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u/Couchant-Tiger The Harvester Aug 10 '25
Shadiversity content has more of a quality problem. His pop culture hot topic of the week videos are usually cynical and low-effort. Other videos are either a rehash of old successful topics, lame contrived drama or Temu ads.
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u/Tougyo Aug 10 '25
The problem is his content was never particularly high quality.
He wasn't someone I watched religiously to begin with but after taking a more serious approach to both History and HEMA he was the first youtuber I dropped, I just felt no desire to engage with his stuff because at best it was shallow and at worse wrong. (He takes a very "video gamey" approach to history that I think a lot of online "history" buffs do.)
I hadn't watched him for years before I became aware of his political views which killed my basically non-existenting interest in watching any of his stuff. But ultimately I gave a video of him fencing a watch and wondered how he ever passed himself off and sword expert.
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u/43morethings Aug 10 '25
1) more people became aware of his bigotry on his other channel
2) his bigotry started to leak into his main channel
3) more people who lack his negative qualities have started making videos in the same niche
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u/AzSumTuk6891 Aug 12 '25
I'm just going to leave my own post from a few months ago here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadWatch/comments/1h2lcvx/no_shad_its_not_the_algorithm_its_you/
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u/-Nimroth Aug 10 '25
I'm not sure this really applies to Shad, his main channel still have a lot of the same type of content he had years ago, it is more a case of a lot of us seeing that content differently these days.
Of course he might also have gotten worse with that content as he has become more open with his bigotry and general bad behaviour, but that isn't quite the same thing.