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user-inactivated  ·  3078 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your favorite youtube channels?

Late to the party? Fuck yeah, that means I've got a bunch of suggestions to watch tonight!

#awesome

I have four channels that I watch, depending on my mood:

If I want escapism:

Shug Emery's hiking and hammock camping videos are the bomb dot com.

If I want a laugh or am hungry:

Pretty Good Cooking is just a guy and his friends making dinner. Some things turn out great, some horrible. Once they cut down on the booze, the show got a lot better. It is still there, but not to the ... degree it once was.

If I want to zone out:

Rich Mintz's ridecams give me an insight into how people can enjoy driving. I find being in traffic pretty scary in real life, but his videos are really soothing to me.

If I want to be more optimistic/friendly:

Commander Holly's (already listed by forwardslash) vlogs tend to be where I go.





jadedog  ·  3078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for the list. I watched the pasta salad video of Pretty Good Cooking. I liked it. Made me laugh.

How did you find this channel? I always wonder how people find these small channels. This one only has 2,755 subs but the sub count doesn't always give an indication about how the channel will appeal to me. However, the only channels I get recommended to me are ones with really high sub counts or high view counts. This video only has 808 views.

The really cool thing about smaller channels is how the youtuber can interact with most of the comments. In the really large channels, the youtuber looks absent even if they are responding.

user-inactivated  ·  3078 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My fiance unearthed the Sunday Meal Prep video one day before work.

I think she found it on reddit, but I don't know the details past that.

I really like Pretty Good Cooking. I get kind of worried if most of a Tuesday has gone past without an upload.