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.

melonpunk,
@melonpunk@lemmy.world avatar

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

LongPigFlavor,

Second Thought, First Thought, Our Changing Climate, Polymatter, Kurzgesagt, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, Democracy Now.

STUPIDVIPGUY,

Yeah youtube has massive amounts of good content. The only downside is that it’s owned by google.

Some of my favs in alphabetical order:

Anton Fomenko

BeardMeatsFood

GeoWizard

I did a thing

Jet Lag: The Game

Joel Haver

Ludwig

Max Fosh

Modest Pelican

NFKRZ

RAINBOLT

Steve Wallis

STORROR

Tom Scott

Uri Tuchman

Xiaomanyc

paradrenasite,

Fall of Civilizations

I haven’t seen this mentioned yet, but it’s incomparably good (if stories about past civilizations is your thing).

Leviathan,

Watcher is a fun channel, educational and stupid at times.

Wristwatch Revival is a great turn off your brain kind of channel but now I’m building watches in my free time.

Primitive Technology is just fantastic all the time.

Chubby Emu is a great medical channel and his meme game is on point.

Brutalmoose is a beautiful storm of chaotic editing techniques.

Sam O’Nella!

Kurtzgesagt.

Technology Connections.

Goniloc used to be kick-ass.

Smarter Every Day.

I’m not even deep into the algorithm. You need to stop clicking on garbage.

Voyajer,
@Voyajer@lemmy.world avatar

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

Raxiel,

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)

yoz,

Louis Rossman

funkless_eck,

I love Outside XBox (they do more than Xbox content) And Outside Extra. I think its the best short-form gaming variety content there is

socsa, (edited )

Guga, Real Civil Engineer, FutureCanoe to name some who haven’t been mentioned

cheddaronthebottom, (edited )
@cheddaronthebottom@lemmy.world avatar

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…

TheKarion,

Jerma985

K3zi4,

The beautiful thing about YouTube is that fundamentally, it is still an incredible platform for anyone to be able to create content for the entite world to watch. That is so cool when you really think about it.

However, the horrible thing about YouTube, is the algorithm that is designed to push all sorts of views and opinions onto people, burying all of the actual good content beneath thousands of hours of utter shite and adverts.

If you know where to look, you can still get all the entertainment and information you need from it!

intensely_human,

The problem with the youtube algorithm is it’s too specific.

I watch a video that’s some psytrance, and then every video I get when I search for “study music” is psytrance.

PeWu,

I usually watch educational content with a little bit of 3blue1brown and Kurzgesagt to name a few.

gjghkk, (edited )

kurzgesagt is also political. The video about vegan food threw me off.

I cannot trust someone on certain issues if this person is biased against some of these issues. That is the world today. It’s ok, downvote me, I’m not against veganism btw, I don’t care what people eat, but I truly do not believe in certain number presented even though I do believe that animals are treated very harshly in this capitalistic world because of profits.

pedro,

Dont know why you are getting downvoted, I love kurzgesagt and I think that some statements and ideas are not just pure science and facts. They often give their opinion on the matter.

And it’s fine, they have the right to express their opinion, whether I agree with it or not

gjghkk,

I cannot trust someone on certain issues if this person is biased against some of these issues. That is the world today. I’m not against veganism btw, I don’t care what people eat, but I truly do not believe in certain number presented even though I do believe that animals are treated very harshly in this capitalistic world because of profits.

Krachsterben,

I agree with you. Their philosophical content and pretty animations was what drew me into them in the first place, but the moment they started spewing unscientific anti-vegan propaganda and how no one should go vegan because meat tastes great, I unsubscribed.

paradrenasite,

Their greenwashed climate change videos really exposed them as a corporate propaganda outlet. I can’t watch them anymore.

Asafum,

Same here and it’s literally all I watch lol gave up cable almost 10 years ago!

For anyone who knows: hello wonderful person!

:P

sturmblast,

there’s still plenty of great content on YouTube it just depends on what you’re watching

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