thread of youtubers whomst are not terrible

with my particular physiognomy ... I'm at an age where it's not even honestly expected of me.

Fran Blanche makes some similar points and references the Contrapoints video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PoKz4vW-Mo

Having listened to that podcast, I don't know, I'm probably more on board with Natalie than I am with Fran! The point that Natalie gets to, eventually, is that beauty isn't forever, that "looking good" isn't just about being beautiful but about _style_, which is a form of positive self-expression. It does matter to me what people think of me, how people look at me, and just because my control of that (particularly as a non-cis person) is extremely limited doesn't mean that it's futile or wrong for me to try and look good!

Listening to trans voices is a hugely double-edged sword (I guess like one of those Castlevania swords?) for me. On the one hand it's hugely affirming, is great for helping me feel less alone, but on the other hand it makes me aware how hurt and damaged pretty much all of us have been by what we've been through. I am a little jealous of these young trans people because as superficial and naive as they can be about a lot of things, and as much open hostility and hatred as they have to put up with for being who they are, they don't have the internalized self-loathing that people of my age and older all seem to, they haven't been deformed by it the way we have.

Having gone through decades of chronic mental illness, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicidal intent, crippling panic attacks, drug addiction, and somehow having not just survived all that but made it to being a well-adjusted, happy, and successful human being, I'm absolutely terrified of throwing that all away, which it sometimes seems like I'm doing. I'm not actually, though. Being a well-adjusted, happy, and successful human being requires me to accept myself for who I am, even if it means being hated and scorned by other people.

Kat Blaque on the subject of LeftTube's whiteness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JxbjvvpDNQ&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/_P52G4Kyq5M

I never dug into Jon Bois non-sports videos but some of these are fantastic

GeoWIzard (né GeoguesserWizard) is currently releasing, bit by bit, the best British documentary of our age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7w986ni7_g

Some of the military channels are pretty great. Even those who aren't naval affictionados will enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGN5N4vn5Bs

Jomboy's baseball breakdowns are the best thing on Youtube ATM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCeXEa0Ouk8

is he just describing some baseball or am I not getting it

Commentary, lip-reading, internal monologues

Maybe more representative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8KxqTU4pw

jomboy is great. his breakdown of the big fight last week (pitcher tries to take on the whole team) was good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU-ESpiwV4o

that Jon Bois video about 24 linked above is so great

ts: jomboy vs jon bois

Really enjoying that 'walking in a straight line across Wales' series, thanks imago. I've not encountered the channel before.

Really enjoy the Techmoan channel, revisiting and reviewing old hifi and other consumer tech.

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

Really enjoying that 'walking in a straight line across Wales' series, thanks imago. I've not encountered the channel before.

Same, I binged the first three yesterday. Part where he dedicates his attempt to swim across a river to his mate that got stabbed is very Real England, too.

these are totally delightful thank you

There's a new one!

"Those Tesco hard gums would be paramount to my survival later that day"

The craziest thing is that I've been following his channel for two years and only now has he unleashed this insane content on us. Prior to this he was a comfort-watch as he'd just record himself playing Geoguesser. A startling evolution! I guess all that virtual globetrotting inspired him...

...to compose a sort of cross between Free Solo and Withnail & I

I"m learning so much about british culture

started on instagram, so a bit of a cheat, but it's available on youtube, too: Tiny Chef is wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OWDgbCM8qc&list=UUwbLD07XxWfEw0OIHZKM7lw&index=7

dang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OWDgbCM8qc&list=UUwbLD07XxWfEw0OIHZKM7lw&index=7

try as I might I can't make heads or tails of this Contrapoints "cancellation"

Is she canceled though?

She quit twitter, right? But she got as much support as criticism. Its hard to see her really losing subscribers on this? I don't quite now how to judge but a high profile person is always going to come under attack, and from all directions. If some people were unhappy with her I think thats generally ok if thats their take

Its tangentially related but I was thinking about the concepts of "the left eats their own" vs "why are there no left wing grifters", and whether 'cancellation culture' is actually that bad.

Right wing media tends to be more personality driven, so cancellation doesn't really happen, and leftist media tends to be more issue driven, so taking a position on an issue can be more divisive. (but then the right has fractious splits, PJW vs Shapiro, but then seems personality led fallout)

I just can't even tell what the actual controversy was, by the time I heard about it she was off twitter

I guess I could trawl through her mentions to figure it out but I'd really really rather not

oh, basically she said in 'hyperwoke' spaces everyone is giving their pronouns (leading to bizarre situation where an entirely cis group is doing this, and then Natalie has to do it and then situation where a passing trans has to explain when they might just like to be accepted)

and then she can go into a sports bar in NC and no one gaf, no one misgenders her, and she's called ma'am and miss all night

backlash being, well great for you who can pass

I might sorta have that wrong, could be deeper about the concept of 'passing', and that some non-binary people resented the possible implication that pronoun announcing is bad (or merely irritating to Natalie?)

it isn't the first time that she has kinda said stuff that made nb folks say "hey but uhhhhhhh" and i think the most recent super personal "if not for nb ppl i'd have an easier time" admission kinda made a whole bunch of people say "ok can we stop deifying this person" and she never signed on to be deified in the first place and other ppl took the opportunity to say she's been a lib the whole time and it's a real mess and a bunch of well-meaning people have been hurt by words of other well-meaning people

when in doubt, stan contrapoints tbh

anyway my latest discovery is TwoSetViolin, a charming young pair of Sino-Australian violinists who share the remarkable quality of being actually funny. they appear to have devoured Classical Music Youtube whole, and deservedly so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-yfZn5iYJE

what's jon done now

A guy walking around for 1-2 hours (mostly in the rain in big cities all over the world) and it's like weirdly relaxing even though there's a lot of noise and people (especially in Manhattan and Tokyo, for instance) : http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRTj-Nu_8to3jIBlXptOtA

how is this walking around in cities so fascinating? I'm hooked -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jf95Rh1Ew

I love it

I've been enjoying these videos ("Sad Reality a series where i vlog about dead or dying retailers") kind of like a sombre American version of Beno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1jJ08DYDls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgENz7cxfEw

https://themazatlanpost.com/2019/09/27/mexican-grandmother-creates-a-youtube-channel-to-teach-homemade-recipes-it-already-has-265-thousand-subscribers/

Looks interesting

Meanwhile in England, Kay's Good Cooking hasn't updated in over a year, hope she's ok

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeKWgImK1RAD9IGjWZqxmIw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxY_Y9TGWI

45 seconds into this, have given it a like and posted it here

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGPB2ZA4096SESz_VZVzHoA

Lockdown 23and1

Prison and after prison stuff

does ILX like Jreg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuopBeaUN24

Similar to StanM's post, this guy films lots of rural Japan in 4K with no music or dumb graphics. I cannot get enough of wandering through temples, tea houses or little backstreets, he even crossfades the sound for headphone listeners.

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

Australia really is Land Of The Youtuber right now, but I think "I did a thing" is now the best of all. Behold

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

I hope the (entirely too long) new Contrapoints on cancel culture starts some reasonable discussions on the subject. probably not tho

nice, looking forward to that

GeoWizard's new series has started incredibly well btw

he truly is the last flaneur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOyWpE-Jx0A

Bryan Brutons's Prison Channel is good. Did 11 years in the Florida Prison System