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.

  • FatVegan@leminal.space
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    1 day ago

    I remember way back, before people made money on YouTube, or right at the time maybe. I was watching some guy making videos in his backyard. He just talked, it was the simplest format imaginable, the most effort he ever made was wearing a different jacket to act as a second person. He was really funny and his content was relatable and he was just shooting the shit. After a while, he got a bunch of subscribers, i don’t really remember the numbers, or what counts as many back then, but he started doing green screen stuff a lot. He made his videos more like a news show, he was wearing a tie and a suit and was an angry news anchor or something. It was still good, it was still funny, but it wasn’t why i watched his videos, so i stopped. I went back a bit later and his video was basically him complaining because of dropped viewerships and the effort he makes to make better videos. It was pretty sad.