Same here, seems like less and less substance each video. They're all just there to promote his monthly subscription box

Mark is very lazy recently. Nothing wrong with that, after doing the same job for so long, it's only natural, but I don't enjoy his content as I used to.

He was always very "science for the whole family" but recent videos seem to skew very heavily into kids content without much clever science content

Recently, I noticed that a lot of the YouTube recommendations I was seeing were folks based out of Utah. My wife calls it Mormon YouTube. Outdoors Boys, Matt's Offroad Recovery, Brandon Sanderson, and a few more Mormon adjacent channels started popping up everywhere. I started wondering what I had watched that started brining all these other things up.

It's Mark Rober.

Yeah, I wouldn't say really that his channel has gotten objectively worse, just that he has realized that 90% of people who watch his channel are children and he has aimed his channel towards them - I just have to accept that I am no longer the target audience.

Yup, it was more of a deep dive into the engineering and thoughts about how he tackles difficult tasks. Just watched his recent video where he was pretty much a shitty mythbusters without the engineering or the lead up to the test. Just stupid countdowns to explosions.

My wife was watching it with me and asked if that was a recap or was that the actual video? Because she felt it was so lacking compared to his earlier glitter bomb videos.

The warning signs were there earlier when he pushed a crypto pump and dump on his channel. I'd already pretty much stopped watching his videos after that and then the covid stuff happened. I was also a bit sad to hit unsubscribe.

But thankfully years ago I discovered This Old Tony who scratches a similar itch for me, but better. Much slower uploads, but far higher quality.

I dropped him when he showed a picture of snow outside his garage and said it was proof there was no such thing as climate change.

Came here to say this.

Yup, unsubscribe after Gamers Nexus called em out. A lot of shit came to light and there still hasn't been any update on the Madison situation. Finding out Yvonne was head of HR, Linus being anti-union, sexual harassment, etc. A lot of scummy stuff going on, and Linus turning into a rich out of touch douchebag instead of a regular douchebag.

Definitely agree that some of their talent should start there own channels.

I have a similar sentiment about Linus. He seems like he is overall a decent person, and I bet we would probably even be decent friends if we were to meet at a time before LTT/LMG, but I agree about wanting to punch him in the face sometimes. Some of the things he decides to dig his heels in about and be stubborn are really annoying. If he were just one of my friends, it would be pretty easy to either have a rational conversation with him or decide not to engage seriously and roast him about it, but instead he has a very large platform and a certain amount of influence that makes some of his takes a little more frustrating/damaging.

All of that said, I have still had worse bosses and the bulk of my career has probably been spent working at much less fun companies.

I'm not sure where I was going with that other than acknowledging that nuance exists and that he isn't evil or anything, just annoying.

Says a lot about where our society is going.

I know someone is going to make it sound easier than what it really is, but having to sift through the site, fighting against the algorithm's sorting to find something you like is hard.

Oh man yes, video game content aside, the flavor of the month posting and hot take machine from a dude who is incredibly insulated and wealthy now. It's a drag.

The machine trys to feed it to you when you are trying to get good video game commentary now too. Practically have to block him and analogues of him.

Funny enough he's found a new niche he's been comparing tons of different brands for various food items and ranking them. Actually really informative and useful... I've found some new foods I love through that.

I agree. He completely burnt himself out a year or so ago (a bit after BCU) and he wasn't even creating content for the channel. I'm still subbed, but I just watch the odd thing when I'm a bit bored.

That's probably for the best lol

idk man his videaos are still entertaining and hes been doing this for a long time i honestly think that because hes done this for a while hes mellowing out on the effort part and just enjoying being a creator no need to burn yourself out for every vid

Same for me with Josh weismann. I want to watch cooking videos not the 50 tiktok food tends (nr47 Will shock you)

You're telling me you don't like waiting 9 months for him to spend 2 minutes advertising the shittiest pay to win mobile game followed by watching some mid 2000s bullshit with a few reactions? Maybe you just aren't a real fan

I stopped watching after he aided in the platforming of Ben Shapiro and said the glass ceiling didn't exist. That and the n word scandal.

He never struck me as someone who put any real effort into his videos. It was mostly just him just yelling about stuff.

I never understood his market appeal.

I grew up in a Christian family/community where asking questions was met with hostility, and discovering his channel was a major source of catharsis for me. But hooo boy, did he become a raging, unapologetic asshole.

To his credit, it seems like he wanted to mark a new chapter on his channel with these 4 uploads, and I think he succeeded... He's gotten a lot better in terms of being a tolerable person, but his stuff now just doesn't match the sharp and witty commentary from his scripted days.

(edit): Same with Matt Dillahunty. He used to be so well spoken, skilled at respectfully pointing out fallacious reasoning, and was a pretty likable person. His old Atheist Experience shows were gold. Now he's a raging asshole and has lost all of his grace, even though he may be right about what he's saying. And with Tracy Harris gone, AXP has lost both their bottles of lightning.