I love long-form videos that tell information and stories. Documentaries about most any topics, especially ones that last an hour or more, are my bread and butter. But when I’m using YouTube on my TV, I can’t tell from thumbnails what the quality of a channel is. Sometimes I find gold, but other times it’s obvious they’re using an AI voice over or AI imagery and I immediately turn it off. I’m so tired of trudging through the slop, even though it’s just beginning.
So for now, I figure I’ll check with y’all - do you have any preferred/recommended channels that make the sort of video I’m looking for, that are still human-made? I’d love to hear about them.
SmarterEveryDay is cool, it’s a former NASA engineer just explaining cool shit. I’m a fan of his ‘how do helicopters work’ deep dive, and the world’s greatest archer videos.
Veritassium is kinda the same thing, though I don’t know his stuff quite as well.
eh, I’ve stopped watching him in the past couple years.
between the trend of needing to go bigger to satisfy the algorithm, the religious stuff, and fellating the US military, the content just isn’t worth it
getting more and more turned off by smartereverydays increase in religious bullshit in the videos
There is this super cool video series debunking some of the horse shit Destin has been saying about creationism in favor of evolution. Would recommend: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLInNVsmlBUlSjLSj9yGEKphF0RYRYBlXg
I haven’t watched much of his new stuff, so idk anything about that. I do know a lot of his fans were semi-upset about his increase in use of the slow-mo, high-speed camera footage.
I hadn’t noticed it in the videos I’ve seen. He has a good podcast “No Dumb Questions” and has a Pastor as his co-host. Typically I enjoy it but good lord, the Christmas special was bible class and painful to listen to.
Lana!
…LANA!
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(wait, I think I misunderstood) ;-)