YouTube Suggestions

I spend far too much time on YouTube, both making videos and watch other people's videos. There are a lot of people making videos though, and some people say 'videos' too much so now it sounds weirds. Here's a little guide on the YouTubers I watch the most and would recommend to anyone for their lowkey but informative style.

IMO the best horror narrator out there. He's got over 1000 videos. If you like horror stories, this is the place to go. Come check him out!

If you like watching transit videos, this is the place for you! They describe the airports and terminals and show you the process of navigating the transit system in several places over the US. You even get to see some pretty sky views from the planes!

If you love horror stories, you'll love Lady Spookaria! She reads stories from her audience, and writes her own. She's very good! Go check her out. ^_^

For those that don't know Cheddar was a channel that posted around ten minute videos answering questions you probably didn't think to ask. For example some of their most popular videos are about why the US doesn't like roundabouts, why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks, and why 3D logos fell out of style so quickly.

In the past week they've started posting significantly more frequently but it has all been traditional news style videos.

I decide to look it up and came across this Variety post about it:

Cheddar, founded in early 2016, was acquired by cable operator Altice USA in 2019 for $200 million. Last Thursday Dec. 28, Altice USA said it sold Cheddar to Archetype, a media company owned by private-equity firm Regent, for undisclosed terms.

On Jan. 2, Cheddar employees received an email informing them that they were to suspend work immediately, per the Times. “We would like to have given you more notice of this action, but the decision was necessitated by unforeseen internal and external factors that required rapid adjustments in our business strategy,” the message said.

It seems like they are motivated to redirect the channel into something new.

If you are looking for similar channels that answer questions you didn't ask (or couldn't be bothered to find answers for) I'd recommend checking out one of the following channels.

Vox has some videos like Why we all need subtitles now and UV lights kill viruses. Why aren't they everywhere? some of their other videos have a bit to do with politics.

Half As Interesting is good if you are looking for something similar but with a bit of added humor.

Casual Navigation is also pretty neat if you have an interest in ships or sailing. Similarly there's also Practical Engineering. It's more about infrastructure.

Can you think of any other educational channels that cover things you might not have thought to ask?

• I'll try to add links to the channels above and the Cheddar videos I mentioned later today

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For reference Brick Builder is a channel built around timelapse videos of putting together Lego sets. Sometimes I like to kick back and watch these and other timelapse videos of people drawing, building, etc. so I'm wondering what some other similar channels might be.

Doesn't have to be Lego-building or model-building btw, drawing, sculpting, 3D modeling, anything creative/crafty sped up a little is the idea here!

I was watching some of Gaming Broductions' videos about JRPG history and although I appreciate the production values and the love the brothers seem to have for old JRPGs, there's something in the writing of their scripts that just rubs me the wrong way. It's two-pronged:

1. Vocabulary and sentence construction: Reusing the same crutches (words and phrases) again and again: "Anyways...", "Moving on", "unique", "which I always thought was pretty X", "that's pretty cool", "it's pretty much X", "awesome", "literally and figuratively" (but one of the two adverbs makes no sense in context), "interestingly enough", "it's just not X", "yeah... this is just X", "yeah... pretty X you could say", "I've come to appreciate X", etc.

2. Insight: This is the most important one. They usually don't have anything that interesting to say about the games or the tropes they cover, they just describe them. Maybe I'm spoiled by channels like TBSkyen, ErrantSignal, Pop Culture Detective, New Frame Plus but I wish to find a JRPG channel that engages with them critically and explores their themes beyond just (sometimes) naming them.