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    10 hours ago

    AvE. A 3 minute video supporting the truckers “protest” gets a hard NO from me.

    He’s why I had to install 3rd party channel blocker because yt kept recommending his videos.

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        5 hours ago

        Para social relationships are hard. You think you get to know someone over the years watching their videos. I would even watch the videos he would put on his daughter’s channel. The videos of him just cooking.

        I thought he was a smart guy even with some of his gruff persona.

        Oddly enough, one of the first cracks in that facade was a BOLTR video taking apart a Hitachi wand or knockoff. He was so weirdly prudish about the idea of a woman actually using one in a way that didn’t feel like a joke. But I convinced myself it was probably a joke, because…why would he be weird about that?

        But the trucker protest videos hit me like a cement truck. It actually really bummed me out. I texted my dad and he said something to the effect of, “Oh well, his videos have been shit anyway.”

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      10 hours ago

      Same. I had been subbed since the start, but banished his channel from my feed when he posted that bullshit.

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        8 hours ago

        AvE as in AvE. It use to mean “arduinoversusevil”, but the arduino stuff quickly became a memory. He’s tech youtuber out in rural, western Canada who would review power tools and DIY projects. He had a rugged individualism thing going on, but never really got into politics or current events until the he posted the video in support of truckers shit.

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    8 hours ago

    SerpentZA loved his hopeful and exciting content, then he became embittered and critical of everything

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      7 hours ago

      Dude was like so overly positive of China, then immediately does a 180 and trash China, once he got a visa to the USA. Make me wonder if any of his praises were genuine, or just bootlicking whoever is in power. Bootlicking CCP when he’s there, then bootlicks USA when he gets here. A “White-Monkey Job” as he and his friend laowhy86 calls it.

      Also, dude is super weird. Why does he use “My Chinese Wife” in his video titles. Asian-fetishism? 🤔 A normal person would just use “my wife” and you can add their face to the thumbnail if you want, or just mention by name. Using “Chinese Wife” is a odd phrase to say. Like imagine a white American Youtuber uses “My Black Wife” in the video title, like that’s just super weird.

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    8 hours ago

    Cleetus McFarland. Glad he diversified and got successful, but death by product placement made me unsubscribe a year or so ago.

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    11 hours ago

    I find new channels around new hobbies constantly so they just kinda drift away.

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        not oc, but for my hobbies

        chemistry:

        • Explosions&Fire and his second channel Extractions&ire
        • Nilered and his second channel NileBlue
        • Nurdrage
        • Prussian blue
        • Chemiolis
        • Cody’s lab
        • The Thought Emporium, even if it’s more biology then chemistry
        • Doug’s lab, even if the channel has been dead for a while
        • Labcoatz
        • Thy labs
        • MrGreenGuy

        Electronics & mechanics

        • Hyperspace Pirate (if you are gonna search one of these channels, do this one, like, really, it’s so good)

        • Works by design

        • styropyro

        • William Osman

        • AlphaPhoenix

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    15 hours ago

    This was me with Linus Tech Tips, it’s just not the content i subscribed for all those years ago.

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      For a while I thought that he hadn’t changed all that much, and while I still mostly do I think that, what broke the camels back for me (and I guess GN and Louis Rossmann) was when the GN PayPal Honey thing came up, they basically all spent a month and change throwing jabs at each-other while vaguely shoving the actual, important story of PayPal Honey scamming customers and shopkeepers that they were supposed to be focusing on out of the way.

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      Same. I was there when he was small, I cheered when he got bigger. Then the channel started going down a path I didn’t want to follow. Click baity titles with no info were the last straw for me.

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    13 hours ago

    “Hey George, like and comment on my videos again.”

    “Sure, Lenny, I’m gonna write a real nice comment on your latest video right now.” *sniffle*