Jesus. He fucks up people's lives with his "charity" on a regular basis.

PewDiePie is one of the most annoying people ever born.

Mr Beast and his fucking thumbnails with open mouth and ugly mustache. How come such douche can make 5M views in 2days, it baffles me.

None, because I ignore the ones I don't like.

Kurtuzeg. And alot of the "science" channels. They are so full of shit sometimes.

Another one I'd mention is Rooster Teeth (the whole gang). I watched some of their "shenanigans" videos and they were just destroying office furniture, doing shitty pranks and in general being man-childs.

I just thought all the mess they left behind for everyone not on camera and what a shitshow it must be for the production crew to work with a bunch of internet mini-celebrities. They were basically the OG streaming mansion.

Fast forward a few years and you hear all these allegations of terrible work conditions. Go figure.

Mr Beast - all his videos look and feel the same. And there's nothing new that you learn from them.

MKBHD simply because I have absolutely no idea what the point in the channel is.

Obstensively it's a tech review channel, but really it seems to be a look at my cinematography and all this b-roll footage channel. Also iPhones, which is always boring because let's face it the last time Apple did anything close to innovative with the iPhone was the the 5C.

I find that the majority of the "Big Youtubers" seem to be very overrated. I never got super big into Pewdiepie as a kid, and trying to get into his content during the 100 mil craze made me wonder how he gained such a following (not dissing you if you do enjoy his content, but not my cup of tea).

On the flip side, i really enjoy slimecicles videos. Watching him is like eating a bowl of chicken soup.

most Poketubers

there's this weird conundrum where a lot of Pokemon fans are older, mostly in their 20s, but the big name Poketubers almost universally aim for kids as their prime demographic

like that's fine and all, but why are you aiming for kids when you're playing a Professor Oak challenge, or something stupid hardcore? show the kids the shiny Rayquaza, show me your 900+ hour save file

also the ones that aren't aimed at kids are usually pretty low quality, sorry Johnstone, sorry Bird Keeper Toby, sorry Absol Plays Pokemon

Real Engineering

Some really uncritical videos about "pretty out there" startups. It's basically a PR channel.

It's hard to find someone who makes content that doesn't kowtow to Youtube's terrible system. Content takes time to make and time costs money but youtube will make these people break their spine bending over backwards to make sure they don't get demonitized and get the scraps of ad revenue that Google designs to give them. So now we get people trying to dance around stupid censorship rules, finding more and more sponsors because they don't get paid enough and have to scream figuratively and literally to get enough attention to pay the bills.

Is all of them a valid answer?

I don't personally get the appeal of many gaming YouTubers. I'm not personally very into watching other people play videos (not review, but just play). I can kinda understand some people wanting to watch that, but it always surprises me just how many people watch it and for how long.

It also seems all too common that they have very questionable views and their fans will defend them to the death. I don't get that either. There's some YouTuber creators I really enjoy, but if they said horrible things, I sure as hell aren't going to defend them at all, let alone to the degree that some gaming YouTubers get ardently defended.

Pretty much all of the ones we've ever heard of and most of the ones I haven't.

All of them lol

Vox, ig. Their videos are the video essay equivalent of a forgettable action flick.

Johnny Harris. I really hate the delivery style that he kept from vox. The "guys this is super bad and I'm really concerned but in a like cool and detached way." His delivery just reminds me of every dude I've ever talked to at an indie coffee shop.

His content may or may not be good, but I can't get passed his smarmy delivery to find out.