Stuff like HAWP, 5sf, asdfmovie, Nathan barnatt, etc.

No overblown people acting fake and sensationalist (that try so hard to be funny when they aren’t) no ads. Just fun.

Does this even exist ? Even howtobasic has went to ads…which is fine. But it spoils it for me.

  • Bubs@lemmy.zip
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Ashens - Reviews random tat on his brown sofa. A lot of vintage toys and random junk from discount stores.

    Dankpods - Headphones, mp3 players, and other amusing electronic junk. Also has the channel GarbageTime where he restored old crappy cars and does crazy things like replacing the oil in a car with Nutella.

    TheMightyJingles - Old retired Royal Navy vet. Mostly games but always has interesting stories and history to share.

    Techmoan, LGR, BigCliveDotCom - Three tech reviewers in different areas. First is cool gadgets and old music players. Second is vintage computers and games. Third is practical devices and electronic components with full on circuit board schematic dissections.

    Ahoy - Top quality mini documentaries about recent and old games, historic weapons, and cultural tidbits

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
    71·
    8 hours ago

    Overblown people acting fake and sensationalist (that try so hard to be funny when they aren’t)

    This has been there almost since the beginning; case and point:

    • Annoying Orange
    • Fred
    • Boxxy
    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      6 hours ago

      It has. But I don’t recall annoying orange or Fred trying to sell shit to me every 3 seconds.

      Those are nowhere near the quality of hawp or 5sf, either.

      • unmagical@lemmy.ml
        11·
        5 hours ago

        I wasn’t responding to your mention of ads, I was responding to your assertion that there weren’t overblown sensationalists at the same time you liked specific channels.

        Yeah, of course they weren’t of the same quality, but during that same time period they both existed and were more popular than the one’s you mentioned. Fred was pulling in double digit millions of views on most of his videos for a couple years. That’s more than what could be said for any of the creators you listed.

        Of the channels you highlighted as positive the only one that competes with Fred is TomSka with the asdfmovies, and those were spaced a year apart. Hell, Hawp, 5sf, and Nathan Barnatt never broke 10M views and rarely even broke 1M. Furthermore, TomSka in asdfmovie is overblown sensationalism.

        What I’m attempting to highlight is that the platform has always had it’s cringeworthy creators and that your rose-tinted glasses don’t automatically elevate the creators you personally liked to popular status. That’s not a bad thing per se, but obnoxious sensationalist creators operating at the same time as your preferred channels (and thus in your perceived glory days) were bigger and more popular than those you mentioned.

        • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOP
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Oh yeah, Fred was annoying of course. But there are far worse, far more annoying creators today. And theyre all selling shit.

          Asdfmovie isnt overblown for the sake of clickbait garbage though. A bear dying on the moon is fucking hilarious, or a cupcake thats mom is a cake.

          Its this sensationalist idiocy I cannot stand

          This isnt me yelling at cloud. This is actual shit content.

          Dont even get me STARTED on Shorts. Idiotic.

  • AverageEarthling@feddit.onlineEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    sadly, most have sponsors now. YT just isn’t paying like it used to. If you are desktop, sponsor block has been amazing at skipping these sections of videos.

  • BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 hours ago

    So it turns out most of my youtube subscriptions are history related, but…

    • Kings and Generals for historical battles because I’m a giant nerd.
    • Miniminuteman for fun debunking of archaeology myths
    • Mark Felton for WWII history
    • toldinstone for Roman history
    • History Matters for short introductions to historical topics with amusingly drawn characters
    • The Tim Traveller for slightly odd and very nerdy travel destinations
    • History With Hilbert because… uh… look, I like history okay?
    • Atun-Shei Films for US civil & revolutionary war history
    • WorldWarTwo for a documentary of WWII that advances one week per episode (originally recorded in real time)
    • TimeGhost for general history done by the same people that make WorldWarTwo
    • antichef is some guy that started as a pretty bad amateur chef trying to make Julia Child recipes. Now he’s a decent amateur chef doing the same.
    • Dr. Glaucomfleken for medical jokes
    • Townsends for early American history and recipes
    • Primitive Technology to just chill and watch a shirtless guy in the Australian outback build housing and tools from absolute scratch
    • UshankaShow for Soviet history and discussion of life in Soviet Ukraine
  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    10 hours ago

    Mancarrything has proven to be pretty entertaining. I’m late to the party on him.

    I’d advocate that some channels do amazing ad reads that can be at least as entertaining as the video itself. Back before Duncan Trussel turned into one of the aliens from “They Live”, he gave a 5 minute diatribe about Adam&Eve lube and your inalienable right to give yourself piss-your-pants orgasms. Also Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik does ads that are like short films. Just pure cinema.