There’s a great quote “… the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” from Marcus Aurelius. With this in mind I’ve been regretting the kind of person YouTube has been dying my soul with.
I’ve unironically returned to books and writing/reviewing in notebooks to fill in the gaps of my time. You can get notebooks that fit in your pocket and can just pluck it out and review whatever ideas you’ve been chewing on lately instead starting up a video. I add to the notebooks as I read.
When I have more time in the evenings I can collate those notes into broader writing projects, which are mostly simple blog posts. This process has brought me a fantastic feeling of clarity.
There’s always Extra History! https://youtube.com/@extrahistory
years and years of back catalog to catch up on if you’re looking to kill several dozen hours
as long as the actual content is human created, a tts voice isn’t that bad. some content creators are just not comfortable/confident enough to do the narration themselves
I will never watch any of that slop. I’d rather stare at the fucking ceiling.
you should look on fmhy.net (free media heck yea). It gathers all sorts of free internet content like linking to archives with history content or places to find recipes.
Worked better for me than a searchengine for starting with sourdough (my starters could be dead by now)This but for porn
Dude my coworker keeps sending me AI astrophysics videos because we have arguments about “new discoveries” not being real. It’s going to make people dumb as hell. Tbf he already is
Ai voice or is just text to voice? Some people are adverse to having their voice online like that, but still want to participate in things.
Seemingly AI voice. There’s a really good Kyle Hill video about them.
That was supposed to be to OP, but thanks!
Usually when its ai voice you need to switch the audiochannel.
My YouTube feed is 9/10 in English and for some reason YouTube tries to force German ai voice on me :(
Install the ‘YouTube No Translation’ extension to get rid of it, it’s so incredibly annoying. Insane that Google still can’t fathom bilingual people existing 🙄
The amount of extensions that I need to have to make YouTube a usable experience again istg
They prolly took US-Americans as a standard lol
Possibly true.
Lately, Youtube decided it would be a great idea to automatically translate every video into every language, so that people can watch videos from other languages without any barrier. A good idea in theory, maybe, but they implemented it by replacing the original creator’s voice with an AI-voiced AI translation (without the creator’s consent, of course) … and the technology is far from good enough to accomplish that well.
I have stopped using the youtube frontpage and blocked the algorithmic recommendations from appearing.
Now I only browse my subscriptions.
My recommendations for food history: Tasting History with Max Miller + Townsends
For Military History: Lindybeige
For Medieval Clothing: Bernadette Banner
Medieval Life: V. Birchwood
General History: PremodernistAnother good food history one is OTR On the Road (got to the naming game late, I guess)
Seconding Max Miller. For history I would also like to recommend Timeghost. I suspect that most people interested in the world wars already know, but for those who don’t; they’ve done both WWI and WWII week by week, with deep dives into big events (including a 24-hour D-Day documentary) and a big focus on the human cost of war. I cannot recommend them enough to anyone interested in recent history!
More recommendations:
Miniminuteman (history/debunking viral claims)
Ancient Americas (video essays about various pre-contact societies in the Americas)
Time Team (filming archaeologists as they excavate a site)
A Brush With Bekah (demonstrations of historical pigment use, plus education about why it’s toxic AF)
Google debunkers unite!
History in Taberna is also great.
And Stefan Milo.
And How to Drink, when the episodes are more history focused.
For military history also Animarchy and if you like a touch of weirdness, Lazerpig.
here’s two historians I enjoy, you may as well:
Respect for using the “Le Me” format… It’s an older code but it checks out.
Yeah, but i got confused on the first panel and thought they had mangled Lemmy, before i remembered Le Me.
I’m sick of all the extremely shitty formulaic “Sci slop” channels with illustration mas by Chatgpt
The channel Historia Civilis has made excelent videos about the military exploits of ancient Greece and Rome. I highly recommend.
You’re using Youtube wrong
You’re using Youtube
Youtube is more than just the website or the app. There is a ton of data that you can (or should be able to) use in different ways.
Youtube is full of fantastic history programs, what do you use it for?
I’m afraid
Avoid the youtube frontpage and “algortihm” like the plague. I solely use newpipe these days. Only watch subscribed channels. Find new channels through external recommendations, Youtube itself does not recommend what you want or like, it recommends what they want. No tinfoild head stuff, just economics.
i only watch history videos that either 3+ years old or from a youtuber i have some basic level of trust
