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Do you still watch Youtube ?
Yes, pretty much a lot (like averaging 1h per day I think)
If you want recommendations for videos from community votes, check out Tournesol website (Note: recommending more about scientific, economics & life health subjects than entertainment)
Hyperspace pirate is currently working on making a cryocooler to make liquid nitrogen, out of cheap and readily accessible components. He's not done yet, but the progress videos are very interesting to watch. https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate
The only person I'd trust with finance stuff is Joseph Hogue cuz he doesn't seem to be a scummy bastard, unlike most others.
Also, I think he's the only Certified Financial Advisor on YT Link: https://youtube.com/@josephhogue
The only cultural people I follow are The Critical Drinker for film reviews and Better Ideas for inspirational content, also Nate O'Brien for both investment stuff and life advice stuff.
Everything else I follow is tevh-related, and in a niche without a lot of pushy sponsor crap.
To avoid Sponsors, use SponsorBlock.
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
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.
Guga, Real Civil Engineer, FutureCanoe to name some who haven't been mentioned
Louis Rossman
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.
SUSD is the only thing good on YT
Good finance channels imo The plain bagel Patrick Boyle Modern MBA
If i had to pick my top 2 YouTube channels...
Project Farm
Good Mythical Morning
Is Good Mythical Morning still going? I haven't watched them in years.
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.
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
My favorite channels (not previously mentioned)
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. Itβs 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 wonβt 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 itβs the voice that is soothing.