YouTube Rabbit Holes

[mgil]

I’ve been dosing YouTube a bit and the algorithm started pointing me towards these peeps doing wood turning. I find some of this work quite remarkable in many ways.

What kind of stuff are you finding that’s somewhat hobby-centric or niche that’s interesting while also being safe for work and not politically polarized (in other words, a welcome break from the media)?

[CoffeeBoy]

I was enjoying Adam Savage's channel, but.....

Also,
South Main Auto - if you like car mechanics
Eddie woo - if you like math
MIT opencourseware - physics lectures by Walter Lewin
Joe Rogan
Randy Newburg - if you're a hunter
AvE - hard to explain
Abom79 - machine shop work

I love a good YT rabbit hole

[mbasic]

I've been watching the Mr.Chickadee guy.
He does woodworking, carpentry, timber framing with hand tools.....



....then that turned me on to Japanese carpentry (intricate joints with no nails).



One thing that is kinda of turn-off is when they fast forward thru some of the work at 3x speed.
I'd rather see it done at regular speed, but maybe I don't need to see each and every joint, and every single minute of it.

Shit is amazing.

[omaniphil]

My youtube feed on my Roku basically shows me one of three types of videos, Bon Appetit cooking videos, Beekeeping videos, and airplane landing videos. Here's one of my favorite landing videos at one of the most dangerous runways in the world.

[mgil]

@CoffeeBoy, you reminded me that this guy (3Blue1Brown) puts out great stuff:

[mgil]

@omaniphil, that landing is insane!

@mbasic, the dude’s mallet (log on an axe handle) is superb.

[Wilhelm]

I've been hooked for quite some time now, on the storyteller/content creators playing Rust, a survival online video game.

I'll never play it myself, and i don't really watch the guys who are merely badass at it, but those who can tell a story (editing+gameplay+music, etc..), and have a good sense of humor (as do their teammates)
I find it very entertaining, and the trash talking/taunting can be exquisite.

[blanded]

AvE - hard to explain

This Old Tony is similar and has really good content too

I like watching that french guy Alex cooking, he modified his residential oven so he could make some neopolitan pizza at home and then had to make some changes because the oven was getting so hot it was melting his electrical components

[DoctorWho]

Guy isn't afraid, from the flip-flops to leaving in the bloopers (example: 23:50). Clip starts after all but the motor has been disassembled.

[mettkeks]

Uncle Tony's Garage ( @blanded, this Tony?) for driveway build drag racing tips and tricks. A bunch of Car building and Engineering channels. A whole bunch of racing channels. The engineering part is most interesting to me at the moment because I got really interested in the how's and why's. I got tired of watching "professional" people throw tons of money at engines and wonder why they blew up, when some guys can triple the power of engines with stock internals on low budgets AND make them last. Gale Banks (Banks Power) does really good videos on that. His latest video is Part 14 of his series "Killing a Duramax" where he builds a stock Duramax Diesel until it breaks. He's at almost 1000hp and just now got a new Cam shaft and did a 40 minute video explaining science behind the dimensions.

But the King of the odd categories:

Steve1989MREInfo.

He is the curator of his own MRE Museum and every now and then He blesses us with a demo of decades and centuries old MRE food, which He actually eats. Even if his tongue goes numb, he takes it with a smile. This man is Fearless. It's oddly satisfying when the "food" is still "edible".

[neandrewthal]

Ever since Vsauce sort of retired this is my favorite youtube channel:



They show astounding ingenuity, attention to detail and insane amounts of work. They are shot beautifully and the ASMR is just great even though I'm usually into that sort of thing.

[EggMcMuffin]

Hundreds and hundreds of transcribed licks ranging from EZPZ to hilariously difficult

This one has become pretty bloated in recent years, but also lots of really cool licks and stickings to play with



A ridiculous amount of covers before they became overproduced affairs fishing for endorsements


This guy is funny as fuck, and also a genuinely great mechanic with lots of to the point videos


Translated video of a friendly Russian man doing ridiculous shit with cars


Guy harassing people in parking lot for laughs
(ft. Mark Rippetoe and also why I never want to go to Texas)


The West is Best Of Course so you would never want to listen to this primitive monkey shit but tons of live Hindustani/Carnatic classical performances in high quality


Channel filled with fairly high quality videos of degenerate liberal homosexuals justifying an art degree experimental music


Japanese cats being mad chill



Absolutely hilarious surreal animations


Max Testosterone


Black guy silently documenting the abandoned parts of rural/urban America that they don't show when talking about how awesome we are



Nothing any sane person with a life would want to watch, but some drug addicted kid who's been vlogging his life as an addict since he was like 15. Most of his older stuff is gone due to serious violations of YT rules but it's interesting to watch life from perspective of a junkie


SS libertarian talks over LiveLeak videos


Oriental Primitives attempting to learn the ways of Pest Control


Tons of combat footage (I love watching this crap, war looks like ass tho)


Some guy from the Third World Socialist Ethnostate of Finland being.... weird. I'm told it's incredibly interesting and often hilarious if you speak Finn


Mentally ill British Man making surreal and hilarious videos (this guy hugely influenced me as a person and I wish he hadn't lmao)


Mentally ill loner being really weird and occasionally hilarious


Documenting Modern Day Sodom and Gommorha in the Poorest State in the Union guy walks around SF occasionally talking to homeless
I ran into him once. Nice guy!

[OrderInChaos]

This dude's come extremely far in 3 years, was originally and awesome "how to get land and do this" and has morphed into something else.

Seems to have largely avoided gaining a voluntary hard-on following, despite the channel name and ethos, and instead mostly seems to be Boomers and Gen-X'ers wishing they'd done the same and/or folks my age wishing they didn't live in urban areas and lack skill with manual tools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rgGEkI510Q

[alek]

My youtube feed on my Roku basically shows me one of three types of videos, Bon Appetit cooking videos, Beekeeping videos, and airplane landing videos. Here's one of my favorite landing videos at one of the most dangerous runways in the world.

Do you keep bees?

[Skid]

AvE - hard to explain

This Old Tony is similar and has really good content too

This Old Tony is a (much) more refined and elegant AvE. I don't think he does tool reviews and definitely doesn't swear as much either... I like them both. Add the essential craftsman as well.

[perman]

I have a weird youtube hobby of liking to watch Americans discover soccer. It's an incredible game, with incredible feats happening all the time, so when you see Americans discovering the insanity of it all for the first time, it's kind of like getting to discover it again yourself.

Here are two videos I like in that weird genre:

[mgil]

[omaniphil]

My youtube feed on my Roku basically shows me one of three types of videos, Bon Appetit cooking videos, Beekeeping videos, and airplane landing videos. Here's one of my favorite landing videos at one of the most dangerous runways in the world.

Do you keep bees?

No, I'm terrified of them in IRL. I just find them fascinating. Also, beekeepers are... interesting people... Makes for interesting videos.

[richieportly]

If you don't plan on doing anything at all this week, check out Bad Obsession Motorsport. Especially Project Binky, in which they try to shoehorn the running gear of a Toyota Celica 4WD into a 1980 Mini, with plenty of Police Squad and Monty Python references thrown in. Think they are on episode 30+ at this point, and it has been running for about five years now.

[alek]

My youtube feed on my Roku basically shows me one of three types of videos, Bon Appetit cooking videos, Beekeeping videos, and airplane landing videos. Here's one of my favorite landing videos at one of the most dangerous runways in the world.

Do you keep bees?

No, I'm terrified of them in IRL. I just find them fascinating. Also, beekeepers are... interesting people... Makes for interesting videos.

Cool. Do you watch Barnyard Bees on youtube?