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Ask HN: What do you watch on YouTube?

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I'm always curious what People watch on YouTube?

I watch: 1. Movie Trailers 2. Movie Reviews 3. Food Vloggers 4. Cooking Tutorials and so on.

- Andrew Camarata: Background noise. He has big vehicles and uses them to do big jobs. Just nice ambiance without being distracting.

- Apple Drains: About yard drainage installation/design/ideas.

- ChrisFix: Posts rarely but extremely high quality car repair/maintenance videos.

- City Beautiful: Talks about urban design and how it may be improved for people (a little anti-car, pro-public transport).

- Doug DeMuro: Sometimes has unusual or quirky vehicles.

- FortNine: Fascinating motorcycle channel even though I don't own, have ever owned, nor plan on buying a motorcycle (yes, I know).

- Mentour Pilot: "If Air Crash Investigations was done by an actual commercial pilot."

- Practical Engineering: What you think it is from the name. Rarely posts, always worthwhile when they do.

- The B1M: Looks at civil engineering projects.

- Project Farm: One of if not the best review channels on YT.

- Technology Connections: Interesting "deep dives" into every day technology.

- Tom Scott: Science adjacent channel that often looks at quirky locations.

Those are the "biggies." I have others too, but they're far too niche to list here.

If you like air crash investigations and you do not know about it, I HIGHLY recommend https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/. It is a goldmine.

Oh hell yes. Several times I've found my evening abruptly derailed by Admiral Cloudberg's true stories of plane crashes. It's a strange feeling, but fascinating and engrossing. The forensics of the accident sites, the failure analysis, the way the pilots are presented as humans making decisions in critical moments, often unaware of the factors which will determine their fate, and other times knowing their fate is sealed ... hazardous weather conditions, hubris, miscalculations, miscommunications, engineering failures which put them in a death trap, the brief instances of negligence, the systemic failures and oversights, the political contexts influencing people's expectations and behavior, ... All of it comes together, often in predictable ways, often in ridiculously unlikely ways, to bring about a catastrophe. Highly recommended.

Yeah, he is an incredibile story teller and his attention to detail is great. I feel he should do a youtube series with the same content.

Technology Connections is a really good channel about how the technology of everyday things work. Highly recommend.

Practical Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOqf8ab-42UUQIdVoKwjlQ

Wendover Productions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9RM-iSvTu1uPJb8X5yp3EQ

https://www.youtube.com/c/technologyconnections

https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost

I'm a guitar player when I'm not computing so I watch a lot of musician oriented channels. At least half of them are not guitar channels, but I enjoy the musical insight I get by watching them. I also watch guitar pedal and music recording videos. Oh, and of course musicians that I do listen to and buy albums from (Yngwie, Ozzie, etc. So you can probably guess my age!)

Then there's science related stuff, like Anton Petrov's channel and Action Lab.

In more computer-oriented frame of mind, I watch channels from Adafruit, Explaining Computers, Santa Fe Institute, etc., and a few hacking related channels.

I am also learning Python through a few tutorials. Some are good. Some are rubbish. But between them, I get a few different techniques in hand.

I watch a surprisingly high amount of YouTube!

militaria

https://www.youtube.com/c/Taskandpurpose https://www.youtube.com/c/BattleshipNewJersey https://www.youtube.com/c/RoadHomeMotorcycleVlogs

old technology

https://www.youtube.com/c/Techmoan https://www.youtube.com/c/The8BitGuy https://www.youtube.com/c/adriansdigitalbasement

psychology

https://www.youtube.com/c/AnaPsychology https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidSnyderNLP

For a moment, I thought NLP is Natural Language Processing (but the channel isn't related to ML)

Most of the people who talk about neurolinguistic programming are complete charlatans but I have a strong feeling that David Snyder has his feet on the ground and knows what he's talking about. For instance he made a very reductionist analyst of people perceiving auras that fit my own analysis of that experience.

Visual candies - Virtual Railfan cams, DJ Effects Loops (many variants),

Ear candies - SignalsMusicStudio, Posy,

Brain candies - 2Blue1Brown, Huberman Lab, How To ADHD

Computers/Tech - Daves Garage, Mr Carlson's Lab

Milporn/Geopol - Capsian Report, Dark Docs, The Operations Room, Mark Felton

GenAvation - CitationMax, Missionary Bush Pilot, Premier 1 Driver, AvWeb

WillYouBeMyDad - AvE, ThisOldTony

- Grace Randolph, 'Beyond The Trailer'. She typically has inside information - most recently she's been discussing what is going on with HBO/Discovery+ (https://www.youtube.com/user/BeyondTheTrailer)

- Sean Collins, 'Cooking the French Laundry'. A good series, if you like to cook that is. (https://www.youtube.com/user/Seanc0272)

- YTP (YouTube Poop) -> I look at it as memes + video remixing. - TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun) -> I love watching video game bugs leading to fast gameplay. - Standup/Parody -> I need to laugh at stuff. - Technology Conferences -> I like to see demos and explanations. - Fixing/Restoration - Thrifting -> Learn what stuff is worth before I chuck it. - Smelting/Recycling -> If I chuck it then it might be worth recycling for cash.

I search for (and watch) adverts with AutoPlay set to 'On'.

So far this tactic has worked very well at avoiding all those annoying adverts that the other sorts of content on YT seems to have.

BTW, I'm thinking of adding 'paid promotions' to my search/play list since some of the adverts seem to be sneaking those in to my feed somehow.

Watching an advert to watch an advert appeals to my 'It's Turtles All the Way Down' mindset. And as for watching a paid promotion about a channel that shows adverts? Mind. Blown.

(/s in case not obvious)

1. Movie trailers - rarely, but "yes" in principle

2. Movie reviews - basically "no"

3. Food Vloggers - "no"

4. Cooking tutorials - "no"

5. Technical tutorials - "yes"

6. Tech product reviews / teardowns / etc. - "yes"

7. Tool reviews - "yes"

8. Fishing related content - "yes"

9. Interviews (for example, the Lex Fridman ones) - "yes"

10. Adventures with Purpose videos - "yes"

11. EEVBlog - "yes"

12. Firefighting videos - "yes"

13. World news / generic commentary - "rarely"

All of that said, probably 80% of the time I'm on Youtube, I'm there to listen to music.

I listened to music on YouTube a lot until a month or so ago when I cleaned up my music library and exported it for portable use. When I canceled my Amazon Prime Unlimited subscription and made my personal library portable I also lost interest in listening to music from YouTube.

Linux tutorials. Conspiracy videos (Max Igan, Icke, Tsarion, etc). UFO videos. Movie trailers. Tech products unboxing and reviews. Low level kernel debugging videos.

Tech videos, tutorials, and music videos when i get drunk and get carried away with dreams of glory and fame.

No matter what, sooner or later you'll find yourself watching Minecraft letsplay at 3 a.m.

StyxHexenHammer666 does a pretty good morning show covering current events.

Funny and/or touching videos about animals. Yeah, I'm a normie.

Andrew Huberman

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