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.
I don’t know if they degraded over time, but I unsubscribed from SmarterEveryDay because 1.) he kept trying to slip religious BS into videos and then I couldn’t unsee his whole generic youth pastor schtick, 2.) he kept posting weird Physics Girl health update stuff. It just lost me. Not for me. I feel like the glory days of vsauce are also well behind us.
Yeah I have the same impression. In one of his last videos, the one about Pompeii he advised against kids watching because a cartoonish dick showed on a wall. I’d agree, kids shouldn’t watch, not because the dick, but his sickening puritism.
I wasn’t an avid watcher but did enjoy his content until the Pompeii video. I get that in his mind he was giving context, but when he sat there reading directly from the bible I felt pretty gross. How people juxtapose heavy religious belief with scientific method astounds me.
He was very butthurt about Roman brothels and acted like Christianity ended them yep.
It wasn’t the dick that was the problem. It was the menu of sexual positions that you could pay for in the brothel. He went a bit into the people who worked there, slaves.
So it wasn’t the dicks, but the idea that pictures were a menu so foreigners who didn’t speak the language could order sex acts from slaves.
So it is because of the dick… narrating\hosting.
Agree with point 1.
His holier-than-thou attitude is exhausting. Stop trying to spread your fantasy friends around, we don’t want them.
The one that got me was trying to make a grill scrubber made entirely in the US, failing to source all the parts domestically, being somewhat xenophobic in the process, and then having the audacity of selling the thing for $80 (or more) when the exact product exists already for half the price. At some point the whole point of the video changed from “rebuilding manufacturing in America” to “China bad”. I assume the attempt was in defense of the Trump tariffs, but the takeaway is the US is not in a position to manufacture things on a small scale, and throwing tariffs on it won’t change and people will just have to pay more to import items since they can’t be made locally.
The thing that killed me about the grill scrubber was them bringing up Amazon ripping off products that are listed on its site (valid) but like you said the product they came up with is a clone of many others already on the market. The way he presented it is going to give people the impression that the preexisting ones are the imposters. You just know there are going to be fans review bombing competitors who predate his brush.
He went through something before trying to capitalize on privacy. Ended up trying to sell someone else’s reskinned VPN. Seems like he isn’t above exploiting the trust of his viewers.
I’ll always appreciate the videos he did on the eclipse though. Got me convinced to go see the 2017 eclipse and it was fucking amazing.
I agree with his premise that the knowledge and ability to manufacture stuff needs to be maintained. Not from a xenophobic/sinophobic position, but for practical reasons. If it’s forgotten then no one can compete to make a cheaper or improved/different product. There’s also an issue of if a war breaks out and supply lines are stopped (whether that’s war with China or someone else who can attack supply lines). It’s best if everyone in the world has access to manufacturing so people can have access to different jobs they may be better at or having the capability to create things that they couldn’t otherwise.
Now, there is an argument that a reliance on international trade prevents war. That is something to consider. China and the US are reluctant to go to war because they’d both be crippled by it even without considering combat. I don’t think this is great justification though, but it is something to think about.
Especially funny since grill scrubbers in Latin America is half an onion sliced in half and does the job
So a quarter of an onion?
Not just Latin America. I’ve seen almost everyone do this.
I was somewhat hooked by the chainmail idea, and then I saw my in-laws cleaning the grill with half an onion… that saved me.
Shit is fucking delicious right‽