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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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Johnny Harris just released a video on the history of the Mormon Church.

As an exmormon, it is awesome to see stuff this high quality from someone with the same perspective as me. I'll link the video: https://youtu.be/hUW7j9GmXjI

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/hUW7j9GmXjI

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

A lot of great recommendations in the tread and I don't have much to add but for something a little different, here are my suggestions :

DayDream Gaming - Cool and/or relaxing walks through game worlds like Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, horseback riding in RDR, etc.

dulevoz - Cabview train rides full of cool details like the number of tunnels, elevation, engine types, etc. You don't need to be a train nerd, try it, it's absolutely fantastic and relaxing!

Virtual Railfan - Live cams at famous railroad crossings, just for the fun of watching trains go by or watch the scenery

StreamTime Live - live cams at various harbours in the US

M. B. Archives - Commentary tracks from various movies (the latest being The French Connection, rip William Friedkin)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

SUSD is the only thing good on YT

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My favorite channels (not previously mentioned)

  • Red Letter Media - bad movie fun, and movie reviews
  • Joel haver - great short form sketches
  • Friday Beers / Almost Friday - wkyk style sketches
  • screen crush - nerd content analysis
  • 3 brown 1 blue - great math content
  • number phone and computerphile - great short form educational content on math and computer science
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No, I stopped using YouTube overall.

The scams / weird aggressive marketing + politics / solutions that don't work for problems no one has... is part of it. The next part is it fails to suggest reasonable content. The last part is that video is a really, really slow way for me to absorb information. Text, please!

The are very rare exceptions. One is clickspring. Others are specific colleagues who engineer unique-in-the-world stuff (so... people like clickspring, I guess). If it's less good than that, I cannot bear to use YouTube, and refuse to post content there too.

Then again it would be really weird to show you videos of circuit diagrams and code. So it's not a great medium for the stuff I do anyway.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I would recommend ChrisFix on top of the recommendations already given. Excellent videos on simple car repairs using hand tools. Even if you don't own a car or have the need to fix one, I would still recommend watching some of his videos.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hey DoisBigo,

Since you're into finance videos, here are some creators I like:

Ben Felix,
Patrick Boyle,
The Plain Bagel.

Enjoy!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Stefan Milo - Been really enjoying his videos "digging" into archaeology and pre-history.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mostly ASMR - it's how I get to sleep.

Also, Pitch Meeting, which I sometimes watch instead of the film.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've got a few creators I subscribe to and only ever look at my subscriptions and never at the recommendations. My YouTube experience has been pretty consistent over the years. Still greatly enjoy it, subscribing to creators once or twice a year.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Anton Petrov has a great channel if you are into science and space. He posts a video every day explaining new findings in a really approachable way.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I watch LBRY (I use it directly and bypass odysee btw)

For youtube I proxy it through piped

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm still enjoying the engineering and maker channels, along with a few other educational channels.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Erin Parsons Makeup is my newest rabbit hole. A really neat look at makeup through history!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't watch a ton of YouTube anymore, but when I do it's usually the likes of techtubers and gaming creators that incorporate humor with a few "I create dumb stuff for the internet" type channels mixed in.

I'll list few of my favorite channels, with Piped links of course :)

DankPods, Alpharad, Failboat, I did a thing, Bobby Duke Arts, maxmoefoePokemon, Michael Reeves

Probably missed a few but that's most of them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Stop Skeletons From Fighting.

Video game channel with absolutely top tier writing, production, and presentation that stacks up against the biggest channels out there, but it's from a team of only 2 people. The host is super likeable and entertaining. No low effort click bait videos. Criminally underrated with only 330k subscribers. I know that's still a lot, but they easily have 1m+ sub potential.

The "punching weight" series about ambitious and wacky titles/peripherals are my favorite. They also have some super well researched video game history videos that are great.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

H3 podcast best show on the internet

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