WARNING: MUCHO TEXTO
Dear YouCubers and the Speedsolving Forums,
I'm disappointed. You could be better. Though you may be a part of the rapidly growing community, you don't earn my respect. Milking content trends, such as "If [insert popular name] was a Cuber", "Non-Cubers be like", et cetera. It's ruining the cubing spirit. People of the likes of Cube for Speed, CubeRazn, and STCuber, among other copycats, are ruining the hobby. I know that they want to appeal to people like non-cubers who just learned about the hobby (I myself decided to buy my first good speedcube, a QiYi Sail, because I found a brain-dead Cube For Speed video on my recommended page) and younger cubers who like fast, colorful, and chaotic content, but it doesn't encapsulate the true cubing spirit. There are exceptions to these shorts creators, like SoupTimmy, who can appeal to both audiences, but it still is hard for me to swallow the pill of mass appeal.
Though I may not have been cubing for very long, being in the hobby for about a year or so, I know that cubing isn't all skits and content stealing. People like Z3Cubing, who I am actually watching right now in picture-in-picture as I am writing this, CubeHead, J Perm, SCS, TC, Tingman, and even older channels who I rewatch old videos of, like JRCuber, RedKB, and Cubeorithms.
Much to the chagrin of many serious cubers, most good YouCubers have fallen into the trap of catering to non-cubers and children, instead of providing truly genuine, fun cubing content for people like us on the forums who are more true, more serious cubers. Take poor Evgeny Bondarenko, or Cubastic. I still enjoy his calming, interesting (though poorly dubbed) videos, but he recently started making Cube For Speed-esque shorts. They have become very popular, much to my dismay, and take away from what makes his content unique, which is his calming, personality-filled content.
And there's also the blackout. Sure, there are people like J Perm and CubeHead who need a break because of their constant uploading, but CubeHead hasn't uploaded in a month, and despite J Perm's Shortcat channel where he uploads pretty often, he left us to the wolves by not uploading for eight months, making about five videos, and disappearing for another three months at this point in time. What gives?!
But I digress. People need to make a living, and maybe content milking is the answer to problems. There are still our knights in shining armor, like Z3 and Tingman, who upload weekly to put smiles on us cubers' faces. But we need the older form of content. Unboxings, mods, experiments, effectively everything from 2010-2019. I would expect that I speak for everyone that we all want content like that back.
Thank you for your time, and I apologize for making you read so much.
-Orion
