I really miss Jack Stauber.

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.

Jenna Marbles. I miss her so much and I think her leaving really changed the wholesome face of YouTube. I miss her content.

I also couldn’t ever get myself to remove unus anus from my subscribed list even if I can’t view it. It got me through the early months of the pandemic. Those two goofy youtubers helped me keep my sanity.

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.

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.

Does Veritasium count? It’s not exactly dead, but its a zombie.

Seth Everman still makes me laugh

Technoblade and Mitten Squad are the 2 I keep. I miss TB’s humor and MS’s Fallout & Skyrim challenge videos.

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.

Alfie Aesthetics.

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

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.

TotalBiscuit :(

Epic Rap Battles of History isn’t exactly dead but they don’t post content nearly as much has they used to. And there are some bona-fide classics on there worth watching again and again.

Every Frame a Painting… Come back to us

Hbomberguy