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Post the names of youtubers and other internet microcelebs you hate with a burning passion based on vibes alone. I am aware that youtubers are an inherently reactionary group of organisms ^[
], but some suck at statistically significant levels.
Mr Beast. Even if he wasn't a horrible shill for capitalism, the vibe of his video thumbnails alone make me want to punch puppies.
I hate SEO face and his is the worst.
Nearly all reaction channels because they all turn into nazi lite chuds. They'll be seeing a fucking Confederate say the dumbest shit and they'll be like "hmmm you know he has a point". Its like seeing a person radicalized in realtime. I hate these people with every fiber of my being. I hate how stupid they are and I hate that their audience is every bit as brain dead.
I hate how influential these talentless hacks are and the fact that so many get influenced by them and throw away their weak convictions and just hop on racist dick. I despise how the Poc ones buck their eyes or play to a racial stereotype for their followers anf know exactly what the fuck they're doing but act dumb. I absolutely despise..... Let me not go further it will be fed posting.
I barely even know them, but the Green brothers, specifically Hank Green, are self-important dipshits who are not nearly as smart, funny or influential as they believe they are and i will laugh at their downfall
the guy just looks and sounds like a dweeb and thinks he runs tiktok
I hate Tim Pool. He's just annoyingly stupid and he has a massive audience.
Non political ones, I hate that bald British guy that just does work for a bunch of channels. Annoyingly prevalent all over the platform.
garand thumb
Was he one of those shitheads who fantasizes about shooting Black or LGBT people? Seems common with a lot of gun nuts
theres a related one called 'administrative results' who is even more overtly fascist.
and that brandon herrera guy
Jill Bearup tricked me for a while by being the rare exception to Riley's Law
The only ones I really hate are the usual suspects of outrage/culture war chuds whining about the latest woman/poc/etc. in fiction. If I get even a whiff of them in my recommended, I block the whole channel to purify my algorithm.
i used to like dougdoug but he just make ai slop now :(
other than that i don't engage with things i don't like
and he's a "completed unregulated capitalism will solve all our problems" type, unfortunately. he's still really funny imo tho
i have issues watching ppl with morals i heavily disagree with even if it's entertaining. autism thing ig
I don't think I could name a single youtuber. I use youtube primarily for music videos and somewhat rarely "how the fuck do you do this particular thing?" (usually video games).
when I was a teenager there was guy named jimmyr who made youtube tutorials about how to 
using Google and he had his own content aggregator that introduced me to Reddit. I kind of wonder if not for him I would've turned out at least 30% more normal
not hate but GDF gives me bad vibes, also i think that guy Half as Interesting is a fed but it's completely vibes based lol
easy to get fed vibes from a lot of "educational youtube" because 100% of their research is reading the natopedia page.
A few off the top of my head:
MrBeast
Kurzgesagt is literally a “lets sterilize all africans” gates foundation guy
As soon as I saw Callaghan on that doomscroll podcast I blocked that garbage instantly. No way am I trusting the judgement of a podcast host who invites a known sex pest on. He had already had several guests with really detestable views (Dasha) but someone who admitted to SA shouldn't have a platform.
I have one subscriber and I hate myself
Somehow I have 3 subscribers. I've never made a YouTube video
I have 15 subscribers based on a shitty trendseeking video I made 13 years ago.
i will also subscribe to you and cancel that out you can't stop me
Rick Beato is terminal old man yelling at the clouds about the young’ins not appreciating real music anymore. The poster geezer for toxic rockism.
He seems to do it to get people to buy his teaching material.
I love when Emily Hopkins purposefully pronounces his name wrong and then corrects other people when they pronounce it correctly lol
Emily Hopkins is a treasure
god harp lady owns
he's very funny.
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unintentionally
MadSeasonShow. I don't actually hate him, but it's funny how brainworms work their way into otherwise "normal" people.
He usually covers WoW, but he did a RuneScape series and he was walking around the farmland with peasant NPCs, and he says they have a collectivist society, and just like communist countries in real life, they're all poor and starving.
And I'm like, dude, they're clearly using a feudalist mode of production. They're literally peasants.
This reads like a Monty Python bit
I don't know why but I'm reminded of that "lady of the lake" thing
This quote specifically (I went and found it to see why it tickled my brain)
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
I feel like I hate-watch Patrick Willems videos. His production quality is good, and he seems knowledgeable and passionate. But he's also insufferable, pretentious, and has some of the worst film takes. I also feel like he's trend riding on having an annoying puppet character.
His take on every move is "this rules"
Like I get wanting to push back on the Anton Ego critic stereotype but I can't remember any film he has disliked which feels born out of the same cowardice as the likes nothing critic.
I found out at one point that Bokoen1's crew got its start doing Eastern Front Wehrmacht RP in an online shooter and that just explains so, so much
I don't care for any of them tbh
I used to really like Fantano. I still agree with most of his music takes, even though I don't really explore much music most of the time when I hear about something he says I agree with it. He's got good politics AFAIK. But I just kinda don't like his vibe anymore, he's a little too annoying even for me. I'm glad he's around, though, I think a lot of other people in that kind of position where they review a lot of punk/otherwise radical music tend to be more liberal.
as much as I find fantano specifically annoying I just don't think longform talky video is a great format for dealing with music seriously in an interesting way. I'd rather just....listen to the music. the finnerty style "muso dissects bad music" approach is a lot more palatable and even informative at times
I like long form meta-music talky videos like Todd in the Shadows or Trash Theory but then I'm a dork whose always been more interested in history than music.
Have you watched sideways? They fell off the map a few years ago, but their videos are top notch music slop.
Speaking of music creators, I really don't like Adam Neely's vibe. Nothing against the guy, he just rubs me the wrong way.