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.
I usually watch educational content with a little bit of 3blue1brown and Kurzgesagt to name a few.
kurzgesagt is also political. The video about vegan food threw me off.
I cannot trust someone on certain issues if this person is biased against some of these issues. That is the world today. It’s ok, downvote me, I’m not against veganism btw, I don’t care what people eat, but I truly do not believe in certain number presented even though I do believe that animals are treated very harshly in this capitalistic world because of profits.
I agree with you. Their philosophical content and pretty animations was what drew me into them in the first place, but the moment they started spewing unscientific anti-vegan propaganda and how no one should go vegan because meat tastes great, I unsubscribed.
I’m a big fan of video essays. But I feel like the algorithm sucks for that. I like the deep dive newsletter, because it just sends a recommendation of a couple of great video essays once a week. They also describe why the videos are so good. I’ve watched a solid number of video essays I would not have clicked on if I was just scrolling.
I don’t read books or watch TV shows or watch movies or watch sports.
I watch a ton of educational, engineering, cooking, BMX, woodworking, and retro game channels.
Favorites are:
- Technology Connections
- Mark Rober
- Backyard Scientist
- Allen Pan
- Lockpicking Lawyer
- Smarter Every Day
- Rex Krueger
- Stuff Made Here
- Retro Bird
- Spencer Foresman
- Action Lab
- Veritasium
- Vsauce
- Ethan Chlebowski
- That Dude Can Cook
- Stumpy Numbs
- Electroboom
- Styropyro
- Nile Red
- Anthony Panza
- Sam O’Nella
- Collin Furze
- Sam Pilgrim
Oh my. I should stop. There are so many more.
I really wish there was a save comment feature because I’m subscribed to about half of those and I need to check the other half out.
At least in sync there is the option to save comments and it works. You can afterwards find the comments in your profile. Not sure if it’s a sync or a Lemmy feature though.
Edit: just checked and it’s actually a Lemmy feature. You can just long press a comment and hit the star to save it.