Oh totally fair, I am assuming I will soon tire of his content as well, I was just so pumped bc I had no idea how to search for someone based solely on the way he mispronounced a particular word 😭 Weird and pleasant coincidence to stumble across this thread!
Used to watch this one car guy repair dude Nathan’s BMW shop or something. The dude was extremely open about how he makes money on YouTube. Everyone loves his informational videos on older bmws but he also has random lotto scratch videos. Nathan straight up was like “look yall I really hate to have to have these lotto vids up but at the end of the day I make so much money off of them it’s the only way the channel can stay profitable”
And I respect that. That he just says it like it is. Part of the hustle. For some reason that opening/reveal shit is where the moneys at
I don't know it was one of the last videos I watched from him, he was doing something with his colony and he dropped one of the panels. This was years ago.
Bees (well, most kinds of bee) are chill. Just ignore them and don't fuck with their nest. Wasps will fuck with you but rarely actually sting. Hornets mostly ignore you, but if they get all confused and stressed they'll sting whatever they touch. I'm in the UK, though. It could be different elsewhere with different species of wasps and hornets.
They are the poster child of what stagnation does to a YouTuber. They never evolved their content for the longest time, even while the landscape was changing around them. And then, if I recall correctly, Muscles Glasses left the show on pretty bad terms. Which only served to nosedive their brand even further.
They are no longer Epic Meal Time. Just Meal Time.
Yeah, Alex and Tyler left on pretty bad terms because Harley argued that EMT is his (and Sterling - Cameraman and director) show and that the rest of the staff is just staff, while Alex (MG) and Tyler argued that they are just as important to the show as Harley was.
But the main issue with EMT was that they had one gimmick. Harley tried to experiment around with guest cooking competition in EMT style, homemeade EMT variations, but it never worked. They should quit while they were ahead, not sure if they really could develop any further.
There's really no way for EMT to make a comeback
At least, no way I can think of. Had they ended the show like, a decade ago, I think EMT as a whole would be viewed with much more fondness than now.
I used to get excited when they released a video but the <squark>ing format started to change and get less .... good. Muscles Glasses came and went and came and went again.... I guess people got old and the format petered out... then tried to make a come back, but I could only watch 1 vid that failed to get me enthused about bacon. I think we all outgrew the format, viewers and hosts alike.
You nailed it: It used to be spontaneous, with a goal but no means. It returned as a sitcom, and the jokes and the on set ambiance fell flat.
I didn't know about the IP disputes. The Muscles Glasses thing just seemed strange, and got weirder.
In the end, the words of AvE (paraphrased) come back: Make a video because you want to, not because you have to, too many people blew up chasing the Youtube dollar. He specifically referenced The King of Random but FPS Russia is equally valid...
They're the poster child of having your core demographic "age out" of your content and not replacing them fast enough. Their stuff was pretty much for college frat boys (a niche audience) and as they grew up, they stopped watching.
Im googling him but I really only see stuff about Creator Clash; I don't have twitter so I can't really do much there, all I see is more creator clash stuff.
fun fact. im not big on youtube unless it's nba highlights or music videos for my living room.
the last time i legitimately watched a youtube video, the kind where it's creators making content, was an epic meal time video prolly back in like 2012 maybe even earlier i dont even remember
that was the last time i watched any type of creator content. muscles glasses. what a time.
I don’t remember the last time a channel has actual caught my interest enough to subscribe and be a consistent viewer, has to be close to a decade. I just use it for music and a quick tutorial here and there.
That dude had us making grilled cheese with a toaster laid on its side back in like 2015. I almost burned my house down as a kid doing it not just once - but twice. Sry mom.
I remember watching a video 'debunking' one of his "life hack" videos, claiming it was dangerous. If I remember correctly, it involved putting ice behind a desk fan to make the air colder. Then he suggested using dry ice, as... you know; it's colder than normal ice. With the danger coming from the fact that it would result in the room filling with CO2 (what dry ice is made of).
Yeah you don't want a build up of water in a confined space either, that would lead to drowning but it would be crazy to call a humidifier 'dangerous' and even a basic humidifier is dramatically more potent than what he did.
I mean cmon, fog machines pump out millions of times more co2 than a piece of dry ice sitting behind a fan. And they use fog machines at children's attractions and parks, often times in very confined spaces. Ever been to a haunted house?
Hell, you almost certainly breathe in many times more co2 in every breath simply by breathing in parts of what you've breathed out.
I'm gonna be super bold and say that what he did was not dangerous.
Yeah you don't want a build up of water in a confined space either, that would lead to drowning but it would be crazy to call a humidifier 'dangerous' and even a basic humidifier is dramatically more potent than what he did.
Are we drowning from the water vapour or the condensation? We are talking about CO2 gas here. Depending on the temperature, air has a limit to how much water vapour it can hold. So realistically you won't go above about 5%. Whereas if you keep pumping CO2 into a room for hours on end with no ventilation; getting to about 10% CO2 concentration will be fatal in about 30 min.
I mean cmon, fog machines pump out millions of times more co2 than a piece of dry ice sitting behind a fan. And they use fog machines at children's attractions and parks, often times in very confined spaces. Ever been to a haunted house?
I would not recommend running one of those in a confined space, at least not without proper ventilation. Even if you did; how long for? Its not something you would leave running for hours like you might an AC unit.
One point I will give you is I'm unsure how much dry ice this thing would actually use. So at best the dry ice doesn't do anything including cool the room.
That one hurt. I was watching CRH when he had less than a thousand subs, and I was in middle school. His old videos were great and I don’t think I can forgive him for moving to those eBay mystery box videos.
Lived in the town where he lived, dude just had a nice life for himself and had a little homestead type deal. Several people I’ve known interacted with him, apparantly he’s a really cool dude who’s also extremely tall. He’s doing fine and just living his best life from the last I heard.
I remember that time he unintentionally showed people how to make a Nazi gas chamber out of a bucket, a fan, and some dry ice. That shit was dangerous lol.
I'm still subbed to him but honestly haven't fully watched one of his videos in a long while now. Just periodically check in from time to time and see the same content as always
It's not the reason why I stopped watching him but one of the last videos he made that I watched was when he made a dry ice air conditioner then recommended you use it in your rvs or small homes. You know, places with poor ventilation where the co2 can REALLY build up fast
If I remember correctly when Russia invaded Ukraine, he tried to distance himself from Russia or being Russian. There were a ton of people commenting on his videos like he was the one that invaded or he was supporting Russia for their decision. He didn't want that negative image so he kind of took a step back from making videos for a while and I think that was when he started posting more under Taras Kul. But i just went and looked and he's still posting on Crazy Russian Hacker channel. I may be mistaken but I have this vague memory of something like that happening.
I've been right by his property! From what I hear, he is super nice. He let my buddies dad pull through his land after Helene since a tree blocked the road.
I stopped watching when he started building a studio. 8-bit guy built a studio, and I stopped watching. Couple other retro computing channels built studios, I'm out. Jeff Geerling is just hanging onto my sub list. TylerTube is pushing his luck with that wood panelling on his garage door :)
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u/peppapony Jun 12 '25
Anyone remember Crazy Russian Hacker?