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?

    • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 days ago

      It might be worth adding that some people might find him (and similar long form content) verbose if they are not into the topics. I watch probably most of his episodes, but some people in my life don’t vibe with his those. The same people did not appreciate the 7 color e-ink display I had been tinkering around with until I made it display a dog pic, so it’s also about how the topic relates to what you already like.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
    15·
    14 days ago

    I actively avoid shorts so most of what I watch is long form.

    • Technology Connections - A guy needing out about household tech
    • Unlearning Economics - a trained economist turned public edutainer who kept learning after Econ 101, unlike others who shall remain nameless
    • Behind the Bastards - Chummy laughter about the worst people ever
    • RPG with DBJ - RPG talk with a focus on creativity and exploring the opportunities afforded by the space of ‘limited only by your imagination’
    • We’re in Hell - A guy looking at pieces of media and the ideology infused into them by culture
    • Gresham College - lectures on widely ranging topics, presented by professors but targetting the layperson
    • The Morbid Zoo - A cool gal doing analysis of movies, usually horror, but sometimes others, with an eye toward ideology and culture (Hellraiser, Smile, Twilight, PotC, etc.)
    • Folding Ideas - More film analysis, but with a tack toward various criticisms
    • Doctor Who - the old series are all on the tubes now. Not educational, but fun.
  • Nefara@lemmy.world
    10·
    15 days ago

    Along with Technology Connections, Philosophy Tube, and Primitive Technology, here are my “must watch” subs

    Climate Town - Excellent videos about climate change and environmental impact that are insightful and funny

    Contrapoints - Well written and meticulous deconstructions of philosophical concepts in media, pop culture and society with a dry wit

    Every Frame a Painting - Amazing content on film-making. No longer active, but if you haven’t seen it yet, lucky you, enjoy.

    Pop Culture Detective - Interesting meta analyses of popular tropes in pop culture

    Because I’m into historical clothing and fashion, Bernadette Banner and Abby Cox both do great videos on costuming, history and creating cool stuff

    • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world
      6·
      14 days ago

      Love climate town. I hate that someone needs to waste their time disproving lies from the oil, gas, politicians and the like, but it does give me hope in the future that there are people like that out there.

      • Nefara@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 days ago

        Yes! It was such a pleasant surprise on my feed. Unfortunately they said they won’t be continuing because of Youtube’s enforcement policies around copyrighted material so those videos were meant to be a limited series.

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
    10·
    14 days ago

    Steve Wallis - Calm Canadian dude that does stealth camping, he’ll just camp behind a McDonald’s billboard and is very chill about it

    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 days ago

      Steve is awesome. Another favorite of mine is Kent Survival. I’ve tried more than one of Andy’s camp meals, and he’s the reason I bring a cast iron dutch oven with me now.

    • ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 days ago

      These two were my first thought! I’ll add that both cover a range of topics, Jenny does do a lot of videos around Star Wars, but also covers obscure films, and theme parks, wherenl HBomber runs the gamut from flat earth to vaccines to video games to plagiarism. Both are incredibly well researched and, in my opinion, offer very fair takes on the subject matter.

  • somenonewho@feddit.org
    9·
    15 days ago

    Well … My go-to is still Hbomberguy. Eben if I don’t know/care about the topic I know every vid of bis will be interesting and worth the time investment. The jokes are really funny (even on rewatches) and I’ve learned a lot. I watch old Hbomb videos to Fall asleep to almost every night.

    Main issue: there’s one video every 1-2 years … However if you’ve never seen one you’ll have the back log to get through.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    15 days ago

    A Catholic socialist, a Jewish anarchist, and a Muslim communist walk into a bar, and they make a podcast about engineering disasters: Well There’s Your Problem. It’s great for that intersection of people for whom the phrase “crimes against TERFs aren’t crimes” resonates and like listening to an engineer complain about low quality as-builts 2 hours into a 3 hour episode about 9/11

    I was sold on the show when I found out that the episode about the Titanic was split into two parts, totaling around 5 and 1/2 hours. That’s partially because they spend a lot of time bullshitting, and partially because they go really in-depth about how and why structures fail

  • endlessvoid@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    One I haven’t seen mentioned yet that I think needs more exposure is miniminuteman: https://m.youtube.com/@miniminuteman773/

    He does a mix of long form archeology videos and short form pseudo-archeology debunking. Some of it should be dry content but his delivery bridges the gap every time. He has a side channel where he posts about his side projects like his solo motorcycle trips that’s also interesting.

  • acchariya@lemmy.world
    5·
    15 days ago

    Brick immortar- probably the single most technical long form YT channel in the engineering disasters category

    NNKH - fixing things that probably shouldn’t be bothered with.

    Green dot aviation - air disasters and near disasters

    Pilot debrief - light aviation crash analysis

    Andrew camarata - long, long form time lapse videos of running backhoes and dozers to cut roads and things, nice to relax to.

    The great war - I watch on nebula but I think they are on YT too.

    Hoog - explainers

    Bald and bankrupt - I’ve heard mixed things about the guy as a person but his videos are entertaining, in the “travel to unusual places” genre

    Integza - another one on nebula but I think also on YT. Building rocket engines with 3d printers, etc

    Driving 4 answers - probably the single best automotive focused engineering channel

  • InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world
    5·
    16 days ago

    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/

    • Subtracty@lemmy.world
      2·
      15 days ago

      We have similar taste in youtubers! If you enjoy those disaster related videos, I recommend Abstract (formerly Real Horror). Great production value and storytelling. She does all her own work as far as I know, so she doesn’t have a huge playlist to watch sadly. But the narration and setup really add a gravitas to the disasters that I feel the other youtubers are missing.

      https://m.youtube.com/@Abstract

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

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

  • brognak@lemm.ee
    5·
    15 days ago

    Well There’s Your Problem - Engineering disaster podcast, with slides! And the hosts vary from left, to very left.

    JunkyardDigs/PoleBarnGarage - Two separate channels. Love them both for just fucking around with old cars/farm equipment/vintage snowmobiles

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    15 days ago

    How long-form?

    I absolutely love “More Kitboga”, videos where a fella calls scammers and uses a Roland VT3-3 voice transformer to improv. Video lengths range from a few hours to… I believe his record fucking with the same call center (like two or three specific people) is 54 hours. I put it on when I’m working from home. He is HILARIOUS. He and his team have whole fake websites, fake banks, and a fake Google Play store where he can redeem fake Google play cards into his account and it works as the actual play store would. People go insane when they see they “lost” thousands of dollars because an “old lady” redeemed the codes they wanted.

    True crime: Explore With Us is a channel my partner recently found. Lots of FOIA’d videos and pictures that have never been seen before they made their videos. Very interesting.