Who is a massive YouTuber or influencer from 5 years ago that has completely vanished off the face of the earth?

[u/Humble_Job5950]

[u/CrypticMindFuck]

The "Will it blend?" Guy. He hasn't posted anything in a good while. Hope dude is ok

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/CrypticMindFuck]

Made millions, Sold the brand to Wasatch group in 2021 and retired to enjoy life by the looks of it.

[u/PeterIsSterling → u/CrypticMindFuck]

I still quote “don’t breathe this” when I see smoke/dust.

[u/Person0001 → u/CrypticMindFuck]

Because they have already blended everything 😆

[u/Lupahs]

Bill Wurtz. He made a huge splash with his History of The Entire World, I Guess video, kept pumping out popular videos, then stopped posting entirely 3 years ago despite still pulling a few million views per video. Real shame, I enjoyed his content, though Im sure his longer videos took forever to MS Paint

[u/erthkwake → u/Lupahs]

He's still active. He's just working on a really big superproject. He hasn't given many details but it might entail several videos coming out all at once. He was on a podcast just last year and he still answers questions daily on his website.

[u/Itsapocalypse → u/erthkwake]

He’s eccentric and driven, I’m really interested in his art

[u/MetalSonic_69 → u/Lupahs]

I've watched History of the Entire World at least twenty times. That video is a masterpiece from start to finish.

THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER

[u/Quothhernevermore → u/MetalSonic_69]

Not anymore there's a blanket!

[u/sadgaythrowawaylol → u/Lupahs]

That video came out the night before my AP World exam. Everyone was gathered around phones watching it the next morning at the testing site

[u/RandomNPC → u/sadgaythrowawaylol]

Brings me back to college, when my entire Japanese class were making Strong Bad references. And then the professor joined in with "I SAID CONSUMATE V's!"

Better times, man.

[u/Bachaddict → u/Lupahs]

He still answers questions on his website!

[u/KikkomanSauce → u/Bachaddict]

Literally answered 17 questions today. Christmas.

He also took a 2 year YouTube break before this longer one to like, learn another video editing software and stuff.

I think he just has enough money to be content, and does things he wants to do on his own timeline. He doesn't feel the need to constantly feed the bullshit algorithm that has honestly taken hold of us.

Man is living the dream IMO.

[u/Gunner_Bat → u/Lupahs]

He said on an interview that video took something like 15 months to complete.

[u/chillyhellion → u/Gunner_Bat]

You could make a religion out of that.

[u/Umpen]

Not a single person, but Rooster Teeth. Closed up due to multiple controversies and lost profit.

[u/Ricey-Boi → u/Umpen]

I remember fails of the weak in halo reach like it was yesterday

[u/deadlysodium → u/Ricey-Boi]

I cant remember the name but Im pretty sure he was a part of Roosterteeth but Rage Quit playing Mile High Club on Veteran is a peak gaming video for me.

[u/RPG_Vancouver → u/deadlysodium]

Michael Jones! The rage quit guy

[u/bluedeer10 → u/Umpen]

When they were shutting down their GM said they hadn't turned a profit in a decade which was around the time when Fullscreen bought them.

[u/YukariYakum0 → u/bluedeer10]

Lines up with when they really got into animation.

Nomad of Nowhere was a cute little show that had a freakish amount of behind the scenes drama, Gen Lock just was never even on the rails, much as I like RWBY it sure has a lot of unforced errors.

I also remember Variety reported at their closing that RTX was never profitable.

[u/RAMottleyCrew → u/YukariYakum0]

Honestly I think they basically just ran out content. They made the show they wanted in Red Vs Blue (and then kept its shambling corpse moving too long) and to me it felt like most things they made after that they made because they needed to make something. All the popular folks told all their funny life stories (often multiple times), they used up all the jokes, became overly self referential.

Anytime they tried to bring new faces on board they had a ridiculous uphill battle with fans, which apparently they often just chose not to fight and let the new talent dangle.

On top of all that, never quite understanding how the fans worked. No, a popular tumblr fan art post with “I’d watch a season of Inside Meme” on it does not mean that the fans as a whole, let alone new viewers, are chomping at the bit for The X-ray and Vav show. The super fans in echo chambers and bubbles saying “I wish they got a chance to make a real serious show, not some childish comedy” don’t represent the 80% of your audience that won’t watch Gen:Lock.

End of the day, I think the company more or less did what the founders wanted. Let them try all the fun creative stuff they liked, then end it with a podcast retirement. Shame it went out with a whisper and not a roar though.

[u/DukeofVermont → u/RAMottleyCrew]

Agreed, and that's the issue with a lot of creative enterprises. Both the running out of your best material, as well as the conflict between keeping fans and appealing to new fans.

You see the same issues pop up with bands, authors, shows, movies, directors, etc.

[u/IAmOver18ISwear → u/Umpen]

And Achievement Hunter

[u/ZookeepergameQuick40 → u/IAmOver18ISwear]

Funhaus was my jam growing up

[u/cparksrun → u/ZookeepergameQuick40]

This makes me feel so old. I was like 30 when I discovered Funhaus and absolutely loved it.

Still follow most of the old crew on YouTube.

[u/Umpen → u/IAmOver18ISwear]

By extension, yes. I had preferred their channel years ago.

[u/LowEndLem → u/Umpen]

Funhaus has a successor group in AstroGoblin, they're great.

[u/EngagedInConvexation → u/LowEndLem]

And BroughtYouThisThing and Inside Games

[u/rustinpeace1734 → u/Umpen]

All the big people you love from them are still doing what they love. The fuckface guys are in Regulation Pod. Face jam still does it under 100% Eat Stinky dragon still operates as a unit and so on plus some new creations from the ashes like Michael and Alfredo made a gaming channel and RT is no longer dead. Bernie bought it and is slowly reviving it

[u/theRealhubiedubois]

Every single Bon Appetit personality

[u/PT14_8 → u/theRealhubiedubois]

Bon Appetit was such a strange ecosystem.

[u/interstat → u/PT14_8]

Man the golden era of their YouTube channel was so fun 

[u/userhwon → u/theRealhubiedubois]

Chris Morocco still shows up in places. Claire Saffitz' channel is doing okay. Molly Baz has a mayonnaise brand you can buy. Brad Leone will never stop seeking attention. I just watched a Christmas video from Sohla El-Wally a few days ago. Priya Krishna has some recent stuff up.

Haven't seen much of Rick, Miel, Gaby, or Andy lately, or the other guy I never could remember his name.

It's the crew of people that Conde Nast brought in right after the exodus to replace them who are conspicuously absent. The managers were visibly overconfident and the chefs tended to have weird camera presence.

Lucas Sin kills, though. He's the only current BA face I can think of.

[u/Pantoner → u/userhwon]

I still remember when Brad kept a fermentation station for months at the BA offices and when they were all sent home at the start of the pandemic, he lost it because the poor cleaning crew that had to clean their office during the pandemic immediately threw out the entire station because it looked like an abandoned lab experiment 😂

[u/darkeststar → u/theRealhubiedubois]

The big ones all have rebuilt themselves into their own brands, or at least have tried to. Claire has been incredibly successful with her own YouTube channel, often shot by Vinny from BA. Sohla had like 4 different shows on different YouTube channels and just launched one on her own channel with her husband Ham. Molly Baz has her own YouTube and Patreon and recently launched a line of flavored Mayos, Brad has his own moderately successful channel. Carla did have her own channel and Patreon but seems to have basically given up and found more notoriety on TikTok for doing a video series where she gives people kind of a "Inside scoop" about how recipes are generally written and tested and how and why cooking videos are shot the way they are. Priya has had a decent series at the New York Times YouTube channel where she goes and interviews different people in food service jobs and shows off some of the unmentioned "lowly" jobs of the industry. I think she recently became an official Food Critic for NYT as well. Rick Martinez has had a few decently successful YouTube shows on various channels but he doesn't seem to be actively working on anything video related. His newest cookbook has been doing very well though.

[u/creme-dela-femme → u/theRealhubiedubois]

Claire Saffitz's personal channel is so great. She's such a great teacher and always keeps her content fresh and interesting.

[u/bellesar → u/creme-dela-femme]

I just made her ice box tiramisu for Xmas and it was the only thing that fully disappeared from the dessert table. Thanks Claire!

[u/SuchChemistry3636]

Jenna Marbles

[u/Aislinn19 → u/SuchChemistry3636]

I just saw a post that her dog died

[u/SuchChemistry3636 → u/Aislinn19]

Yes. He passed away a few days ago. Julien has been posting about it on his Instagram stories

[u/Nolsoth → u/Aislinn19]

Awww.

That dog was well loved.

[u/hesawavemasterrr → u/SuchChemistry3636]

Her draw my life video was honestly so good. It’s so raw and real and reflects struggles everyone has

[u/noposters → u/SuchChemistry3636]

I sat next to her at a wedding, she’s doing well

[u/CoolingVent → u/SuchChemistry3636]

Her starting at Barstool always blows my mind

[u/Nolsoth → u/SuchChemistry3636]

Business in the front party in the back.

I genuinely liked a lot of her stuff, she was comedic about some pretty personal topics and made things a bit more acceptable to discuss.

[u/SargeySlink]

Joana Ceddia. She had over 2 million subs before deleting her channel and all her social media accounts without explanation. People were hoping she’d return, but it’s been several years.

[u/kik-0 → u/SargeySlink]

I miss her sm. Her painting videos and everything was just sheer chaos and it was such a treat to find her early on. I wish her the best in this world

[u/iwouldiwerethybird → u/SargeySlink]

oh, i miss her videos tons. i feel like emma chamberlain slid into joanna's spot for a while but in a much less relatable way. as far as i understand, joanna was struggling with some really painful eczema and it derailed her pretty badly, and then she wanted to focus on school full time. i was so shocked when she deleted her youtube though, i was checking up on her channel and refreshed and all of a sudden it was gone in the middle of the night.

a friend of hers posted a comment a while back that she's fine and just doing school stuff. i still hope one day she'll come back but i don't think being an internet personality was really ever her goal.

[u/that_mack → u/iwouldiwerethybird]

I miss her so bad but admittedly it was both entirely in character and completely iconic to delete her channel with almost 4 million subscribers in the middle of the night, disappearing off the face of the earth forever. I don’t think she ever intended for her social media presence to get a quarter of the size it did. I hope she gets to look back on those days with the same fond nostalgia we do, and I really wish her the best in whatever she’s doing. I hope she’s happy.

[u/bflaminio]

CGP Grey. His content dwindled over the years but he was still doing podcasts. Now, not even that.

[u/MachCutio → u/bflaminio]

such a Grey thing too tho. He was always very honest that he did it for the money not because he wanted it and he dreaded fame. I hope he can now take good care of his wife and although I miss some of his content especially HI I really hope he enjoys a quiet life

[u/dime5150]

Tay Zonday

[u/HorrorTreez → u/dime5150]

Now chocolate rain is in my head lol

[u/Silvercat18 → u/HorrorTreez]

He moves away from the mic to breathe.

[u/Big_Dinner3636 → u/dime5150]

He'll randomly pop up in the comment section of police bodycam videos. Its always funny to see

[u/travellingscientist → u/dime5150]

He's just moved away from the mic to breathe.

[u/mstpguy]

'massive influencer' is the wrong label, but Allie Brosh was the artist behind Hyperbole and a Half, which gave us the comic "Depression part 2" and coined the "All the things!" meme. I still wonder about her sometimes. I hope she is doing well.

[u/youngkpepper → u/mstpguy]

Allie Brosh is doing well…she released a bestselling book in 2020 titled Solutions And Other Problems. 10/10, highly recommend.

[u/Toosder → u/youngkpepper]

I have a photo of me in a dinosaur costume in the same pose as her character. If you remember the toddler wouldn't stop walking around in the costume. Anyway after my dad passed away, I had this onesie and I put it on and I wore it for about 3 days in a row just embodying her comic, her depression, her coping skills, and it helped. 

[u/KatieROTS → u/mstpguy]

So weird you brought her up because I thought of her the other day when someone was talking about writing alot vs a lot. I had to go read the Alot is better than you. The intro to that when she's talking about typing with talons makes me gleeful! I ended up reading a bunch of stuff over and realized I never got her 2nd book. I ordered it that day! She's amazing.

[u/JDmotmot]

Ryan Higa still around?

[u/Scarf_Darmanitan → u/JDmotmot]

TEEHEE

[u/KOHILOOR → u/JDmotmot]

lol I remember when he filmed the “How to be a Ninja” clip. He’s a few years younger than I am but we lived in the same neighborhood, went to the same high school. My gf at the time was close with him and the rest of that group so I’d end up hanging out with them from time to time. Never did I think they would blow up the way they did but good for him. Haven’t heard much of him since the WongFu era.

[u/drift_king_8 → u/JDmotmot]

That YouTube era was gold

[u/sevseg_decoder → u/drift_king_8]

Genuinely. I’m convinced smosh, higa, RWJ, and the rest of that era was peak internet entertainment. No egos, not a ton of money really being made, nobody thinking they were any more important than making high people and kids laugh, nobody holding them to standards as if they’re more important than that. Nobody thinking who they followed and found funny mattered.

Then the cliquey, boring, high school peak crowd took over the internet.

[u/Eachares → u/sevseg_decoder]

I went into a rabbit hole and watched the Youtube rewinds in order. As you watch it, you see the way Youtube turns from an online community to a soulless business. It’s pretty sad

[u/mouthtroll → u/sevseg_decoder]

Golden age of YouTube for sure. Just random people doing fun stuff on a new platform for everyone

[u/RPG_Vancouver → u/sevseg_decoder]

Smosh has kinda had a bit of a renaissance lately tbh. They’ve brought in a lot of really funny people that play games and have a great group dynamic

[u/ToughAd5010 → u/JDmotmot]

Or kevjumba!

[u/HeyAwesomeArmadillo → u/ToughAd5010]

Seemed like he was working through some mental health issues when he chose to leave social media. I always enjoyed watching the videos with him and his dad. Hope he’s doing well these days

[u/UselessCaffeine → u/JDmotmot]

Massive 5 years ago? Dude quit way before that lol

[u/axelthegreat → u/UselessCaffeine]

he quit right before the pandemic. so yeah just over 5 years ago

[u/Vinaco → u/JDmotmot]

I know he still streams consistently but I really miss the old crew. Especially Sean

[u/DoctorBritta → u/JDmotmot]

He streams on Twitch now

[u/StreetCheetah8312]

GloZell

[u/VULCAN_WITCH]

Epic Rap Battles of History used to be an enormous deal, they are still doing their thing sporadically (just dropped a new one two weeks ago) but doing far less numbers than they once did

[u/slayez06 → u/VULCAN_WITCH]

So I studied what those guys did and it's absolutely brilliant. They built the channel up with their partners and then merged with a company and that got sold to Disney who was buying up youtube chans like crazy and they were after =3 and ERB I belive. Disney made them turn out so many videos and go on tour right after for so many dates and basically made them slaves... Treated them just as they were any other band... They even made a ERB about this.. thing is ... they didn't tell them where they had to go on tour at and just left it in their court thinking they would hit the metro's. So they started going on tour to shitty city's of populations of like 20k (where I met them) and crashed the channel on purpose. Once they filled the contract they just stopped... Then disney had to cut their losses and they bought the rights back and now they can do what they want ... when they want. Super smart and very few outplay the mouse and regain their quality of life.

[u/DifficultHat → u/slayez06]

they even made an ERB about this

Jim Henson vs Stan Lee

“You belong to Disney! Which means you stay busy! Cranking out magic and assembly line whimsy!”

And

“Clearly there’s nobody near me! I’m owning this battle in fact I own this whole series!”

[u/swiminpurple → u/slayez06]

Thank you for this lore

[u/iheartoptimusprime → u/VULCAN_WITCH]

Part of the problem being they release one…maybe two videos a year.

[u/ghostpicnic → u/iheartoptimusprime]

And they went on hiatus for damn near like 10 years or something

[u/dwolfe127]

Seananners

[u/Wirenfeldt → u/dwolfe127]

I miss the OG Call of Duty tubers.. Nanners was amazing because he managed to talk about life while absolutely shredding people in a combo I don’t think anyone else could pull off..

[u/whiteezy → u/Wirenfeldt]

The motherfucker talked about Reddit when I was in middle school. I was curious what it was and all the years later here i am.

[u/TilleroftheFields → u/dwolfe127]

Seananners was the first person to show me Minecraft back in the alpha days

[u/cloudsfallen]

SorrowTV

[u/joolzmcgoolz]

Christine Sydelko. I think of her every Christmas cuz of the Merry Chrysler thing.

[u/DJSTR3AM → u/joolzmcgoolz]

She really seemed to hate everything related to social media and influencers. After her and Elijah Daniel had a falling out, she went on several podcasts talking about how pathetic she thought it all was. Then she quit everything and now she has a normal job somewhere in the middle of nowhere if I remember correctly.

[u/syd-lee → u/joolzmcgoolz]

If I remember she went thru a lot when in collaboration with Elijah and that group. They were really abusing alcohol and other substances. Idk if she's still on Twitter but I used to see her post some awesome based takes that def could have got her banned. I used to watch their vlogs all the time, I genuinely hope she's doing well

[u/Jon5988]

Seth Everman. I didn't watch his stuff religiously, but cool to see someone leave the internet on their own terms.

[u/peachesfordinner → u/Jon5988]

I miss him so much. His stuff just cheered me up. But I'm glad he's living his best life. Hoping he might feel compelled to randomly put something out in the future.

[u/brockford-junktion → u/peachesfordinner]

I can't find the video any longer, but in one he said something along the lines of 'youtube changed and I don't want to change with it'. At least that's how I remember anyways.

[u/ConsciousRutabaga]

Shoenice is he even still alive? Dude was a total booze bag that ate tons of really weird stuff.

[u/Oldpuckcoach → u/ConsciousRutabaga]

He does TikTok lives every single day to 5-10 people at a time. It’s really strange and sad. Desperate for money

[u/Educational-Order103]

Illuminaughty really fucked herself into obscurity.

[u/Russellonfire → u/Educational-Order103]

I mean she did get the video equivalent of a tactical nuke dropped on her for plagiarising everything...

[u/thatindianredditor → u/Russellonfire]

It was absolutely going to happen when hbomberguy released his vid, but its so nuts that we got a preview a few week before the event, when she baselessly accused another youtuber of plagirizing HER!

[u/trowzerss → u/thatindianredditor]

Didn't she also pick a beef with LegalEagle, of all people?

[u/burf12345 → u/trowzerss]

That was the first domino. She accused LegalEagle's editor of plagiarism on Twitter (because LegalEagle uses similar after effects mind you, not for copying something she created).

[u/jaytrade21 → u/burf12345]

What's even funnier is that the legal eagle editor reached out to her editor because he saw something he liked on her video and asked what they did to get that effect. It was a friendly Q and A situation that professionals do all the time and she blew it up and started the whole thing.

[u/Auctorion → u/trowzerss]

She really wanted to end her channel, didn’t she?

[u/LongLostFan → u/Educational-Order103]

I stopped watching her when she got loads of facts wrong about Nestle in China.

It felt like she was just reading off Wikipedia and hadn't done any fact checking.

[u/mostie2016 → u/Educational-Order103]

Allegedly she was a crazy abusive control freak to Ozmedia. (I say allegedly because she loves throwing out lawsuits like ash Ketchum likes to throw pokeballs.)

[u/OstOchBrod]

Onision - I'm glad his channel/cult is dead tbh

[u/adam2222]

Bo Burnham. He didn’t disappear cuz he lost popularity but he’s been taking a break or working on new stuff probably for the last 4 years doesn’t tweet or post or anything. Really hope he’s about to surprise announce a new masterpiece

[u/Rise_Crafty → u/adam2222]

Inside was so incredibly brilliant, I'm willing to give him all of the time he needs!

[u/Mmmoreplees → u/adam2222]

Don't know if it's confirmed, but I'm fairly certain he popped up in Jerrod Carmichael 's show about his life - he's wearing a mask to avoid being on camera and talks about how Jerrod shouldn't let people film all his life. All of his content made it very clear he sees media and a thirst for attention as a major blight on society so I don't expect to hear from him for a while, maybe he'll direct another movie if we're lucky. Didn't know he was dating Phoebe bridgers though

[u/wolfishfluff → u/adam2222]

I got to see "What." live and it was incredible. I think "Words Words Words" will forever be my favorite show of his, though. It seemed like his stuff was getting more and more bleak and introspective, so I suspect burnout as a possibility. If he wants to live the quiet life now, I feel he completely deserves it.

[u/breadist → u/adam2222]

If I were him I'd probably just... revert to being a private person. He's been in public since he was a teenager. He deserves some privacy for once in his life. And he has enough money now to do that.

Don't get me wrong, I think he's an absolute gem of an artist, and I'd go nuts over a new release from him, but like I'm happy for him if he's been able to regain some sense of a normal private life. You can tell he needs that. At least for a while.

[u/Vectorman1989]

Sam O'Nella Academy hasn't posted for a year

[u/hypersnaildeluxe → u/Vectorman1989]

Sam disappears like that for decent stretches of time. He’s definitely not retired he just posts infrequently

[u/screechypete → u/hypersnaildeluxe]

He's like a cryptid. Legendary in reputation with people speaking of a time when he was commonly sighted. Then, just as we've given up hope on a return, he suddenly appears out of nowhere. Only to disappear back into the shadows, leaving us wondering if we just imagined his return.

Tarrare did you eat that baby!?!?

[u/yolofreak109 → u/Vectorman1989]

he really only posts himself doing the nyt daily crossword now on another account. he says he doesn’t know if he’ll go back to making videos. i like watching him figure out crosswords but do miss the other videos.

eta: the channel is sam o’nella crosswords. apparently as of recently he’s planning on making another video on the main page!

[u/Favicool]

Not in the last 5 years and not really massive. But I miss community channel

[u/ThomasTheDankPigeon → u/Favicool]

One of my comments made it into sexy music slash comment time when I was like 13 and I felt like I won the Olympics

[u/misstusay → u/ThomasTheDankPigeon]

Porno music slash comment time you filthy casual

[u/Proud_Palpitation210]

FPS Russia although that’s prolly more than 5 years ago maybe more like 10

[u/bestsrsfaceever → u/Proud_Palpitation210]

His partner who got all the guns died so the show ended then he went to prison for a weed charge. He does a podcast

[u/Unsounded → u/Proud_Palpitation210]

He still does Pain Killer Already podcast as himself (Kyle)

[u/ACasualRead]

WhatTheBuck

[u/sycamorrr → u/ACasualRead]

Omg this is a throwbackkkk

[u/MeepleMaster]

Sadly Dianna Cowern, physics girl

[u/Joonbug9109 → u/MeepleMaster]

I think the most recent update I saw of her was that she was doing much better! Like it seemed like she was able to be up and moving around, conversing, basically living semi normally for at least short periods of time. I assume it will be a long time before she goes back to doing what she was doing before, if at all. What happened to her after getting COVID was honestly terrifying and a big part of why I still take prevention pretty seriously.

Edit: I was not aware that she had regressed significantly, which is heartbreaking to learn

[u/MeepleMaster → u/Joonbug9109]

That update was from the summer, sadly there was a recent wiki update that her conditioned regressed, I didn’t dig into it too much though

[u/justgetoffmylawn → u/MeepleMaster]

Yeah, last I saw she had worsened again significantly, although not quite as bad as before.

Unfortunately with these types of conditions, it's often unknown why you get worse (or sometimes improve), so it's very unpredictable and hard to control.

That was a bit ago, though, so I'm not sure now.

[u/thurn_und_taxis → u/justgetoffmylawn]

She posted an update a few days ago of her sitting up and I think doing some crochet or a similar chill activity. She’s definitely not back to where she was over the summer sadly, but at least for the moment she’s not as restricted as she was previously. 

That being said, I’m sure it’s still an incredibly difficult state to be in and I really really hope she is able to see some more permanent improvement.

[u/dommybear6]

Joanne the scammer

[u/luneytoonz21]

Michelle Phan

[u/Puzzleheaded_Cup8723 → u/luneytoonz21]

Isn’t she in a cult now

[u/PureValLiam]

vihart from maybe more than a few years ago but i miss the simple point and shoot math lessons. how else would i know how to geometrically maximize gravy on my mashed potatoes?

[u/Alarmed-Snow-9814]

Vsauce Michael

[u/hypersnaildeluxe → u/Alarmed-Snow-9814]

I wish he would do more normal content. The shorts are fine but that and his focus on the science toys subscription box aren’t really what I liked from that channel. His latest video was good though

[u/Own_Giraffe_6928 → u/hypersnaildeluxe]

I believe he said something along the lines of, "I'm such a perfectionist with videos that I take a ton of time to work on them. Meanwhile I'm easier on myself with shorts, so they're easier to produce faster. It's either shorts in between videos or nothing"

[u/LittleGateaux → u/Alarmed-Snow-9814]

He's just started a new podcast channel with Hannah Fry called The Rest is Science, it's really interesting! I think there's about nine or ten episodes out now? They do one long (1 hour) and one short (30 minutes) episode a week.

[u/atticusjackson]

Cry, for good reason.

[u/sadgaythrowawaylol → u/atticusjackson]

That one broke my heart man. Cry was a comfort YouTuber of mine. I loved his creepypasta reading

[u/AkiraRenai → u/sadgaythrowawaylol]

It fucking blew my mind when the news came out about him. I had a fairly big respect for him because he was one of the older lets players who actively avoided the face cam and wanted privacy, so to see him go nuclear and how unhinged he actually had been in the background completely changed that perspective for me.

[u/LTGray81]

Epic Meal Time

[u/Fun-Mistake578 → u/LTGray81]

Then we’ll add some bacon strips to the bacon strips on top of the bacon strips. Now cover it all with JACK DANIELS.

[u/Growth-oriented → u/Fun-Mistake578]

Jack DAHG-NAILS

[u/BlackberryPi7 → u/LTGray81]

I don't think they've been popular for almost a decade now.

Good God I feel old.

[u/PracticalReception34 → u/BlackberryPi7]

Hey guys, I'm wondering if you've heard of "bacon" at all because, whoo boy!

[u/perpetualmotionmachi → u/PracticalReception34]

Bacon? That's what the narwhal does at midnight

[u/ItIs430Am → u/perpetualmotionmachi]

I’m having flashbacks of Kony 2012

[u/my78throw → u/BlackberryPi7]

EMT got ridiculously repetitive and stale. After Muscles left the first time it was the beginning of the end. I knew they were doomed when they tried to release a snack food line at Walmart. It was quickly put on clearance weeks after release.

Harley should've ended it when they could barely get 100k views on new videos.

My favorite parody group was Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time. They knew to throw in the towel after 2 seasons as they could see that they were getting stale.

[u/Corey307 → u/BlackberryPi7]

I was bored so I checked, they only had four or five videos crack 1 million views in the last 10 years. Almost all of their success was from 2010-2015 and had even fallen off before 2015, after that they were barely breaking even or not turning a profit at all.  

[u/dumptruckacomin → u/LTGray81]

Getting drunk offa breakfast - SMART!

[u/Rance_Mulliniks → u/LTGray81]

Bacon Strips

[u/Happy2Agree]

BestDressed

[u/Groundbreaking-Duck]

Hannah Hart.

[u/iscreamtruck → u/Groundbreaking-Duck]

Her schtick was great, her problem was in authenticity. Her drunkenness while cooking started to feel more and more acted as she gained notoriety until she was going on broadcast tv and clearly pretending. Outside of the spectacle of a drunk lady relatably screwing up a recipe (been there done that) she didn’t have anything to offer in terms of content when the schtick fell away. 

[u/TheQuinnBee → u/iscreamtruck]

It has to be difficult to have content revolve around consuming alcohol. Either you get sick of being drunk all the damn time and so you fake it, or you become an alcoholic.

[u/Joonbug9109 → u/Groundbreaking-Duck]

I used to love her videos! And I also loved the “holy trinity” of her, Grace Helbig, and Mamrie Hart. I see Grace and Mamrie still doing things together online, but not Hannah. Did they have a falling out or something like that?

[u/iwouldiwerethybird → u/Joonbug9109]

i went on a deep dive about this a little while ago because i was a big fan back in the day and was wondering what happened.

the short explanation is that grace was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, as far as i can see she's in remission and doing better. her and mamrie got married to their partners, and hannah divorced from her wife who was a former personality in buzzfeed's heyday. it seems like it really put hannah in a bad mental space and she disappeared for a while, briefly came back to live stream some games on twitch, then left again. her ex wife ella is with someone else and hannah is nowhere to be found online. grace and mamrie said a couple years back that they're still friends with hannah but alluded to her having a lot going on.

[u/tere_adasme → u/Joonbug9109]

after Hannah got divorced she went offline, iirc grace and mamrie have said they're still friends, but that's about it, maybe she asked to not be public anymore

[u/Joonbug9109 → u/tere_adasme]

Oh shoot I didn’t know she got divorced! I can understand wanting to keep things private, and I’m glad that it sounds like they still have each other in their lives. The three of them seemed like they genuinely had fun together!

[u/jlmbsoq]

Tom Scott. Posted weekly for a decade, decided to retire, and hasn't posted anything since. 

[u/Wirenfeldt → u/jlmbsoq]

Lateral Podcast is going strong, with YouTube clips being posted several times a week (although I think they may be on pause over Christmas and New Years)

[u/tashkiira → u/jlmbsoq]

Tom's got Lateral (podcast) going still. And he's clowning with the rest of the Technical Difficulties.

Tom went all out for 10 years bringing a high-quality video every week, and took the high road. And the whole time he had other projects going too (including multiple British TV shows). Dude actually flew off into the sunset, just to set the tone, and it's not like he died. He'll start something again eventually. The only question is what, and how.

[u/ND8D → u/tashkiira]

I have nothing but respect for how he decided to step back from regular content creation.

I do enjoy seeing him and the rest of the Technical Difficulties with their fun nonsense.

[u/imma_letchu_finish → u/tashkiira]

Recall he came out with a temporary video on youtube for suggestions for future videos about, maybe 8 months ago? No news since then.

[u/OneTravellingMcDs → u/jlmbsoq]

He's been on Jetlag The Game. 

If you don't know what that is, welcome to The Snack Zone.

[u/rickrossisdaboss]

What ever happened to kevjumba?

[u/Exile714]

Jenny Nicholson (not sure exactly how “massive” she is, but whatever). Her videos kept getting longer and the time between them kept extending. For a while she would post two 2.5 hour videos a year, then in 2024 she posted one 4.5 hour video and… then she disappeared - or she’s building up for a 9 hour rant about something, who knows.

[u/fillerbunny-buddy → u/Exile714]

She's still active on Patreon! She just posted a video a few days ago

[u/Eightball007 → u/Exile714]

She posts regularly on Patreon, latest was a couple of days ago about Christmas in Evergreen lol

[u/-Cheeki-Breeki-]

Totalbiscuit :(

[u/pepegoodfather]

Crazy Russian hacker

[u/Bandana-mal → u/pepegoodfather]

Today I am testing kitchen gidgits

[u/SpaceDesignWarehouse]

Physics Girl. Unfortunately she’s basically still in bed from Long Covid. Super sad story. Hope she gets better soon

[u/shadownights23x]

RIP Comicstorian

[u/FreedomChurro]

I remember watching Ray William Johnson regularly. Now i just see him doing animated story-times on tiktok every now and again.

[u/iheartoptimusprime → u/FreedomChurro]

He does huge numbers on TikTok, which I believe is his primary platform now.

[u/alexdev50]

He’s not gone but Nostalgia Critic barely cracks 100k on his videos these days back when he used to do 1 million+ weekly.

[u/drewpdoane → u/alexdev50]

I always appreciated the fact that he remembered so I didn't have to.

[u/Stargate525 → u/alexdev50]

When youtube really cracked down on video clip rips and he started doing 80-90% skits is when it died for me. He's... really not a very good actor. Or director.

[u/XFun16 → u/Stargate525]

Nowadays, his content's more in line with traditional review content. He seems to have really relaxed

[u/notwiththeflames → u/alexdev50]

I think that might have something to do with the 2018 Channel Awesome fiasco.

[u/nu24601 → u/notwiththeflames]

I think his views were getting worse on their own. He did a bunch of cringe clipless reviews and it was just uncomfortable

[u/thewalrus99]

Casey Neistat

[u/zushiba → u/thewalrus99]

I never really watched Casey Neistat but I never understood what it was that he actually did. Every video was just him biking or scootering or some shit around New York talking about stuff like how he was expanding his studio or looking to buy a new place or something.

But I never saw him actually DO anything.

[u/Thybully-Fan → u/zushiba]

Part of the appeal was that he would review new technology. The main appeal was the production value, his was essentially the first daily vlog that wasn’t just shitty stitch cuts. High quality cameras, selfie stick camera gimmicks and drone shots before they were everywhere, all compiled by a guy who used to make indie documentaries for HBO. I have distaste for his vocal politics and corny style but the guy was a creative filmmaker when I watched him ten years ago

[u/aguywithbrushes → u/zushiba]

He is kind of the godfather of modern vlogging and he posted daily vlogs for like 800 days straight. He’s to vlogging what Pewdiepie was to gaming videos in a sense, meaning that he wasn’t the first to do it, but the way he did it became THE way for everyone else to do it.

He’s genuinely really good at telling stories though, I just watched an old video he made about a 360 camera (read: an ad, which he was very upfront about) the other day and sat through the whole thing just because of how well done it was, even though I didn’t care about the camera.

These days he seems to do more “story” based videos that aren’t really vlogs about his own life though, and he’s uploading closer to once a month or so.

[u/KingVonHuerter → u/thewalrus99]

I saw a post about him complaining about Zohran Mamdani a few months ago and I realized I basically haven’t heard of the guy since the pandemic

[u/trippinmaui]

Epic Rap Battles of History

[u/Lynsanity83]

Tyler Oakley

[u/EnVknives]

CowChop. I really miss them. Also, The Creatures. They were the first youtubers I really loved.

[u/skeletonblossom → u/EnVknives]

Aleks, Brett, and Lindsay have a new travel channel called “little brother travel” and they upload every Sunday!

[u/fernsnart]

Jim Can't Swim (JCS) !! Amazing true crime content 😭 now just puts out recycled Patreon content once a year before Christmas.

[u/Codazzle → u/fernsnart]

TIL that JCS stood for something

[u/thatweirdvintagegirl → u/fernsnart]

That kerfuffle with the AI-scripted video he put out last year was super disappointing too. I haven’t watched him since.

[u/Tranquilbez22]

Adam Kovic but that was for a good reason.

[u/whyusognarpgnap]

I miss Jack Stauber

[u/CannonFodder58]

Tobuscus.

[u/CheeseFantastico]

Jeez half these people disappeared because they fucked minors! What the hell?

[u/Fit_Donkey1596]

swoozie?

[u/sarah_pl0x]

Just wanted to say rest in peace to Adam The Woo who passed away a few days ago. He’d been vlogging for 10+ years. Follow me… shall you?

[u/mystery2two]

Every frame a painting. 

[u/tvtoms]

Simon and Martina were fun when doing EatYourKimchi from S. Korea. I think they split around five yrs ago.