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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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[–] sporez@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I watch quite a bit of YouTube. Favorite channels right now (in no particular order):

Anders Erickson-cocktail recipes, tips and general banter Steve Wallis-relaxing camping videos Snazzy labs-tech/apple Becki and Chris-helicopters, photography, DIY MrMobile-phone reviews Rctestflight-all sorts of drone/3D printing/electric vehicle projects Digital Foundry-in depth technical game/console videos The Proper People - relaxing urban/abandoned exploration TheUnlockr-phone reviews/tech vlogs

[–] iamzeN123@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Good finance channels imo The plain bagel Patrick Boyle Modern MBA

[–] pli5k3n@beehaw.org 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
[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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

For youtube I proxy it through piped

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] molls@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My subscriptions feed (food and science) is mostly channels I’ve been subscribed to for years now and they’ve all maintained their high quality or improved.

For food, Carla Lalli Music is an entertaining chef and recipe developer who shares recipes from her books. She takes inspiration from all sorts of cuisines and blends them into delicious, adaptable recipes. Crispy gingery ground beef like lime and herbs earned an instant spot in my regular meal rotation.

Claire Saffitz and her team bring mostly baking videos with occasion forays into cocktails, dinners, and lifestyle. Expect lots of cat cameos and fun editing easter eggs.

NYT Cooking has a good variety but their stars are Sohla and Ham El-Waylly, a wildly creative culinary power couple who can make a multi course tasting menu out of anything.

For all things science, basically anything out of Complexly Studios is worth your time. My personal favorite is SciShow Tangents. The various MinuteScience channels are great too (minutephysics, minuteearth, and minutefood ), and while the titles/thumbnails can feel a little bit clickbaity at times, the content is solid and informative.

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[–] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If you are into fishing, hunting, cooking, and a a bit of Southwest history check out Sin City Outdoors. They have family friendly content. For outdoor recovery Matts Off Road Recovery is good and Heavy D Sparks sometimes has great content if you don’t mind fast forwarding a bit.

For food/bbq a few that I like Guga Foods, Mad Scientist BBQ, First We Feast (hot ones), and Munchies.

Lots of good tech channels depending on your interests but here are a few smaller ones I like. Matt Moniz does good laptop reviews, Brandon Butch digs deep into every iOS release, All Things One Place only reviews power adapters and cables.

[–] melonpunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] pastabatman@lemmy.world 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.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I mostly just use it to find new music.

There's a couple of cooking channels I keep an eye on, a bit of tom scott and contrapoints/shaun/etc - but mainly just music.

No, I don't have or want spotify. I like music videos, and I like being able to easily skip through and sample fragments of songs, rather than just have them on in the background.

[–] Behaviorbabe@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Okay so I’m a nerd. I didn’t get into YouTube until recently and I just watch storm chasers, airplanes taking off, and power washing/landscaping porn.

[–] Ransom@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sometimes before a trip I watch bad landings. Makes me feel better.

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[–] Vuipes@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I mostly watch high elo games of LoL, TFT, Chess. like @PekinWoof, @Bebe872, @Frodan and many more.

[–] Teodomo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I watch a few, but the first worthy one that comes to mind is TBSkyen.

Scott the Woz (video games) and Patrick H Willems (films, but leans towards action)

[–] mrpibb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Learn Linux TV

[–] xfts@lemmy.world 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.

[–] prof_Calculus@beehaw.org 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!

[–] astanix@lemmy.world 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.

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