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[@decepticonleaderstarscream6551]

•Does sword content •Viewers come •Starts making anti woke content •A big chunk of his audience leaves •Defends AI •Another chunk of his audience leaves •His channel isn't doing well •Surprised Pikachu face

[@tatersalad76]

I can't believe swords went woke lol

[@MovieEggman]

Being Pro-AI literally kills the whole immersion of his channel’s content because computers did not exist in medieval times.

[@MovieEggman]

@@tatersalad76If AI finally goes Woke, all these Rightoid Content Creators will stop supporting it and I see that as a win-win situation.

[@reinaemiya]

​@MovieEggman can't be that far away, considering musk tried to make a none woke one, only for it to be the wokest of them all.

[@TheSilkKing1]

@@tatersalad76 The sword and HEMA community is a smattering of white supremacists in a sea of LGBT kinksters

[@captininsanoo00]

if only he just did videos about swords and castles and kept it there.

[@redstoneactive6589]

I agree, I actually really liked those videos, and was super surprised when I kept seeing things calling him a chud. KZbin just knew I would only like his nerdy stuff

[@dynamicworlds1]

Yeah. If he just kept the crazy off his online presence we all would've known he was a freak from him letting out that he's a Mormon, but would have overlooked it. But no, he just had to start spreading propaganda about his BS.

[@StormCrownSr]

I will never forget when he compared being trans to being religious. To be clear, he compared respecting someone's gender to respecting someone's religious beliefs.

[@Wild1990Child]

Even then the content is shit. He’s a charlatan

[@TheSilkKing1]

He was only really decent for castles. His fencing talk was half-baked. His own armor is god awful. That brigandine he wears looks disgusting.

[@OhNotThat]

Shad is killing his own channel. These are merely the consequences of his own actions. I'm usually fair and unbiased with these things. The guy is a whiny l0ser and is constantly dodging responsibility for his own screw ups and it's tiresome. I don't accept this victimization narrative from Shad on the right nor Jim Sterling's victimization narrative on the left. "KZbin" and/or haters aint killing their respective channels - THEY ARE.

[@kingofallpie]

You know shit's gotten serious when Shad stops wearing gambesons over hoodies

[@melkhiordarkfell4354]

He has just moved to LARPing as an adult.

[@sethmiller2532]

The appeal of Shad's content used to be that this sort of fat, sort of old, nerdy goofball was just having a blast and living his best life, while also being in the niche that got me to watch Skallagrim, Matt Easton, and others. Then he started perpetually whining about things like the Star Wars sequels and all the good will he had built up quickly ran out. That took the veneer of good natured goofiness off of his previous content and revealed a lot of problematic behaviors that I overlooked before. Eventually he started openly palling around with Nazis and making the sword nerd equivalent of Andrew Tate content, but fortunately I was already gone by then.

[@JeremChapp]

"nazis" is this the stopping point of clueless teenager? Wtf is this comment section

[@sethmiller2532]

@@JeremChapp Who is a teenager, here? Are you lost?

[@brianjohnson1509]

@@sethmiller2532 They're not nazis though. They're just not liberal.

[@FTZPLTC]

What I think people like that don't realise is that people will be quite forgiving of their politics if they just don't bring it up much... but everyone's going to have a point where they start looking somewhere else for the same kind of content. And there's almost certainly *going* to be similar content that doesn't come with all the same baggage. That said, I feel like the fact that so many people veer so hard in the same bad direction - i.e. whining about whatever movie is in the headlines this month - means it's intentional with a lot of them, and it's probably done *before* the general audience notice that they're starting to dip.

[@brianjohnson1509]

@@FTZPLTC Even for me when I share most of his views it's just coming up too much to be enjoyable, and I haven't been watching much recently. The old videos are still good, but the new stuff just started losing me.

[@GucciPucciMIH]

The thing about AI art is that Shad could just easily ask his brother to make thumbnails for him if he wanted

[@StormCrownSr]

No, 😊he couldn't. Shad is so toxic that Jazza wants nothing to do with him.

[@GucciPucciMIH]

​@@StormCrownSrwell damn... That's a blocked blessing right there.

[@Cygnus888]

@@StormCrownSr Is that a new development? I remember them getting along well enough in videos.

[@RadicalRhia]

​@@Cygnus888After Shad got more politically outspoken, Jazza went on to make a statement that he does not share his brothers beliefs. I can only imagine the internal schism that could cause, especially for someone as clearly fragile as Shad is

[@TheLizardKing752]

That would require him to be on good terms with his brother, which may require a charisma score several points above his current level.

[@Finnan189]

Shad is killing his own channel. YT has nothing to with it.

[@kateadams5574]

yeah, what really amused me was that despite being unsubscribed and not having not watched one of his videos since at least 2020 KZbin felt the need to signal boost that video to me.

[@dynamicworlds1]

Someone on the right ACTUALLY taking personal responsibility? Challenge level: impossible.

[@arizona_anime_fan]

It wasn't his rightwing nonsense that killed his channel. As a long time and largely a-political watcher, the quality dropped off hard, they're lazy and sloppy, hard to watch. Furthermore he's been whining about views and youtube suppression for a year. every single video he does on it is more irritating then the last. His videos have become a lot of edging to lead people into his patreon to see the "real" content. I'm sorry as cool as your content is, every video if you talk about something cooler you did for a patreon then you're just frustrating your audience Finally his content is weapon content. and youtube delists that stuff heavy. so he's playing in a field where his content gets suppressed just for existing. History content gets that a lot too.

[@Xanthelei]

I take it you didn't watch the video. Yes, he began the cratering all on his own, but just from what Xan said about seeing a similar effect on his channel at the same times as Shad, YT started piling dirt on top of the smoking rubble. If he had still been making decent content and not shoved both feet in his mouth, he might be weathering it better, but Xan basically confirmed that YT fucked with the algorithm in January.

[@oldreaddy3341]

Two things can be true at once.

[@gloomy_gus]

I remember when this guy was "that one dude who does the videos about medieval arms and armor." Coulda kept doing that but no, he needed to stand with Carl of Swindon for some reason

[@raguelelnaqum]

I stopped watching him even before he exposed himself as a chud. Alot of his weapons vids didn't stand up to the quality of Skallagrim's videos and on top of that his historical commentary was frequently rife with inaccuracies, and he would try to lie about his gaffs. So I wasn't to surprised when it turned out that he was pivoting towards chud content.

[@greywolf7577]

As far as I know, his main channel is all about medieval arms and armor and he hasn't been losing subscribers as you would expect if people were angry at his political views. So it must be something else causing the drop in views.

[@AjaXxXDenia]

For me, "that one dude who does the videos about medieval arms and armor" was always Skallagrim. I choosed correctly, it seems.

[@raguelelnaqum]

@@AjaXxXDenia Same. As I said earlier, even before Shad openly started acting like a chud his testing videos became subpar compared to Skallagrim and his history videos often had misinformation even before the quality drop.

[@Saucychemist]

​@@AjaXxXDenia yes you did, better hair too

[@NAk-si3mk]

It is as many people have pointed out: go fash no cash

[@sonicalex2536]

Go right, wallet is light

[@mr.anthonygonzales]

Vote for Trump your money's in the dump

[@slimdangerous1928]

How have I not heard any of these until now? I love it

[@Bezaliel13]

You WILL go broke if you don't go woke.

[@Sgtassburgler]

Fash as in fashion?

[@Montesama314]

"You like anime? Superhero films? Here is a whiny content creator designing his videos to stoke rage!" Wow, thanks, KZbin algorithm.

[@StormCrownSr]

Shad is a trap waiting to spring.

[@brianlawson3757]

Do you like Clownfish Media, The Quartering, and Heel VS Babyface? Try this guy who insists on wearing a gambison and duct-taping two long swords together because,... reasons.

[@sethmiller2532]

@brianlawson No, that makes sense as a recommendation. Those three are also about throwing tantrums over stupid shit, so he's just another one of them, but for sword nerds.

[@PropainProGame]

Just perfectly described this Channel.

[@Nikich133]

​@@sethmiller2532the point is his warchers are the overlap of the two audiences. Which is not huge

[@neo122333]

I love how his own brother, a famous youtuber in his own right, has openly distanced himself from him and said he doesn't agree with him lmao

[@TheRodentMastermind]

The whole AI thing was because he's jealous of his brother who is a real artist.

[@A._is_for]

Jazza is great

[@gigaus0]

Okay, there's one big problem with the argument here-- that youtube isn't pushing him in recommended? *He's showing up in feeds of people who've blocked him.* Old account, fresh accounts, doesn't matter; He still gets injected into the feed. KZbin has been trying to hold him up, issue is no one wants to watch him because of his politics and honestly not great content.

[@AlkisGD]

Back in the day, I hit "do not recommend" -> "I don't like the channel" on The Quartering, Nerdrotic, and a bunch of other channels. They stayed gone for years. These days I'll be lucky if the softblock lasts 72 hours. Feels like the algorithm wants me to hatewatch people. I just want a proper blocklist 😩

[@sw2953]

@@AlkisGD Blocktube. At least on desktop.

[@GothamClive]

@@AlkisGD Doesn't just feel like that. If you disagree you're more likely to comment.

[@helicopterharry5101]

"I'm being oppressed by youtube" is the midlife crisis of right-wing youtubers who aren't as popular as they feel they deserve. Then comes pushing crazier conspiracies in desperation to recover.

[@CJ-ht4rf]

It's so sad how accurate this is

[@rifter0x0000]

I mean, he is not wrong that the algorithm deprioritizes content like his.

[@Bushprowler]

He's an unimaginative and failed author/artist and imbecilic right-ring grifter complaining about the free market and the medieval enthusiasts, the sword nerds and the incels not flocking around his shit anymore. His initial target audience doesn't vibe with the shit he's putting out and he's way too cringy, too narcissistic, too beta, too old and too fat, too low energy/low testosterone for the usual lonely incel right-wingers to actually give a shit about him.

[@umitencho]

@@rifter0x0000 Oh please, youtube helped build the alt-right pipeline. Come to find out attacking your fanbase which may consist of non-white people & females is not a good idea. We came for the sword content, not this regressive bs.

[@ZerglingLover]

@@rifter0x0000it doesn’t.

[@jesseorellana5339]

I wonder if nerds like him realize that you can like your favorite franchise and fictional factions AND still realize they're bad! I like the humans in 40k because they're over the top. Would I like to live in that society? Even as a High Lord, fuck no! Same with the Empire in Star Wars. Sure, they're fun... but there's a reason they're the bad guys (everyone in 40k is the bad guy. That's kind of the point).

[@GothamClive]

Have you watched his 4OK video? It was hilarious. Oz shared "a badass quote about religion" which was "Blessed be the mind too small to doubt." Shad wasn't sure if he agreed with that, because he's truly blessed, and Oz said "That's antithetical to the left". Then he shared a few more quotes from Imperium propaganda and Shad says that's phrased very harshly. In the end, Shad is quite happy that he shares attitudes with the Imperium. And at a certain point, he claimed the "they", meaning people disagreeing with him "don't understand satire". All that really happened. It was awesome how somebody could miss being made fun of so hard.

[@jesseorellana5339]

@@GothamClive That's insane, sad, and hilarious all at the same time! Thanks for sharing this.

[@GothamClive]

@@jesseorellana5339 And these were just a few highlights. I can't recommend the video enough.

[@tydyman2003]

Skallagrim is superior any way

[@NeverUseAnApostrophe]

True.

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

Skallagrim is just as big a whiner and crier. He publishes three or four "I'm so hard done by; KZbin is so mean to me" every year too. I unsubscribed from skal a long time ago - I just can't bother with so-called adults weeping on camera. He needs to get a real job too but I doubt he has anything of value to offer in tnhe real world.

[@WASDLeftClick]

@@kaoskronostyche9939 Skal always came across to me as a Libertarian who was mad that he lives in Canada, the most liberal country in North America. His content was still always better than Shad's though.

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

@@WASDLeftClick Probably haven't watched him enough to respond to your "libertarian - hates Canada" comment. I will agree his content has been better than Shad. I think he is Norwegian I have heard - maybe he should go back home but maybe they don't want him. In any case, I cannot look at him because he has expressed his deep self-pity and men publicly crying is so off-putting. I suspect he is pretty self-loathing. I can't watch him because he turns my stomach and I am also pretty bored with him because he is basically a one-trick pony. Anyway, thanks for the reply. Cheers!

[@WASDLeftClick]

@@kaoskronostyche9939 I was under the impression Skal is a Norwegian immigrant who lives in Canada and constantly complains about gun laws there lmao.

[@steve94183]

Westside Tyler has done some really good takedowns of Shad on his channel if anyone wants to see more of Shad getting dunked on.

[@ivangordy8957]

Some of my favorite videos on KZbin.

[@hexaldecima6839]

Another recommendation would be KirkpattieCake. It's a double dis since Shad is a misogynist.

[@Gelatinocyte2]

Also _Knightfall_ by Jack Saint

[@steve43ful]

Shad can’t go back to just making sword videos because (as is requisite for being a conservative Mormon) he’s made it clear he absolutely does not give a shit about history or historical accuracy and will just believe whatever he feels like.

[@Tahllia]

If he made a channel of “I think this would be neat, and not AT ALL historically accurate.” He could have played with the concept. There’s plenty of D&D players who would love the hell out of stuff like that

[@RichterBelmont2235]

Citation needed.

[@hafirenggayuda]

Yeah. I used to listen to him until I found other more competent reviewers

[@AgentForest]

KZbin is a shitty platform with a fucked up algorithm, but Shad really started going hard on the anti-woke grift around that time and lost so many fans. Then he went hard on AI art and lost even more. So I have a hard time believing KZbin is the majority of his problem.

[@ZillyWhale]

Oh no the consequences of my own actions!

[@DuskyPredator]

I stopped when he started going anti-trans, left a comment saying I was disappointed and didn't watch anymore. Only really started to hear more recently from fighting with apparently some better sword KZbinrs, and other controversies.

[@scottchadwick1247]

He's been almost totally shunned from the yt sword community. He only had a few friends there and they found out about his real opinions.

[@サリエリ-q5g]

Anti-trans? By saying that children shouldn't be allowed to take hormones?

[@DuskyPredator]

@@サリエリ-q5g Yeah, he didn't just say that children shouldn't take hormones.

[@akashajones6079]

Being anti trans movement is the logical and moral way to go. Shad sucks, but not for that reason.

[@demonicloaf2100]

@@akashajones6079 "Logical and moral" Bruh, the fuck are you smoking?

[@jalioswilinghart]

If not for the ear damage from the "WOOOO-"s, Id say it was a perfect vid.

[@luvamiart8567]

English is not my first language so usually I need to play the videos a bit loud to make sure I catch all the words. Those WOOO were so bad I decided to stop watching. Really annoying because I was interested.

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

"this same video keeps finding it's way into my feed" yea, a few years ago, I had it happen to me with a Daily Wire video. It kept showing up even after I clicked "not interested" several times, One day, I just got fed up and hit the report button saying something to the effect of "there is nothing inherently wrong with the video, just get this garbage out of my feed like I told you"

[@fernandodecarlosmalcher7977]

he has no one to blame other than himself, even letting aside the political bs, the guy became so unlikable and cocky, first it was his creepy book, then he started getting full of himself and seeking drama with pretty much everyone that barely mentioned him, or even when they didn't mentioned him, like recently he lied about sellsword art, and for me, the moment he truly lost was when jack saint made a responso to him (recommend the video, is really good), he pretty much destroyed everything about him, not even his fans were on his side

[@GThe-su9kl]

I mean, i began watching Shad's channel at the time where he made the "fantasy rearmed", but i got suspicious a bit after the "star wars" part, where he began talking about the bikini armor. I kinda stopped watching his channel at about that time, and only remember occasionally that he exists.

[@FuzzyImages]

Do people not realize that every trend drops off eventually? Thats the thing that often bothers me when KZbinrs complain about the algorithm or stuff like that, you don’t stay popular forever, people will always move on eventually, thats just reality. The biggest problem is it seems KZbinrs never plan for the inevitability.

[@frankwest5388]

It’s a skinnerbox problem Concepts like “trend popularity spread out over 4-6 years” are not something that the human mind is able to comprehend. What they do see is, something works so they do it and then confused when it stops working. It’s like those videos that occasionally circle around of once famous sports athletes that have had contracts worth millions to broke after 10 years.

[@greywolf7577]

Does that mean that Xanderhal is eventually going to lose his supporters as the trend of left wing commenters drops off? Or do certain topics always get views? How do you differentiate the two types of topics?

[@andrejg4136]

​@greywolf7577 literally nothing is forever, so enjoy the ride while it lasts

[@peterd9698]

I think the way corporations can manipulate conversation over such a massive scale is very dangerous. The continual right wing claims of censorship against them do in fact worry me.. not because I believe it for a second, but because every accusation from them soon turns out to be an admission. By the time it s absolutely clear social media corporations are controlling election outcomes it will be FAR too late to begin asking our representatives to do anything about it. They will not be our representatives anymore.

[@SoI_Badguy]

Other medieval youtubers are doing fine

[@bewing77]

It's ironic, when I watched Shadiversity I recall the first time he said that he was a Christian, which, outside the US generally means you're a dedicated Christian since it's not that common. I thought "hey, it's refreshing that there's a Christian KZbinr who seems to be a good guy for a change, who isn't on the hate-grift bandwagon".. sadly he had to go down the reactionary content pipeline and now I can't watch any of his stuff. Why couldn't he just have left it alone? I mean, I would have been fine with him being a Christian or even if he said he had some conservative views if he just hadn't made a thing of it.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

He also had to engage in the Christian persecution complex when Schola Gladiatoria refused to work with him.

[@changelingthing423]

If you want to find a youtuber that fits in that 'christian who isn't on the hate-grift bandwagon', I'd like to recommend Clint's Reptiles. He does a lot of great animal phylogeny videos (not just reptiles), and has some great evolution explainer, and young-earth creationism debunking videos. He's mainly brought up his religion in the context of 'being christian doesn't mean you need to reject science'. It's really refreshing.

[@Pilgrim98]

If you want a christian youtuber that's also not a political extremist and is also genuinly a nice person, might i suggest Wendigoon?

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

Not a Christian, he’s a Mormon

[@limedylan]

I had a realization a few years ago that everyone on EFAP was a right-wing grifter feeding me slop telling me what to think. Shadiversity was one of them. Haven't been able to watch any of them since.

[@Dalekzilla54]

I used to watch Jay Exi until they got chummy with Mauler.

[@cozmo840]

EFAP?

[@pmester228]

@@cozmo840 every frame a pause. Imagine if cinemasins had a podcast

[@666FallenShadow]

@@Dalekzilla54 jay hasn't been on efap and stuff in ages, she's also taken a break from youtube but she seems to still be active on twitter and she's shitting on conservatives

[@Dalekzilla54]

@666FallenShadow Thanks for keeping me in the loop, that's reassuring to hear.

[@tetzujin]

honestly, i’m kinda proud of shadiversity’s fanbase, or ex-fanbase as it were. They were able to recognize the grift and jumped ship early.

[@theInvisibleOne-1]

KZbin doesn't care who you are, they just want MONEY

[@StormCrownSr]

They care if your content loses them more money than you earn them.

[@callowaymotorcompany]

@@StormCrownSrthese are the same statement

[@TankZappa]

Shad didn't realize Starship Troopers was satire. 💀

[@FlyingFox86]

Wait, seriously?

[@TankZappa]

@@FlyingFox86 Yup he made an entire video about it. It's unintentional comedy gold.

[@GothamClive]

@@FlyingFox86 Watch his Warhammer video. He thinks the Imperium are good guys. It was hilarious. Oz shared "a badass quote about religion" which was "Blessed be the mind too small to doubt." Shad wasn't sure if he agreed with that, because he's truly blessed, and Oz said "That's antithetical to the left". Then he shared a few more quotes from Imperium propaganda and Shad says that's phrased quite harshly. In the end, Shad is quite happy that he shares attitudes with the Imperium. And at a certain point, he claimed the "they", meaning people disagreeing with him "don't understand satire". All that really happened. It was awesome how somebody could miss being made fun of so hard.

[@GothamClive]

@@TankZappa Definitely not as funny as his Warhammer video. He doesn't know if he agrees with the quote "Blessed be the mind that's too small to doubt." because he's truly blessed.

[@KnarfStein]

I started watching his content a few years ago because of his fun breakdowns of medieval weapons and defensive architecture, but then I saw his UNHINGED rant on _Barbie_ (2023) and so GTFO immediately.

[@leowolftvjoshuadauzat]

Respectfully shad has basically throne stones in his glass house and now is wanting people to help him rebuild it.

[@user-cz4tk2vr9i]

There is a BIG reason why big artists and businesses try to keep their political talk to a minimum, because it can affect their brand. I like Shad and his channel but most of this is his own fault, he started a very entertaining channel about swords and combat and people came in droves, now he goes off COMPLETELY unrelated to what the channel was originally about and now it is YT fault? Listen, as much as I dislike YT, this is purely self-inflicted.

[@deformemvita]

I used to really like Shadiversity, but as soon as he started pushing his weirdo christofascist bullshit I had to bail.

[@JeremChapp]

I wish you lived in a real CF country around CF people so you would stop speaking like an ignorant teenager

[@aldinlewis5579]

I’m not gonna say that politics are the reason, but I am going to say that I am someone that used to watch his content but stopped due to politics and told KZbin to not recommend videos to me from him. If KZbin thinks that I’d like his content then it can be assumed that people who are similar to me are also getting that same recommendation and are then potentially choosing to not watch or are telling KZbin explicitly not to recommend it. What I’m saying is that his political reach might turn off new viewers in a way that might be not connected to any specific action on his part. KZbin just might see a pattern where new viewers just aren’t interested in his content.

[@Bionickpunk]

Its because his media coverage videos are mean spirited, ill informed, and ignorant to say the least, with lots of yelling and needless hatemongering. That stuff got annoying really fast, along with most content creators that do similar hatemongering over visual media.

[@michaelcorns1789]

So as an Australian Mormon.... does that make America the Holy Land for him? 😅

[@onrch]

The Utah Crusades

[@Liquidsback]

@@onrch As a Non Mormon living in Utah, call me Saladin....

[@callsignapollo_]

He does in fact talk like he's personally connected to the mormons in Utah, he talks about it when discussing the space mormons in starship troopers.

[@IKhanmakeWAR2]

If yall like sword stuff, fencing HEMA, etc check out Scholagladiatoria instead. He does all the indepth stuff as well as Film/TV fight reviews, IGN had him review a bunch of the Star Wars duels. Most importantly, hes not a chud lol.

[@wesleyrussell8386]

and Skallagrim and Modern History TV

[@danielmalinen6337]

Would you recommend a channel about medieval castles and fortresses?

[@jeremiahbullfrog226]

He killed his own channel by making content that a lot of his audience didn't want so the algorithm spat him out. You love to see it.

[@greywolf7577]

His main channel is still all about swords and castles as it always was. And he's not losing subscribers like he would if people were angry at his political views. So there must be some other reason why his videos aren't getting views.

[@jeremiahbullfrog226]

@greywolf7577 a lot of people simply stop watching without unsubbing, and if they are subbed but not engaging, the algorithm takes that as a sign and they push the channel less. Or maybe the specific swords and castles content he's making isn't good anymore. It also could be that after those actual HEMA guys called him out for being a hack LARPer, his audience stopped wanting to hear what he had to say. I doubt someone at KZbin turned a nob to kill his channel

[@griffindault]

​@@greywolf7577 yes there definitely must be another reason. Perhaps it has something to do with your conclusion being based on a premise that doesn't conform to reality. There are tons of KZbin channels that still have tons of subscribers that get like 10% of that in views on new videos they put out because they lost the audience they had either due to the content getting stale or the channel no longer making the same stuff they built their audience with. It's not like the new videos don't show up in your subscription feed subscribers just don't watch the videos the creator is putting out. Boogie2988 is a great example, about 4 million subs but gets low 20k views on videos at this point.

[@liamfarranree4433]

He went ant-woke and now he's literally going broke, : )

[@drkreuzer670]

@_zapatoz_ Idk, what ever the right sees as weird and scary

[@rodsparks4980]

@_zapatoz_ Trans people, non-hwite people, non-Christians. Or just generally people who doesn't conform to their 'standards'.

[@Brruhmine]

​@_zapatoz_your mom 😨😨😨😨😨

[@Steelmage99]

@_zapatoz_ "what are those?" You are going to have to ask them....

[@Steelmage99]

@_zapatoz_ But I really don't.... Every time I have tried to find out by asking, the inevitable conclusion has always been, it appears to be whatever the Right sees as weird and scary.

[@kyuken893]

There's two points I want to make, 1st: Theres a lot of JAQ ing off in his comments about how he's being targeted, in spite of the fact that his openly conservative channel is growing (probably a "enemy is both weak and strong" cope) 2nd: it was me, I am still subscribed and I always tell KZbin when I'm not interested in one of Shad's videos, which is a lot of the new ones.

[@littlegravitas9898]

He really started falling off with the first book he wrote with the super pdfile protagonist.

[@MrFiremagnet]

As a wise man once said - without the diversity, Shadiversity will have nothing, but Sha

[@Shadowcam00]

I've seen numerous recommendations for videos taking down his anti-woke grifting, AI-art delusion, and swordsmanship inaccuracies. What could be happening is that the wave of criticism that's ramped up in the last year is competing for engagement with his own videos, then causing a portion of his potential audience to avoid him by choice.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

KZbin started recommending Shadiversity to me because I watched weapons/HEMA channels like Skallagrim and Schola Gladiatoria. It took me about two videos to notice that he didn't do _any_ research about _any_ topics he covered and just said whatever "felt right" to him. I have better things to do with my time than watch some guy on YT be confidently and embarrassingly wrong about stuff just because he couldn't bother to look it up. Not surprised he turned out to be an AI apologist.

[@LunaticKD1991]

Good. Maybe KZbin will start pushing channels who don't use AI instead. 🤷

[@Sketchpunk]

Crazy that this is Jazza's brother. Another Australian KZbinr who seems like a genuinely good guy who loves doing art and doesn't seem problematic

[@OtakuPie]

loved watching him yrs ago, nerdy castle and sword stuff? and a fellow aussie? sign me up. Then he made a passing mention that he was mormon and I was like "oh.. oh no..." but kept watching, then he released some vid about sexualization and his takes were... not ideal... my final straw was, I can't remember which video, when he said something like "I believe two men or two women can be happy together, but men are happiest with women and women with men" and I just... sad sigh and unsubscribed

[@AzureGreatheart]

"KZbin is KILLING my Channel" L+Ratio+you fell off+WOOOOOOOOOO!

[@mr.anthonygonzales]

Im glad his much more talented and overall better of a person brother Jazza is getting more success than him

[@KageAkame]

Man, I used to like Shadiversity, but after hearing about how his book is AI written, my view changed quite a bit and I dropped his channel. It's a sad thing when this happens.

[@ManicPandaz]

I’m honestly just subbed to Shad’s channel because I find it funny to watch his slow whiny downfall through increasing complaining click bait titles. Haven’t watched one of his videos in a long long time.

[@Starrypaws64]

He turned to a funny lolcow fr

[@GothamClive]

I would recommend his Warhammer video. Comedy gold!

[@scottchadwick1247]

I stopped watching him, then unsubscribed.

[@TheLizardKing752]

I vaguely remember falling into his as well as a few other conservative media critics orbits around the time Rings of Power came out, because I thought it was a legit terrible show, and then leaving because they were clearly more interested in talking about wokeness destroying media then providing substantive criticism.

[@scottchadwick1247]

@@TheLizardKing752 I've been watching rings of power with a friend, and it's actually excellent and pretty accurate to Tolkien's work.

[@arondschiltz547]

The drop in his main channel new sub count is directly related to his other work. the people who would be interested in his sward/fantasy content are ether A. already subbed, or B don't want to sub to him due to his politics. the group of people who like his politics only care about his politics, they could care less about his "nerd" content. Shad's problem is that the two demographics he is trying to pull from are largely repellent to each other.

[@greywolf7577]

If people really hate his politics, then why don't they unsubscribe from his main channel? His subscriptions aren't going down, only his views.

[@arondschiltz547]

@greywolf7577 views are down because the algorithm favors channels that have positive new sub counts. He did have sub purges when he released his political and AI takes. Yes, the algorithm changed in January, but the change exacerbated an existing problem.

[@Gnarfendorf]

​@@greywolf7577 the same reasons a lot of other people have subbed to channels and stopped watching them, either being too lazy or forgetting alltogether that they subbed in the first place.

[@TheFalseDragon]

how can someone who claim native americans are eygiptians can give history lessons to anyone?

[@sbushido5547]

I feel like the proof he tries to offer with the view rate of that one video kinda disproves his point... It was getting tens of thousands of views 4 years ago. 16 thousand 2 years ago. And just a couple thousand now. Seems like a pretty steady decline in interest. I have no idea what this sort of thing is supposed to look like, but my takeaway from that is: "It's not a conspiracy...no one cares about your content anymore, genius."

[@vitXras]

I really felt the change to my channel. I was on track to hit a 1000 subscribers. And then they definitely changed the algorithm. I was making videos promoting my book and I was actually getting booksales. It's really disappointing that they changed it. At least for me

[@Lykangroux]

I used to like Shad. His historical segments were great, but yeah... he went off the deep end. Knights Watch was the death knell for his brand. I just watch Skallgrim if I want some historical arms/armor talk at this point.

[@threetythreepercent]

As awful as his politics and opinions are, the thing that sets my teeth on edge are his smug “right,” and “okaaay” punctuating most of his sentences.

[@connorfinnigan263]

its the kinda talking pattern that enrages you no matter what

[@GothamClive]

Yes! His “okaaays” are extremely alienating.

[@joshuaolsoncook]

Shadbase and Shadiversity fell hard from grace. Good thing too.

[@RomWatt]

The lesson is: DON'T use "Shad" in your name.

[@joshuaolsoncook]

@@RomWattIt seems like its a curse at this point since anyone who uses “Shad” in their name tends to be a horrible person or becomes a horrible person.

[@kurtacus3581]

*sits you down at an opera* Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Shadus the wise?

[@Tahllia]

@@kurtacus3581yes! I’m well versed on the subject, I even wrote my thesis on it focusing on the dichotomy of the narrative and the message of hubris. If you have 5 hours I would love to talk to you about it.

[@CitanulsPumpkin]

​@@Tahllia Keep it down over there! I came to the Bubble Opera to fondle my three Twilek wives! Not over hear some nerd drone on about dichotomies all night!

[@doopydoops2064]

I just learned that engagement is way better for a video’s growth than I originally thought :D

[@JDthaMC]

Its a lie that he makes "non-political" content on Shadiversity. His opinions leak into this channel all the time. He's not careful about it. Its the reason I unfollowed him a year ago. No mystery here.

[@drummerguy438]

Ive heard from several other channels that specialize in medieval content that shad gets a lot of stuff wrong. His research method is nonexistent or flawed.

[@TheLizardKing752]

You can tell a lot about a person's politics just based on if they'd rather speak about an imaginary version of past times vs. trying to find the reality.

[@joshuayung5158]

It's telling that he tries something that he's clearly not familiar with (HEMA, archery) and then immediately beefs with their communities when established members point out issues in his research and reasoning and usually resorts to editing their footage in long winded response videos to distort their messages. He's a very big example of dunning-kruger.

[@drummerguy438]

@@joshuayung5158 agreed. 100%. Hes been doing it a long time I think. The way he is entirely unwilling to be introspective about anything is very damning. He’s ruining his own channels, and looking for someone to blame, when he only need look into a mirror.

[@544001]

You forgot about Shad's weird grudge against Elden Ring because he didn't understand the plot on his first playthrough

[@Gelatinocyte2]

Remember when Google/KZbin announced they will delete old and inactive accounts? That might have been what happened since January, hence the drop in sub counts. It's probably not some algo stuff, but the old subs no longer existing.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Trust me when I say that KZbin isn't the one killing his channel. Shad doesn't like to admit when he's wrong and take accountability for it. It's led to a lot of his fans leaving him. People like me who used to frequent his channel for his videos on historical "accuracy"... which we've all eventually come to find out isn't actually all that accurate, and that he's hardly ever actually done research on the stuff he seems to show such a high amount of fascination for. His dogging on Hidetaka Miyazaki's way of writing in Fromsoft's games alone really put a sour taste in my mouth, especially as Shad continued to throw a fit when people told him that it was simply a different way of writing. Honestly, to find out that people did not like Shad's own book at all... it's quite ironic that HE of all people tried to be the judge on how others should write their stories.

[@mathewperring]

Over time as more videos get uploaded the recommendations of past videos is going to get spread over a larger number and with the drop in quality you are more likely to see bad stuff and not go back.

[@Steelmage99]

I actively curate my recommendations with the "Not Interested" (which is subject based) and the "Don't Recommend This Channel" (which is channel based) options. I would really like a "Stop Recommending This Particular Video Again, Because I Have Already Watched It Or Don't Care About This Particular Video, But Do Like The Subject Matter And/Or Channel".....but a bit more snappy, of course. :)

[@Psiclone]

The only times I get recommended his channel anymore is when he makes videos about his channel declining.

[@toacidrainbows]

I do Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA). His sword play is shitty and he doesn't actively participate in the sword community. People who actually have more experience have started making channels, hell, I'm even making one. He also got in a big dumb fight with SellSwordArts I believe, who's a fencer, who goes to tournaments is in the HEMA community actively, I think that these newer channels are being pushed, and that t Shad is considered a right wing, arm chair pariah. I think the sword market is becoming more saturated overally honestly.

[@93lozfan]

Honestly when i saw shad do a breakdown on scishow's demascus steel vid and shad got almost everything wrong he lost all credibility in my eyes

[@Zamollius_the_Holy]

Never been a fan of shadversity. Nothing against the guy but he's cringy as hell. Knows little to nothing about historical medieval martial arts and weapon design. Always watch Matt Easton and Skal.

[@Gundamman]

KZbin does not like it when your channels does a 180 on your own content. it's always better to start a new channel if you are doing content vastly different from its original.

[@janstefanisin320]

Oh. Thank you for reminder. I was still subscribed to this weird little man.

[@carsonwall2400]

Lol same

[@geislar7682]

For me his content cycled with Matt Easton and Skallagrim until he thought that Mortal Kombat was going woke because the female characters were more clothed than the previous game. The blatant entitled misogyny cooled me off supporting him in any way.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

Shad's recent video hating disabled people in fiction (even thought people LOVE Luke Skywalker, Edward Elric, Guts, Charles Xavier, Toph...) is so poorly made. His brain is melting.

[@joshuayung5158]

Doubly so since his medical conditions that sounds a lot like treatable sleep apnea is used to justify how he calls other medieval combat channels wrong without having to actually test out the techniques or spar in person.

[@ibewither5051]

I speak for everyone here when I say; “Womp womp”.

[@reaverfang377]

I think it is less universal when channels are considered controversial suddenly everything goes into decline

[@Mrdjs1133]

For me, it was his constant bickering with other content creators and his politics. I stopped watching because i feel icky suppirting such an icky person.

[@mikeyahl7363]

Yeah, I hate KZbin auto-playing stuff I've already watched, *especially* when it's a 3-1/2 hour HBomb video

[@Nyarurin]

nice to see that my comments is not the only thing that YT is deleting

[@vingerengaoma]

Xan you should look up his books reviews they're pretty fucking wild.

[@FlyingFox86]

I feel like he only wrote a book so that he can say "as a writer myself" in his videos.

[@BluePhoenix_]

It was so funny, when Shad "countered" criticism of his boom, using positive reviews and back then most positive reviees were like "great book" and that's it. He had to intentionally ignore the A4 page long negative reviews that detailed a lot of negatives. He came across as so desperate.

[@vingerengaoma]

@@FlyingFox86 While that's prolly true and pretty funny, apparently the plot of it is that it was about a mass r*pist who gets isekaid and "redeems himself" and he lingered on it far to much in a creepy way a lot of the complaints were "how did this get past peer reviews?" and "was it even peer reviewed?"

[@jtheconqueror121]

@@BluePhoenix_oh, the best part about those positive reviews is that the majority of them were done by people who didn’t even read the book but were fans of his channel.

[@SinOfAugust]

I’m quite a bit annoyed seeing a faux library behind him that was clearly never actually used for anything other than youtube background display… May as well have an image of a library behind you…

[@alexsmith2910]

Go fash lose cash.

[@HeyaitsLynn]

Damn as someone who used to watch Shad before his grift it's so hard to watch YT kill his channel, if only I could pull the plug.

[@TheLizardKing752]

Shad just reminds me so much of Patton Oswalt's character from Reno 911. Its silly and sad at the same time.

[@TheLizardKing752]

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[@SerpenThrope]

One of my favorite KZbinrs is Unwanter Houseguest. I only know of him because someone more popular recommended him. Given his quality level it's absolutely astounding to me that his videos are only getting a few hundred views.

[@NerdLIfe-Skirmish71]

I really enjoyed watching his videos on various topics like how wattle buildings were made. I used it to help with scratch building miniature gaming terrain and such. It really bummed me out seeing him on an anti-pronoun KZbin panel with some horrible people. I think it was for a game called Starfield maybe? I unsubscribed right then, I for sure don't want to support people like that in any way.

[@Jako95]

It’s a shame, I found his channel a couple years ago and thought his knowledge on weapons and castles were really interesting. I stopped watching for a couple months and now all I hear is how he’s become an AI simping anti-woke grifter

[@dynamicworlds1]

There are other channels. Skalagrim and scholagladitoria come to mind.

[@Jako95]

@@dynamicworlds1 love skallagrim, i actually subscribed to him shortly before shadiversity

[@greywolf7577]

As far as I know, there is nothing on his main channel about AI or being anti-woke.

[@rissaarei5336]

@@greywolf7577 Yeah, but it's the same shitty person. Also, his views do seep through.

[@coolsenjoyer]

@@greywolf7577 How is that relevant? People who care about that stuff will still hear about it and will stop supporting him in general

[@rustkitty]

What's that 'subscriber purge' thing? I don't think I've been unsubbed from anything, occasionally I go through my sub list and even find channels that have been dead for years (most common with web series, like unfiction/ARG stuff, where the project is simply over). But I log in to KZbin every day so if they only purge inactive and bot users then it's not clear how that's a bad thing.

[@Xanthelei]

I will say, YT started the recommending of videos I've already seen a year+ ago for me. Maybe I was a 'lucky' beta tester, but it's annoying as fuck, especially when I can still see the red bar showing it's been played. Even worse is when I get shown a 2 year old video that still has my like on it but NOT the thing that got uploaded yesterday until the new video is a week old and I've seen the old video 15 times. YT needs to cut shit like that out if they want people to watch more stuff. Rewatches only really work for songs and short comedy stuff, and if I want it I'll do a damn search!

[@Cajaquarius]

I loved his stuff on castles. Breaks my heart to see him go for the political tourism buck.

[@JustAnotherLawyer]

Shad’s simping for AI art probably comes from a place of deep personal insecurity and frustration. If memory serves, Jazza, that massively popular art KZbinr, is his brother.

[@StormCrownSr]

Younger brother on top of it.

[@aliceglado]

AI art is amazing. Crappy artists are just crying.

[@StormCrownSr]

@@aliceglado Ai art is not only bad, it's not art. Ai doesn't want, therefore it cannot make art.

[@JustAnotherLawyer]

@@aliceglado nah, at its very best, it’s derivative, soulless, boring, and stereotypical, not to mention without any message. As expected from a device that doesn’t think. And it usually comes with all sorts of strange and disturbing flaws which, unlike human imperfections, have no charm or value.

[@WizardTiefling]

Man it like farther you go into Jock or nerd meter you become an asshole really show how too much of something can be bad for you

[@thechickenartist13]

As an artist myself hearing ai art takes allot of skill and effort because you need to know how to type in the prompt made me laugh so hard 😂

[@steveschenker1380]

I used to subscribe to him. Then the grifting stuff. I think it was around when the Mario movie came out? I remember him grifting about that.

[@gregoriancatmonk6904]

Isn't is brother a KZbinr that specializes in art? I mean in drawing it......i wonder if his brother would agree with his arguments about AI art and being it being hard due to writing the descriptions..... personally i watched his stuff a while back and then he started using the term woke and caring the water for this bullshit culture war crap.

[@Starrypaws64]

His brother is distancing himself from Shad, and made a video on his vlog channel exposing an AI art book scam

[@GThe-su9kl]

Well, that's interesting. I tend to comment because i don't like to like videos "just because", even though it's easier, because sometimes i want to find an information that i heard in the past and sometimes, i find it in the "like video folder", so i try to keep it light.

[@jamesverner9132]

He feel into right wing crazy anti-ESG rhetoric and has only gotten worse.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

I've recently been getting more Shad content in my recommendations. If anything, KZbin is trying to save his channel. But he's destroying his own channel harder.

[@inali_illustrates9142]

It is such a shame how it has been turning out, shad was THE guy for the medieval weaponry community, but after his right-wing grift and ai apologetics, I dont think he is gonna come back, I just hope Jazza knows to stay out of it, not that there is anything wrong with Jazza, and especially after Shad's ai stuff I highly doubt Jazza will help him, and even if he did it would not be a bad thing, he is his brother after all, but I just hope those good intentions wouldn't get him flak

[@Liquidsback]

Matt Easton is better, separated from Shad when he started going Antiwoke.

[@FlyingFox86]

@@Liquidsback Which makes sense if you are passionate about your sport being inclusive, like Matt Easton is.