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Wouldn’t it be easier to list ones who aren’t overrated?
I really don’t understand the popularity of the “big” YouTubers. PewDiePie being the prime example from a few years ago, though I don’t think he’s still making videos.
Pew is still making content but it’s more vlogs about him trying to stop being a hyped up youtuber and to find work life balance while now also raising a tiny bebe.
So he moved to Japan so that people wouldn’t recognise him as much, started making friends and is now living quite a normal life to what he used to do.
Never use to watch him, but actually enjoying his content as of late.
Edit: probably because he’s an internet goofball around my age.
That actually sounds pretty cool for him.
It would probably make more sense for them to be evaluated in comparison to similar offerings withing the respective “genres” which would be hard for those that don’t fit in to neatly defined formats, but it seems that most do.
I couldn’t watch PewDiePie, it’s damned irritating, but it’s an entire format and style of video that some people like and he seems presumably to be the king of it and is widely emulated so it would be saying something then if you consider him overrated within that context. I couldn’t venture an opinion though because I would just never watch that kind of video.
While I dislike PewDie as an adult, had I discovered him at the age of 13, I’d have absolutely loved him.
I feel like people frequently forget that internet demographics are very unique compared to the overall demographics of the whole population. It is definitely easier and more fun to spend lots of time on here while you’re still very young, and generally have more free time and open curiosity.
Jenna Marbles was genuinely a great youtuber.
I feel like most youtubers are pretty obvious after money.
Almost everyone that is on the popular front page feed. I loath the emotional content, drama, click bait type nonsense.
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So many tech YouTubers are overrated, but one who really stands out to me is JayzTwoCents. Somehow I have several memories of clicking on one of his videos and being shocked at him being confidently incorrect about something. I no longer click on his videos at all.
His alpha nerd persona comes across hard.
Mr Beast - all his videos look and feel the same. And there’s nothing new that you learn from them.
MrBeast is a horrible example of a person and everyone acts like he’s a second coming out Jesus. He fucks up people’s lives with his “charity” on a regular basis.
PewDiePie is one of the most annoying people ever born.
How does he fuck up people’s lives?
Yeah I want to know as well. His content isn’t exactly my cup of tea and can feel dystopia, but my dude flies around the world giving away free surgery to people and shit, and he promotes charities and foundations and actually moves people to donate to them. His thumbnails are creepy as shit, and his content feels like it was made to be cut up into a bunch of 6 second tiktok videos, but I don’t really see a dark side here.
I’m no Mr beast fan, but the dystopia you feel isn’t his fault. It’s the fault of our society. It’s the fact that some people have to rely on a clickbait youtubers generosity to have vision surgery, instead of it being freely available. It’s the fact that inequality is so rampant and ever growing due to our infinite capacity for greed.
most Poketubers
there’s this weird conundrum where a lot of Pokemon fans are older, mostly in their 20s, but the big name Poketubers almost universally aim for kids as their prime demographic
like that’s fine and all, but why are you aiming for kids when you’re playing a Professor Oak challenge, or something stupid hardcore? show the kids the shiny Rayquaza, show me your 900+ hour save file
also the ones that aren’t aimed at kids are usually pretty low quality, sorry Johnstone, sorry Bird Keeper Toby, sorry Absol Plays Pokemon
Pretty much all of the ones we’ve ever heard of and most of the ones I haven’t.
Is all of them a valid answer?
I don’t personally get the appeal of many gaming YouTubers. I’m not personally very into watching other people play videos (not review, but just play). I can kinda understand some people wanting to watch that, but it always surprises me just how many people watch it and for how long.
It also seems all too common that they have very questionable views and their fans will defend them to the death. I don’t get that either. There’s some YouTuber creators I really enjoy, but if they said horrible things, I sure as hell aren’t going to defend them at all, let alone to the degree that some gaming YouTubers get ardently defended.
I watch some game playthrough streamers. I don’t have time or the hardware to play, so I “watch” them in the background while I work. There’s a lot of shitty content out there, but the ones I watch are really decent people, some of them with only <100k subs. Really knowledgeable about the games they play too. I am talking about people like Rhadamant, Quill18, Blindirl, ChristopherOdd…
If it’s a skill/competitive game I totally get watching. Like if I like basketball I’m gonna watch Steph Curry or an NBA game cause I’ll learn how awesome people play the game. If I liked valorant or something i could totally see watching the top pros (or a really high level YouTuber) or comp matches from tourneys and stuff.
I’ve really got into watching Willjum play Rust in particular, not stream, but his VODs. My wife doesn’t even play rust, but says he’s got a soothing voice and also enjoys his videos. They’re well edited pieces of Rust television.
I watch a lot of gaming YouTubers and very rarely play games, I find the content really enjoyable as background while I’m coding or doing something on the computer. They’re great because it’s interesting enough to keep my brain active but also it doesn’t matter if I miss a bit because I’m focusing.
I don’t watch the kind that say questionable things tho
It’s actually amazing how creative and funny a lot of them are.
All of them
Johnny Harris. I really hate the delivery style that he kept from vox. The “guys this is super bad and I’m really concerned but in a like cool and detached way.” His delivery just reminds me of every dude I’ve ever talked to at an indie coffee shop.
His content may or may not be good, but I can’t get passed his smarmy delivery to find out.
My problem with him is accuracy, but I actually really like the way he and his team produce and present these videos.
His production quality is top tier for sure. I sadly never made it far enough into a video to evaluate accuracy.
Full disclosure though, I live in Utah so I interact with a lot of people who look and act like him so it drives me up the wall.
It’s hard to find someone who makes content that doesn’t kowtow to Youtube’s terrible system. Content takes time to make and time costs money but youtube will make these people break their spine bending over backwards to make sure they don’t get demonitized and get the scraps of ad revenue that Google designs to give them. So now we get people trying to dance around stupid censorship rules, finding more and more sponsors because they don’t get paid enough and have to scream figuratively and literally to get enough attention to pay the bills.
The School of Life. Terrible channel that sometimes offers potentially dangerous and incorrect info. They paint far too broad a brush considering how complex psychology is. I remember Big Joel did a good video about them a while back.
Vox, ig. Their videos are the video essay equivalent of a forgettable action flick.
Every youtuber.
