To be honest, I'm surprised YT hasn't blocked leftist content creators, and wonder if it's not for nefarious purposes, given the parent company's origin and track record.

While not explicitly communist, YouTubers like SheevTalks are fairly interesting if you enjoy nerdy media and media analysis.

While the gamergate era grifters overwhelmingly turned right wing, a few turned left and I cannot understate how refreshing the feeling is of hearing a sensible analysis of capitalist slop without fascists screeching about minorities.

In the example of SheevTalks, he deconstructs and analyzes corporatized nerd properties like Star Wars, but there’s an underlying understanding that the failure of modern nerd works is that capitalism is inherently incapable of producing artistic works without turning said works into lowest common denominator commodities. Definitely a breath of fresh air from the other sloptubers pointing fingers at minorities and China.

I was bummed when second thought went from cool science videos to basically all political videos. They’re well produced but less interesting to me personally.

this is especially true if you have an artisan hobby

I've actually considered starting a YT channel myself at some point. Content would be whatever I'm feeling at that moment and not anything specific; one video could be Marxist theory, another could be the history of some ancient culture I happen to have an autistic fascination with, another could be a review of a video game - y'know, just whatever I'm feeling at the moment.

I won't be doing this anytime soon as I have to resolve some gender dysphoria stuff first before I'm willing to put my face on camera but it's on my to-do list. I feel like video essays are a better medium for talking about things than blogposts, at least for me with my ADHD and autism.