So I’ve watched a couple of interesting things on YouTube recently. The cinefix and nofilmschool are a cut above the usual film lists/reviews online and PapersWeLove has some good explanations of CS papers. I’ve also seen quite a few good history documentaries (and a lot of absolute garbage) and the incredibly cheesey but somewhat entertaining unofficial Warhammer fanfic Helsreach
What are you dopers watching on Youtube that you’d recommend?
I actually meant for this to be Cafe Society BTW.
Roadkill Two guys from Hot Rod Magazine generally buy an old classic muscle car, fix it up as much as they can in a couple days, and drive it hundreds of miles to race it. Generally lots of foul-ups and breakdowns but they take it all in stride and have a great time. If you like the Top Gear budget car challenges with less snide comments you’d like Roadkill. I will say the early Roadkill episodes were better, the newer ones are a bit more disjointed and promotional.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Full episodes and “best-ofs”, some the worst movies and best snark you’ll ever see.
Zebra Corner Mahk makes great parodies of Chevy and other commercials. His parodies of the Chevy “real people” commercials are what sold me.
Demolition Ranch A cool nice guy from Texas goes out in the woods and does all sorts of crazy tests with firearms. He’s actually a veterinarian, which I guess pays for all his firearm toys.
Videogame Dunkey A very funny guy that reviews and screws around in video games. He acts dumb but most everything he says has some pretty good satirical statement deep down.
Don’t Trust the Rabbit - Funny, quirky German woman talking about language and culture.
Townsends - A channel dedicated to exploring the 18th Century American lifestyle. Lots of cooking and food preservation videos.
America’s Test Kitchen - 'nuff said
TRY Channel - Irish people, usually drunk, trying things. Mostly recycled from the old (now defunct) FACTS channel.
Today I Found Out - Odd, often dubious history. Don’t take it too seriously but it’s well presented and often kind of funny.
CinemaSins - Watch a movie and turn the snark up to eleven.
There are others but that will do for now,
Tabieats - two personable Japanese guys travel around Japan, Hawaii and Asia. They try local dishes and also taste-test Japanese snacks.
Squirrel Hunter - Englishman with incredibly soothing voice thins pest grey squirrel populations with a silenced air rifle.
Scott Rea Project - village butcher shows you how to break down beef, pork, and lamb carcasses into saleable cuts. Also, he cooks up English meat dishes.
Travel Thirsty - un-narrated videos of Asian (but mostly Japanese) fishmongers cutting up various species of fish and preparing them in yummy dishes.
Nara Hirokazu - again un-narrated; Japanese chef shows you how to clean fish, prepare sashimi, and various other simple and delectable Japanese dishes in his small restaurant.
Mousetrap Monday - guy in the Pacific Northwest tests out various mousetraps, both antique and newly-created, to see how well they work (or don’t).
He also has the channel Vet Ranch.
From his Vet Ranch website.
I have crap internet and am damn lucky to check me email. Watch Video? Make me laugh. :rolleyes:
I’ll second CineFix. Although, The Mirror doesn’t have to be on every list.
I 2nd Townsends. I’m also been watching a series of reenactments in the UK - Tudor Monastery Farm, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm. Historians spend a year living the lives of the people who would’ve run those farms at that time, using the same tools, eating the food, wearing the clothes, etc.
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Moving thread from IMHO to CS.
I’ve been watching a ton of Cinefix lately. I usually stick with WatchMojo/MsMojo etc, but the Cinefix ones are in a different league.
Someone upthread mentioned The TRY Channel. I stumbled on to that one a week or two ago and have watched quite a few of them as well. You could do the same thing with any group of people since half the American stuff they try is obscure enough that many Americans probably haven’t tried it either, so at least to a point it’s less ‘watch Irish people try…’ and more ‘listen to Irish people talk’. Still really entertaining though.
He has sponsors who pay for ammo and send him stuff. Sometimes viewers or sponsors send him stuff to shoot as well (titanium, bullet proof glass, body armor panels, etc). Even with his vet salary he wouldn’t be able to afford everything he does on the channel.
He is also making a fortune in merchandising.
Once Demolition Ranch really took off (which he says surprised him) he did the same thing with Vet Ranch, which has also become very popular. They work with some sort of abandoned pet project and also take user donations to fund their vet work. Many (most?) of the animals they save are on euthanasia lists at local shelters and would have been put down if they hadn’t saved them.
Off The Ranch is his family channel.
He seems like a nice guy.
Another favorite of mine. The same guy (Simon Whistler) also has a lot of videos on the TopTenz channel.
If you are into airplanes, I can recommend Mentour Pilot and Captain Joe. I am not a pilot (and never will be - I hate to even fly), but I find them interesting.
Scott Manley has an interesting channel about rockets and space stuff.
Lindybeige is, well, um… Lindybeige. He’s a bit eccentric, extremely long winded (why explain something in 5 minutes if you can take 20?), but interesting, nonetheless. A lot of stuff about weapons (from ancient to modern), tanks, and other stuff.
Jay Leno’s Garage:
There are a bunch of “Jason Drives” videos on the Jalopnik channel that are interesting, if you want to see some of the worst cars ever made. This one will get you started:
What It’s Like To Drive The Worst Car In The World
I’ll third Townsends and add Techmoan. It’s a Youtube channel that reviews and repairs old electronics (aka stuff that was new when I was a youth.) Also contains good reviews of modern gadgets and toys.
What kind of money does a youtuber make from the monetization of his/her channel? On some of the ones I watch, it doesn’t look like they have a job or other means of support. On one of my channels, there’s a video posted or a livestream just about every day.
I agree with *Cinema Sins, *but it’s not snarky in the least. The better adjective is “ironic.” The clearly lve movies and half the sins are basically joking about the whole concept (and they’re quick to praise the good by removing sins). It’s also very funny.
I can’t get enough of Hot Ones. It’s the talk show where they eat progressively hotter wings until they get to inhumanly hot. Great guests and interesting premise.
Best of the Worst - very funny guys watch three bad movies, discuss them, and choose which is the best of the worst. From the guys that made the Mr. Plinkett Star Trek and Star Wars review. One of my favorite shows on TV period.
They just watched Home Alone 4 with Macaulay Culkin. It was pretty funny.
Lockpicking Lawyer - guy is a lawyer during the day, but makes lockpicking videos for fun on youtube. He’s good at it and is fun/fascinating to listen to while he picks the locks.
Looking at my home page to check out what I do watch, I am a bit shocked to see how much YouTube I watch. I watch more YT than regular TV. There’s a lot of craft, arty and hobby stuff. A coupla three of examples:
Adam Savage’s Tested. Used to be Adam and Jaime but they seemed to have had a professional falling out.
Peter Brown. He doesn’t upload as often as all the other guys but he’s still my favorite.
Bobby Duke Arts. Someone else, not me, described him as if a golden retriever became a gifted human artist. Sometimes I find his goofiness annoying and yet I watch.
My very first subscription on YouTube was for SciShow and I quickly became a Green Brothers devotee. All of their associated channels are great, even the non-learning ones like Vlogbrothers
Thank you for Townsends! Yesterday I watched Modern History TV’s 5 episodes on Medieval food
King of Random and Crazy Russian Hacker. I don’t know why I lumped these two together, they just go together in my head.
Stumbled across La Guardia Cross’s New Father Chronicles when his first daughter was about 6 months old. They have become my weekly 4 minutes of family zen.
Plus so much more. I’m a little ashamed.
Would you prefer The Third Man be on each list twice instead?
If it’s a list about best use of lighting, best use of shadows, noir, twists and so on and so forth, you can be The Third Man will show up.
(FWIW, it’s one of my favorite movies, but still…_
Based on comments from the youtubers themselves, many of them do make enough money from their channels that their videos are their only source of income. Youtube has been screwing over its content providers more and more as time goes by though, and most content providers have additional income from sponsored ads inside their videos or external funding through merchandising or something like Patreon. The youtubers will often provide more in-depth videos or some sort of extra content for their Patreon supporters, so those who support them do get something extra for their money.