Beyond politics and drop in quality, I hate channels that lean too hard into the parasocial stuff. LinusTT is a good example. I stopped watching that channel after every other episode was about Linus’ house, his wife, or his employee’s personal life.
Aaron Swartz. Persecuted for something he had legal right to do, only because some FBI fuck wanted to climb ranks after building a case against “dAngERouS Hax0rman!1”
And then 10 years passed and tech bros did the same thing on a larger scale, and it was suddenly OK
Rest in power dude
Well, you see, it was an issue that he did it because he wanted everyone to have access to the information. It’s not an issue for AI companies because they are using it to get filthy rich.
It totally makes sense.
Oh, poor guy
Gonna say Tom Brier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brier
An amazing rag pianist, with the help of a friend he got really popular for various video game songs he would sight read (playing for the first time with no practice) for the camera.
In 2016, he was rear-ended in a car accident and had a brain injury that paralyzed him from the neck down. He has since been healing and as of 2023 was starting to be able to write again but as far as I’m aware still can’t play the piano and may never do so again.
Check out the talent: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hrGrzVqaHaPngRcsE-gNrwxdVvByiiC
This is still one of my favs. He improvised an entire song based on a small melody from Legend of Zelda: https://youtu.be/vhRBGCS8mlc
I remember finding his content on the long ago days of YouTube and really enjoyed it. His accident was truly devastating.
This one from Yoshi’s island is particularly joyous.
As a pianist : whoa. Sad story. Insane talent.
Right? I’ve played piano most of my life, and any one of those would be months of intense practice for me to nail down, and dude just plays it like it’s nothing on his first attempt. It’s wild.
As a pianist, you may also appreciate this one, as I know Joplin is pretty popular in most curriculums.
Breaks my brain how easy he makes it look.
Yeah, I appreciate ! Thank you !
I’m thinking of John Baine aka TotalBiscuit.
Ten years ago he was the only person i watched on Youtube. He did gaming related content, originaly about WOW and Starcraft 2, later branching out into Indi and AAA games. While he could be controversial as a person he had deep knowledge of the industry and made videos that where 100% made with gamers on mind. The man was a fucking ledgend and there is nobody who has been able to take up his work with the same integritity and knowledge he had.
He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2014 and died 2018. In his last videos you can hear him slowly withering away.
RIP TotalBiscuit, he absolutely was a constant for me as well with game reviews. I always went to his channel to get a review. It really sucks there isn’t another that has picked up the mantle.
I used to be a massive AvE fan, but then Covid and angry Canadian truckers happened and he went completely of the rails.
What did he cover?
Old dude in his shop, he would take power tools apart to review their quality, build things, machine things. Went maple MAGA.
I saw him microwaving bearings and that got me into YouTube.
Haven’t seen his videos in ~6 years. The milling machine wasn’t my deal and then he went nuts. ToT is more my jam.
Love ToT. Watching ave with that haas was painful, then he went off the deep end. I do miss the old BOLTRs tho.
I’m blessed that I don’t know any YouTube personalities.
Not blessed enough to simply continue existing in that knowledge though. Needed to come here and make sure people know you’re better than them.
Eurtan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvczGINBiBV-N9mZybHCZQ
Erutan on TIDAL: https://tidal.com/artist/18310839
She had the most beautiful voice, an amazing talent for composition and performance. Some likened her to Lúthien Tinúviel from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legends. She was struck by some autoimmune disease, which attacked her throat and stole her voice. Reading her last update is really heartbreaking: https://www.erutanmusic.com/drinks
Nikocado Avocado comes to mind, hope that guy is okay
Last I heard of him was that his “fat guy arc” was a “social experiment” and he’s thin and “normal” again
It’s hard to drop out of the basement because they don’t have windows, but I’ll throw in Chris-Chan for consideration. Uh… you all can Google that rabbit hole.
ChrisChan is what it would be like if Kanye didn’t have money and talent, just mental illness, an enabling parent, and terminally online
Probably Technoblade or any other youtuber who literally died.
