I don't think he's worse than most chuds by any means but Linus Sebastian (Linus Tech Tips founder and to my knowledge owner) annoys the fuck out of me. Not because of his voice or clickbait-ass thumbnails that he sometimes pretends are the only criticisms he gets, but because he genuinely seems like a tyrant who gets a pass on so much bullshit by having good charisma for tech bro standards. And I say this as someone who was charitable to him for way too long because I was young and impressionable and liked LTT videos. Actually I think that is why I bring him up over some far, far worse youtubers.
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CGPGrey is at the very least flirting with "rationalism" and might be the smuggest man in existence His content isn't offensive, he doesn't hurt anyone, and he's not actively a bad guy in any meaningful way that I know of. But you asked for youtubers we dislike for their vibes, so that's my answer.
He actively spreads misinformation, as most of his videos are based on a single source, and he never actually examines how legit the source is. His stuff always "makes sense" and sounds well thought out, but it actively makes its audience dumber, while think they are learning something.
His worst offender is his Americapox videos, in which he literally says Native Americans "are at the bottom of the (video game) tech tree." because their native animals were too hard to domesticate. Treating development of cultures and technology as a linear video game style progression is bad enough, but the source for his pair of videos is "Guns Germs and Steel" a notorious pop-history book that has recieved a lot of negative criticism from historians for its inaccurate and infantilising depictions of native American civilisations, amongst other things, painting the conquest of the Americas as an "us or them" style thing, portraying it as "inevitable" and making absurd and insulting claims about native American groups, like the Inca being too stupid to know what an ambush was, because they didn't have horses.
And when the innacuracies and downright racism of his source was called out, CGPGrey doubled down, instead of admitting fault, first he did the standard youtuber tantrum of "if you don't like it, make your own video/I have more subscribers than you which means I'm right" sort of thing, and then when that didn't work, he declared his videos were a "joke" and he was just trolling historians with them.
Dude claims to be an intellectual, but can't ever admit the possibility that he is wrong or did poor research, in turn I think that means we can't really trust anything he produces. It's the "guy with a vaguely British accent says a thing with authority, so it must be intelligent and correct." sort of content.
A few off the top of my head:
- Mark Laita (Soft White Underbelly): poverty porn sexpest
- Andrew Callaghan (All Gas No Brakes): A phrase I've heard a lot with regards to the flaws of horizontal organizations is that if you don't pick a leader, the media will pick one for you. Andrew is the kind of person who will pick a lunatic for you. Also a sex pest.
- MatPat: I think he's a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.
- MrBeast: No reasons needed
- Kurtzgezuart: I don't respect them enough to spell their name right. Bourgeoisie dogs.
Kurzgesagt is literally a “lets sterilize all africans” gates foundation guy
Is that a real thing?
Kurtgefart telling people don't worry catastrophic events that will wipe out most of humanity like a nuclear Holocaust or climate change aren't that bad because stragglers will be left on a broken planet. Happy fucking music playing too. Fuck these people
They used to be literally funded by the German government (their German language channel at least), until... they were not allowed to sell merch, because of public funding.
As soon as I saw Callaghan on that doomscroll podcast I blocked that garbage instantly. No way am I trusting the judgement of a podcast host who invites a known sex pest on. He had already had several guests with really detestable views (Dasha) but someone who admitted to SA shouldn't have a platform.
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MatPat: I think he's a sex pest. I have no evidence or credibility.
I could totally see him having a ProJared style fallout
Mr Beast. Even if he wasn't a horrible shill for capitalism, the vibe of his video thumbnails alone make me want to punch puppies.
I hate SEO face and his is the worst.
I really hate V-tubers. It's just the same old reaction slop but behind a creepy 3D anime girl and with a creepy high pitched voice. And they really love nazism and pedophilia.
Futakuchi Mana is a comrade though and makes some bangers
But that's also why she doesn't like being called a vtuber lol
‘Hate’ is a strong word, and hatred, in my mind, is an exhausting phenomenon. I almost suggested TIKHistory, but as grating, dishonest and overrated as TIK is, I still wouldn’t unexaggeratedly say that I ‘hate’ him. He is obnoxious sometimes, but he does not inspire visceral reactions in me either.
So if I had to say that I hate any YouTubers, it would be The Amazing Atheist. He is so vile, loud, irrational, and obnoxious that he makes TIK look good by comparison.
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I hate The Amazing Atheist because of his disgusting book where he says ”I don't understand why women think SA is so bad” and the time he tried to deliberately trigger an SA victim.
TAA was also big into the whole anti-feminism/anti-SJW garbage a decade ago, and fuck everyone who was ever involved in that.
Amazing Atheist and ThunderF00t popped into my brain immediately.
Thunderf00t used to be cool when he was dunking on YECs, then he completely lost it over Sarkisian. All the problems he pointed out YECs did, he then turned around and did for feminism. I have no idea how you can have a master's in physics (maybe even a PhD? I haven't paid attention) yet be so misogynistic.
It got so bad that even the few fans he had left were begging him to cut back on the Sarkeesian hate. It felt almost compulsive or pathological to him, like he was a jealous ex who was just obsessed with her. Last I heard he was still making content about her a decade after the internet forgot about her.
JFC, still? Yeah he always gave off stalker energy. I'd legit worry for her safety if she was ever in a room with him. His obsession with her is scary.
I barely even know them, but the Green brothers, specifically Hank Green, are self-important dipshits who are not nearly as smart, funny or influential as they believe they are and i will laugh at their downfall
the guy just looks and sounds like a dweeb and thinks he runs tiktok
Hank green always ruins everything he guests in for me. I don't like his smug face. Whenever he was on lateral with Tom Scott I would just skip it, and I really like lateral.
nah, im gonna try to happy today
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Basic answer, but...
I still can’t believe that I used to watch this piece of shit for years. I only stopped because in one of his videos he called trans women disgusting.
The racism didnt stop you????
Correct, it didn’t. Because this happened before the bridge incident (in 2016 I believe).
Marques Brownlee – typical tech bro, was speeding in a school zone for one of his videos.
Linus Tech Tips – so many things, but the worst was probably how they treat their employees. Emily is cool though.
Mark Rober – seems like a genuinely awful human being, has a series where he humiliates and catches porch pirates, because obviously the solution to stealing is to lock them all up. Collabs with MrBeast.
theprimagen – AI bro, over the top, loud.
Almost every YouTuber who makes tech-related content tbh.
On the note of brownlee speeding, everyone who is recording dangerously while driving should be on everyone's shitlist. Several of these twitch and youtubers have gotten into accidents and its a miracle no one got killed
The whole platform. It’s the 21st century’s reinvention of trash tv, but worse. At least in the days of broadcast tv everyone watched the same shitty broadcast so led to a sense of a collective experience and the slop was made by tv production workers in a union.
Nigel Ng, Joshua Weissman
oh god that joshua weissman video thumbnail grin. we need that as an emoji, it's at least as iconic and awful as the mr beast death grin
Watch one kenji lopez video and your reccos will be full of orange shirt minstrelism and a four eyed fuckhead who thinks playing the pornhub sting beneath a montage of diced heirloom tomatoes is the last word in comedy
I hate Tim Pool. He's just annoyingly stupid and he has a massive audience.
Non political ones, I hate that bald British guy that just does work for a bunch of channels. Annoyingly prevalent all over the platform.
Rick Beato is terminal old man yelling at the clouds about the young’ins not appreciating real music anymore. The poster geezer for toxic rockism.
I don't really like any "drama" YouTubers, like Keem, Spill, or Iilluminaughtii. It all seems like low effort slop with literally no value.
The only good gossip happens in-person.
Nearly all reaction channels because they all turn into nazi lite chuds. They'll be seeing a fucking Confederate say the dumbest shit and they'll be like "hmmm you know he has a point". Its like seeing a person radicalized in realtime. I hate these people with every fiber of my being. I hate how stupid they are and I hate that their audience is every bit as brain dead.
I hate how influential these talentless hacks are and the fact that so many get influenced by them and throw away their weak convictions and just hop on racist dick. I despise how the Poc ones buck their eyes or play to a racial stereotype for their followers anf know exactly what the fuck they're doing but act dumb. I absolutely despise..... Let me not go further it will be fed posting.
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theres a related one called 'administrative results' who is even more overtly fascist.
and that brandon herrera guy
not hate but GDF gives me bad vibes, also i think that guy Half as Interesting is a fed but it's completely vibes based lol
The only ones I really hate are the usual suspects of outrage/culture war chuds whining about the latest woman/poc/etc. in fiction. If I get even a whiff of them in my recommended, I block the whole channel to purify my algorithm.
I noticed that the YouTubers I thought I hated, I just found that their content wasn’t my cup of tea, like I dont actually hate them, my brain just automatically hates them (which speaks more about me but anyway) Do genuinely despise muta and pewdiepie. I have a guilty pleasure for slop channels