I came here to say “I can’t even watch a 4 minute YouTube video” but I realized if it’s something like How It’s Made or Cutting Edge Engineering I can eat that shit up for hours and hours.

We were willing to watch a 3-hour rant about how bad The Phantom Menace is.

Bad Star Wars singularly has the ability to make people make the time.

I just start it and end up walking away or falling asleep or something and boom! all 4 hours are done. I can watch 20min videos tho

There’s lots of “slow TV” and other long-form content on Youtube. The Acorn to Arabella and Tally Ho projects, for example, have each been documenting the building (or rebuilding) of a wooden sailboat week-by-week for years on end. They may not have individual four-hour videos, but if you add up the hundreds of ~30-minute ones, each of those series add up to a lot of footage for single projects.

There’s also Blondihacks, who has a 39-part (and counting) series on machining a model locomotive from bare chunks of metal, Ben Eater, who has a 44-part series on building a computer from discrete logic, Sarah-n-Tuned, who has 58 videos (and counting) on resto-modding an old Toyota Celica (including like half a dozen just on the wiring alone), etc.

And all of these series I mentioned are getting tens or hundreds of thousands of views per video!