Title essentially. Youtube’s algorithm is hot garbage, so I can’t search for anything anymore without a ton of AI slop and rage bait. So, who do you go to for actual good long form videos? Exposes, scandals, behind the scenes, documentaries, film, travel, transit, who do you recommend I follow?
One name I have yet to see here is We Are Not Alive (Formerly Diregentlmen), group of professional writers who talk about writing, media, and tropes. Check them out.
I really like my weekly hour long defense/economics powerpoint from Perun.
I don’t watch YouTube to often but I used to like to watch some content from Yes Theory.
My partner watches a few others though, I see her watching Smosh, which sometimes is good, she always watches good mythical stuff, but I am not as much of a fan of them.
I think I avoid YouTube mostly, but if Yes Theory fits your question, I like their underlying message (it started off as a saying Yes to life and taking chances and believing that people were inherently good and try to get communities and the world to come together it seems) and I was actually afraid to say it because I figured someone would come out and tell me how they are actually terrible people somehow. Hopefully not. (Fingers crossed)
This sounds like the premise behind an absolutely delightful 2008 film featuring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel.
Honestly kind of, but more communal. They focus more on say traveling to Yemen, Baghdad, “the most boring city on earth” to throw a get together, or really just getting out there and challenging people to like you said, say Yes. Seek Discomfort is one of their main slogans now. Basically get out of your comfort zone, and have fun.
Say taking a 102 year old to Australia to ensure she made it to all 7 continents to encourage others that no age is to late https://youtu.be/38PwG3zGDDI
Yeah, woah, that’s really neat! I’ve added a bunch of these to my watch list. Thanks for that!
I like watching travel stuff about going to places I might be, frankly, too chicken to go to myself. Seems like he does that a lot. :D
I have been a fan of Kraut for a long time. He makes video essays on a lot of historical and political topics. He has made two massive three part series that total to nearly four hours about the histories of Mexico and Turkey. He makes some short form as well, like a point about american healthcare that americans don’t realize.
Hakim, Mental Outlaw, Second Though , Alice Capelle, The Hated One
For history, I really like Premodernist. It’s just a history professor telling you history. It’s great because he’s a good storyteller and he actually knows the subject.
I enjoy efap which is probably the longest form, especially Mauler, the others are generally better in a mixed crowd. It’s movies and Internet drama for the most part.
Buckin Billy Ray - interesting videos about cutting trees down and servicing chainsaws. A little bit unchained (excuse the pun) in a wholesome way as he seems to randomly intersperse his videos with positive affirmations like ‘be kind’ ‘love your friends’ which is kind of wholesome
Way out west - an older English guy living in the West of Ireland making things like a railway for transporting garlic
I did a thing - a hilariously unhinged aussie bloke
James Hoffman - for coffee. And hames joffman also
Karl Rock - travels around India/Pakistan exploring the places
Mike okay - travels to really off the beaten track places like Iraq.
Maximus ironthumper - many videos, the project kermit series is him rebuilding a land rover defender from scratch
Still it - distilling and making spirits
You might be interested in Stillworks and Brewing, he’s kinda amateur but a lot less click-baity than Still It.
Nice, thanks for the suggestion! Distilling is illegal where I live and goodness knows I don’t need yet another hobby right now but I love learning about it!
Storytelling about Celtic, Gaelic, and Norse mythology, history, and lore.
Warning: AI pictures are used to compliment the stories.
A couple fun ones I haven’t seen mentioned:
Myron Cook - Think “the Bob Ross of Geology.” Basically he goes out, finds some rock formation, goes “Huh. Isn’t this cool? What do you think happened?” and walks you through everything dating back to like the formation of the planet. He’s like a teddy bear and his channel is wonderful and fascinating.
Dan Hurd - He’s a dorky gold prospector. He may have caused me to buy a gold panning set.
There are two YouTubers who make videos 4+ hours long that you have to watch every minute of:
Sure but HBG is the only one who can make a viral 4 hour video.
Jenny’s last 4 hour video went more than viral, to be fair.
I love Jenny, so HBomberGuy would probably be good too
These two were my first thought! I’ll add that both cover a range of topics, Jenny does do a lot of videos around Star Wars, but also covers obscure films, and theme parks, wherenl HBomber runs the gamut from flat earth to vaccines to video games to plagiarism. Both are incredibly well researched and, in my opinion, offer very fair takes on the subject matter.
My same two!
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I’m hooked on Corridor Crew. They review and explain good and bad cgi/vfx in shows and movies.
Not exactly long from, but I agree they’re great!
I watch a few different channels regularly. Here are a few of my favorites
Cecilia Blomdahl lives in the Arctic Circle/northern Norway and has lots of adventures and videos her day to day life in a really interesting way.
Also some Brits who have been renovating abandoned chateaus in France called Escape the Dream and a new one called Mucky Mansion are great escapism
Brain Pilot makes some good videos recapping a few shows i enjoy
I have a few classic youtubers I still watch from back in the day Safiya Nygard and Grace Helbig, for some beauty/crazy fashion/cooking stuff
If you want a sane political/comedy channel, Trae Crowder, the Liberal Redneck is fantastic. In that same vein, Some More News does fantastic deep dives in lots of political and social issues focused mostly on the US
Living big in a tiny house is really interesting seeing cool tiny homes around the world
Takis shelter is a channel from an amazing man who runs a sanctuary for animals in Crete and is a literal saint
Haven’t seen Philosophy Tube on here yet.
High quality and engaging deep dives on various philosophy-related topics. Abigail, the face of the channel is an actor and playwright (and an academic) and that very much shines through.
