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What's your go-to long form Youtuber? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title essentially. Youtube's algorithm is hot garbage, so I can't search for anything anymore without a ton of AI slop and rage bait. So, who do you go to for actual good long form videos? Exposes, scandals, behind the scenes, documentaries, film, travel, transit, who do you recommend I follow?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

Crime related:

Disaster related:

Weird medical stories: https://www.youtube.com/@chubbyemu

Interesting economic vids: https://www.youtube.com/coldfusion/

Business and economics: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions/

Geopolitics explainer vids: https://www.youtube.com/@CaspianReport/

Theme park history: https://www.youtube.com/@Defunctland/

Interesting historical themed vids: https://www.youtube.com/@YoreHistory/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

awesome comment! saved for later

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We have similar taste in youtubers! If you enjoy those disaster related videos, I recommend Abstract (formerly Real Horror). Great production value and storytelling. She does all her own work as far as I know, so she doesn't have a huge playlist to watch sadly. But the narration and setup really add a gravitas to the disasters that I feel the other youtubers are missing.

https://m.youtube.com/@Abstract

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Has 9 videos and 0.5M subs, I feel they might be worth looking at!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

above and beyond, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

If you’re into true crime, I highly recommend https://youtube.com/@thatchapter

Mike is a good storyteller and makes videos that aren’t just stock footage and images spliced together.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I guess I should have expected it, but I was hoping they were videos on how to do crime... ☹️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Lol. The Lockpicking Lawyer springs to mind 😁