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.
Stephanie Sterling (and not for the reason you probably think).
I understand that the gaming industry is shit, and therefore reporting on it is always going to skew negative, but it really felt to me like the negativity started permeating their content as a whole - to the point that I got the feeling that they didn’t really enjoy video games at all anymore.
I also started to get the feeling that they resent their audience for responding positively to such negative content, too - doing things like complaining that the worst-of lists get more views than the best-of lists. You don’t have to make them if you don’t want to.
Also, it’s cool that they found a passion, but I really don’t care about wrestling.
Yeah same. For some reason I just liked the old persona a lot more. Just something about that uncompromising “I am right because I say so. Thank God for me”. I didn’t agree with all opinions but the persona just felt unique. Then they shifted a lot to the weird. Wtf was that cornflakes homunculus? That was still pre transition and continued after. Haven’t watched a video in a few years, maybe they have found a new solid identity by now but that interim period just put me of to mutch.
She is busy writing these days but she did several positive videos that were well received, I think her sporadic video releases will be 50/50 from now on
I was never that into Sterling, to be honest.
But yeah, the wrestling thing seems to permeate gaming video makers and podcasters in general. I feel like you could come up with a dangerous drinking game based on taking a swig every time a gaming media personality brings up some wrestling shit.