Why I'm No Longer with TKOR

Thank you all so much for your support. If you're new to the channel I hope you'll stick around!

[abdulhaseeb]

This is the story of how TKOR went from enthusiast builds and genuine questions and experiments to a content farm and slowly heading to 5-minutes craft level and we are all here to witness it's transformation

[apnp_apnu]

The fact that this video has more views than the last 9 TKOR videos combined... Should say something.

[LSD_Printing]

The fact Grant chose you and Calli to run the channel, and management let you go. Absolutely crazy. Thanks for sharing some behind the scenes stuff. Wish you the best of luck my man.

[joshmoore]

I'm gonna be honest nate. When you first were brought onto TKOR I was hesitant. I had already been watching grants videos over and over for years and wasn't ready for change. However after a week or so you showed the same passion as Grant and I loved that. Without you and Grant, TKOR has really taken a fall. Glad you're still doing what you're doing.

[roxanne]

I'm in shock-- I actually thought Nate and Callie were at the face of the company. We love you Nate, this is wild.

[pietrotrava]

You and Calli were Grant's legacy, TKOR will never be the same without you...

[hahahayi]

It’s amazing how the management team didn’t ever think to ask their own audience on what they wanted

[IamGrief]

Honestly, I don't care why you're not on TKOR a anymore. I'm just glad I found you again. That's all I came here to say. I look forward to more of your content.

[kelvaxmiller]

It hurts, I used to watch The King of Random when it was just Grant for years. It is so painful seeing the channel rot and become hollow. Watching the channel go from science and interesting projects to its current dross. I hope you will be able to take the torch and make content equal to its former glory. So much of the soul from YouTube has faded...

[Nighthawkinlight]

It's too bad, you really contributed some great projects. The recent foam machine video was top tier. I think if tkor gets someone on that has a better feel for making eye catching thumbnails they could shoot right back to the top. In the meantime add me to the list of those who would be happy to collaborate.

[thunderchild]

You and Cali carried the channel well in my opinion, you had the same enthusiasm and energy that Grant had

[JQB]

Personally I think Nate and Callie hit the sweet spot between pure instructional video and entertainment

[nolangill]

I realized that I was watching tkor for almost entirely Nate and Callie. The topics were interesting but the hosts were the entertainment. Good luck Nate.

[AtomicShrimp]

I really appreciate you taking the time to explain so much of the backstory. I think I knew it in fragmentary form, but found it interesting to hear you tell it as a whole joined-up story. Wishing you the best for your future endeavours!

[blisardsnow]

My kids always watched Nate and Callie. We stopped watching when Callie got let go. Loyalty means more than $$ in my book. You both put in the work, you deserved more. Period.

[Benny_]

I haven't watched TKOR in a while, and I'm shocked to learn you and Calli left. Honestly, I loved Grant to death, and it always felt like he passed the torch to you two, especially you Nate, who was already around when he retired. But in reality, I think TKOR's days were numbered from the beggining. It was extremely cool watching Grant build rope machines, or making liquid nitrogen, or setting things on fire for the first time. But being a channel that produces 3, 4, 5 videos every week, how long can you keep all the videos interesting? How many years can you push out of this? There's only so much content you can produce that's actually interesting, and that's why the hosts matter so much, because at one point, THEY are the ones trully making it interesting

Sad to hear how everything is going about and how you left the channel, but I wish both you and TKOR's team the best of luck

[Tronicsfix]

Thank you for making this video. You did great work at TKOR Looking forward to see where you take your channel.

[lukepippin]

When Grant died it was tough for me to watch the channel for a while. He was my favorite guy on YouTube and for days in a row after I found him, I binged his videos until I’d watched every one that was on the channel. I built his steel bucket furnace and melted down a bunch of aluminum cans in the bottom half of a propane torch tank. I had the time of my life trying out his builds. I was excited every time a new video of his came out. I was a bit put out to know he was phasing himself out from in front of the camera, but I ended up really enjoying watching your stuff too. When he passed away though, I had so much trouble getting into the channel. Not because the content quality went down. More so because I just had trouble with watching knowing the king himself was gone. Other kids had hero’s from their favorite shows, musicians, athletes, but Grant was that larger than life person who didn’t have a clue I existed and yet I felt like I could connect with him really well.
Anyway. I’m sorry to hear that you were let go. You did a fantastic job, and even though I had trouble with it personally, I’m glad you kept the channel alive in his memory. I think he would have preferred they kept you. There wouldn’t be a TKOR without either him or you. Best of luck to you.

[IMGrasstopher]

I'm incredibly late to the party but...

I actually built a lot of Grant's original builds, and I remember his transition and remember watching his burnout in almost real time. I also remember you transitioning into the host and I knew exactly what was going on, and working with Calli. And I thought it was a very fitting transition because both of you had the awkwardness on camera that Grant had when he just filmed his hands doing things lol. I only lost track of the channel during the pandemic (that we're still in) because I became a health worker finally (tiring enough) and then. Pandemic lol. I lost track of you and Calli and the channel and it felt like I blinked and the entire channel was COMPLETELY reformed.

I just found out about your channel randomly the other day, I can't remember what from (it was probably a knife making related thing) but I'm so glad to see you still doing things, I'm definitely gonna check out Calli's twitch and see what she's up to, y'all are both great people and I look forward to your future content.

[johnmiller]

I'm a year late to this video, but I wanted to thank you for everything you and Cali did on TKOR. I like Grants videos, but I binged every video with you and Cali. You were a great team.