Is it just me or have the majority of Sims YouTubers become increasingly bland at the moment? None of them even seem to play the game anymore, majority of them seem to just be pushing out content now for their viewing figures, or they're really inactive. Nifty Knitting came out a month back and I haven't even seen any of the big sims YouTubers playing with it or making a lets play around it.For example, Vixella and Lilsimsie used to post a variety of content but now both have posted basically nothing but build videos for the past month. Don't get me wrong build videos are enteratining sometimes but when you build the exact same 10,000 simoleon suburban style starter home every single day for a month what's the point? It's not even a challenge at that stage, it just seems like doing the minimum to keep their viewing figures up.Steph0sims has posted one singular video since lockdown started 5 months ago, James Turner rarely posts anymore. Plumbella who I used to love, her entire channel is just twitch stream highlights and promo for her twitch channel now. Kevin is great but he only posts about the sims once a month, same with graystillplays.It just seems like as an overall theme Sims YouTubers are getting boring and don't even care about the game anymore. I miss the days when Sims YouTubers would post lets plays and stuff like that with the game but now there's very few people that actually do that anymore. I suppose it says a lot when the people who get paid to play the game can't even come up with things to do in it

I have my own feelings on how they choose to promote the game, but I will admit it’s probably hard to consistently make new content with a game that doesn’t consistently get good content and one that has a bland/boring base to start off with. EA clearly is taking advantage of these people and I think that’s a shame. They are basically expected to sustain interest in the game while the publisher and the developers twiddle their thumbs on Twitter and develop content in secret that’s usually poorly received. Which they then use the game changers to try to manipulate perceptions through videos intended to make everything look good. I’d be exhausted if I were them too, but Sims is their golden ticket so they don’t really have options unless they diversify like James did.

Yeah, it's king of obvious that they're just desperate for ideas now, so we get stuff like "The Sims 4, but each room is a different type of sedimentary rock."

Right now, I’m only watching DrGluon. He has been playing a Hotel Challenge and it’s pretty fun. I like that he finds ways to challenge himself in the game because that’s what’s fun for him and then it shows in his videos. He’s done this in the past with his Peasantry to Royalty challenge, and when he recreated Stardew Valley in the game as well, as some other examples. I haven’t watched my other usuals lately because they’re not doing anything really interesting/engaging. And I’ve been able to tell for a while that they seem bored. How many times can you do Rags to Riches before you say “yeah this isn’t fun anymore?”

I've also noticed a lack of the youtubers creative imaginations. Maybe they are stumped right now.

From what I have read, it is apparently really difficult to get views for the sims unless you are a sims focused channel... or you have to deal with it by being a popular channel (like James Turner) and the youtube algorithm is apparently really punishing if you don't publish videos daily. This is why a lot of youtubers are turning to twitch and patreon.That's not a good combination when you have a game that requires you to make your own fun... so maybe they are taking it a bit easy at the moment and make mostly build videos.They do seem to be pretty tired of the game though.

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Sharooonia
New Spectator
5 years ago
I’ve been watching OshinSims lately. I really like her videos.
babajayne
5 years ago
@bixters I love Pleasant Sims, too. Her newest Sims 4 save file of Pleasantview characters looks amazing.
AyKooChao
5 years ago
@bixters @babajayne I’m watching one of her videos right now! (Well, playing it in the background while my game’s running.) I don’t really watch any other Sims YouTubers right now, but I’m considering it.
TS1299
5 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-17627713" wrote:
All of these “each room is a different pack or color” challenges bore me to tears. I wish they would stop

Same.
Gamer_Cat24
New Traveler
5 years ago
> @babajayne said:
> @bixters I love Pleasant Sims, too. Her newest Sims 4 save file of Pleasantview characters looks amazing.
I just found Pleaseant Sims awhile ago, as a recommendation to watch, and I like her videos. I still have Sims 2, and never played the premade families, and always made my own neighborhoods. I used her tutorial on the Sims 2 playthrough, but I did a few things of my own to make it slightly different for my gameplay. I like her Sims 4 version of Sims 2 families 25 years later, and really hope she does one for Veronaville, Strangeville, and other towns.
I also like how she compares Sims 2, Sims 3, and Sims 4 together.
LadyKyn
Seasoned Traveler
5 years ago
I tend to watch DrGlueon (Others are CallMeKevin, CaptainSauce, GamingLemon LaurenZside and Graystill plays not sim youtubers, but funny content) more so these last months than anyone else as majority of their content is pretty much the same.

100 baby challenge, different color room, different youtuber room, I rebuilt *Insert EA build here", Such and such mods to make your game better. Really nothing interesting tbh and anything I was interested in they never finished the story (Example: Urbanxsims black widow series.) At least James seems to finish a lot of his series and they're a bit different.

I just like watching series where things can go wrong so fast and things get funny. Any other pretty well known simtuber have gotten pretty stale and boring unfortunately.
Onverser
5 years ago
Also I've been increasingly annoyed with Lilsimsie recently with her coverage of Snowy Escape, she's been pushing it so heavily and selling it as the saviour of Sims 4 packs when she literally hasn't even played with it which she's said. She couldn't even be bothered to play with the gameplay and do a proper review yet she's selling it and promoting it to all of her followers. She hasn't once posted about the gameplay, reviewed it properly or even just talked about it on her channel.

I don't necessarily think she's being fake and pretending its amazing, she's just gullible and doesn't do her research properly. They give her a nice build feature and she'll say it's amazing and the sims is saved and promote it to her million followers. She's just the ultimate seller for them as she'll do absolute bare minimum research and say it's great because she likes some minor build feature like the platform tool (which is literally not even part of the pack).

She did the exact same with Eco Lifestyle, main reason I bought that pack was because of how much she hyped up the apartments and all the new furniture and they just weren't good. The apartments were unplayable as they were in a literal ghost down and the build buy wasn't that exciting
Onverser
5 years ago
Also recently I've been a big fan of fakegamergirl, shes just a breath of fresh air with sims youtubers imo. She's not trying too hard to suck up to EA, or just raging about everything, or making the same boring "I built an ugly 5000 simoleon home where every room is a different colour!" videos every single day. She's just chaotic and having fun with the game which is nice for a change. This video especially was hilarious and so accurate, especially the intro, gold.

https://youtu.be/KjBU92ag_m0
brigitta1710
Rising Novice
5 years ago
I like watching DR. Gluon. He makes me laugh every time and he's the only one who seem to like what he's doing. Most YouTubers just build and never play the game. They don't know what regular players like.
CaprianaB
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
Following this post so I can check out the YouTubers I haven't heard of.