Youtube Recommendations
In the same spirit as some of the twitch streamer discussions that are held here, I was wondering if anyone has any particular favorite youtube content-creators that they wanted to recommend or discuss? There's a lot of garbage on there, obviously, but some stuff really stands out.
I wanted to talk about OSW Review, in particular, because those boys have been killing it for years. Of course, if you're an old school wrestling nerd, you already know about them, and if you're not, you probably won't care, but their production is phenomenal, their knowledge pretty impeccable, and their humor...really humorous, if a bit ribald for some. I'm gonna share this video, the start of their recent Lex Express retrospective. Present-day Macaulay Culkin shows up, if that incentivizes you to watch it.
The other top-tier content I'd recommend is probably old-news to a lot of people at this point, but the week-by-week World War 1 recaps on The Great War will culminate with the 100th anniversary of Armistice in November, so if you haven't seen the series it might be fun to check it out in the next few months. My only complaints with this series are that it's hard for me to follow because of how much goes on each week, and I find that the host's editorializing on the horrors of war start to get repetitive. Crass of me to say, I know, but I watched like 100 episodes over a few days.
Anyway, anybody else have some cool series that they'd like to share?
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Wisecrack, home of Earthling Cinema and Thug Notes--interesting, funny, and new perspectives
Nerdwriter1, far as I can tell, is just one guy making videos. He's got a lot of interesting things to say; one of my favorites was where he explained how George Miller guided your eyes while directing Mad Max Fury Road
If you're into ASMR, check out Gentle Whispering and Pelagea ASMR
Auralnauts take movie/tv clips and put fake audio over it. Love their Kylo Ren stuff.
How It Should Have Ended--great superhero parody cartoons.
Ozzy Man Reviews--come for the weekly GoT recaps, stay for the wacky commentary on animal fights, human fights, wife carrying competitions, ball races, you name it
Film Theory--Find out why Thanos wouldn't be able to snap his fingers while wearing a gauntlet, find out why Wakanda's economy is inherently unstable, find out how it's possible that Eleven in Stranger Things is actually the monster
If you watch music videos often enough on YT while you're signed into an account, it will eventually come up with "My Mix", which is a mix of stuff you've watched and suggestions based on same. My wife and I have it on all day most weekend afternoons.
Last but not least, The Slo-Mo Guys: Gav and Dan love to break, smash, and blow shit up, and they have an army of slo-mo cameras that capture every tiny detail. Not a single bad video on their whole channel.
Beyond the Trailer - I'm there for the business of Hollywood discussion, though she does more than that.
ExodusDoc - Interviews with Millenials who've left their religion.
Lindsay Ellis - Excellent film criticism. She's going places.
Nerdwriter1 - I only like his back catalog. He's gotten lazy lately. Discusses film and art concepts.
The Financial Diet - Palatable financial advice.
Highfalutin' Low Carb - A great personality testing out low carb recipes.
This seems to be the year where everyone is going keto. I knew it would happen. And the diet is NOT sustainable for the masses, so it pisses me off. I'll probably be priced out of it eventually. Eh, it was a matter of time.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RealityZealot/channels?view=56&shelf_id=0&view_as=subscriber
Some highlights:
Binging with Babish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw
Newish cooking show, cooks recipes based off stuff in movies.
Ahoy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE1jXbVAGJQEORz9nZqb5bQ
Longish video essays on historic trends in gaming
Indeimaus https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDXOwJQgD65oJOM1IHmtskw
Memeish videos focused on Dark Souls and "Souls like" stuff. Funny
NakeyJakey https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSdma21fnJzgmPodhC9SJ3g
Funny and touching video essays on trends in gaming
PewDiePie https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw
Pewds has made something of a transformation since the controversy of a couple years ago. I check in on his videos here and there, and find them entertaining.
The Know https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4w_tMnHl6sw5VD93tVymGw
Gaming news coverage
VaatiVidya https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe0DNp0mKMqrYVaTundyr9w
Deep dives in Dark Soulsborne lore. The best out there for this.
Previously Recorded / Red Letter Media https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1jCliC-puUaK1Zg7QY0hA
Others are recommending this outfit. Half in the Bag is probably the greatest movie review series.
ContraPoints https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNvsIonJdJ5E4EXMa65VYpA
Political commentary from a Trans-woman
Kitboga https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw
The Youtube channel for the Twitch streamer. He puts condensed highlight videos up here.
Alex French Ghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRIZtPl9nb9RiXc9btSTQNw uy Cooking https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzFLpOblZEaIx2lpym1l1A
Cooking show where engineering and technique are highlighted
Company Man https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQMyhrt92_8XM0KgZH6VnRg
Video essays on specific companies. Discusses the history and current state of a company.
LGR Foods / LGR https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9uUFDhsPYii-ZihoKsbPg
Lazy Game Reviews is the main channel where he covers old computer tech. LGR Foods is his food channel where he makes a sandwich / ramen. Its good stuff
Peter Serafinowicz https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi38HMIvRpGgMJ0Tlm1WYdw
Fuck Trump
This is Dan Bell. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjU-Cwjfqbo2hMRItlXwnnQ
Home of the "Dead Mall" series. Also some other stuff, but the Dead Mall stuff is amazing
Joe Robinet https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCts-8ZqS339n-9nxy3DN8Cg
Joe does camping videos. "Camping with a Stove Tent" was my entry to his channel.
Maangchi https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8gFadPgK2r1ndqLI04Xvvw
Korean style cooking.
Colbert https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig
Keeps me sane in this era of Trump
Nerdwriter1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJkMlOu7faDgqh4PfzbpLdg
Others have recommended, so have I.
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q
Animated Science explanation videos. Perhaps the best out there.
Food Wishes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRIZtPl9nb9RiXc9btSTQNw
One of the OG youtube food cooking shows.
CGP Grey https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w
nerdy / science explanation videos with very infrequent (but good) posts.
Kimmel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa6vGFO9ty8v5KZJXQxdhaw
Like Colbert, keeps me sane in this era of Trump.
I'm all over that.
ContraPoints is SO good. Recently discovered that one. That's one of those that I immediately began telling people about.
CGP Grey - short and sweet educational videos
Contrapoints - sociopolitical commentary from a former philosophy grad student.
Lindsay Ellis - film criticism. I really like her 3-video series on The Hobbit films.
Kinda Funny - Popular culture and gaming channel based out of San Francisco. Ran by ex-IGN editors
Hydraulic Press Channel - A Finnish machinist crushing things with his hydraulic press and filming it with slo-mo cameras
Games Done Quick : Twice per year, this event takes place. They stream 24-hours per day for 7-10 days all while raising money for charity. This summer, they raised over 2.12 million dollars for doctors without borders. Youtube is where they archive the streams by individual speedruns.
How Ridicuous : 3 Aussie boys drop heavy things from very high places. Usually onto other things. Notable mentions are dropping almost everything on a trampoline from 45 meters up. Dropping bowling balls, anvils, darts, and more onto a car from 45 meters up. Recently they've been dropping a giant dart onto many different things like a refrigerator, filing cabinet, stacks of paper, logs, copier, etc.
I Like to Make Stuff : Bob is a maker. He likes to make stuff. He does all kinds of projects, from wood to welding; building to programming. Bob is cool.
Four Eyes Furniture : Chris Salamone designs and builds furniture, and condenses the entire process down into a 5-10 minute video.
Good Bad or Bad Bad
These guys have 60 hr plus of content where they do a deep dive into hilariously bad movies judging them good bad or bad bad. They both have film backgrounds so they can get into some minutia but overall they put out a great product and are very funny and well edited. They are a great hidden gem with only 10,000 subscribers they put out quality equal to 10,000,000 subscriber channels and I cannot recommend them enough.
Highlights - Ben and Arthur, The Neil Breen movies, three ninjas, hard ticket to Hawaii, the happening, and battlefield earth
It's a 2 film series! Wash that mouth out with soap.
https://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReading/videos
personal favourite
http://www.cinemabomar.org/Archive.html
Here are some nice finds:
COLOR HARMONY FOR YOUR HOME
1950's, 20 min
Exciting new breakthroughs in Color Theory make any housewife into a savvy
interior decorator!
TELEZONIA
1970s, AT&T, Color, 25 min
Wonderfully goofy telephone company psychedelic extravaganza purporting to
teach small children how to properly use the telephone. Androgynous "Telly"
takes children to Telezonia, where perky children's-theater types dressed as
letters and numbers teach them how to dial through song and dance numbers
building to a dramatic climax.
He's a musician/songwriter/producer who uploads really good tutorials and breaks down the theory of popular songs (mostly rock). He's also trained his young son to be a supergenius musician.
https://www.youtube.com/user/pegzch/
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottBradleeLovesYa
Can't believe I forgot about this amazing channel. Musicians cover modern songs, but in styles from the 1920s to 1960s.