Seth Everman still makes me laugh

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.

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.

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.

I really miss Jack Stauber.

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.

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.

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.

VeganBlackMetalChef: vegan cooking with a twist you might not guess…OK it’s in the name you guessed it

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 mayne he’ll come back some day. Dunno.

Alfie Aesthetics.

Not technically dead, but I’d love more uploads.

TotalBiscuit :(

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.