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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.
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.
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?
‘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.
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 think he is less upfront about it now, but as recently as 2020 I think he was still making videos about her.
He popped up on my feed a little while ago because apparently now he makes Elon Musk hate videos about how his businesses are gonna fail.
Ofc I wrote this immediately before reading BelieveRevolt’s comment
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
They were some of the first bloggers on YouTube. I’ve watched some Crash Course, which is quick explanations of high school curriculum funded by PBS, which the Greens helped start. It’s a nice refresher for adults and helpful for kids taking AP classes or niche electives.
But yes, they’re turbo-lib soyboys. Extremely off-putting for a lot of people and forget they’re only teaching high school material. Like take it down a notch, you are not on a panel reviewing someone’s graduate thesis. You’re a meme to make up for how shit our public education system is.
The US education system would collapse without Organic Chemistry Tutor
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.
