>As I am fond of saying, he’s always “a day late and a dollar short” by ‘exposing’ scams after they have already run their course or ‘rug pulled’
So.. the author wants him to tell us before it happens, and be right?
There was one going on with MrBeast and some crypto, and there was one of Paul brothers and his scam game that he predicted correctly before it went south?
Should he stop explaining these scams after they happen, too? Why is that such an issue?
OP's main argument is that Coffeezilla has shifted his focus away from crypto scams into other unrelated areas, and that he tends to report on scams only after they have already collapsed.
Maybe that's not what OP wants out of Coffeezilla, but I don't see how it makes the guy "overrated." He has a knack for understanding and explaining conspiracies in a grounded, level-headed and factual way. That is extremely valuable in today's media environment.
Coffeezilla was probably lucky in that the initial crypto scams he investigated were so public and blatant, there was so much obvious evidence and the scammers were often foolish enough to talk to him on the record.
> But that was then. In recent years, especially around 2024, he has pivoted to something of a ‘grievance peddler’, whose angle is to rant and rave about whatever problems he sees with society for his aggrieved and conspiratorial-leaning audience, whether it’s about the gambling industry, consumer debt, and even the Epstein Files. He hardly even investigates crypto scams anymore. In fact, to milk this new formula to the fullest extent, he created a second channel, Voidzilla, which contains shorter and more frequent videos of the same theme
Coffezilla is by definition a journalist and he is donated by his patreon members to do journalistic tasks not specifically just to crypto.
It's his channel and I actually welcome that he talks about these issues. In fact his 3 part series on CS skins is really such a good video and it actually pre-dated the CS skins price falling which got caught by mainstream media.
One of the reasons I can presume he also went into talking against gambling/raising awareness is the fact that if you watch his videos, we realize just how much predictions markets literally are gambling.
Prediction markets started using crypto/still use crypto to skirt around some laws and they have now gone into literally degenerate gambling and thus linked to crypto.
Coffeezilla/Voidzilla is one of the best journalistic channels on youtube if you are interested in this type of content.
Mrbeast is overrated, not coffeezilla. Anything which raises attention to these dark patterns should be shown in public/ they are still "underrated"
What are some good quality resources like coffeezilla on youtube? I think atrioc talks about general news affairs but I'd be interested to see other good journalistic channels as well.
What would've made a far more insightful post was if you talked about under-rated youtube channels that you know
>As I am fond of saying, he’s always “a day late and a dollar short” by ‘exposing’ scams after they have already run their course or ‘rug pulled’
So.. the author wants him to tell us before it happens, and be right?
There was one going on with MrBeast and some crypto, and there was one of Paul brothers and his scam game that he predicted correctly before it went south?
Should he stop explaining these scams after they happen, too? Why is that such an issue?
Author decrys youtuber for not preventing scams and instead (largely)reporting on them. Okay-- seems a bit pointless.
OP's main argument is that Coffeezilla has shifted his focus away from crypto scams into other unrelated areas, and that he tends to report on scams only after they have already collapsed.
Maybe that's not what OP wants out of Coffeezilla, but I don't see how it makes the guy "overrated." He has a knack for understanding and explaining conspiracies in a grounded, level-headed and factual way. That is extremely valuable in today's media environment.
He broke the SafeMoon story before it collapsed from $8bn market cap in 2022 which lead to the arrest of the people behind it.
Now he is more of a presenter of other people’s work. e.g. MegaLad’s Honey Scam video. People remember it as CoffeeZilla’s story.
Coffeezilla was probably lucky in that the initial crypto scams he investigated were so public and blatant, there was so much obvious evidence and the scammers were often foolish enough to talk to him on the record.
> But that was then. In recent years, especially around 2024, he has pivoted to something of a ‘grievance peddler’, whose angle is to rant and rave about whatever problems he sees with society for his aggrieved and conspiratorial-leaning audience, whether it’s about the gambling industry, consumer debt, and even the Epstein Files. He hardly even investigates crypto scams anymore. In fact, to milk this new formula to the fullest extent, he created a second channel, Voidzilla, which contains shorter and more frequent videos of the same theme
Coffezilla is by definition a journalist and he is donated by his patreon members to do journalistic tasks not specifically just to crypto.
It's his channel and I actually welcome that he talks about these issues. In fact his 3 part series on CS skins is really such a good video and it actually pre-dated the CS skins price falling which got caught by mainstream media.
One of the reasons I can presume he also went into talking against gambling/raising awareness is the fact that if you watch his videos, we realize just how much predictions markets literally are gambling.
Prediction markets started using crypto/still use crypto to skirt around some laws and they have now gone into literally degenerate gambling and thus linked to crypto.
Coffeezilla/Voidzilla is one of the best journalistic channels on youtube if you are interested in this type of content.
Mrbeast is overrated, not coffeezilla. Anything which raises attention to these dark patterns should be shown in public/ they are still "underrated"
What are some good quality resources like coffeezilla on youtube? I think atrioc talks about general news affairs but I'd be interested to see other good journalistic channels as well.
What would've made a far more insightful post was if you talked about under-rated youtube channels that you know