For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.

But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.

His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.

So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.

We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    173·
    2 天前

    I’ve dropped a couple of channels because I suspected the presenter was a choad. I once unsubed from a movie-review channel because the presenter made a joke about “games journalism”.

    Another popular channel had (has) amazing content about historical guns. I first got a bad taste in my mouth because he covered some shit from Rhodesia. But I decided to give the benefit of the doubt. I know that collecting Nazi artifacts doesn’t imply politics. Then the channel decided to cover “anti-riot” “crowd control” type weapons during the George Floyd Summer protests. Nah, I’m out.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      Way back in the before times I watched Shadiversity when he was just about swords and nerdy fun.

      When he fell down the Choad Hole so deep and hard, I dropped him like a hot branding iron. I’m so happy to see his channel floundering and failing and his constant, pathetic attempts to make himself seem like a victim for it. I will treat myself to a cupcake when his channel finally goes under.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 天前

      When YouTube recommends a movie/game review channel, more than half the time I check their history they have videos complaining about “woke” or feminist themes. It’s a minefield finding good video essayists on that platform who aren’t terrible people.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        1·
        12 小时前

        like the channel owners making “anti-woke comments” or the comments in the seciton, i often see anti-woke comments in the comment section by random users.

      • scoobford@lemmy.zip
        4·
        1 天前

        I disagree that covering Rhodesian arms is a red flag. Rhodesia gets sucked off by a lot of terrible people, but their arms are legitimately interesting because they are different and because they have influenced a lot of modern conflicts.

        I also agree that FW is very sus. He famously had a falling out with InRange TV over whether 2A rights should extend to people of all identities or not. If he isn’t a bigot, he is at least a coward.

        • andz@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 小时前

          Ah, so that is why they fell out. I’ve been curious about that for a long time.

          I’ve been on the fence about FW for quite a while otherwise as well. On one hand I like the format (before the self-promotion took over to this degree), on the other hand certain things were a bit suspect. Larry Vickers as a guest, anyone?

          I don’t get overtly bigot-vibes from him either though, so perhaps you’re correct and he’s just out to get his and that’s that? It would be interesting to know.