Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?
It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like "the world will end soon" or "my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto."
Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.
Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I'm start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.
Here's a few slightly lesser known creators that I'm a big fan of:
Aliensrock, let's player who mainly focuses on puzzle games. He gives good commentary on his though process and there's just something comfy and satisfying about watching a smart person solve puzzles.
Atrocity Guide, makes long form documentaries on unusual people and groups, etc. She always dives down some absolutely bizarre and fascinating rabbit holes. Personal favorites are her videos on Ullillillia and Nasubi.
Bloodrunsclear, stitches together clips of movies and TV shows to create fake movie trailers.
Britanick, legendary sketch comedy duo, every one of their videos has had me in tears laughing. They stopped uploading as much after becoming professional movie and TV writers, but have come back with a patreon in light of the writers strike.
Monstergarden, this guy who's been designing a strange and fascinating twist on the traditional fantasy setting via artwork, in universe writing, and even a short animation or two.
The Exploring Series, an SCP youtuber who goes into very in depth explanations of various SCP articles, as well as occasionally talking about other franchises like 40k or reading Lovecraft stories. Pretty much my only connection to SCP stuff anymore, I mainly like his voice and use his videos to go to sleep.
Venjent, a drum n bass artist that started blowing up on tiktok after he made a dnb track out of a creaky door. Extremely cheesy, but he's so sincere and friendly that the cheesiness is charming, it helps that the songs are all bangers too.
Night Mind, explores and discusses various pieces of internet horror and "unfiction". As someone that grew up on ARGs and creepypasta, Night Mind is singlehandedly keeping my love of internet horror content alive.
This trickle of new BriTANicK content is the best thing that's happened in years
I've replayed the VR sketch so many times already, it's so great to see these guys again. It's also been cool to see either of them show up in other places, Nick was a guest on an episode of Game Changer a while ago (also he's apparently married to Karen Gillan now??)