Shameless plug of my playlists:
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Long video game essays (30min - 1h)
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Longer video game essays (1h+)
Edit: Yes the playlists are very much still incomplete and a work in progress. I promise I’ll eventually add the recommendations yall made!
I mean, you gotta learn about the failure of the Star Wars hotel!
I didn’t wake up planning to watch a 4hr video in the failure of the Star Wars hotel but I’m weirdly glad I did
Jenny’s video was so damn good, I’ve started watching her back catalog.
My wife: we’re not going to watch a 4hr video about the Stars Wars Hotel.
My wife, 3hs50min into the Star Wars Hotel video: I need to know more!!
Technology connections.
Ahoy.
Also Cathode Ray Dude
My favorite is summoning salt.
Yeah me too. I had no idea I could be fascinated by something I had absolutely no interest in.
*Riloe
*Architect of games
*Nakey Jake
*Gamer makers toolkit
*Curious archive
*Lemino
*12 tone
*AI and games
*Alpha Phoenix
*Barely sociable
*Be smart
*Branch education
*Brick immortar
*Bytebytego
*Cgp grey
*Coffeezilla
*Defunctland
*Eckharts ladder
*Electroboom
*Every frame a painting
*Lessons from the screenplay
*History of the earth
*History of the universe
*Internet Historian
*Kurzgesagt
*Lockpickinglawyer
*Markrober
*Mustard
*Cold fusion
*Polymatter
*Minute physics
*No clip documentaries
*PBS spacetime
*Pursuit of wonder
*Real engineering
*Scishow
*Secret base
*Stevemould
*Technology connections
*The b1m
*The history guy
*The squidd
*Throttle house
*Tom Stanton
*Tom Scott (retired now)
*Veritasium
*Vsauce
*Wendover productions
Edit: things I forgot or didn’t know about and had suggested to me below
*Half as interesting
*Undecided with Matt Farrell
*3blue1brown
*Numberphile
*Mathologer
*Miniminuteman
*Sam o’nella
*Alternate history hub
*Road guy rob
*8-bit guy
*Modern vintage gamer
*Bobby Broccoli
*Jenny Nicholson
*Animagraffs
*Captain disillusion
*Driving 4 answers
*Engineering explained
*Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)
*Kings and generals
*Michael Reeves
*Noah caldwell-gervais
*People make games
*Pointless hub
*Smarter everyday
*The engineering mindset
*The great war
*The operations room
*The modern rogue
*Zack Freedman
*The backyard scientist
*Brew
*I did a thing
*Neo
*Stand up maths
There i think that’s it. That’s a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.
These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.
Not everything here is video essay, but it’s high quality content imo
Based on the names I know on this list, I am super excited to check out the ones I don’t. Thanks!
Also check out miniminuteman too. Good pseudoscience/conspiracy theory debunking.
I know several of those. One I don’t see listed is stuff made here. If you’re a fan of backyard scientist, you’re gonna love stuff made here.
Smarter everyday is really a special one. The way that guy involves his kids and his own boyish excitement when he finally gets an experiment right is downright heartwarming. Then there was the whole episode checking in on physics girl. He had no particular incentive to do that. He just really seems to care.
You’re right about stuff made here. Love that.
The real commitment is when somebody like Plainly Difficult uploads an annual omnibus of all their videos for the year. I watched them all individually, then I watch them again in 9 hour form.
False alarm,hbomberguy did not publish recently
Video essays somehow skip past my eternally short attention span
I thought hbomberguy uploaded :(
Yeah ditto :( but Jenny Nicholson released a 4 hour video on the Star Wars Hotel just recently.
10/10 video. She knocked it out of the park.
watched the whole video then the song at the end got me cracking up so hard haha whole thing is great
And it’s so ridiculously good. The NYT even wrote an article about it.
Wait, that’s awesome! I’ll have to check that out :)
Short list of favorite long YouTube “documentaries”:
- https://youtu.be/fIuhg0bjvQI
- https://youtu.be/Qe5WT22-AO8
- https://youtu.be/yXbJe-rUNP8 (5 fucking hours about the sm64 a button challenge)
- https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI
- https://youtu.be/suRdLbdfdhA
All of these are very good
Damn, these playlists are gold, some of the things I watched are included.
I have never played genshin impact and I object fundamentally to gatcha games. But I like video games a lot. Should I watch?
Definitely! I never played it too and the video was amazing!