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.
Contrapoints/Natalie has a weird history of making her private relationships big public beefs between herself and other creators, or siding with people she’s connected with over factual information.
I dropped her on her refusal to address Palestine in such a performative, midwitted way. I was so disappointed because I had watched her for years, she was part of my furthering left and understanding gender issues in new ways so it was sad to see her obviously facing some kind of ethical dilemma about something so clearly evil and horrendous and easy to call out. Even if she didn’t want to make a whole video on it, she could have just said “Yah it’s bad, I am not sure how to tackle it, I’ll think about how” and probably saved herself from a mass exodus of fans.