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In my opinion Game theory has degraded quite a bit, partly because they grew too big and started bumping out more and more content on multiple channels which in my opinion saturated quite a bit. It doesn't help that there exists now long form video essays that go much more indepth in certain aspects of games and other forms of entertainment. MatPat leaving did also leave huge void that they can probably never fully replace.
Jimquisition or now rebranded as 'Stephanie Sterling' channel has also degraded quite a bit albeit there are some highs here and there. I liked their game coverage and loved the "Squirty Plays" and "Jimpressions" where they played and made fun of numerous sloppy games but they seem to no longer make them (maybe twitch? but I don't watch Twitch). But Jimquisition has become quite repetitive with its ramblings and I don't really care all that much about any of the LGBTQIA+ or wrestling stuff. Still following the channel though for those better videos that do occasionally pop up.
Similarly YongYea is one of those channels I've started to watch less. It's one of those channels that try really hard to please the audience by telling them what they want to hear instead of having more nuanced takes. Not only that many of his videos are overly long while providing very little substance. Nowdays I prefer Bellular News and Second wind more, and If I ever watch YongYea i'll ususally just jump a head in the video immediately when I hear him start rambling instead of focusing on actual news.
This may be hot take but Hbomberguy has degraded not necessarily in the quality but in the quantity department. I'd much more prefer smaller more concises videos more frequently than 1-3 hour long mega essays that get realeased like every other year. While many of these can be bangers I am not sure if they're overall worth the wait. These could at least be split to multiple smaller videos to spread out the content a bit and make them easier to digest. It's also huge risk if the topic is not something that doesn't interest you all that much. Similar could be said about ActionButton a.k.a Tim Rogers who took more than 2 years? to make 9 hour video about La Noire? Which I can't be bothered to watch because it's age restricted in youtube which would require me to log in.
Kind of ironic: I noticed your comment saying you prefer Bellular because YongYea is too rambly, right after I commented Bellular started rambling too much :-D
Different tastes I suppose.
Well to be honest both of these tend to artificially bloat the lenght of their videos. Bellular in my opionion just does a better job in that sense with usually repeating related news or by providing more industry insights, structured format and nuanced takes. YongYea tends to go much harder with the commentary and speculation.
As one of the developers on Alien Blackout I was also in the receiving end of Yong Yeas takes once. He went on an on about how the game would be full of microtransactions, compared it to Diablo Immortal etc. The truth was that the game is/was basically a spin-off, premium mobile game with no ads or microtransactions by developers who would have also loved to see Alien Isolation 2. This kinda took the mask off from many Youtube influencers for me and made me question a lot of their speculation.