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AvE - General engineering

Strange Parts - interesting electronics

Electroboom - blows up interesting electronics

Mark Rober - ex NASA engineer, builds cool stuff

Finish Carpentry TV - gives info on finish carpentry

Jay Bates - Woodworking - good woodworker

SmarterEveryDay - interesting science topics

Bald and Bankrupt - explores Russia and other countries

Curious Droid - NASA history

Bosnianbill - lockpicking

LEMMiNO - general documentaries

Cody'sLab - chemistry

Mustie1 - small engine repair

Matt Risinger - newer building trends

The Wood Whisperer - woodworking

Project Farm - tests products (oil, fuel, etc) against each other

bigclivedotcom - examines / fixes electronics

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lockpickinglawyer is also a great channel

>Cody'sLab - chemistry

NileRed is far better (in content, video/lighting quality and Editing). His newer channel NileBlue shows him safely cleaning up and what not.

And he's not currently going through what appears to be a mental breakdown. Cody had the feds come out to his property after he posted several questionable videos (like rushing through an airport talking about blowing himself up, showing all of the radioactive ore and yellow cake he has just laying around, showing videos of jars of poison next to his canned food at home etc) and had his girlfriend leave him around which time he started being super mopey on his channel and wearing chainmail everywhere and using mercury as mouthwash.

> girlfriend leave him around which time he started being super mopey

That tends to happen.

I often wonder what enables people to leave such scathing reviews of someone else's work. Reviewers like you had nothing to do with the production or promotion of videos and often don't pay anything to watch them. If a user feels a channel is going awry, they have no resistance to belittling the creator and doing so with a total lack of empathy.

Sure the anonymity is a huge factor that doesn't make someone care enough to write about it. It's as if you felt a sense of ownership in Cody'sLab and he let you down when he began to display the negative affects of his real live in the videos he created.

Your feeling of ownership over something you have done nothing to earn is entitlement. YT creators are just people and they don't get paid a lot. They are constantly chasing an algorithm created within a labyrinth for which they have they have no control over. They feel they need to create and post weekly or they will be penalized. Once they achieve Internet influencer status they find it is a very lonely depressing place to be and everyone watching has demands yet provides no money and no help to create. It's frankly disgusting to see people behave this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mv0vwb08Y

In this video Cody'sLab clearly spells out that he's going through a hard time in his life. He's allowed to be human. If you don't like it just move on and shut your mouth. Have some dignity and allow others around you to reclaim or maintain their dignity and self-respect.

"I often wonder what enables people to leave such scathing reviews of someone else's work."

Possibly some sort of internet-enabled device running a web browser?

"Reviewers like you had nothing to do with the production or promotion of videos and often don't pay anything to watch them."

That's true of practically all reviewers of every product/service ever. In fact, if they were involved in any way it would deserve some sort of "vested interest" warning. It's also true of much of the content on youtube.

"It's as if you felt a sense of ownership in Cody'sLab and he let you down when he began to display the negative affects of his real live in the videos he created....Your feeling of ownership over something you have done nothing to earn is entitlement."

I don't see that in the original comment at all. They just seem to prefer channel 1 over channel 2, and gave a reason ("..shows him safely cleaning up and what not.."). What's wrong with that?

If one is producing youtube videos for fun, and finds it no fun, they should stop. Likewise, if they're doing it for money and not making enough money, stop. No-one's forcing them to do it. Nobody owes them anything. There are a million other channels out there, and i'm grateful to the OP and everyone else in this thread for pointing them out.

This is just mean-spirited and exaggerated. Why not just make your recommendation and move on?

It isn't mean spirited at all. It's observations based on his videos the past 1-2 years. He also has pretty blah production quality with rough edits, often terrible lighting, lots of rambling, more oft than not questionable (at best) safety practices, when he's doing chemistry he never has proper safety equipment etc. Unlike NileRed that has fantastic lighting, proper ventilation, obviously at least partially scripts what he's going to say, doesn't get sidetracked with unrelated rants...

Cody literally had federal agents come to his house and search it after some of his highly questionable videos involving radioactive materials, commercial explosives and homemade (highly unstable) explosives.

He literally power-walked through a busy airport recording himself talking about blowing himself up in one video (referencing his 'prank' video where he 'blew himself up', not that all the people he was rushing past were likely to know that).

He literally used liquid mercury as mouthwash in a recent video.

He literally showed his shelf of canned food with his row of home made poisons and toxic substances.

He's had several videos lately where he's showing textbook signs of clinical depression after his breakup and has ramped up his eccentric behavior even more since, like wearing chainmail in public and ranting about the government and YouTube being against him.

While I agree your original post was maybe harsh, but not "mean-spirited", it drives me crazy when people use truth or objectivity as a catch-all justification for behavior or attitude. He wasn't accusing you of lying - e.g. "you're a fatass" would, in most contexts even where it is true, also be mean-spirited. Things can be both, and frequently are.

I guess his experiments with mercury are starting to take their toll :/

mark rober's quality has gone downhill fast. To the point of staging multiple videos and using obnoxious clickbait.

Examples of staging videos?

If I remember right, he staged some of the "glitter bomb" footage. Something like half the footage was of actual thieves. The other half was of people he knows. He didn’t disclose this until the video went viral.

I’m not aware of any other staged footage, but I’d be interested to hear if there is any.

The cherry on top is that he let someone else build the glitter bomb but his channel gets all the clicks/subscribers.

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