Dead YT channels that you stay subscribed to and visit every now and then?
Mine are Michael Sugrue (philosophy) and hasoyi (asian music mixtapes).
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Jenna Marbles. I miss her so much and I think her leaving really changed the wholesome face of YouTube. I miss her content.
I also couldn't ever get myself to remove unus anus from my subscribed list even if I can't view it. It got me through the early months of the pandemic. Those two goofy youtubers helped me keep my sanity.
TotalBiscuit :(
Hopefully heaven has a fov slider...
Epic
RIP in peace.
Epic Rap Battles of History isn’t exactly dead but they don’t post content nearly as much has they used to. And there are some bona-fide classics on there worth watching again and again.
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Begin!
They started a career doing advertising work for niche businesses. The Chuck Testa ad was their doing.I was mistaken
Wikipedia disagrees with you about chuck testa. That advertising was done by comedians Rhett & Link.
Wait you're RIGHT! Good fact check, I didn't realize Rett&Link was a different group. I said some straight up disinfo there
Loved Chuck Norris vs abe Lincoln. "I gotta bucket full of my head and I'm about to make it raaaiiin"
There's a new one coming this weekend!
BirgirPall - a pair of Icelandic guys who would play games together, and their "We Broke..." series was an utter delight. I'm an old bastard who dislikes pretty much the entire genre of "watch someone else play a video game and yammer over it" entertainment, but BirgirPall were a major exception due to their talent for finding weirdass bugs and glitches, cracking up infectiously at the results, and editing them down into excellent little short videos. The guys behind the channel seem to have left it behind these days, and their individual channels just aren't the same.
I'm also a longtime fan of YouTube Poop, and stay subscribed to a lot of the early poopers from the old days. Every now and then one of them will come back and post something cool.
Every Frame a Painting....... Come back to us
That channel isn't dead? He hasn't uploaded a video this year, but he uploaded a number of videos in the 2 years before, after the 7 year gap.
Coding-with-Yalco, bro showed up, dropped some best-in-class software concepts tutorials, then disappeared. I think he's still active on another channel in Korean language tho.
Hbomberguy
New video is about to drop real soon. 4.5 hour version is already on patron. Final version will probably be even a bit longer
Not a dead channel though. 4 hour videos just take a lot of time to produce. The same goes for ContraPoints, Münecat, and Noah Caldwell-Gervais
I don't know who those other people are, but I was just joking about the fact it's years between videos.
totalbisquit, though more out of respect than rewatching
I recently re-watched a few episodes of Lord of the Arena and Shoutcraft. Good stuff :'^(
Seth Everman still makes me laugh
PhotonicInduction
I aint ‘avin it.
Man what an incredible trip that channel was.
Back in the day there was a whole slew of crackpots (in the best way). There was another who took the washing machine crown from PhotonicInduction, went by the name Aussie50. Used to love his content but he very sadly passed away quite some time ago (I won’t go into details out of respect).
These days the crazy backyard scientist vibe on YouTube has nearly dried up. So glad we still have StyroPyro.
I want to go back.
We still have NileRed I suppose, he does some outrageous shit on his NileBlue channel sometimes. BackyardScientist hasn't uploaded in ages either.
Allen Pan still puts out something amusing once in a while.
I miss the days of 3 minutes of insanity. Now every video is 25 minutes, and it’s all personality driven. It’s turned into regular TV.
We need a classic YouTube type site back again where people share shit for the fun of sharing. Monetization killed the platform.
I miss photonic
We have Styropyro now, but even his imagination isnt quite as unhinged as Photonic Induction
I don’t know, I think the destructive potential makes up for any lack of imagination. StyroPyro is hands down my favorite YouTuber.
He probably got killed by some of the shit he did.
Nah.
He got married around the time of the videos drying up. It's likely his wife said "you're a family man now, time to cut down on the Volts and videos"
I still stay subscribed, just in case the photonic power is switched back on.
You sayin’ ‘e done popped hisself?
I really miss Jack Stauber.
Jenna Marbles, it's been like 6 years since she stopped. Her videos are lots of fun though.
Hell yeah!
Oh, my wife was a fan of hers. What happened to her channel??
She got called out for doing blackface around summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd and she put an apology video out saying she's going to take accountability by going on an indefinite hiatus. She's followed through with that, the apology seemed sincere.
Ah that's too bad. But good onher for taking accountability. Hardly anyone does that anymore.
She retired after some stuff resurfaced.
Does Veritasium count? It's not exactly dead, but its a zombie.
I miss Brian David Gilbert hosting polygon, his absurd videos like cooking every recipe in Zelda were great. AnyAustin has kind of stepped in to fill the void (and then some!), but BDG was doing great stuff. He's still around with his own channel which can be very funny but it's not quite the game related stuff I miss.
Hello Internet
Technically a podcast, but I listened to the YouTube version for whatever reason and occasionally go back for my favorite episodes.
There's been a lot to come out where Grey wasn't the best in a lot of business dealings/situations. For instance, Nebula would have been a lot worse if Grey was still in charge.
However, even with that, it is surprising how slow moving this self proclaimed efficiency except is.
That was an interesting watch, thanks for sharing! I had a laugh when he said the Flaggy Flag rebels now have control of the subreddit.
I agree with your frustration about how the podcast ended. I get that listeners weren't owed anything and that it was a very Grey way to go, but it just felt rude. At least we got an official announcement when Cortex said Grey was going on hiatus (and one that every HI listener knew how to interpret), but the lack of videos on his main channel over the last year is just plain odd.
Nevertheless, I hope this is all simply Grey being impolite and not, like, health problems or anything.
I was a big fan of HI and Grey, until I started to notice that a lot of the stuff Grey talked about was a bit misleading or straight up wrong. Theres now quite a bit of "CGP Grey debunked" style videos by people who actually know their stuff, based on what those are saying, I have no interest in watching any more Grey content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpbSIUJOdOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE2DLqJB8U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oafm733nI6U
Oof, I always wondered if there were more things of his that were inaccurate.
What I caught was the hexagon video and his claim about triangles (combined to make hexagon) being the best for building rockets. I worked in the launch side of aerospace at the time, and true Atlas V and Delta IV were built with triangles.... But only on their booster tanks. Their upper stages had a completely different design structure, as do Vulcan, Falcon 9, Starship, New Glenn, Electron, etc etc
Triangles were only used on Atlas V and Delta IV because CAD in the 90s didn't do rectangles very well. That's not a problem anymore, so triangles don't get used
Sadly quite often these youtubers and others who speak a lot about a lot of different topics with a sort of surface level understanding are very often quite badly wrong. Especially the ones who say stuff like "X is best because its used in Y application"
That level of simplification is not very healthy for most stuff. Of course, there are some channels that do talk about a lot of topics but do very good research and/or ask for experts to help out with their script.
I listened for a while but really fell off the more I realized that CGP grey is kind of an idiot.
Technoblade never dies! Tom Scott came back, so I was right staying.
GTOger has been really quiet lately, probably since his company moved to a different place that isn't next to the lot patrolled by the tow trucks.
yovo68 (The 11 foot 8 bridge) has also reduced in uploads since they raised the bridge by 8 inches.
Bill Wurtz only uploads every once in a blue moon.
And I've only just noticed that Vi Hart deleted her channel. That's a kick in the whimsy, for sure.
Bill Wurtz channel isn't dead. He just spends a lot of time on his videos
Where will i go for vi's videos? Are they on the Internet Archive?
OK, so I did a bit more digging and apparently she moved all her videos to Vimeo last year: https://vimeo.com/vihart
The whimsy lives on!
(Moot as it might be given the above, I'm not sure how to use the Internet Archive to get at old videos. I did try, and managed to get at her old profile, but clicking through to videos doesn't work properly. There may be a knack to it that I don't yet know.)
Mitten Squad. Guy popularized challenge runs with his fallout and elder scrolls playthroughs, and his deadpan delivery gets me every time. Unfortunately passed away after a long battle with alcoholism. I miss that dude. I don't think he realized how much light he brought the world.
If anyone is curious
I fully agree, I was devastated when I learned what happened, he used to be my go-to for when I needed a good laugh after a hard day. I'll still go back and watch his videos, I just wish he could have gotten the help he needed
There are many channels I stay subscribed even if there is a gap in content from a month to years.
Looking at my PipePipe subs - Bob Music, Digital Engine, EugeneTeo, Fuzo Tech, Humble Road, Husk IRL, Laura Malvoyante, Ozzy Man Reviews, Potholer54, Side of Burritos, The Imaginary Axis, The Invisible Internet I2P, Veronica Explains are all low on new content.
Doesn't cost me anything to stay subbed.
Ozzy man reviews is not dead
I didn't say Ozzy Man Reviews was a dead channel. Ozzy's last video was 6 days ago. Previous to that July 9, June 24 and June 15. I would call those gaps in uploads.
I don’t think I’ve ever unsubscribed from someone or a channel just because they stopped posting. Like you said, it costs nothing, and if they’re not posting it’s not like their lack of posts is cluttering anything. Then if they ever do come back, I’ll be one of the first to know.
Exactly.
A month, wow… Even three months I consider a very healthy schedule.
Kruggsmash. He's mostly (maybe entirely?) A Dwarf Fortress creator. I first found him just looking for basic tutorials of how to play the game, but soon started watching his series where he uses the game as a platform for storytelling. He takes the procedurally generated stuff and fleshes it out. He voiced characters and made incredibly charming drawings for important scenes.
Camelworks. Rest in peace- the channel is dead because he passed away earlier this year. Mostly did content dicing into Elder Scrolls games, occasionally Fallout and other games.
Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? - classic old school YouTube, from the days when it waa just high school and college students fucking around. Just 3 dudes with a camera, an extra microwave, and someone's parents cool enough to let them do dumb stuff. They eventually stopped as life caused the 3 of them to grow apart.
Technoblade and Mitten Squad are the 2 I keep. I miss TB's humor and MS's Fallout & Skyrim challenge videos.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Comicstorian. He would do long form reads of comic books and he would like to act out quotes. Right when he was becoming huge on youtube he randomly crashed into a tree and died. 🤷♂️ life is Strange.
Munecat. Not sure if dead, but it's sure been long since she posted anything.
https://youtube.com/@munecat
She's switched to doing almost everything entirely on patreon.
Jenny Nicholson
CommunityChannel
Jenny is still pretty active. If you've got $1/month for her patreon she has a huge library of monthly videos which are decent.
What kind of videos are those monthly ones?
The format is her just talking to the camera. Unedited, the patreon supporters vote on the topic, but she still does preparation and research on the subject to present. Usually at least 45 minutes each and there's 105 of them now
The last five topics have been:
Short-lived fads & failed "next big thing"s
Halcy-con (the fan memorial convention for the Star Wars cruise hotel thing)
Tier-Ranking Fish
Hunger Games Knockoff Dystopian
Revisiting Old Fandoms
Oh nice that's exactly the kind of Jenny I want, I'll check out her Patreon.
Not on YouTube.
They actually are. She just has the videos delisted to enforce the paywall. It's better then using youtube's pay model
but can't archive it :/
Ytdlp or Stacher, home-slice 🙂
Her YouTube channel, which I would use as a measure of her activity, is only seeing videos posted every once in a while to a point where it could be treated as dead.
Well, there's new stuff on the site if you want it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is Jenny Nicholson's channel dead? She just...posts like one 4 hour video a year.
It isn't really alive.
Robert Murray-Smith, inventor, maker, gentleman, Englishman
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4AkVj-qnJxNtKuz3rkq16A
Found out he died, committed suicide. Sad.
Looking at his channel, he really has some high quality content. Its sad that it had to end in that way.
PBS Idea Channel. Such a good channel.
I got to meet the host once. He was a really great guy in person.
TheGIF video is my all time favorite!
I like Mike's other stuff, but this will always hold a special place in my heart. Their videos taught me that not only could you learn stuff from YouTube, it could be really fun!
Here's an idea...
Apetor.
Oh man. I have to revisit his channel.
Is lindsay ellis still putting new content on yt?
Not on YouTube that I've noticed, but she still posts on Nebula.
Well, then she's my vote. Lots of great videos, esp The Whole Plate.
yes, and on nebula as well I think
VeganBlackMetalChef: vegan cooking with a twist you might not guess…OK it's in the name you guessed it
I recently found out Katherineofsky has died but her factorio malls and videos influenced the community so much...
Oh no! I didn't know. I still call them undergroundies
I heard quill18 make some off the hand comment about her passing and she hasn't uploaded anything in months so I think it's true but can't find anything confirming it, checked her twitter(silent), her youtube(silent), her twitch(silent)... But no direct message about her passing
Oh, Another quill enjoyer
In any case, here's a reddit post confirming it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1ry5pyt/katherine_of_sky/
RubberNinja. I miss Ross' offbeat sense of humor and his collabs with EgoRaptor.
Been 6 years since the last upload, so it seems well and truly dead.
Another one is HelloImAPizza, who became known for his compilation of PSAs across the world, and for his high-quality presentation of the matter. Been a year since he uploaded and tends to go several years without new content, so maybe he'll come back some day. Dunno.
Patchlunch. He made a live loop in ableton with beat segments from flying lotus (I think) that was just flawlessly executed. I rewatch it every so often and hope he continued to hone his craft.
Baremetalhw
He used to custom paint and plate hotwheels and then one day 5 years ago he uploaded his last video. Wouldn't be surprised if he passed from covid or something like that
Sethbling comes to mind
I miss old Rooster Teeth. I rarely go back to it, but I go on a little watch spree every few years.
I'd also include Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games. Incredible channel that was run by the man himself. I've learned so much about the developer side of things from his channel. Sadly he ended it a few years ago because he felt like he was able to talk about pretty much everything he wanted to touch on. And he had to get working on Kirby Air Riders.
A couple other small ones would be:
Scykoh- Made a series called Glitchfest where he would break down and show off significant bugs/glitches in games. Similar to A+Start.
Jasper- A guy who broke down how Nintendo created certain elements of their games. Very informative as well, but he only made a handful of videos and then just randomly stopped a few years ago.
Sp0ntanius- Musician who made creatively edited Zelda music covers. He actually still uploads the occasional video. But he often doesn't upload for several years at a time.
If you liked old RT, give The Regulation Podcast a shot. It is Geoff and Gavin having a golden renaissance thanks to Andrew Panton.
Ya I archived the RoosterTeeth/AH stuff I loved, in case the company does some destructive restructuring now they've disbanded fully. Plus YouTube can't be trusted with anything now.
I still see Jack Patillo crop up on Twitch streams and podcasts and whatnot
For years I was subscribed to this one guy who made a couple of videos talking about his struggles with panic attacks and agoraphobia. I found his channel at exactly the right time when I was struggling with the same problems. It was really comforting to hear someone talk about things that were so familiar to me when I felt like I had a unique problem. He seemed like a really cool and interesting guy that I could relate to in a lot of ways, not only his mental health issues. He liked music, movies, and video games.
His videos were uploaded mostly between 2007 and 2009. I think his very last video was uploaded in like 2010. They were like a time capsule to the mid 2000s. And he only had about 15 - 20 videos, most of which were pretty short. He was in his late 20s or something, so he'd be in his 40s or so by now.
I still think about that dude every now and then, I hope he's doing alright. His couple of videos had an impact on me during a difficult time in my life. I remained subscribed for about 10 years even though I knew he wouldn't upload again. Mostly out of respect and for the nostalgia.
Ronald Jenkees
Hello youtubes!
Kent carlevi - easily the best guitar videos on yt. The fact that he made them almost 20 years ago is mind boggling.
VinoFarm - It was a nice positive beekeeping channel
Far North Bushcraft And Survival - Watching the guy survive in absolutely freezing conditions.
Yeah this one made me sad
Alfie Aesthetics.
Not technically dead, but I'd love more uploads.
randytaylor69 for a long time - and then suddenly she started streaming regularly and it is a hilarious drunken shit show every time
Kruggsmash for sure. I'm not sure if his channel is officially dead, but uploads got further and further apart and it's been months since I've seen any new Dwarf Fortress content. It's an extra shame because the quality of his content was only getting better imho. I've rewatched my favorites lots of times but I really miss the excitement of his monthly videos.
Sammie Kohn. Used to love her videos. Then she changed platforms or something and her content quality went downhill :(
Edit: I had to refresh myself on what happened. I guess she had a bunch of copyright infringement warnings for reacting to different shows. And ended up making her own website. Can't remember why I didn't follow her over. Maybe she had moved everything behind a paywall and I couldn't afford it, I don't recall.
MrBTongue
His video on Shandification was quite interesting though I think YouTube removed it from his actual channel.
He hasn't posted in like 8 years though.
https://youtube.com/@adamraymonda
They’re all really well done covers. No updates in years, but I highly recommend. Venus and XO are probably the ones I found to be most surprising.
Edit:
Oh, and FOR SURE Clownc0re! It’s a side project from a couple of guys from Snarky Puppy. Definitely check out the porta-potty and van videos.
https://youtube.com/@clownc0re
Early in YouTubeland (circa 2008-2010) there was a user called AntiConsumer. Content was all taken down and the profile disappeared.
I'd love to know where to find some of that material now. There were clips from documentaries, ads, lectures and more. Might have seen my first bits of Michael Parenti there. Im pretty sure that my firat exposure to Wesley Clark's "7 countries in 5 years" talk was from there.
Twin Perfect. I love their Silent Hill content. I was hoping on a review of the Silent Hill 2 remake, but nothing so far.
formerly digibro, but all the videos are gone now.
Samm Sheperd
RIP
Alantutorial
Yogs cast.
I mean, the channel is alive and posting nearly daily, but I'm starting to feel like we'll never know the true story of Israphel
Does MountainDog1 count? The channel uploads reposts all the time but no new content.
RIP John Meadows, I had/have the utmost respect for him.
Daniel Naroditsky, he was able to explain chess in a way that was very easy to understand and made playing much less intimidating
Heather Feather and Jellybean Green are two ASMRtists I miss. Heather stopped years ago after her father passed away, and JB left more recently as it was too taxing on her.
Brain4Breakfast - Late countryball youtuber. Loved his dry humour, sketches and takes. Notes on Nationalism helped me a lot when the internet just became common and information overload became a thing.
GoldPlatedGoof, the guy came made a couple of top notch maths explanation videos and then completely disappeared and has not upload anything in 8 years. Hope he's OK.
Corporeal.
They were a garage band that did a cover of the Halo Sound track. Every now and then I check it out to listen to their version.
They have not posted anything in years.
I used to follow this linux techy guy who had a channel called QuidsUp and then one day they just fell off the face of the internet. That was a few years back and every once in a while I look again- nope, still mysteriously gone. No uploads.
The Game Chasers. Main guy handling the channel, being part of the show and editing ended up passing away from Cancer recently.
https://youtube.com/@cdza
Cullt Moo, which is a real shame. I would really like more diners of Destiny.
Dani and probably more but having unneeded subscriptions doesn't bother me.
The Delray Misfits fortunately unfortunately
Knuckleheads (I'll have to link it because it's too vague and other garbage shows up in search these days https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu8t9UfJcTxlnMyu9uBcbTQ ) watch it every so often when we don't know what to watch and want something "light" and short.
I have however DLed all the episodes already, as I was concerned it may end up getting removed since Google is doing stupid shit.
LasagnaCat
Artisinal Cheese -banger philosophy essays, fate unknown
Ian Kung - sketch comedy, went silent around when his friend and comedy partner got hard-canceled.
Mia Cole -quintessential gen z essayist, got on meds (which helps a lot of creatives seperate from algorithm traps) and moved on to an offline short film niche
There's quite a few who do eventually return though. This has been a good year for it
AgentJR. Imo the did the absolute best silent hill walkthroughs and honestly was very pleasant to watch.
At some point they finally found themselves and transitioned. While it was beautiful to see the content creation of obviously took ar backseat. All perhaps was just incompatible with their current living conditions. Either way they're uploads are negligible these days. Really sad.
I hope theyre doing well.
Afrotechmods. Straightforward electronics tutorials that demonstrate both the right and wrong ways to build circuits. Abundant information, occasional explosions.
That is a great channel name.
Not sure why he chose that particular name, he's whiter than Arbor Day.
Oh. Wait. Bad name. Bad channel name!
Freelance Astronauts. Just a bunch of friends having fun, from the era of SomethingAwful let's play forums. I can highly recommend their Zelda and Mario Multiplayer and Oblivion videos
Apollo Legend and Camelworks. Two great young fellows who went too soon 😞
Meh. Apollo wasted time defending a self described white supremacist for facing the consequences of being a self described white supremacist. That kind of guy gets no sympathy from me.
Brodie Robertson - talks about Linux + FOSS Tsoding Daily - greatest programmer IMO
Brodie Robertson is very definitely still alive and kicking.
ah I didn't see they were talking about dead yt channels. my bad