Mine are Michael Sugrue (philosophy) and hasoyi (asian music mixtapes).
Jenna Marbles. I miss her so much and I think her leaving really changed the wholesome face of YouTube. I miss her content.
I also couldn’t ever get myself to remove unus anus from my subscribed list even if I can’t view it. It got me through the early months of the pandemic. Those two goofy youtubers helped me keep my sanity.
TotalBiscuit :(
Hopefully heaven has a fov slider…
Epic
RIP in peace.
BirgirPall - a pair of Icelandic guys who would play games together, and their “We Broke…” series was an utter delight. I’m an old bastard who dislikes pretty much the entire genre of “watch someone else play a video game and yammer over it” entertainment, but BirgirPall were a major exception due to their talent for finding weirdass bugs and glitches, cracking up infectiously at the results, and editing them down into excellent little short videos. The guys behind the channel seem to have left it behind these days, and their individual channels just aren’t the same.
I’m also a longtime fan of YouTube Poop, and stay subscribed to a lot of the early poopers from the old days. Every now and then one of them will come back and post something cool.
Coding-with-Yalco, bro showed up, dropped some best-in-class software concepts tutorials, then disappeared. I think he’s still active on another channel in Korean language tho.
Seth Everman still makes me laugh
Epic Rap Battles of History isn’t exactly dead but they don’t post content nearly as much has they used to. And there are some bona-fide classics on there worth watching again and again.
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Begin!
They started a career doing advertising work for niche businesses. The Chuck Testa ad was their doing.I was mistaken
Wikipedia disagrees with you about chuck testa. That advertising was done by comedians Rhett & Link.
Wait you’re RIGHT! Good fact check, I didn’t realize Rett&Link was a different group. I said some straight up disinfo there
Loved Chuck Norris vs abe Lincoln. “I gotta bucket full of my head and I’m about to make it raaaiiin”
There’s a new one coming this weekend!
Does Veritasium count? It’s not exactly dead, but its a zombie.
I miss Brian David Gilbert hosting polygon, his absurd videos like cooking every recipe in Zelda were great. AnyAustin has kind of stepped in to fill the void (and then some!), but BDG was doing great stuff. He’s still around with his own channel which can be very funny but it’s not quite the game related stuff I miss.
Hbomberguy
New video is about to drop real soon. 4.5 hour version is already on patron. Final version will probably be even a bit longer
Not a dead channel though. 4 hour videos just take a lot of time to produce. The same goes for ContraPoints, Münecat, and Noah Caldwell-Gervais
I don’t know who those other people are, but I was just joking about the fact it’s years between videos.
totalbisquit, though more out of respect than rewatching
I recently re-watched a few episodes of Lord of the Arena and Shoutcraft. Good stuff :'^(
PhotonicInduction
I aint ‘avin it.
I miss photonic
We have Styropyro now, but even his imagination isnt quite as unhinged as Photonic Induction
I really miss Jack Stauber.
Hello Internet
Technically a podcast, but I listened to the YouTube version for whatever reason and occasionally go back for my favorite episodes.
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There’s been a lot to come out where Grey wasn’t the best in a lot of business dealings/situations. For instance, Nebula would have been a lot worse if Grey was still in charge.
However, even with that, it is surprising how slow moving this self proclaimed efficiency except is.
That was an interesting watch, thanks for sharing! I had a laugh when he said the Flaggy Flag rebels now have control of the subreddit.
I agree with your frustration about how the podcast ended. I get that listeners weren’t owed anything and that it was a very Grey way to go, but it just felt rude. At least we got an official announcement when Cortex said Grey was going on hiatus (and one that every HI listener knew how to interpret), but the lack of videos on his main channel over the last year is just plain odd.
Nevertheless, I hope this is all simply Grey being impolite and not, like, health problems or anything.
I was a big fan of HI and Grey, until I started to notice that a lot of the stuff Grey talked about was a bit misleading or straight up wrong. Theres now quite a bit of “CGP Grey debunked” style videos by people who actually know their stuff, based on what those are saying, I have no interest in watching any more Grey content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpbSIUJOdOA
Oof, I always wondered if there were more things of his that were inaccurate.
What I caught was the hexagon video and his claim about triangles (combined to make hexagon) being the best for building rockets. I worked in the launch side of aerospace at the time, and true Atlas V and Delta IV were built with triangles… But only on their booster tanks. Their upper stages had a completely different design structure, as do Vulcan, Falcon 9, Starship, New Glenn, Electron, etc etc
Triangles were only used on Atlas V and Delta IV because CAD in the 90s didn’t do rectangles very well. That’s not a problem anymore, so triangles don’t get used
Sadly quite often these youtubers and others who speak a lot about a lot of different topics with a sort of surface level understanding are very often quite badly wrong. Especially the ones who say stuff like “X is best because its used in Y application”
That level of simplification is not very healthy for most stuff. Of course, there are some channels that do talk about a lot of topics but do very good research and/or ask for experts to help out with their script.
I listened for a while but really fell off the more I realized that CGP grey is kind of an idiot.
Mitten Squad. Guy popularized challenge runs with his fallout and elder scrolls playthroughs, and his deadpan delivery gets me every time. Unfortunately passed away after a long battle with alcoholism. I miss that dude. I don’t think he realized how much light he brought the world.
I fully agree, I was devastated when I learned what happened, he used to be my go-to for when I needed a good laugh after a hard day. I’ll still go back and watch his videos, I just wish he could have gotten the help he needed
GTOger has been really quiet lately, probably since his company moved to a different place that isn’t next to the lot patrolled by the tow trucks.
yovo68 (The 11 foot 8 bridge) has also reduced in uploads since they raised the bridge by 8 inches.
Bill Wurtz only uploads every once in a blue moon.
And I’ve only just noticed that Vi Hart deleted her channel. That’s a kick in the whimsy, for sure.
Bill Wurtz channel isn’t dead. He just spends a lot of time on his videos
