Title essentially. Youtube’s algorithm is hot garbage, so I can’t search for anything anymore without a ton of AI slop and rage bait. So, who do you go to for actual good long form videos? Exposes, scandals, behind the scenes, documentaries, film, travel, transit, who do you recommend I follow?

    • ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      These two were my first thought! I’ll add that both cover a range of topics, Jenny does do a lot of videos around Star Wars, but also covers obscure films, and theme parks, wherenl HBomber runs the gamut from flat earth to vaccines to video games to plagiarism. Both are incredibly well researched and, in my opinion, offer very fair takes on the subject matter.

  • Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Jenny Nickelson does… nerd stuff? Highlights include:

    “Church cinimatic universe” where she becomes a sommelier of art and walks you through a decade or so of some church in Canada’s Easter plays, which are delightfully technical and imaginative while also being a beautiful form of cringe.

    And a 4+ hour documentary/review/commentary on her visit to the short lived “star wars hotel”

    I’m not big into star wars or Disneyworld/land wherever it was, but I watched that whole thing.

  • Nefara@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Along with Technology Connections, Philosophy Tube, and Primitive Technology, here are my “must watch” subs

    Climate Town - Excellent videos about climate change and environmental impact that are insightful and funny

    Contrapoints - Well written and meticulous deconstructions of philosophical concepts in media, pop culture and society with a dry wit

    Every Frame a Painting - Amazing content on film-making. No longer active, but if you haven’t seen it yet, lucky you, enjoy.

    Pop Culture Detective - Interesting meta analyses of popular tropes in pop culture

    Because I’m into historical clothing and fashion, Bernadette Banner and Abby Cox both do great videos on costuming, history and creating cool stuff

    • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Love climate town. I hate that someone needs to waste their time disproving lies from the oil, gas, politicians and the like, but it does give me hope in the future that there are people like that out there.

      • Nefara@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Yes! It was such a pleasant surprise on my feed. Unfortunately they said they won’t be continuing because of Youtube’s enforcement policies around copyrighted material so those videos were meant to be a limited series.

  • Tope@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    For educative scientific YT channels I’d recommend Veritasium, The Action Lab and NileRed to name a few. They produce top quality scientific videos about really interesting phenomenas and experiments. And the best part is they make the concepts simple to understand without the need of a degree or smth lol

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 years ago

      Adding to this, Smarter Every Day is really great – they just started a series on Nuclear Power with a walkthrough of the first Nuclear Reactor used to produce electricity.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    “Oki’s Weird Stories” is so very good.

    Also “Shaun” and very much “Shanspeare” are great, if you’re looking for long-form content.

    I keep thinking of more, so I’m just going to list them here:

    AustinMcConnell, BobbyBroccoli, Dime Store Adventures, Fredrick Knudsen, Jenny Nicholson (already mentioned here many times!), Ahoy, Kid Leaves Stoop, Lady Emily, Sarah Z, Moon Channel, Paper Will, Soup Emporium.

  • python@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’ve recently caught up on About Oliver’s second season of Minecraft streams. He’s an astrophysicist who never played Minecraft before 2022 and documented his entire blind playthrough. No reading chat, no googling etc. He only knew that he could get to credits somehow, but didn’t even know how.

    I highly recommend the entire playthrough, but there is a 6 hour Compilation of season 1 if you want to catch up to current day. Season 2 is about 40 episodes in, with about 4-5h per episode.

  • brognak@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Well There’s Your Problem - Engineering disaster podcast, with slides! And the hosts vary from left, to very left.

    JunkyardDigs/PoleBarnGarage - Two separate channels. Love them both for just fucking around with old cars/farm equipment/vintage snowmobiles

  • acchariya@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Brick immortar- probably the single most technical long form YT channel in the engineering disasters category

    NNKH - fixing things that probably shouldn’t be bothered with.

    Green dot aviation - air disasters and near disasters

    Pilot debrief - light aviation crash analysis

    Andrew camarata - long, long form time lapse videos of running backhoes and dozers to cut roads and things, nice to relax to.

    The great war - I watch on nebula but I think they are on YT too.

    Hoog - explainers

    Bald and bankrupt - I’ve heard mixed things about the guy as a person but his videos are entertaining, in the “travel to unusual places” genre

    Integza - another one on nebula but I think also on YT. Building rocket engines with 3d printers, etc

    Driving 4 answers - probably the single best automotive focused engineering channel

  • InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Crime related:

    Disaster related:

    Weird medical stories: https://www.youtube.com/@chubbyemu

    Interesting economic vids: https://www.youtube.com/coldfusion/

    Business and economics: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions/

    Geopolitics explainer vids: https://www.youtube.com/@CaspianReport/

    Theme park history: https://www.youtube.com/@Defunctland/

    Interesting historical themed vids: https://www.youtube.com/@YoreHistory/

  • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Steve Wallis is my comfort creator. Genuine dude from Canada who does loads of camping from simple in the woods stuff to hiding in a roundabout overnight. He’s had a rough go these last few years as he lost his wife, mother, and best friend all within a year and a half. This is a man just enjoying what mother nature has to offer.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 years ago

    How long-form?

    I absolutely love “More Kitboga”, videos where a fella calls scammers and uses a Roland VT3-3 voice transformer to improv. Video lengths range from a few hours to… I believe his record fucking with the same call center (like two or three specific people) is 54 hours. I put it on when I’m working from home. He is HILARIOUS. He and his team have whole fake websites, fake banks, and a fake Google Play store where he can redeem fake Google play cards into his account and it works as the actual play store would. People go insane when they see they “lost” thousands of dollars because an “old lady” redeemed the codes they wanted.

    True crime: Explore With Us is a channel my partner recently found. Lots of FOIA’d videos and pictures that have never been seen before they made their videos. Very interesting.

  • aquick@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Trying not to put duplicates:

    • ViceGripGrage - finds old shitty cars and gets them running and drives them home
    • MightyCarMods - as the name suggests, building/fixing/modifying cars
    • Savagegeese - very detailed car reviews, no bullshit
    • B1M - talks about mega projects and there issues
    • ItchyBoots - Badass motorcyclist that has traveled solo across the world
    • shiey - Explores abandoned places, hops trains, insane lack of fear of heights
    • The Proper People - also explores abandoned buildings
    • Rick Beato - music producer that analyzes songs and talks about various music related topics