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What's your go-to long form Youtuber? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

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Title essentially. Youtube's algorithm is hot garbage, so I can't search for anything anymore without a ton of AI slop and rage bait. So, who do you go to for actual good long form videos? Exposes, scandals, behind the scenes, documentaries, film, travel, transit, who do you recommend I follow?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I really enjoy Calum's work on obscure vehicles, shipping containers, and stuff like that: https://www.youtube.com/@CalumRaasay

Mustard has other fun vehicles, often with a focus on aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/@MustardChannel

David Hilowitz does fun stuff with musical instruments (finding them, sampling them, stuff like that): https://www.youtube.com/@DavidHilowitzMusic

I love wargaming miniatures and basically the only channel I watch on the subject is Eric's Hobby Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/@EricsHobbyWorkshop

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Do yourself a favour and watch Ed Pratt Unicycle around the world. This is one of my favourite things on YouTube, watching him go from just a kid with a weird dream to a great filmmaker and experienced traveler in such an authentic way. Highly recommended

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you're interested or curious about music theory (even if you don't know much about it), I recommend Charles Cornell. Here's one of him talking about Pure Imagination.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I like Dime Store Adventures for history trivia and exploration, mostly USA focused.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

For stuff about films, I like 'Thomas Flight' and 'Like Stories Of Old'. LSOO has just released a video about Gladiator II that I'm going to watch in a bit (I'm hoping he hated it as much as I did!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

MLiG

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Crime related:

Disaster related:

Weird medical stories: https://www.youtube.com/@chubbyemu

Interesting economic vids: https://www.youtube.com/coldfusion/

Business and economics: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions/

Geopolitics explainer vids: https://www.youtube.com/@CaspianReport/

Theme park history: https://www.youtube.com/@Defunctland/

Interesting historical themed vids: https://www.youtube.com/@YoreHistory/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess I should have expected it, but I was hoping they were videos on how to do crime... ☹️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol. The Lockpicking Lawyer springs to mind 😁

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

above and beyond, thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Nerd³ (nerd cubed) long form video game content while he talks about the game he's playing, sprinkled with commentary about life and current events

Cold Fusion. Sort of a mini documentary on news items, one item at a time. Tech focused.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My recommendation for travel would be 'Bald and Bankrupt', in particular I loved his whole Russian/Ex-Soviet Union series.

For documentaries, I do enjoy the 'Down the Rabbit Hole' documentaries. They did a great one on Terry A. Davis a few years back

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The soviet Union series was great, but anything I watched after that was boring to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Red letter media

I love Star Trek, but don't want to watch the modern Alex kurtzman garbage, so they take the bullet for me.

I'm also not a movie guy, so watching their reviews/analysis while playing Minecraft is more entertaining than the movies they talk about.

Best of the worst is them watching B and direct to video movies that i wouldn't otherwise know about.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I only really subscribe to two channels that focus on 20-30 minute videos and post on a pretty regular basis: