Asklemmy

You absolutely should keep on watching YT. In fact I can specifically highly recommend the channel DukeUnivLibraries. This video with almost 1M views will sway in just the first 15 seconds but you will not be able to peel your eyes away for the entire 3 minutes and 14 seconds. Prepare yourself. Get some popcorn. https://youtu.be/e1iGEM9NMFM

I use the ASMR channels. They're very relaxing when I read. I also watch Trixie Mattel and Katya's show which is hilarious. Today I watched one where Trixie asked Katya if she were to have a child would she send it to boarding school, and Katya said "Yes, and then I would move away", which slayed me.

It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content.

Oh, maybe the newest video of one of my most favorite youtubers can even answer you why that is! Introducing Tom Nicholas: Griftonomics: Why Scams are Everywhere Now

Rick Beato - music theory Meat Canton - animation James Lee - animation Tasting History - food and history Bunch of cop watchers and civil rights folks. Bad Cop No Donut stuff.

Oh. Also:

Captain Disillusionment - VFX and skeptics Corridor - VFX Movies with Mikey - film video essays In/Frame/Out - film theory and savage commentary Emmet Short - pop tech Daryl Talks Games - psychology of video games. I cry. WrySci - small channel but funny science stuff. Wish it’d have taken off.

Mostly Townsends and Steven1989 with some Primitive Technologies thrown in for light watching, plus ContraPoints and Philosophy Tube for when I have an hour to sit down and focus on really heady topics.

Soft white underbelly.

Block those channels.

Autorestomod mechanic is one I watch.
Joel haver.
Lots of long-form bedroom dj mixes.

Honestly I don’t see any of what youve described on YouTube but I’ve spent years blocking garbage.

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

Breaking Taps - Makes lab grade equipment and other wild science shit...at home.

The Thought Emporium - Genetic engineering at home.

Technology Connections - Deep dives into the tech that surrounds us.

Hey Hey! Marcus House here …

I like McNally on youtube. He's like The Lock Picking Lawyer with the agression setting turned up to 11.

I'm subscribed to Linux Tech Tips and Givemeabreakman. I've been following both for over a decade.

Other than that, I use Youtube to listen to really long (10+ hrs) videos of walking across skyrim and other elder scrolls games to relax.

If i had to pick my top 2 YouTube channels... Project Farm
Good Mythical Morning

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

Johnny Harris just released a video on the history of the Mormon Church.

As an exmormon, it is awesome to see stuff this high quality from someone with the same perspective as me. I'll link the video: https://youtu.be/hUW7j9GmXjI

A lot of great recommendations in the tread and I don't have much to add but for something a little different, here are my suggestions :

DayDream Gaming - Cool and/or relaxing walks through game worlds like Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, horseback riding in RDR, etc.

dulevoz - Cabview train rides full of cool details like the number of tunnels, elevation, engine types, etc. You don't need to be a train nerd, try it, it's absolutely fantastic and relaxing!

Virtual Railfan - Live cams at famous railroad crossings, just for the fun of watching trains go by or watch the scenery

StreamTime Live - live cams at various harbours in the US

M. B. Archives - Commentary tracks from various movies (the latest being The French Connection, rip William Friedkin)

SUSD is the only thing good on YT

No, I stopped using YouTube overall.

The scams / weird aggressive marketing + politics / solutions that don't work for problems no one has... is part of it. The next part is it fails to suggest reasonable content. The last part is that video is a really, really slow way for me to absorb information. Text, please!

The are very rare exceptions. One is clickspring. Others are specific colleagues who engineer unique-in-the-world stuff (so... people like clickspring, I guess). If it's less good than that, I cannot bear to use YouTube, and refuse to post content there too.

Then again it would be really weird to show you videos of circuit diagrams and code. So it's not a great medium for the stuff I do anyway.

You have to find your way past the 99% commercial, screaming crap and the toxic stuff that its algorithm recommends. Adblocking or premium is a must but even then the constant in-video ads have become a cancer. It’s sometimes unbearable and makes me unsubscribe.

YouTube is like a bowl of shit with a few gems at the bottom. You just have to dig to get there.

There are already a bunch of good recommendations here so I won’t repeat them but:

Recently I found HowardHandsTV, pop culture analysis, very funny and feels like an old school channel.

Also Common Sense Skeptic ripping apart Elon Musk and Andrew Tate lately has been entertaining.

I also fall asleep to Michael MJD and his weird and fun reviews/projects, I think it’s the voice that is soothing.

I've got a few creators I subscribe to and only ever look at my subscriptions and never at the recommendations. My YouTube experience has been pretty consistent over the years. Still greatly enjoy it, subscribing to creators once or twice a year.

It's been going downhill for a long time. Popular content do the same as tv-cable network where they try to generate outrage. If the videos I watch start to change in ways I don't like I just move on which is what I think people should do. Decrease in viewership will definitely be noticed. Luckily, the creators I follow have stayed the same where they are a one person or small group who create videos to inform or for entertainment.

Good finance channels imo The plain bagel Patrick Boyle Modern MBA