Non-Political YouTubers that are good for a quarantine.
Last year there was a really good thread about youtubers that arn't pieces of shit. And it had some great recommendations. https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/bfe2cg/nonpolitical_youtubers_that_arent_pieces_of_shit/ I though it would be fun to do something like that again. There had been a few really interesting history youtubers that I really liked but then it turns out they were total chuds.
From the other thread there are a huge number of good choices but a few that stand out as absolute joys to the soul.
- Jenny Nicholson makes absolutely wonderful videos. Mostly reviews and script doctoring bits but she doesn't shy away from calling out bigoted nonsense in what she is talking about. Her reading fanfic is something you need in your life.
- Kurzgesagt has great production values, and is fantastic pop-science. While not all of their videos are perfect they did do corrections on two they felt were missteps and getting better is important.
- Girlfriend Reviews is just a girl watching her boyfriend play games and talking about them. But they are always upbeat and clearly having fun.
- Numberphile is a personal fav. Watching these people talk about math in such a joyous way and truly appreciate the beauty found in the field is healing. Especially Cliff Stoll (the klien bottles) and James Grime whose enthusiasm is so infectious.
- Also Numberphile2 channel has wonderful long form interviews, and learning they people got into math is just so interesting.
- Townsends is quite wholesome. I first saw him explode because his fried chicken recipe video explode on reddit but
- Sexplanations is so wholesome. Dr. Lindsey Doe is so joyous about sex. Always educating and always enthusiastic. I just want to type wholesome like 100 times because she is. It is so rare that you see sex anything that contains no shame, even in liberal/leftist spaces. So much of sex talk is around trauma or pain or inequality, which are important, but if that is the only time you talk about sex it still creates an association. You also need to talk about sex in a fun wholesome environment. She also has Amp from Watts The Safeword on and he is also quite fun to watch.
Other shout outs that are good that may have been overlooked and not usually posted here.
- https://arstechnica.com/video/series/war-stories Just people talking about how they made games in the old days.
- Small Beans is Micheal Swaim and some others post cracked work.
- Phelan Porteous another channel awesome person, sometimes works with ...
- Allison Pregler who does a lot of fun videos about not great movies and tv but is just very positive about it. I just like seeing bad movies get dunked on but not in a mean vindictive petty way.
- PushinUpRoses talks about Goosebumps, Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Murder She Wrote, retro adventure games, does some art and is very wholesome.
- MarzGurl Has a you tube, twitch streams, helped push an abuser out of the amine con circuit. Haven't watched her a lot but is still pretty solid.
Posted Mar 18, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC
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Sideways - videos about music and movie soundtracks. Some of my fave vid's include "How silent films invented the sound track" and "How a super hero theme works".