# YouTube recommendations for when you need cheering up **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760 "2022-03-09T16:53:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/1 "2022-03-09T16:53:36Z")
What are some YouTube genres or content creators that you watch when you need cheering up? Genres: Animal reunions with humans or other animals. Family reunions with humans. First time "blank"ing. Where blank is “hear”,“see”,“see in color” etc. Animals being rescued. Think “The Dodo.” Content Creators: Caught in Providence. Real life cases of a traffic court in Providence RI. The judge is compassionate and funny. I need more in this category. I put YouTube in the title but the content doesn’t have to come from them. Instagram, Tik Tok, etc would be allowed as well. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/2 "2022-03-09T17:05:34Z")
I recently discovered “Mini Musicals” and I think they are all very fun! [This is one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjQabrUwMM&ab_channel=BrandonEthridge) from creator Brandon Ethridge. There are other YouTubers who do the same thing but I can’t find any now that Ethridge has given his a name, and that’s the only name I can recall. But they are very creative and funny! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/3 "2022-03-09T17:07:43Z")
This ‘laughing fox’ video recently went viral. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1Gx_jRfB-Ao/maxresdefault.jpg "Finnegan Fox laughs for 2 minutes and 40 seconds") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gx_jRfB-Ao) Incidentally, I originally became aware of the SAVEAFOX rescue YT channel when someone else posted this video in a similar ‘share YT videos’ thread a year or two back. Totes adorables. I had no idea foxes were so cute and dog-like before I saw this video: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GegN_AXWWqc/maxresdefault.jpg "Dixiedo fox runs away with my phone. Tries to bury it.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GegN_AXWWqc) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/4 "2022-03-09T17:22:30Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I recently discovered “Mini Musicals” and I think they are all very fun! [This is one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjQabrUwMM&ab_channel=BrandonEthridge) from creator Brandon Ethridge. There are other YouTubers who do the same thing but I can’t find any now that Ethridge has given his a name, and that’s the only name I can recall. But they are very creative and funny! Great recommendation, the ‘I Got Maced’ one is the best. I wonder what ever happened to Elizabeth from Knoxville? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/5 "2022-03-09T18:01:54Z")
This might seem weird, but I like to watch Black people watch Bill Burr’s standup. Standup comedy is always better when you’re not watching it by yourself, and this makes it seem like you’re watching it with a couple of friends who have no idea what they’re about to see, which is always fun. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/70zUUpN9mt0/maxresdefault.jpg "It's So True !! | Bill Burr - Black Friends, Clothes & Harlem | Reaction | Planet Breakdown") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70zUUpN9mt0) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/6 "2022-03-09T18:16:26Z")
David Letterman has started a youtube channel with lots of old clips. That’s a pick me up. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/7 "2022-03-09T18:38:29Z")
Look up idressitalian, they make TikTok’s, but I think also on Utube. I’ve just recently become addicted, after managing some very stressful days. It’s beautiful gardens, and streets, with lovely music. A stroll through a pretty Mediterranean village, a wander through the back stone lanes, then a turn, and a glance of the beautiful Italian countryside. Winding down at the waters edge. It’s all beautifully captured and paced. (Seriously, it’s like drug to me now. SecretPositano was my fave, but then a garden one overtook it.) ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/8 "2022-03-09T18:50:29Z")
For music, just about anything on the “Playing for Change” channel tends to improves one’s mood. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/9 "2022-03-09T18:55:30Z")
I’m a long time dachshund owner, so my most frequently watched youtube channels are Crusoe the Celebrity dachshund (I love the BatDog one and Oakley’s Home Alone tribute), Doxie Din and Puppy Jay, and Moonpie Starbox (with Moonpie and Buttercup). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/10 "2022-03-09T19:24:24Z")
[Manitowoc Minute](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRY-eAwoPfKBdGfuDu081r-bSMapeg0GB) is pretty funny. It’s supposed to be comedy, but I live in the Wisconsin outback and it hits close to home often. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/11 "2022-03-09T21:25:38Z")
This is just a one off, but it meets your criterion for “Animal reunions with humans or other animals.” and is heartwarming, (briefly) frightening, and very weird. (The cut-glass accented commentary is pretty annoying, but stick with it.) You need the backstory to make sense of this. Fortunately, the story has its own [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion). Two Australians living in London - ah - acquired a lion, and decided that raising it in central London was a good idea. > Rendall and Bourke, along with their friends Jennifer Mary Taylor and Unity Jones, cared for the lion where they lived in London until he was a year old. As he got larger, the men moved Christian to their furniture store—coincidentally named Sophistocat—where living quarters in the basement were set aside for him. Rendall and Bourke obtained permission from a local minister to exercise Christian at the Moravian church graveyard just off the King’s Road and Milman’s Street, SW10; and the men also took the lion on day trips to the seaside.[citation needed] > > Christian’s growing size and the increasing cost of his care led Rendall and Bourke to understand they could not keep him in London. When Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, stars of the film Born Free, visited Rendall and Bourke’s furniture store and met Christian, they suggested that Bourke and Rendall ask the assistance of George Adamson. Adamson, a British conservationist and advocate for lions in Kenya, who together with his wife Joy raised and released Elsa the lioness, agreed to reintegrate Christian into the wild at their compound in the Kora National Reserve. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cvCjyWp3rEk/hqdefault.jpg "Christian the lion - Full ending") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCjyWp3rEk) The reunion takes place in the reserve a year later, after Christian’s successful integration into the wild. (You can find the full documentary on YouTube.) j ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/12 "2022-03-09T21:49:18Z")
Flash mobs ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/13 "2022-03-09T23:22:38Z")
If you’re partial to flowers, strolls through public flower gardens is cheerful and soothing. Here’s a [wonderful one through a gorgeous dahlia garden in Japan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9jS6WiQCRw). Look at those colors! ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/14 "2022-03-10T00:00:20Z")
This is what works for me. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2FDYyf8Kqrs/maxresdefault.jpg "Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame (1956) 4K") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FDYyf8Kqrs) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/15 "2022-03-10T01:34:30Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7Nn7NZI_LN4/maxresdefault.jpg "Cats and Domino") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nn7NZI_LN4) ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/16 "2022-03-10T01:57:58Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > For music, just about anything on the “Playing for Change” channel tends to improves one’s mood. Agreed…that channel was a real balm for my spirit during some of the lockdowns. Also in a musical vein, this is a video that I don’t remember how or why I found it, but just inexplicably makes me happy. A group of Irish dancers collaborating with a group of clog dancers. The moment after the break where the two groups join forces is just a huge swoop of joy for me. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IULZ-PRBSV4/hqdefault.jpg "Cotton Eyed Joe - Irish Dance meets NC Clogging!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IULZ-PRBSV4) Another one in the Celtic spirit is the TG Lurgan channel. That’s an Irish language music project with young people performing pop hits translated into Gaelige. Can’t speak a word of it myself, but to my ears it’s a beautiful language, and the videos are a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down. Here’s one of my faves, just follow the channel: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4FGr-f2EC-w/maxresdefault.jpg "Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake as Gaeilge") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FGr-f2EC-w) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/17 "2022-03-10T02:33:20Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > David Letterman has started a youtube channel with lots of old clips. Nice! Thanks for sharing! Hmm, what really cheers me up? Screaming goats. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nlYlNF30bVg/hqdefault.jpg "Funny Goats Screaming like Humans") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYlNF30bVg) Goats still hold the distinction of being the cutest animals I will still eat. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/18 "2022-03-10T03:00:49Z")
My favorite video from the lockdown [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1f7OwFqTnco/maxresdefault.jpg "This teacher's COVID-19 song made our hosts cry with laughter | Your Morning") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f7OwFqTnco) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760/19 "2022-03-10T03:29:48Z")
Taskmaster is a crying belly laugh every time. I’m so grateful that I found it during lockdown. I was careful not to binge it, but doled them out to myself carefully, on the really bad days. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/v4YhsooE5xY/maxresdefault.jpg "Taskmaster - Series 1, Episode 1 'Melon buffet'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YhsooE5xY) ---
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Guaranteed to cheer anyone up! Two extremely talented kids enjoying the Beatles’ _Let it be_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/K-5XOCMpUwA/maxresdefault.jpg "Let It Be - atles: Michael Province & Nathan Chan on Violin and Cello") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-5XOCMpUwA) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-recommendations-for-when-you-need-cheering-up/960760.md?page=2)