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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.

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[โ€“] prof_Calculus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Hey DoisBigo,

Since you're into finance videos, here are some creators I like:

Ben Felix,
Patrick Boyle,
The Plain Bagel.

Enjoy!

[โ€“] Johnnyari@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Anton Petrov has a great channel if you are into science and space. He posts a video every day explaining new findings in a really approachable way.

[โ€“] Samanthastanky@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Erin Parsons Makeup is my newest rabbit hole. A really neat look at makeup through history!

[โ€“] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I watch LBRY (I use it directly and bypass odysee btw)

For youtube I proxy it through piped

I love Outside XBox (they do more than Xbox content) And Outside Extra. I think its the best short-form gaming variety content there is

[โ€“] Voyajer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still enjoying the engineering and maker channels, along with a few other educational channels.

[โ€“] paradrenasite@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Fall of Civilizations

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but it's incomparably good (if stories about past civilizations is your thing).

[โ€“] STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah youtube has massive amounts of good content. The only downside is that it's owned by google.

Some of my favs in alphabetical order:

Anton Fomenko

BeardMeatsFood

GeoWizard

I did a thing

Jet Lag: The Game

Joel Haver

Ludwig

Max Fosh

Modest Pelican

NFKRZ

RAINBOLT

Steve Wallis

STORROR

Tom Scott

Uri Tuchman

Xiaomanyc

[โ€“] melonpunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Stefan Milo - Been really enjoying his videos "digging" into archaeology and pre-history.

Scott the Woz (video games) and Patrick H Willems (films, but leans towards action)

[โ€“] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Second Thought, First Thought, Our Changing Climate, Polymatter, Kurzgesagt, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, Democracy Now.

[โ€“] danie10@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do yes as I also have a channel that I do videos for (my only income as I fund my own website without ads or 3rd party trackers). I do make my videos' ads skippable though. And yes my own browser blocks ads.

But the pleasantness, or lack thereof, comes down to a site's rules and moderation. The vast majority of people don't want to be aggravated, and they also don't really want to pay to use a website.

But scammers and clickbait are everywhere. I think a lot depends on whether they can game the algorithm to force their way into your home feed or not. Many news media sites also use clickbait, and the same goes for politicians wanting to get attention through fear and anger. But I agree very often clickbait crosses the line - it is really irritating when you see a thumbnail of something, and that image literally appears nowhere inside the content.

I mostly follow technology channels though.

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