Damn, there’s so much to choose from.
Mainly, I think the Vtubers (on the English-speaking side—though the Spanish-speaking side is also a cesspool as far as I remember) have destroyed the image of the traditional Vtuber, or at least the Japanese concept of it. I mean, I’m seeing more and more controversies coming from that side, I hate the hypocrisy and the controversies—examples include the ChibiDoki case or the DemeVT case), reaction channels (those low-effort ones where they don’t even add extra information, comments, or anything to “spice up” the video), commentary channels (those that summarize an internet drama for the unemployed people just to deliver the most simplistic and obvious life lesson), AI channels, channels dedicated purely to YouTube Shorts (this ties into the AI channels, because the voice is always the most insipid and boring AI possible), Reddit stories (unverifiable and each one more full of lies than the last), low-effort channels (for example, gaming channels that basically just read the Wikipedia history of a game or series, or where their observations are nothing more than the obvious or superficial aspects of the product)
Low-effort summary channels, where they simply narrate step by step what the characters do—which isn’t a summary at all, but a narration—are terrible.
“Video essays”—which are just the author's self-indulgent attempt to justify themselves through a long video—are also video essays about concepts that I know they don't understand and that, on top of that, try to steer the viewer toward the interpretation of the person analyzing it (in other words, they already had a preconceived notion or opinion on the subject, they’re just rationalizing it) (examples of this include, I don’t know, the misinterpretation or semantic overloading of concepts like “incel,” which for some reason they use as an insult rather than for its intended purpose (to describe involuntary celibacy)).
I also agree with the user “BlackMarketStrayCat”—I hate those video essays.
I hate those video analyses that search for meaning or political interpretation that wasn’t there in the first place. Or how they force a political orientation or message onto things that don’t have one—I want to enjoy a product without worrying about or noticing how idiotic the creator or the people consuming it might be, but these analyses just don’t help me. (I mean, there are obvious cases—Fallout, BioShock, etc.—but there are works where, even if you twist your brain in every direction, you’d never reach the conclusions some lunatics come up with.)