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.

  • CheddarOnTheBottom
    5•10 months ago

    I watch more YouTube then I’d like to admit honestly, but with ad blockers it’s not too bad. Some of my frequented channels/creators:

    Gaming:

    • Haelian: Used to be purely Hades content, now mostly a rogue like variety streamer/creator.
    • GrandPOOBear: lots of Mario romhacks and high level Kaizo play, with a decent amount of variety games as well. Super funny/chill dude.
    • CarlSagan42: Mostly plays SMM troll levels, although sometimes his reactions can be a little much. Entertaining if you like Mario though.
    • Frost Prime: Mostly Slay the Spire content, although I think he’s pretty funny as well.
    • Iron Pineapple: Finds and plays every souls-like he can on Steam. Usually pretty entertaining.
    • Mukluk: A lot of Guild Wars 2 content, but has a 2nd channel of many types of games. Currently he’s going through Baldurs Gate 3
    • A Mighty Teapot: Another GW2 creator. Recently did a “Zero to Hero” series in which he created a fresh account and leveled/geared from scratch.
    • Josh Stryfe Hayes: A well spoken brit who does commentary on MMOs and gaming in general. I suggest his “Worst MMO Ever” series.
    • Flophouse Plays: Variety games, recently enjoyed his videos on finding obscure games on old systems (SNES, Genesis, etc)
    • Wulff Den: heavy emphasis on emulators and hacks. Lots of comparisons, like Steam Deck vs ASUS ROG Ally

    Music:

    • Ola Englund: Swedish metal guitarist and owner of Solar Guitars. Lots of chugs, caveman riffs, and gear reviews.
    • NikNocturnal: While the running joke is that he’s a “poser” because he likes metalcore, he’s a very solid guitarist and makes fun content.
    • Ben Eller: Super talented guitarist who gives practice techniques and song/riff breakdowns.
    • Adam Neely: Jazz bassist who does video essays on various music theory topics.
    • 66Samus: Goofy metal drummer
    • Bradley Hall: Goofy metal guitarist who loves to sweep.
    • Ichika Nito: Guitarist, think Polyphia condensed into 30sec videos
    • Sebastiside: Same as above, but metal.
    • Dean Lamb: Insanely good Guitarist from Archspire, love his “4 levels of death metal” series.
    • Brandon Ellis: Guitarist of Black Dahlia Murder, mostly playthroughs and practice runs. God-tier shredder.

    Other:

    • Drawfee: 4 super talented digital artists draw based on crazy prompts. Highly recommend anything Pokemon related of theirs.
    • Jolly: 2 British dudes travel and eat different foods. Fun times
    • Game Grumps: while their newer stuff doesn’t hit the same, I can rewatch their old playthroughs (Paper Mario TTYD, Pokemon Fire Red,etc) repeatedly.
    • Angry Video Game Nerd: Similar to the above, newer stuff is alright but I regularly play seasons 1-4. So nostalgic.

    I might have a problem…