It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”
Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.
Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.
Sounds like your algorithm is pretty badly poisoned.
It’s my primary video entertainment service. I have a premium family plan so I don’t have to deal with ads on any device and neither do my wife kids or parents.
I don’t see any crypto scams. I do occasionally see clickbait BS in the suggestions, but I’ve gotten pretty good at avoiding it. Even creators who put out things I like, I’ll delay watching stuff with clickbait thumbs or titles so as not to reward it. I found the Veritasium video on clickbait informative. (Funnily enough he’s now on my shit list for clickbait)
An inexhaustive list of my follows off the top of my head:
Gaming:
Many a true nerd, mainly for the fallout stuff but I like their other content.
T90official, for AoE2 match coverage, the nearest I get to watching sports
Best Guest (he deserves more subs, with his surreal challenge runs) SorcererDave.
Karl Jobst
Science:
PBS space time.
Anton Petrov.
Sabine Hossenfelder.
Legal commentary:
Leonard french.
Steve Lehto.
Tech:
Linus Tech tips (although they’re all in on the clickbait titles & soyface)
Gamers Nexus
Der8auer EN
Louis Rossman (I’ve become less of a fan over the last few years, but not enough to drop him)
Other
Meatcanyon/papa meat
Rainman rays repairs (the algorithm offered him up, and I’ve found him fixing stuff pretty compelling lately)
There are more but that all I want to type out right now. Some also broadcast on Twitch, but I’m not a fan of that platform. I like some editing, and can’t stand the “look at me, look at meeeee” aspect of twitch chat (or any ‘live’ content)