youtube's sidebar recommendations are inexcusably shit and compromised and i feel guilty about continuing to use youtube knowing sidebar recs still exist but honestly i find youtube too useful to seriously consider quitting.
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Sunday, 20 January 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
hey so @AOC HAS JOINED THE STREAM GO WATCH AND DONATE https://t.co/Fz8plugN5y— Mary Ellen (@alissacaliente) January 20, 2019
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
I just caught the very end. Crazy.
― jmm, Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
I can't see it well on my phone, what's the $$ up to?
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Over $221k. Since I clicked a few minutes ago they've made about five thousand.
― jmm, Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
I don't feel old until I see how popular twitch streams are.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
I wonder whether AOC is a gamer.
― jmm, Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:38 (five years ago) link
I would say not because it is a total time suck and she seems actually really productive.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
Good enough for me.
Here’s @aoc talking about how Nintendo 64 was the best system. She’s on @twitch helping to raise money for trans kids. pic.twitter.com/cJIfUif1mv— New Super Blood Wolf Moon Bros. U Deluxe (@GenePark) January 20, 2019
― jmm, Monday, 21 January 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
Loved the Youtube episode, Simon. You each found your way to a different circle of hell.
― jmm, Friday, 25 January 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
Ha, thanks! We suffered for your entertainment.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 25 January 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link
Ash Sarkar interviewed Harris
https://novaramedia.com/2019/01/23/donkey-kong-is-beautiful-ash-meets-hbomberguy/
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
I like The Ushanka Show, about life in the Soviet Union. This video is about Soviet TV in the early 80's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9NhsDoZPsU
― I Am Sporadicus (I M Losted), Friday, 25 January 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
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― p.j.b. (pj), Friday, 25 January 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
whoops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCFZQhPawQ
― p.j.b. (pj), Friday, 25 January 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
I enjoy Lost in Vegas reaction/review videos quite a bit. Just a couple of guys who love music and are trying to expand their horizons from r&b/hip-hop into metal, country, and elsewhere. Occasionally a little corny but always genuine and often hilarious.
Their reaction to War Pigs is what got me hooked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6osfNi1HcY
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
i like those dudes a lot, pretty much the only reaction videos i've ever gotten anything out of
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
they've reviewed a few deftones songs where they link abe cunningham's drumming to quiet storm and it's so delightful
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 28 January 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
I've watched a few of theirs and the only thing that bothered me is that they pause the song to comment.
― jmm, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Music reaction channels are a funny ecosystem. An awful lot of them seem to be about validating classic rock and metal. I also wonder just how genuine many of the 'first time' reactions are, especially for huge songs like Bohemian Rhapsody.
― jmm, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
I definitely think the rock and metal videos are the money-makers (?) for Lost in Vegas, but their hip hop reviews/reactions are great too and have introduced me to new stuff I likely wouldn't have heard otherwise.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
Tons of kids in my son's middle school watch PewDiePie and there is even a concerted "get PewDiePie the most followers" campaign there. Do I have to specifically keep my kid off PewDiePie? Am I right in understanding it's a potential vector for him to be exposed to racist YouTube?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
10000%
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
No more than online gaming culture in general, though.
― pomenitul, Monday, 28 January 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
I mean, there are good pockets of culture in the gaming world (see a few posts ago) but imo PDP is particularly awful and v likely to link out to even more obviously horrible things
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
That campaign is much wider than his school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie_vs_T-Series
PewDiePie's already basically racist Youtube, so stay away if you can. But it's hard to completely escape that side of Youtube no matter what you do. Simon H. just did a really funny podcast episode on how quickly you can get from innocuous Thomas the Tank Engine videos to the alt-right just by following recommendations.
― jmm, Monday, 28 January 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
I watched a few Bill Burr stand-up clips and that's all it took for Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson to start showing up in recommendations.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
keep your kids off youtube at all costs imo
― marcos smart (Spottie), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
^^^
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
yikes ok, i talked to him about it, he seems to think that being really into YouTube is "stupid" (he thinks that about a lot of things) so for the moment I think I'm OK, there is not really a context at home where he'd be seeing YouTube without me knowing but obv. I can't control what he sees at school
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 January 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
Lindsay Ellis now nominated for a Hugo!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
this guy is becoming an mvp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8orIurGxw
― imago, Thursday, 11 April 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
I'm stoked someone else has already mentioned The Ushanka Show! That's one of the YT channels I subscribe to.
Another great channel I've gotten into is about linguistics and is called Langfocus. This video taught me why French is such a different type of language to the other Romance languages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfxf4pV-zJg&t=727s
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Then there's List25, which is an educational AND entertainment channel. This is one of their more recent serious/educational videos, though they'll also make more lighthearted videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgBec0KfJkg
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
On a much lighter note (vs. the last video), there are The Try Guys, which features a Ned! (Except this Ned is a Yale grad and would probably not be BFFs with Dan the Harvard man.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwLxTWzvSkw
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
(Why didn't the Langfocus link work? Hm, let me try again.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfxf4pV-zJg
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
Then there's this fascinating channel called the After Prison Show, which has been an eye-opening insight into what it's like to be imprisoned (a reality I had zero idea about) (caution: this guy gets a little shouty, so you might want to lower the volume if you're listening through headphones):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdOyz8EsAk
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
the ridiculous number of clips of bo burnham
From way upthread: I can now say that, having watched Burnham's special, the clips excerpted in the parasocial video are literally the only parts worth bothering with.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 14 April 2019 10:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the After Prison Show is good, there's a few similar channels of that type, he's definitely engaging. I thought what was most striking about his content is the feeling of inevitability of prison time, just accepted as a fact of life. Its almost too banal for him to even raise as a topic, its just there all the time
― anvil, Monday, 15 April 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
man the Bois two-parter on the Bobs of sport is just amazing
― Simon H., Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
so so good
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
knew this bump would be for Bois. saving the second part for tonight...
― imago, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 06:57 (five years ago) link
Don't we have a thread for youtubers who are in fact terrible?
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
Bois' second part isn't out yet actually
Start the terrible Youtubers thread already!
― imago, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
a. jon bois keeps excelling himself
b. what is this Nebula thing, anyone else fancy it?
― imago, Friday, 24 May 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
as stanned by real life lore: https://watchnebula.com/
This guy is the snarky English version of Vsauce, IMO, and that's just about the best thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PhGi3_JQc
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 25 May 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
ah yes, simon whis-a-ler. good fellow, entertaining and with a fine zingy streak. at his best on Today I Found Out
― imago, Saturday, 25 May 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
The latest Contrapoints is great. One of the least character-driven in quite some time.
― jmm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 26 May 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
are there good book youtubers?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 March 2024 16:29 (two months ago) link
i like Liminal Spaces for science fiction reviews
― budo jeru, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:02 (two months ago) link
I like Sherdstube, Bookpilled, Rambling Raconteur and Outlaw Bookseller
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 01:39 (two months ago) link
Humor might be a bit regional but I think these videos are really funny. There are more than a few great lines on them.
https://m.youtube.com/@lilbubbychild
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Sunday, 31 March 2024 20:24 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI40R43svK4Haven't watched the whole video, but how have I never heard of Roar? This is one of the most insane things I've ever seen.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 26 April 2024 18:31 (one month ago) link
i'm not gonna say pablo foxfeeder is not *not* terrible but for the first time i caught him putting out the evening buffet and it is bonkers as hell, he's putting out dishes of kibble and topping them with sliced ham, ground beef, chunks of raw chicken, dumping cookies/biscuits on top, drizzling it all with honey, topping it off with a few raw eggs, i had no idea his foxes were eating this good
oh he just turned out the lights, foxes oughtta be stopping by soon, i bet there's kits, how much you want to bet there's kits
and there's this snail what was moseying on up to one of the dishes and there's such drama in this. is the snail hungry for meat? will the foxes eat the snail? i can only check in sporadically but this is thrilling to me
― senseless Icelandic salsa slander (cat), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:02 (one month ago) link
foxes are here oh my god
― senseless Icelandic salsa slander (cat), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:05 (one month ago) link
ONE OF THEM IS IF HALF MANGY WOW
LOOKING LIKE A DANG CHUPACABRA UP IN HERE
― senseless Icelandic salsa slander (cat), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:06 (one month ago) link
mama fox (presumably, cuz teats) just trotted off with a mouthful of like 5 lbs of meat, babies gonna feast 2nite
― senseless Icelandic salsa slander (cat), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:10 (one month ago) link
snail still clinging to the edge of the plate, hang on little buddy
― senseless Icelandic salsa slander (cat), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:11 (one month ago) link
bobby fingers
― ledge, Thursday, 16 May 2024 13:11 (one month ago) link