thread of youtubers whomst are not terrible

anyone got any new recs? not of tubers strictly but anything good on tube

i've been really into this wisconsin dude who trims injured and infected cow hooves

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

generally not into gross stuff or body horror video, it's not really like that (there's also a scot who does the same thing but he's insufferable and puts crap music on his shit)

ok that blew up the link

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

fuck!

NatetheHoofGuy

absolutely fucked up recommendation and yet you pulled a fantastic "channel joe pera subscribes to."

i like this froggy flips guy who finds stuff at yard sales and re-sells it

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

Did I really want to hear a ska cover of Whitney Houston? No. But this guy's joy is pure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYYSXWn34IE

As mentioned by Daniel_Rf a year ago, our old favourite Ogmios' Zen School Of Motoring looks to be starting on the BBC tomorrow. I wish it had stuck to Youtube for a bit longer, we only got, what, three videos?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/15/zen-school-of-motoring-tv-that-will-cleanse-your-spirit-like-meditation

i'm so glad the commissioners didn't demand he do some other format. thoroughly deserved. can't wait.

if you want pristine chill vibes and fix it process action, may i recommend Thomas Johnson Furniture Restoration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJixEN8vHJQ

Kirsten knocks it out the park again, where does she find these people?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIdGqyWTtD0

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGrFzYXlD0

ogmios returns to YouTube finally and it's still so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxYm0r8bY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fg-JimLvc4

Perfect choice for the thumbnail

Kirsten knocks it out the park again, where does she find these amazing folks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03jgK_9aWoM

Lol, almost word for word, how predictable am I

This guy has a very soothing voice

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

Does anyone else watch Steve Wallis/Camping with Steve? He posted the sad news that his wife ("Beautiful Wife", as he calls her and as viewers will know her from his videos) died unexpectedly a few days ago in a short and very emotional video yesterday.

I don't ever comment on YouTube, so just wanted to say here that I feel so sorry for him and hope he is as ok as can be. I've been watching most of his videos for a few years now and he's most definitely a YouTuber whomst is a long long way from terrible. He seems like a lovely guy with absolutely zero pretence and I really enjoy his videos of various camping escapades.

Pat Finnerty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9yswswxCuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w41S3d6f-FY

The August Is Falling lyric video dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-9fyRnczzo

Anyone got any favourite recs for stuff that is relaxingly spooky? Folkore/urbex/caving/nuclear/ghosty sort of shit?

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The Old Cookbook Show

As name suggests he makes dishes from pre World War 2 cookbooks. The Scotch egg episode is eye opening as I never knew that they were also a name for preserved eggs.

He also does contemporary food and drinks but the Old Cookbook segment each Sunday is the highlight.

Emily Hopkins, harpist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6e2Ia7pfE

Not watched yet but new show by synth duo The Lovely Eggs featuring ILX fave CummingsYourWay, Stewart Lee, John Cooper Clarke amongst others.

nestcams are bonkers right now fyi, real nature in the raw type ish. charter group birdcams has the best/worst/beorst? sweet little owl mama tenderly preening her fuzzy lil hatchlings amid literal heaps of dead mice in varying stages of decay, so effortlessly metal. and the barn owl drama this season has been _gut-wrenching_ like i'm serious, do not read this, it is horrible: right so a few weeks ago one of the larger baby barn owls fucking EATS ITS SMALLER SIBLING ALIVE, just horks it right the heck down its gullet, i am being completely honest with you here, it happened, there's video, don't watch it, it's the worst. or it would be the worst except for what came a while later which is EVEN MORE WORST and i feel like for everyone's safety & sanity i ought to create spoiler tags within spoiler tags -- nested spoilers, if you will -- but i don't want to break the universe and god help you, you've already read this far: the mama barn owl died in the nest, AND HER CHILDREN ATE HER CORPSE, and her bones and feathers are just lying there in the nest box now that the fledglings have moved on, and the father barn owl has brought home a new mate, and she hangs out in the nest box contentedly regarding the remains of her predecessor and it is all just like, damn.

robert fuller's cams are cuddlier, and he puts together sweet little nature documentaries about the adventures of the wild raptors on his yorkshire estate, when i long to cleanse my palate of all the INTRA-FAMILY CANNIBALISM

Herc from The Wire breaks down elements of Hip Hop and adjacent genres in very well put together mini-documentaries.

http://www.youtube.com/@diggingthegreats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UxJvxeVvSI

MaresNest I watched a video from that account and dude says he is not the dude from the Wire (dunno if it's a bit). It was also titled RECORD DIGGING WITH QUESTLOVE and then he explains Questlove didn't want to be filmed, lol

think this is the best thread for talking about Geowizard. he's just put out a new video, first part of his fourth attempt at crossing Wales, he's been pushed into quickly doing this as a team of youtubers had told him they were about to attempt it. so I checked out their channel and almost an instant nope from me, arrogant posh boys with heaps of bants, none of the 8 bit music or the introspection that makes Geowizard a great youtuber, I hope he can beat them.

hell yeah let's goooo

My Geowizard ranking would be

Black Country No Roads
Wales 1
Norway
Scotland
Wales 3
Football Across Britain
How Not To Travel Europe
Wales 2
How Not To Travel America

Yeah I didn't bother with the US series, felt like well trodden territory.

It felt like he was straining to make some interesting content, but America was just not providing it, the attempt to make the football game at the end interesting just felt kind of sad. Would have been better just to do a really long hike or maybe motorbike across the whole country.

Black Country No Roads on the other hand was one of the highlights of last year, hope he does more urban exploration

Europe is TOO LOW in that ranking imo, that was a blast, although yeah very little beats the og Wales one, the sheer shock of watching this dude I'd been subscribed to for his Geoguessr content suddenly turning into the world's last great explorer, and certainly the greatest one to make their own soundtracks

The one with his brother (Wales 3) was fantastic, his brother is just as eccentric as him if not more so, I'd have that over Norway and Scotland too. Sorry, Welsh Greg, lol

Despite the ropey bants of his support crew I loved the Football Across Britain one as well, culminating in the only ever hair-raisingly epic, EARNED rendition of Football's Coming Home (save for when the German crowd sung it during their 4-1 WC win over England, lmao)

I also LOVED the understandably short-lived experiment of his long-suffering girlfriend blindfolding him and driving him to random spots across the UK and seeing how long it took him to find out where he was

Should break it down into tiers I guess

unqualified love

Black Country No Roads
Wales 1

slightly-qualified love

Norway
Scotland
Wales 3
Football Across Britain
How Not To Travel Europe

still good

Wales 2

bit of a let-down

How Not To Travel America

his girlfriend is absolutely the low key star whenever she's involved, yup

your top tier is notably the ones that are the most Just Tom (ft Occasional Verity). just a weird dude fighting through gorse. perfection

Norway is Tom & Verity too, slight qualification there is that the terrain was a bit uneventful, apart from the bit where he nearly died in a peat bog of course.

There's a LOT more of her in that one, to the extent where it's virtually a duo mission. Unbelievable kayak-hauling dedication

XP to Daniel, Yeah I just watched that one yesterday, I was just being silly by calling him Herc from The Wire, but he really reminds me of him. His videos are pretty great though.

Enjoying RM Brown lately, one of the only lefty commentator types on YouTube that consistently makes me laugh.

apparently Miranda Sings / colleen ballinger is terrible and manipulative to young fan(s). I'm not positive what she did rises to the level of 'groomer' though

what percentage of youtubers whomst are not terrible turned out to be terrible?

in fairness youtube did build a system wherein success and evil are positively correlated