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.
The big big exception to this for me is the guys at Red Letter Media.
Even once they got big, they’re still just shitty b-movie lovers who don’t really give a crap about an algorithm. And that’s why I love 'em.
I was never super into RLM at all, but i still appreciate that they still pretty much haven’t changed.
They pissed off a lot of culture war grifters with their review of The Acolyte that was more about the culture war grifters then the series itself. They then made a video about them buying the mold for the Star Trek Salt Vampire monster that got much bigger numbers then the grifter’s raging about RLM. It was great.
So many RLM episodes have edits that are just annoying to watch, and they do that on purpose and I love them.
Three of those come to mind immediately:
“I hope this is a children’s suicide…video.”
A guy having his head run over by a three-wheeler 20 times in a row. Twice.
A guy falling shoulder first onto a wooden crate 20 times in a row.