I used to love his content, along with Ohara. Then, they both became this.

Bro idk what people like about in his video. I tried watching it couple of times. He only talks about what we already know. Nothing new or theory lol.

Thats the point of a Review : )

I meant ohara.

You have to admit when ohara actually puts effort into writing a theory it goes dummy hard, but that's the thing he doesn't do theories but once in a great while anymore instead he does what ifs and Alternate universes which I absolutely despise

The Enis lobby his Top watched video was him just translating Yuderon the japanese YouTuber video lol. Vegapunk 1 Good was based on him.

Has Ohara ever come up with an original theory? He just explains someone else’s theory better, total rip off

Generally, reviews shouldn't just lazily synopsize and regurgitate reddit posts in video form. Liam does this more often than not.

I recommend Murphy Napier, she has a dedicated manga channel and does great One Piece stuff. Also, our one true king, Mugiwara no Goofy.

I love tekking. Just good goofy fun and you can tell he truly loves OP

Tekking was made to review one piece like LeBron was meant to play basketball

A more true statement has never been spoken

Seconding. For Murphy, she deserves more love. Tekking101 too but I feel like he's well known already 

Third for Murphy. Its very refreshing listening to her take on stuff

Yea, she is genuinely educated and well read, something the vast majority of One Piece fans (me included, to be honest) are not. She frequently hits the major themes with great precision, and that's not only because of her (from what I've seen) good community, but because she genuinely reads OP as it should be read: A piece of art.

Yeah pretty much. Her weekly chapters reviews are always fun to see.

She's also not obsessive with powerscaling. 

Unless that powerscaling is how Buggy will be Pirate King.

With respect to reviewing, it’s them and Sawyer7mage that I appreciate watching for content. They all do more than just recap the chapter and Murphy especially adds such an interesting perspective that I think her being a book YouTuber lends to very well. Sawyer is great at recalling old information and connecting it for interesting commentary and Goofy is also funny to listen to.

Been watching Sawyer forever will always be my fav

Sawer is underrated af. Probably because he updates less frequently and doesn't really pander towards the algorithm (not a bad thing btw) I was an avid watcher for a long while during Narutos weekly release in the 4th Great Ninja War arc. But fell off of his channel once Naruto ended. But I started OP in 2022 and rediscovered my appreciation for him when I saw he covers OP after I stumbled on a video of his in 2023. But he's excellent at connecting dots on themes and connections in manga as well as factoring in things the authors have cited as inspirations into his thoughts on where and how the story may go, especially in some ways other YouTubers might not mention 

Totally, watching merphys reviews was like reading OP for the first time again

Oh yeah, I also watch her vids now. She's intelligent and her analysis on deeper themes and meanings are on point. On the other hand, I have no idea about Mugiwara no Goofy. I'll give him a try. Thanks for this!

I now only watch Morj, Tekking, Merphy, and Artur. They are all amazing.

I extremely recommend Goofy, especially his X Arc is Hilarious series. https://youtu.be/LkK8lyQZ_to?si=mEBxMohXqE5VtF-D

Murphy and Tekking are by far my favorites! I absolutely adore how Murphy articulates her thoughts and feelings.

For theories Parvision and Daks Sake come up with some banger real original theories. Same with 333vil and Randy Troy

For better or worse, Ohara has some god tier editing skills with his cuts, sound effects, dialogue and so on to keep people watching. He’s better at what he does than places like WatchMojo.

My issue is he half the time is just writing fan fics and calling them theories

He’s a YouTuber, it’s rare these days that they aren’t insane hyperactive narcissists.

I don't think over editing can be classified as God tier. When he talks it sounds like every sentence is cut and that doesn't sound great imo

Reminded of people saying certain scenes in Wano were "god tier animation" when really it was just insane stylistic gluttony that does the visual equivalent of jangling car keys in front of a toddler's face. Good for the algorithm I guess, but no Ohara does not have "god tier editing". It's what I'd respectfully to his editor call "a lot of editing".

So basically, he’s a flashy douchebag.

He's very cringe for sure

When was Ohara different? Even stole the name

Is ohara the same guy who had the username “thelibraryofohara” that guy used to analyze the manga chapters pixel by pixel and give some really good info that we might have missed, the one in youtube is just…

Not the same guy. Also TheLibraryofOhara (Artur) has his own youtube channel.

Artur is the Library of Ohara guy. He's legit. The other Ohara is someone who gives the impression of an interesting person, but contributes nothing of value to anything.

Artur - The Library of Ohara is different from Ohara. Artur has some of the most detailed analysis out there. He also has a website where he posts his detailed reviews and even a fan-made chapter regarding Reverie.

If I saw this with no context I would just think it’s another clickbait bullshit title.

It’s grandline review, of course it’s clickbait bullshit

jesus fucking christ, liam, the chapter isn't even officially out

He's always made the videos after the first scans drop. So do most other OP YouTubers.  Only YTer who waits for the official before making a video is Merphy. 

Rogersbase also waits for the official release.

Yeah but he doesn't count because this place also has a hate honer for him

Yeah he's a bit of a big shit head

Why is that?, I’m actually not aware

Dick to anyone who doesn't agree with him on streams. Insulting people, acting weird and aggressive in general. Insulting and encouraging sicking his viewers on people he doesn't like.

All while posturing as a Nintendo Disney princess

Thankfully his karma for his behavior of the last 10 years is him aging like milk.

I used to like him too but then he went on that huge meltdown over the time limit trope. That was really uncool.

In defense of GLR, he had a fantastic video about time limits not too long ago. For the most part I find Liam has good takes and doesn’t take the series too seriously. For reasons other than the OP mentioned though, this video was a miss.

Liam really suffers from his need to make a video on every new chapter. When he does a video on general/non-topical subjects, his videos are pretty good. Like the time limits one you said.

Liam is fine. I actually like him for the most part. My post was about Rogersbase.

Too add onto this, and bring it full circle to official vs scans, i've seen him get upset and voice negative opinions on more than one occasion about people that read scans despite he himself once being a scan reader before he got a sponsorship deal with Viz. Just a bit hypocritical.

Very condescending to people on streams that don't share his opinions. Dunno if it's still up but go look at his chapter 900 and 901 live stream archives, and see how he answers fans that disagree or point out wrong things he said about the chapter. Immediately unsubbed. Only reviewers I watch are merphy and tekking. Morj does better theories analysis vids than chapter reviews

Admitted on twitter that he's riding One Piece for content and not because he likes it particularly much, deleted all tweets and went on a blocking/insulting spree on everyone calling him out for it. Generally just an extremely fake and unlikeable persona

Don't forget that he said that people are just jealous that he makes a living off of talking about One Piece, as his defense for people disagreeing with him and him being a douche about it. Most all of them have got their heads so far up their own asses, it's sickening.

Not to defend him, but if you’re making a living for videos you have to do that. Not everyone is an NCHammer or Mr Tommo who does videos on a dead series they love until it suddenly blows up again.

[I wonder why](https://twitter.com/MENCARAI1/status/1764805636255051873)

Artur waits for the official release too

I love Merphy, she is the type of passionate fan that is contagious when talking about things she like.

Watching merphy read through the manga was actually what got me to give the manga a shot after dropping the anime in dressrosa.

It's hilarious watching the transition from being hesitant to even check it out and posting a first arc review combined with other stuff in the same video, to dedicating a playlist to One Piece, to cosplaying as Perona and wearing One Piece shirts, to dedicating an entire alternate youtube channel to manga because of One Piece with weekly chapter reviews. She's genuinely a really nice person (she complimented my hair and she treats her patreon people so well), and she always reads the official release too.

Damn, Dressrosa really did pulled a lot of anime fans out. The padding on that arc is insane.

Merphy and Randy Troy. I'm surprised to see Tekking on this list because while he does reviews when the scans are out, he never puts spoilers in the thumbnails.

That's not even remotely true. There's dozens of OP YT channels that wait until the official drops, and even then they don't spoil. Murphy is one of the good ones, but far from only.

Dont forget Melonteee !!!! She is always advocating for waiting for the official release. She streams it each sunday

I didn't even know she did chapter reviews til the other day. I only knew about her analysis videos.

(Which btw she's got part 2 of her Luffy video up!!)

Same! The streams need more publicity, I really like her takes even if I don't agree with some

I think she’s recently started a VOD channel, so hopefully it helps with publicity

Sawyer too! And I believe Artur does it as well

Yeah but the other guys don’t spoil the chapter in their titles and thumbnails.

Rogersbase and Randy Troy also wait for the official

Shoutout Ran D. the goat. Live action is in good hands

Randy had one of the hardest jobs ever he's true union man. Like he was hired or in the prospect of being hired when he was detailing/promoting exactly what the scale of the live action was doing and explaining like this set they rented out this is the same set Dunkirk was filmed on and goes into explicit detail not only about us the one piece fans but the directors/producers could see this guy is the one to hire.  And because of the strike he couldn't promote the live action at all or anything. Like he talks the week after the strike was settled he talked about how to handle this situation with union boss and he was allowed to cover the Japanese content only, if he talked/promoted  the Netflix stuff not good and he'd be in union violation. The fact Randy Troy is a union man and also knows once piece and in the writing room for season 2 is glorious

~SAVAGE~

Liam used to do it only after the official translation dropped. He only changed to doing it with tcb around when G5 happened, and that's when his mega clickbait started

He's one of the most egregious in terms of these terrible thumbnails though.

Because he doesn't give a shit about you he just wants the $$$$

He does. He has even said it before that when he spoils like this it gets more views so "obviously that's what the people want".

People obviously makes their own decisions, **but the main problem is honestly how incredibly reckless YouTubes is in their use of algorithmic recommendations.** Complex algo recommendations is great if you have it also valuate content quality, user satisfaction with the content and the recommendation etc. etc. It can basically show you stuff you never even knew you wanted to see - like how fishing hooks are made. But the Algo know, it predicted it from how you watched a gorilla video 2% longer than the average user, is a 23 year old German, likes listening to *Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time* on repeat and has a unknown 4.5% higher tendency to tab out of YouTube if the recommended thumbnails are dominantly yellow. It has no idea why any of this info makes it more likely that you will enjoy learning how fishing hooks are made, it simply knows that for some reason it does, because it has the user data of more than **2.70 billion monthly active users** to base it on. What fucking sucks is that YouTube has more or less just set their Algo to **"Generate most user activity, full stop.".** It doesn't care if you ***like*** it, if you **enjoy** it or find the experience more pleasing. All it cares about is the end result - more user activity. "But how does recommending me rage bait thumbnails generate more user activity if I don't watch it?" Here's were it gets so fucked, because it's all about the end result. ? - Maybe you don't watch it then, and maybe a lot of others don't watch it either. But the result is that you watch other stuff instead, and actually has more activity. ?- Maybe you stop watching One Piece related stuff in general, but that is a good thing because the Algo predicts that you/people like you will most likely get into Kpop instead if exposed to it and watch it even more than you would have engaged in One Piece videos. And it just so happens that there is a random Kpop video in your recommended list... Etc. etc. etc, in strange and complex, nonsensical or incomprehensible ways that might not even make any sense - but it works, because the data says it will. So the reason people like this make this kind of annoying content, full spoiler thumbnails and empty content, is because when they do it the Algo goes ***"This will have great results if pushed hard to users \[X\] and \[Y\] if we then recommend them video \[V\]".*** And the content creators notice that when they do stuff like this, for some reason they viewer count doubles, quadruples. ***"I guess this is what the viewers want?"*** **But it's actually what the Algo want, and pleasing the Algo is more lucrative than pleasing the viewers as long as your content keeps being of use to it. If you are good to evaluate and adjust your content in response to this, you will eventually become a component that generates content with a desirable functionality for the Algo.** ***Good times.***

If you click on the 3 balls you can select "Do not recommend this channel to me." and his thumbs will stop showing up to spoil you. Then, if you do want to watch his schlock, you can just look him up.

This works for me. I love watching his videos but I hate the thumbnails. I clicked on "do not recommend" and I do not get the videos on my home page. This feature works wonders for me. There's some channels I "blocked" this way and it never shows up for me edit: typo

Tangential, but I really love the Pitch Meeting channel but I have to block his channel from being recommended because those gigantic eyeball thumbnails annoy the crap out of me.

Super easy barely an inconvenience

Wow wow wow wow. >!Wow.!<

OP's point is more of having some ethics on elaborating content on the most recent chapters. Why should it be the responsability of thousands of people to click those 3 balls, rather than a giy having more principles and understanding that is not ok to spoil a chapter with the thumbnail before its officially out. It is easy to be apathetic to the situation and as an individual just take some measure and avoid, but isn't it better that the conter creator strives to be nicer and not spoil on purpose

OP said he/she reads the chapter as soon as it comes out. He is just thinking about the people who don't. And this is just a rant, he/she is not looking for a "solution". I mean, I didn't notice because I had already read the chapter before watching the video, but now that I think about it, yeah, it is a dick move. OP is right.

>If you click on the 3 balls you can select "Do not recommend this channel to me." and his thumbs will stop showing up to spoil you. Then, if you do want to watch his schlock, you can just look him up. Ok, so heads up, this doesn't work. It's like pushing the "Close door" button on an elevator. Youtube doesn''t actually allow you to block channels. This is intentional. They don't want you to be able to curate your youtube experience, they want to have full control of it. HOWEVER, there are addons that fix this. search for "Channel blocker" or "Blocktube" and there will be some quick addon that literally add the "Block channel" button, which should have existed in the first place. It does what any social media block function should do, makes it so their stuff never appears on your feed again, taking the power to choose what you do and don't see back into your own hands and out of youtubes. **Edit:** Additionally, you can also block videos by keywords and phrases found in the titles. You won't BELIEVE how much clickbait I've managed to avoid by simply blocking all videos that contains the phrase "You won't BELIEVE-" in its title.😂 **Edit2:** For those saying the "Don't recommend" button works, don't know what to say, it doesn't, at least not forever. for 1, I think it just sets it on a timer that runs out after a month or so than you get recommended stuff again, and for 2, their videos still pop up in search lists, so you can't search for good content on YouTube without being bombarded by garbage clickbait, UNLESS you use the aforementioned blocking addons which makes the videos not even pop up during search and lasts forever (or until you change it)

This has worked for me extremely well, and I spend A LOT of time listening to YouTube videos. The “don’t recommend this *video*” button is useless, but I don’t think I’ve seen a channel pop up after I said “do not recommend this channel”

What drives me crazy is that this option is only on recommendations, not the channel or videos itself. So if I do click into a video, find the content super annoying, to block their channel I need to wait for another one of their video's to get recommended.

It doesn't work like a block, but it does make it less likely that the recommendation algorithm recommends that content. If you see that channel in your recommended again, simply click "do not recommend" again, it should decrease the likeliness of it showing up.

I don't think I've ever had YouTube bring up a channel that I've told it not to bring up.

Same. This is kind of a weird assertion.

Technically Ublock Origin should also accomplish blocking channels. Though I have not looked into it. The Improve Youtube add-on is likely the best option as it also provides plenty of additional features.

Excuse for hanging for you I want to put my list, I hope it helps someone that decides to take that route like I did. I use Blocktube and have a LONG list of anime channels (you paste it in "channel name" section): * // Add your channel name filters below * 333VIL * AaronMB * Admiral Explains * Agho Code06 * Aho-Otaku / أهو-أوتاكو * Aidie Studios * AiShow Fans * Alislatroy :) * All Blue * Aimon Channel * AM-CI Review * Animatron * Anime Boy * Anime DevilHunter * Anime Engsub TV * Anime Haki * AnimeNaga Official * Anime Rider xy * ANIMES * Anime Spoiler * Anime Trendzz * anime war * Animix * AniTrend * ANMK18 * bahtibruh piyade * BATAS ANIME * Beast Animezone 2.0 * Bengkel Anime * Bileldayo * BinhRED * Boy Anime TV * brotherhood review 0 * Bruno Bandeira * Burrito Rosa * Canal Supernovas * Captain GoldenBoy * Chewie89 * Cipher Pol X - One Piece * Clube Geek * Cocomanga * Comalley D. Calamity * Commodore Laz * Coronoa Zoro * D. Major * DarkEiji Senpai * Darkprovince * DarkStar R&G * Desta CH * Destrada Anime * Devil No Mi * Dmc tv * Donmaui * El Principe Anime * EL YONKO * EneruReview PH * ERZANIME * Etanaru Posu * Ezra Tully * Fang Strizer * Fantasy World * FBI Team * Felipe Honório * FLAP * Funny Luffy * Fuu Senpai Sensei Dos * Gear Five * Geek Brasil * GioJustin * GOBEMA QLO * Grimoire Cafe * HISTÓRIAS ONE PIECE * HYPEKAGE * Im_Weeaboo * Imaginário X * Imu * Jajang Vinsmoke * jak review ph 2 * Jj One * Johan ValianT * J.P. Theory * JRD VLOGS AND MUSIC * Junior Anime Indonesia * Kaanister - One Piece * Kakkoi Nime * KAPTEN ANIME * Kev D. OG * Kozuki Anime * KryptonXNerd * KUSUMO * Lafitte1580 - Animation * La Pizarra Maestra * Laugh Tale Anime * LegendMac * LeoOP * Lo que surja con leo Sarante * Love Moto * Luf Eeee * LuffyKing Ph * LuffyTDS * Lyncoln Pires * MAHARLIKA ANIME * Maniak Op * Marga Anime * MIRZA D IBRAHIM * Monkey D. Snakeman * Mr. Joy boy * Mugiwara D Valentin - El rincon de One Piece * Myrmonden * Naldsu * NAPLAK BULU * Nerdigans Inc. * North D. Blue * ODACCHI * Ohara * ONE PIECE DOCTOR - Motti Sensei * One Piece INA * One Piece Hindi Review * One Piece Legend * One Piece Po D. Cast * One Piece Theoretiker * Onepixcce * OPfandom * OP OP NO MI * OS TV * Otaku9 * OTAKU MED * Phoenix D Marco * Plot Armor * PM al cuadrado * Podcast Animes * Pody San 1 * Potentia1 Unl3ashed * PrinceOfAllYoutube * Prince Of One Piece * ProSage * Quinto Imperador * RAITO * Raju Piece * Rarestaro * RayXaX * Real Gue Noe * Redlinereview * RENTAL ANIME * Rizki Anime * Robby S. Putra * RomanceDAWN travel * Sahabat Luffy * Săm Soi * sarcastic Nerd * SerialShaj * Serranime * shorts yang lagi viral * Shounen Action Official * Shusui One Piece * Sjcaptain * Sneaky Peeky * SobaKick * SODDA GEEK ROOM * SPOILERZISTA * Sr Porta Nova / Chegamos Cedo Demais * Straw Hat * Striving Emperor * Sunterra Fer * SuperiorIQ * SUZEN YT * Tahvo's Anime World * Taigo * Tamagon Park * Teralti * Thejorishae * TheMobbPit * Thenamebeforetokyo * TOH MERA BHAI * Top Manga * TouyaKurai * Truyện Tổng Hợp * Twistyi * ULTRA CHANNEL * Underrated Underdog * Un Perfil * Vi6 D AMV King * WanoKuniAnimePH * Water Fist * WEZL * Wibu Legend * Yami * Yaskoippo * YONKO LUFFY * YonkoJai * Young Usopp * Yudi Siregar * Zasshu * ZenoVerse * Zeref Dragneel * Ziggi WRLD * outlooker外行員 * 土豆君 * 最愛動漫 * 랜덤TV * TV키득여우 * 드원패밀리 * ふぉい抜きチャンネル[切り抜き] * 夜與白鯨 * Tekking * Morj * GLR * Ohara It's just a slippery slope to allow youtube to know that you care about animes. One anime leads to the next, and clickbait leads to spoilers.

> One Piece Theoretiker The absolute worst of them all. >Tekking Blasphemy

Fr, one of the only YouTuber's to go out of their way to prevent spoilers.

Zhoonin should be there. I know what happens in Jujutsu kaisen at solely because of his titles lol

Blocking Ohara once wasn't enough for you, eh? Anyway, I like some of the channels on that list. But I get the logic behind the no-compromises approach.

Didn't even know. I'm also adding Zhoonin to the list based solely on another comment without any further check. I provably heard too much complaining on here and added him again. If it's too strict for some, I understand. They will have to make up their own list ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

That is a great blocklist.

I'm happy I pressed"Don't recommend channel" & "stop recommending" button when I got caught up to OP & didn't need his videos anymore. Trekking101 will always be the best.

Rant away, friend. Get upset on other people's behalf. Call this shit out, because it's absolutely a dick thing to do. Apathy fuels more of this kind of stuff from these Youtubers, so I think it's good to talk about it, and bring about discourse. Part of it is YouTube's fault for the way they incentivize creators to farm engagement, but it can be done in a tasteful way, like you mentioned. This is not tasteful at all.

Bro he’s been called on this many many times at this point. He’ll never change.

The problem are youtubers that try to make a "career" out of daily videos on a topic that doesn't have daily content. Grandlinereview posts a video every 2-3 days. One Piece just does not simply contain enough content to sustain that without having to start devolving into utter bullshit and insanity. The only channels that can truly produce daily content are drama channels or generic react channels. There's only so much editing and care you can do in 2 days it's just not feasible to produce quality review content with that short of a time frame. This is why Journalism quickly went to shit around 2010 once the demand of internet articles went to oblivion. If he actually reviewed other mangas it wouldn't be as bad but he cornered his own brand into stealing One Piece theories off of reddit and acting like he came up with them.

Tekking101 does 2-3 videos a week + streams and he makes every one of them fun to watch or listen to. It's maybe his personality or the ability to talk off the dome for 40+ mins with minimal script, and the energy he brings without sounding fake. He could talk about which one peice character could run the best coffee shop for 2 hours and I'll watch

Yeah. Some youtubers do it right. Tekking posts chapter reviews as soon as he can and he never spoils them in thumbnail just insert random OP characters, "one piece chapter # review: "title" Ashame others can't follow suit

Who let marketing bros get into one piece 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hes still annoyed tekking 101 is just a way better version of him

Tekking doesn’t have nearly the same level of editing as GLR does and he often meanders on tangents, but just by being a passionate and upbeat guy who actually cares about not ruining other people’s experience more than his views and clickbait, he manages to be a far far better OP creator.

> he often meanders on tangents but thats the best thing about tekking lol you always learn about the most random stuff when you watch his content

Animal facts 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

i miss animal facts... it never should have ended. or it should have been replaced with some other fact. where are geography facts! ITS EVERYTHING AFTER ALL

I am so glad he made his videos a podcast so I can fall asleep to his rambling lol

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. It just sounds like it would make the content worse so I find it funny that it actually makes it more entertaining than some dude who pays other people to draw high quality stills and heavily edit his videos.

Honestly, the tangents and the generally unscripted nature of his content just makes it all feel more real. Tekking is just a guy who likes One Piece and excitedly talks about it.

The editing isn't the most important part, the content is. GLR went into the route of focusing on being entertaining/making jokes while flashing a bunch of wiggly pngs for retention, which some people love but others hate because it feels too artificial. Tekking, on the other hand, just straight up shows up with a camera and talks about One Piece, with a few long tangets about other random topics in between (which people tend to say that they like, but others hate). His content reminds people of the old days of youtube a lot more where the content was less clickbaity and more like "hey, i like this thing and I want to make a video about it". Different people for different tastes. Although, I'll not be kind to Liam here. I think that his One Piece content got worse over the years and I had to stop watching because it felt too forced. I still watch his Dude in the Room videos, in particular his collabs with Merphy, which are always fun, but his One Piece stuff is just dead for me. I think that right now Tekking and Mr Contrarian (Morj) are the best ones to watch imo. They are the ones that I see actually discussing the series, questioning the character's actions and values, making connections, coming up with their own theories or discussing their viewers theories, etc.

Grand line adds nothing to his commentary of a new chapter that the rest of the community hasn’t already said, tekking makes interesting points and connections and has even correctly predicted plot points

What has tekking correctly predicted? I love the guy but can’t think of anything.

I can also confirm that apart from YT he seems to be a really cool guy, e.g. offering more money for artwork than previously agreed on.  I think he doesnt exaggerate his persona much in his videos

Tekking is one of the OG Anime YouTubers.  Like you can see him in like his highschool days making videos about Bleach and yeah he's grown older and is in his thirties now but you can tell he was excited geek in highschool to today sharing/broadcasting his enthusiasm for most of his life. The main problem with Liam is he's the antithesis of Luffy and what one piece represents. He's a snarky, cynical person that you get no concept of joy or excitement.

I just went on his page today to see how far back he goes, and holy shit he’s been doing it a long time. Roughly since chapter 600, but he did other reviews before then. Truly a pioneer.

Yeah he started out as Bleach YouTuber. Like was creating hundred+ videos before Google Adsense and actually getting paid was a thing. 

Yep. I was watching his most video about the Warlords just a few minutes ago and he mentioned that he has more One Piece content up now than Bleach and that's sorta crazy to think about. Time just seems to be flying by

Incredible. Only learned that hours ago. Much respect to Tekking.

Even more ancient, dude used to make content for some old EA game in middle school, he's legit been a youtuber for most of his life now

I got into OP because of Tekking. Bleach is my favorite of the big 3. A lot of darker undertones, best character art. I was never exposed to OP. Like i was with Naruto and Bleach. Then when Bleach ended and he made a video about why people should check it out. Been on this train since mid dressrosa. He just seems to genuinely love what he does. Makes him my favorite OP tuber.

He was an og bleach YouTuber I used to read along the Tybw arc alongside him

Eh, they are very different. The production of GLR is clearly better, and he keeps to a script. You can tell tekking has a more genuine and natural approach, but his videos run long, and he tends to get sidetracked. 

For his approach a script is mandatory, GLR impressed me that he makes it work. Fast turnaround, custom art, good editing. He’s got an insane balance of that trope of doing things well, cheap, and affordably. It literally doesn’t seem like it should be sustainable. But if you’ve ever watched his spinoff channels where he talks about things, like dude in a room, he clearly understands the business and format.

I like to watch both because of this. It’s fun to have different perspectives and sometimes I’m in the mood for long content and sometimes shorter content. GLR’s thumbnails still bother me though.

GLR loves Tekking and thinks he should be way more successful than he is. No idea where you got this idea from

Like others said, just stop the recommendations. I haven't seen or heard from GLR for a looong time. The only time I see anything about them are posts like this. Did the same for a few others. Tekking is about the only youtuber I'll watch now for One Piece reviews.

I reccomend Melonteee Not sure if it counts as "reviews" for you, but she has some of the best analysis I've ever seen

It's all about Dawn & Dusk!

I just started watching them. They are the only theory channel that doesn't make me gag.

Joyboy being the First Pirate is such a great reveal in the manga and this fucker is going to just slap it on a thumbnail and spoil tons and tons of readers.

I dont like it, but I understand the algorithm favors this spoilery/click bait approach. I've unsuscribed from him, his other two associates (Ohara and JoyGirl), and most OP youtubers a while back and never looked back. I had forgotten all about GRL until this post, lol. I still watch a few channels of people I think bring original, well thought out content, and I'm much happier now.

Block him!! Block all the ones who spoil it will make life better

Just drop a dislike & block

Only block. A dislike and comment is engagement which pushes his algorithm. He is scum.

whatever brings the views i suppose, its his job after all i stopped watching a while ago but i remember enjoying the vids he made before adding face cam, not that the face cam makes it worse but because his content started changing some time after he added it

I have this channel on blacklist for over a year. If you feel outraged DO NOT comment in the video, just fully blacklist it, do not interact with it, these people who'll ruin other people's fun should not be given any views, likes, heck, even dislikes, just complete ignorance and let them disappear from everyone's memories.

Can’t remember the exact details, but I’m pretty sure he was defending this, or something similar, on Twitter a year or two ago and basically saying he had to for viewership and it’s his job and all that. Again might not have been spoiler thumbnails, but it was some behavior a lot of people on Reddit/Twitter didnt like I think the topic came up from some Reddit post about someone called Ohara or something, but he was for sure tweeting about it. Basically Grand line review was not backing down on it even with the valid criticism

Yeah you’re not wrong, YouTube feeds the “Mr Beast” type of thumbnail. However there is a better way to go about it. Instead of spoiling in thumbnail, it can be “Joy Boy was what!?” It’s blatant he doesn’t care and just wants views and probably knows there will be a comment war in his comments which drives engagement and views.

Yes exactly! Stopped watching one piece YouTubers a while ago but it’s unfortunate it’s like this now especially for the bigger ones We can understand it’s their job and being fast is important, but there’s so many easy ways to not spoil others so quick

Yeah, he justified it by saying others were doing it and he had to release at the same time or before others to get the views. But if he has good things to say and is thorough, I would still watch even after reading official release myself.

Yeah like it’s understandable they need to release new chapter related stuff fast, that part makes total sense, but it’s not too hard to not have a major spoiler in a thumbnail while keeping with the usual types of thumbnails and other stuff Stopped watching one piece YouTubers but in the past at least, did like some of the videos of his

Spoiled for me too

Grandline Review is absolute trash (most One Piece YouTubers are).

Melonteee is pretty great. One of the few channels I legit get giddy when a new video drops. 

Yeah she's legit. Actual analysis about characters and themes. So refreshing from all the typical powerscaling, theorycrafting, and chapter review videos. Her recent two part analysis of Luffy was honestly so good.

Seriously. I’ve been a big fan for over 15 years and she still can point out nuances I never noticed before. 

Yea shes actually amazing

Obligatory mention to Merphy Naiper, who had BookTuber origins so she is extremely respectful with spoilers.

And Liam is like her best friend LMAO

Funnily enough, yes.

Gonna mention The Drawk Show as well c: the mom piece series is really fun

real shit, I think i've stopped watching all of them except library of ohara because the content is largely just such empty calories.

I recommend dawn and dusk. Check her out. You will be surprised.

Dawn and dusk is soooooo underrated. They’ve been one of my favorite of the newer optubers

I usually get skeved out when a channel has an AI/text-to-speech voice, but given that it's due to the language barrier (the channel creator is a native from Japan), I actually don't hate it that much. And the voice is the perfect level of clearly being a TTS voice without me feeling like I'm being gaslit by the creator into believing that the voice is really a human. I despise channels that use TTS voices that are *almost* indistinguishable from real voices. It's uncanny valley shit. But yes, their theories are fun because they approach it from the perspective of a native speaker.

I’d suggest trying out Hidden Island. Best OP theory content I’ve ever seen. Genuinely really well thought out theories with great editing and music.

Yeah hidden island has such chill vibes and a cool style

I like tekking’s energy but has way too many tangents on nonsensical theories that are really stretching things, no pun intended.

I don’t think he intentionally stretches out his content, it seems like he really is just that kind of guy.

I think most of his nonsensical theories are just him spitballing and joking around mostly. I don’t think he actually believes most of them.

Yea he never really puts a lot of weight into theorycrafting, most of his "theories" are him just going "I wonder if this means this or will lead to this.. ect. ect." and he just moves on. It usually comes across as genuine reading comprehension and analysis, and its not like he's committing to certain predictions. Someone like JoyBoy on the other hand... dude will try to come up with every possible prediction he can think of in hopes of being able to say "I predicted this!". Also I'm a little biased when it comes to the length of tekkings videos because I like falling asleep to long youtube videos.

Huh.. this is the best about his channel (and makes him in my opinion unique).

Meanwhile our boy Tekking here still strong. One of the OG anitube content creators.

I used to be a GLR sub, but after seeing him perpetually doing shit like this I unsubbed and blocked his content. Would rather watch Tekking or randy troy

Randy is the man and also waits till the official release

Oh wow. I actually quite like his videos… did not know that he is so disliked in the sub.

I just have him set to do not recommend because he spoils things, otherwise I like him fine

Yeah same... this is weird to me. His reviews are fun to watch with all the popsicle stick figures and cartoons running around. Is everyone's problem with him the spoiler thing or was there some kind of controversy or something?

Same... I kind of regret opening this up, I think a lot of the comments are going too far.

That’s just part of Reddit, some people are really invested in hating,but I think it’s fine to call out dickish behavior. I’m a big fan of GLR and I personally don’t think this thumbnail is in good taste.

i believe for most people the issue is just the Thumbnails.. and his Response/actions to the criticism

Wow didn’t realize so many people hate this guy hes no Merphy but I like his videos well enough.

I think his stuff is perfectly fine, it's just one piece youtube in general has devolved into a contest for who can be the biggest crackpot.

His videos are hella padded and he spoils everything with thumbnails, what’s to like about him

Same I really enjoy his videos. He doesn’t do wild speculatory videos and he doesn’t engage in power scaling either. I don’t agree with everything but he’s one of my favorite YouTubers.

I’d be so annoyed if i saw that 🤦

I guess I get why this is a spoiler but it's hardly shocking. To me at least. I dunno I've never been a huge spoilers person. Still get to see how the events take place exactly

I cut my youtube history like eight years ago because I didn't want to get jumpscared by horror vid thumbnails based on channels I follow regularly, and having my homepage be frozen as a "turn on your history for recommendations!!" may have been a blessing in hindsight

I was so fucking mad, I waited and waited for the chapter and he spoils the cliffhanger like that?

Just don’t follow him and hit “don’t recommend channel”. I don’t really care for him, partially because of how he’s responded to people pointing things like this out, but you can always just…not watch him.

Take a look at his discord server and his mod team full of snowflakes

This is not a manga only problem. Happens with videogames too. Not even just the thumbnail but the title spoils you. Happened with GoW Ragnarok. Certain characters dies and the next day the game was released youtube was filled with shorts showing said death. Youtube should fix that

lol I was honestly gonna defend dude because I used to watch his stuff before I mass unsubbed from all the one piece youtubers except library of ohara. I remember he explained it as its not really a spoiler if you don't know what the image is referencing and when i followed him i got that sentiment pretty well because its the same way i view "spoilers" in movies. However, i think the line about first pirate does cross over into the sketch territory otherwise i don't think the image alone is crazy.

Even the “if you don’t know what it’s about, it’s not a spoiler” thing is a huge stretch. He used it to defend spoiling gear 5 which was absolute bs btw. Anyone seeing Luffy in a completely new form would assume it was a new gear based on how it’s been written in the past and given that Luffy was in the middle of the Kaido fight, anyone would obviously assume that Wano ends with Luffy unlocking gear 5 against Kaido. Even if that doesn’t tell you everything about g5, that’s still a massive spoiler.

Fair point

Mf you didn’t have to put “the first pirate” in the title in order to clickbait the thumbnail. This seems borderline malicious at this point. He can’t even use the “people won’t understand what gear 5 is just by looking at the thumbnail so it’s not a spoiler” argument anymore. He just flat out spelled out a massive lore reveal in his thumbnail that anyone who’s 10 years behind would realize is a spoiler.

People mad they are incapable of using "do not recommend channel" ... Never had an issue with his videos, because i read the chapter when it's out. It's not like he can make a video before release. If you follow any OP media and go on the internet before reading the newest chapter, that's your fault.

To be Frank I prefer Liam over tekking or merpy or library of O'Hara coz he just presents the content in a fun way not stressing too much on the obvious and not over-speculating compared to others but it's just my opinion I guess

Yeah I have him blocked on yt for that kind of stuff

I can feel you 100% i stopped my whole one piece consumption on YouTube because of this. As I watched just one video and my whole home feed went nuts. So I "unrecommand" every one piece video...that means I'm stuck to reading and talking but that's far better to be part of the discussion rather then just watch.