Once great YouTubers who turned into the worst version of themselves (without taking any names)

[Pseudo64]

If possible, I would prefer if we don't use the name of the YouTubers themselves to avoid them getting any harassments from anyone in the forum, but I had a question on if you have ever witnessed a youtuber you used to love a lot turn into basically the worst version of themselves, and how it all went down? And no, not any controversies, but just their genuine personality and their videos getting downgraded over a period of time (maybe controversies played a part in said downgrade, but I want to focus this discussion on the lack of enthusiasm you felt for them as they went on).
The reason I was thinking this question is that it happened recently with a BookTuber I once loved. She was extremely great in her analysis on Asian books and covered them a lot. She also used to a bit more wholesome, since she one of her first videos was of her visiting a hamster shop in Japan, and it was one of the cutest videos I ever saw. There were cracks of her turning more vindictive over every little thing over the years, but it was here and there and I ignored it. She also made a really good video on HRT during her transition, and another great one about Yukio Mishima. However, as things went on and on, she turned into basically every other toxic booktuber, heck she turned worse. She kept on making videos where half the analysis turned into the politics of said book than the quality of it. She started making a lot of videos like "You are reading the wrong books", "[Insert Genre] is toxic and wrong!" or "how xxx book is problematic!", and just her genuine tone of voice went from someone happily recommending a book she like or giving a fair critique to the books she don't, how fans of "insert author" are toxic/[insert buzzword] because one or two of them were mean to her in the comments (not to mention, she constantly started provoking said behavior with the jokes and comments she made showing every person of that fandom as a representation of people she don't like), her thumbnails became increasingly click-baitey, and worst of all, her shorts (while I am not a big fan of shorts but it is still worth noting) are now just filled with her replying vindictively to youtube comments and always trying to get an "own" on them. Just the entire vibes of that channel went from, "oh cool, a channel that can recommend me some good Asian author books" to someone who is forever in war with anyone and everyone, and how the books she likes are pieces of art that doesn't sell well because racism/misogyny/[insert buzzword], and any remotely popular and "lower art" is only famous because it is supported by [insert types people she doesn't like].
For past few years I was hoping that her channel would go back to being the type of channel I used to love, "Just a nerdy weeb talking about the asian books she likes", but at this point I have given up and have been unsubscribed to her for past four months.

But yeah, anyways, feel free to share your experience where a YouTuber's current self is something you don't recognize anymore, and feel like you are just witnessing a whole separate human.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Mostly anitubers like the two on living in Japan right now in early years they talk a interesting anime but lately not much anymore mostly what are popular to trash not really discovered hidden gems.

 

[Frickinfrik]

Yes i have encountered several YouTubers that I used to look up too.


There was one who used to cover and dissect unused content in video games, but then he suddenly shifted towards video game creepypastas and conspiracy theories. Since I hate creepypastas, i never watched him again and unsubscribed.



There was a certain movie reviewer (you may know him), who I used to enjoy watching. However, after tearing apart actual good movies and being exposed for treating his employees poorly, I stopped watching him.



There was another Youtuber who I used to watch who mainly played GTA Online videos and GTA RP Videos. His old videos were good. However, overtime he became this arrogant and egotistical asshole. He became a GTA Online Griefer despite going up against Griefers in the past. He also at one point bullied and harassed someone on GTA Online just because they have a crappy microphone.

 

[NotReallyHere]

I watched a YouTuber who had a show even in the pre-YouTube days, so... I was a fan for a long time! They reviewed "Classic" titles in their "Game Room." They also relied greatly on donations from viewers to provide access to titles and hardware for their reviews.

Due to a variety of factors, they decided to shift formats, then quit the video content business on-and-off for the better part of a decade. In that time, they started listing the items that were donated to them on eBay, declaring ownership of them. And this was a substantial amount of rare, vintage consoles and handhelds, with many hard-to-find variants.

They started posting on YouTube again, but in a series of how-to-draw videos (???) along with comic book reviews and uploads of their own homemade Synthwave tracks. After dragging that along for a few years, they started reviewing games again. But it was clear their heart was not in it, anymore.

I don't hate the guy, as he's brought me a lot of joy over the past few decades. But the way he turned his back on his most loyal views and supporters - and then profited off of their donations - is not something I can get behind

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

I watched a YouTuber who had a show even in the pre-YouTube days, so... I was a fan for a long time! They reviewed "Classic" titles in their "Game Room." They also relied greatly on donations from viewers to provide access to titles and hardware for their reviews.

Due to a variety of factors, they decided to shift formats, then quit the video content business on-and-off for the better part of a decade. In that time, they started listing the items that were donated to them on eBay, declaring ownership of them. And this was a substantial amount of rare, vintage consoles and handhelds, with many hard-to-find variants.

They started posting on YouTube again, but in a series of how-to-draw videos (???) along with comic book reviews and uploads of their own homemade Synthwave tracks. After dragging that along for a few years, they started reviewing games again. But it was clear their heart was not in it, anymore.

I don't hate the guy, as he's brought me a lot of joy over the past few decades. But the way he turned his back on his most loyal views and supporters - and then profited off of their donations - is not something I can get behind

He fell hard and im glad the fans all left tbh. You dont need money to make reviews especially the way he makes them. He just wants the donations to house his El Camino and his lifestyle. His side team the Und[Redacted]tow were better in almost every way imo.
What an idiot he has become. I still watch his old videos if they havent been scrubbed off the net yet

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There was this one old anime reviewer who pioneered the classic "monotone voice, random assortment of anime memes and reaction images across his videos" then one day he decided to stop and go straight twitch and never review anime ever again. His music taste is next level but i wish one day he'll return. His style was soon get caught and become cloned out the ass by every "sophisticated" anime reviewer who tried to mimic his technique. RIP you magnificent bastard

 

[Estein]

nice,a fellow YKK fan

 

[otogirisou]

every youtuber with more than 400 subscribers

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

A few gaming youtubers who I liked for their hot takes fell into the anti-woke content farming. I get it, you don't like ugly chicks or gay characters in your video games, but there's no need to make that your whole personality.

 

[Neb Lleb]

There was a certain movie reviewer (you may know him), who I used to enjoy watching. However, after tearing apart actual good movies and being exposed for treating his employees poorly, I stopped watching him.

Well, that guy is definitely one I stopped watching. However, it turned out in the years after he was exposed, that not only were certain stories in the expose exaggerated, but that some of those ex-employees were just as bad, if not WORSE than the man himself.

I don't need to remind people of a hypocritical comic reviewer who virtue signals against skimpy clothing before turning around and gooning to Gay Dead Muppet Gangbangs, has a burning, irrational hatred of Frank Miller because of Holy Terror, and has an even larger ego than the guy he worked with. Needless to say, I don't watch that guy anymore. In fact, barring [Exploitation Cinema Reviewer], I don't watch any of them.

 

[KaiserMk7]

A few gaming youtubers who I liked for their hot takes fell into the anti-woke content farming. I get it, you don't like ugly chicks or gay characters in your video games, but there's no need to make that your whole personality.

To be fair, that's kinda how the pattern goes. Person starts to hate minority group for some nebulous or fallacious reason. It consumes them and becomes something they constantly bring up in conversation.

 

[qw90700]

Well I only know few Youtubers but I'm disappointed that SethTzeentach's sense of humor died recently. He got "serious" like a teen kid and old people who wait to die any minute lol.

1) Perhaps SethTzeentach got famous due to his classic meme:

You may have remembered it or not, but I guess he used his whole "humor energy" in this video alone lol.

And then to make money (he is proud member of the Merchant's guild™) he decided to review weird video games and this is when I was like "hey that kid decided to put his sense of humor into good use". So he was kinda opposite of Angry Video Game Nerd. He is not angry or serious, he actually find good stuff in weird video games he reviews so you can learn "hmm this game is actually not bad and it may be my favorite!!!". So he had his own sense of humor he improved over the years but recently he clearly just publishes videos to pay off his debt due to his gacha girl drop BS in gacha video games or something, he is so desperate and "off" in the way he recycles same jokes as how Crapcom recycles assests to release new Resident Evil games. What a shame!!!! Another Meme Lord™ has fallen!!! lolol

Another thing, even when his videos had ads they were funny. Now they were just time waster BS lol.

2) Another Youtuber is Call Me Kevin. He was "different" from video game review Youtubers in the way he was just a normal guy doing normal things and his sense of humor was normal too. His sense of humor was good, he was more like a "common person" but then he got too generic. Recently he turned into "hide the pain harold" and got so depressive, you can see it in his eyes lol:

"Please watch my videos because I cannot find a job and I have debts to pay due to gambling. And my wife constantly want me to buy stuff I can barely afford. Please like my videos. Tell your friends about me. Please!!!" -- Call Me Kevin lolol

every youtuber with more than 400 subscribers

Dude I have only 1 subscriber so do you think my videos are "great" and more subscribers would drop my "quality"? I think that 1 subscriber was so drunk that day they accidentally subscribed me lolol.

Well I use Youtube to backup my videos on another source anyway, so IDK if anyone would even think I'm da Youtuber™ lol. So I assure myself that my backup quality is irrelevant to subsribers' amount!!! lolol

 

[MrPanda61]

A YouTuber that I used to watch from time to time was caught stealing charity money.

Another did simply quit after having a personal breakdown, which isn't nothing to be ashamed of. However, he did and was receiving copious amounts of money from his fans. He didn't warn them.

 

[bjork]

Had a couple who I liked individually, they did a few things together and that was also fun, but then they both kinda shifted to other topics that don't overlap and now I only check in a couple times a year on each to see what they've been up to. Still doing the stuff I'm not super interested in. But as long as they're happy, I think that's the important part. A creator has no way to know when their current focus will lessen in popularity, or what each viewer is looking for at any given time.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

There was also a history youtuber who also dabbled in gaming topics that I liked, but recently changed his focus on reaction videos and pandering to anti-woke folks. It seems like anti-woke is a safe way to get views for a lot of youtubers and when they fall into that trap that's usually when I hit the unsubscribe button. Also gaming channels who dabble into politics are generally pretty awful. I don't mind informed, nuanced opinions but they only offer shallow, uninformed takes on important topics.

 

[kuroninneko]

Reading this and taking notes. I dont know much about youtubers and streamers but sometimes I think about making my own stream based on gaming and game development. I really dont want to get famous or anything but would be nice to make some extra income like lots of other people are doing. Wish I started years ago because it takes time but I might be starting soon

 

[Soma_Shotgun]

Generally what I notice is sometimes youtuber makes an extremely good video about a certain topic they were passionate about. Then the video does well and then they force themselves to pump out more videos on that certain topic but without really the passion or interest which was there in the first place.

 

[Bonkers225]

I will name them. idubbbz. Dude was an unstoppable force back when he released the content cop on ricegum. Everybody loved him, and it looked like he could do no wrong. Then he got a girlfriend, and everything went downhill for him. He became the guy he made fun of on content cop, everybody views him as a joke now, and his reputation is beyond repair.

 

[Segadude113]

why do so many reviewers go bald?

 

[Bonkers225]

why do so many reviewers go bald?

Because people age. Will you have your hairline intact in 10-20 years?

 

[Clippy]

To be honest, I don't really have many disappointments in that regard. There are a few Youtubers I used to watch who simply stopped uploading and disappeared without a word. Maybe life got busy or things happened behind the scenes or there was some social media drama I wouldn't know about since I don't waste my time on those cesspits.

I also remember several people who got yeeted off YT and called it quits instead of making tamer videos or fighting for scraps on YT alternatives that nobody pays attention to.

I can only think of two cases that would fit this thread. One was a dude who talked about hidden and unused stuff in video games. It was my first exposure to that kind of info and I thought it was fascinating. Unfortunately, time gaps between uploads started getting wider and wider to the point he'd upload once a year and more than half of the video was him complaining about his life. I can sympathize but I have my own problems so I moved on.

Another case was a dude who dabbled in let's plays and it happened to be a very brief period in my life when I watched them. I moved on naturally as I came to the conclusion that the format as a whole is boring. Several years later I randomly thought of the guy and figured I might as well check how he's doing only to find out his entire Internet presence has been wiped and he's a pedophile with at least several victims to his name.

 

[Segadude113]

Because people age. Will you have your hairline intact in 10-20 years?

no i mean specifically reviewers. They go full shaved head.

 

[Bonkers225]

no i mean specifically reviewers. They go full shaved head.

Most likely because they're balding when they age.

 

[Dyne]

A YouTuber that I used to watch from time to time was caught stealing charity money.

Yeah I was going to mention this one too. Did a bunch of "charity" fundraising events and then never donated the money. Acted like it was no big deal because "he didn't spend it" (it was still sitting in an account after many YEARS)

What a Complete disappointment

 

[Clippy]

why do so many reviewers go bald?

Why would people being bald be a problem when enjoying their content? Is it because their bald heads shine brighter than your future or something?

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Yeah I was going to mention this one too. Did a bunch of "charity" fundraising events and then never donated the money. Acted like it was no big deal because "he didn't spend it" (it was still sitting in an account after many YEARS)

What a Complete disappointment

Honestly, charity fundraising youtube streams are the biggest scam ever and I'd suggest that caring people donate directly to the charities. The amount of youtubers I'd trust with those responsibilities I could count with my hand. Plus there's no benefit to the youtuber collecting the money other than them taking a portion of the money for their own benefit so you are always better off donating straight to the charity. And I rarely see youtubers showing receipts on the donations so you aren't guaranteed to see the full amount going to charity.