a place to talk Contrapoints, Lindsay Ellis, and anyone else anyone cares to recommend or complain about, prompted by the former's newfound level of popularity, but pls feel free to talk about any cool #content providers, not just politics folx
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 12:57 (three weeks ago) Permalink
thx comrade
― 🎶 in a world of pure exsanguination 🎶 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 12:59 (three weeks ago) Permalink
also there was some discussion on the second thoughts thread of Natalie being problematic in some way but I couldn't really follow it, so pls hash that out here if you are so inclined
I've heard good things abou hbomberguy but can't really bring myself to click on someone who uses formulations like "x is terrible and here's why", regardless of what the x is (well, maybe if it's capitalism).
hbomberguy is tight with the other two youtubers already mentioned so he tends to get lumped in as well, but my big problem with his videos is they're too damn long. if you care about the politics of gaming you could do a lot worse and he is quite funny and charming at times, but he could really take a page from Contra when it comes to concision
For anyone who's curious about Lindsay Ellis, her three-parter on the Hobbit films is a bit of a form-buster when it comes to YouTube video essays, particularly for the way it blossoms from an essay into an actual documentary partway through
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:03 (three weeks ago) Permalink
danielfromsl has popped up on ILG plenty but I think he potentially has mass appeal. Kind of the Nathan Fielder/Eric Andre of online gaming, reliably hilarious.
― 'Rock Me (I'm a Dais)' (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:10 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Kinda wish this thread was a video game-free zone but whatever, that's just me. Carry on.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:13 (three weeks ago) Permalink
I wish that too, but it's kind of an impossible wish given how everyone plays video games obsessively
Anyway, I have lots of quasi-viable options for this thread but I don't know which ones to foreground
― imago, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:19 (three weeks ago) Permalink
I'll say that Jon Bois >>>>>>>
Well, NB, the only other game-related videos I really watch are Skate 3 glitch compilations so clearly I'm mostly just in it for the lols.
― 'Rock Me (I'm a Dais)' (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:20 (three weeks ago) Permalink
how did I not know that Jon Bois has an entire channel
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 13:24 (three weeks ago) Permalink
speaking of which, let's begin the actual youtubing with the best video on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK2anpoKeNM
― imago, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 14:54 (three weeks ago) Permalink
(although really his Pretty Good and Chart Party series are MANDATORY viewing)
― imago, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 14:57 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Stevem does pretty good videos about Japanese music (from Jazz to City Pop to Japanese Hip-Hop) and the more respectable end of anime (Miyazaki etc.)
Vinilteca is good if you want to get a grasp on the Brazilian music canon but it's in Portuguese.
Strictly Dumpling is my guilty pleasure food go-to. It's pretty vapid, dude doesn't have a ton of charisma and the music's terrible BUT he does seem to know his shit and has a stomach of steal, so seeing him eat prodigious amounts of grub throughout South East Asia is pretty entertaining. I'm sure accounts like that are a dime a dozen but this one's at least well edited and doesn't have too many calls to action.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:23 (three weeks ago) Permalink
incidentally, since you mentioned calls to action, if anyone doesn't know what that means, the most recent Lindsay Ellis video is a meta meditation on the youtuber business model that gets into all this stuff and it's a good overview of the madnesses inherent to the platform
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:25 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Yeah, that's where I learned the term :)
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:27 (three weeks ago) Permalink
I go back and forth on whether to just block Youtube entirely. As much as I like Contrapoints and free music, it's a site that activates my worst internet compulsions. Like she put it in the CTH interview, "Youtube forced me to watch it."
― jmm, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:30 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Not crazy about how this conflates Disney and Warner Bros but whatever, I guess both could be equally restrictive in their own ways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8-09DbxHBU
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 11:42 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Primitive Technology, in which a man makes all kinds of things using pretty much only what he finds in the woods:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE
You Suck at Cooking, a fine decoction of deadpan self-deprecation and sheer absurdity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHF2hDuH5HE
Michael New is a guy who teaches music theory & composition basics in a very accessible way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBhJsShMF2g
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 12:08 (two weeks ago) Permalink
scott brown carpentry & the MRE man
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 18:31 (two weeks ago) Permalink
I assume people know about Simone Giertz and her intentionally-shitty robots but if not well then there you go.
― Welcome to Gropelord, TX (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 18:44 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Someone tried to get me into asmr videos because he thought it would totally be my thing. IT IS TOTALLY NOT MY THING.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 18:46 (two weeks ago) Permalink
I like this funny South African woman who does car reviews that contain some great real life info and also bad singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCw6N5iNV8g (that statium is in Cape Town, by the way)
http://www.youtube.com/user/julietmcguire/videos
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 19:22 (two weeks ago) Permalink
cool channel having weirdos guide you through their tiny weirdo houseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRJE2caPNY
in a way, it's anti-youtuber in that it's more errol morris than the "me-me-me-me i have a take on everything!" approach that youtube seems to encourage. speaking of which, I think errol morris's son has a channel where it's just him taking a bunch of drugs.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 19:37 (two weeks ago) Permalink
you suck at cooking was a great call
― imago, Friday, 30 November 2018 23:10 (one week ago) Permalink
oh yeah scott brown carpentry
― micah, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:08 (one week ago) Permalink