Binging With Babish - AKA How Would This Taste IRL

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Chickenpolar said:
Love his subreddit turning into a snark Reddit. Every lost soul earnestly posting a good pop culture recipe suggestion gets a bunch of "that doesn't sound like a ranking replies.

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When Did Babish jump the shark?
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Without fail. Every formerly faceless youtuber who does a face reveal becomes a huge faggot when they get the idea that people come for them as a person and not what they do.
 
Can't stand him.

His entire brand is a shallow facade. All the slick editing, the cool tattoos, and the soothing voice are just there to distract from the complete lack of skill and sophistication in his cooking. He's a perfect example of style over substance. He'll throw a handful of premium ingredients into a dish, but the end result is always simple, its shows his inability to truly understand the complexity of flavors.

He also loves to use excessive amounts of salt. It's his crutch and a real chef understands that salt is a subtle enhancer, a tool to elevate, not a blunt instrument. His food is simply seasoned into submission.

He is just a home cook with an expensive camera and a good editor. He can follow a recipe, but he can't truly cook. He lacks the intuition, the refined palate, and it's just for performance nothing more. He's a typical millennial that is so far up his own ass he lacks humility about his own abilties.

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Chickenpolar said:
Love his subreddit turning into a snark Reddit. Every lost soul earnestly posting a good pop culture recipe suggestion gets a bunch of "that doesn't sound like a ranking replies.

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When Did Babish jump the shark?
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It's the classic Reddit phenomenon. A subreddit starts with a pure, earnest purpose, and before long, it's just a bunch of jaded regulars turning every sincere post into an eye-rolling inside joke. It's the natural progression of a community that gets too comfortable with its own smugness.

It's the very definition of an echo chamber, really. The community starts off all warm and inclusive, until someone posts something that doesn't fit the hyper-specific, self-congratulatory vibe. Then the hive mind turns on them, showing its true colors. They'll talk a big game about being welcoming and progressive, but their first instinct is to mock anyone who doesn't already speak their language. It's that special kind of smug hypocrisy that Reddit has perfected.

Oh, and let's not forget the Hogwarts Legacy ad. The perpetually outraged denizens of Reddit threw a fit. It’s all so predictable, isn't it? The instant a creator dares to stray from their narrow, self-righteous worldview, they're met with a chorus of manufactured indignation. It's a testament to the utter lack of substance that defines so much of that platform.
 
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It's the YouTube equivalent of when the history channel became about truckers and sword making or when travel channel went from tours of Europe to paranormal hunter bullshit
 
I used to like Binging back in the day when the schtick was that Babish was a movies & TV enthusiast making recipes from movies and television he'd seen. Then he started making recipes from movies & TV he hadn't seen. Then he started taking sponsorships and making recipes from movies & TV he'd likely never heard of. Take into account that a lot of those were anime recipes and it felt like he was trying to weasel himself into an audience of weebs that was never rightfully his. Channel lost its charm when it lost its authenticity. Some will say it isn't that deep, but nah, his first cookbook was marketed as recipes from a film buff, recipes from his favourite movies, etc. I'm just ranting and I'm aware of that but I like weird people doing interesting things on the internet and I fucking hate "content." Anyway. Then he started making episodes that weren't even recipes so much, just ads. His coffee episode of Basics was basically a thinly-veiled ad for a coffee subscription service. Whenever that was, I was done. He will never be J. Kenji Lopez-Alt no matter how bad he wants to be.
 
Korpon said:
Didn't Babish have a kid with his (now ex) wife? I could have sworn some video (might have been Harry Potter related) opened with him holding a baby. I mainly remember cause he had his nails painted like a faggot.
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It was probably the bull's kid.
DarkSonicPhil said:
he just hasn’t been the same since being 🍇
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Elaborate? I haven't heard about this.
*Edit to not double-post
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7LpSKce7EHY"How to make myself more relatable? I know, let's make a video of me eating Caviar on multiple dishes while lusting over a famous actor"
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I do hate the trend of men "jokingly" lusting after other men.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
This is an amazingly apt way to describe this over seasoning I keep seeing in cooking videos. What is even the point of premium cooking ingredients if you season them to oblivion?
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To show they ain't like other wypipo
 
Re: alleged overseasoning, his early episodes were vastly underseasoned and everything I made from his videos was bland as hell... did he pull a 180° recently?
 
I unsubbed when he started painting his nails like a fairy, looks like it was the right choice.
 
I caught up to the rape saga.
The ONLY reason it's funny is because this SoCal gentrifying premium ingredient fart huffing chud went to a mental hospital for a big case of self induced sads that could've been solved with a couple hours of sleep and then he met real crazy (crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats.) and found out who mental hospitals are ACTUALLY for, and now he has real mental problems.
 
He posted on his subreddit.
Getting Back to Babish (a)Hi you guys,It’s me, the bald guy with the beard. The one with the YouTube channel? No, not Vsauce.
Eagle-eyed viewers might’ve noticed that, over the past three years, the channel has undergone some tiny changes. Heh. I’ve had a lot of fun with the new content we’ve been making, but I’ve missed cooking, I’ve missed our dialogue, and I’ve missed being...well, Babish. So in a couple weeks, we’re flipping the channel over and pressing a thumbtack into the little hole next to the battery compartment. In other words, we’re hitting reset. We’ve spent the past couple weeks filming an all-new format that’s true to the DNA of what started this whole thing: an instructional, vibey, dulcet, beautiful, and wry cooking show. We’re getting back to Babish.

I’m currently working on a classic episode of Binging, which will also serve as a wider announcement about the coming change; but everything started here, and I wanted you guys to be the first to know. I’m very excited to bring our ideas to fruition, but would also love to hear from you: questions, comments, and what you would like to see in a new cooking show. Or what your thoughts are on the KOTH reboot. I thought it had a lot of heart.
Yours very sincerely,
Andrew "Babish" Rae Rea
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"All-new format." You had a good thing going with the narrated, faceless photos. Nobody wants to see your face.
 
The millennial writing of that reddit post tells you everything you need to know.
 
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