You Tube Genres You Didn't Know Existed

I love her as seen on tv videos. It doesn’t hurt that she’s hilarious and can talk non-stop for 40 minutes. :slight_smile:

The grocery hauls are interesting to me on a sort of anthropological level. I am interested in what people are buying… but then, like the video game videos, I also actually like shopping, so I don’t really get it? I’m just more amazed that people seem to eat out of boxes… LOL - maybe I should do a video of my cupboards? Lotta mason jars up in there!

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I think with the shopping videos in general, people are trained to enjoy shopping and are getting a vicarious thrill out of it. It’s like those house hunting reality shows. Frankly, I’ve done so much house hunting, and it has been such a pain the ass, that I do not fantasize about house hunting, but I think a lot of people do dream of buying a house that is perfect for their family, or for their retirement, and enjoy seeing people make those decisions.

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=haul

It’s a genre. Flash Fashion, makeup, and well, eventually, something changes.

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The uploader has not made this video available in your country. :frowning:

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I had a day where I fell down the rabbit hole of videos made at a laser oral surgeon, an Indian guy whose patients were all emergencies, never having had treatment. giant tonsilloliths, eagle syndrome and a bunch of stuff i don’t remember. it was fascinatingly weird, not only the stuff he was extracting, but also watching the laser cut it out and cauterize the wound in one go. but that pretty much satisfied my curiosity for “weird internet” for life, just browsing his playlist for a day.

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It’s just voyeurism at its most basic. Just watching random people doing random shit can be fascinating – especially if they are weird fur’ners (which by I mean non-USAin, of course because #murica).

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Is that actually something you can buy in the store?

I remember picking them in the wilds as a kid, and then (much, much later) in the 1980’s I thought they were found to be carcinogenic.

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Spent about an hour one day watching someone make knives.

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Jeebus H. The pimple stuff on you tube is disgusting. And what happens when people don’t go to the doctor when their friends start saying “You should go to the doctor.”

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*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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