Most of my video media consumption in the later years have been mostly on YouTube. It started as watching the popular "Let's Play" format where people do their playthroughs of video games, but it didn't branch out much, I kept it to only a few channels.
In the past two months, however, things have gotten interesting.
Feeling a bit fed up with the handful of YouTubers I've been watching for years I started exploring different kind of videos. I usually like to watch something while I'm eating so short videos have been always the preference. First I came upon a silly Japanese channel by SUSHI RAMEN【Riku】with crazy funny science experiments where half of the entertainment value was the editing. Then I started watching clips of Penn & Tellers' "Fool Us" show and it's been great. Then also some videos about solving puzzles. Timelapse videos of birds growing up. YouTube caters to my kind of insatiable curiosity where really specialized content and information is available in massive, endless piles. My "Watch Later" playlist has grown exponentially in the last few weeks. I want to see more things I wouldn't otherwise ever come across myself, or learning about things I didn't know before!
Today, I saw a video about people making handmade candy in Czech Republic and it tickled my curiosity so bad when I saw them twist the log of candy; like cutting up an alien flower or something! I've never seen anything like that!
Crazy! If you showed this to someone out of context, they might not have the slightest idea what it could be.
What inspired me to write now was watching this video about tasting incredible looking street food in China -- and I'm sure there's many like it, but this particular gentleman was very different from the usual "white man bewildered by strange Chinese foods" (usually the food shows like that on the TV are way too cringy to watch), because he spoke Chinese and was genuinely enthusiastic about the food and culture around him. So enjoyable to watch, I could never do something like this myself but it's great I get access to explore the world this way!
Also a slight content warning, some of it could be disturbing)
Also as a sidenote, yes, I loved Madventures.
It's nice to know that so many people are also immune to corporate media. I myself spend most of my free time consuming youtube media. There is literally only one show outside of youtube that I watch on Netflix, "Better Call Saul". Oce that series is over, I'm sure I'll never watch anything on that platform on my own accord again.
ReplyDeleteWith some of the content you've shared you're intersted in, you should check out JunsKitchen. He has short high quality video featuring cats who stick around and watch him prepare chef quality meals.
https://www.youtube.com/user/JunsKitchen/featured