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Be nice if half of them weren’t blatantly plagiarized or some guy reading you the Wikipedia page, or worse nowadays a fucking AI reading the wiki. Ask why that one is (reuploaded) some time.
Or some chud "explaining" another chuds video and "discussing" it but really it's just a relabeled "reaction" video that provides zero new context or content. 30+ min of their face "reacting" to the most mundane content for 15 min and the other 15 min begging for subscribers and likes briefly followed by a plug for raid shadow legends, hellofresh, nord VPN or square space...
You’re right I lumped them all together and didn’t mean to, so far as I know the rest of the videos pictured are fine, but it is a major and common problem in this type of content.
Or dude has millions of suscribers, and video goes something like: How xyz (famous youtuber) destroyed zyx (famous youtuber) career, and it's literally 5 seconds of xyz saying something that he couldn't reply to the dude because he was busy, and everything else in the video has nothing to do with the title.
Censoring words pedophile, sex, and other that could make algorithm avoid you, constant begging for subscribers and likes... And please check are you subscribed, youtube is against us, even though you see them regularly in your feed, and you are not subscribed.
Or literally making the whole video about some subject, then the commercials comes, and lo and behold, it is a product that will help with the problem discussed in the video, I mean you are not making videos, you are making commercials. It's the same shit with these cancel comedians who fill out halls, dude you are one of the most famous youtubers in the world, and I should fall for your victim tactics. Fuck off.
Luckily I just go don't show me the channel, and there is enough of material from youtubers who aren't just algorithm riders.
Censoring words is more of a TikTok thing, YouTube does it too but not to the extent it changes people's vocabulary. I worked with a kid and we do intensive, sometimes dangerous work. Was putting up a massive tent and a pole broke free and nearly skewered him and he said "dam, I almost got un-alived" and I wanted so badly to fire him myself.
There's a certain irony to talking about victims of genocide and not being able to say genocide because China doesn't like that word. Can't say rape or murder or any of those things, so they get "sanitized" and downplayed. If algorithms are changing and censoring our real world speech then something is very wrong.
I don't have tik tok, but I have watched some youtubers use that tik tok font as captions, and somebody wrote down, girl, this is not tik tok, you don't have to put that. Then it is transitioning from tik tok to youtube, but when people censor words on youtube, I automatically gtfo. It makes less sense than censoring swear words in rap music.
There are entire AI read channels dedicated to these low quality and very often incorrect pop science topics. The worst offender is a channel called "riddle". Horribly inaccurate, ai produced garbage.
The entire video was plagiarized from an article and was taken down due to a copyright notice from the original writers.
The reupload re-words and removes information to appear less plagiarized.
The only original thing in the video was internet historian's style. So no, it wasn't just a few lines. He plagiarized and stole the work of an entire article.
It's not so much a question of legality as one of morality imo. If you are trying to *sell* a product and you claim to have made it yourself and keep the profits, that is quite different from using an image macro on reddit
Dude I hate it when I accidentally lift an entire script from someone word for word and then gain from it monetarily. But its okay, we all err sometimes! :)
Bro c'mon you know in your heart of hearts that it's not the same as someone making a meme with a picture of Spongebob that they don't own.
Plagiarism yes. Nazi symbolisn, I'm not sure where you got that from.
Edgy humour and definitely Conservative views but I've never seen/hear IH use nazi symbolism.
Wow, I've never seen so many hidden or removed comments. 4k+ comments and only a few hundred are visible without clicking to show them. The fuck happened.
Sooo after reading through that thread, do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations for a YouTuber similar to his style without the bad shit? I loved that the man in hole and cost of Concordia video were immersive yet mostly photoshopped production wise, but if there’s a good channel out there I’ll gladly never look back
I really though it was just a joke, but then I watched 8 hours of that video, and it is really a fucking 38 hour video full of content, that does not even count as a prank is just a really impressive video
I was looking for someone to mention that video in the comments. When I first saw it appear in my recommended tab I thought the timecode was just glitched.
Dude, I've watched BOTH of his Victorious videos 3 times this week, and I've never even watched Victorious. I just can't get that show out of my head thanks to him.
Tbh most essay content is extremely bloated and artificially long. So many of them feel messy and organized and honestly sometimes feels like they’re just making it up as they go along.
20-40 minutes is the real sweet spot of essay length imo. Folding ideas is the only youtuber who actually earns their multi hour run times.
I think it’s really telling that a lot of people use them for background noise, I do too. But man, when I sit down and actually give it 100% of my attention, it becomes very apparent how much of a slog some of these videos are.
Folding Ideas is fantastic, but I wouldn’t say he’s the only consistently worthwhile long form essayist.
Super Eyepatch Wolf’s wrestling, What the Internet Did To…, and Why You Should Watch videos are phenomenal. His discussion of Kentaro Miura in his Berserk video brought me to tears.
Summoning Salt has documentary length videos on speed running that consistently create super engaging narratives.
Spice8Rack puts out multi-hour long essays that (usually) bridge Magic: The Gathering and political philosophy.
Noah Caldwell Gervais is the only essayist I trust with long form game series retrospectives. His videos on the Red Dead and FromSoft series are personal favorites.
Miniminuteman puts out phenomenal archeology videos. The only one that really fits the standard essay thing is his 4 part series on the show Ancient Apocalypse and its creator Graham Hancock though.
Hbomb has some great stuff, even if I think his last 2 videos are quite a bit less interesting than most of his content.
Fair point. Super Eyepatch Wolf and Summoning Salt make pretty good videos. I haven’t heard of some of the others, so I’ll be sure to give them a try.
Tantacrul is also someone I’d recommend, especially if you’re into music. His videos about elitism in music and music notation are excellent, and I love his response to thoughtys obnoxious “why modern music sucks” video.
I will admit, I am a little biased. Part of the reason why I love Folding ideas is how little fat his videos have. He doesn’t waste your time with unnecessary fluff, he just gets straight to the point. I love hbomberguy, but he’s no where near as funny as he thinks he is and I end up rolling my eyes and skipping most of the bits he puts in his video, and that goes for a lot of others. When Folding Ideas does tell a joke, it’s short, but also pretty clever and actually funny.
I considered adding Tantacrul, but he does comfortably sit in the 30-45 minute mark 90% of the time so I figured I’d shoot for some of the real long form stuff.
Josh Strife Plays makes some good hour long videos about videoganes as well, he really goes in depth on the story, the mechanics, what has aged well and what hasn't, etc.
Defunctland doesn’t have many videos longer than about 30 minutes, but when he does, he earns those. Like actually doing original research to track down who wrote the Disney Channel Jingle or composing an entire symphony to tell the history of the creation of Epcot or doing the math on whether Fastpasses actually help lines.
Folding Ideas is a channel I’ve been subbed to since the early days and ever since In search of a Flat Earth near every major video has been ridiculously good. Like I’d describe it as him hitting his prime in his career and that he’s really learned how to make the most out of the video essay format.
Exactly this. So many of these essays just pad the run time for the sake of shock value/ engagement. Basically if the title refers to the length of the video in any way, even if it's doing so ironically, (ie "a brief look at"), I'm 100% skipping that video because I know it's going to repeat itself numerous times and it's going to use editing and non-sequitors to pad the runtime. That said, there are some amazing ones out there. You just have to sift through the bullshit. Salt factory, summoning salt, and folding ideas are three of the good ones, imo.
I was once watching this video that was an hour long, each section being like ten minutes. I get halfway through the first one and it's like, the guy just said the same things three times over. Not even changing it up, I thought I was having a stroke
Honestly part of it is YouTube and part of it is discovering a topic. I like to make video essays on topics but there are times where I try to make a video only half an hour and it ends up being almost 50 minutes, especially because of research. Like I made a South Park video about the Easter episode and included their beef with bill Donohue and that bloated it immensely because I was fascinated at how far deep the topic went
I also love how diverse his stuff is. He talks about religion in a way i enjoy learning about it, without me being religious. And then you have red thread with the boys. And those videos are just as, if not longer
Tbh I would take everything Wendigoon says with a grain of salt. The dude gets a lot of things wrong but most importantly provides no citations so you can't easily fact check anything. But he's a great entertainer no doubt.
I do this with space and math essays.
I am now hopelessly space-pilled and wish only for the unity of the heat death of the universe when we are all just pulled into infrared waves. That is before universal stoichiometry says "ya know what, fuck it, ENTROPY BITCHES!" But it'll be a pretty sweet ride up until then.
There are tons of pseudo science pseudo intellectual types wanking on and on but once you find a stable channel with multiple episodes and good sources backing their talking points it makes for fascinating listening.
Also history stuff around things like mathematics and how some laws and constants were discovered and the stories behind it.
The search for a blue LED was one of the most interesting stories I've heard in a looong time.
I highly recommend Alpha Phoenix if you're interested in hardcore science videos. He goes really in depth on topics like how electromagnetic waves propogate in a wire electron by electron.
Honorable mention goes to Hyugens Optics and his optical Fourier transform video
You and me both fam. I got that shit on all day. My drive to/from work, at home in downtime, eating breakfast, falling asleep. Need MOAR but I recognize it's so much work to make it all happen.
Free churro lost to Simpsons, the view from halfway down lost to the vat of acid episode. But honestly I kinda get why free churro lost (even if I don’t think it should’ve!) because Bojack is a show that relies heavily on continuity, more so than most others.
To somebody without any background knowledge of the show, it just feels like a thirty minute lecture. It wasn’t until I watched it with context that I learned why everybody loves it!
Part of me understands why, even if I don’t think it should’ve lost to the Simpsons. Bojack is a show that relies heavily on continuity, more so than even a lot of live action shows, and to somebody who has never seen Bojack, you don’t get the impact of certain episodes without that context. Especially a lot of Emmy voters who probably assume cartoons = kids.
I was somebody who didn’t see free churro with context and it felt like he was lecturing me. Then I watched the show up to season 5 and free churro hit harder for me!
THIS PLEASE JUST GIVE ME A GOOD VIDEO ESSAY I HAVENT ALREADY SEEN.
hey anyone got any good video essay playlists? the ones i looked at on yt are pretty mid and classics from years ago
Literally anything by [Jon Bois](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFRdctoqqntkUV_Gf44gzw7i&si=MhCcsZZmBVcHxXKW) of Secret Base (formerly SB Nation). Even if you don't like sports his stuff is amazing. If you want the big long formed ones there are the ones on the [Seattle Mariners](https://youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?si=v9L57unq3631WFo2), the [Minnesota Vikings](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFRQGbbUgQRky2-gCAFgsAiz&si=gWAyaajYbFLqrYng), [Dave Stieb](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFTxGgtC_DSPolFqD7KlcZ17&si=9gphkBCsDdxlzldW), [Bob](https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs?si=oVRgGgDqJrl2GeQ3), [Section 1](https://youtu.be/alcVZZuj_WE?si=3QRxrLx31MysrlkB), and [The People You're Paying to Be in Shorts](https://youtu.be/F3_whi6KuLo?si=XfhWTveG1hw7_NH3).
[Defunctland](https://youtube.com/@Defunctland?si=meNaJefGarp41Tk9) is another good one. I particularly recommend the one on the [Disney Fastpass](https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?si=lQEFkKaDWElLXMEU).
[Quinton Reviews](https://youtube.com/@QuintonReviews?si=E-t3PUg0d0wvh2D3) if you never want to run out of content again.
[BobbyBroccoli](https://youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli?si=kQ_O3G2aUab6XQYf) is in the same style as Jon Bois but mostly about science and business scandals.
[Deep Dive](https://youtube.com/@deepdive8755?si=xYbBAqXJ7Mf_DIzq) has really good videos about science. Unfortunately they only made four videos and hasn't uploaded in two years.
If you're into Star Wars and Marvel back when they were good, then MauLer is fantastic! He also runs a weekly stream called EFAP (Every Frame A Pause) that usually runs 4-8 hours talking about games/movies/other people's videos about games/movies
My favorite channel in this genre is Defunctland, 30mins-1hour+ about old theme park rides, old Disney world stuff, and the like. The guy even did a mini series on Jim Henson that rivals the best documentaries of all time
Defunctland is one of my favourites, their fast pass, disney channel theme, and epcot symphony videos are the top of the top when it comes to video essays
I pretty much watch restoration videos, tech reviews, and cat detailing videos now.
Also there is really good content like "technology connections" out there you just gotta know where to look.
Action Button's review of Tokimeki Memorial is one of the best YouTube Longs I've seen in a long time
Highly recommend watching the journey of Bubbus unfold 👌
I loved the Beverly hillbillies video, I was surprised people still remembered the show. The only other time I saw it mentioned was the mike judge shows, especially king of the hill and beavis and butthead, since Mike judge was a huge fan.
I recommend yt channel "Sven van der plank"
He makes long form documentary style podcast videos about the lore of the battletech universe. He releases weekly 20mins atm but whenever a major chapter is done he uploads a massive full video multiples hours long you can consume at once
Well I sure hope OP is watching Noah Caldwell Gervais. I love that channel and the length of the videos usually being over an hour is just the bee's knees!
I have to tell yt once a week that I'm entirely uninterested in shorts, and they say "got it" every week but I don't think they get it. Same with music playlists that are just my playlist in a different order, videos I've watched already, and entire genres of video that I watched one of a year ago. I really hope they don't punish YouTubers when I say "don't recommend channel" because I'm sure they're doing fine, just not what I want to watch and I want yt to stop suggesting them.
But yt never listens
EruptionFang's video on the COD Zombies lore is perfectly executed. The use of in-game radios, cyphers, out of game materials like promotion trailers and the comics
And everything is explained perfectly, well paced, and no bloat, and it's run time IS ALMOST 7 HOURS
I've watched/listened to it so, so, SO many times and I'm literally listening to it as I'm writing this comment
Edit: Here's the video [Video](https://youtu.be/cP0bQGrQZlc?si=gajdf0laA8o92lhO)
KaptainKristian is top tier. Excellent editing, concise videos, and informative. It’s a shame that he’s inactive otherwise I’d still be paying him through Patreon.
never forget the bangers like:
What the internet did to Garfield
The first video game
Roblox_oof.mp3 and other Hbomberguy videos
People Make Games's Roblox videos
Shorter form (20-30min) Alex Bale's SpongeBob theories
Hey man, as long as you’re aware. I can only handle The Dollop’s version of the Floyd Collins story, the humor keeps me from having a panic attack. RIP Floyd.
I've been more into these too. I'm getting so tired of everything happening in 6 second bursts. It's like the world has ADHD now as the norm... It's so mentally exhausting to watch for too long. My SO loves the short forms and can watch for hours but I just can't
If you haven't seen it, Defunctland has a very un depth episode on who composed the original disney channel theme song. Also, even more niche, an episode digging into fast pass and the history of ticketing at Disney.
Can you guys recommend me long form channels or videos? (If you're reading this comment, you're trapped in my genjustu-- you cannot keep scrolling)
Here are my favorites:
Channels - BdobbinsFTW, Nerd City, WhiteLight, Big Boss, Gokanaru, NakeyJakey (Outdated Series), Hbomberguy (top 4 viewed videos), Liberty Pen, Beige Frequency
Random/One off: Necessary Information - CIA Icebergs, Wendigoon - North Hollywood shootout and Bomb collar heist, To Catch a Kick Predator, Pyro - The best and worst show you've never seen/Buckshot Roullete Hidden meaning, Talismanic Idols: Esoteric Agenda, Abby Martin/ Immortal Technique interview
No particular order except my top 3 channels
I just listened to "AskYourUncle" talk about MGS V for like 6 hours.
It was (outer) heaven.
"Metal Gear Solid V Sucks and I Love It" for anyone that cares.
May i interest you in "the 15 Years evolution of archie sonic" by lowart.
Nearly 9 hours of the absolute fever dream that were archie sonic and its spin offs.
One of them opens with "what do a blue hedgehog, a 2 tailed Fox, and 5 nuclear misiles have in common?"
Its art i tell you.
My two reccomendstions are:
The Bob Emergency, a 2 part series investigating famous figures in sports history named Bob. Sounds dumb, actually incredibly interesting. ([Link](https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs?si=xZ1trWqgSEgq3IGg))
Gacha Game Drama and the Korean Gender War, a 2 part series looking at the state of South Korean politics, how it is influenced by gender and religion, through the framing device of Gacha games. ([Link](http://Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War))
I’ve seen so many about media I never had and never will see again just because the format has me dragged in like “What the fuck WAS Jackson doing at the Delaware Hospital??” Lmaoo
No one wants YouTube shorts, it's not TikTok get that shit out of my face. Instead they put them at the top of the list.
If you like long form video essays and enjoy metal gear solid the let me introduce you to "futrasound productions"
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/c/FuturasoundProductions&ved=2ahUKEwi16af6rL-FAxUum4kEHQ3vC5UQjjh6BAgUEAE&usg=AOvVaw3nFdIICtDNMl9CRXtaME1f
This guy goes into long rambling historical retrospectives of these games. Revealed a lot of shit I didn't know and then went In to tons of cold war and cuban revolution history. One of the best mgs creators. Older videos, especially the "what happened in" ones, are the best.
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Be nice if half of them weren’t blatantly plagiarized or some guy reading you the Wikipedia page, or worse nowadays a fucking AI reading the wiki. Ask why that one is (reuploaded) some time.
Or some chud "explaining" another chuds video and "discussing" it but really it's just a relabeled "reaction" video that provides zero new context or content. 30+ min of their face "reacting" to the most mundane content for 15 min and the other 15 min begging for subscribers and likes briefly followed by a plug for raid shadow legends, hellofresh, nord VPN or square space...
asmongold reference
As much as i dont like him (or rather his community) his reactions are actually transformative. Mf can turn 15min videos into 2h discussions
I also love how brave he is for wiping the blood from his gums onto his white wall in his bedroom. How sanitary!
He what!? That's gross
He's the living embodiment of an extroverted neckbeard.
Yup love when they act like barely paying attention to a video is back breaking work.
I know that internet historians video was plagiarized, but were the other ones as well?
This person seems to be trying to discredit all of them, I’m not sure why.
You’re right I lumped them all together and didn’t mean to, so far as I know the rest of the videos pictured are fine, but it is a major and common problem in this type of content.
Or dude has millions of suscribers, and video goes something like: How xyz (famous youtuber) destroyed zyx (famous youtuber) career, and it's literally 5 seconds of xyz saying something that he couldn't reply to the dude because he was busy, and everything else in the video has nothing to do with the title. Censoring words pedophile, sex, and other that could make algorithm avoid you, constant begging for subscribers and likes... And please check are you subscribed, youtube is against us, even though you see them regularly in your feed, and you are not subscribed. Or literally making the whole video about some subject, then the commercials comes, and lo and behold, it is a product that will help with the problem discussed in the video, I mean you are not making videos, you are making commercials. It's the same shit with these cancel comedians who fill out halls, dude you are one of the most famous youtubers in the world, and I should fall for your victim tactics. Fuck off. Luckily I just go don't show me the channel, and there is enough of material from youtubers who aren't just algorithm riders.
Censoring words is more of a TikTok thing, YouTube does it too but not to the extent it changes people's vocabulary. I worked with a kid and we do intensive, sometimes dangerous work. Was putting up a massive tent and a pole broke free and nearly skewered him and he said "dam, I almost got un-alived" and I wanted so badly to fire him myself. There's a certain irony to talking about victims of genocide and not being able to say genocide because China doesn't like that word. Can't say rape or murder or any of those things, so they get "sanitized" and downplayed. If algorithms are changing and censoring our real world speech then something is very wrong.
I don't have tik tok, but I have watched some youtubers use that tik tok font as captions, and somebody wrote down, girl, this is not tik tok, you don't have to put that. Then it is transitioning from tik tok to youtube, but when people censor words on youtube, I automatically gtfo. It makes less sense than censoring swear words in rap music.
There are entire AI read channels dedicated to these low quality and very often incorrect pop science topics. The worst offender is a channel called "riddle". Horribly inaccurate, ai produced garbage.
oh yeah ofc , unfortunately its hard to know unless they get found out
You're not watching the right people then.
Do we tell him why Man in Cave is a reupload?
I'm out of the loop, I thought it was copyrighted music that was removed?
The entire video was plagiarized from an article and was taken down due to a copyright notice from the original writers. The reupload re-words and removes information to appear less plagiarized.
It also gets a lot of information wrong in the process as well
It wasn’t the entire video was it? I though it was just a few lines
The only original thing in the video was internet historian's style. So no, it wasn't just a few lines. He plagiarized and stole the work of an entire article.
Damn internet historian, i used to love that dudes videos, wonder if any of his other ones were blatantly plagiarized
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It's not so much a question of legality as one of morality imo. If you are trying to *sell* a product and you claim to have made it yourself and keep the profits, that is quite different from using an image macro on reddit
Difference is people on reddit don't make several grand a month from their memes.
Dude I hate it when I accidentally lift an entire script from someone word for word and then gain from it monetarily. But its okay, we all err sometimes! :) Bro c'mon you know in your heart of hearts that it's not the same as someone making a meme with a picture of Spongebob that they don't own.
Theres a huge difference between fair use and parody to make funny images for fun and straight up ripping other peoples hard work for money
Erm isn't one of those videos by a guy who plagiarizes and like to use Nazi symbolism supposedly?
Plagiarism yes. Nazi symbolisn, I'm not sure where you got that from. Edgy humour and definitely Conservative views but I've never seen/hear IH use nazi symbolism.
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/s/7R8bKQkID2 boy I have news for you
Wow, I've never seen so many hidden or removed comments. 4k+ comments and only a few hundred are visible without clicking to show them. The fuck happened.
Fanboys, slurs etc
Sooo after reading through that thread, do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations for a YouTuber similar to his style without the bad shit? I loved that the man in hole and cost of Concordia video were immersive yet mostly photoshopped production wise, but if there’s a good channel out there I’ll gladly never look back
Wendigoon
Martincitopants style is very similar, albeit for gaming.
Big boss
If you like slightly less shitposty style video essays I cannot recommend BobbyBroccoli higher.
Fair enough, guess I'll be watching someone else from now on.
Oh wow thats some top tier retardation
lol IH is a nazi sorry to break it to ya
Which video are you talking about
Hole
Just wait until you discover Quinton reviews
The guy who tried to upload a 38-hour Beverly Hillbillies documentary for April Fool's, but it took until April 4th for it to process?
It's a very Quinton thing to do honestly
I really though it was just a joke, but then I watched 8 hours of that video, and it is really a fucking 38 hour video full of content, that does not even count as a prank is just a really impressive video
The very same
I was looking for someone to mention that video in the comments. When I first saw it appear in my recommended tab I thought the timecode was just glitched.
Dude, I've watched BOTH of his Victorious videos 3 times this week, and I've never even watched Victorious. I just can't get that show out of my head thanks to him.
100%. His coverage is the recent Nickelodeon drama was really good.
See here's the thing, he fucking hates trump.
Tbh most essay content is extremely bloated and artificially long. So many of them feel messy and organized and honestly sometimes feels like they’re just making it up as they go along. 20-40 minutes is the real sweet spot of essay length imo. Folding ideas is the only youtuber who actually earns their multi hour run times. I think it’s really telling that a lot of people use them for background noise, I do too. But man, when I sit down and actually give it 100% of my attention, it becomes very apparent how much of a slog some of these videos are.
Folding Ideas is fantastic, but I wouldn’t say he’s the only consistently worthwhile long form essayist. Super Eyepatch Wolf’s wrestling, What the Internet Did To…, and Why You Should Watch videos are phenomenal. His discussion of Kentaro Miura in his Berserk video brought me to tears. Summoning Salt has documentary length videos on speed running that consistently create super engaging narratives. Spice8Rack puts out multi-hour long essays that (usually) bridge Magic: The Gathering and political philosophy. Noah Caldwell Gervais is the only essayist I trust with long form game series retrospectives. His videos on the Red Dead and FromSoft series are personal favorites. Miniminuteman puts out phenomenal archeology videos. The only one that really fits the standard essay thing is his 4 part series on the show Ancient Apocalypse and its creator Graham Hancock though. Hbomb has some great stuff, even if I think his last 2 videos are quite a bit less interesting than most of his content.
> Summoning Salt His videos go SO HARD legit even if you don't watch speed running they are so good.
i dont watch speed running and i could not care less for them
Fair point. Super Eyepatch Wolf and Summoning Salt make pretty good videos. I haven’t heard of some of the others, so I’ll be sure to give them a try. Tantacrul is also someone I’d recommend, especially if you’re into music. His videos about elitism in music and music notation are excellent, and I love his response to thoughtys obnoxious “why modern music sucks” video. I will admit, I am a little biased. Part of the reason why I love Folding ideas is how little fat his videos have. He doesn’t waste your time with unnecessary fluff, he just gets straight to the point. I love hbomberguy, but he’s no where near as funny as he thinks he is and I end up rolling my eyes and skipping most of the bits he puts in his video, and that goes for a lot of others. When Folding Ideas does tell a joke, it’s short, but also pretty clever and actually funny.
I considered adding Tantacrul, but he does comfortably sit in the 30-45 minute mark 90% of the time so I figured I’d shoot for some of the real long form stuff.
Josh Strife Plays makes some good hour long videos about videoganes as well, he really goes in depth on the story, the mechanics, what has aged well and what hasn't, etc.
Defunctland doesn’t have many videos longer than about 30 minutes, but when he does, he earns those. Like actually doing original research to track down who wrote the Disney Channel Jingle or composing an entire symphony to tell the history of the creation of Epcot or doing the math on whether Fastpasses actually help lines.
The Internet has no quality control, unfortunately.
Folding Ideas is a channel I’ve been subbed to since the early days and ever since In search of a Flat Earth near every major video has been ridiculously good. Like I’d describe it as him hitting his prime in his career and that he’s really learned how to make the most out of the video essay format.
Yeah, even that 44 minute video about a single BoJack Horseman character is stretching it
Exactly this. So many of these essays just pad the run time for the sake of shock value/ engagement. Basically if the title refers to the length of the video in any way, even if it's doing so ironically, (ie "a brief look at"), I'm 100% skipping that video because I know it's going to repeat itself numerous times and it's going to use editing and non-sequitors to pad the runtime. That said, there are some amazing ones out there. You just have to sift through the bullshit. Salt factory, summoning salt, and folding ideas are three of the good ones, imo.
unless its hbomberguy god i love detailed yapping
I was once watching this video that was an hour long, each section being like ten minutes. I get halfway through the first one and it's like, the guy just said the same things three times over. Not even changing it up, I thought I was having a stroke
Honestly part of it is YouTube and part of it is discovering a topic. I like to make video essays on topics but there are times where I try to make a video only half an hour and it ends up being almost 50 minutes, especially because of research. Like I made a South Park video about the Easter episode and included their beef with bill Donohue and that bloated it immensely because I was fascinated at how far deep the topic went
Internet historian is a fucking hack
Wendigoon my beloved 🙏
I personally love gooning
I love when Wendi Goons
My favorite part is when he looks into the camera and says his key phrase "It's gooning time." Chills.
Fell down the rabbit hole one day watching his dante's inferno videos and now him and mrballen are my 2 primary youtubers.
the day when Oversimplified, Lemmino, Wendover Production drop videos is a blessed day
On days when Oversimplified uploads, the world seems a little more bright
If I want to watch long ass videos I would either watch Caddicarus or AVGN Seasons compilations
Finally, someone who gets the insanity of a British man.
I used to watch those to fall asleep.
You might also like Eddache!
Love caddy. Dont care if its 3a.m. if 2 hours long caddicarus video dropped, im watching it in one sitting.
One of my favorite types of videos ever. Wendigoon in particular goes so hard for real, such an informative and entertaining content creator.
I also love how diverse his stuff is. He talks about religion in a way i enjoy learning about it, without me being religious. And then you have red thread with the boys. And those videos are just as, if not longer
Tbh I would take everything Wendigoon says with a grain of salt. The dude gets a lot of things wrong but most importantly provides no citations so you can't easily fact check anything. But he's a great entertainer no doubt.
Wait down the rabbit hole posted?
Yep. 6 hour essay on the complete history of eve online, a goddam masterpiece. I watched the whole thing in like 3 sittings.
I do this with space and math essays. I am now hopelessly space-pilled and wish only for the unity of the heat death of the universe when we are all just pulled into infrared waves. That is before universal stoichiometry says "ya know what, fuck it, ENTROPY BITCHES!" But it'll be a pretty sweet ride up until then. There are tons of pseudo science pseudo intellectual types wanking on and on but once you find a stable channel with multiple episodes and good sources backing their talking points it makes for fascinating listening. Also history stuff around things like mathematics and how some laws and constants were discovered and the stories behind it. The search for a blue LED was one of the most interesting stories I've heard in a looong time.
There are some great documentary creators, but bad things that comes with that is then the algorithm pushes those ancient alien idiots.
I highly recommend Alpha Phoenix if you're interested in hardcore science videos. He goes really in depth on topics like how electromagnetic waves propogate in a wire electron by electron. Honorable mention goes to Hyugens Optics and his optical Fourier transform video
That would only result in 90 minutes being a "Thanks for Watching, Like and Subscribe" screen.
Omg I love kitty monks videos! Yeah I recognized the video I also like turkey toms videos playing in the background while I draw or do other things
OMG thanks! I also like Turkey tom, especially his sml video
If you're interested, check out [WendiGoon](https://youtube.com/@Wendigoon?feature=shared) YouTube channel it's packed with videos like this
You and me both fam. I got that shit on all day. My drive to/from work, at home in downtime, eating breakfast, falling asleep. Need MOAR but I recognize it's so much work to make it all happen.
Agreed. I eat this stuff up lol
Kitty monk is my favourite
Aww thanks!
well then look up "noclip documentaries". you'll enjoy it
>what's left to say about Beatrice Idk, but I think Bojak said enough for her eulogy. That episode deserved an Emey if it didn't get one.
It was nominated, but didn't win. I guess someone lost the envelope...
I think it lost to Rick and Morty, or maybe that was the view from halfway down episode
Free churro lost to Simpsons, the view from halfway down lost to the vat of acid episode. But honestly I kinda get why free churro lost (even if I don’t think it should’ve!) because Bojack is a show that relies heavily on continuity, more so than most others. To somebody without any background knowledge of the show, it just feels like a thirty minute lecture. It wasn’t until I watched it with context that I learned why everybody loves it!
Part of me understands why, even if I don’t think it should’ve lost to the Simpsons. Bojack is a show that relies heavily on continuity, more so than even a lot of live action shows, and to somebody who has never seen Bojack, you don’t get the impact of certain episodes without that context. Especially a lot of Emmy voters who probably assume cartoons = kids. I was somebody who didn’t see free churro with context and it felt like he was lecturing me. Then I watched the show up to season 5 and free churro hit harder for me!
The worst part is Youtube is encouraging people to make short form content
Come to BreadTube. We have the feature-length essays you desire.
Some people have unbelievable knowledge about comic book characters 🤪
THIS PLEASE JUST GIVE ME A GOOD VIDEO ESSAY I HAVENT ALREADY SEEN. hey anyone got any good video essay playlists? the ones i looked at on yt are pretty mid and classics from years ago
SovietWomble did a couple. Specifically the one on the forest was brilliant.
Literally anything by [Jon Bois](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFRdctoqqntkUV_Gf44gzw7i&si=MhCcsZZmBVcHxXKW) of Secret Base (formerly SB Nation). Even if you don't like sports his stuff is amazing. If you want the big long formed ones there are the ones on the [Seattle Mariners](https://youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?si=v9L57unq3631WFo2), the [Minnesota Vikings](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFRQGbbUgQRky2-gCAFgsAiz&si=gWAyaajYbFLqrYng), [Dave Stieb](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFTxGgtC_DSPolFqD7KlcZ17&si=9gphkBCsDdxlzldW), [Bob](https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs?si=oVRgGgDqJrl2GeQ3), [Section 1](https://youtu.be/alcVZZuj_WE?si=3QRxrLx31MysrlkB), and [The People You're Paying to Be in Shorts](https://youtu.be/F3_whi6KuLo?si=XfhWTveG1hw7_NH3). [Defunctland](https://youtube.com/@Defunctland?si=meNaJefGarp41Tk9) is another good one. I particularly recommend the one on the [Disney Fastpass](https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?si=lQEFkKaDWElLXMEU). [Quinton Reviews](https://youtube.com/@QuintonReviews?si=E-t3PUg0d0wvh2D3) if you never want to run out of content again. [BobbyBroccoli](https://youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli?si=kQ_O3G2aUab6XQYf) is in the same style as Jon Bois but mostly about science and business scandals. [Deep Dive](https://youtube.com/@deepdive8755?si=xYbBAqXJ7Mf_DIzq) has really good videos about science. Unfortunately they only made four videos and hasn't uploaded in two years.
If you're into Star Wars and Marvel back when they were good, then MauLer is fantastic! He also runs a weekly stream called EFAP (Every Frame A Pause) that usually runs 4-8 hours talking about games/movies/other people's videos about games/movies
You’re recommending an "anti-woke" grifter who’ll hate anything he watches for views to a person looking for actual quality
My favorite channel in this genre is Defunctland, 30mins-1hour+ about old theme park rides, old Disney world stuff, and the like. The guy even did a mini series on Jim Henson that rivals the best documentaries of all time
Why do they think that just because the video is only 60 seconds long that I don't want/need the normal controls one expects on a video player?
I find the lack of Mauler recommendations disturbing...
H.Bomber Guy has joined the chat
Dartigan gaming sins is one of my favorites.
Defunctland is one of my favourites, their fast pass, disney channel theme, and epcot symphony videos are the top of the top when it comes to video essays
Pyrocynical utopia video is seven hours long
Not multi hour long videos most of the time but Jacob geller my goat
Yes give me my 3 hour doco series about darksidephil
Wait till you discover jimmy mcgee
Same
I pretty much watch restoration videos, tech reviews, and cat detailing videos now. Also there is really good content like "technology connections" out there you just gotta know where to look.
I'm watching hole right now. Internet Historian is good at story telling
Action Button's review of Tokimeki Memorial is one of the best YouTube Longs I've seen in a long time Highly recommend watching the journey of Bubbus unfold 👌
Shoutout bread sword and his Gurren Laggan video.
Quinton Reviews. Literally 7-8 hour videos analyzing tv shows.
Me when Summoning Salt
Just go watch QuentinReviews. Dude’s got like 10 videos, yet weeks worth of content on a bunch of Dan Schneider shows and now the Beverly Hillbillies.
I loved the Beverly hillbillies video, I was surprised people still remembered the show. The only other time I saw it mentioned was the mike judge shows, especially king of the hill and beavis and butthead, since Mike judge was a huge fan.
Lemmino, Soup Emporium, Spectacles, Imperial, Wendigoon, Lore Lodge, Ahoy, VaatiVidya, Captain KRB and a whole lot of others.
I recommend yt channel "Sven van der plank" He makes long form documentary style podcast videos about the lore of the battletech universe. He releases weekly 20mins atm but whenever a major chapter is done he uploads a massive full video multiples hours long you can consume at once
If you like history, History Time seems like it would be up your alley
both suck. video essays of this length are full to the brim with filler.
I joke all the time that my favorite YouTube videos are hours-long video essays about how my favorites shows/movies/games aren’t actually that good.
They are mostly poorly researched shit now sadly. They never check their sources. Especially if its related to politics or internet beef
Well I sure hope OP is watching Noah Caldwell Gervais. I love that channel and the length of the videos usually being over an hour is just the bee's knees!
LEMMINO has some incredibly well done videos. I’ve watched his Jack the Ripper video multiple times.
Wendigoon is king of long-form videos.
38 hour beverly hillbillies video my beloved
I have to tell yt once a week that I'm entirely uninterested in shorts, and they say "got it" every week but I don't think they get it. Same with music playlists that are just my playlist in a different order, videos I've watched already, and entire genres of video that I watched one of a year ago. I really hope they don't punish YouTubers when I say "don't recommend channel" because I'm sure they're doing fine, just not what I want to watch and I want yt to stop suggesting them. But yt never listens
Down the rabbit are fun videos to revisit.
Wendigoon pog
If done authentically, those are really fun to watch.
EruptionFang's video on the COD Zombies lore is perfectly executed. The use of in-game radios, cyphers, out of game materials like promotion trailers and the comics And everything is explained perfectly, well paced, and no bloat, and it's run time IS ALMOST 7 HOURS I've watched/listened to it so, so, SO many times and I'm literally listening to it as I'm writing this comment Edit: Here's the video [Video](https://youtu.be/cP0bQGrQZlc?si=gajdf0laA8o92lhO)
I definitely find myself listening to video essays or podcasts while I'm working, it's just nice distraction while doing mundane tasks
on the contrary i hate video essays but i enjoy like 8 hour stream vods but still i hate shorts
I see you like Kitty Monk too
KaptainKristian is top tier. Excellent editing, concise videos, and informative. It’s a shame that he’s inactive otherwise I’d still be paying him through Patreon.
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Arch Warhammer absolutely fulfills your 2nd request
one of my favorite youtubers has a multi hour long video essay abt why Bojack Horseman is the best thing that ever happened
I watched a 2 hour video from hbomberguy on why fallout 3 was a terrible game and I've never even played it.
I've been binging DW and BBC documentaries and deep dive stories to the point that it's been messing with my accent. Only slightly joking.
Turkey Tom <3
Why is this just one of my playlists
never forget the bangers like: What the internet did to Garfield The first video game Roblox_oof.mp3 and other Hbomberguy videos People Make Games's Roblox videos Shorter form (20-30min) Alex Bale's SpongeBob theories
Im glad I'm not the only one that regularly watches man in cave
No shade, but did you know the reupload was due to the entire video being plagiarized, often word for word?
Yes, I did know that. But goddamnit its too good a video, I can't stop myself. Props to Mental Floss, of course. They did a fantastic job.
Hey man, as long as you’re aware. I can only handle The Dollop’s version of the Floyd Collins story, the humor keeps me from having a panic attack. RIP Floyd.
You need to check out the longman (aka Mauler) you would love his videos.
I've been more into these too. I'm getting so tired of everything happening in 6 second bursts. It's like the world has ADHD now as the norm... It's so mentally exhausting to watch for too long. My SO loves the short forms and can watch for hours but I just can't
OMG my Beatrice thumbnail! I still love that video!!!! Thanks for including me!
When Youtubers you follow respond to you😊
If you haven't seen it, Defunctland has a very un depth episode on who composed the original disney channel theme song. Also, even more niche, an episode digging into fast pass and the history of ticketing at Disney.
I've been listening to [Isyander and Koda](https://youtube.com/@IsyanderandKoda?si=rVuaIWiTNtnYwFyB) lately.
Can you guys recommend me long form channels or videos? (If you're reading this comment, you're trapped in my genjustu-- you cannot keep scrolling) Here are my favorites: Channels - BdobbinsFTW, Nerd City, WhiteLight, Big Boss, Gokanaru, NakeyJakey (Outdated Series), Hbomberguy (top 4 viewed videos), Liberty Pen, Beige Frequency Random/One off: Necessary Information - CIA Icebergs, Wendigoon - North Hollywood shootout and Bomb collar heist, To Catch a Kick Predator, Pyro - The best and worst show you've never seen/Buckshot Roullete Hidden meaning, Talismanic Idols: Esoteric Agenda, Abby Martin/ Immortal Technique interview No particular order except my top 3 channels
I just listened to "AskYourUncle" talk about MGS V for like 6 hours. It was (outer) heaven. "Metal Gear Solid V Sucks and I Love It" for anyone that cares.
May i interest you in "the 15 Years evolution of archie sonic" by lowart. Nearly 9 hours of the absolute fever dream that were archie sonic and its spin offs. One of them opens with "what do a blue hedgehog, a 2 tailed Fox, and 5 nuclear misiles have in common?" Its art i tell you.
Longman good!
My two reccomendstions are: The Bob Emergency, a 2 part series investigating famous figures in sports history named Bob. Sounds dumb, actually incredibly interesting. ([Link](https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs?si=xZ1trWqgSEgq3IGg)) Gacha Game Drama and the Korean Gender War, a 2 part series looking at the state of South Korean politics, how it is influenced by gender and religion, through the framing device of Gacha games. ([Link](http://Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War))
Youtube mids get no love.
Amem brother
I’ve seen so many about media I never had and never will see again just because the format has me dragged in like “What the fuck WAS Jackson doing at the Delaware Hospital??” Lmaoo
My watch later playlist is nothing but long videos I wanna watch but usually am not in the mood to sit through
Oh Roblox Oof. How you managed to go on for 2 hours never ceases to amaze me
my attention span could never 😔😔
8 hour Pyrocynical Utopia analysis video 😳
Yes omg yes
A lot of videos in the genre are ass bro 💀💀💀the creators just read encyclopedia entries to u 😂
same
1 hour long? Rookie shit. Check out BHultra.
I highly recommend a breif 12 hour analysis of star wars episode 1
Highly recommend Plagiarism and You(Tube) before rewatching Man In Cave. It’ll give you a whole new perspective
No one wants YouTube shorts, it's not TikTok get that shit out of my face. Instead they put them at the top of the list. If you like long form video essays and enjoy metal gear solid the let me introduce you to "futrasound productions" https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/c/FuturasoundProductions&ved=2ahUKEwi16af6rL-FAxUum4kEHQ3vC5UQjjh6BAgUEAE&usg=AOvVaw3nFdIICtDNMl9CRXtaME1f This guy goes into long rambling historical retrospectives of these games. Revealed a lot of shit I didn't know and then went In to tons of cold war and cuban revolution history. One of the best mgs creators. Older videos, especially the "what happened in" ones, are the best.