Youtubers/podcasters you got fed up of

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I was trying to build up a podcast feed for myself and had a look at what I was subscribed to on my old laptop. Was really bemusing to see shows like 99% Invisible and You Must Remember This now with hundreds of new episodes since I last listened, this led to me digging a bit further and it was just impossible to even imagine some other things like the Flop House are still continuing years after they had to switch to doing it over Zoom (or was it Skype back then) but also are going well enough that they're doing live shows; I haven't even heard it mentioned anywhere since I stopped listening.

Iirc 99% Invisible just stopped working for me as a format at some point, the episodes usually being a bit too short to stick on.

You Must Remember This had some season I had little interest in (the Manson murders one, maybe?) and when I rejoined it after missing a season I was annoyed by Karina Longworth's voice; I might revisit it at some point though.

With the Flop House it seemed like they were all getting occupied with other commitments and the switch to them doing it remote seemed like a good point to stop. One of the guys was funny but always on the verge of being too much and annoying the hell out of me and I think I just preempted me flipping on him a bit.

One I was big into was the Lapsed Fan wrestling podcast's deep dives, but after a few years of them playing into their worst fans I got totally sick of the one that doesn't do the research. Part of me wants to relisten to their Von Erich series but I dunno if I wanna have to skip through all the patreon mail crap about bumming.



Find it a bit harder to think of specific youtubers because they don't seem to adhere to anywhere near the same frequency as podcasters. I probably skipped a few Shaun videos after they seemed to be all about JK Rowling and PragerU (I see he's just put out a new one, probably gonna put it on in the background). Two youtubers have burned me out a bit by seemingly starting terrible pro wrestling careers. Then there's some where it just feels like they've completely exhausted the topic their channel focuses on (e.g. that guy from London who loves trains)




So yeah, who are you fed up of? Why did you like them? Do you still think they're good or in retrospect were they kinda shite?

[thr0b]

Ashens. Enjoyed his stuff back in the pre-YouTube pre-Google Videos days. But these days it's just the same sneering video over and over.

[imitationleather]

Novara

[Famous Mortimer]

Red Letter Media
Their videos kept getting longer, and...I'm sure they're still brilliant, mostly, but I just couldn't be bothered any more. Nothing specific, just lost interest in what they were doing.

All Killa No Filla
One day,I was listening to an episode and realised they were both boring. Didn't like their banter, and they'd already gone through the interesting serial killers by that point.

Uhh Yeah Dude
This is the most surprising one, as I'd been a fan for...over a decade? I remember being introduced to them by someone on here, had merch, would have seen them live if they'd toured anywhere nearby, etc. Long after they were both sober, Jonathan kept banging on about gun ownership and van life and being in the desert, Seth had settled into a new house with a new girlfriend and didn't seem to have any interests. Their old bits had largely stopped happening, and one day when I saw I was 5 episodes behind with no desire to listen to any of them, I unsubscribed.

Speedruns
Perhaps it's that they're getting so technical now that the only people who can do them have zero time to build a personality or a pleasant speaking voice. But I had a couple of years of fascination with them, which is now only sparked if one of the tiny handful of interesting speedrunners does a run.

[imitationleather]

Americans doing reaction videos where they pretend to enjoy stuff like Father Ted for the benefit of their almost 100% British audience will never get old, though.

[FeederFan500]

The Football Ramble.

Used to absolutely love it, and it appears to still be popular, but it lost some of its charm, possibly because it was done by people who were more successful in their careers and had less time to do the more irreverent stuff. But it made me stop and duck out of public view due to unstoppable laughter multiple times. "Go back to your fucking bakeries".

Stopped listening before its longterm fans hated it due to changing the format and bringing it Kate Mason as a host. I used to go on its forum for top tier podcast recommendations but it gradually dwindled in activity and no longer exists the last time I looked, and the subreddits have been banned/extinguished/whatever the real term is.

[convulsivespace]

Chapo Trap House has passed the tipping point where I just can't get out of my head the fact that they each make six figures for the laziest imaginable content. For a long time even before Matt's stroke it was palpable that they were just seeing how long they can keep it going before people stop subscribing. (Apparently a long time!)

True Anon put in slightly more effort but clearly struggle to come up with worthy episode ideas from week to week. They'd be better served by dropping increasingly tenuous conspiracy woo-woo and just leaning into the more gossipy side of things.

I think in general I'm getting more fed up with the podcasting model where people make huge amounts of money and are gifted this amazing opportunity to pursue creative ventures and at the end of the day can't be bothered to do much more than show up for 1-2 hours per week to chat with their friends (and maybe summarize a book or Wikipedia article they read)

I would love to find a podcast that captures the original ethos of some of these shows but as a matter of principle swears off having a patreon or advertising.

[Famous Mortimer]

I just looked through my list of podcast subscriptions, and almost all of them have patreons / patreon-equivalents (not sure about advertising, I feel like that can be inserted by the podcast app).

[Icehaven]

Used to listen to a Friends episode-by-episode podcast until they got to about season 5 and I got fed up of how they spent more time talking about themselves or other shows, kept having guests (their mates) who didn't even particularly like Friends and it became apparent they'd just based their podcast around a massively popular sitcom in order to raise their profiles as writers/comedians.

[Midas]

Americans doing reaction videos where they pretend to enjoy stuff like Father Ted for the benefit of their almost 100% British audience will never get old, though.

American pretends to know who Peter Sutcliffe was while watching 'Sutcliffe! The Musical' sketch

"ha ha ha"

American chastised and libelled in comment section for failing to adequately feign interest in episode five of lanquid, black & white 1960s Doctor Who serial 'The Dominators'

American sits through Shake n' Vac

[non capisco]

Still a big Acaster fan but the shine slowly started to go off Off Menu for me about a year ago, mainly due to the fact they just put out too many episodes of that damn thing for such a rigid format. There was also something about them going on about all the free food and drink they were getting sent that caught me on a bad day when the cost of living crisis was really starting to hit and struck me as a bit irritating and guileless. (May be unfair and that was just my mood at the time.) I used to listen to every episode every week but unsubscribed at some point last year thinking "I'll just check back on and see who they've had on every now and again" but that didn't end up happening.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Still a big Acaster fan but the shine slowly started to go off Off Menu for me about a year ago, mainly due to the fact they just put out too many episodes of that damn thing for such a rigid format. There was also something about them going on about all the free food and drink they were getting sent that caught me on a bad day when the cost of living crisis was really starting to hit and struck me as a bit irritating and guileless. (May be unfair and that was just my mood at the time.) I used to listen to every episode every week but unsubscribed at some point last year thinking "I'll just check back on and see who they've had on every now and again" but that didn't end up happening.

Yeah I went through a phase of binge listening to it when Athletic Mince (my other go to pod) stopped doing regular eppos, but now I'll only really bother if it's someone I know and like, and even then it'll probably take me ages to get round to it. Still haven't got round to Steve Coogan and that was four months ago

[Bad Ambassador]

American chastised and libelled in comment section for failing to adequately feign interest in episode five of lanquid, black & white 1960s Doctor Who serial 'The Dominators'

I did a podcast where I showed this to a French friend. Never has contempt been so politely expressed.

[Snrub]

The Football Ramble.

Used to absolutely love it, and it appears to still be popular, but it lost some of its charm, possibly because it was done by people who were more successful in their careers and had less time to do the more irreverent stuff. But it made me stop and duck out of public view due to unstoppable laughter multiple times. "Go back to your fucking bakeries".

Stopped listening before its longterm fans hated it due to changing the format and bringing it Kate Mason as a host. I used to go on its forum for top tier podcast recommendations but it gradually dwindled in activity and no longer exists the last time I looked, and the subreddits have been banned/extinguished/whatever the real term is.

Ha - came on here to post almost exactly the same thing. Although I will say I think Kate is absolutely ace, but didn't suit the Ramble. When they started fucking about with the daily format it really lost it - I mean the selling point was mainly the main four and then they sort of chucked it away and put loads of different formats on the feed. Luke especially seemed to be a bit of a nob about it all saying "lol we've got more downloads than ever so if you don't like it tough" (I mean it's his pod so fair enough) but it's funny now this season they've basically just gone back to the Ramble format and the original four and Vish really - ie what was popular before.

I think another problem with the Ramble - and lots of pods nowadays - is there is just too fucking much of it. If it was one a week like the good old days, I'd listen to it still.

Marcus is still the main man though.

Btw - the forum was abandoned for a discord about a year ago. I never really post in it but take a look every so often. Let me know if you want a link.

[Schnapple]

Chapo Trap House has passed the tipping point where I just can't get out of my head the fact that they each make six figures for the laziest imaginable content. For a long time even before Matt's stroke it was palpable that they were just seeing how long they can keep it going before people stop subscribing. (Apparently a long time!)

I still listen to Chapo and CT/TAFS out of parasocial habit, but they're both past their peak and don't have the giddy thrill of being an alternative to a certain type of lib culture that has either just assimilated or faded. Don't get me wrong, everyone involved in the 'dirtbag left' scene is at least uniquely aware of this shift, if not still coining it, but it's probably done. More recently I've gotten into an already well-established Canadian podcast called 'Michael & Us', on which the politics are probably explicitly more socialist and the discussion of films and culture more thoughtful, but still very funny.

I spent years listening to hundreds of episodes of Fresh Air with Terry Gross and WTF with Marc Maron, and even remember being thrilled when the former was interviewed live by the latter. I haven't listened to either in years. All NPR content suddenly seemed insufferable in tone, and Maron was phoning it in even five years ago.

I work for a festival every year and returned recently to gratitude from a few people who had thanked me for introducing them some time ago to Heavyweight on Gimlet Media, where a bloke assists people in confronting unfinished business from the past in their life. I see now it's eight seasons deep, and I must have listened to four of five of those in full, but hearing it referred to aloud was like trying to recall the face of someone you worked with in a temp job.

[elliszeroed]

Said it before, but the Wrestling Podcast The Lapsed Fan.
Got bored of them saying "in that ass" every ten minutes.

[Steve Faeces]

Ditched all these within last few months

All Killa No Filla
Started to find Rachel's relentlessly bleak worldview a bit tiresome to be honest.
ACFM (Novara)
Found this show increasingly irritating as Labour left dads Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert plus tedious academic Nadia Idle dissect potentially interesting topics in not very interesting but self consciously "out there" ways. The dreadful intro music gives a feel of the vibes of the show. 
Trashfuture
Got fed up with the Milo shouty bit, Hussein rarely getting to say anything and feeling the show is getting over reliant on in jokes to the point of becoming a bit self-reverential.
When Saturday Comes Podcast
Podcast companion to the magazine which if you've read the magazine is completely inessential and who is listening, with all the football podcasts available, to this one if they haven't? Bizarre. Also found Harry Pearson, whose writing I quite like, completely insufferable on audio.

[FeederFan500]

When Saturday Comes Podcast
Podcast companion to the magazine which if you've read the magazine is completely inessential and who is listening, with all the football podcasts available, to this one if they haven't? Bizarre. Also found Harry Pearson, whose writing I quite like, completely insufferable on audio.

Doesn't qualify for this thread for me because I never listened to it enough to get fed up of it, it was just a bit shit. Agree on Pearson, his writing is brilliant but he didn't bring much life to the audio version.

[PaulTMA]

All Killa No Filla, cos they actively boast about how more down to earth they are than other podcasters for recording on a phone in an echoey kitchen, which has the effect of sounding like a barely audible conversation held in a Victorian Lavatory

[PaulTMA]

Slightly off-topic, more 'Podcasts You Will Never Listen to', but any where some nobodies put themselves in the cover artwork like they're people of note like Louis Theroux or someone.


Always a red flag when the first thing they do is add cartoons of their daft non-celebrity faces into it, from the very first episode.


Bring back hanging, I say

[Snrub]

Slightly off-topic, more 'Podcasts You Will Never Listen to', but any where some nobodies put themselves in the cover artwork like they're people of note like Louis Theroux or someone.


Always a red flag when the first thing they do is add cartoons of their daft non-celebrity faces into it, from the very first episode.


Bring back hanging, I say

Also, guaranteed they have a patreon from episode one. Let us listen to an episode first dickheads.

[mattyc]

I listened to quite a few episodes of Buffering the Vampire Slayer then found that the constant analysis was sucking the joy out of the whole series for me.

[mattyc]

Also watched a bit of True Geordie when he used to play Fifa but was really put off by his tantrums when he lost. Was saddened a few years later to discover that the obviously toxic manchild had become so successful.

[Jim_MacLaine]

I started listening to Seincast from The Seinfeld Chronicles on but stopped listening after the season 9 finale.

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Chapo is remarkably exposed without Matt's tirades, it's hard to see what Will and Felix could even do at this point beyond run it into the ground.

Will being fairly boring and having his even more boring partner on loads is annoying but Felix seems to be barely conscious on episodes for years now, there's something about his particular brand of laziness I'm finding extremely cringeworthy (and I'm saying that as someone who still enjoys TAFS to some extent)



All the NPR/Gimlet/etc stuff is hard to listen to now and I don't know why. It feels like no one listens to any of it but I know people must. Like, I've no clue when I last heard about anything related up This American Life

[TheAssassin]

Ashens. Enjoyed his stuff back in the pre-YouTube pre-Google Videos days. But these days it's just the same sneering video over and over.

I was looking up canned meat you can't buy anymore (such as whole chickens) information, and a video of his showed up.  Canned ox tongue, a whole tongue curled into a can. It was from the 1970's, but I was curious as to the manufacturer, Interfoods if I remember correctly.  It had a "factory" in Liverpool near the city centre.  No idea when they went out of business, but the facility is now a budget local furniture store.

[neveragain]

The Always Sunny podcast. Yes, they got sick of it first but I've a feeling that even if it was still going I would have stopped bothering with it. Too much celeb stuff, not enough episode reminiscence.

[convulsivespace]

Chapo is remarkably exposed without Matt's tirades, it's hard to see what Will and Felix could even do at this point beyond run it into the ground.

It's such an easy format to do well even without Matt: people like listening in to moderately funny friends skewer politicians (in both parties) and the absurd spectacle of the American political system by riffing on weekly news stories.

To me it seems like they are deliberately sabotaging that tried and true formula, though then again what do I know they are apparently still making an obscene amount of money. Maybe I was always just out of step from normal Chapo listener from the beginning. (I've always found Amber unlistenable, for example, whereas she seems to be a fan favourite.)

[Zero Gravitas]

Death Is Just Around the Corner/Michael S. Judge I've waxed and waned on, at some points he was so ridiculously drunk/doped up during his attempts at recording anything, combined with the incessant whining about how fucked up he is - and he does seem to be pretty fucked up - but jesus - an excellent conspiratorial pynchonesque ride when he's on the rails, but I'd prefer he just took care of himself without broadcast when he's not.

Trashfuture is done for me, it was hard enough picking through their deeply formulaic regular episodes - oh there's a shitty tech company and we're  going through the same template that the one that likes doing research fills out every episode and marking off the same schedule of anticipation, reveal, amused dismay - miss me. Britainology doesn't even save it because it's the same god damned grating cunts that have made me hate them via the regular format.

Kill James Bond! Disliked it for a while, I think I dropped it before "No Time to Die" actually, for similar reasons of formula and the hosts being increasingly tedious when confronted by pretty much the same content, I dipped back in recently and thoroughly enjoyed their novelty episodes, Cars and whatever but didn't stay with it after mining the gold, I have zero interest in hearing them do some 60s euro bullshit or the man from uncle.

[Pink Gregory]

To be fair to TF their newish episodes in which Riley and Alice (who's called November now) read and talk about a book they like is much more satisfying because it's fairly serious and in joke free.

Britainology is getting a bit tedious because Milo comes across as fairly incurious at the best of times and it's clearly aimed at their large american listenership, but there's an occasional good discussion.

10k Posts is a much better and more relevant show, problem with Hussein is he's quite nervous as a host and he says 'like' every three seconds.  Phoebe's also funnier than Milo.  Gonna say it.