Which You tubers (if any) do you follow?

I watch Youtube way too much, so I'm subscribed to loads of shit. I won't name them all.

Abroad in Japan: watched this one since almost the start and it's gone from just an English teacher in a room to a whole empire - probably the best production values on Youtube.
Peter McKinnon: Canadian photographer.
Casey Neistat: proper filmmaker turned vlogger.
Caroline Winkler: interior design, but by an ex-stand up comedian, so pretty funny scripts
Veritasium: the best educational channel going
Sorted Food: bunch of chefs in the UK
Foil, Arms and Hog: fantastic Irish comedy sketch channel
Viva La Dirt League: fantastic New Zealand comedy sketch channel, mostly sketches set around computer game logic

I then also subscribe to a bunch of channels from real TV shows, like Last Week Tonight, Big Fat Quiz of the Year, Taskmaster, the Last Leg, BBC Earth, etc, because they post clips or in some cases, full episodes. I also subscribe to loads of channels that illegally post shows like HIGNFY, because I live abroad.

I subscribe to some comedians for the same reason. Kevin Bridges is one that comes up as I look just now.

A few football channels:
Tifo and Tifo IRL
Our very own Esteemed Kompany, of course


I've got a few subscriptions that are career-based.

Recently, I started subscribing to a few of the productivity ones, like Ali Abdaal, but I found that after a few videos, the same stuff just keeps coming around again and again, and they're basically just a self-help book in video form (i.e. generalized advice often from someone who knows nothing about your circumstances) and I catch them giving some pretty dodgy information at times, especially when they start talking about financial stuff.

I watch a few of those reaction channels. I never got it at first, but then I realised it basically just another way to rewatch all of your favourite old TV shows.

Same with game streaming. WTF is that about? Then I bought Cities Skylines, and I couldn't stop watching videos of other people playing it way better than I can. But it's more like a radio than something you watch really intently.

I have considered doing one myself. I'm an English teacher and I had to make a video for my masters' degree last year and it went pretty well. But it's quite a competitive field, especially in the English teaching niche, where it helps to be a hot girl. But equally, I've watched quite a few language learning videos, and a lot are pretty shit. But the problem on Youtube is that you don't necessarily make money by actually being educational, just by making people feel like they're learning something.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Abroad in Japan: watched this one since almost the start and it's gone from just an English teacher in a room to a whole empire - probably the best production values on Youtube.
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He's doing another tour and has just completed 3 days with Natsky culminating in a 3 ramen a day challenge, great stuff
 
mexico1970 said:
He's doing another tour and has just completed 3 days with Natsky culminating in a 3 ramen a day challenge, great stuff
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Yeah just watched it. I've watched the channel since the early days. One of the great things about Youtube is seeing people improve over time.
 
Abroad in Japan is one I used to watch religiously untill about s year ago, now I tend to listen to the podcast version. Loved the first cycling trip they did, but all the rest have lacked that sense of adventure, feels overproduced if anything at times.

I may watch this latest adventure he's on now, although it's car based, but he doesn't name the videos anything sensible so it's not obvious which ones are part of the trip.

I do wonder if he has an older brother, I went to university with someone with the same surname, from the same town, who looked pretty similar.
 
Meidas Touch: law and politics in US. Superb on Trump.
Joe Bloggs: World economy.
Various foodie sites.
 
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