The Best of Youtube (EMBEDS BANNED)

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Share the best stuff you are able to find on Youtube.com.

I got lotsa juice for this thread but I'm gonna lead off with...

Playing: YIIK Made Me Think

A lot of you are probably gonna get heart attacks at that runtime, but I promise you that if you can find the time you're in for one of the most thorough, well-researched and downright fascinating deep dives into a universally panned game ever recorded.
 
i was literally gonna post a thread like this earlier today LOL

Anyways I will share my favorite video/video essay, BREADSWORD's Gurren Lagann and Getting It. It's a video I've found myself going when I feel lost and really down on myself. Be warned that as uplifting as it is it gets pretty personal and emotionally potent so maybe don't watch it if you're not up for that, also fyi it kinda spoils Gurren Lagann but if you're someone like me who hasn't watched the show but loosely knows some of the plot beats and popular spoilers you'll be fine.

Two of my Youtubers I really really like dropped some huge vids recently, but to keep this post from being a wall of text (and since the other Youtuber's video is basically a Part 1), I'll just focus on Mic the Snare's The Music that Defined the 2000s. I only started watching Mic very recently but I really like him, I think some Youtube comments fairly accurately describe him as Music Youtube's equivalent of Scott the Woz, so go check him out. This vid is a follow-up (prequel?) to a popular video he made last year for The Music of 2010s, which is a massive nostalgia trip that I also highly recommend.

Also for the record the best YIIK video/review is this one by Running Shine. It's less professional than Tehsnaker's, but it's a super fun ride and still pretty in-depth/analytical
 
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Any Tom Scott video. They’re all good and he always researches his videos very well, but the first one that got me hooked was YouTube’s Copyright System Isn’t Broken. The World’s Is., which is probably the best video about copyright law on YouTube.

Core-A Gaming makes the best videos about fighting games on YouTube and imo his best video is Analysis: Playing, Fast and Slow. This one in particular is interesting and worth watching whether you play FGs or not.

Other serious/semi-serious long-format channels that I really like include Abroad in Japan, Vsauce, 8-Bit Music Theory (<—this one uses more technical language so if u don’t know anything about music theory there r some vids u just won’t understand), New Frame Plus, Game Maker’s Toolkit, Daryl Talks Games (probably better known as Psyche of Play), Summoning Salt, and Innuendo Studios. I’ve also been enjoying Veritasium and Lowest Percent recently, but I’ve not seen anywhere near enough of their videos to make a fully-fledged recommendation yet.

As for less serious stuff, kiwami japan is one of those channels that’s just a guy with a very specific, gimmicky hobby (making kitchen knives out of weird materials) that’s really easy to turn ur brain off to. As for channels that take their videos from their streams, the main one I watch when not watching brainless personality streamers is SmallAnt, who does a bunch of cool challenge runs of Super Mario Odyssey, Pokémon games, BotW etc., and unlike most Pokémon challenge run channels he does actually interesting ones that force him to make plans rather than just over-level. He also speedruns Mario Odyssey Minimum Captures which is inherently interesting, though I probably wouldn’t watch it live unless it was a stream marathon or something.
 
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Actually, I’ve just remembered Wolf Children (2012) - The Lateral Tracking Shot, which has had one of the largest impacts on my taste in cinematography out of any YouTube video. I’ve not watched any of this guy’s other videos but I wouldn’t be shocked if they’re all around the same quality*. It talks about a lot of films and is spoiler free, so don’t worry if you’ve not seen Wolf Children. It’s just talking about the nature of one type of shot in film and gives lots of different examples—the most memorable being Up, Taxi Driver, Nostalghia, and (of course) Wolf Children.

* Edit 2: They are

Edit: Why Grimgar’s Fights Work - The Importance of Weight in Action is another formative video for my taste and, like the other vid, is not dependent on having seen Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash.
 
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Need to shoutout Eyepatch Wolf as easily one of the very best Youtubers out there, especially if you're into anime, manga, video games (mostly JRPGs), and horror. Really good at analyzing media in a way that still feels pretty casual and he always picks some fun topics to cover whether you're familiar with them or not. Also helps that the editing on his videos is super clean but a smidge below the threshold of being super duper professional.

He just dropped a vid on Mother 3 this afternoon so go check out that one, I'm very glad that he's covering it considering he rated it as one of his favorite games of all time and the internet doesn't seem to dissect the game itself so much as talk about Nintendo's refusal to localize it (beware of spoilers though but he tries to mark them). I also personally recommend his videos on Fake Martial Arts (not wrestling, those are different vids of his. This topic sounds stupid but I thought that at first too and it's actually super cool), His Issues with Final Fantasy XV, the mess that is Shenmue III, and, while a bit of an older video and a little subpar compared to the new stuff (a scary thought considering I watched this the night it first came out), The Downfall of the Simpsons
 
Here's some more juice

Sonic 06: The Icon in Ruin
I don't care what anyone says or how well-worn this topic is, as far as I'm concerned this is the definitive Sonic 06 video, an immaculate summation of its failure and the damage it did to the legacy of a gaming icon. I could put tons of Geek Critique vids here but this is my personal favorite of not just his library but one of my personal favs for Youtube videogame reviews as a whole.

Greg Loses It
comedy video, i laugh.
 
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Yeah, this one was pretty cool
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actual vid
 
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