Our Trash Taste in YouTubers | Trash Taste #26
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- What's up Mike Wazowski enthusiasts. Welcome back to another episode of Trash Taste. - My favorite Mike Wazowski. - Yeah, you're all Mike Wazowski enthusiasts. I'm your host Joey and with me is Garnt and Connor. You know who we are. - Wow, wow, that was just like, let's just jump right into it. - No wasting time. You guys know who we are. We're fucking how many episodes? 25 at this point, 26? - Don't remind me man. - I don't even know. - This is 25.

- I saw a brilliant comment. I think it was on episode 21 or 22 or something. That said, the top comment was like, "How has it already been 22 episodes? It still feels like episode four."

- No, I totally agree. Like when, like I can't remember how many episodes it was ago where I was like, yeah, we've we're just like a month into this, right? It was like episode 18 or something. - Yeah, I remember you said that I was like that math don't add up. - 18 weeks and a month, you know? That's what it felt like this year. - Fucking hell. Yeah, but what are we gonna talk about today, lads? - Well, this is the YouTuber episode. So we're gonna discuss some of our favorite YouTubers

just generally discuss YouTubers that we watch and ones that we wanna talk about. - Basically, we're just simping over other content creators. - Your favorite YouTuber's favorite YouTuber. Who is it? Who's it gonna be? - Still wanna bear in mind that we've said this before, but sometimes people forget it. They have to come here to be on the podcast. No exceptions.

I love all the comments which are like, but they have a TV. You can just get them on a Skype call. - We can talk about the Callie episode now. - All the speculation that they were like, oh yeah, she's just gonna appear on the TV. - And then we just fucking dunked on them being like, JK, she's right here. - Callie was indeed there.

- Oh yeah, I don't know if we actually prefaced in that episode because it's been like what four weeks as all of us recorded this that it came out. But yeah, for the people who are wondering she was physically sitting right here as well. - Callie that is. - Callie was, yes. - Aileen's looking at me 'cause we signed an NDA. - Yeah, we just wanna preface that like she was actually here. - We can say we signed an NDA, right? Like, okay, we signed an NDA. - I think it's pretty obvious that we would have had to sign an NDA. - Is there an NDA on us signing an NDA?

- Just wanna make sure, what's the NDA level? How many NDAs do you believe? - We can't disclose that we've signed an NDA. - We can say how it was done. - Okay, we can't say how it was done, but you guys know how it was done. - Yeah, we did it. We did it, we nailed it. - But I've had two hell weeks

- Back to back. - Man, you have had the worst fucking experience on YouTube. - I know, 'cause this is a YouTube related thing. So we'll jump into the YouTubers after this. So on the convention horror story episode, which is episode 23, I believe. - 22. - Is it 22? - Yes.

- Oh wow, okay. - I don't remember the episode numbers. - Well, that episode we recorded. Yeah, I spoke about getting hired to do the Samsung ad and we were like, "He, he, that's funny." I got undercharged. It turned out it was not he, he funny because the company fucking struck my video down.

And it was just, oh my God. Like it was almost worse that they replied to our emails. Because normally you just, if it's Sony or you know, it's a giant music company. - To explain, the content claimed your video. Am I correct? Like, so they gave you a copyright strike. The copy strikes your video.

- Can we copy strike C.V.A.s? - Normally, like as a YouTuber, especially when you've done like from, especially someone in my position who's used anime footage, copyright strikes aren't anything new for me. But my normal,

the normal thing I do is I like reply to them being like, "Hey, this is like fair use and everything." And 90% of the time they just don't reply 'cause they're Japanese companies, they don't give a shit. So I've never dealt with a copy strike situation- - Where they reply. - Where they've just like backed it up. - They're like, "Um, actually." - I almost wish they didn't because like, oh my God. - It must be hell. - It was like this, I've never had like a more like rude company.

And like, you know, I don't expect them to be nice to me. 'Cause they don't owe me anything. But you know, just being like polite would be nice. - You've had some seriously bad luck with cover. I mean like the whole like outro, like music thing is all right. - All of my videos have been claimed twice. So I lost a lot of money on that. And then this one obviously happened. But this one was just frustrating because they hired me.

So the ad that I'm voicing in, they struck me for it. And that reasoning was because I showed the footage and in my Fiverr gig where they hired me, right? So the video was for people who don't know, I was doing a video where I was a Fiverr seller and I was a voice actor. And on my Fiverr gig, I said like, "Hey, anything you order will be used in the video." So I was like, "Hey man, you guys know that I was gonna use this. "What you should have told me, can you like at least give me the like, "because this is a misunderstanding and whatever."

give me a chance to remove the footage. 'Cause on YouTube, you can actually edit the video live. So you can actually remove stuff. So we all know this, right? - Yeah. - So I was saying like, "Hey, just remove the strike. It takes one button and I'll get rid of the copyright stuff right away." Like clearly this is not a big deal. Like let's just sort this out. And their response was like, "We're too busy."

And bear in mind, it is one button. It is one button to remove from the strike, right? - But it's a button that's so far away. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's never applied with something along the lines of, "We have so many projects going on. "We're extremely busy." Bear in mind, our email chain is like 20 fucking emails that are huge. This is bullshit. - As if you're not busy. - It was less buttons to claim the video in the first place.

- Like what the hell? - And I told them in the email, I'm like, you could have emailed me. I would have removed it ASAP. And they're like, well, we don't know that. We didn't want to deal with talking and all that. - 'Cause to explain, there are several levels of copyright strike, right? You can just claim the content and give the content creator zero strikes.

And then they, if you do that, then they can edit out the copyrighted material. - Which I would have done. - Yeah, which he would have done, no. But they went like the nuclear option. They just straight up gave you a strike, put a strike in your account. - Took the video down. - Took the video down. And so you have zero control over the video.

- To explain to people. - And a strike is, I mean, I'm sure you all know this, but three strikes and your channel's gone, of copyright strikes. And I explained that to them and they were like, "Well, not our problem." And I was like, "Well, I mean, kinda is, "'cause you're the one who did this, "and it doesn't really need to be this way, "and it's very easy to fix." And they just kept saying like, "Well, we don't really care." And it was just awful, just awful. And fuck, what else happened? God, I might have to cut something while I think about the story.

- I remember you politely saying, but you know, hey, like, you know, I probably need to talk about this on my channel. - So I told them like, hey, because they were just being so uncooperative and they were even, they were fine with the idea of me editing it out.

but they kept saying, "Hey, just ask YouTube to do it. "Just ask YouTube." The problem is, right, is that YouTube, as it should be, isn't involved with this. It doesn't involve YouTube. - It's just the mediator, right? - They're just the ones who host it, right? It's not their problem. They kept saying, "We've gone through YouTube, "so why are you contacting us? "Go through YouTube system." And I do think they understood that YouTube tells you

to contact them because it's not their problem. It's like, YouTube is like, you have to talk to them. So that's what we're trying to tell them. And like, it's like talking to a fucking wall. Cause they're like, they just don't get it. I don't think they understand. - Not only do they not get it, but it's frustrating because they don't care to understand it. - They don't care to understand. They don't get it because they've got that result, which is the video down. And then, you know, after like every like, like it's like 10 emails back and forth,

Like I think Maylene even called them up and they kind of like shrugged it off. So just nothing's happening. So in the email we write saying, "Hey, well, I hate to like say this, but we're probably gonna have to re-upload the video, which I am doing. And we're probably gonna have to explain in that video why it's been taken down, which may make you look bad." And they were like immediately responded with like, "How dare you try and blackmail me?"

It was like, we will not entertain nor give into blackmail. I'm like, what are you, the US government dealing with terrorists? - We will not negotiate with terrorists. - That was literally the vibe of this email.

- It was so funny. - They went full fucking Karen mode, man. They're like, "I am the victim actually. "How dare you come to my house and you threaten me." - That's literally the full 180.

- We will never give it. - Okay, actually guess which country this company's from. I think it'll make so much sense. - I don't know. - Just take a guess. What country do you think is super strict with rules?

- Top of your head. - I would think in some kind of Asian country. - No, European. - Russia? - No, Germany. - Oh, okay. - We're following sea rules. - That makes sense, yeah. - And I tried so many routes, like trying to get this done through YouTube. Like I have even the company saying like, hey, they don't care that like,

Like they are totally fine with me getting the stuff removed from the video and re-uploading it, but they just don't wanna do that. They don't wanna remove the strike. And so as also I asked Fiverr, I said, "Hey Fiverr, I know that like I did use that footage and you know, it's up in the air and you know, if it's fair use or not, whatever, et cetera, et cetera." Fiverr, like even though I was critical of them in that video, I did say that I think it's wrong that Fiverr takes a bit of the tips, which I don't think they should do. And they also charge 20% on everything.

And Fiverr actually reached out on my behalf to the company and asked, "Hey, we know this is like a problem, but hey, could you please put the video back up?" - Oh, so Fiverr had your back. - Fiverr backed me up. - Oh, nice. - You know what they told Fiverr? - What? - They said to Fiverr, "We wanna keep the strike on his channel 'cause he tried to blackmail us."

That's what they told Fiverr. No joke, that's what they told. - Oh my God. - This company was just so petty the whole way through. It was so tragic. And so now I'm just re-uploading the video and just explaining. - So do you still have a strike? - Still have the strike, unfortunately. - But at least you're gonna slightly call them out, right, in the video. - Yeah, yeah, I mean- - You're probably not gonna say them by name, but still. - I mean, if you look through the video, you can see the name of the company.

- Exactly. - I feel like, I don't know, because the way I've been conditioned as like, the way I was like,

was like to get problems resolved. Like it's polite, you know, to ask politely and you know, to conflict, to resolve conflicts in like a adult's manner. - Yeah, be civil about it. - Yeah, be civil about it. But like the more I'm on the internet and the more, especially as a YouTuber, it's just like, I've realized that to get problems solved and to get shit done is like, it goes against everything I was taught. - The best way to get shit resolved is just go out into the public and go,

- Fuck you. - It's so true though, right? Because we've been conditioned now to like, to get a problem resolved is to make as much fucking noise as possible. - Hey fan base, I'm gonna give you a new target to go off of. - Yeah, yeah. - Sick 'em. - It's unfortunate because like I always, as a last resort tweet about it or make it a public issue because like, I just don't like it. I think it's really- - Because there's a part of you that makes you look

- I feel like an asshole being like, yo, but I got this following, you know, I'm gonna set the dogs on this one. - Release the hounds. - But like, it feels like that's the only way to get things done. Especially when it's like,

- I love the fact that the official way to get problems resolved on YouTube is just to fucking add team YouTube on Twitter and just get people to like retweet that instead of having like a proper chain of communication. No, you just got to make as much fucking noise on Twitter as possible. - It's not a last resort to add team YouTube. It's just a requirement. - If it's a YouTube problem, I'll add team YouTube. But like this, it was kind of that company. And honestly, like their social media, I found their social medias and everything. They're really small. If I wanted to like make them

- Make them known that it was like, yeah, I could have tweeted out and be like, "Hey guys, go and fucking spam the social media "asking to remove the strike." But I don't know. I didn't, I don't know. I just didn't want to do that. - You don't want to use your power for that kind of stuff. - But it's sad as well. 'Cause like, you know, yeah, I could do that. And that would be like, I guess abusing my power, right? But then also the only reason they aren't taking me seriously is because I'm an individual.

- Yeah, exactly. - And it's unfair because they're a company and they think that I'm just a fly and that they can just swap me away every time, which they just kept doing. And like, yeah, at any point I could have just made like,

- The thing is, right, is that like, you don't want to say it, but you know, if people search for the company's name, you could easily make it so that the stuff that comes up is pretty bad for them. Could have easily done that, but I'm not going to, 'cause I'm not an asshole. - Yeah, you might be a flyer, but you're a flyer that's about six feet long. It's gonna be a little hard to sort your way. - It's just, it's like such a thing, 'cause it's like, man, I really wanna abuse my power right now.

- I really wanna fit a abuse my power right now to make your life hell 'cause you guys have been absolute assholes to me. - Cigar in one hand. Let's get 'em. - It's like trying to find the right balance between like, I got my integrity. I wanna be a good person.

But at the same time, it's just the world is making it super fucking hard sometimes. And it's, you know, it fucking sucks that it's this way, but- - I mean, it's just that like war between the traditionalist way of doing things and then the new age things of doing that, right? Because, you know, like,

even if YouTube right now is such a massive thing worldwide, technically speaking, it's only been around for what, 15 years? - Yeah, I mean, it's just, I feel like it's just the age of social media now where people, it is all about making as much noise as possible. Even if you are someone very much in the wrong and like your logic is fucked, somehow some people are able to make more noise than the other person, therefore they are the right ones and they win in the end. And it's just like, it's a very,

I would say backwards way, but it's just the way the world is now unfortunately. - I think it's just the hands that we've been dealt. Unfortunately with YouTube system, it's really sad that it only ever gives

any benefit to the claimant. So it's like, you kind of don't really have a choice and it sucks because people who don't want to do it, I mean, like I don't want to do it. Like I don't want to make a fuss about it on Twitter. And I probably might've been able to get it resolved if I just made it hell for them. Like if I just, you know, bombed their social medias. - Yeah. - Might've worked like, but did I want to find out? And would I have felt good about it? Like probably not. - You don't want to respond to that, right? - Exactly. - Yeah, it's horrible. - 'Cause the thing about, especially with YouTube copyright is that there's just been like,

everything that's been mentioned and everything that people say is all fucking guesswork. Because the thing is there is no precedence because the highest level this can go up to is like,

- Supreme court. - It's like court, right? And that's only happened once between one creator and one creator, which is like H3H3, right? And that's been the only precedence about anything regarding YouTube copyright. We've never had an individual go up against the company. So nobody knows how that's gonna end up really. - I think because the company doesn't really want that, 'cause it would look bad for them.

- And no individual wants to be the test. - Yeah, exactly right. Nobody wants to be the first. - Do you really want to be that company picking on a singular dude and then that dude also rally the internet behind him? Like you probably don't want that. You might win it, but everyone will think you're an asshole. - In that situation, kind of everyone loses. Like there is no single winner at that point. - Maybe the creator can come out of it if he's willing to go through it. Like the creative might come out with a lot of respect.

and might get a lot of community support. And yeah, it could be worth it, but it's such a big gamble. - Right, it could also completely go the other way around. - It could also completely just ruin your life. - Yeah, it could bankrupt you. - Well, it could not only bankrupt that individual, but it could also leave an example for other companies

when he started using that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. - It's like, oh, well they lost in the court case. So let's go out and just fucking snipe down all these individual creators. - Yeah, 'cause fucking nobody understands, nobody fucking understands the law anyway. So none of us really understand fair use laws. How the fuck are the fucking jury gonna understand fair use laws? You know what I mean? - So what, you used an anime?

in your video and this company owns said anime girl, but doesn't actually own it. - Yeah. - It's like, yes, your honor.

- Jeez, and it's a mess given how worldwide YouTube is. Like how do you sue someone that's in like a different country with different laws? - Yeah, exactly. - What if none of you are American company, which laws are you using? Do you using YouTube laws or? - Well, that's the problem, right? Is that like- - I'm not an expert, so I'd love to know. - And I think that's why like at least the majority of anime YouTubers who have been caught using anime footage in their videos have managed to get away with it because in Japan, we don't have fair use laws.

But in America where YouTube is hosting, we do have fair use laws. So it just never happens. The Japanese look at that and were like, oh shit.

I guess we've got to back away now. - It's probably not worth their time either to try and figure it out who they can do it. - It is an unfair system because it really just fucks over any of the small creators. You know what I mean? And I feel like if you're a small creator, the best strategy you can go for is be friends like a bigger creator. You know what I mean? 'Cause if you're ever in any trouble, then you gotta rely on them to like make noise for you because you can't do it for yourself.

And I can't really think of a better way to go about it aside from that. - Except just fucking giving up. There's literally no other way of going around that, right? Yeah, it sucks. - Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate. Even like creative our sizes, it's still difficult to get things fixed. I think the only creators like that could think of that would be like,

able to get shit done is like, maybe like Mr. Beast. Cause he's like, obviously if YouTube's really friendly with you, they'll help you out. They'll figure out a way to make it like go away. - But it's like one out of how many million channels? - That's the thing, right? There's like maybe like a hundred, I bet no more than a hundred of those people who can have that kind of power. Cause even I, like, I mean, we're like big creators, I guess.

- I mean, we're big creators in the anime field, but in the overall fucking scheme of things, we're just a fucking pebble. - We're still decently sized though. - Yeah, but there's, I think I saw there's like, I think in 2020, like beginning of 2020, like rough estimate, there's I think over 10,000 channels now with over a million subs.

So we're definitely expanding more. - But you still think that the ad revenue that you're maybe bringing in is more than like a Google employee. So it might be worth-

- Right, but how many Google employees are there? - True, true, true. I guess that's tough. - At the end of the day, yes, we may be big in our separate fields and maybe compared to other like smaller creators or people who don't do stuff. But in a bigger sense, the ceiling is very, very high. - It should be nice 'cause you know, they take 45% of your ad revenue. It'd be nice to know that they give a fuck about it, you know, not just host the videos.

- I mean, they're big enough where like they don't care about it. Like one million creators, one million subscribers, that's like nothing. - True, true. Yeah, I guess they only care about the creators that can actually affect their reputation, which are the super big ones. - It's like 0.001%, right? - Yeah. - Yeah. - 'Cause I mean, I get it when like you see on Twitter, there'll be a dude who's like 20 subs, he's like, "Man, YouTube's so unfair to the small guys." And it's like, I mean, come on, you have 20 subs.

I mean, you don't really like have much to lose. Like I know, like you shouldn't be discriminating against the sizes, but also I think there should be a prioritized on people who are living off it and use the system through it. - I mean, it's like, I feel sorry for YouTube at the same time as well, because I'm like, I'm like, I'm thinking about this from like their perspective and like, how do you solve every problem that you have on YouTube? Because YouTube right now is too fucking large.

there's too much content to be able to know what everything is, everyone is doing and everything being uploaded. Like it feels like it's just an impossible puzzle to solve. You jiggle around one thing and then like another piece pops out, you know what I mean? That's what it feels like where it's, I feel like they are doing the best that they can. And I feel like as creators, we all like are very grateful to YouTube, but the sucky thing is that if we have a problem with YouTube, we have to make them look like the fucking devil. You know what I mean?

Whereas my personal opinion is that I know YouTube's doing the best they can. I know there's like some massive problems that happen with some people getting banned or some people getting demonetized by like accidents and everything. And it can affect livelihood. But I look at this also from like the perspective of, hey, this platform is just fucking massive. It's gonna be impossible to solve every problem with a bot.

but that's what they need to do. They need to have a bot because you can't have actual humans looking over everything that's being uploaded. - Yeah, because hasn't YouTube, in terms of stuff that Google owns, hasn't YouTube been in the red for the past four years or something? YouTube's constantly losing money for Google. - It's not the value of making money. It's the amount of information that YouTube brings Google is priceless. - Oh yeah. It's like what, 50 hours of content uploaded every minute?

- It's like a minute or second, I think. - It's way more than that. - I think it's more than that. - It's insane. - It's insane, yeah. But no, it's scary, but I guess like that comes with the price of it being just a brand new type of game.

I'm sure radio and TV had probably the exact same problems when it first started to rise. And it's only after decades and decades of trial and error that they've kind of smoothed it out. - I mean, what I find funny is that when YouTube first started to get super, super commercialized, right? And people will start having all these problems with copyright and a lot of people taking advantage of the system. People like, well, this is a fucking dying platform. Let's go over to Twitch everyone.

And then now, now that Twitch is like starting to like burst into the mainstream, we're now seeing like the same problems affect Twitch creators now. Everyone's like, man, Twitch is getting so hard now. - Twitch is getting axed like even harder.

like even harder than Twitch. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Like the new DMCA laws are bloody ridiculous on Twitch now. - Yeah. - And it was like the one thing that Twitch was like, oh, thank God we don't have to worry about playing copyrighted stuff on our Twitch anymore. And then Twitch was like, Amazon kind of stepped in and was like, yeah, about that. - I mean, it's more like the music industry has just been like stuck in its ways for like the past like 30 years. - Which is weird though because websites like Newgrounds to this day, you can use copyrighted music.

And they won't do anything about it. - That's 'cause no one owns Newgrounds. Newgrounds is like still privately owned. - Right, but the thing is, is like even when it was in its prime, like the music industry never stepped in and tried to do something about it. They were just like, well- - 'Cause the money wasn't there. Like when the live streaming, they see all these like billion dollar

- Oh yeah. - That's why I'm saying the music industry like hello. - Basically I feel like it's just the content cycle. Like everyone tries to find this new platform where we, I mean, we talked about the golden age of the internet before where things were like less regulated and everything. But as soon as something does get popular enough, it's just an inevitability that companies are just gonna wanna get in on it. And it's gonna be more regulated and it's gonna be, you're gonna have content creators are just gonna have less freedom.

of the internet and it's the unfortunate truth of media. - God, I hate capitalism. - Down with capitalism.

- Should we get into some of our favorite YouTube channels or just channels we like watching? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - 'Cause I feel like we all watch very different YouTubers. - Do we? - I don't know. I mean, we established before that the amount of YouTube the three of us watch is probably quite different, right? - So like, okay, here's my first question to you guys. What do you guys look for in a content creator?

If anything, if anything. Because I'm the type of guy, people like, whenever I get asked like who my favorite YouTubers are, like especially in conventions and panels and everything, everyone expects me to like say anime YouTubers. - My favorite attitude. - Yeah, right? And like,

- Because it's my job. Like I try to make it, like I try to watch the least amount of anime content as I can because I don't want to, one, like it's my job. I can't view anime content in the same way ever again. And two, I don't want it to affect my own content. - Also so many of them suck. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. - No, no, but I totally agree. Like, you know, it's like my viewing, my YouTube viewing time is my off time.

- I just maximize with YouTube, man. Every single moment of my life I'm watching YouTube. - I don't do that. - Do you watch any tubers though? - A few. - Like any tubers who like you don't know personally. Like I obviously watch your guys' content, like people I'm personally friends with, but.

- I very rarely watch AniTubers who I don't personally know. - There's some I like, but I feel like they're not quite there yet. Like they're still figuring it out their style. - Because they're new or? - Yeah, because they're new. - Right, right, right. - This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Going online without ExpressVPN is like not having a case on your phone.

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- But I find enjoyment in watching the new channels kind of like figure out their own way and like seeing their growth. - Some of my favorite channels on YouTube are the tiny ones where they've only got like update videos. - I love those. - Where they have more update videos than actual content. - I would name one or two, but I'm also worried that- - Yeah, I don't wanna bully them. - I'm also worried that they'll get like 10,000 new viewers and they won't know how to handle it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But you know the ones with doggy masks.

They're out there, they're out there. - But like, okay, I mean like obvious channels that we all like and enjoy just like internet historian. Everyone fucking loves internet historian, right? Like, I mean like what else? What else? - Come onto the podcast, internet historian. - Yeah. - Nakey Jakey is one of my favorites. - I remember Nakey, like, 'cause I discovered him

You know when you discover a creator who's under 100,000 subs and you're like, you're gonna blow up. That was Nakey Jakey for me 'cause I discovered him before he even did his fucking green screen effects and he was just basically like a mix between Dunkey and JonTron. And he was just like, he didn't show his face, it was just pure voiceover.

he was someone who I discovered really early on and I could tell, I could tell immediately. - Personality was shining through. - His personality was shining through and he was going to blow up eventually. And then he did like the first video where I thought he was gonna blow up was he did a video about like video game dogs,

which was so different from what other people were doing. But it was just so unique. And I was like, that's it. That's your niche, you found it. - I just love his flow of comedy. There are some videos where it's like, one of my favorite videos to this day is the one where he talks about water levels in gaming. And it's such a short video, it's like six minutes long, but it's just constant, constant jokes, jokes, jokes, jokes, jokes, with no room for error whatsoever. And I just love videos like that where it's like,

Cut all the bullshit filler out. Just say the punchline, then immediately move on.

Like that's the type of comedy I strive to do in my thing as well. - I feel like everyone knows, like thinks of him as just like the guy who has a green screen and sits on the ball, but like as someone who's been following him for ages, he can do any kind of content. He'd still be fucking great. - You do a lot of writing, right? So I assume you think his writing is also pretty spot on as well. - I think his writing is fucking brilliant. It is really hard and even I'm still trying to learn this too.

to try and balance like analytical, like your thoughts and analytics to comedy. And like, it's like, I've seen so many creators and I feel like even I might be one of them who like sometimes it's like, okay, this part is analytical and this part is comedy. But like to combine the two together seamlessly is a fucking difficult thing to do. - And to make it look natural as well as really hard.

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- Links in the description. Thank you to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this video. Back to the show. - I think one thing I respect the most out of Naked Jakey's writing and like Naked Jakey is definitely not the only one who does this, but I think it's the type of content creator that I especially like and inspire to be myself is the people who can,

who write scripts, like they're clearly scripts, but they write it and perform it in a way that doesn't make it look like they're reading off a script. Like, you know, Nakey Jakey is obviously a great example of that. I mean, I think the whole reason why JonTron as well, like blew up is because of that, right? He's managed to like,

as you said, like mix the whole analytical side with the joke side just so seamlessly. And you know, like if we're talking AniTubers as well, like a demo was a perfect example of that, right? - I mean, demo kind of just kind of just like started as like a new wave of like anime YouTube content and his style still prevails today in a lot of people's content. - Right. I mean, I certainly like look up to that guy's writing. - I think pretty much every big AniTuber does

does in some way, shape or form. - But we're like not even like 10% of the way to being as funny as him. It's like we're trying really hard, but we can't quite get there. - I mean, it's like how, like, 'cause you can copy someone's style, but you can never be that person. 'Cause like, that's kind of like the hard thing about being an independent content creator is that you can be influenced by someone, but if,

if you're influenced by them a bit too much and everyone's gonna be like, ah, you were trying to be X person. - Yeah, you're just a clone. - And like, if you're trying to be X person, then in the viewer's mind, all they are going to see is you trying to be X person. You know what I mean? - I mean, it was that problem right of back in the day when whenever anyone tried to do any let's play and it doesn't matter if you were like nowhere similar to him, everyone was like, well, this guy's just a PewDiePie clone. He's just a Markiplier clone. And I'm just like,

I got those comments. Like when I first started doing "Corse Party", people were like, "Oh, this guy looks and sounds like PewDiePie." I'm like, "Okay, I get the sounds part. How the fuck do I look like Felix?" - How do you sound like Felix? What the fuck? - I don't know. Apparently I said, I mean, I can do Felix impressions, but like, it's not like I was trying to do them actively, right? 'Cause surprise, Felix wasn't the only Let's Player that was around back then and who I watched. - Speaking of, oh, go on, go on. - Oh no. - Oh, speaking about,

- Nakey Jakey, did you guys watch Scott the Woz? You guys seen him? - I've seen a few of his videos. - I've seen a few of his videos, but I'm not subscribed. - I fucking love Scott, I love you Scott. 'Cause he's like the opposite of Nakey Jakey almost, where Nakey Jakey tries on purpose to not feel like a script, where Scott feels so incredibly scripted that it makes it almost funnier. I don't know, he's just so extremely consistent and he uploads sometimes like twice a week and it's always such fucking good quality.

- Right, right, right. - Like so good. I don't know, I feel like, 'cause at one point as well, JonTron had not uploaded for so long that they turned JonTron subreddit into ScottTheWoz. - Are you serious? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 'Cause he didn't upload for so long because everyone would say that ScottTheWoz was like JonTron but more consistent. - Right, right, right. - But it's still very different, different styles of humor.

I remember as well, he's like so anal about like keeping the same level of consistency that he re-uploaded the whole video once because he accidentally didn't blur, not blur, didn't censor a swear word in one of his uploads.

- God damn man, that is commitment. - He just seems like such a chill dude, but also hella awkward 'cause there's clips of him in conventions and he looks so awkward. It's like the kind of energy that I'm like, man, that's so honest and he just loves what he's doing. - That's the type of genuine like YouTube- - Have you ever watched any of his videos?

- I feel like I've definitely seen at least a couple of his videos come up on recommended, but I definitely have. - Might not be for like everyone, but I think you definitely, you can always watch it and enjoy it. But you might not go away being like, I fucking love this guy. But you'll definitely enjoy it 100%. He's really good. - He's definitely on my list of people like, every time he's on my recommended, I'm just like, yeah, I'll give you a go. - It also makes me wonder how specific of a subject about gaming can you talk about? Like he did memory cards the other day.

He did a whole like 30 minute video on memory cards. And I was like, I don't even know what he talked about. Like I can't remember, but I enjoyed it. But I just remember thinking this video is totally pointless about. - There's another channel that's like that, which I, I think you showed me this Connor, but Ahoy. - I was literally about like, when Connor mentioned, I was like, Ahoy, Ahoy. - Yeah, I was like, there's another channel that covers,

super niche and specific topics. - I, for the longest time, thought it was some film studio that hired the sexiest narrator ever. But I think it's legit the narrator guys. - No, I think it's just one dude. - Yeah, so to explain to Hoy, he does video game documentaries on really, really niche subjects. I think one of my favorite ones was he went through the entire history of exploding barrels. - That was such a good video. - And it's something, it's one of those subjects where

you never thought about it until someone brought it up. Like, why is it that when you see a barrel in a video game, you just expect it to explode, right? It's just something that you've just been conditioned to know, but then you think about it and you're like, yeah, what is the history behind that? - He's also like, I'm looking at his channel now, he's also like the antithesis of clickbait. Because you know what his video on explosive barrels is called? - Just barrels, right? - Explosive barrels.

- With a period at the end. - I also genuinely don't think, there's only maybe one or two people I can think that have like the same level of production quality as him. The production quality of this man's videos are insane. - He's up with, we've mentioned before, but like, let me know. That's kind of like the insane kind of production qualities where you're like, this guy uploads one every three months and I know why you upload one every three months. - It's legit like box levels of it. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's fucking amazing. - He also did a video on like what was the first video game ever.

- My favorite one as well is like, where does the history of like chickens, like healing you come from? And yeah, it's just great. Like, it's really weird. Like there are just some YouTubers I feel that can just take these extremely niche topics and just

somehow able to turn it into a video that you never thought you needed. But then the moment you watch it, you're like, all right, I kind of need this video. - As I was going through my list, I did realize what like really appealed to me. And it was like more so the human aspect. - Yeah. - Because do you know Noclip?

- No. - They do video game documentaries that are really, really well produced about like game development. And it's really, really just insane production, great stuff. But half the time I ended up like just not really caring because I feel like there's like no,

like human aspect to it or a personality. It just feels like a documentary, which is great. And it's amazing. Don't get me wrong, but something like Ahoy where it feels so passionate from one person and so many other channels that were mentioned today. - Yeah, I mean, we've talked about this before about like how to be successful on YouTube. And I feel like having that human connection and having,

having a personality, even if you are doing like a sort of documentary thing, inserting your own passion and your own personality into it as much as possible is the real selling point of why people will want to come back to you. I mean, I feel like that's why, like I remember when YouTube went through this whole video essay boom.

And now I think it's like kind of, it's starting to die down. - Especially on AniTube. - Yeah, I remember when like every frame of painting like came along and started doing video essays and like- - Rest in peace man, that was one of the best fucking channels I swear. Oh my God. - And like Nerdwriter and everything came along and like we had this like video essay boom and now people like they don't care so much about the analytical side of things. They care more about the personality behind it. - They care about the person telling the narrative.

- Yeah, 'cause why should I listen to like some random person's like college thesis where there are like actual experts on the platform now, which brings me to like my next creator, which is a video essay channel because they did a video essay on, was it Shazam? Kazam? What was that superhero movie? - Oh, Shazam. - Shazam, yeah. They were doing a video essay on Shazam. It's called Pony Smasher.

- I've never heard of the channel. - And he was doing a video essay on Shazam, but like breaking down how hard it is to like the little problems that need to be solved when making a movie, right? And I was just like, oh, it's just another video essay. And then he starts using like a first person perspective. Like, yeah, so what I had to do was I had to do this, I had to do that on this movie. And I was like, wait a minute,

this is the director of Shazam making a video essay on his own movie. And I'm just like, what the fuck? - That's cool. - Yeah, yeah, it was the director of Shazam making a video essay on his own platform. And I remember like how he ends the video is he says, yeah, there was a point where I was just

I was just super obsessed with YouTube video essays. And then I started making movies and now like he views video essays completely different 'cause

he admitted himself as someone who like has made movies. Like he doesn't know whether like, you know, you can break down the movie's themes and like all the backend of something with the movie. But like, he was like, yeah, sometimes it's just like a complete accident. You know what I mean? - It's just happy little accidents. - Yeah, yeah. Sometimes he's just like, yeah, was, yeah, you know, was, did I, did I mean to like, was there any meaning behind making this curtain blue or something like that? And sometimes just, yeah, it's just the only curtain that was fucking available.

- I just like the color. - And then like hearing it from him after I saw that video, I was just like, yeah, he's kind of got a point. When you've got actual fucking directors making video essays on your own movie, how can other people kind of compete with that at that point? - That's the point I wanna get to where like eventually if I ever make my own anime or my own manga and I just make a video essay on my own show,

- That'd be the ultimate flex. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - So I know exactly why they decided to use these things because I fucking made them, that's why. - Ambitious goals, Joey, ambitious goals. - The most primary of sources that you could ever get. - Also like,

going on the complete opposite of that, which is experts in the field. My new worst fucking pet peeve on YouTube is seeing videos. I've mentioned this to you guys in private, but there's this new like thing on YouTube where like things that shouldn't be a qualification that are a qualification.

like reacts to something. I've noticed these things will not stop leaving my recommended where it's like Japanese person reacts to every Chris abroad video. And I'm like, I don't care. That is not impressive that a Japanese person watches. - The reason why I saw that would not leave my recommended is a Japanese person reacts to Bill Wurtz's history of Japan.

- I was like, I don't, you are like, this should not be a qualification. I get it, like there's like, what was the other ones? Like doctor reacts to doctor. - Okay, to be fair. - That's fair. - Some, because that's like an actual qualification. That's a job. - You were just born in a country, bro. What do you mean? It's not like you were born in like Machu Picchu talking about the ruins of some shit. That's tiny. - My favorite ones as well was like the music related ones. So it's like, I remember I saw one which was like a jazz drummer reacts to a tool.

live concert, I'm like, "But Tool is a metal band." It's like, "You don't know anything about metal." It's like, "You play in the..." It's like, "Oh yeah, the other one is like a church drummer reacts to whatever." And I'm like, "You play at your local church." It's not like, you're not even a professional. You just play at your local church. - Can someone please make a YouTube channel out there like high school student reacts to high school? 'Cause I just want this to go full meme now.

- It's getting ridiculous. Like I saw, like there was like a mathematician one and in the video it was like mathematician reacts to and I click on the video and it's a guy and it's just a college student. - I actually wanted to make a parody of like that video series, which is like professional degenerate reacts to hentai. - You should totally do that. - I got to make it now. - You got to make that before.

- Before it gets taken. - Some people saw the lawyer things obviously were like, "Hey, I'm a specialized Japanese person. "I can react to." No, like not bashing on any chance to do it. I just think it's really like weird and like, not weird, like unnecessary. - It's kind of like, okay, there's this trend that makes sense, right? You have a professional qualified person who has been doing this job for years, like a lawyer or a doctor and can actually provide insights.

And then as with everything, as with every YouTube trend, it kind of people like try to bend it as much as possible to be like, yeah, I'm kind of like, I have a qualification in X kind of, you know, you know when you're like in that job interview and you're like trying to buff up your fucking CV, which is as much bullshit as you can possibly imagine. That's kind of what it feels like, you know? - So have you ever had any past jobs? Well, I used to have to take out the trash every week at my parents' place. That was kind of like an obligation.

I remember like back in the bridge scene where people were just like, yeah, I do sound design. And I'm like, motherfucker, you just, I know what the fuck you do. - Talking into a blue Yeti is not sound design. - I'm sorry. Oh dude, like if there are any smaller YouTubers watching, here's an idea for you. Like react to anything, but just call yourself aspiring entrepreneur reacts to.

You'll get clicks like that. That's free real estate. It's for you. Okay, but to be fair though, the only like, we mentioned this earlier, but like the doctor reacts to cells at work. - That one's good. - That shit was fucking great. - No, like when this trend started, I was like, I was all for this. - Yeah. Like that, I don't often watch reaction videos, but I watched all of those because just the dude was a charismatic as fuck. I forgot the name. It was like, doctor. - Yeah. - British guy, right? - I was about to say doctor Phil. - I've seen it, I've seen it. - I think my favorite one is that guy who breaks down accents.

- Yeah, the guy on "Lyre". - I fucking love that guy. - Eric Singer, I think his name is. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I love those videos so much, I basically ripped off the line. - Yeah, you ripped it off, yeah. - I mean, I was like, "Oh man, this is fun, I can explain this." - Not gonna lie, when I saw that on my sub feed, I was like, "Fuck, that's a good idea." - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I wish I did that. - I mean, I thought, "Why not, man?" I've been doing it for years. - I was actually gonna do something similar. I was gonna name myself Japanese expert.

- And I was gonna react to like foreigners in films doing Japanese accents or speaking in Japanese. - I might still do that, but like- - Are you a qualified Japanese person? - You weren't born and raised here, Joey. I mean, I don't know. - I have a certificate. - How many years experience do you have being Japanese?

- Only 26 years. - The amount of videos I've seen that is Japanese person react to Filthy Frank is like way too many. - Oh yeah, yeah. - There's so many, it's like, this should not be necessary. Like it's just a Japanese dude. - It's like also it's like, who cares? - And also you probably won't get like a really authentic 'cause most of the time the Japanese people that are doing it, are doing it in English. So they're like, you know, I mean, I'm not gonna lie, but the foreigners that I've spoken to, the Japanese people that I've spoken to,

I'm very different to the Japanese people who are very Japanese. - I love that half the videos as well, it's like Japanese reacts to Filthy Frank and it's just an American born Japanese guy, right? It's like, you're an American dude. Like you're not even Japanese.

- That's an interesting point actually. I would actually like, that's interesting content. Like say you take a video and actually sub it and then show it to a Japanese person subbed and see how they react to it. That would be interesting I think. - Yeah, that would be interesting but the problem is no one can be fucked to do that, right? It's just too much effort. - What other YouTubers do you guys enjoy watching? - Well, I have a YouTuber who is up and coming. I found him fucking like maybe when he had like less than 10K subs. There's this guy called Johnstone.

- Okay. - Okay. - And he's a Pokemon YouTuber. - Okay. - I love my Pokemon. But like, unlike every other Pokemon YouTuber out there, he kind of takes Pokemon challenges and kind of goes way overboard. - Is this the guy who beat like the whole game with like a Ditto or something or like? - No, that's Pika Spray. - Okay. - That's another guy who I also follow. - Okay. - Yeah, so Johnstone is this guy who does these like absurd Pokemon challenges and just,

condenses them into like one video. So like a small ant, right, is a guy who also does similar things. He's a massive Twitch streamer, but Johnstone kind of like, he does these like ridiculous challenges. Like, can I beat the entirety of Pokemon FireRed with just one stream badge and shit like that? And like, he not only puts his own personality into it, but like kind of breaks down how to do it as well. So if people want to do it, then they can.

And I think it's only recently that like, you know, we were talking about people who make content, which is like very informational, but then try and put their own personality to it. I feel like he's a guy who's like just starting to learn how to do that. - Yeah. - And he's kind of growing off of it. And it's been really cool to like watch him grow. - There's a few channels like that. 'Cause I watch,

is it Game Champ 3000? I think I have written down here. He does like the beating like X game without collecting a coin or something. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And like, I don't know why he would do that. 'Cause it sounds like pain. - Small Ant does that too. I recently watched him do, it's like, can I beat Pokemon Fire Red with only shinies?

So what he would do is like, he would, and he would do this all live on Twitch and then just make a video on YouTube. So like every time, like the starters would come up and if none of them are shiny, he just reset the game. And he keeps going up till the starter was a shiny. - That's like speed runners, like, yeah. Kind of, what's the word I'm looking for? Dedication. - Yeah. Or another one was like, can I beat all of Pokemon Emerald without taking damage?

And every time you took damage, you had to reset. - I think I saw that. I think I've seen that one. That one sounds familiar. - It went quite viral, I think. - I think I've seen a few videos like that where it's like no damage Dark Souls runs. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Those are always like a fucking trip to watch, man. - I mean, I love watching those kinds of content 'cause I think I've just gotten so into like speed running and like just people who are just way too good at games for their own good. - Yeah, yeah. - There's a fair amount of speed running dedicated channels.

not none of them are quite nearly as level of obviously summoning soul, which everyone loves. - Oh, summoning soul. - I feel like it's summoning soul and then kind of everyone else. - Not to be rude to everyone else, but he's just definitely like doing something that's clearly appealing to everyone. - I feel like what he does so well is that he just knows kind of like how to present a story. 'Cause it's like, okay, like he's one of the few channels where I'm like, I don't really know his personality, right? But the stories that he picks,

to present on this channel are like a banger every time. 'Cause like, if you don't have a personality in your channel, then that puts pressure to make the subject you are presenting, that has to carry your video, right? And it's normally easier to have a nice interesting personality that people wanna come back to. But if you're someone like Summoning Soul, who for some reason knows how to present the most compelling speed running stories every fucking time,

- It's like watching a movie. - Yeah, exactly. - His recent one with the perfect Mario 64 one is so good. - That one's so good. - I also really love his, which one was it? The Ninja Gaiden one? - Yeah. - The cowboy dude. I love that guy. And he's so nice and it made for such a good story. - It's so cool as well because like I found so many cool speed runners because of his videos as well. Just because the way he kind of sells them and also just kind of lays out their entire journey is just like, I don't know.

I don't know what it is, right? Because it's like, truth be told, he's not the most charismatic or like, you know, interesting presenter, but he just manages to write and present and kind of tell a story in a way that you just have to watch. - 'Cause it's like, there's always the hook. It almost follows like the structure of a movie. You know what I mean? There's the hook, there's the beginning, the middle of the end. And the end's always like a really big climax that you're like, wow, this,

This was worth sitting through like 45 minutes to an hour watching just so I could have seen this climax and get invested into the story. - I'm glad I sat through 45 minutes to know that that cowboy dude got a sub 10 in Ninja Gaiden. - I'm so glad his efforts got paid off. That's so worth it. Everybody applause. - You tried to explain

- You tried to explain his content to someone who just knows nothing about speed running. I'm just like, why do you care so much about like, because he tried his best man. - It's one of those things where it's like, just watch. Like, I think again, this is why I love documentaries and all that. 'Cause I just love the human aspect of stories and the,

I guess, you know, almost human life is more interesting because weird shit happens that you couldn't even predict. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I think it's so interesting and obviously like, I also think that "Summoning Salt" is really similar to Frederick Knudsen, which is like my favorite. - "Down the Rabbit Hole"? - Yeah, "Down the Rabbit Hole", which is like literally like my favorite channel on YouTube. - I still haven't seen his new one. - No, I haven't seen his new one either. - I just think the sheer amount of like dedication to the story and getting all the facts there is just insane. And like, I think every time I get drunk, I watch that "Wings of Redemption".

- That's the problem with Newton though is that like every time he does upload a video, it's like a yay moment as well as an oh shit moment because it's a yay moment because he uploads like once every three months or something. But it's an oh shit moment because it's like, okay, what day in my calendar is free to watch this video? - You know there are some content creators that you just watch immediately.

And there's some content creators where you make mental note, you're like, they have a load date and you're like, okay, I gotta find time. - Like right opinion is the exact same thing, right? Every time he uploads, it's like, oh, it's another two hour video by right opinion. It's gonna be a banger, but man,

- Man, I'm not free for like three days. - I have so much respect for Right Opinion because normally like I fucking like, I can't stand commentary channels most of the time. - Yeah, yeah. - Because it's just like the biggest free for all. It's like, I don't know why some people have like are so fucking loud and I don't know why some people listen to the other people. It's just a fucking- - And it's almost always biased. - Yeah, it's so biased. It's always a fucking mess. But dude, if Right Opinion makes like a video about you, I'm fucking listening.

- I was in one of his videos. - Yeah, exactly. - Jerry. - Yeah, I was in one of his videos. Thanks for that, by the way. - If I get destroyed by Right Opinion, I'm like, yeah, okay, I did something wrong. My bad, my bad. - But that's the thing, right? It's like when people were telling me that I was in a Right Opinion video, in my head I was like, yay, and,

shit at the same time. It's like, you got a cameo. - I got a cameo, but it's like, is it gonna be good? Is my career over? Oh my God. Luckily I was fine. - 'Cause he has like such a good skill in breaking down the key components about

what someone's like personal mistakes and maybe- - He just tells it how it is. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Without like, he is obviously biased, but every time he is like has any kind of bias in it, he says it upfront. And in the end he lets the viewer make their own opinion rather than telling the viewer how, what opinion they should have. Like he presents the facts, he presents his biases and then he doesn't say, "Hey, you should fucking hate this person." He just says, you make, it's kind of like you make your own opinion.

- Yeah, I mean, obviously I watched the fucking four hour video in one go 'cause I was fucking dying that day. - Nika Kata. - Disgusting. - I got like halfway through that. - It felt like it was just repeating at times, but that's 'cause he does repeat his real life multiple times, mistakes. I think the only video that I was kind of like, "Man." I think he made a video on like the animation community and I remember it feeling like, "All right, this is kind of like, all right, kind of meh." - Oh, is that the Danis' plan?

- No, no, no, that one was good. I liked that. It was like, it was talking about the animation community and I think how they all rely on each other for success. It was kind of like warning that they shouldn't, but like, I really didn't feel like it was like, I was like, okay, cool. I mean, it doesn't really say anything, but I mean, overall, yeah. I mean, just,

just amazing at presenting an opinion. Also, Frederick Knudsen, by the way, 'cause he didn't explain what it was. He does documentary on anything, basically. Just a documentary on anything. - Any one person or event or anything. - And it's so well done that it's just like, oh my God. Again, here's a video on Wings of Redemption who I had no idea who that was, but I watched the full two hour, 30 minute thing. It's amazing. It's so good. - It's nuts how people can just

make a compelling narrative about anything, especially when something where it's like, I never knew about this and never cared about it. But I guess now that I'm here, I'm invested. - Yeah, because I feel like I watched that content not only because it's entertaining, but I also like, as this is my job. - Oh, I can appreciate the work. - And like, I appreciate because they also break down as a YouTuber, like how the best way to present yourself online is and how, and the mistakes of what not to do. - Write that down.

- That's exactly the point, right? Because they break it down in such, they break it down so well that you can, like if this is your job and like social media is your job, then you can literally take advice about what not to do and the mistakes that other people have made. - It's like a self-help guide. - It really is. - All right, don't do that, no dude. Okay, wait, before we move on, like, okay, here's a question for you guys. Have you guys ever like rehearsed

I kind of like an apology video. - No, no, no. - You've never done, even though you've done nothing wrong, even though you've done nothing wrong, right? Come on, you must've thought about it at least once, right? - Oh yeah, in my head I've thought about it, but I've sat there in front of the mirror being like,

- Oh no, no, no, no, actually rehearsal. - Yeah, in my head I've thought about it. - I wake up every morning and I practice the sigh before it begins, you know, like, this is a really hard video to make. - In your head you've thought about it, you've thought like, okay. - Because there's a few ways to go about it, right? There's the double down, there's the do nothing, there's the apologize and admit wrongdoing.

And from what I've seen on YouTube, it seems to be unfortunately that people always want an apology, but the people who apologize to admit wrongdoing normally get the fucking worst treatment. I've noticed the people who double down normally get away with it. So other YouTubers, double the fuck down, just go with it.

- Every time, dull down. Because like, I don't have anything in my past that I expect I'm gonna need to make an apology video, but nobody fucking expects to need to make an apology video, right? So like, as you see, as a YouTuber, I see this trend happening, you know? I see like cancel culture happening and I'm just like, but what if I did need to make an apology? You know what I mean? - Like Vsauce music starts playing. I don't need to apologize, but what if I did?

- Do you watch any other like documentary channels similar to theirs? 'Cause I have a few actually, you know, on the note of YouTube, I think that,

Emperor Lemon makes good ones about YouTube. I don't know if I- - I know his name. I've probably seen a few of his stuff. - I feel like his presenting style, I don't really gel with, but I think the way that he talks about YouTube, I think is really well done. And he's clearly someone who is, I guess I can see parallels between me and the way that he talks about the internet and the way that like I was, you know, from like age 10, I was glued to the internet. He talks about like, you know, how,

- Realistically, let's say, I think you made a video about YouTube likes. So on paper, if you see 90% likes to dislike ratio, any mathematician would be like, that's great, that's great. That's nine to one. But a YouTuber sees that and thinks, oh fuck. - Why isn't it 95? - Exactly. - So he basically did a whole video explaining how the actual YouTube like ratio system is like 99% is good, 98% is you've probably pissed off a little bit of your audience. 95 is,

you've probably said something a little bit bad and anything below 90 is like you fucked up. - Yeah. - Which is true. - It is definitely true. - And he made a video as well that was really well done. I don't give a fuck about NASCAR. He did a bit of thing about NASCAR, it was really good. He also made a video about Hungrybox, a Smash player. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - And that was a really, really good documentary.

- I do like watching, I'm not subscribed to any of them, but I do like watching like smash compilations every now and then. - I mean the smash documentary that came out years ago was amazing on YouTube. - Oh, that was really good. - Was that the four hour smash documentary? - Yeah. - That was the documentary that got me into, not just got me into smash, but got me into YouTube documentaries.

- Yeah. - As well. I don't know who made that, but it was like this very famous four hour smash documentary that is like way out of date now because it detailed like the very, very start of the smash community. - Again, a human story. - Yeah, it is. - Good shit. They build up the characters of the story and it did it. Other channels if you guys like,

Frederick Knudsen, I know you probably don't know these channels. There's Anxiety War. I don't know if you've heard of them. They're not Anxiety War, sorry, sorry, fuck. There's the- - I don't subscribe to a lot of the documentary. - Yeah, like- - Because again, they just take up so much time. - True, there's not Anxiety War, sorry. I'll talk about him though later. He's fucking strange. - Who? - Atrocity Guide. She does videos similar to Frederick Knudsen. - I know that name. - Her voice is so fucking chilling and creepy that even the ones that aren't scary feel scary. And it's like .

- All right, what's gonna happen? What's gonna happen? Very good. - I'm not subscribed to him, but Jay Aubrey. - Jay Aubrey, yeah. - Every time his video comes up from my recommended, I'm just like, yeah, this seems like a, who's the guy who did like that, or who is doing the massive cross-check? - Okay, I was gonna get it. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's Gino Samuel 2.1. He lives in Japan, by the way. - Joey, do you wanna explain that? Because Connor showed us this the other day. - We'll talk about, we'll go to Jay Aubrey back in some other channels.

So there's a channel called Gino Samuel 2.1 and like his whole channel is dedicated to the history of Chris Chan. You know who Chris Chan is, he's very, very,

- Infamous. - Infamous online. And the whole point of, if you know what Kiwi Farms is, is a shit talking website. That whole website was made to document Chris Chang because there's so much information about this one person online. - He's probably the most documented person in history. That's like, it's kind of like- - I mean, we watched what? - Two episodes. - We watched two out of how many episodes?

- I think there are nearly 50 at the moment. - How long were the episodes? - Like 40 minutes each. - At least 40 minutes. - So we watched an hour and a half of like this- - Prologue. - This prologue, not even the fucking prologue. And the amount of information they got about this guy's life was just fucking mind blowing. - From like age five. - From age five. This episode is sponsored by Apari. - Shit, is that what I'm wearing right now?

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- And this is the shit I would wear normally. - That design is fucking sexy. - Honestly, that's a sexy ass design. - I also got some face masks, but they're at home 'cause they're dirty and I've been using them. - So put up an image, there you are. - And they are really fucking cute. I have the most stylish face masks, I do. I don't wanna like clown on others, but I did have the most stylish ones.

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then Apari is the place to go. So thank you to Apari for sponsoring this episode and back to the video. - So his whole channel is dedicated to discussing Chris Chan. And you're probably thinking like, there can't be that much on this dude. Like they've made like biopics about some of the most interesting people and they're only two hours long.

- We're on like part, like it's something near 50 or on 50. And the reason why channel is called like 2.1 is 'cause I've been watching this since like episode five. His channel got like taken down at one point, episode like 15 or something. And he decided to quit talking about it. I don't know what happened.

- 'Cause he got out, he came back. - He just, when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. - He's back doing it now. I don't know how far we are into it, but all the comments, and actually Chris Chan replies to every single video. - Really? - He tries to correct details.

- He doesn't even question about the fact that he's making videos. - Chris Chan seems to like it. Sorry, I think it's she now. So sorry for the dead naming. But yeah, it's really interesting and I hope that you keep finishing the thing and get to the end. I don't even wanna know how much the mental toll that takes. - How far are we through Chris Chan's life right now? - I think maybe halfway. I'm not sure. I don't know. - And how many hours of content do you think has been made

- About 30 plus at the moment. - Yeah, let's do the math. If like each episode is at least 30 minutes and it's 15, right? - There's like 15 episodes to just like Chris Chan being trolled. - Well, I mean, when you showed us that at your place, we watched the first two episodes and we hadn't even made it past age 10. - I mean, the majority of the videos have been about trolling with Chris Chan. - Yeah. - Good chance that they might reply to here, but I mean, it's super interesting. And if you wanna, it's so bad as well because

Chris Chan's like autistic and constantly says it constantly says high functioning autism. And in the documentary and you're like, you kind of like in the start, you really want to root for him because he's clearly just been unfortunate. - He's had a rough life. - And like, parents in it as well are like super questionable. And then the moment you're about to root for him, he's just like, I don't like gays. I think that blacks are like less than people. And it's like, God fucking damn it.

- He had us in the first half. - He literally had us in the first half and then it's like, God damn it, man. - You're so close. - Because it's like the Tiger King documentary, right? Like they want you to root for Joe Exotic, but they leave out all the racist shit that Joe was saying. - Yeah, yeah.

- It's just good storytelling, right? 'Cause what I find like fucking terrifying about the first two episodes of this documentary that I watched- - Sheer amount of information. - Yeah, the sheer amount of information and like just the sheer amounts of intimate information that I probably wouldn't even know about my own life at that age, let alone someone else's life. - So Chris Chan, one of the first things that opened up open wide, like the whole trolling thing is that

when it was all started and I'm sure the comments will correct me if I'm wrong on any of these details, 'cause people are all like historians about him. I think they're called Chris-torians. - Chris-torians. - Is what they call themselves.

- I love that, internet historians. - When they first started the Dramatica thread about him, the first thing that Chris did was just- - Correct it. - Correct it by overloading it with personal information, thinking that they would get bored. But he just gave them everything. And it was just, it was so, at that point- - Zero privacy. - I knew I was hooked because I was fascinated by it. - I just couldn't fucking believe that he was the one who invented Sonichu.

- Yeah, he's the one who made Sonichu. - Yeah, like I could like, 'cause Sonichu was just, if you don't know what Sonichu is, there's probably a picture of it on the screen, this monstrosity. Massive meme, right, on the internet. And for the longest time I saw that shit everywhere. And I was just like, where did this come from? But now I know, it's from the brilliant mind of Chris Chan. So thank you for that. - Other good channels that do documentaries, there's a guy called Toad McKinley and he did a two-part documentary on like Chris Hansen and that whole debacle. It was really good actually, that was good.

- And how long are these documentaries? 'Cause I know you watched more documentaries than like both of us combined. - A lot of documentaries you can leave on in the background, I feel. Like watching the Chris Chan ones, like they're so long and often it's basically playing a whole audio clip for 20 minutes. You get the gist. - Yeah, yeah. - It's just a podcast. It's a Christian podcast.

- It's just a podcast about Chris Chan with someone else narrating his life. - Yeah, exactly, exactly. - And obviously like I watched Jay Albrey as well. 'Cause I mean, I think Jay Albrey is good friends with Right Opinion. - Yeah, I can tell. - They help each other out. - Their styles are like similar, but different enough that their content stands out for themselves. But I kind of respect their content in the same way where they really know how to break down like how public perception can warp an opinion of a certain person.

- I think sometimes commentary channels, I don't like being told what my opinion should be. And I feel like sometimes some narration, like I think some videos in jail where you're like very like, they kind of like the way he narrates would be like, all right, you should think this way. I'm sure he doesn't intend to, that's just the way I like perceived it. But I mean, still amazing videos. - Yeah, it's either one way or the other way. If commentary channels either,

"I know you're a fucking clown, and I know no one's gonna fucking listen to you." Like, something like Keemstar, you know what I mean? Like it's either one way or the other, where there's like so many commentary channels I see that hit that middle ground, and try and think that they are like the fucking holy grail of opinions, where it's just like, dude, it's just- - And then you have some commentary channels that just kind of,

- Our commentary channels, like technically speaking, but just the way that they present shit and like the topics they choose just kind of go away from commentary. Like perfect example of that who I fucking love watching is Leon Lush. - I like Leon Lush. More humor focused I think. - Yeah, but technically he's a commentary channel, right? Like technically speaking, but like the way he presents it and the topics he covers is just like, just so, it's like Cody Ko, right? With like the, what's the series that he does where he cringes at shit?

I think it's just called cringe, right? - I don't really watch Cody Kerr or, what's the other guy? Curtis Conner, is it the other one? It's like those three, right? Yeah, 'cause I don't really watch them. I watch a lot of, I really like Danny Gonzalez. I think he's really funny. I think also the stuff he does where he like bought

this is video he made where he spent like $15,000 on YouTube ads. It was such a fucking good video. - Oh, I think I've seen that video. - That's such a good video. - I was like, I didn't know who you were talking about, but I remember watching that video. - He's also got such a good personality. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, and Drew Godden as well, obviously. Have you heard of the channel called Anxiety War?

- No. - I mentioned it briefly. He basically does how to catch a predator. Like that's his thing. - Right, right, right. - And he's a fucking psychopath. Like I don't know how you can, he spends all day talking to pedophiles. I don't know how you can do that. Like how do you do that? That's weird, right? - Yeah, that is weird. - But like he goes and meets up with them and like films them. And some of these dudes, there was one dude he met up with that was like eight foot or some shit. This guy's built like a brick shit house and he turned up pretending to be a girl.

- What? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so he goes up, he literally just does "How to Catch a Predator" but instead of going there with like armed police. He goes alone with like a camera and I'm like, you're insane. - That's how you die. - Does he have a clue or anything? - No, no, it's just him. He turns up with a handheld camera. - How many subscribers does he have? - Oh God, like over half a million. - It's like Chris Hansen hard mode. - Yeah, yeah. And like at one point I think- - One hill. - I think one of the, one time the predator, one of the predators, yeah, the predators tried to sue him. One of them did. I don't know if it worked out, but like,

Like the guy's got a strange personality as well when you're watching him. I'd watch it just for fascination, just to see how this guy does it. But man, it's such a weird presenting style and he's constantly like giggling to himself while he's recording it. It's really weird, but it's an interesting watch. I don't think it's like,

- It's something unnerving about watching it because the content that he's talking about and the way that he's talking about, like he's talking about like how he trolled someone on Xbox, but it's actually somebody who's trying to fuck a kid and it's like, okay, wow. - I kind of seeing a pattern with all the content you're recommending and it is very much you just like the human aspect, a human kind of story behind it, right? - There's a lot of channels that I like that,

I just think the guys are fucking weirdo and I don't really like the personality, but I think they're just so fascinating to watch. - I reckon you'd love this channel then that Aki recently recommended me called Soft White Underbelly. - That sounds familiar. - Yeah, they- - I've not heard of that channel. - It's this guy who basically, he's like this photographer guy, but he basically goes around like streets of LA and stuff like that and he picks up

like homeless people for whatever reason. And they bring him in to interview them and kind of like talk about their life and like why they're homeless and how they got there and shit like that. So like there's ones where he's like, you know, he like, he picks up a dude like from the street and like asks what he's about. And he ended up being homeless because he was, he like raped his mom or something or like did something like this, like insane crime. And these people just like fucking break down on camera, just talking about their life. And it's just, it's really raw, but it's,

it's so fucking interesting to watch just because you otherwise would never hear about these people's lives, right? And there's like no bullshit. Like there's no like,

like commentator or like presenter being like, so tell us your story about why you're homeless. It's just like, it's literally just listening to a dude try and communicate with this clearly broken person for whatever reason. And you just, some of these backstories, I'm just like, holy shit. Like how are you alive? - It's so 50/50 for me with those, especially when they're,

because I'm like, it's such a fine line between in my eyes being like genuine or just like taking advantage. - Well, like this is like kind of like reality TV. You know what I mean? Like it's kind of like the, I don't know, the backstory Olympics, you know what I mean?

- Yeah, right, right. - It's like an X factor audition. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, where it's just like, okay, who has the worst, most tragic backstory? Who do we wanna cheer for, right? - Yeah, that's why I'm always like, okay, some of them, like I could definitely see, God, there was a channel where like this guy interviews like meth heads and stuff. I can't remember the name off the top of my head,

but that's a really good channel. And he did like really raw emotional interviews. - Yeah, I feel like though, like with the way that you present it, like I've seen a bunch of his videos and they all seem pretty fucking genuine. - That's just like gut feeling. - I mean, if you say so, I trust you. - It's a gut feeling, like I've seen the fake ones before and this one definitely doesn't seem like the fake ones. - Just a lot of them where it's like sad music, Royalty Three, and then they've picked up some like crack,

- You know if there's like fucking like sad music in the back of it, it's probably fucking scripted, right? It's like, you must feel sad now because of the sad music. - It's not even, it's also like the sad music, you know they've gone from the YouTube library 'cause you've heard it a million times before on like other channels. - I see you're also using Kevin MacLeod.

- I was in a shopping mall the other day and I was walking past like this makeup section and they were using that fucking ukulele. - Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun

- That fucking ukulele YouTube stock music. - That's my favorite piece of music. Just because I can envision every video that uses it. It's like way too like fucking white. The white balance is just completely off. It's like way too bright, way too sunny. The background is way too clean. And it always starts with the "Hey guys."

- Today's my outfit of the day. - I look back to that period and just think, why ukulele? Why did every vlogger at one point have a ukulele? - Because you can't be sad listening to a ukulele. You can't play it like, oh shit, I'm about to cry. Fucking ukulele. - But it's also the kind of like, my family is dying around me and I'm crying.

- Do you guys like "Report of the Week?" - I love "Report of the Week." - I love "Report of the Week." - He is like in a league of his own in terms of content. - I also think of him as like a category of creator. Like I can often compare creators to him in the sense of like, that's the kind of charm that they have. - Well, what other creators do you think are like?

- I was about to say like Buff Carell, I wanted to shout out my boy Buff Carell. Like, okay, how do you describe Buff Carell as a channel? - It is just, you can never like leave one of his videos not being happy. Like just a guy like literally Buff Carl, that's his name, he's Buff. He dances and sings. His singing is horrible, but in such an endearing and funny way that like you love it. - 'Cause a boy can dance.

- The boy can fucking dance and he's buff as fuck as well. - Oh my God. I love this man so much. - The first time you watch any of his videos, everyone goes on the same trip where like he starts dancing. You're like, okay, this boy can dance. - Please, please pause this video and go and watch my video. - And then he opens his mouth and it's just like the fucking worst singing you've ever heard. But then he does it with such self confidence that you're like, damn.

- Yeah, man, I can only respect that. - You know what he is? He's the epitome of like, this is what I do in my room when I'm alone. But I decided to get a camera and start recording myself. - He's so happy, dude. Like you're just like, man, I love it. - It's fucking, it's so infectious. Like my dream is to one day have a fucking karaoke sesh with Buff Carell. Please, Buff Carell, come to Japan. We'll have you in Trash Taste and go to a karaoke sesh. That is like my fucking dream.

- That is on my fucking list of things to do before I die. - And I love as well, like the little Easter AC throws around, like the fact that he has a picture of himself on his wall. - Yeah, I love that. - It's so endearing. - And the fact that the camera quality is like the same fucking low HD fucking five pixel cameras. - And he's like, the thing I love is

- What I love is that he's not even pointing the camera at himself, he's pointing it at a mirror that has a reflection of him. - Epic, dude, epic. It's cinematography. - That's the thing, right? It's channels like that, like him and "Report of the Week" where it's like,

I don't care if this is a joke or if they're being 100% serious, it's still entertaining. - I would be impressed if they were putting that on. Because there's no way that that kind of genuine happiness can not radiate. - But it's the age old question, right? Like with "Report of the Week", like is that actually how he is or is he just doing this joke until it catches on? - I don't wanna know.

- Yeah, right, right. But like, that's like kind of like half the fun. - I love the memes. I love the memes of report. - But it's just kind of like this content creator who I feel like they just be themselves, but part of their personality is so fucking infectious that you cannot watch a video and not come out happier. And I mean, I could be having the shittest day, put on a Buff Carell video. I'm like, okay, my days better. How can I be sad when he's not sad? You know what I mean?

- How can I be having a shitty day? - When he's pulling off these sick moves. - Exactly, man. - Dude, Bob Curl's Twitter is the most like blessed cursed thing I've ever seen. - Is it really? I'm vibing for it. - Because like, I think like three times a day he posts a selfie of himself. - Hell yeah. - With like no caption. - From different angles.

It's the most like, it's like a dude who just loves himself so much, but you can't hate him for it. - I love that, I love that. - It's like you have so much self-confidence and man, I respect that. - 'Cause it's just like, I can't like quantify into words, but like what is the line between like vanity and self-confidence? And Bob Carrell, like he fucking obliterates that line 'cause he's so vain yet you just feel happy for him. There's no negative feelings, it's just, ah.

- I fucking love him, man. - I fucking love him, man. - There's this channel that's, I don't know why it gives me "Report of the Week" vibes. It might be an insult, I don't know, but it's called Project Farm, right? All he does is just review engine oil and tools.

And he'll like review like different tapes. - There is truly a channel for everything. - Yeah. - And he's just so, like there was a video and he'd reviews like flex tape, gorilla tape and compares them all. And like, I don't give a fuck about any of this but he's so passionate about reviewing these things and it's so genuine. - What's that fucking channel that reviews all of the locks?

- Oh, lock pick lawyer. - Yeah. - I love as well. - I feel like he's like low key one of the funniest creators on the platform. - I love it. Indestructible lock in the title, 20 second video. It's like, oh, okay. All right, he's just gonna pick this.

- So lock picking lawyer is a lawyer and his whole channel, he's like a lock picking expert. And he just, it's so funny because he's built up so many in jokes. Cause he's just, he's insane at picking locks. - And like all his delivery is so dry. He's like, he's got like the driest delivery you can ever imagine. But that's why every time he makes a joke, it just hits every time. - That was like, yeah, that was a video that he made for April fools that was,

breaking into my girlfriend's back door. - It was like ex-girlfriend, right? - It was like full of innuendos and like, oh, it was so funny. It was so funny. - It was like, she didn't let me in the front door, so I guess I have to go in through the back door now. - And then there was like rust on the key that he actually put there. He's like, I've got to get rid of the brown residue.

- You just gotta make sure the hole's like well lubricated so you can fit in the key and everything. - I love that shit. - Like normally anyone else this would be like third grade humor, but he's like the way he delivers it was just so perfect. - It's the dry humor man. - It fucking kills me. - Such a good channel. - Yeah. - Fuck who else is like. - I think one of my favorite video of his was like when,

I can't remember the exact video name, but it was like some guy who had sent him a lock that he tried to get picked by like a professional lock pick or something. - Oh, and he said it was impossible. - Yeah, and he said it was impossible. But I saw this one guy on YouTube do it, and he just fucking destroys this lock in seconds.

- It's like, if you can do it in less than two minutes, I think the challenge was, he did it in like 10 seconds. Like he just, he sees a lock and it's already picked when he picked it up. Like, I don't know how this man does it. - He's just hockey man. He's just like hockey, like unlocks it. - And it's the best part is there's no bullshit to these videos. - There's no arrogance. He just, he's someone,

- He doesn't need to flex. - He's just really fun. - There's minimal intro, they're all three minutes long, but you get exactly what you want. You normally end up like laughing or giggling. Like it's just such- - I love these like non bullshit channels. Like I like Daily Dose of Instant as well, just because it's just no bullshit. Here's just like Reddit top page, you know? With no filler, you know what I mean? - From what I've seen on Twitter, he's such a nice dude as well. - Yeah, yeah, exactly.

- So, okay, this is like super, I guess it's kind of old, but you know, I'm a cutie pie. - Yes. - You know, he was a league pro. - He's more of a streamer now, isn't he? - He's a streamer now. And like, I want to talk about him 'cause like,

I just think he's so funny and he looks like a homeless man. That's like the joke. And for like, I don't know why, but for like six months in my life, I could not get to sleep unless his videos are playing in the background. He's got such a chill voice. - He does have like that chill Jesus vibe, you know what I mean? - Right, right, right. - He sounds like he's permanently stoned. - That's exactly what I thought. - He's so chill. And yeah, no, I mean, he hasn't been uploading that much recently. So I think he's been going through some stuff, but I love your channel, man. Keep it up. I love you, man.

- Man, what other channels do you guys like? - I mean, if we're talking about league streamers or league content creators, there's one content creator. - I had my head out.

- There's one content creator I wanna shout out which is Gbay99, which I've been following his channel for a long while. And he used to make like very, let's say like- - YouTubery videos. - YouTubery league videos, which is just like, you know, Road to Diamond where he basically tries to, you know, get his account to like High Diamond or High Master or whatever. But recently it's been, you know when you see a content creator evolve and you feel like that proud father?

- Yeah. - That's been me with G-Bay because recently he's been starting to do these really in-depth league documentaries where- - And even if you don't like league, I think you can still enjoy it 'cause it's such a good story. - Yeah, because he basically breaks down some of the most interesting stories in terms of like the league e-sports scene because he has two passions. He's really passionate about sports and he's really passionate about league.

So what he does is he basically makes these league documentaries that are basically just sports documentaries. And he goes through this entire history or this narrative and breaks it down like it's a big sporting event. You know what I mean? - If you like Summoning Salt, you'll like him. I think he's also said in videos that he's been inspired. The reason why he started doing that content was 'cause he saw Summoning Salt. And obviously speed running is really specific. And he thought, okay, well I can make it about league.

- It's been great 'cause I've seen his transition. 'Cause he used to make videos. He was one of those people that made videos dailies, right? And then he got to this point where he was just like completely burnt out and then he became the update video channel.

- There was a period in his career where like every two videos was an update video. And it's like, I'm working on something big and I'm just, there's a new direction in my channel. And then he made like his first big documentary. And then he went from uploading every day to uploading once every three months. But it's like, every one of his videos is a fucking banger now. - Right. - So good. - Because every one of his, every story he chooses to present is like super interesting.

And as someone who like, didn't like, I was like, before like came out as an anime fan or something, I would like, you know, pretend to be like a fucking sports fan and everything like that. And so seeing him present League in the same way that, in the same compelling way that I see a lot of like sports documentaries and sports fans talk about their own sports was like so refreshing 'cause nobody did it before him. And I thought it was just like so obvious that someone could do this basically.

- Right, right. - There's also a Exile who does like super, that's more like League stories. - Yeah. - It's still really good though. - I really enjoy Exile. - But that's like hard to recommend to people who don't know League. - Yeah. - What are some gaming creators that you like apart from the Pokemon ones? 'Cause do you watch Angry Video Game Nerd?

- Every now and then I do. I like, 'cause I kind of grew up watching AVGN and like, I like going back 'cause like all of his old stuff is on YouTube still. - No, no, yeah, I know, I know, I love it. - So like, I love going back and watching like the Spider-Man episode. Like that's still my favorite one. - I think it's just nice in YouTube, I think, where the platform is just constantly changing. Everything's changing. It's just nice having an anchor, like,

Angry Video Game Nerd. It's just a constant, right? Like, you know, whether I enjoy the content, you know, it depends on the video, right? But it's just nice having a creator who's consistent, no drama, just constantly makes bangers. - I think recently he made an Earthbound video, which was fucking- - That was such a good video. - Such a good video. - That was like last year, I think, but it was really good. - Every so often I go back and see like the parallels between what happened to Angry Video Game Nerd and what happened to Nostalgia Critic.

- It's kind of crazy, yeah. - Oh my God. - It's so jarring to see the evolution or the devolution. - Because they were like the top two, right? - They were like the top two fucking media critic reviewers. And just seeing like angry video game nerd being the anchor and then whatever the fuck happened to Nostalgia Critic. - Did you see his game show? - No, I didn't. - Nostalgia Critic? - Yeah, he did a game show. He funded it like via crowdfunding. A channel called...

Ralph the Movie Maker, I don't know who that is. He does really good movie reviews, really funny guy. Really like Gordon Ramsay-esque, like just really brutal, but really funny. Don't agree with this takes always, but yeah, really good guy, really fun, good channel. But he did a video about the Nostalgia Critics Game Show and it is.

Like it looks like a school project and they spent like, they spent like anything like $50,000 on it. - Right. - And it's garbage. Like it's bad. - Have you like, remember that period in like YouTube reviewers where they had to have like a fucking story behind the reviews? Do you remember that period? - Yes. - Where it was like channel awesome. - They used to do two hour reviews, do you remember that? And like the first 30 minutes was like a garbage skit.

- Yeah. - Whereas ABGN was like, I can do that, but condense it into like 15 minutes max. - I think because it's also mega cheesy. Whereas like, I think Nostalgia Critic is, they're like the same thing, right? - Yeah. - The same quality, but almost, I mean, that's kind of an insult to, but they're kind of the same thing where they're like,

cheesy, obviously like- - Very tongue in cheek. - Very tongue in cheek. - They're playing a character as well. - But obviously the two wanted to be seen differently. Nostalgia Critic wanted to be seen as like mega professional, whereas Angry Video Game Nerd was happy being like, "It's tongue in cheek, it's camp." - Yeah, exactly. - And that's so endearing, whereas seeing Nostalgia Critic try to be like,

What's the fucking movie he made? It was like the Holy Grail or something. That was like two hours long and it was terrible. - I swear, like Nostalgia Critic has done so many fucking side projects that have just ended up being absolutely shit. Like he made a fucking parody album of Pink Floyd's The Wall. - Oh, that was so fucking-

- Oh my God, I remember that. - And I didn't, as someone who's like, "The Wall" is like one of my favorite fucking albums. It's an album that's adored by everybody. The movie as well is fucking amazing. And then I listened to that album. I got like two songs in, I'm just like, I can't. But then I watched fucking needle drops. - Yes, yes. - Of him absolutely destroying it. And I'm like,

- Yes, this is why I love you Anthony. - Yeah. - So fucking good. - It was just seeing a creator just trying to do something that was so unnecessary. - Yeah. - You know what I mean? Like it's like you said, it was someone who obviously wanted to be respected and be seen as like someone who did something great, but it was just so like,

- How can I word this? - Self-indulgent. - Yeah, it was very self-indulgent. - And it was extra cringy as well, just seeing that he was clearly trying to be funny and edgy about it, being like, "I'm gonna trash all over this album that everybody loves." I'm like, "Not everyone likes this album, dude. Just chill out." - The Nostalgia Critic is an OG YouTube channel that reviewed movies, by the way.

- Did we mention that? - I'm assuming that everyone who's listening to this episode gives somewhat shit. - Nevermind about him, watch "Needle Drop", he's great. I fucking love him. - I like Anthony Quintana. He was in "New York Times" as well recently, that was cool. - Oh yeah, true, true. - I almost never agree with his opinions, but fucking hell that guy can-

- But that's the thing I like about critics. The good ones on YouTube is that like, I don't have to agree with them, but like, damn, they're entertaining. - Yeah, their input is still interesting. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I think like there's a lot of movie channels like that. Like yourmoviesucks.org. - Yeah. - I like his channel a lot. He did a really good video on like the Lion King and Kimba comparison. It's like two hours fucking long. It's a really fucking good video. I really like his channel. I mean, obviously I don't agree with all the opinions. - There's also probably one of my favorite movie critic guys is a guy called Spooky Rice.

- Oh, I showed you that, right? - Yeah, I think you and Aki were like super into it. - Yes, I showed Aki 'cause he reviewed like- - All the horror, like gross horror movies. - The worst horror, disgusting movies. - Right. - And he manages to be able to sit through it enough times that he can write a comprehensive review about it. But you just, none of it comes in because he shows it as well when it happens. - But like imagine that YouTuber, Ukulele Music, that kind of personality reviewing like a horror thing like,

- Yeah, so then he ate the shit and it's like, what? Why are you saying it like- - I didn't really like that scene though. - Yeah. - I fucking love as well his intro, which is like- - Goku or something? - No, he's like, "Cue the Gohan." And then he has a logo and then fucking creepy Gohan just shows up. I'm like, there's nothing, he just likes Gohan, I guess. I'm like, all right, I respect that. - What's your opinion on YouTube intros?

- 'Cause I personally don't use it. - I mean, sometimes I think that I have to do it to explain roughly what's gonna like the premise 'cause sometimes the title doesn't really explain it and I wanna explain it.

- I try to keep to a minimum. - Yeah, my intro is like two, three seconds long. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm not like fucking AVGN where I have a fucking theme song attached to it. - I don't mind if you have an intro, if it like serves a purpose, but the ones where it really, really pisses me off are like tutorials. - Yeah. - I don't want- - Oh my fucking God. - I fucking hate tutorial channels or help channels that have a fucking intro. - It's not even a tutorial or help channel. Fucking when I...

I don't know why every time I want to look for a fucking Sony Vegas tutorial, there's always that fucking. They're always fucking editing some Cod footage. I don't know why it's always Cods. - And then on top of that, they make like a bullshit, like five minute intro, like trying to put in their personalities. I don't care. I just want to know how to edit this thing. - Okay, so you picture it, right? You're trying to install Windows. You get to the guy like,

- Yo, what's up fam? We just hit 5,000 subs. I think we can get 6,000 if you really like this. So if you like this video, don't forget to comment, like, subscribe, 'cause today we're gonna be reviewing the Windows installer.

And when we break down the Windows install and it's like, oh my God, just tell me how to install Windows. And then it's like literally like 10 seconds. - If we hit 500 likes, I'll do it. Windows 8 install. - You know it's fucking redundant when you do a Google search and like how to solve X problem. And they pull up the YouTube video that you need and literally skip a minute and a half ahead to be like,

"Here, Google's like here, "here's where I think you'll enjoy starting. "You don't need this fucking intro." - Even the Google system is aware of how shit and pointless the intro is. - I've optimized it. What I do is two monitors, right? You throw the tutorial in one tab and you go to text on the main tab. So you go through the text and if you can find it on the text before it gets mentioned in the video, you win. - Yeah. - No, it's so fucking shitty, right? Because you have this like minute and a half of intro. So what you do is you start watching at times two speed. Then the fucking tutorial itself, they speed through the information so fast that you're like,

- Hold on a second there. You have to fucking skip back to be like, yo, yo. - It can be like a five minute video and the tutorial is like the last 30 seconds. - Yeah, exactly right. - So egregious. - Oh my God. - I have some other gaming channels that I think. - Yeah, I got some gaming channels as well. - I know that you watch Darkmane as well. I think Darkmane is really funny. - Yeah. - Really good comedic delivery. Like jokes, he's literally the definition of jokes that aren't funny, but when you deliver them well, they're just so fucking hilarious.

- Yeah. - He's so funny. And I met him once. I don't think he remembers 'cause it's very briefly, but he was super, he was the exact same as his videos. - Yeah. - He does mainly, he blew up with Lee content, but he does general gaming stuff as well. - Yeah. - Just a really odd guy. - Yeah. - Just really funny. - Is he exactly like he is in his videos? - When I met him, he seemed like that. - Okay. - So he does- - That's always endearing. - Yeah. - He does like,

a very like, what's it like dry delivery of like unfunny jokes, sometimes funny jokes, but either way it's always funny. And I met him in real life and he was wearing like, he was dressed up as Thanos. He had like purple, 'cause he's purple. - Right, right, right. - He had like a glove on and I met him and he, for some reason he just like completely unrelated was like, "I'm Thanos." And I was like,

I see that. - Sick. - And I was like, all right. 'Cause I met his friend, Red Ride as well. He's pretty funny dude, really nice guy. Makes great content. I think also, oh, who were we on? - Yeah, one of my favorite gaming content creators is Corey Gaming.

- About the fighting game stuff? - Yeah, about the fighting game. He does some of the best analytical content on YouTube, in my opinion, because his content is all about fighting games, but he breaks it down in a way that's so general that anyone that, one, makes you fucking interested in fighting games, even though I have zero interest in fighting games, you know what I mean? I have zero interest, zero knowledge about fighting games.

I come out of a Corey gaming video. I'm like, yeah, you know. - You are the type of dude who sees like a how to tutorial and like how to start fishing. Garnt's like buying a rod on Amazon. Like that is so Garnt. Garnt gets in, Garnt like, you watched the AlphaGo documentary, right? And like the next week after Garnt watched this documentary about Go, he was like, I want to buy a Go board.

- Let's play Go. - Go is close, fuck no. - No, because my one niche is watching videos I have zero interest in. - I like that too. - But watching a content creator basically be able to break it down in a way that makes me interested

- That is my niche and interest. And that is what I wanna do with like anime to like with my own content. And that's like the content creator I respect. So like with Corey gaming, he like breaks down fighting games on like, I think like a social level. He goes into like the psychology of why people act the way they do in fighting games. Like some, honestly, I think like every video he's done is a banger when it's like an analysis video. But he literally like,

breaks down the psychology of what goes into like the fighting game community. Why salt in the fighting game community is like such a big thing. And he also has like some really interesting stories

in between all of this analysis. And it's just like the complete package. It's everything you want in an analytical video, but it's just fighting games. But you can have zero interest in fighting games and you can appreciate what he does because a lot of his analysis can be applied to pretty much just life in general. Like there's a lot of like, he ends,

a lot of his videos with like a nice little message, you know what I mean? Which can be applied to a lot of things in life. - Like something you can take away. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - I need to watch more of his stuff 'cause I don't think I'm subbed, but. - Yeah, I gotta check him out. - I think another, a few other gaming channels I like,

obviously little curbs who does the Mario speed runs. The best shit post of all time. Cause obviously donkey, which we all like everyone loves the guy who does the Bowser's big. - So donkey did like the whole joke in his Mario maker video. If you guys don't know donkey, I mean, you should know donkeys at the biggest gaming channel.

he did a video where he like made his own level and got the world record on it and was like bragging about it. And then obviously donkey makes any excuses in his videos when he can't beat up Mario, make a level like, Oh, you know, my little brother was playing. I was playing with a USB steering wheel. So this, this YouTube creator, little curves, you also is just a God at Mario, absolute God who gets like the world record on everything. Like I think he's won like every,

Nintendo speed run competition on Mario maker. He did a video where he obviously did, did donkey's course blindfolded with a steering wheel. It's so fucking good. Like I love that level of shitposting. - It was such an amazing shitpost, but there's also like a second layer of enjoyment actually seeing him

- Like he's actually insane. - He's an actual fucking god. - It's shit posting has gotten to the point where you need to be like the shit posting itself is just your pure skill. - Yeah. - You know what I mean? - It's insane. It's so good. And also other gaming creators that I like, I don't know if you've seen Nitro Rad. He just just like- - I know the name. - He's like 30 minute like essays on gaming. And it's just like, it's like that warm feeling of like watching YouTube in 2014. - Right, right, right. - Just being closed up, you know? Just watching someone talk about video games. Really like just,

- Passionate. Like, I don't think, I think there's nothing that's like, oh my God, he's hilarious. Or like, there's nothing that's like mega, like, whoa, super unique. Just all around, just a great package. Just super such a nice guy and just seems really into it and really loves his gaming stuff. - That's always the basis. One gaming YouTuber I like, like I kind of respect for a different reason is Relax-A-Lax.

Just because like I got into him because he did this like amazing analytical video on persona five. And like, I respect him because his editing is fucking next level. And it's like, it's so bittersweet watching a dude who is like relatively not that big on the YouTube sphere who can just fucking crank out like these

incredibly well edited videos, right? I mean like the whole reason why like, you know, our editor Moodon, like the reason why I got into his stuff is because that dude's editing on his videos is fucking next level, right? And it's just like, I don't know. I respect him as a YouTuber and as someone who edits like videos and whatnot. And I'm just like, if anything, I've gotten a lot of like good editing ideas, like creative ideas from his videos being like, oh shit, I never thought to.

do something like that. But that's pretty cool. - I felt bad for the dude, 'cause I think he got in a bit of drama. - Yeah, he did, didn't he? - And I think he was like, I mean, I don't know what was right and wrong, but I think that he was uploading a lot of videos about it to his channel. And I was like, "Dude, I don't think you should upload this many videos." - Yeah. - Yeah. - I think he uploaded like two videos in the space of a week about it. And I was like, "No, don't do this, man." - Just double down, dude. We've established, just double down. - I do wanna also mention that,

if we did recommend any YouTubers that turn out to have done some fucked up stuff. Yeah, we don't know that. We're just recommended based on purely content. - We're separating the creators from the creation as much as possible. - And also we don't follow everything going on. - I mean, a lot of these dudes, we just watch and like the content. We don't keep up with what they do in their personal life. Whatever they do, that's on them. But like, yeah, I'm sure one of these creators you mentioned is gonna be like, they've murdered somebody. - They touched a kid or something. - Exactly right. - 'Cause obviously when PewDiePie recommended YouTubers, he got in shit for that.

- Yeah, right. - I mean, but yeah, I wanna make that known that any creators that we recommend, please don't witch hunt us for it. - Yeah, yeah. - Also finally, I have one last gaming creator that I wanna recommend. So I've been watching this guy for like forever. He's called like Cadicurus and he did like, his whole thing way back was that he used to do just PS1 game reviews. - Right. - And it was kind of sad 'cause I felt like he'd stagnated for a long time, just doing PS1, PS2 games. And it was kind of like, all right,

- Right, nice, and he wasn't really growing much. And then I'd say like last year he really turned it around and started doing some really damn good videos, like insane amounts of effort, like hour long videos about like skateboarding games and he's just really upped it. And like the amount of edits in this dude's videos are insane. And he's just broadening out a lot more and he's just making some really good shit right now. So if you like gaming content and also he's British and it feels sometimes like his jokes are like British kids TV shows. And it's like, it's weird because like you can see- - Like how so?

very stupid and very like, I don't know, very crack heady. And it feels very childish at times, but it's just, it's good. And you know, if you're a 12 year old, you can enjoy it. And if you're a 24 year old, like I am, you can still enjoy it. And it's a bit silly, but it's good. - Are we talking like poo poo pee pee levels of joy? - Sometimes, yeah. - I dig for that. - It's just like, it's just nice. Like you said earlier, it's nice seeing a creator just step it up and really like, I just want to give credit where credit's due. - It's especially nice to see a creator step up when they haven't

made 70 update videos about them leveling up. It's like, just level up. - It's hard when you're a creator, when you're stagnating, I've been there. It's really hard to just be like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna put all this effort in. I'm gonna take a risk. It might not work out. - Just try something new and see if it works. - And most of the time it doesn't work out, but you have to keep it up. You have to keep taking those risks to get those rewards.

And it's nice seeing, 'cause I can relate someone who's stuck in doing fucking black Butler for like two years. I can really relate to getting out of it. And I really wanna give credit where credit's due. - Yeah, 'cause I feel like there is a space for update videos, but at the end of the day, the audience like for the most part, don't really give a shit. You know what I mean? If you're gonna drop something big, then just drop something big. If you're not, then you're like,

what you can convey in an update video can be conveyed within your next project. Unless it's gonna be like, I'm gonna be away for like a fucking month or two, you know what I mean? And that's just, at this point, that's just like calling in sick for your best. You know what I mean? Like, "Right gang, I'm not gonna be uploading for a month, just calling in sick." - It's also the element of surprise, right? Like I've noticed that like whenever I upload something big or something completely different with no pre-warning whatsoever, it usually does better than if you do give some kind of hints to it because,

people aren't expecting it. And therefore I think it gets people talking about it more. - I think it's unfortunate, but at the end of the day, YouTube, it doesn't recognize the comments. It doesn't recognize any of that. It recognized clicks and watch time. So if you can get that, that's a bigger statement than being like, "Hey guys, I'm gonna do something big." - Yeah, exactly. - One niche YouTuber I wanna recommend is Marshall McGee.

And he is basically a professional sound designer who breaks down sound designs in like games and movies and anime. - Oh, cool. - And it's like, I feel like, because he's only like at like 50,000 subscribers or something, but I feel like it's because sound design is such a niche topic that nobody thinks about, but he breaks it down into like, basically he hears like a sound from like Dark Souls or something. And he was like, okay, here's how I would like make this sound. And he like,

breaks down this entire process of like layering. - Oh, it's really hard. - Every sound he does. And it just like,

I feel like sound design is one of those topics that just doesn't get enough appreciation. - Oh yeah, it's insane. - Yeah, and I feel like a channel like Marshall McGee, like breaking down what actually goes into this is like super interesting as well. Just like how much effort and like knowledge it takes to be like, okay, this is what I think, like how would you take a sound that doesn't exist and like create it in your head and like actually make the sound that like you hear in your head

into an actual SFS. - Yeah, I mean, it's like the cartoon sounds like a boing. Like what makes a boing sound? Nothing makes a boing sound.

- I remember seeing a video a while back. I don't know if it's still up. It was really old video of this guy who broke down one sound in one cartoon and it was the fucking, you know in Scooby Doo, you know when they go running? - Oh, the running sound? - Like that sound. It was just a video breaking down how they made that sound and why it's so iconic. And just finding out what it was and like how they made it and shit and like how they came up with that idea.

- How do you even think of that? - Yeah, exactly. - It's like, it's just so, it's so, it's something that you just weren't expecting. It's like, oh, it's probably just like a bunch of mallets. It's like, nope, completely wrong. - It's also strange. I mean, like, like think about getting punched. When you punch, it doesn't make a punch sound. You just get punched. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was another video where I saw like a Foley artist explaining like how Hollywood makes the punching sounds. - And they break leak to break bones.

- Yeah, yeah, it's like breaking celery to make bones crack and shit like that. It's like, shit's so interesting. I definitely do watch a lot of like music-based YouTubers. - Yeah, I think some music ones I like, there's a guy called Joe Jeremiah. He doesn't upload much, but he does like melodies of like games and anime shows, like piano. It's really good. Just good melodies, I feel like melodies. - We're counting the Seth Everman as like,

- Seth Everman, obviously. - The greatest shitpost channel. - Yeah. - That's the one thing I fucking love about like the music YouTuber community is that- - It's all shitpost. - The shitposting game is on another fucking level. - It's so shitposty and yet they're all so fucking talented. - Yeah, like obviously like Davey504 as well. - Yeah, Davey504 and like Seth Everman's another one. And like, even like,

you know, like John Sudano was another one. Like the fucking, like the fat dude who like- - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Did covers of all these songs but replaced the lyrics with Smash Mouth. - Shitty flute as well. - Oh yeah, shitty flutes.

I don't know, like a lot of the music content I consume is mostly just shit posting. - Oh yeah. - You know what I mean? - And music channels. - There's only so much you can do with it. And they've gotten really creative with shit posting. - Yeah, yeah. - It's gone so good. - 10 Second Songs is another one that's like super talented dude. But at the end of the day, you finish the video and you're like, I just watched a shit post.

That was a shit post, but it's so good. - Do you guys watch any like horror YouTubers? Any horror boys? - Define horror YouTubers. - Like talk about horror? - Like Corpse Husband and stuff like that? - Yeah, not really. - No, Corpse Husband isn't horror, is he? Or used to, but he's just music, right? - I mean, he used to do like creepypasta stuff, right? - I guess so, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, Mr. Creepypasta liked this. - Or like Mr. Creepypasta and stuff like that. - I don't watch Mr. Creepypasta. I met him in real life, I think. - Oh, really? - Did you? - Yeah.

- How was he? - A little odd. I mean, I feel like it takes a quirky personality, right? He was nice, but you know, odd by my British. I mean, most Americans are odd. I'm trying to save this now.

- You were very pleasant, but I guess you were a little bit odd, right? - Wait, don't we have an entire clip of that, which is like Americans are different species of human? - Yeah, we do. - Check out that clip. - There's obviously Rainbot who did the Mr. Anime video. - Oh, that one.

- My unexpected cameo in that one. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh yeah. - There's a next photo, some pretty good ones as well. I really like his video, "A Redditor's Dive Into Turmoil." That's really good, have you seen that? - Oh, no. - That's about where the woman who asked a subreddit for help, a man asked to help a subreddit to get custody of her kids. And then the wife killed them both when she saw the subreddit.

- Yikes. - And it's just a really- - I know that story. I have seen the video though. - I've showed you. It's really like, you just didn't expect the video to go that way. It's a really just chilling video and I highly recommend it.

I mean, I spoiled it. I recommend it. - I mean, we all know the best horror channel is a Chills. My boy Chills. - Oh God. - The greatest- - Number 10, Burger King Foot lettuce. - Dude, I can't tell you how fucking happy I was that I was in one of his videos. And he said my name. I was like, I've made it as a YouTuber. Like that's, it's peak. - Have you seen the video where he just talks? He's such a genuine and nice guy as well. Chills.

- Yeah, because that's just how he talks, right? - Yeah, that's how he talks. - Yeah, because everybody thinks he's like purposely trying to make this like annoying accent, but like I've seen videos where he just like talks off script. That's just how he talks. - You just wanna give him a high five. - Yeah. - He's so nice, bless him. - Dude, Chills, I fucking love you. Like, please come onto the podcast. It would be the most amazing sounding podcast. - Also a guy who popped up not too long ago, Barely Sociable. He does really good videos. He did a really good video on the Silk Road as well. - Oh, I might have seen that. - What's the Silk Road?

It was the website that was famous on the deep web for selling drugs. - Oh, okay. - And I thought it was some like mastermind criminal organization, but it turned out it was just some dudes like petty infighting about getting control. - I feel like I've seen a lot of these guys' content on like my recommended. - Probably. - And I've watched it. It's because like, it's not the type of content I would subscribe to. But like if it's an interesting enough topic, I'm willing to fucking click on anything on my recommended.

- What about educational channel boys? What educational channel do you guys watch? - Oh, I mean, Vsauce is the one that they haven't uploaded in a while. - Is it even Vsauce anymore? 'Cause he's doing like minefield or mine. - Yeah, I haven't seen any of those. - He had a channel called Dong, do you remember that? - I remember that. - And then YouTube forced him to change it to like Ding because Dong was like,

- I can't believe that, that's awful. - Are we counting like engineering fucking videos? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course. - Educational? Because I feel like engineering has had like a fucking resurgence within this past few years. Thanks to creators like Michael Reeves, William Osmond. - Mark Rober. - And Mark Rober. And like I didn't,

Like I wish they were around when I was in fucking university. - Yeah, right? - Because I didn't know engineering could be cool until they started making content, man. - I think especially the shit posting ones like Michael Reeves. I mean, I found Michael Reeves when he was doing like, when he was branded as like the laser guy. - Yeah. - He made one video about a laser pointing in his eye. And for like months, his channel was like everything

- It was the laser dude. - Yeah, and it's so cool seeing him blow up and also just making engineering cool. Like him and William Osman and Mark Rober. - I think the latest video, the latest creator I discovered was Stuff Made Here. - Oh, I love Stuff Made Here. - And he's just like someone who is just, I don't know what it is about him that like stands out like even more 'cause he's not a shit poster one. He's like a very serious engineering one but he just makes these really cool contraptions and some of the stuff he makes,

It takes so much effort. - It's insane how high the bar for like good engineering is. Like the explosive bat. - Yeah. - What the fuck? - He made a baseball bat that has like four shells in it. So when you hit it, it explodes and eject a thing that shoots the baseball. - Basically the concept was he wanted to make a baseball bat that anyone could use to like get a home run.

- Right, right. - To like, yeah, break the world record for home run. And so he fucking just fucking puts shotgun shells into this baseball bat. And he breaks down his entire process about how to make this feasible. And it's like the first problem he had to overcome was like, he made a baseball bat that worked, but anyone who would use it would fucking break their arm if they used it, right? And it's like his level

or his like knowledge and level of engineering is just like on a different fucking scale. - Fantastic presentation as well. - And great presentation. - There's actually a Japanese YouTuber. I don't watch many Japanese YouTubers, but because frankly they're all quite meh. But there's one Japanese YouTuber who like blew up recently or like quite recently. And he was like kind of like, he's like halfway between engineering and just absolute shit post. He's called Sushiramen Riku. - Okay.

And he does these videos where it's basically just him having fun. - Is the guy who like ejects himself on like a car? - Yes, yes. - That was insane. - He does like, he basically is like, he was the one who popularized the, if you carve out a watermelon and then you boil salt water to a thousand degrees and you pour it in, the watermelon explodes.

- Who found that out? - He did apparently, but like a recent one that he did was like, he was like, I love popcorn. So I'm gonna make a, I think it was like a 50 meter long popcorn container and just fill it up with popcorn. And then he did that and it's fucking massive and it's all filled up with popcorn. But then he took it one step further and he invited his friends and he pranked them by making this fake room in his studio.

so that the popcorn would fall in as if it would cave into the house. - Holy shit, oh my God. - And it was fucking insane. And the videos are so short. He just managed to like condense that shit into like a five minute video. - It's kind of like, sounds like David Dobrik, right? Just doing insane things. - Yeah, it is. He just does the most insane shit. Like there was another one where he like, you know, he wanted to replicate the force of someone going into space, but obviously he couldn't afford a rocket. So what he did was he created this contraption where it would explode underneath him and it would just explode

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And he flew like 15 meters into the air and like almost broke his neck and he's just laughing the entire time. I'm like, this guy's a fucking psycho, but he's so fun to watch. - Japanese YouTubers are like insane. - But that's the thing, it's like, he's a Japanese YouTuber, like he can only speak Japanese and all that,

he just presents things. It's so visual that you don't have to understand what he's saying to be such an entertaining video. - Yeah. Like we're getting, we're now getting to the point in YouTube where to stand out, you need to like have genuine qualifications and experience behind the stuff you do because like some of these, a lot of these creators that we've mentioned can easily get jobs in their field, in their professional field. - Oh, for sure. - Yeah, like the Sushi no Amandiku, I think he's only like 18. - Oh my God. - And he's just like a fucking wizard engineer. - Jesus Christ.

- I mean, it goes to show that, right? 'Cause like the quality of the engineering is like so insane at this point. - Yeah. - Any of like the top channels that are doing it are like, oh my God. - Yeah. - Like I have an engineering degree and I'm like baffled by some of this shit. - Three years, wasted. - I have a master's in engineering and some of the stuff they're coming up with is just like, man, is this what I would have done if I had stayed in my engineering course? - Michael Ruse and he made the fucking surgery robot. - Yeah. - What the fuck? What the fuck?

- I met him as well. He was like the nicest dude ever, right? Like, cause we were at the anime awards and he was leaving and we didn't really get a chance to talk much. And he came over just to say bye to me. Like, wow dude, like people don't normally do that. That's fucking nice. I mean, and Lily Peach was super nice. Like from what I've seen the offline TV crew just seemed like just great.

- Trash taste offline TV collab when? Question mark. - When the world opens up. - When the world opens up and we can fly to places or they can fly to places, who the fuck knows? - I watched so many fucking educational channels. Like obviously like everyone watches CPG Grey. Do you guys watch Tom Scott? - Yeah, I watch Tom Scott. I'm not subscribed to Tom Scott, but man, his videos will not leave my record. He's one of those channels that I just know, we've got like, I don't even need to subscribe to your channel for them to appear on your recommended.

Whenever I used to go to the YouTube studio in London, he's always there, just editing his videos. And I never said hi, 'cause I felt bad, 'cause he's just editing. - He seems like a machine. I respect his work ethic, because he has like a schedule. I don't know how he's able to upload so consistently with like the amount of videos he has. - Also Corona, and he's somehow still going abroad and doing shit. What the fuck?

really interesting ideas so consistently. Like his video where it was about like this video has X amount of views that just fucking blew up. - Oh that guy. - He made that. - I knew his name was familiar. - His blonde hair, red shirt. - Yes, yes, yes. I know him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that guy. - And what impresses me the most actually is how he's able to present his information with like zero cuts in like,

without a script, just in one take. - He just remembers it all right. - He just remembers it. Like how does he do that? - I remember he did like a Dasani video about like Dasani the water bottle. It was like a five minute video. He did it all in one take walking down the street. And I'm like, what? Like this is insane. - How are you doing this? - This is so professional. - So good. - I'm reading off a script and even I need like five takes to get one fucking line sometimes. - I do love the memes of like,

- Oh, I'm here. Have you seen those memes? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Breaking down the Tom Scott. - Obviously this Kirk is- - Koiskastat. - Everyone loves him. I mean, who doesn't? - Didn't he try to change his name to like, in a nutshell? - It's Koiskastat in a nutshell. - I like Veritasium as well. He's really good. - Veritasium is amazing. - Real life lore. - Yeah, real life lore I like. Obviously he's smarter every day as well.

Do you guys watch, you've seen Mike Boyd? The guy like learns things. Like he'll like spend like a week just learning something and he won't stop the video until he does it.

So like he'll learn how, there's one video where he learned to shatter glass with his voice. - I feel like I've seen that. - Probably saw the thumbnails, it was everywhere. - I feel like I've seen that. - It's really good and he just learns like completely fucking useless skills. - I know a boy in a band did kind of a parody of that where he learned to sing in 30 days. - Oh, did he? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That was cool, yeah. - Which was really cool, yeah. - Really good videos, I highly recommend it. There's also, fuck, like,

Casually Explained is also kind of similar to like- - Is he educational or is he meme? - Do you know Salmonella? He does like Casually Explained, but more educational. - I know Salmonella. - Because here's the thing- - I think that's the part. - Here's the thing, there's like engineering and educational YouTubers, and then there's like Casually Explained- - Meme educational?

- And TierZoo who are just like, I mean, what they say is technically correct, but is anyone actually watching them to be like educated? - Not really. - No, probably not. - Have you watched, do you watch Jay Foreman? - I do not watch Jay Foreman. - He does videos mainly about London, like history of London and stuff.

It's just so insane how well produced these videos are. I also met him ages ago. He probably doesn't remember, 'cause it was like fucking four years ago. Yeah, and he's just obsessed with London. But his videos are so fucking well done and they're so funny. And like he'll just do a shot where he's just in the middle of the street in London for like two seconds, but he had to get a cameraman, he had to get there, he had to set it all up. It's like, it's insane. - Wow. - And it's just all to talk about London most of the time. I'd highly recommend it if you like just general history about London.

Fair enough. I mean,

- I mean, recently, like I've definitely found myself, I used to not watch a lot of the YouTube videos from like the really like big, like corporate channels. - Yeah, I don't really like the corporate channels that much. - You know, like I used to look at like wired and box channels and be like, ah, it's just like a fucking corporate. - Like I watch a channel called Cheddar sometimes, but I feel just so sad watching it. - Okay, that name sounds familiar. - 'Cause they always do the video like, why New York has big skylines? Why electric cars aren't in America yet? It's like such generic titles of like, I don't know why Walmart is big.

And it's like every single video is so lifeless. And like, it's informative. - I will say there's sad. - There is one kind of like, I'd say corporation kind of video that I do enjoy. And I don't know if this is the name of the channel, but the name of the series is like big, great story. - Yeah. - They actually have like really cool and interesting stories. - That's good. - I think one of my favorite videos of them was like, they,

they were in Japan and there was this like Japanese person who sells painting made in Microsoft Excel. - What? I haven't seen that. - I've never seen that one. - So there's this guy who, there was this Japanese guy who just like, he just wanted to express himself. - Of course it's in Japan. - But he had zero skills. - They do a lot of Japan. - They do do a lot of things in Japan, but like he had zero skills in like painting and like, you know, art skills. So he just started like making pictures in Microsoft Excel.

And they actually like, he's been doing it for so long that they started to become really fucking good. And it was just like such a like uplifting story to just be like, it doesn't really matter what your tools are. - That is a big, great story. - That is a big, great story. - They're always super concise as well. They're not too long. It's just great. - There's also another story about this fucking soup that is being like made in Thailand or something. - Oh yeah.

- 50 years old or something. - Yeah, that's been boiling for 50 years. I remember watching it and it was just like, they didn't fucking wash the place at all. So the oil had been built up. So there was a fucking mountain next to this massive pot. - So gross. - Have you been there? - I have not been there. - Are you gonna go back there when you go to Thailand? - If you ever take us to Thailand, which I'm sure will happen eventually, we really wanna go there. I actually wanna see if it's good or not. - If you guys watch a channel called Captain Disillusion,

- Yes, I love "Council Dissolution." - He does like the 3D visual effects guy, right? - He's just like an absolute god at Blender. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Visual effects. - He just breaks things down so fucking well and he like, he's too talented for YouTube is what I think.

- There are just some channels out there that are just like, like Cardo Digital is one, which is way too talented for YouTube. - I feel bad 'cause he doesn't upload often, but you can tell that he like, I don't know, maybe he just wants to do a bit more. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But I found him ages ago, 'cause he's been uploading for like 10 years. His first videos are in like 360p. - Oh Jesus. - Yeah, I mean, he came up at the same time as like Freddie W and Rocket Jumper.

I think they didn't blow up until like two years ago. - Yeah, exactly. 'Cause I remember it was like back in the day, it was like Freddie W and Rocket Jump fucking taking over the YouTube scene and then every other VFX specialist was like after them. And then they kind of like did their own thing and then that like gave way to like other people like Corridor Digital and everything like that. - Yeah, I mean, there's also another channel I like, you know the Johnny Harris, the guy left Vox. The guy used to do the borders on Vox.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - He's got his own channel and it's just the same thing. - Oh, okay. - Same good quality. I'd recommend it. It's already been blowing up a lot on YouTube. So I'm sure you've probably seen the videos and you recommended. But the video of like, why do Americans eat dessert for breakfast? That blew up a ton. - I think so, yeah. I might've seen that. One, like, as I said, like once I never used to watch Vox or anything, but like their earworm series is so fucking good. - It's essentially like a one person who's in charge of that.

- Yeah, it's like one woman at Vox who just like does all these like really in-depth analysis documentaries on like music history and stuff like that. Dude, the editing is fucking insane. It's so good. - This episode is sponsored by Book Walker. - Book Walker has announced their year end ranking results for the best selling eBooks of 2020. - Yay. - Yes. - Wow. - And until December 8th, you can get up to 50% coin back on series that made it on Vox.

- It's on the list. - Fuck off, no way. - So this is the top overall rankings. - Of the best selling books on Book Walker this year. - Yes, about. - You should go through the rankings of the top three gentlemen. - Sure, sure. - So I think Joey, you can start with number three. - Well, number three is "My Next Life as a Villainous: All Routes Lead to Doom" light novel. - Hell yeah, another isekai.

- I have not read this one, gentlemen. - I have not read this one, but I have read the second one, which is "A Sendance of a Bookworm." That's actually really fucking cute, Lionel. - That is cute. - And it's really well received, like really good. It kind of gives me like "Spice and Wolf" vibes. - Oh, okay. - Yeah, so it's really good. Connor, have you heard of the first one? - You know, Garnt, I get- - Okay, I can announce this one. Don't worry, Connor. - I get asked this a lot. - I can announce this one if you like. - Okay, go ahead, Garnt. - It is "You Are My Princess: Volume Collections." - Wait, I've heard of-

- He got the dub, he got the dub, gentlemen. - Certificate of achievement, goddamn. Best selling ebook of 2020. - Frame that and put it on your- - Congratulations, CdogVA, number one selling ebook of 2020, "You Are My Princess" volume one. - And I've got a bouquet to go with it. - Wow. - What a magical- - Where's my flowers, Meilyne? - You know, I just want to thank everyone involved, me.

- No, shout out to everyone who helped me. - Wow. - It's like, "Hey, the other folks helped me." - Me. - Shout out to everyone who helped me. - There's so many people involved. Dude, it was epic. I mean, it's crazy to me that something that fucking I made could sell as much as other legitimate shit. - Yeah. - Like the audio book version, right? - Yeah.

- Shichoshis are scary. - Hey man, you know, when you make a story around a product, I feel like people are more likely to give it a shot, you know? - Fair enough. - I think people could see my blood, sweat and tears. It's really awkward to hold. I'll put it there for now. Yeah, I don't know. Thank you, thank you Book Walker.

So moving on to the top manga. - Well, well, well. - Why did we start with the top overall, Meilyne? I feel like it should have been the last category. So the top manga selling overall at number three is "Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro." - Oh, Nagatoro. That's a good manga.

- I'm surprised that's number three. - I'm surprised it's number three. - It is a good manga, it's cute. Wholesome, tango, cute. - Number two for the cultured individuals is interspecies reviewers at number two. - Am I surprised? - No. - That just means there are that many degenerates on Book Walker right now. - I'm very happy. - I'm proud of you boys. I'm proud of you boys. - But overall, of course, we have to talk about the number one top manga. - I don't wanna talk about it.

- No, I don't. - What is the clone? - It is you all my princess. - Okay, we won't talk about it. - Again, mine. Did you know, two years in a row now. Let's go. - God damn it.

- And we got also the top selling light novels. And number three is "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime", the light novel, which I've never actually read. - I've only read the manga for this. - The manga's brilliant. - There was a manga adaptation and then there was the anime adaptation. - Yeah, the anime was great. I loved it. - Yeah, anime was nice. And then number two is the same one, "My Next Life as a Villainess", which we already established. And then number one is "A Sentence of a Bookworm". Some great light novel series. I'm glad "A Sentence of a Bookworm" got number one.

'cause that is honestly- - I'm surprised. I didn't realize there were that many people reading it. - It's a really refreshing read. - 'Cause no one's talking about the anime, but like "My Next Life as a Villainess" and "Slime" definitely got a lot more.

talk and discussion on that. - I saw on Crunchyroll that it was quite popular, "My Next Life is a Villainous." It was one of the top ones. But I'm really shocked with the "You are my princess" results, man. Damn, that really did well. - All right, get your hand off it. - Again, until December the 8th, you can get up to 50% coin back on series that made it on the list. So you can check out Book Walker, links down in the description below. And thank you once again to Book Walker for sponsoring this episode. Also congratulations to Connor for winning two years in a row.

- I can't wait to frame this A4 printed paper. - I can't wait to get three years in a row. - Not even glossy paper, Melee. Seriously? - Is this a PowerPoint? - PowerPoint slide. - It's a PowerPoint?

I don't actually care. I had a great time making it. I got a banger of a video. That's all I ever wanted. - This is like that student that turns in the homework five minutes before it's like due. You know what I mean? - It's like, I got it, I got it. I get points for this, right? - And it's like, hey, you've done your homework. There's homework? Shit, okay. - The power of Yowie. Thank you, Book Walker. - Thank you very much to the sponsor of this episode, Book Walker. Back to the video. - So question to you guys, is there anything or anyone you want to shout out who has actually

or anything about your own channel? - Oh man, I've so many people. I mean like, I feel the majority of at least, you sound like a fucking panel like go right now. It's always the question I get asked at every panel, who inspired you Joey?

- I guess I'll go first then. 'Cause I guess the first one I wanna shout out is Philip DeFranco. 'Cause I've been watching Phil since 2006 and he's been like, he's been the one content creator who I've basically followed for his entire career. 'Cause I followed him from the beginning and you know, he, at the moment he's, you know, does a lot of the news and everything like that. But you know, I started, you know, I started seeing his progression when he was like more vloggy and just talking about stuff on the internet and girls and everything like that.

And he was probably the biggest inspiration for me, not as like for the content on my channel, but how to approach YouTube as a job and as a business. I probably would not be here right now if it wasn't for Phil, because basically during my break when I was at the BBC and I was trying to figure out how to come back to YouTube, a lot of the stuff he said before about how YouTubers and content creators should think

think about their career as like a proper career and how it's like broadened out

brought in their income and everything like that. I basically got a lot of that from a lot of the things Phil had been saying for like years. - Right, right. - So he's the person I want to shout out 'cause he has been like a massive inspiration for me. And I took a lot of what I'm doing now or the way I'm doing now behind the scenes from all the advice that he's given over the years. - Yeah, for me, it's like, I don't know, like my biggest inspiration is for like how to do YouTube and like how to present myself on YouTube. Weirdly enough came from like all of the kind of the big OG YouTubers back in the day. So like, you know,

the aforementioned like AVGN. Like I used to watch a lot of his stuff and like, you know, basically YouTube is that everyone knows like, you know, fucking Felix, obviously, Gary Grumps. If we're talking like actual, like regular vloggers, like Ryan Higa was like a massive influence. - Oh, right. - Like I used to watch like every fucking nigga Higa video that came out just cause like- - It's good shit. - It's just really good shit.

And it's just like such a fucking like personable dude. And like, definitely like the way like he used to like vlog, especially like where he would just sit in front of a camera and talk about whatever. Like I took a lot of inference from that because that's what I do. I just come in front of a camera and just talk about whatever. Right. - Yeah. - And like, you know, like,

Smosh back in the day, you know, like they had like such fucking overwhelming power in the YouTube sphere. Whereas basically if you're on YouTube, like anywhere before 2012, like it was fucking impossible to not watch them. - Yeah. - So it was because like, I guess like when I first got into like YouTubers, like I never really went directly to like a niche that I was interested in. Cause I just wasn't aware of that. - Right. - So I would just basically watch like all the big guys and you know, they influenced me.

in small parts. I mean, like in terms of like AniTube is probably like probably Demo was my probably like my biggest influence, but you know, which AniTube hasn't been influenced by Demo. - I think Demo's influenced everyone in like at least a little way. Cause I was around before Demo, but I feel like it's even it's impossible to like,

to think of any tube content before demo. Like, I mean like after demo it's it all, he changed the field completely. - Yeah, absolutely. - Basically. - Come back demo, please. - I cannot think of my inspirations. I mean, obviously I was watching, you know. - I'm my own inspiration. - No, I know I've taken like, you know, I've definitely been taking bits and pieces, right? Like definitely like parts of, you know, PewDiePie obviously growing up watching him and high school watching him. Just bits and pieces I think from like a lot of different people, but I just can't think of like anyone off the top of my head that has been like huge.

- That's the thing, when you watch so much content, especially on YouTube, it's like, it's not just one person, right? Because otherwise you just end up being exactly like that person. - Exactly, I mean, I'm sure we can distill down a lot of our influences and take bits here and there. - I have more time, maybe I can break it down and figure out exactly which ones really gave me my style.

Yeah, it's hard to say 'cause obviously I pivoted my content so much. I know there was inspirations there into doing that. - And it's not to say that like, we still get inspired to this day, right? With new influences and whatnot. Like, I'm sure like the majority of the YouTubers we talked about today, they've influenced us in some small regard. - We have just listed probably 90% of like our influence today. - Yeah, basically. - You know what I mean? Just in this two hour podcast.

Yeah, is there any one else you guys want to shout out? - I've got a bunch of channels that we didn't really like talk about that I could just- - Just speed runs for us. - Speed run, okay, okay. All right, all gas, no brakes. God to your channel. - Oh yeah. - God love.

- Fucking love all Gaston Breaks. I showed you guys him, right? - Yeah, he's like the modern day Kassem G. - That's literally what I wrote down. I put Kassem G but more political. 'Cause Kassem G was more like, let's just throw a topic out there. That's not funny. But like, also Kassem G actively made fun of them in a really good way. Like Kassem G's porn star videos are like some of the best content on YouTube. Actually, if anything, maybe Kassem G might've inspired me at the time. Like I really enjoyed his way of,

how he would insult them, but not insult them. - Yeah. - That was great, but obviously he doesn't really do anything anymore. And now he's just an extra in movies, like the Transformer movie. - Was he? I don't even know. - Yeah, I don't know what he's up to now, but yeah, "All Gas, No Brakes." What I love about him is that he doesn't even need to do much. He just lets the stupid people do the stupid thing. - I think because he's willing to go there and he's friendly with them, he gets them to talk to him in a way that's really hard to do, I think. And a lot of journalists just can't get them

- Yeah. - Like everyone knows he's just gonna be nice. Like he's gonna show everything that he's doing. So it's really nice. - Like some of my favorites on world war one, he went to like the COVID party. - Oh my God. - It was just the biggest cesspool I've ever seen. - How every single time he goes somewhere, somehow people bring up Jews. Like, I don't know how he does. Like he'll go somewhere, Jews get brought up for being the problem. And it's like, what the fuck? Just leave him alone, man. Fucking hell. - It's crazy. And I loved it on a pod. I think he was on the history podcast where he mentioned like,

The reason like his influence was that like, yeah, I could go all these places all around the world, but the backyard in America is so crazy. Why would you not want to document it? - Yeah. - It's so true. - I don't blame him, man. - It's crazy. There's a guy called Honest Guide who does like videos about Prague. I have no interest in going to Prague. I've already been, but he's just so passionate about Prague. I just love it. - Talking about videos, watching videos that you have no interest in. I want to shout out Rhystic Studies who makes essays about Magic: The Gathering. - What? - I don't know a single one

about "Magic the Gathering." I do not even know the fucking rules of magic. I've never played magic in my life. - I've played magic a little bit. - But the way that he breaks down these concepts in magic are just so fucking interesting. Like I think one of my favorite videos of his is he goes through like the history of like the rarest card in magic.

and like how much it sold for anything. - Black Lotus. - Yeah, the Black Lotus. He made a video on that and like how people like actually verify like that these cards are legit. - Oh, that sounds fucking cool. - And then like, 'cause he starts off talking about, he starts off not even talking about magic. He starts off this video talking about rare baseball cards.

and the history of like how these cards have sold for so much. And then he pivots that into magic and it's fucking amazing. Like he's a great con and he's editing his God tier as well. - Speaking of magic, but on the actual like regular magic, there's a channel I watch quite regularly called Chris Ramsey.

- I think, oh, is it the guy who does the, he opens the puzzles? - He does, yeah. He's like a professional magician, but he also has his own YouTube channel where he got famous off of like buying these like super hard, like 3D puzzles and like solving them. But he also just does these like videos where he like, he basically like, he did the train before it was a train. He actually does like the professional magician reacts.

- Like magic. But like he actually has qualifications 'cause he's actually a professional magician. And he like kind of like tries to, like he obviously, you know, magician doesn't tell their secrets, right? But he like kind of reacts to it and says like, this is a good magic trick because of this. And like he kind of pinpointed in ways where it's like, you wouldn't really be able to see it unless you were in the same field. And like, he's fucking great.

I don't know what fucking camera he uses, but holy shit, his camera quality is like- - He's got that red camera. - Dude, it's insane. Like I want to know what camera he uses, 'cause it's the most insane quality camera that I've ever seen. - There's also obviously love Linus Tech Tips. - Of course. - Did that video where he talked about possibly retiring, like broke you? - Yeah, that broke me as well. - It's such an honest video and you just can't help but respect Linus. - Do you know what that felt like?

It felt like that talk. - Your dad leaving you. - It felt like that talk where it was like your dad's just like, "So me and your mom are gonna break up."

And you know, I know it's confusing times for you. - That's exactly what it felt like, man. - Like honestly, like- - It's not your fault. - Yeah, yeah. - Trust me, it's not your fault. We've tried everything, you know. - If anyone deserves to retire, it's Lionel. The man has been like a staple of YouTube and he's been- - He's been on the grind, man. He's been on the grind. - And he's just like, you know, it's obvious that his, you know, the company's built up. Everyone just fucking loves working. - Yeah. - It's just so great. It's just so great seeing people like who are just

who seem lovely. He could be the biggest dictator at all, I don't know, but he just seems like such a genuine nice guy. - Speaking of Linus, we got to talk about his latest collaborator, Too Mad. The fucking crackhead of YouTube. - I fucking love Too Mad. - I love his content so much, but my God, I go out there with ADHD. I watch one of his videos and I'm like, my attention span is fucking crazy.

- Fucking destroyed right now. - He's that one friend who you have, who you just can't introduce to people. You're like, you're so funny and I love you, but I can't take you to parties. - He's the one friend that you're proud to know that he's a friend of you, but you're also ashamed to say that he's a friend of you. - I love you too, man. There's a bunch of other channels, Value Select, who I've just shown you guys a million times. This guy does skits and he's probably the best skit channel on YouTube.

does some really good fucking music, like genuinely good music as well. Just so fucking funny. - And he hasn't blown up yet. - No, he hasn't blown up. - Which is fucking insane. - And I've literally been touting this guy to everyone I know for months. Like every time I go to someone's house, I'm like, give me the aux cord. I'm gonna put on a song. - You better not play any shit. - Speaking of other skit channels, I wanna shout out Britannic.

- This is like a channel that's been like around for fucking years, right? But he's also a skit channel, but he's one of those channels that uploads once every year. You know what I mean? You get one video a year and it's like a two minute skit most of the time, two five minutes skit. But his skits are so,

densely packed that it's on another level of quality. Like every scene in this skit leads into the other scene perfectly. The writing is just like so top notch. You know when you see like a scene in like a sitcom or something and you know it's gone through like a hundred different rewrites. That's kind of the quality I'm talking about. But because he, like he's been around for like nine years or something, but because he only uploads once every year, he just doesn't like, you can't do that on YouTube anymore. - Right, right.

- I mean, I also watch Quackity, but Quackity is like that one friend who like is just a piece of shit, but then they're actually funny. You know what I mean? You'll know that game is just complete cunt, but then it's just actually funny. - Quackity just does discord humor so fucking perfectly. - Such a good zoomer. - He is discord as a person, you know what I mean? - He's a human body member.

- Yeah. - Guy who, when I used to do prank calls, he doesn't really get any views anymore. He's called Hoax Hotel and like, he's so good at prank calling and he knows all the like scams inside out. Really good videos. - Were you influenced by him with your scam call series? - Back in the day, yeah, I used to really like his videos and I thought I found it, like I really liked how he dealt with it and he would keep them going. There's a few other channels as well. God, there's the guy, Kit Boga as well. He does pranks really good. And there's a guy who,

God, I don't know his name, but he hacked into the Indian call center. That video was insane. And that was really cool. - Yeah, there's a lot of content creators that I don't know their channel name, but I can name their content. - The video? - Yeah. - Like if I say, "Hey, those two Indian guys that build stuff."

- Obviously like Critical, obviously we talked about like, I feel like ProCD and Critical are the same thing, but like different content they're talking about. Like they do the same thing essentially. But ProCD is like talking about food and anime and shit and ProCD is just meme. And I'm sorry, and Critical is just dildos

- I feel like Critical could do a video about fucking and he's like one of the few content creators that can literally do a video about anything. - Yeah, like the mainframe. - Yeah, yeah. Like he can make like the fucking top 10 massacres of all time and I'll be like, man,

- I have to holocaust say that number one. I'm not believing this video, man. - That's so true. - Didn't he recently do my favorite video where I'm just like, this is a video that only Critical can make, which was- - Was it Condoms? - Yeah, the flavored condom tier list. - It was so disgusting, but so good at the same time. Like, I hate you so much, but damn, this is good. Another YouTuber I think we've all watched is the, you won't know his name, but Kiwami Japan is what he's called, but he's the dude who makes knives. - Yes, yes, Kiwami Japan, yes. - And he just makes knives.

- He makes knives out of everything. - Knife out of smoke, knife out of jello. - The top comment on every one of his videos is I hate to be in a jail cell with him. - True, true. There's a guy called Virtually Vain. He also did Prank Calls. He doesn't really upload much. He did one recently, but he was like the god of Prank Calls. He did like a great African, like he did like African dictator or something, Prank Calls. It was so fucking good. Like this man is like the king of Prank Calls. Do you guys know Sorrow TV?

- That makes that sound familiar. - He's the guy who does the, he's like the only channel I like that does like Reddit videos. Like where he like reads a subreddit. Like all the other ones are shit. All garbage. - Are you talking about the fucking Ask Reddit videos where it's just like this computerized voice. - Fucking awful, I hate those. Fucking Sidney watches them all the time. - I know! Oh my God. This is like, whenever Sidney does any makeup or anything, I just hear, "Ask Reddit this time." Am I the asshole?

- I hate those videos, man. But like, Sorrow TV is like actually like, you know what a video that shouldn't require talent actually brings a shit ton of talent to the TV? That's Sorrow TV. He's so good at doing voices and like voicing the like Reddit thing. It's like, wow, everyone else is dog shit. - Wait, wait, is it actually just the same ask Reddit threads, but like, it's like a professional voiceover. - Yeah, essentially.

- Sidney started watching them and I'm just like, man, they fucking leveled up their voice, man. They've actually got a fucking voice actor to do it. - It's like the r/niceguys Reddit. Yeah, and it's actually like a guy who's amazing at like doing voices. Like he's so good at like, I'm a voice actor, but I can't do that many voices. - It's like hearing fucking like Morgan Freeman or like narrate an ask Reddit thread. You know what I mean? - He'll swap up the voices really well. He's so good with comedic timing. It's a shame 'cause he doesn't really upload anymore. - Black Griffin is like a guy that does that.

- Yes, I think that sounds familiar. - Yeah, he's the guy who does like the one dude 50 voices or whatever. - Right, right, right. - Guys, fucking amazing voice impressionist. - Shout out to Niannaz, 'cause Niannaz has been around for like fuck knows how long. - I remember Niannaz back when she was like the fucking daughter of 4chan.

You know what I mean? And just seeing her debut as a VTuber, it was just like such an obvious choice. And you didn't think about it until it happened. Like, to be honest, as a VTuber, I'm just like, that's the perfect marriage. - Of course, of course. - She was a VTuber before VTubers existed. Let's be honest. - I mean, I was vox acting online since like 2013, 2014, and she was still like the staple for high-pitched shit posting. And that was back then.

And it's crazy to see that she's like peaking now. It's really cool to see someone doing well who's been around for so long. Nerd City, obviously. - Yeah, Nerd City. - Caleb City as well is really good. - Caleb City as well. I like Circle Tunes HD as well. That guy just fucking moves the- - I really like how he was basically, 'cause he can animate, right?

- He can animate, but he doesn't need to animate. And I feel like it's better because of that. You must've seen his videos. It's the guy who has like, he's basically like an animation YouTuber, but instead of actually animating, he just like goes into Photoshop and just like wiggles like his models around. - Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. - He's always on trending. - Yeah, I've seen that, yeah.

- I like Jenny Nicholson as well. - Yeah, I like UpIsNotJump as a gaming YouTuber who like, he was the first person who actually did VR gaming videos, but just made it like, he, like I said, he has this perfect line of like comedic analysis on literally just like VR games. 'Cause I've not seen any other content creator that focuses on VR games except for him. And he definitely set the bar high.

- I forgot what that channel's called, but he's been in my recommended a bunch. He like makes video games and like he made like Among Us in 3D and he like remade Fall Guys in like two weeks. It's insane. - I don't know. - The comments will let me know. That guy's channel is awesome as well. - Is there anyone you think is like a Loki weeb?

- I think a lot of them are weebs. - It's like these last couple of years, people who we thought had no affiliation to anime are just like, "Yeah, I'm a weeb." - Completely forgot fucking Carson, call me Carson. - He's not a low key weeb, he's a fucking weeb. - He's a full degenerate. - Come to Japan already, Carson.

- Come on, just hang out with us. - I think we need to say anyone we've spoke good about on, or we like, probably can come on the podcast. - Yeah, come to Japan. This has basically just been a video to be like, hey, these are all the people we watch. - Everybody who we mentioned, come on our podcast. - This is our pitch to you. Not only do you get to come on the podcast, we'll take you around Japan. We'll have some good times. It'll be good fun. We'll get drunk planning.

- Yeah, but I'm sure there's like, that's plenty more recommendations for you guys. I'm sure you guys watching probably have- - I have a lot of recommendations to go and watch tonight, boys. - Yeah, exactly. - This is probably like, this has been like such a dense episode of like recommendations. - People are like, write that down right away. Please slow down, please. - You're just rapid firing recommendations at each other. - I feel like we did gloss over a lot of the obvious bigger content creators that we watch.

- I didn't name any creators that I was already affiliated with. So like obviously Dydus and Emily. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I think the content's amazing. I don't need to mention that. - We didn't mention our friends because you guys should know by now. - If I've talked to you in a DM, that probably means I already know you. You know what I mean? And yeah, I think that's probably a good place to end it. - I'm just waiting for the comment being like, "No, if only they did this with anime."

- I mean, what anime channels do you guys actually watch then? Like, 'cause I watched John, Super Eyepatch. - I watched Super Eyepatch Wolf. - I want to shout out Beyond Ghibli. Beyond Ghibli does fucking amazing anime videos. And it's hard to describe like an anime YouTube channel, right? Because that's what I do.

- Like how do I describe this anime YouTube channel? Basically he does amazing anime analytical content, did a great one on Hentai recently. Yeah, just check him out. - Cartoon type is pretty good. I think they have a lot of misses, but when they hit, they hit good.

- I gotta give a shout out to my boy Shabes. - We love Shabes. - Not gonna lie, sometimes I'm just looking forward to being on his digest in the good section. - Okay, AniTube Digest, which is a series where Shabes, this AniTuber goes through basically like some of his favorite

to do with like in the anime YouTube sphere. - And some of his least favorite as well. - And some of his least favorites as well. And this is like the one series I've pretty much think every anime YouTuber watches, even though if they don't want to admit it. - I told him, I'm like everyone watches it. - Because everyone doesn't want to admit it. Every anime YouTuber secretly wants to be on the good side.

It's like, did I make it onto the good one this week? - I hope so. - Because the reason I like watching it is because my taste in what makes a good YouTube or like what makes an interesting YouTube video is so fucking different to what his taste is. - But that's what makes a good critic, right? Where you can just appreciate the cake that he's doing and don't give a fuck about if you disagree, which is more often not what I do.

- Don't worry Shaves, I'll do more interview videos for you. - I feel like the worst thing you can do as a critic is just flip-flop. If people know your personality and people know what you like, it doesn't really matter if I disagree with your opinion, I'm still gonna watch anyway because I know what you like and I take everything you say with a grain of salt. - He's consistent. - That's what I respect about critics is that they're not afraid of the backlash because at the end of the day, that is their opinion. And it's like, rather than flip-flopping on your own words, again,

You just got to double down. You got to double down on Europeans being like, I don't care if the majority think that this is a good video. I don't think it's a good video for these reasons. - I've already shouted out Scamboli reviews before. - I like,

Chris and Pants, he's talks a lot about LGTBQ. - Oh yeah. - And he's like, he's just such a funny person. - He is. - His editing is kind of bad, but like man is he funny. He's so funny. Like he's just great. He's just brings such energy to shit that doesn't need energy. - He's like the gay best friend everyone wishes they had man.

- It is, right? - He's so good. - If I need a gossip sesh, I would want to have a gossip sesh with Crispy Nats, man. - Crispy Nats, is that what he's called? - I think it's Crispy Nats. - I don't know, but when it comes to my recommended, I know that the positivity is gonna be there. He's so funny, man, he's so good. And that's really the only anime YouTube challenge I watch, unfortunately. - Yeah, I mean, we basically just did a fucking two and a half hour long-- - Recommendation. - Today in awesome. - Basically.

- Just jump right into it. - We jumped right into today in awesome. - I mean, yeah, I think I've watched more anime YouTube channels, but I don't, okay, I don't subscribe to anyone, but if it appears in my feed, that normally means it's like a good video that's worth watching because like my subscription feed for anime YouTubers is just Twitter. - Yeah, basically. - I'll sometimes watch the best of the week that Shay recommends and I'll be like, God, this is fucking awful.

'Cause I'll take a limb on it 'cause I trust him. I clearly have different tastes. I respect his work nonetheless. - Yeah. - Too fair, he's got a Legon video. I did watch the fucking two hour thing. It's fucking long, but it was good. I'll give him that. The man did good. The voiceover was good.

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I don't think we've ever shouted out our audio only things, but if you hate our faces, we're on Spotify. - This is gonna be a bad episode for audio only though. I mean, the channels keep popping up as we keep mentioning them bad. - It's like, shit, I can't write it down. - I feel sorry for Mudan who has to just like insert like 150 PNGs of like everyone we've mentioned in this video. Shout out to you too, Mudan. Sorry, not sorry, Mudan. - If you did enjoy this video and you like some of our recommendations, let us know, but also feel free to recommend channels below.

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