So during COVID lockdowns I developed this guilty pleasure of watching YouTubers having miserable times, in the best case vanlife YouTubers.
I’m feeling the old itch, can you help me? Do you know any videos of people on travel channels having really, really bad times?
I prefer vanlife people, followed by boatlife people. But I’m open to different modes of transport. The more privileged the people and the more miserable their travels, the better.
Edit: so I will give you guys something at least, can’t find any of the random small stuff I watched years ago atm. The channel vagrant holiday maybe doesn’t quite fulfill the criteria, because the guy is doing everything consciously, but it’s a fantastic channel, and there definitely is discomfort:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphDhroSqrPWi6RbljtGPnl8xr0pmzyb_
Schadenfreude is a genre, I guess
For me it’s a mixture of schadenfreude, having people receive their comeuppance (as another here said) and also sympathy. I have had some bad travel experiences, and just sort of go “Oooh boy, that’s bad, come on, you got this! … but you also deserved this!”, as I might have deserved some of mine.
Layered like tiramisu
I can imagine the appeal. Like watching insufferable influencers get their comeuppance