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Kind of a trend, the amount of youtubers who i had loved but their content became generic after gaining popularity is quite a bit, most drastic one being mrwhosetheboss, his uniqueness went down faster than ~~MH27~~ MH17

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

CGP Grey. His last 114 or so videos were literally just a single round of rock paper scissors each.

Kidding. His videos are still great.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hear historians hate him, for example because of the Americapox video. It's heavily based on the book Guns, Germs and Steel without mentioning that it's a theory many historians disagree with. /r/BadHistory has a wiki page dedicated to it.

While looking for this I also found economists unhappy with Humans Need Not Apply. In general I guess he has a tendency to confidently talk about things he's not an expert on.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah yes, I also find some of his videos are totally incorrect. The humans need not apply one, as a public transit and cycling nerd, fails so hard to miss the point that we need less cars, not more and "smarter".

[–] Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tbh I did fall off of his videos. His charm became smugness to me. I was excited to see his indian videos but then they never came. I used to listen to his podcasts but HI has been down for so long, and him and mike talking about making stuff lost interest when grey wasnt making that much stuff. It felt like he was cooking a huge pile of videos making they really good, but then we got hexagons. Maybe I have changed. Maybe I have.

[–] tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I went exactly the same route as you, loved his old videos, HI. At some point I started to listen to the one with Myke (Cortex - had to look up the name) . The first few episodes where quite interesting, but it got repetitive at around episode 50 or so...

Now even the few videos he releases don't really get me anymore

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Cortex is basically a yearly cycle of talking about iPhone releases, WWDC, yearly themes. I still enjoy it but the main topic of productivity is mostly lost at this point.

[–] Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Is it us or did something change? I almost thought it had something to do with Brady tempering grey into not being so I dunno. It felt like Brady was getting frustrated with grey towards the end