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.
Stefan Milo - Been really enjoying his videos “digging” into archaeology and pre-history.
Second Thought, First Thought, Our Changing Climate, Polymatter, Kurzgesagt, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, Democracy Now.
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
Fall of Civilizations
I haven’t seen this mentioned yet, but it’s incomparably good (if stories about past civilizations is your thing).
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.
