Shameless plug of my playlists:

Edit: Yes the playlists are very much still incomplete and a work in progress. I promise I’ll eventually add the recommendations yall made!

    • irq0@infosec.pub
      57·
      5 months ago

      I didn’t wake up planning to watch a 4hr video in the failure of the Star Wars hotel but I’m weirdly glad I did

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
      14·
      5 months ago

      My wife: we’re not going to watch a 4hr video about the Stars Wars Hotel.

      My wife, 3hs50min into the Star Wars Hotel video: I need to know more!!

  • DogWater@lemmy.world
    18·
    5 months ago

    *Riloe

    *Architect of games

    *Nakey Jake

    *Gamer makers toolkit

    *Curious archive

    *Lemino

    *12 tone

    *AI and games

    *Alpha Phoenix

    *Barely sociable

    *Be smart

    *Branch education

    *Brick immortar

    *Bytebytego

    *Cgp grey

    *Coffeezilla

    *Defunctland

    *Eckharts ladder

    *Electroboom

    *Every frame a painting

    *Lessons from the screenplay

    *History of the earth

    *History of the universe

    *Internet Historian

    *Kurzgesagt

    *Lockpickinglawyer

    *Markrober

    *Mustard

    *Cold fusion

    *Polymatter

    *Minute physics

    *No clip documentaries

    *PBS spacetime

    *Pursuit of wonder

    *Real engineering

    *Scishow

    *Secret base

    *Stevemould

    *Technology connections

    *The b1m

    *The history guy

    *The squidd

    *Throttle house

    *Tom Stanton

    *Tom Scott (retired now)

    *Veritasium

    *Vsauce

    *Wendover productions

    Edit: things I forgot or didn’t know about and had suggested to me below

    *Half as interesting

    *Undecided with Matt Farrell

    *3blue1brown

    *Numberphile

    *Mathologer

    *Miniminuteman

    *Sam o’nella

    *Alternate history hub

    *Road guy rob

    *8-bit guy

    *Modern vintage gamer

    *Bobby Broccoli

    *Jenny Nicholson

    *Animagraffs

    *Captain disillusion

    *Driving 4 answers

    *Engineering explained

    *Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)

    *Kings and generals

    *Michael Reeves

    *Noah caldwell-gervais

    *People make games

    *Pointless hub

    *Smarter everyday

    *The engineering mindset

    *The great war

    *The operations room

    *The modern rogue

    *Zack Freedman

    *The backyard scientist

    *Brew

    *I did a thing

    *Neo

    *Stand up maths

    There i think that’s it. That’s a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.

    These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.

    Not everything here is video essay, but it’s high quality content imo

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      Based on the names I know on this list, I am super excited to check out the ones I don’t. Thanks!

      Also check out miniminuteman too. Good pseudoscience/conspiracy theory debunking.

      • DogWater@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Nice! My list here is science, videogames, tech, cars, sports, spooky conspiracy stuffs, and space

        So if youre interested in a topic let me know I can point you to the right channels.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      3·
      5 months ago

      How you gonna have Wendover and not Half as Interesting (his shorter form side-channel)?

      No Road Guy Rob? Or Practical Engineering?

      No Extra History? (I only know him from Nebula but I think he’s on YouTube too)

      Also recommend 8bit-Guy for retro computing and Modern Vintage Gamer for retro gaming.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      I know several of those. One I don’t see listed is stuff made here. If you’re a fan of backyard scientist, you’re gonna love stuff made here.

      Smarter everyday is really a special one. The way that guy involves his kids and his own boyish excitement when he finally gets an experiment right is downright heartwarming. Then there was the whole episode checking in on physics girl. He had no particular incentive to do that. He just really seems to care.

  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
    15·
    5 months ago

    I only get sucked into these if I like the narrator’s style. Some people just have a natural way of talking that can keep my attention no matter what they’re talking about.

  • ninjabard@lemmy.world
    13·
    5 months ago

    Defunctland has some of the best researched stuff I’ve seen. His dive into the Disney Channel Theme is absolutely incredible.

  • YaksDC@lemm.ee
    12·
    5 months ago

    It seems like I will only watch either a 15 min video or a 4 hour one. I just don’t seem to like the very short form video format. It does allow enough time for even a single subject.

    With one exception, I’ll watch a lockpicking lawyer at any length.

    • NecroParagon@lemm.ee
      6·
      5 months ago

      Only when they become a recap of the subject for 90% of it do I get annoyed, lol.

      I’ve never even thought to look into JP lore. But this is my front page now

      I blame my office job

  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    5 months ago

    There’s a lot of YouTubers that started doing big videos like that and i just don’t have the time to watch something like that and give it all my attention. Same with caddicarus, used to watch both of these a lot but since they started having massively long videos i just haven’t bothered with them in ages

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      25·
      5 months ago

      You definitely don’t have to watch it all in one go. I usually just watch however much of it I want to watch that day and then send myself a time stamped link to pick it back up whenever I have the time and interest again

      Of course if you’re just not interested that’s totally fair

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
          2·
          5 months ago

          At that point, you’re basically just listening to podcasts. Leaning into it might be a good choice, since there’s no visual element that gets lost when listening to podcasts, as compared to YouTube videos.

    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      I would guess 80% of the people who watch these aren’t actually watching them. Hell, background play is the real reason I pay for YouTube Premium. Not having to worry about ads is a nice bonus.