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Friday Fun Thread for January 20, 2023

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What are some niche things you like to watch on youtube? The more obscure/random the better. Here are some of mine:

  • People grocery shopping in Seoul/Tokyo (they don't speak, they just show them picking up items and putting them in their carts)

  • People who use metal detectors and "fish" with magnets to find old relics (usually in the Eastern US and Western Europe, lots of civil war bullets and things like that are found)

  • This guy who builds huts and other primitive technologies in the woods by himself

  • Nail art videos

  • People building small models of things (like dioramas etc)

  • People doing traditional crafts (especially Japanese art craft like urushi and kintsugi, wagashi making etc)

  • Old documentaries (especially from the 70s or about foreign cultures or groups of people who are unfamiliar to me)

  • Videos from people who've bought castles in France showing their homes

  • How It's Made type videos (particularly bakery food production)

  • "Walk with me" type videos where people post high res videos of their walk through neighborhoods or nature

  • 70s cable tv variety hour skits

  • Women doing their makeup while talking about true crime stories

  • Videos of people eating at fancy cafes and restaurants in Paris

  • Videos about people who live in far flung places like rural Alaska or Siberia and how they survive or make their home

  • "Nostalgic footage" videos ranging from early 1900s street scene footage to compilations of everyday 70s and 80s scenes in east Asia

  • Animated fairy tale videos (usually anime or Eastern European ones for me)

  • Soviet movies (I particularly like fantasy ones for girls)

  • Animal Crossing island tours (people showing you how they've decorated their islands)

  • Walmart Story Time videos (mostly girls telling you about when they worked at walmart and weird stuff they saw or experienced)

I could go on but that's probably enough haha, let me know if anyone is interested enough in any of these and I can give recommendations for videos or channels to check out. But yeah I'm always looking for new interesting ways people use youtube so I'd love to hear what you all are into

Great topic, I am very much into YouTube channels with unique proposition values, one that is remarkably great is https://youtube.com/watch?v=pDW4IYVlbbw

I am also in sapiosexual love with Vihart, the mathemusician, possibly the most brilliant woman on youtube, if not on earth

Throughout the decade I have been able to find the ultimate artists though, such as the unique masterpiece that is Umami's Interface

https://youtube.com/watch?v=b_V-VJQT6pM

And the vocally unique: The Minute Hour

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UvHP1mUcFDk

The squids are cool

Oh I found Vihart on soundcloud, I like her Christmas songs she has posted there. If you like her, she kind of reminds me a little bit of Maya Ben David: https://youtube.com/@MayaBenDavidMBD (though I think Maya seems a little more into irony/satire whereas Vihart seems more genuine from the bits I've watched just now)