I don't really follow YouTubers anymore. I used to follow a couple, but then reasons... which you can see below!
I
used to be a big fan of
Elliot Hulse of Strength Camp.
A former professional strongman, Elliot used to make a lot of cool videos in the form of his "Yo, Elliot!" series, where fans would send in questions about strength training, health and fitness, nutrition, as well as questions about life and whatnot.
Then his direction completely changed... he started making a lot of "spiritual" kinda videos and for me, it was a bit weird, and started focusing more on the business side of things, selling products to apparently help up and coming entrepreneurs.
I also didn't like how he would tell people that they can't look like other people (e.g. Superman) due to life/experience reasons, but then try and sell people a fitness program product where they could apparently look like him (Elliot Hulse). Seemed like he was selling out and kinda preying on people's insecurities.
I used to watch this guy too,
Elgintensity.
Elgin is basically an Internet troll, but he tends to troll other fitness YouTubers who honestly spew out a bit too much bull crap, e.g. providing false advice, giving people a false sense of hope ("You can look like me, trust me I don't do steroids") and essentially picking on ego lifters. He's incredibly intelligent and is a lawyer by day.
All of the above sounds great, but I stopped watching him because I found he was ripping on people who didn't deserve it, e.g. he'd post videos online of people at the gym (submitted to him by fans) and said people being filmed clearly have no idea what they're doing, and he makes fun of them instead of helping them.
I've learned that filming people in the gym, whether they're an ego lifting idiot, or a newbie who doesn't know what they're doing... doesn't matter who it is, if you're filming someone at the gym and then uploading it online to make fun of them, that's wrong.
It's no secret that I am a huge fan of Penny Arcade and I love both the work of Mike and Jerry. I also think that they're genuine, humble human beings. Penny Arcade has a YouTube channel which is honestly not that popular, but I love watching their
First 15 series.
Basically, all it is, is that Mike and Jerry play a game that they've never played before and they play the first fifteen minutes (actual game play, not cut scenes and whatnot) and I think it's great.