You Tube Genres You Didn't Know Existed

*teardown
*mailbag
*reacts to

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I realize it’s more traditional than grocery unpacking and ear cleaning, but I"m a huge fan of vsauce and game theory (mostly.)

Those videos that do teardowns are also neat because ‘woo I get to see things taken apart and I don’t have to explain to mom why the home phone is in eight pieces and it’ll take an hour to put back together.’

And Man at Arms. I don’t nessicrily always liek their sword choices, but it’s neat to see.

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I’m a million percent not into medieval arms and armor/European martial arts, but I enjoy watching Skallagrim’s videos for some reason. I even enjoy the ones where he’s just pontificating on some element of life in a way that I disagree with.

I can get behind this. I mean just look at @Missy_Pants, who clearly has a problem with some of the shopping choices getting made. I’m not even saying that she’s wrong to have an opinion, but it’s interesting to see how much other people are and are not just like us.

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Not quite sure what you call this genre.

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As someone who would love a workshop like that: Porn. We call that pornography.

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I look forward to explaining to future generations about how the public at large used to use the Internet to watch red hot balls of metal placed on things, watched consumer electronics put in blender, and watched people speak in creepy voices while they opened candy and toys.

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FSSSSSSS squeak

Ahh that’s the stuff.

I like RHNB.

Currently watching 8-bit guy go on about the history of mac keyboards.

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Today I used YouTube to listen to a documentary about the Marx Brothers, a couple of episodes of Dr. Katz, some standup by Shappi Khorsandi, and to look up a SpongeBob clip.

I’VE BEEN DOING IT ALL WRONG!

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Watch people make gun powder out of their urine.

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Its not a problem per se… I’m just more amused? Amazed? Confused? I guess I want to know what “normal” is… and am I it? :wink:

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“Oddly satisfying”
“Vaporwave”
“X nationality tries Y food”
“Red hot nickel ball”
“Hydraulic press”
“Custom shotgun rounds”

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These are the only Buzzfeed videos worth watching imo. :slight_smile:

They have expanded much past buzzfeed.

Which is good. Because it is obvious they keep on trying to find a social group of people that matches the people they have working already in their office, so they can churn out ever more videos.

Some of those “Irish people” are a little dodgy. The gal with the half irish/half LA accent “reacting” to American food. ORLY.

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RHNB is oddly satisfying. I already know more about old Mac keyboards than I should, so I’ll skip that, though. Pre-ADB keyboards blew.

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I’ve been trying to find more about the IIGS, because frankly it’s a good system apple killed off purely because it wasn’t mac.

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I tried watching Dr. Katz on youtube, but it wasn’t a very good print, the image kept shaking.

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The IIGS was a remarkable system, you could NetBoot them off an AFP server with LocalTalk cables, which was amazing for the time, though Apple was wise to put their focus on one platform (and focus on using the M68k which had better perf than the 6502 based arch of the IIGS, and more importantly had legs).

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Videos of people sneezing. I don’t actually recommend it, just mildly impressed they exist.

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Whoa. Why that is indeed a thing, is a pretty pointy question IMO…

One the likes of Mike Moore, Noam Chomsky, and sociology PhD candidates everywhere could chew on pretty hard, I bet.

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Oh, I’m not sure if it’s a Youtube genre, but there are tons of multi-hour spaceship audio tracks:

Want to listen to the Millennium Falcon all day?

How about the Enterprise?

Pretty much every sci-fi ship out there has one at this point, usually multiple.

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