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    Technology connections remains awesome thankfully. Hell him touching on politics made me respect him more as he did it sparingly because he felt an obligation to use his platform to speak up

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      He tapped perfectly into that zeitgeist where the world is falling apart but we are still making entertainment, having kids, doing laundry. So many others refuse to acknowledge the oligarchical elephant in the room (looking at you, Legal Eagle) and I get that’s how they make their living so can’t go off the deep end but the tone deaf-ness of NOT acknowledging is so frustrating.

      Thanks, Alec, for helping me feel like I’m not losing my mind in a world that is pretending we’re not hurtling headlong toward the worst parts of the 19th century.

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        And thank YOU for mentioning Legal Eagle in this discussion. I had to stop watching him once Trump got back in. He started coming off like he was clinging desperately the rule of law despite it constantly devaluing in front of all our eyes. I get it, he’s a lawyer, but there’s only so long you can go “wait, they can’t do that! The piece of paper says so!”

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          Then Trump was attacking the DC Bar and THEN he started talking about the fascist takeover. (My words, not his).

          Just like everyone else, I guess: don’t take it seriously until it is happening to you.

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    My longest subscribed channel, Nerd3, has somehow remained almost the exact same channel for over a decade. I don’t know how he does it.

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    There was one I used to enjoy whose whole schtick was doing skits mocking onspiracy types. Then came Trump, and now if I go try to watch his stuff he’s either the dumbest kind of MAGA or he’s wearing the mask well enough it’s hard to tell if he means it or he’s satirizing it or if he just wants money and MAGA is a more valuable audience to advertise at.

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    Back in the day I would watch the Hodge twins, they had a channel on gym culture and another where they would joke around about obscure current events.

    Last I saw them they had gone full tilt maga and mainly discussed politics, yeaaa no. I’m out.

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        Totally watched Elliot Hulse back in the day as well, I never quite understood how working out and self improvement became an entry point for MAGA and right wing authoritarian, but it did.

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    Works in reverse with Joji:
    “I haven’t checked what Joji did before this music”
    “oh”

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      In November 2025, F1NN5TER revealed he was involved in establishing non-profit private trans healthcare provider Anne Healthcare in the United Kingdom, having provided early financial support during the organisation’s founding in 2024. Anne Healthcare confirmed in a statement published alongside F1NN5TER’s announcement video that his contribution had secured the organisation’s first prescriber, stating that the clinic “would not have happened without the money F1NN5TER contributed.”

      Huh. Another dollar for the “sex workers at the front of the fight for civil rights” jar, I guess.

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    If you start a YouTube channel where you find decent sized rocks outside you can sand them down into a smooth dick shape and sell them to hippies as all natural hand crafted dildos for like 1450 bucks a piece.

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      I’m guessing we watched different Minecraft youtubers then, because the ones I watch are still cool and wholesome.

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      Pretty sure I saw that Captain Sparkles is still doing MC. Same with Direwolf20? DW was the main one I watched. And some Syndicate before that, but he stopped after having a kid IIRC

      Edit: Turns out they’re both still active, seems Syndicate has shifted to more vlogs?

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      Most of the ones I watched I watched because they did mod spotlights for mods I was trying to wrap my head around. The only one I particularly liked was Mischief of Mice, I think they remain relatively wholesome?

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    Spent about 20 minutes listening to Jerma describe some bizarre snack with bread, hummus, and olives recently. Sometimes youtubers just end up being wonderfully normal people

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    It’s like the shitty feeling I got when an old friend introduced a YouTube miniseries to me. I liked it. But the guy didn’t send in new episodes for 4 months.

    After entire 7 months without videos, I got a notification about him. Great!

    …he gave a character who never appeared before the “plot twist villain” and expected us to be surprised.

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    Ben Krasnow of AppliedScience is still going strong and has yet to be revealed as an asshole - same for the WellTheresYourProblem crew, Jenny Nicholson, Hbomberguy, OutOfDarts… Im sure theres more, but there’s a few if folks are looking for recs!

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      Jenny Nicholson and Hbomberguy, just two folks who drop in once every 12-18 months with a banger 4 hour long video essay, then drop off again.

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        That’s pretty standard 😅 they’ve been working on an Adobe video, the first 1.5hrs is up on Patreon. Maybe end of next year?

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        What if the reason why he haven’t made anything recently is due to some serious shit he did behind the scenes?

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    The one that disappointed me the most was kliksphilip. I would’ve been able to move past the Hogwarts Legacy shit for simply being an ignorant normie, but what he said about Brianna Ghey was truly unforgivable.

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      I’ve not heard about that. I’ve long stopped watching his content but i don’t know why anymore. The HL videos were certainly part of it, the Nvidia glazing another. I’ve not found what he said about Brianna Ghey on a quick search

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      You expected a lot from the fartmaster, eh? Look it up if you’re not aware of 3kliksphilips other YouTube channel.

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      I hope it wasn’t a huge amount of money riding on that bet. I don’t know who that is.

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            He got a lot of good will for being on the right side of a fair use lawsuit back in the day, and gained more credibility after distancing himself from his edgy past. He was in enough with the left to start a podcast with leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Unfortunately for him, the podcast only radicalized a lot of his community, so when he got into a fight with Hasan over Israel and associating with tankies, most of the viewers took Hasan’s side. He spiralled from there into the litigious monster he is today.

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            He was early early YouTube. I discovered him more than 10 years ago when he was just shit posting weird stunts around LA. Imagine my surprise when I learned he had coasted into the 4 hour podcast circuit.

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      Fucker has been acting like a paid shill for Israel for 3 years now.

      I mean, I’ve never seen a single person wearing Teddy Fresh in the US. Are all their “orders” being made from Israel?

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      He’s always been kind of unlikable, but this Israel shilling era is literally tearing the platform apart.

      Looping his kids into it is pretty fucking disgusting though