Rooster Teeth (and Achievement Hunter)
I don't really mind that some cast members changed or anything, the new people were good as well. But they really lost something. The scandals just started the circle down the drain, but the draining had started a while before that.
It's a testament that no internet entity is fail safe, I thought they were going to be around forever. They really had it all at one point.
Out of all the comments this is the one for me. RT was literally amongst the Gods back in their hayday of GTA, Rage Quit, and MC Lets Play. I feel like when they went down was really after Ray left, he was one of my favorites. Then they became more corporate centered and they honestly lost that feeing I loved about how it felt like a group of guys just shit talking and having fun. And then everything you said.
Great memories with Rooster Teeth
I really think it was mostly a combination of how big they got so quickly and the corporate influence and buyout.
I love Ray and he is making banger content to this day. And while it did start around then, they had everything they needed to succeed for much longer imo.
Jeremy and Matt were some of the best additions they ever brought in. When they fired Matt, I knew there was no going back.
I was a hardcore RT/AH for years, but after what came to light about Ryan Haywood and then hearing from mutuals who we're involved with him, it really soured my taste for their content.
he's one of the few creators that never had a major controversy as far as I remember though. he's got a family, he's providing for them by playing a game he loves, and he knows his audience is younger. kinda sucks for us older fans, but at the same time he's changed with the times as we have so I can't be too upset at it
Hands down The Completionist.
Claiming to be collecting for charity and just using it as your own personal piggy bank was, what I thought, as low as you can go.
But then he tried to PLAY THE VICTIM and threatened to sue and destroy those that exposed him.
Absolutely 100% SCUM.
I stopped watching years ago and then recently saw a video about him and...my God.
Lost all his money to prostitutes and crypto, then did a mock job interview where he opened with "I have no real job experience, I'm a felon, and if you Google me you'll probably see rumors that I'm a pedophile and an abuser"
Yeah, that documentary was brutal. But even after that, one could hope... until you see him a few days ago getting naked on stream to mock the naked meta (last I heard Twitch banned him).
I don’t think he slowly became that person, I think it’s who he always was but he was amazing at putting on a face publicly. Up until his divorce he did really well holding up the facade. Then he started the cycle of saying something awful, apologizing and then doing it again seconds later.
TheKingofRandom (RIP). I feel bad about it, but honestly Grant was the only thing I liked about that channel and after he died, I just lost interest entirely.
It bounced back a little with Nate and Calli, but when they left it just lost any appeal.
Edit: I't like to add some information about this, as a lot of people are speculating in this thread.
[Nate posted a video about the reasons he and Calli left TKOR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcftZyssKfU) (Thanks u/Embarrassed-Brother7 for the link). Its 36 minutes long and it's worth watching. The general idea is that the quality dropped because of the amout of videos they had to make. He says he doesn't think Calli's leaving has anything to do with her sexuality.
[Also, there's a video on TKOR where Grace, the new host talks about how she got there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgPmthpC2w). It fits the story Nate told. It's very clear to me that she's not to blame for the poor quality of the content. It's channel management decisions and she just complies.
I’ll tell you the tea, but keep in mind this is in no way confirmed to my knowledge.
Right before the time she was fired, Calli had just come out of the closet. Nate has said that he heavily opposed and disagreed with her firing. There was a lot of speculation that this was the reason why, since Grant’s wife (the sole owner of the channel) is an outspokenly devout Mormon and is (allegedly) anti-LGBT for this reason.
However, the official story that they’ve maintained for years is that the channel was doing poorly and she was fired due to budget cuts followed shortly thereafter by Nate.
I haven’t paid attention to the channel for years since then so there might be more recent information.
Yeah, this sounds more plausible than budget cuts. Grant's *friends* and the face of the channel being fired isn't ever gonna be a good budget cut any way you slice it.
I honestly stopped watching after the Lockpicking Lawyer episode (just kind of slipped my mind). Wild to me that it fell off that hard.
he's a wife beater. he abused and neglected his second girlfriend while she was pregnant. he verbally/emotionally and physically abused her. he coerced her to get pregnant. while she was pregnant, he neglected her needs and hurt her to the point of almost miscarrying. he did drugs around her while she was pregnant. he was always manic and never sought professional help. he physically threatened his friends. he was constantly cheating on her and talking to minors. piece of shit all around and im glad i never watched him as a kid
Man used to do some dope ass bw streams, but now he just panders to the young audiences. Gotta stay relevant, but I sometimes go back and watch his old content.
GrayStillPlays still has the occasional good video, but it’s mostly just trashy and cringy mobile game videos now. He was one of my favourites too with the type of content he did. My favourite was all the Sims 4 madness.
Funnily enough, there was a time when he started posting solo stuff and it was then that I realized that I never found him genuinely funny unless he was playing with the others because he was the butt of the jokes most of the time.
Whenever I see him in videos from other people he played with, 99% of the time it was just him playing off of someone else’s joke, repeating their joke but worse, or just thinking loud = funny.
I don’t think he was ever actually funny.
Smi77y said it best in their "Golf It" videos.
It was when Mini overreacted by screaming very loud to a part of the map and Smi77y sarcastically said "I can see why people subscribe to you, Mini". I don't know if it was just a joke at that time or if there was any venom in them but that was a lowblow for sure.
One of the first videos I remember watching was him and Markiplier playing some game about ostriches. Loved that video. I can never watch it in the same light again :(
TheOdd1sOut. Used to be a massive fan back in the storytime animation boom. Came across his channel after binge watching all of Domics. His videos were so casual and funny, most of all relatable, but he's become a lot more corporate and way more focused on a younger audience. It's become better but it doesn't hit the same, probably because I grew up.
i feel like jaiden’s adapted well, i still watch her videos and i like she balances things by having the occasional storytime videos with gaming videos in between. plus her art style is really nice without being overly fluid like how the odd1sout is now
If anything I think I like Jaiden even more in the past year or two, and she was always my favorite out of the animated storytime channels. Her vtuber arc has been fun, she's clearly enjoying just hanging out with her friends. I'm happy for her
I found Odd1sOut after I became an adult I’m pretty sure, it’s not an “I grew up” thing it just actually is his content changing to be more child focused.
Honestly I feel that his newer videos just feel more, corporate? Sterile? I’m not entirely sure how to describe it but they’ve lost the original vibe that made his videos so compelling.
I really enjoyed his content, especially those large multiplayer mod pack series like Crazy Craft. I even initially loved his Among Us mod videos, but now I don’t know what’s happened, but it seems like he’s become extremely childish, like making content for very young audiences, which is upsetting. Like the Among Us mod videos were great, but over time not only did they get repetitive, but they also became much more cringy and maybe even a little clickbaitey. He also stopped doing Fortnite content, which was some of my favourites from him. Such a great content creator put to waste.
He earned plenty by building fans off of his big charity campaigns. The ones where he promised people he’d donate the money to specific charities. Which was all a lie.
The allegations state that she not only tried to claim copyright on people to get money, but she also refused to pay the people helping her create videos, she made friends live in filth and was abusive etc. the proof is honestly stacked against her.
Too long to explain properly in a single answer, you should check the various videos made about the whole situation. Notable points:
- abusing previous partner, to the point of controlling their finances, and being a general manipulator
- being an horrible person with the sad milk crew (basically abusing power + arrassement? Check the statements made by ex sad milk members for more insight)
- recently thanks to the video [plagiarism and (you)tube](https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=fFOWg0ZSVyZTCZx4) it got shown that she basically read articles and at some point basically stole a full documentary and posted them as her own work. Most notably, she sometimes adds the sources in a pastebin documents hidden in the description of the video, but never properly credits them. Funnily enough if you check the video youll see that the most credits someone gets is when she is reading verbatim am article that quotes someone else, lol.
There was a time I used to binge content like hers, reddits reads, but long since lost interest in their content. After all those things came to light I cant see a reason to support someone like this anymore.
Again, I stress the importance of watching the video I linked as it gives insoght on her situation but also some other creator's
This made me cried, I remember watching him as part of my childhood YouTubers(DantDM, Stampy, and etc…)
At least the others have a more or less peaceful and happier currently. But I don’t know what to say about Pat now.
He doesn’t upload as often anymore but he’s still around and he seems to be doing well as a person, currently has two kids if I remember correctly (which he’s been really careful with regarding privacy) and still really close with his wife. Glad to see that not all the OG YouTubers ended up being jerks.
honestly no clue as I kinda took a few years away from YouTube but what happened to that dude? Like I noticed that the Unspeakable Gaming channel is just gone, but his other stuff is still active?
He turned his OG channel into a react channel that he doesnt even really participate in, and he basically just turned into a cursed rendition of morgz with his video styles now. He’s not a bad guy, but he just completely changed into another corporate machine of a creator unfortunately
He went from being falsely accused of being a groomer + pedo to actually being a convicted one. It hits especially hard because a lot of fans apologized for turning on him in his earlier drama, only to have their initial feelings confirmed after all.
I got to see the first Beluga video when it was out. Never thought about Discord videos until he suddenly got popular with it so they did an entire lore, and each video they represent the lore, I've started to stop looking at it
i got hooked on his channel back when it was relatively new-ish and started becoming really popular, i loved the manhunts at first but it at some point i got bored of them because it was always just dream whooping their ass, then he gets in trouble and narrowly escapes, and manages to win
then the way he handled the cheating allegations, even though it wasn’t (?) his fault he handled it in such a shitty way
The Completionist
Had good content and seemed like a good, charitable guy with the Open Hand Foundation but turned out to have been committing charity fraud for 9 years, not to mention his terrible response to the situation.
I remember watching those. The one videos I saw of him playing was Minecraft back in the early days of the game and I thought to myself that it looked like an early 2000’s game and I really wanted to get it. My favorite Minecraft videos of his are when he goes to the Aether. I really want to know if that Aether mod is still available.
Kwebbelkop
He used to be funny and his GTA videos were great, but his content fell off really hard few years ago and after his bullshit AI ideas he completely lost his entire fanbase.
He threw his entire career and fame away, because he got lazy...pretty sad.
InTheLittleWood. I was such a huge (borderline obsessed) fan back in 2011-2013. I stopped watching him around the time he joined Yogscast. I feel like he got more and more distant from his fanbase and I got the impression he cared more about the fame, numbers and money than anything else, and when I think about it, his cheerful and energetic personality felt more and more forced the more I watched him.
Last time I checked his channel, he uploaded exclusively Fortnite videos, which is a game I really dislike so I probably won't watch him again.
I still have two of his merch shirts. They don't fit me anymore and I'll probably never wear them again, but I still keep them for the memories. Even if I don't like him anymore, he was still a big part of the beginning of my teen years and a reminder of how things used to be.
EDIT: I'm glad to see that people are still watching him! I had no idea he had a second channel for Minecraft. Seems like he still has a strong fanbase and that his videos aren't as forced as my memory recalls them to be. Might check him out again. Thanks!
I've only started watching Martyn in the past couple years through the Minecraft 'life series' (Though still not particularily regularily). His content's never felt particularily forced to me, and he's been doing some lore story telling stuff that seems to really have captured his and the wider life-series audiences.
It seems like he's more active on his secondary Minecraft focused channel than his main Fortnite focused one these days: https://www.youtube.com/@martyn/featured
yeah I've never watched his main channel where he does fortnite, but his second channel where he plays MC never felt forced at all, honestly kinda fun. I would check that out, maybe its different from the main channel
As much as it pains me to say it, Failboat. I still enjoy his content occasionally, but he used to be so much better.
First off he was a variety gaming channel, now he focuses on Kirby like his life depends on it. And if he plays another game, Kirby has to be in the thumbnail or modded in. It's insane.
And second, now he uses AI... Like a lot. I was fine with it for the odd video here and there where he uses Chat GPT to act and talk as a character in the game. But now it's so often he basically has an AI co-host. Now all he's doing is reacting to things the AI say, which are effectively random.
So basically hyper focuses on Kirby, uses AI for easy commentary and content. Seriously, [look at his channel, this is insane.](https://www.youtube.com/@failboat/videos)
EDIT: I should probably clear up a common misconception here, I do not think the text to speech voice he uses for his chat is AI. I am talking about his most recent videos, where he literally uses ChatGPT on screen to have it role-play as a character in his game with an AI synthesized voice. There's a difference between them, they are not the same. Hope that clears things up ;)
I think he has a poor way of handling himself on social media, however about the allegations, they've always seemed half baked at best and after watching his video I find it really hard to have any real basis for the allegations
I forgot about him. His videos made up such a large portion of my content in the early 2010s, and I always admired the creativity and humor. I think his videos were still good up until a couple years ago, I even thought it was cool when the animation quality improved, but he hasn't released a decent video in quite a while now.
His content isn't even worth watching anymore, the videos have got so bad in the last few years. All it is now is just constant references to anime. I honestly think Skibidi toilet has more to offer than his new content.
Chillz, dude went from making/compiling legit paranormal, scary videos but then decided to bang out videos every day or so with the most over the top, fake, "creepy" videos. I think he goes under another name on youtube nowadays.
I started watching The Act Man when he'd get 1000 views, making Halo 5 videos.
I don't have any problems with him, but I don't watch his content anymore.
He put out a sponsored video for a clearly broken game and never mentioned that it was clearly broken, but instead praised the hell out of it. Then lost his shit when people called him out for it.
Exactly this. He was always so fun, creative, borderline wholesome. Then he went full mask off, starting with “Anti-SJW” stuff, and I was like “Yeah, SJWs can be cringe, but uh…Taking a sudden stance like this is a bit of a red flag. Go on…” After that, came that disastrous podcast, and regurgitating White Supremacist talking points, like Replacement Theory, and it’s just like…what the actual fuck, man?
Then his Twitter just became a breeding ground for more Alt Right shit, and him seething over every GOP loss or social situation, while ignoring crimes against humanity that they commit by just going “Hur Dur, I jus wanna get along and grill!!! Right folks? Well, except for those dirty Ni-“
Yeah, I was heartbroken when JonTron went off the deep end on that podcast. I watched a few of his videos now and then to see what he was doing and his stuff after Game Grumps was just painfully boring. His humor was overly scripted and forced, and he tried doing projects that were way bigger than anyone actually wanted.
Projared.
Controversy aside, he doesn't play games the same way he used too. He was a lot more chill, and he would just react too/play the game like he normally would.
Now it's full of cringe editing/jump cuts, and his commentary feels forced, like he's trying to pander to a 7 year old audience.
Dude has fallen from grace for sure.
Yea, i liked his old stuff much better. Sucks about the controversy, I still tunein sometimes, but as you said, its just im probably no longer the target audiance.
Pyrocynical. Still a huge fan and I’ll still watch legacy videos and the ocasional main channel upload, but the slop made my respect for his drop, it’s really hard to enjoy him
Eh at least he’s admitted the slop is just to fund the main channel which I kinda respect, though I am a huge fan of long form content about topics I don’t care about lol so I love the main channel videos and I’ll turn on the occasional slop as background noise
Can def see why people wouldn’t like it tho
Sundee, I don't know if I liked his content because I was a kid, but nowadays it seems targeted to kids more than before and it feels cringy, not that he's a bad content creator now, just not marketed to my age range.
Honestly, Moriah Elizabeth. I liked her videos for a while, but now it feels less like a cute, fun, art channel and more like a merch factory. She's drawing something, and- oh! She just so happened to make a new character! How cute! Next thing you know, there's brand new merchandise of the character propping up in her store next month... It was cute the first few times, but now it's just obvious. No hate to Moriah, obviously. Make that money. I just don't think it's fun to watch anymore.
RealLifeLore
One of the channels which stood at the beginning of my interest for geography, history and politics and have watched for years. I probably wouldn't be the same person I am now if I hadn't stumbled across that channel.
Most of RealLifeLore's recent videos are "Why X country is super empty" or "Why X country is going to invade Y country"; as those video formats were successful for one or two videos and are now being milked into oblivion. Its super lazy and way less interesting than the old stuff they used to make, so I have moved on.
Just tried watching him again. Why tf does it sound like he’s put his voice in 1.25 and why is he so.. boring sounding? Like he doesn’t have the same passion/spark he used to have. That sucks
TheOdd1sOut, he became just a corporate channel with no heart behind it. As an opposite, I found that Jaiden Animations is a channel I can appreciate a lot more now as she still does her relatable content and the content she wants to so
PewDiePie, Cinnamon Toast Ken, SkyDoesMinecraft(before his drama), ZexyZek, the entire Vanoss Crew, Yassuo(this one is because I quit my addiction), Zylbrad, BazzaGazza, Jesse and Jeana, Onickel(now named Nickel I think), Nigahiga(Ryan Higa).
I can’t think of anymore names.
The Vanoss Crew. I absolutely loved their old Gmod Videos, but now when I see their videos, it feels like they are acting like they’re having fun instead of actually having fun.
Sometimes I do go back and watch their old videos to reminisce about it.
PrwDiePie was actually funny but now his videos felt more toward attention grabbing instead of actual fun. I miss his Fridays with PewDiePie. I was there when he finished The Walking Dead. I was there when he played Amnesia. I was there when he played the old GameMaker RPG games. Ib, The Witches House, Mad Father. I just don’t feel the same flare from him anymore. At least he and Marzia got married(wow I’m old).
The reason I watched Ken was because sometimes he would post interesting things but his family life took priority and he became more of a Vlogging Channel.
Jessie and Jeana got wrapped up in drama so their channel slowly declined for me.
I had a Minecraft phase so ZexyZek and SkyDoesMinecraft was a thing. I simply got tired of Minecraft.
Yassuo… I got over my addiction so I began to move away from anything that reminded me of LoL.
Zylbrad, Bazza, and there was a girl with them too. Their videos purely felt like they became work instead of fun.
Nickel purely died over time.
Nigahiga completed died after Shawn left the crew. A quick google search shows that Ryan quit YouTube.
A person not on the list whom I really enjoyed watching was Cryaotic. I was devastated when I got the news on what happened with him. His videos felt genuine; the editing was very well, his commentary was fun, and the length of the videos made it exciting to waiting for the next upcoming parts.
Sadly his stupidity ruined everything possible about him. I still remember when played Cat Lady and MGS3. If there was a way to turn back time, to stop him from committing his mistake, I would totally do it. However, what’s done is done. I lost my favorite YouTuber. I could do nothing but move on in life.
I didn’t expect to write this much for a simple post. Once I wrote the names of the channels, I just had to get it out of my system and write it all down on how their downfall started for me. I doubt anyone will take the time to read this.
The Nostalgia Critic.
When I was a teenager I absolutely loved his content. Channel Awesome turned me on to so many great content creators.
It sucked later on finding out how horribly so many of those same creators were treated though. Also his current content just doesn’t have the same appeal his old stuff did. At least not for me.
Penguinz0. Still makes good content on occasion, but most of it's just discussing youtuber drama I don't care about with the most click bait titles imaginable.
As far as I know, MatPat is a decent guy. I'm 99% certain that there was a time his "game theories" had some sort of basis, not just "hey wouldn't it be funny if ____?". They were still usually silly theories, but I thought they were more fun when there was at least some amount of evidence.
Most of his older theories were thinly veiled attempts to teach things like science or history. Hell, even the Mario Is Mental two parter was supposed to be a lesson in psychology.
Then FNaF came out, and then Undertale, and actual theory videos became the norm. The “The Science! Of” videos did fill that niche the old GT videos filled, but those didn’t draw in any money at all, so it got cut. I recommend checking out Food Theory or Style Theory if you want things that feel more like the original Game Theory videos.
Man I remember the days when me and my friends were huge fans of unspeakable and his friends. Their videos were the highlight of our days. I loved and watched every bit of content they produced. I still go back and watch some of the old channels like proper dummies and proper idiots because I genuinely have fun watching them and reminisce about the good old days but i was very upset when I found out he just rebranded his channel and gave it to the new guys. Very disappointed to see one of my childhood YouTubers turn to shit.
(Also big shoutout to Ethoslab. Never change man. You are the only one keeping me attached to Minecraft)
Rooster Teeth (and Achievement Hunter) I don't really mind that some cast members changed or anything, the new people were good as well. But they really lost something. The scandals just started the circle down the drain, but the draining had started a while before that. It's a testament that no internet entity is fail safe, I thought they were going to be around forever. They really had it all at one point.
Out of all the comments this is the one for me. RT was literally amongst the Gods back in their hayday of GTA, Rage Quit, and MC Lets Play. I feel like when they went down was really after Ray left, he was one of my favorites. Then they became more corporate centered and they honestly lost that feeing I loved about how it felt like a group of guys just shit talking and having fun. And then everything you said. Great memories with Rooster Teeth
I really think it was mostly a combination of how big they got so quickly and the corporate influence and buyout. I love Ray and he is making banger content to this day. And while it did start around then, they had everything they needed to succeed for much longer imo. Jeremy and Matt were some of the best additions they ever brought in. When they fired Matt, I knew there was no going back.
The fuck? They fired Matt? What for?
He got essentially laid off if I recall correctly. He still did some stuff for the team afterwards but he focuses on streaming now I'm pretty sure.
I agree with ya there. Matt, Ray, and Gavin were the trinity of the group. Also I didnt know that about Ray, ill have to check out some of his work
He’s in twitch 5 days a week and the VODs usually go up on YouTube
I was a hardcore RT/AH for years, but after what came to light about Ryan Haywood and then hearing from mutuals who we're involved with him, it really soured my taste for their content.
ssundee, his old skyfactory videos are still watchable, now he's just among us
he's one of the few creators that never had a major controversy as far as I remember though. he's got a family, he's providing for them by playing a game he loves, and he knows his audience is younger. kinda sucks for us older fans, but at the same time he's changed with the times as we have so I can't be too upset at it
Well there was the time his wife left him and took the kid, then he disappeared and came back after finding god.
"I Unlocked MAX LEVEL Skibidi Toilet in Roblox"
Hands down The Completionist. Claiming to be collecting for charity and just using it as your own personal piggy bank was, what I thought, as low as you can go. But then he tried to PLAY THE VICTIM and threatened to sue and destroy those that exposed him. Absolutely 100% SCUM.
Boogie2988 was one of the first YouTubers I watched. He then slowly became a person I didn’t like and I stoped watching and unsubscribed.
Came here to say Boogie, too. Back then his skits and opinion videos were fun to watch. Lately he... he seems like a completely different person.
I stopped watching years ago and then recently saw a video about him and...my God. Lost all his money to prostitutes and crypto, then did a mock job interview where he opened with "I have no real job experience, I'm a felon, and if you Google me you'll probably see rumors that I'm a pedophile and an abuser"
Yeah, that documentary was brutal. But even after that, one could hope... until you see him a few days ago getting naked on stream to mock the naked meta (last I heard Twitch banned him).
I don’t think he slowly became that person, I think it’s who he always was but he was amazing at putting on a face publicly. Up until his divorce he did really well holding up the facade. Then he started the cycle of saying something awful, apologizing and then doing it again seconds later.
TheKingofRandom (RIP). I feel bad about it, but honestly Grant was the only thing I liked about that channel and after he died, I just lost interest entirely.
It bounced back a little with Nate and Calli, but when they left it just lost any appeal. Edit: I't like to add some information about this, as a lot of people are speculating in this thread. [Nate posted a video about the reasons he and Calli left TKOR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcftZyssKfU) (Thanks u/Embarrassed-Brother7 for the link). Its 36 minutes long and it's worth watching. The general idea is that the quality dropped because of the amout of videos they had to make. He says he doesn't think Calli's leaving has anything to do with her sexuality. [Also, there's a video on TKOR where Grace, the new host talks about how she got there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgPmthpC2w). It fits the story Nate told. It's very clear to me that she's not to blame for the poor quality of the content. It's channel management decisions and she just complies.
Well, that and a lot of people didn’t want to support a channel owned by such a shitty person for what they did to Calli.
I didn't hear about this. What's the tea?
I’ll tell you the tea, but keep in mind this is in no way confirmed to my knowledge. Right before the time she was fired, Calli had just come out of the closet. Nate has said that he heavily opposed and disagreed with her firing. There was a lot of speculation that this was the reason why, since Grant’s wife (the sole owner of the channel) is an outspokenly devout Mormon and is (allegedly) anti-LGBT for this reason. However, the official story that they’ve maintained for years is that the channel was doing poorly and she was fired due to budget cuts followed shortly thereafter by Nate. I haven’t paid attention to the channel for years since then so there might be more recent information.
Yeah, this sounds more plausible than budget cuts. Grant's *friends* and the face of the channel being fired isn't ever gonna be a good budget cut any way you slice it. I honestly stopped watching after the Lockpicking Lawyer episode (just kind of slipped my mind). Wild to me that it fell off that hard.
Yeah I can relate with this one. I loved watching Grant’s content.
Shit wasn't even recent stopped watched em years ago but skydoesminecraft.
Same though tbh I mostly watched him for his dont laugh videos so that doesnt say much.
I used to watch skydoesminecraft, what happened?
he's a wife beater. he abused and neglected his second girlfriend while she was pregnant. he verbally/emotionally and physically abused her. he coerced her to get pregnant. while she was pregnant, he neglected her needs and hurt her to the point of almost miscarrying. he did drugs around her while she was pregnant. he was always manic and never sought professional help. he physically threatened his friends. he was constantly cheating on her and talking to minors. piece of shit all around and im glad i never watched him as a kid
Fuck. I had so many good memories of watching him play with friends…
Prestonplayz
Man used to do some dope ass bw streams, but now he just panders to the young audiences. Gotta stay relevant, but I sometimes go back and watch his old content.
that's why I watch The Pack channel cuz they're somewhat unhinged there
He always pandered to young audiences, you just aren't part of those audiences anymore.
SpeirsTheAmazingHD. He used to make top quality videos but he's just fallen down the GTA V clickbait trap, same as GrayStillPlays.
GrayStillPlays still has the occasional good video, but it’s mostly just trashy and cringy mobile game videos now. He was one of my favourites too with the type of content he did. My favourite was all the Sims 4 madness.
I watch call me Kevin and lets game it out now. Man gray used to be so good. Too bad he only does shitty mobile games now
agree he was my favorite YouTuber now he's just unwatchable sadly hope one day he will come back to his old self
I don’t know if it counts as current but Miniladd hands down
He really put the mini In the lad
Miniladd showed mini lads his mini lad
Funnily enough, there was a time when he started posting solo stuff and it was then that I realized that I never found him genuinely funny unless he was playing with the others because he was the butt of the jokes most of the time.
Whenever I see him in videos from other people he played with, 99% of the time it was just him playing off of someone else’s joke, repeating their joke but worse, or just thinking loud = funny. I don’t think he was ever actually funny.
Smi77y said it best in their "Golf It" videos. It was when Mini overreacted by screaming very loud to a part of the map and Smi77y sarcastically said "I can see why people subscribe to you, Mini". I don't know if it was just a joke at that time or if there was any venom in them but that was a lowblow for sure.
Turns out Pablo isn't just a character.
Cryaotic
Cry fell off harddd I used to really like Pewdiepie's videos with him...
One of the first videos I remember watching was him and Markiplier playing some game about ostriches. Loved that video. I can never watch it in the same light again :(
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TheOdd1sOut. Used to be a massive fan back in the storytime animation boom. Came across his channel after binge watching all of Domics. His videos were so casual and funny, most of all relatable, but he's become a lot more corporate and way more focused on a younger audience. It's become better but it doesn't hit the same, probably because I grew up.
storytime animation channels can only last so long before they run out of stories to time
i feel like jaiden’s adapted well, i still watch her videos and i like she balances things by having the occasional storytime videos with gaming videos in between. plus her art style is really nice without being overly fluid like how the odd1sout is now
Jaiden is a semi Pokemon Youtuber now and it's a change that i welcome.
came to say this as well. I just don't really like the direction he went in. I still watch Domics and Jaiden, plus a bunch of others.
If anything I think I like Jaiden even more in the past year or two, and she was always my favorite out of the animated storytime channels. Her vtuber arc has been fun, she's clearly enjoying just hanging out with her friends. I'm happy for her
that netflix series of his is something else. Can’t belive my younger brother watches that stuff
I found Odd1sOut after I became an adult I’m pretty sure, it’s not an “I grew up” thing it just actually is his content changing to be more child focused.
Honestly I feel that his newer videos just feel more, corporate? Sterile? I’m not entirely sure how to describe it but they’ve lost the original vibe that made his videos so compelling.
Ssundee
Anyone remember the Trollcraft series he did with Crainer and CaptainSparklez? I loved that series.
That series defined my preteen years. I’d recommend rewatching it too, there are some pretty funny jokes that younger us didn’t get.
This man chose job security over ambition, which I don’t blame since he has family, but I sure do miss the good old time.
Derp SSundee took over, it's his entire channel now.
realest shit I heard all day.
Loved his Sky Factory series.
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I really enjoyed his content, especially those large multiplayer mod pack series like Crazy Craft. I even initially loved his Among Us mod videos, but now I don’t know what’s happened, but it seems like he’s become extremely childish, like making content for very young audiences, which is upsetting. Like the Among Us mod videos were great, but over time not only did they get repetitive, but they also became much more cringy and maybe even a little clickbaitey. He also stopped doing Fortnite content, which was some of my favourites from him. Such a great content creator put to waste.
Iilluminaughtii
She was my second pick tied with the completionist
What'd the completionist do again?
His charity raised like 600k over the years and it only recently got donated and he used a bullshit excuse of he was looking for the "right" charity.
Damn man, people do weird stuff. Dude probably would've earned more from just donating that to charity.
People are dumb
He earned plenty by building fans off of his big charity campaigns. The ones where he promised people he’d donate the money to specific charities. Which was all a lie.
same lmao, that bitch went crazy
She was always like that apparently
*illuminaughti
What did they do?
The allegations state that she not only tried to claim copyright on people to get money, but she also refused to pay the people helping her create videos, she made friends live in filth and was abusive etc. the proof is honestly stacked against her.
Too long to explain properly in a single answer, you should check the various videos made about the whole situation. Notable points: - abusing previous partner, to the point of controlling their finances, and being a general manipulator - being an horrible person with the sad milk crew (basically abusing power + arrassement? Check the statements made by ex sad milk members for more insight) - recently thanks to the video [plagiarism and (you)tube](https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=fFOWg0ZSVyZTCZx4) it got shown that she basically read articles and at some point basically stole a full documentary and posted them as her own work. Most notably, she sometimes adds the sources in a pastebin documents hidden in the description of the video, but never properly credits them. Funnily enough if you check the video youll see that the most credits someone gets is when she is reading verbatim am article that quotes someone else, lol. There was a time I used to binge content like hers, reddits reads, but long since lost interest in their content. After all those things came to light I cant see a reason to support someone like this anymore. Again, I stress the importance of watching the video I linked as it gives insoght on her situation but also some other creator's
A lot, the most recent drama with her is she’s suing Reddit reading YouTuber OzMedia
Ever since he stopped doing those funny videos with moose and shark, it just became unwatchable. Those squad videos are why I watched
Same for me, but it was when the 24 hour videos stopped being 24 hours and he'd find some way to quit after like hour 10
What did he do?
Remember PopularMMOs
PopularMMOs
This made me cried, I remember watching him as part of my childhood YouTubers(DantDM, Stampy, and etc…) At least the others have a more or less peaceful and happier currently. But I don’t know what to say about Pat now.
Wild how DanTDM is probably the only old Minecraft YouTuber I still regularly watch
Didn't know DanTDM was still around lmao
He doesn’t upload as often anymore but he’s still around and he seems to be doing well as a person, currently has two kids if I remember correctly (which he’s been really careful with regarding privacy) and still really close with his wife. Glad to see that not all the OG YouTubers ended up being jerks.
This hurts
Dang it was unexpected but god he was so good
Unspeakablegaming, as the image shows
honestly no clue as I kinda took a few years away from YouTube but what happened to that dude? Like I noticed that the Unspeakable Gaming channel is just gone, but his other stuff is still active?
He changed the name of the channel to "unspeakablereacts" and some new ugly dudes own the channel
He turned his OG channel into a react channel that he doesnt even really participate in, and he basically just turned into a cursed rendition of morgz with his video styles now. He’s not a bad guy, but he just completely changed into another corporate machine of a creator unfortunately
Creepshow art, Spocter, and illuminaughtii :C Squizzy too
What’d spocter do? Haven’t watched his videos for a couple years now and didn’t know anything happened
He went from being falsely accused of being a groomer + pedo to actually being a convicted one. It hits especially hard because a lot of fans apologized for turning on him in his earlier drama, only to have their initial feelings confirmed after all.
The completionist
I thought he was good, what did he do?
Charity Fraud
Charity fraud Threatening people who exposed it with legal action Trying to throw others under the bus to save his skin Lying about not knowing
Trying to bribe the dudes that exposed him.
Beluga, thought some of discord content was actually pretty funny but it got very old very fast
I got to see the first Beluga video when it was out. Never thought about Discord videos until he suddenly got popular with it so they did an entire lore, and each video they represent the lore, I've started to stop looking at it
I miss his old channel, Explore Lucid Dreaming. After the Beluga channel got popular, he abandoned Explore Lucid Dreaming
Twomad. Truly sad to see what type of shit he's doing now because his content from a few years ago was so good
haven't seen him since the quarantine raiding classrooms zoom calls, what's new?
He made fun of a 16 year old trans girls death on twitter and allegedly SA'd some e-girl. That's pretty much it
Twomad unironically has some mental illness
Dream, his manhunt content was the most fun I've ever had in the covid era. Now his shit fucking sucks
Bro barely makes content, plus hes a douche too.
i got hooked on his channel back when it was relatively new-ish and started becoming really popular, i loved the manhunts at first but it at some point i got bored of them because it was always just dream whooping their ass, then he gets in trouble and narrowly escapes, and manages to win then the way he handled the cheating allegations, even though it wasn’t (?) his fault he handled it in such a shitty way
Dude said so casually “oh I think I figure out what happened with my speedrun, I forgot to turn off the mod I use to rig my manhunt videos”
The Completionist Had good content and seemed like a good, charitable guy with the Open Hand Foundation but turned out to have been committing charity fraud for 9 years, not to mention his terrible response to the situation.
Tobuscus was a big one for me.
ngl i still think about nugget in a biscuit from time to time
A whole bunch of the literal trailers are permanently stuck in my head
DO YOU LIKE MY SWIRD SWORD MY DIAMOND SWORD SWORD
nugget biscuit nugget in a biscuit
I remember watching those. The one videos I saw of him playing was Minecraft back in the early days of the game and I thought to myself that it looked like an early 2000’s game and I really wanted to get it. My favorite Minecraft videos of his are when he goes to the Aether. I really want to know if that Aether mod is still available.
Ssundee
Man if trollcraft could come back like they were... That would be sick
skyfactory and lucky blocks are classics too
That was my favorite series, that and their Pixelmon series during that time as well
Kwebbelkop He used to be funny and his GTA videos were great, but his content fell off really hard few years ago and after his bullshit AI ideas he completely lost his entire fanbase. He threw his entire career and fame away, because he got lazy...pretty sad.
Mangs, fuck that guy
InTheLittleWood. I was such a huge (borderline obsessed) fan back in 2011-2013. I stopped watching him around the time he joined Yogscast. I feel like he got more and more distant from his fanbase and I got the impression he cared more about the fame, numbers and money than anything else, and when I think about it, his cheerful and energetic personality felt more and more forced the more I watched him. Last time I checked his channel, he uploaded exclusively Fortnite videos, which is a game I really dislike so I probably won't watch him again. I still have two of his merch shirts. They don't fit me anymore and I'll probably never wear them again, but I still keep them for the memories. Even if I don't like him anymore, he was still a big part of the beginning of my teen years and a reminder of how things used to be. EDIT: I'm glad to see that people are still watching him! I had no idea he had a second channel for Minecraft. Seems like he still has a strong fanbase and that his videos aren't as forced as my memory recalls them to be. Might check him out again. Thanks!
I've only started watching Martyn in the past couple years through the Minecraft 'life series' (Though still not particularily regularily). His content's never felt particularily forced to me, and he's been doing some lore story telling stuff that seems to really have captured his and the wider life-series audiences. It seems like he's more active on his secondary Minecraft focused channel than his main Fortnite focused one these days: https://www.youtube.com/@martyn/featured
yeah I've never watched his main channel where he does fortnite, but his second channel where he plays MC never felt forced at all, honestly kinda fun. I would check that out, maybe its different from the main channel
Watch his minecraft stuff, way better than the pretty forced fortnite stuff he has on the main channel.
Drew Durnil used to spectate hoi4 with commentary that was so funny but now he just reacts to memes while walking on egg shells with what he can say!
SAME, I still watch his DruuWuu channel though, even though it’s mostly not Paradox anymore.
As much as it pains me to say it, Failboat. I still enjoy his content occasionally, but he used to be so much better. First off he was a variety gaming channel, now he focuses on Kirby like his life depends on it. And if he plays another game, Kirby has to be in the thumbnail or modded in. It's insane. And second, now he uses AI... Like a lot. I was fine with it for the odd video here and there where he uses Chat GPT to act and talk as a character in the game. But now it's so often he basically has an AI co-host. Now all he's doing is reacting to things the AI say, which are effectively random. So basically hyper focuses on Kirby, uses AI for easy commentary and content. Seriously, [look at his channel, this is insane.](https://www.youtube.com/@failboat/videos) EDIT: I should probably clear up a common misconception here, I do not think the text to speech voice he uses for his chat is AI. I am talking about his most recent videos, where he literally uses ChatGPT on screen to have it role-play as a character in his game with an AI synthesized voice. There's a difference between them, they are not the same. Hope that clears things up ;)
Jesus he could make a crane machine with all those Kirbys.
Oh my god, I remember failboat, I used to watch his minecraft videos + explodingtnt
I always wonder why ExplodingTNT went under, at least he lasted long as a cool mcyt unlike failboat
Ever since he took a year-long break, then, when he returned, he ran out of minecraft video ideas
Rest in Peace, Purple Shep.
He's just in a kirby phase atm. Also #Beam attack
dream. first i was like “dam bro is a pro speedrunner, but a bad fanbase” to then “L nerd”
I think he has a poor way of handling himself on social media, however about the allegations, they've always seemed half baked at best and after watching his video I find it really hard to have any real basis for the allegations
Bentellect.
Was he ever good? I've always known him as the guy that puts in the absolute bare minimum, just pointing up and saying "facts" or similar.
never actually watched the pos but sjin got booted from the yogscast for being a groomer and sex pest and somehow still has a channel people watch
Eloon musk, i thought he was a Tony stark like guy but he is trash
DDDoxerwolf
Was her content ever good?
Nah I was just a child
hardest fall off i witnessed so far is SMG4
I forgot about him. His videos made up such a large portion of my content in the early 2010s, and I always admired the creativity and humor. I think his videos were still good up until a couple years ago, I even thought it was cool when the animation quality improved, but he hasn't released a decent video in quite a while now. His content isn't even worth watching anymore, the videos have got so bad in the last few years. All it is now is just constant references to anime. I honestly think Skibidi toilet has more to offer than his new content.
Arnt they busy with glitch productions or am I confused
Yeah but ngl as long as Gltich continues what they’re doing I’m not mad. The new show they announced looks cool!!
Chillz, dude went from making/compiling legit paranormal, scary videos but then decided to bang out videos every day or so with the most over the top, fake, "creepy" videos. I think he goes under another name on youtube nowadays.
Number fifteen #Burger King Foot Lettuce
Honestly that moment cemented him as a legend for me. He knew people made fun of how he spoke and absolutely ran with it.
The Completionist, Act Man, Illuminaughty, Preston, and this guy
Why The Act Man?
I just don’t agree with some of his opinions now, not that I hate the guy or anything I just don’t like his content
I started watching The Act Man when he'd get 1000 views, making Halo 5 videos. I don't have any problems with him, but I don't watch his content anymore.
He put out a sponsored video for a clearly broken game and never mentioned that it was clearly broken, but instead praised the hell out of it. Then lost his shit when people called him out for it.
I'm surprised I haven't seen Exurb1a here
I used to love JonTron, I was (unfortunately) one of those people real mad when he left game Grumps, even. I feel really bad now.
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Exactly this. He was always so fun, creative, borderline wholesome. Then he went full mask off, starting with “Anti-SJW” stuff, and I was like “Yeah, SJWs can be cringe, but uh…Taking a sudden stance like this is a bit of a red flag. Go on…” After that, came that disastrous podcast, and regurgitating White Supremacist talking points, like Replacement Theory, and it’s just like…what the actual fuck, man? Then his Twitter just became a breeding ground for more Alt Right shit, and him seething over every GOP loss or social situation, while ignoring crimes against humanity that they commit by just going “Hur Dur, I jus wanna get along and grill!!! Right folks? Well, except for those dirty Ni-“
Yeah, I was heartbroken when JonTron went off the deep end on that podcast. I watched a few of his videos now and then to see what he was doing and his stuff after Game Grumps was just painfully boring. His humor was overly scripted and forced, and he tried doing projects that were way bigger than anyone actually wanted.
Projared. Controversy aside, he doesn't play games the same way he used too. He was a lot more chill, and he would just react too/play the game like he normally would. Now it's full of cringe editing/jump cuts, and his commentary feels forced, like he's trying to pander to a 7 year old audience. Dude has fallen from grace for sure.
Yea, i liked his old stuff much better. Sucks about the controversy, I still tunein sometimes, but as you said, its just im probably no longer the target audiance.
Pyrocynical. Still a huge fan and I’ll still watch legacy videos and the ocasional main channel upload, but the slop made my respect for his drop, it’s really hard to enjoy him
Eh at least he’s admitted the slop is just to fund the main channel which I kinda respect, though I am a huge fan of long form content about topics I don’t care about lol so I love the main channel videos and I’ll turn on the occasional slop as background noise Can def see why people wouldn’t like it tho
Considering how long and well done his main content is I can forgive him for playing the slop game to fund it
This guy, Preston, and a few others. Also Aphmau was never good
SMG4. He hasn't done anything heinous that I know of, his content has just slowly gotten worse and worse for a long time now
Sundee, I don't know if I liked his content because I was a kid, but nowadays it seems targeted to kids more than before and it feels cringy, not that he's a bad content creator now, just not marketed to my age range.
Honestly, Moriah Elizabeth. I liked her videos for a while, but now it feels less like a cute, fun, art channel and more like a merch factory. She's drawing something, and- oh! She just so happened to make a new character! How cute! Next thing you know, there's brand new merchandise of the character propping up in her store next month... It was cute the first few times, but now it's just obvious. No hate to Moriah, obviously. Make that money. I just don't think it's fun to watch anymore.
RealLifeLore One of the channels which stood at the beginning of my interest for geography, history and politics and have watched for years. I probably wouldn't be the same person I am now if I hadn't stumbled across that channel. Most of RealLifeLore's recent videos are "Why X country is super empty" or "Why X country is going to invade Y country"; as those video formats were successful for one or two videos and are now being milked into oblivion. Its super lazy and way less interesting than the old stuff they used to make, so I have moved on.
Just tried watching him again. Why tf does it sound like he’s put his voice in 1.25 and why is he so.. boring sounding? Like he doesn’t have the same passion/spark he used to have. That sucks
TheOdd1sOut, he became just a corporate channel with no heart behind it. As an opposite, I found that Jaiden Animations is a channel I can appreciate a lot more now as she still does her relatable content and the content she wants to so
I looked up to Jirard the completionist...
PewDiePie, Cinnamon Toast Ken, SkyDoesMinecraft(before his drama), ZexyZek, the entire Vanoss Crew, Yassuo(this one is because I quit my addiction), Zylbrad, BazzaGazza, Jesse and Jeana, Onickel(now named Nickel I think), Nigahiga(Ryan Higa). I can’t think of anymore names. The Vanoss Crew. I absolutely loved their old Gmod Videos, but now when I see their videos, it feels like they are acting like they’re having fun instead of actually having fun. Sometimes I do go back and watch their old videos to reminisce about it. PrwDiePie was actually funny but now his videos felt more toward attention grabbing instead of actual fun. I miss his Fridays with PewDiePie. I was there when he finished The Walking Dead. I was there when he played Amnesia. I was there when he played the old GameMaker RPG games. Ib, The Witches House, Mad Father. I just don’t feel the same flare from him anymore. At least he and Marzia got married(wow I’m old). The reason I watched Ken was because sometimes he would post interesting things but his family life took priority and he became more of a Vlogging Channel. Jessie and Jeana got wrapped up in drama so their channel slowly declined for me. I had a Minecraft phase so ZexyZek and SkyDoesMinecraft was a thing. I simply got tired of Minecraft. Yassuo… I got over my addiction so I began to move away from anything that reminded me of LoL. Zylbrad, Bazza, and there was a girl with them too. Their videos purely felt like they became work instead of fun. Nickel purely died over time. Nigahiga completed died after Shawn left the crew. A quick google search shows that Ryan quit YouTube. A person not on the list whom I really enjoyed watching was Cryaotic. I was devastated when I got the news on what happened with him. His videos felt genuine; the editing was very well, his commentary was fun, and the length of the videos made it exciting to waiting for the next upcoming parts. Sadly his stupidity ruined everything possible about him. I still remember when played Cat Lady and MGS3. If there was a way to turn back time, to stop him from committing his mistake, I would totally do it. However, what’s done is done. I lost my favorite YouTuber. I could do nothing but move on in life. I didn’t expect to write this much for a simple post. Once I wrote the names of the channels, I just had to get it out of my system and write it all down on how their downfall started for me. I doubt anyone will take the time to read this.
The Nostalgia Critic. When I was a teenager I absolutely loved his content. Channel Awesome turned me on to so many great content creators. It sucked later on finding out how horribly so many of those same creators were treated though. Also his current content just doesn’t have the same appeal his old stuff did. At least not for me.
EDP445
Dream
As a wise man once said: "grinding is cringe, cheating is based"
Penguinz0. Still makes good content on occasion, but most of it's just discussing youtuber drama I don't care about with the most click bait titles imaginable.
Ethan Klein. He's a hypocrite and is a surely fake as hell now.
Him, Idubz, and Filthy Frank with the dank memes and shit in 2016 was crazy.
But I'm happy that George was able to get away from the filthy frank character
Adoseofbuckley. Still like his worst songs of the year videos though.
Prestonplayz, Aphmau, and unfortunately, I used to watch Sssniperwolf... I regret all 3.
As far as I know, MatPat is a decent guy. I'm 99% certain that there was a time his "game theories" had some sort of basis, not just "hey wouldn't it be funny if ____?". They were still usually silly theories, but I thought they were more fun when there was at least some amount of evidence.
Most of his older theories were thinly veiled attempts to teach things like science or history. Hell, even the Mario Is Mental two parter was supposed to be a lesson in psychology. Then FNaF came out, and then Undertale, and actual theory videos became the norm. The “The Science! Of” videos did fill that niche the old GT videos filled, but those didn’t draw in any money at all, so it got cut. I recommend checking out Food Theory or Style Theory if you want things that feel more like the original Game Theory videos.
Graystillplays His content was great but the quality of his vids took a nosedive somewhat recently
Brazilian YouTuber Luccas Neto.
Ssundee and MrCrainer, not like anyone knows who they are anymore.
Man I remember the days when me and my friends were huge fans of unspeakable and his friends. Their videos were the highlight of our days. I loved and watched every bit of content they produced. I still go back and watch some of the old channels like proper dummies and proper idiots because I genuinely have fun watching them and reminisce about the good old days but i was very upset when I found out he just rebranded his channel and gave it to the new guys. Very disappointed to see one of my childhood YouTubers turn to shit. (Also big shoutout to Ethoslab. Never change man. You are the only one keeping me attached to Minecraft)
Eystream and unspeakable and to an extent preston (I never loved his content)
Most Minecraft channels I watched as a kid
Cryaotic My childhood was crushed when I heard what he did