What I now watch on YouTube

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024 at 06:11pm

Every year or so I try to go through my Youtube RSS subscriptions to confirm if I still want each one. The last time I listed out the channels was six years ago and there were about 60 in the list, while now there are over 150…

With the increase in number I have also noticed that my viewing style has changed, while there are some channels where I will watch every video, there are a lot of channels where I will skip over some videos or skip through others. It is when I skip over every video that I remove it from my RSS subscriptions.

I could just dump out a list of all the current channels, I saw that there were a couple of themes, which I will list based on number of channels.

The first theme was vehicles which can vary from channels that get abandoned equipment running, recovering stuck vehicles, restoring old vehicles, building vehicles to race, converting some to electric to just showing historical oddities:

The next theme is construction and renovation, this one ranges from the use of heavy equipment to DIY renovation of an old house to the cutting of grass:

Moving to a smaller scale (but sometimes not) are making and fabrication channels. Some of these can be very crafty, while others are fabricating at a scale that overlaps with the vehicles and construction channels:

Moving away from hands on projects are the channels that explain things, from historical events and places, to every day technology, to new concepts:

A sub category of explaining how things work is that of showing and working on vintage tech. Some isn’t that vintage but it is all significant in some way or another:

Earlier I listed channels that explained things, this next theme also explains things but in a longer form. Some of them go significantly more in-depth with their research, while others are a bit more topical with their research into current/changing topics and issues:

If the above automotive and excavation channels seem out of place, then you are surprised as I was to be following a number of farming channels, though I have been following them long enough to skip over a lot of the repeated farming specific things, it is the related infrastructure type projects they do that keep me watching:

If it isn’t clear that some of these themes have a huge overlap, then these transport channels could have all been listed with the explainer channels:

While I don’t watch movies as often as I used to, I am still interested in the effects and how adaptations have been approached:

One of my favourite TV shows of all times is Good Eats due to how Alton Brown would explain the science behind the recipes, so of of course we have Alton and a couple of other food related channels:

I keep a vague eye on current tech through a handful of tech channels, though like with the farming channels I am more drawn to their infrastructure side projects:

Based on how many comedy podcasts I listen to and how much I try to go to live comedy I am surprised this theme isn’t bigger, but the other way to thing about it is that these channels are Melbourne based and feature people that I already follow and support:

I am now at a point where the possible themes for grouping channels is getting down to a single channel, so here are the remaining few channels:

This is quite a long list, but as I said at the start I no longer watch every video from these channels. I wonder how things will be next time I make a list like this…

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