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Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?

It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like "the world will end soon" or "my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto."

Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.

Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I'm start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.

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  • YT is basically my television or my background music during work. As long as I can use adblock to avoid ads, i'm happy.

    • Revanced on mobile, Smart Tube Next on Android TV and Ublock or Adguard on desktop ΰΌΌ ぀ β—•_β—• ༽぀

  • Nebula is pretty great, I like a few people there. I'm also on YouTube a good bit, but only the channels I subscribe to

    On YouTube itself, a few I like:

    • Tom Scott, every week is something unexpected and somehow also something I want to know more about (link)
    • A Great Big Story: My family really enjoys this one. It's short interesting videos about different places and cultures. I like the ones where the host compares a food/practice from different places (link)
    • About Here: Local creator in Vancouver/Canada that does stuff about local issues (link)
    • Neo: I think it might be tied to a company, but the videos are interesting and very high quality. I like the 3D renders that they use. This one's also on Nebula (link)
    • Babish, mostly the basics series and any foods from shows/movies I've seen (link)
    • Jun's Kitchen: Really nice and peaceful cooking clips. Their cats are great too (link)
    • Mustard: cool videos with nice renders about historical planes, trains, and stuff. Also on Nebula
    • Thomas Flight: nice analysis on movies and TV, for things like visuals and sound design

    Otherwise, here is a messy list of some more:

    • Captain Disillusion: learning about visual effects and trickery
    • Colin Furze: whatever crazy thing he's building today
    • EngineerGuy: a bit technical, but interesting
    • EuroCarGuy: to fall asleep to, no talking just driving
    • Hagerty: also a company run channel, but it's got fun car content
    • Ice Cream Sandwich: it's funny
    • Kurzgesagdt: watching this one for years
    • Memable Data: a recent one, also cool visuals
    • Michael Reeves
    • Simone Giertz
    • Technology Connections
    • The slow mo guys
    • Veritassium

  • Your comment about finance videos has nothing to do with YouTube at all. That’s literally the entire industry. Both my dad and myself have worked in finance and it’s been that way as long as I can remember. YouTube is good for educational science content, car stuff, and video game stuff. Keep politics, finance, and any sort of channels who can only stay in business by churning out new idea after new idea off of your list.

  • Happy to say I don't watch YouTube much anymore, except when someone recommends some random video.. And then I use Newpipe to watch it.

    I'm just so over big tech. You know that feeling when you get so tired of a person that even seeing them from a distance fills you with anger? That's big tech for me now.

  • Here's a few slightly lesser known creators that I'm a big fan of:

    • Aliensrock, let's player who mainly focuses on puzzle games. He gives good commentary on his though process and there's just something comfy and satisfying about watching a smart person solve puzzles.
    • Atrocity Guide, makes long form documentaries on unusual people and groups, etc. She always dives down some absolutely bizarre and fascinating rabbit holes. Personal favorites are her videos on Ullillillia and Nasubi.
    • Bloodrunsclear, stitches together clips of movies and TV shows to create fake movie trailers.
    • Britanick, legendary sketch comedy duo, every one of their videos has had me in tears laughing. They stopped uploading as much after becoming professional movie and TV writers, but have come back with a patreon in light of the writers strike.
    • Monstergarden, this guy who's been designing a strange and fascinating twist on the traditional fantasy setting via artwork, in universe writing, and even a short animation or two.
    • The Exploring Series, an SCP youtuber who goes into very in depth explanations of various SCP articles, as well as occasionally talking about other franchises like 40k or reading Lovecraft stories. Pretty much my only connection to SCP stuff anymore, I mainly like his voice and use his videos to go to sleep.
    • Venjent, a drum n bass artist that started blowing up on tiktok after he made a dnb track out of a creaky door. Extremely cheesy, but he's so sincere and friendly that the cheesiness is charming, it helps that the songs are all bangers too.
    • Night Mind, explores and discusses various pieces of internet horror and "unfiction". As someone that grew up on ARGs and creepypasta, Night Mind is singlehandedly keeping my love of internet horror content alive.

  • I am subscribed to dozens of channels. Some that consistently put out interesting/good content are:

    Donut Media (with SponsorBlock enabled)

    The Proper People

    Tom Scott

    The B1M

    Vox

    Joe Scott

    BBC Earth Lab

  • Sounds like your algorithm is pretty badly poisoned.

    It's my primary video entertainment service. I have a premium family plan so I don't have to deal with ads on any device and neither do my wife kids or parents.

    I don't see any crypto scams. I do occasionally see clickbait BS in the suggestions, but I've gotten pretty good at avoiding it. Even creators who put out things I like, I'll delay watching stuff with clickbait thumbs or titles so as not to reward it. I found the Veritasium video on clickbait informative. (Funnily enough he's now on my shit list for clickbait)

    An inexhaustive list of my follows off the top of my head:
    Gaming:
    Many a true nerd, mainly for the fallout stuff but I like their other content.
    T90official, for AoE2 match coverage, the nearest I get to watching sports
    Best Guest (he deserves more subs, with his surreal challenge runs) SorcererDave.
    Karl Jobst

    Science:
    PBS space time.
    Anton Petrov.
    Sabine Hossenfelder.

    Legal commentary:
    Leonard french.
    Steve Lehto.

    Tech:
    Linus Tech tips (although they're all in on the clickbait titles & soyface)
    Gamers Nexus
    Der8auer EN
    Louis Rossman (I've become less of a fan over the last few years, but not enough to drop him)

    Other
    Meatcanyon/papa meat
    Rainman rays repairs (the algorithm offered him up, and I've found him fixing stuff pretty compelling lately)

    There are more but that all I want to type out right now. Some also broadcast on Twitch, but I'm not a fan of that platform. I like some editing, and can't stand the "look at me, look at meeeee" aspect of twitch chat (or any 'live' content)

  • I watch more YouTube then I'd like to admit honestly, but with ad blockers it's not too bad. Some of my frequented channels/creators:

    Gaming:

    • Haelian: Used to be purely Hades content, now mostly a rogue like variety streamer/creator.
    • GrandPOOBear: lots of Mario romhacks and high level Kaizo play, with a decent amount of variety games as well. Super funny/chill dude.
    • CarlSagan42: Mostly plays SMM troll levels, although sometimes his reactions can be a little much. Entertaining if you like Mario though.
    • Frost Prime: Mostly Slay the Spire content, although I think he's pretty funny as well.
    • Iron Pineapple: Finds and plays every souls-like he can on Steam. Usually pretty entertaining.
    • Mukluk: A lot of Guild Wars 2 content, but has a 2nd channel of many types of games. Currently he's going through Baldurs Gate 3
    • A Mighty Teapot: Another GW2 creator. Recently did a "Zero to Hero" series in which he created a fresh account and leveled/geared from scratch.
    • Josh Stryfe Hayes: A well spoken brit who does commentary on MMOs and gaming in general. I suggest his "Worst MMO Ever" series.
    • Flophouse Plays: Variety games, recently enjoyed his videos on finding obscure games on old systems (SNES, Genesis, etc)
    • Wulff Den: heavy emphasis on emulators and hacks. Lots of comparisons, like Steam Deck vs ASUS ROG Ally

    Music:

    • Ola Englund: Swedish metal guitarist and owner of Solar Guitars. Lots of chugs, caveman riffs, and gear reviews.
    • NikNocturnal: While the running joke is that he's a "poser" because he likes metalcore, he's a very solid guitarist and makes fun content.
    • Ben Eller: Super talented guitarist who gives practice techniques and song/riff breakdowns.
    • Adam Neely: Jazz bassist who does video essays on various music theory topics.
    • 66Samus: Goofy metal drummer
    • Bradley Hall: Goofy metal guitarist who loves to sweep.
    • Ichika Nito: Guitarist, think Polyphia condensed into 30sec videos
    • Sebastiside: Same as above, but metal.
    • Dean Lamb: Insanely good Guitarist from Archspire, love his "4 levels of death metal" series.
    • Brandon Ellis: Guitarist of Black Dahlia Murder, mostly playthroughs and practice runs. God-tier shredder.

    Other:

    • Drawfee: 4 super talented digital artists draw based on crazy prompts. Highly recommend anything Pokemon related of theirs.
    • Jolly: 2 British dudes travel and eat different foods. Fun times
    • Game Grumps: while their newer stuff doesn't hit the same, I can rewatch their old playthroughs (Paper Mario TTYD, Pokemon Fire Red,etc) repeatedly.
    • Angry Video Game Nerd: Similar to the above, newer stuff is alright but I regularly play seasons 1-4. So nostalgic.

    I might have a problem....

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