Why Dani and Other Game Devs Left YouTube 

First commentary video ever! Hope you enjoy!

Fun fact, there is a website that lets you track game updates to steam games, any steam game uploaded, like TF2 or Hollow Knight or whatever is on there, even unpublished games! Over the past 2 years Karlson has been receiving almost daily updates to the files, showing he is working on it, it is just taking forever (as he did mention wanting to work less to take more time on life)

You are most definitely right about saturation. Ive been making games since around 2016 fresh out of college and now I would never even consider starting a channel in this space. Dani created this unexpected trend where people with little to no experience in the game development space started funelling content onto youtube whilst lacking experience but also the prosperity to actually learn game development. This is almost 100% to do with Dani's nature when it comes to the way he presents his videos. People probably saw the simplistic and laid back nature of his content and made the assumption that it was easy. Now the abundance of terrible game ideas on youtube make it hard for any actual indie game developers to show off their ideas that actually take time to bake.

I dont think Dani quit, theres still ads for karlson being put on youtube so its more than likely hes still working on it in private to avoid the pressures his community has been putting on him. That being said he probably is still experiencing a lot of burnout and stress so progress is probably pretty slow but I dont think hes gone for good.

And brackey's came back like yesterday or something

Around a week ago I found a donation left in dani's comment section where dani actually replied hinting towards coming back I have posted it on his reddit if you wanna see it.

Really like the effort you put in the video man. So underrated.

Brackeys is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

oh shit Brackeys is BACK!!

actually brackey has returned but dani... poor dani... we should stop pressuring dani...

Brackeys is back!!

I know Dani will be here watching this any minute now

Woah! I thought you had 2 cameras, but nah you just horizontal flipped the video. I dig it.

RU-vid's algorithm likes consistently uploaded content, which is tricky with game development. So, it's kind of an uphill battle even if things are going well.

"Brackeys will never return"💀

If you look at kalex’s video, he commented that he would come back this month

Brackey is back

Although brackeys is back

No worries guys ! I ll go nowhere ! 😅

BRACKEYS IS BACK

Brackeys comment at the start aged like milk

Very underrated keep it up man ur gonna make it

And the ones who stayed became cringe, like Polymars who went from awesome C++ game dev challenges to Scratch, ChatGPT & Memes

GameDev is a pretty big grind. worse than gaming or anything then u have to edit the video. Karlson last update was 17 January 2024

as someone who watched dani and "grew up" on sam hogan, i truely believe the two were the most influential on the platform as a whole, a lot of the "I made X in Y Hours!" game modders, game devs etc were born just because of dani's popularity. sam was one of the first to make game dev entertaining and the first to make explaining game mechanics interesting, for me at least. then came dani which as you said, bridged the game-ers to the game-devs. so i 100% beleive these two are the most influential ones on the platform

brakey has arived my friend lets wait the trio is pulling back up to save us

I loved the way you talked about overediting videos and then proceeded to flip the camera horizontally with every cut in the video lol

It's sad that so many are leaving, gamedev youtube is great and specially Dani who put a more humorous style into it, gave a lot of inspiration to people

This probably isn't true for developers but when I got the platinum trophie for the game terraria I felt burnt out and didn't want to play it any time soon, but when my friend asked me to make a new world I said sure and I was back at it playing. This is why I think Dani or any other burnt out developers are going to come back you'll just have to wait.

I'm a game dev youtuber too.

Great video, some suggestions i would make is having some kind of a background but besides that a great start to your commentary videos!

bro your so underrated that the subscribe button didn't want to even glow. but still yet im subbing

Dani has been my inspiration for my career so far. He makes Coding look so fun, and he helped me realize learning it is. I'm in the process of learning HTML and CSS first, and I've got almost everything down right now, then I'm going to switch to Game Development coding soon. I'm sad that he left, but I'm happy what he left me with. I have one life-goal at some point I'll do, that being if Dani doesn't finish Karlson, then I'll finish it. For all the Milk Lovers.

If I received threats to release a game, I would've dipped too, not gonna lie...

For how good quality your first commentary video is you are insanely underrated.

Brackeys is back🔥

brackeys is back

Got a karlson ad before watching but he is making a big game/video as you could see his next video would be his 69th video and he has been commenting on a handful of videos even a year from when he left meaning he is active and not dead or done but it’s very unclear he could comeback but it’s impossible to tell when he will return

Brackey returned!!

He hasnt quit he said hes 90 percent done with karlson but he wont upload for another 2 months

great commentary man :D

Brackeys is back!!!!!!!!!

Their coming back when 2.3 comes out

I saw a 1 month old Dani comment on a video called "Why My Indie Game Got So Popular So Quickly" By Zoteling

Dani is still active on his discord, and his next upload is being talked about

avatar nick games left to he was very good it was dani but for younger people and made a nintendo game that was taking a while to release he left around dani left but i dont focus on him as much as dani but i should

Brackeys is back

Yooooo Dope video Edit: Wait where's the server???

6:57 where did you get that penguin plush?

dani will come back i miss u

There was a video 4 months ago talking about where he went and he commented saying he is 90% and said he was gonna post in 6 months, that was 4 months ago

no we wont be able to see the 69nth DANI VIDEOOOO

There is also a youtuber called Mythic Legion He uploaded 1 video 3 years ago got 8 MILLION views and was newer seen again

Dani is still working on Karlson. He's said he's getting close to finishing it

Regarding Dani, the co owner of his discord server has confirmed several times he is working on a project and will come back.

seeing him use matpat's iconic phrase "but thats just a theory!" after he quit is just so painful

Matpat shall be the next theory king NO HE IS THE THEORY KING!

so cool that you put the video under creative commons with reuse allowed, i hate copyright. :)

he even mentioned a 4th youtuber who quit, matpat....

This was on my homepage with 1k views yesterday, what the hell

i can't believe there's a whole new genre of reasons why dani left youtube videos

i dont think dani quit hes just working on his game

Oh no , i think twitch's assassin found him

Next gen gamedevs boutta go crazy tho

After many famous game devs left RU-vid, I am a new game developer who is going to help future game creators!

They're just working on hl3 for valve

Jokes on you, Brackeys is back and on Godot

We not gonna talk about mythic legion?

Great video bro. I love the effort put in to your content. Keep up the good vids

thats why his video didn't popped up anymore

anybody have any news about Mythic Legion? he uploaded like two awesome videos and then quit. he commented on his latest video (almost 4 years old) like two years ago saying he was still alive but in college but hasnt made any updates since

atleast we still got code bullet

maybe dani was the friends we made along the way

As far as I can tell, Dani has focused on Game Development, the website which details his progress is still updated so... he aint gone yet. If it finishes, I can bet there will be a new video about it.

Dani is just on his training arc rn

I miss Dani and especially Sam Hogan 😔

Ive been trying to make games and videos related to it and my god is it so hard. he made some great games and videos i can only assume he was in perma crunch.

I was really hyped for milkman karlson, so sad.

I don’t think so Dani quit I think he is preparing karlson for the 69th video

For Dani specifically his videos are targeted at kids mainly, and as much as myself and some other people would love explanations if his code, apparently "boring, shut up nerd" brings him more views. where im going with this, it brought kids into gamedev, and now what is popular is no longer what has good concept or gameplay. It is what looks good on a video (just see the hundreds of i made a game in 1 day videos). This just ended up with hundreds of unfinished tech demos that on surface appear cool but break down the longer you think about it. The most succesful games are never those that make an entertaining video, geometry dash only has a couple sneek peeks for future updates, deltarune has a few newsletters that expand the lore, but otherwise dont really tell you anything about the game, terraria has monthly steam posts with sneek peeks, factorio has weekly, very technical FFS, and team cherry has gone completely radio silent with silksong. The difference being that the video (if there even is any) is made for the game while the other 20 gamedev channels are other way around, they make a game for a video. the only exceptions i think would be jonas tyroller, who actually makes good games while also being entertaining, and sebastian lague for non video game things.

dani didnt quit hes just taking a bit of time to upload and his posting is bad but hes not quitting

Dani like didnt quit? he's just working on his game in peace?

Why did dani not come back with the milk. Watch the watch if you wanna know

for those who are sad over danis quiting he said he will be back in 6 months . month 5(6

i just feel like the fact that he deleted a video to make his channle have 68 videos one less then the funny number, means that maybe he wants that special video to be the release of karolson and if thats the case then yeah, its a single person working on a massive game, it might even take years to finish depending on breaks or whatnot. but not only that, i figure him not interacting online is mainly just because if he does all people are gonna say is "you working on karolson" or somthing like that, so i figure even if it takes years that that might be why.

He is comming back and we know that 100%, he posted a comment on kalex’s video about him. And it was only 4 months ago he posted the comment. And he Said and i quote ”for my next magic trick i Will say i am 90% done but probably gonna be 6 months till i upload LMAO” and that was 4 months so maybe it Will be in two months. But sorry for ranting lmao but yea.

I mean danitutorials quit way before danidev

dani said in a yt vid comment that he will post in 6 months and this was 4 months ago

Dani didn't quit, he just is taking time to build on games he made like Karlson.

I think that the one that hurt me the most when they quit was Sam. He made me want to become a coder, which I now am. Very sad, same with dani

dani and sam hogan made some good content

wait, does this mean that Karlson will never come out???

bro looks like young tech lead (the youtuber)

dani ain't gone 🗿he said he'll come back with a 20m vid or smth

I really liked this video, congratulations for the work friend

good vid

because he died I will edge to all of his videos every day.

im a game dev who hasn't uploaded my first dev log

im used to no responses, i play tf2..

I member watched a video that Dani's wife talked about her game worked with him. It's kinda recent video, so maybe he's just too busy to bother with YT anyway. I mean I'm full time solo gamedev myself and I know it's not worth the energy to make YT videos.