- mostly music videos (REAL music, not AI music)
- occasionally drum or guitar cover videos, and Rick Beato stuff
- videos on expat life in Europe
- European landscape drone videos
- an occasional bit of wine or spirits oriented videos
- occasionally car and aviation videos but this is increasingly infected with AI slop
- rarely, a full episode of a modern art docuseries may appear in full on YT
- rarely, "golden age" YT parody videos (which you basically need to download or you will never find them again; even more recent funny content has been hidden by the creator, like a video by Peter Serafinowicz doing a voice over of a Trump word salad speech in a Homer Simpson voice)
- the occasional video on how to fix something broken

I have absolutely zero desire to watch any videos for news or punditry, I will READ my news and opinion content from more mainstream sources, thank you very much; moreover, text is SEARCHABLE, and punditry in general is of little value to society, especially compared to raw objective, mainstream, fact-based journalism (not right wing news sites)

I absolutely avoid "shorts" and I hide channels that instantly reek of AI, in the few portions of the UI that allow me to actually do this, mainly the right side bar is the only UI that presents this menu option

it's no longer really viable for many full movies to download, so that has moved to ok.ru for me (for movies that aren't available at the library on DVD or via Netflix)

ok, this is about the only exception to the "shorts" rule

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I like them all

I'm a snake fan, so I watch herping videos. Most of the music videos that I watch are of soothing music in the evening.

I get obsessed with some then move on to others. Right now I watch a lot of the financial audit guy

FailArmy is a favourite plus meditation and occult ones.

I’ve become a fan of globalmindapparel. His posts seldom fail to cheer me up, no matter what kind of day I’m having. 😊

music, sports, Auto repair and other DIY stuff

I like a nice variety. I'm subscribed to Randy Rainbow, who is a gay man who does political parodies of popular songs. He's hilarious. Another one I love is a drag queen who calls himself Mayhem. He's got a channel called And Mayhem Ensued, where he does makeup tips to help you look like MAGA personalities. He also tells stories of how conservative men get up in his DMs thinking he's a woman, and getting all pissed off when they find out.

I also watch a lot of videos of racists and homophobes being owned in public. It's hilarious, because some of them don't even realize they're being laughed at until later.

And then when I get tired of watching bigots get what's coming to them, there's Matt Rose. He asks funny, open-ended questions on Reddit and then reads the responses on his channel.

I've also been using YouTube over the last couple of years to overcome internalized homophobia with subliminal videos.

Music

Film Noir and scifi/monster movies from the 1940s-50s.

Trains.

Concert videos of metal and hard rock music and occult/spiritual content.

Documentaries, how too videos and sometimes movies.

Everything.

Mortuary science, Makeup and hair tutorials, cooking stuff, science stuff, travel and world culture videos, music, documentary type stuff, movies, etc.

Old truck and equipment videos mostly.

cooking baking news mostly some music but not often

Just relaxing sounds and ones friends send me 😀

ASMR Historian is one of my faves right now. I fall asleep to it every night. It's a historian with a really soothing voice, telling you about a particular topic in history. There's no visual other than his own hands against a dark background, arranging stones, cards, trinkets, etc idly. The whole thing is so relaxing.

Mostly people getting tazed, or having their pimples popped or ears cleaned.

True crime
ASMR
Movie reviews
Cooking videos
No commentary gaming

(1) Various kinds of how-to videos
(2) Classic rock music, often live

I tend to avoid political talkiing heads; I can read 3X faster than they can talk, and I can skim to the key parts even faster.

All but generally

Mostly light stuff/ funny

Alot of auditing creepbait and I din du nuffin videos

mostly folk song and blogs related nature

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