Don't start with easy or hard. Start with what you want to talk about. "Making YT video" doesn't mean shit if you have nothing to say. Start with a topic. There is not a single subject that " requires a whole team". Every subject can be talked about with a smartphone and a decent mic... and a good problem solving mindset
I assumed they meant some kind of group skit thing.
Exactly. I'd much, much rather watch a dinosaur video from someone who really really wants to talk about dinosaurs, and found video as a medium to talk about it, rather than someone who wants to do video and is trying to come up with a topic for the videos he already wants to make.
Same with cooking, comedy, tech, business, current events, politics, etc. I'd rather watch/listen to someone who cares about those things specifically than someone who wants to "create content."
This is really only if you make commentary style of videos. Which is a huge part of what YouTube is now but still not the only thing on there. There's skits, there's not a lot of it, but still people's films, there's just something interesting that happened and you had the presence of mind to film it, there's animation, I think there's a degree of citizen journalism on there too though I've ot really seen a lot of that. That would be maybe commentary adjacent but still slightly different than just a person and a topic.
That said you could do all of those solo, with varying degrees of difficulty.
Somewhat seriously...porn.
But completely seriously, the easiest videos to make are a matter of pointing a camera at yourself and talking.
Porn.
To clarify, I'm not suggesting you do it, you asked for the easiest.
That's not easy.
Yeah ppl really understate what it takes to do porn
Well, you should sometimes record your home sex video. When watching how awkward it looks, you might find new appreciation for how much work goes into a simple porn video.
Reaction videos I guess, but a lot of people are doing that.
I'm going to define easy as "low budget". In which case I think any presentation style video is going to fit that description. I personally enjoy a lot of Milo Stefan and minimiuteman's videos where they present archaeology topics. It really cheap in that you only need to a few pictures from wiki and camera pointed at your self talking about something. Of course to do this well, you need to really know the subject and how to present a narrative that is interesting.
Eat stuff.
Things you can do in one take without much editing.
Whatever it is you can talk engagingly about, unscripted. Following that, whatever you can talk engagingly about, scripted.
Doesn’t matter if you’re actually doing the voiceover; just having the ability means less time setting up shots and editing.
Cat videos! Have you seen the upvotes on those vids?!? Amazing (and easy)!
Eating food.
Punching people just before they eat food.
Are you wanting to do skits, commentary, walk through, teaching videos, or something else?
The easiest to literally make something is just talk about things you like while recording it and posting that. Maybe go a bit further and edit it to remove pauses or long silence. That will also be practice for literally everything you do that involves video.
It might not get any attention, but practice is practice and not really slop.
Let's plays of your favourite games.
All it takes is time and a charming personality.
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