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.

  • sbr32
    6•1 year ago

    The only YouTube channel I currently wat h is Cracking the Crypic. It’s 2 British guys that solve various logic puzzles; mostly sudoku and most of those are crazy variations on sudoku. Each video also has a link so you can also play the puzzle if you want to.

    There is one of the presenters I much prefer to the other but the entire channel and community around them is one of the most wholesome things on the web.

    Highly recommended if any of that sounds interesting to you.

    • @SpeakerToLamppostsEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      I’ve also been watching CtC quite a bit for the last couple of years. Unfortunately, they’ve lately been doing a lot of long, highly technical puzzles, which I don’t find as interesting (though their shorter videos are still good). If anyone’s interested in checking them out, I’ll recommend a couple of older videos that I really enjoyed:

      If you enjoy watching people solve sudokus and other puzzles, I’ll also recommend Rangsk (generally does the daily NYT hard sudoku, a 6x6 intro-to-nonstandard-rules “sudoku adventure”, and a collection of wordle-ish (but not not actually wordle) games), Bremster, and zetamath (does quite a few live solves with audience participation, as well as reaction vids to other people solving his puzzles).