It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”

Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.

Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.

  • OtterEnglish
    22•1 year ago

    Nebula is pretty great, I like a few people there. I’m also on YouTube a good bit, but only the channels I subscribe to

    On YouTube itself, a few I like:

    • Tom Scott, every week is something unexpected and somehow also something I want to know more about (link)
    • A Great Big Story: My family really enjoys this one. It’s short interesting videos about different places and cultures. I like the ones where the host compares a food/practice from different places (link)
    • About Here: Local creator in Vancouver/Canada that does stuff about local issues (link)
    • Neo: I think it might be tied to a company, but the videos are interesting and very high quality. I like the 3D renders that they use. This one’s also on Nebula (link)
    • Babish, mostly the basics series and any foods from shows/movies I’ve seen (link)
    • Jun’s Kitchen: Really nice and peaceful cooking clips. Their cats are great too (link)
    • Mustard: cool videos with nice renders about historical planes, trains, and stuff. Also on Nebula
    • Thomas Flight: nice analysis on movies and TV, for things like visuals and sound design

    Otherwise, here is a messy list of some more:

    • Captain Disillusion: learning about visual effects and trickery
    • Colin Furze: whatever crazy thing he’s building today
    • EngineerGuy: a bit technical, but interesting
    • EuroCarGuy: to fall asleep to, no talking just driving
    • Hagerty: also a company run channel, but it’s got fun car content
    • Ice Cream Sandwich: it’s funny
    • Kurzgesagdt: watching this one for years
    • Memable Data: a recent one, also cool visuals
    • Michael Reeves
    • Simone Giertz
    • Technology Connections
    • The slow mo guys
    • Veritassium