Camping with Steve started with a homeless guy who eventually got his life back together after much trauma and got married to a lovely woman who then died suddenly and it absolutely destroyed him. Then his neighbour and friend died a while later. He still makes videos and seems to be doing OK but geez that guy has had a rough go-around.
His mom also died around the same time. He remarried now and seems to be doing well when he posts a video.
3blue1brown held a contest in 2021 to inspire people to create math explainer videos for a more or less general audience during the isolation of the pandemic. One of the submissions was the very good Hackenbush: A Window to a New World of Math, which dives into combinatorial game theory à la John Conway’s Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays. Going by the comments under the video, it appears the creator Owen Maitzen commit suicide sometime in the year after publishing the video. It’s the only video on the channel. There could have been many more.
Aaron Kyro
I didn’t follow the events up close personally but my impression of the whole Jenna Marbles controversy was that she could’ve just stopped reading comments and kept making videos but instead she let a small online mob bully her out.
yeh she seemed legitimately sorry for what she did and regretted her actions made some changes to attempt to be a better person but then it sounds like it went …beyond. i can only imagine what kinds of pms she got after that. likely not something you can simply block or ignore
Once the jackals smell blood, man…
does racist shit
is bullied for it
yep. seems like a clear case of fafo.
OK !
Grandpa Cooking. I watched his funeral on YT. They tried to keep the channel alive without him, but with losing the central figure…
I’m sad that the kids lost him, he helped them a lot.
Same with Comicstorian.
Physics girl is finally ambulatory but still recovering from long covid after being bedridden for 3 years
That fat radio/podcast guy with the deep gravelly voice.
You’re going to have to be so much more specific
Alex Jones?
🥲
I don’t know if it’s super tragic, but - the fouch family off-grid
They were documenting buying land in the middle of nowhere and building a self-sufficient homestead there. From a yurt, to building a house off their own trees.
They went on some holistic farming retreat, gave it a not-so-shining review on YouTube and got sued for slander. They took their off-grid living one step further after that.
Aaron Swartz. Persecuted for something he had legal right to do, only because some FBI fuck wanted to climb ranks after building a case against “dAngERouS Hax0rman!1”
And then 10 years passed and tech bros did the same thing on a larger scale, and it was suddenly OK
He was a really nice person in real life. My friends and I do a radio show which had him as a guest once, and he and his partner joined us for dinner afterward. I’ve always remembered it as a lovely evening with a humble, sweet, curious guy who was working on important things and deserved the best. He sadly passed around five months later.
His loss was such a needless tragedy which continues to infuriate me.
My friends and I do a radio show which had him as a guest once
Which episode was that? I listen to the show on occasion.
It was August 15, 2012. After he passed we reflected on it all and spoke more about him on January 16, 2013.
Thank you for asking.
Well, you see, it was an issue that he did it because he wanted everyone to have access to the information. It’s not an issue for AI companies because they are using it to get filthy rich.
It totally makes sense.
Rest in power dude
Oh, poor guy
Beyond politics and drop in quality, I hate channels that lean too hard into the parasocial stuff. LinusTT is a good example. I stopped watching that channel after every other episode was about Linus’ house, his wife, or his employee’s personal life.
“You love my content, so that means you love me, and want everything to be more about me, and I want it too baby!”
Ok… I hate the “personal” ytbers too.
Gonna say Tom Brier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brier
An amazing rag pianist, with the help of a friend he got really popular for various video game songs he would sight read (playing for the first time with no practice) for the camera.
In 2016, he was rear-ended in a car accident and had a brain injury that paralyzed him from the neck down. He has since been healing and as of 2023 was starting to be able to write again but as far as I’m aware still can’t play the piano and may never do so again.
Check out the talent: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hrGrzVqaHaPngRcsE-gNrwxdVvByiiC
This is still one of my favs. He improvised an entire song based on a small melody from Legend of Zelda: https://youtu.be/vhRBGCS8mlc
As a pianist : whoa. Sad story. Insane talent.
Right? I’ve played piano most of my life, and any one of those would be months of intense practice for me to nail down, and dude just plays it like it’s nothing on his first attempt. It’s wild.
As a pianist, you may also appreciate this one, as I know Joplin is pretty popular in most curriculums.
Breaks my brain how easy he makes it look.
Yeah, I appreciate ! Thank you !
I made one of the first playlists of him. He was a lot of fun. I thought he passed away. He brings so much joy.
This one from Yoshi’s island is particularly joyous.
I remember finding his content on the long ago days of YouTube and really enjoyed it. His accident was truly devastating.
I’m thinking of John Baine aka TotalBiscuit.
Ten years ago he was the only person i watched on Youtube. He did gaming related content, originaly about WOW and Starcraft 2, later branching out into Indi and AAA games. While he could be controversial as a person he had deep knowledge of the industry and made videos that where 100% made with gamers on mind. The man was a fucking ledgend and there is nobody who has been able to take up his work with the same integritity and knowledge he had.
He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2014 and died 2018. In his last videos you can hear him slowly withering away.
He also has that podcast with Jesse Cox and Dodger, really missed that because they kept it focused on the gaming topics yet also light hearted. Whereas every other gaming news podcast just was way to cynical.
The Co–Optional podcast. I watched it till the bitter end. The last couple of episodes are painfull to listen to, TB beeing heavily druged and clearly suffering. Cancer is a bitch.
RIP TotalBiscuit, he absolutely was a constant for me as well with game reviews. I always went to his channel to get a review. It really sucks there isn’t another that has picked up the mantle.
I used to be a massive AvE fan, but then Covid and angry Canadian truckers happened and he went completely of the rails.
Yeah I remember watching one of his videos where one of his takes just completely put me off of him. Shame cause I did really like his content
Oh well, now I just watch ToT. Better quality content anyway
I saw him microwaving bearings and that got me into YouTube.
Haven’t seen his videos in ~6 years. The milling machine wasn’t my deal and then he went nuts. ToT is more my jam.
Love ToT. Watching ave with that haas was painful, then he went off the deep end. I do miss the old BOLTRs tho.
Yep. I learned a lot from the guy for a while.
What did he cover?
Old dude in his shop, he would take power tools apart to review their quality, build things, machine things. Went maple MAGA.
Desert Drifter’s death made me cry. It was very unexpected and unnecessary and he seemed like a really positive guy. I loved his videos. They were pure adventure and really highlighted amazing treasures throughout the American West, all in such a zen, peaceful package.
Reason of downfall ?
He was rear-ended at a stoplight, put on life support for a month, died a day after life support was removed.
He died.
It’s true. He never recovered from that.
Eurtan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvczGINBiBV-N9mZybHCZQ
Erutan on TIDAL: https://tidal.com/artist/18310839
She had the most beautiful voice, an amazing talent for composition and performance. Some likened her to Lúthien Tinúviel from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legends. She was struck by some autoimmune disease, which attacked her throat and stole her voice. Reading her last update is really heartbreaking: https://www.erutanmusic.com/drinks
