I love long-form videos that tell information and stories. Documentaries about most any topics, especially ones that last an hour or more, are my bread and butter. But when I’m using YouTube on my TV, I can’t tell from thumbnails what the quality of a channel is. Sometimes I find gold, but other times it’s obvious they’re using an AI voice over or AI imagery and I immediately turn it off. I’m so tired of trudging through the slop, even though it’s just beginning.
So for now, I figure I’ll check with y’all - do you have any preferred/recommended channels that make the sort of video I’m looking for, that are still human-made? I’d love to hear about them.
Check out Simon Whistler and his team’s channels. Tons of informative stuff and I think they make a sizable portion of all YouTube content lol
https://www.simonwhistler.com/
The Whistlerverse is just too full of inaccuracies to be a good source for infotainment
Agreed. I used to follow his channel until he spoke a hot a topic I actually knew about beforehand and realized bro isn’t great at reaserxh or critical thinking. He just parrots whatever Google tells him.
How so? Not doubting, I just hadn’t heard anything before.
Well I discovered it when I saw there was so many channels of his that talked about the similar topics, it felt off somehow so I started to google some of the stuff he talked about. It wasn’t necessarily wrong, but inaccurate enough that when you watch a lot of his stuff the image of what happened will be skewed. It has been years since I did it so I don’t have exact details for you, but it shouldn’t be too hard to replicate (if google/google.scholar hasn’t degraded too much).