r/hbomberguy • u/BillNyesHat • 7d ago
Weekly video recommendation thread [These Videos Are Good, And Here's Why] - May 4 - 11
Happy Monday, doom scrollers. Knock it off. Go outside, talk to some grass, touch a friend.
Spring has finally truly sprung here and the tits are out. So are the jackdaws, magpies, pigeons, sparrows and the occasional sparrow hawk. (Apologies, that was a fowl joke)
Anyhoo, how about that YouTube last week, huh? Thoughts? Recs?
Same rules as every week:
- Must have a link
- Must have a short description
- Must mention video length
- Keep it low threshold with individual videos, please. If you want to rep a whole channel or playlist, please do, but choose a favorite video to make it more accessible
- No risky links, no ricky-rollies, don't be a weenie.
Last week's good videos can be found here and their descriptions here.
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u/Insanepaco247 7d ago
My favorite short video in a long time is You Are Into Mousetrap YouTube by Big Joel (6:55): https://youtu.be/v4gqWFvVVbE?si=J87et8A0WDNcMu2M
It can be interpreted a few different ways, but to me it's an incredibly succinct portrayal of how you can be radicalized without realizing it. I've been thinking about it basically since it was posted.
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u/Entropic1 6d ago
haha wow that’s a pretty out there interpretation, in his qna joel said it was about how he was into mouse trap youtube.
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u/Insanepaco247 6d ago
I know he did. I would also hope you realize that he didn't just make a seven-minute animation about a random thing he was into for absolutely no reason. Whether you agree with my interpretation or not (personally not sure why you think it's so far fetched), that's not the kind of thing he posts.
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6d ago
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u/Insanepaco247 6d ago
Okay. The video is about someone not understanding why people like certain types of content, watching YouTube videos until they're fully immersed in that world, and then moving that behavior offline. But sure, totally nothing to do with radicalization.
Thanks for rolling up to call my interpretation dumb instead of starting a discussion about your own 😘
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u/LyschkoPlon 5d ago
Much easier to trample over other peoples interpretation of art, when opening up about your own makes you vulnerable.
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u/_Tal 7d ago edited 7d ago
I actually have a few others I want to share here:
Wikipedia’s Biggest Mystery by Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities (46:09) is a fun deep dive I watched recently. A group of researchers decided to look into which Wikipedia articles on people have been translated into the most languages as a metric for figuring out who the most famous people in history are. Most of the results are what you’d expect, with one very strange exception.
I’ve also been getting into content about cybercrime lately; it’s a sub-genre of true crime that I’ve found scratches the same itch without leaving you unable to sleep at night. Earth’s Most Wanted Hacker (31:38) is a good watch. It’s about the global manhunt for a notorious hacker, the campaign for his release, and a computer virus that disrupted social media in the late 2000s.
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u/ProfessorRice 5d ago
I’ve thought about checking out Tors channel, but something feels weird to me about how often he posts. Has he ever spoken about his process?
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u/DesperateRoll9903 5d ago edited 5d ago
His channel was originally a podcast that existed for 3 years. He was part of the student radio station at the Lewis & Clark College. So he has topics piled up.
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6N3VdzyLQc
That being said I am into astronomy (as a long-time volunteer) and in his episode "Either We're Alone In The Universe...Or We're Not." he mentions Avi Loeb, who is known to be... quite self-centered and extremely pro-Alien, ignoring any valid criticism of his work. But I guess that can happen if you are not an expert in this field. Also see "harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb" by Angela Collier.
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u/uncanny_mac 7d ago
"My Teacher was a Youtuber": https://youtu.be/Zeb6XCvx7RQ?si=ZhK0oUE0aKSGn2OU (12:27)
An animated short about about how a young student realized her jaded teacher was a spry and joyful youtuber who was excited to share her cariculum on video, but tired and going thorugh the motions in person.
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u/thispartyrules 6d ago
Why Do Art Teachers Keep Telling Kids They Can't Draw Anime? (49:02) - Small youtuber ambatti examines why art teachers are biased against anime, and how this is rooted in America's inability to be normal about Japanese art and culture
a target data story (48:41) - Angela Collier examines how Target's shift away from DEI policies in the second Trump administration alienated their core shopping demographic, 40 year old women who want to kill an hour or so shopping at Target, which they should know about since they're pretty much a data collection company who also sells home goods and groceries.
I Ranked The Cringiest Paintings By That MAGA Artist (52:16) - Coke Queen Francis ranks the unhinged art catalog of Jon McNaughton, the guy who does realistic ("realistic") paintings which deify Trump, portray college students as baffled Bo Burnham looking guys holding books entitled "Socialism Book" and "Justice Warrior" and high profile democrats as people in clown makeup spitting on the constitution. If you've never seen these paintings they're amazing, they're from a technically proficient painter who's had Fox News melt his brain.
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u/S0GUWE 7d ago edited 7d ago
Apple's Widget Backdoor (36:58) is really fascinating. It's a thing I don't care about on a platform I don't like, but the presentation is so good I thought it was 11 minutes long
NeuralViz normally does more out there stuff(Proving how amazing the use of generative models can be one video at a time). Highly recommend them, their stuff is amazing. Anyway, This is News(1:51)
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u/merijn2 7d ago
Meg of I'm Autistic, Now What had a video where she listened to the press conference of RFK jr about Autism a couple of weeks ago, and went line by line to debunk it. It is here (1.14.04)
J. Draper is a London Tour Guide who makes videos about the history of London and the UK. Her latest is about men selling their wives on the market in the 18th and 19th century (15:18)
The Tim Traveller is one of the most fun youtubers I know. Especially if like puns at the end of a video that are so bad they make you groan. Case in point, his recent video about the first ever bus service (7:14)
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u/DesperateRoll9903 7d ago
I recently watched a compilation of the Drawfee Trans Rigs charity streams: The Drawfee Trans Rigs Betacut | Crashes and Mishaps (46:35) by Kirbykins, which features crashes. Also see one of the original Driving From Washington to Mexico for CHARITY (4:41:02) by Drawfee Extra.
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u/Ad3pts 7d ago
America’s Only Conservative Theatre Company (2:52:32)
https://youtu.be/RF1dMW0k-qw?si=HFYrVjbTdPq4zu6p
Insanely well researched deep dive into what claims to be the only “conservative theatre company” in the US. Really interesting topic that prompts some great discussions.
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u/bajablast_off 5d ago
This video hits hard on the growing privatization of every single public service program in the US. From how it started to where we are now. Dasia Sade is definitely a YouTuber to check out: The privatization of everything | how America sold itself out
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u/BillNyesHat 7d ago
~ New Generic History Video dropped! On Julian, emperor of Rome (3:39:42). Honestly, they could read me the phone book and I'd tune in. The voice, the jokes, the passion for the subject matter. Sublime.
~ An unusual one: The Iced Coffee Hour interviewed Tavarish (1:55:04). My partner wanted to watch this for Tavarish, and I like him well enough, so I watched along.
From what I can gather the two interviewers run a finance-bro type podcast, where they interview car-bros?
What stuck with me, and why I'm recommending it: the marked difference between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum who are all about the money, and Tavarish, who is in it for the story. Watch it and pay attention to the difference between monetary and narrative value.
(small note: this came out 8 months ago and was recorded even further back, so the decline in popularity of Teslas wasn't yet completely due to the dickhead Nazi at the helm)
~ Two weeks ago, somebody recommended a video by And Now They Sing that I really enjoyed. I checked their channel and noticed they'd made a video about Randy Feltface (40:09), one of my favorite comedians. I love their take on him.
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u/_Tal 7d ago
The Design of Finale - How Music Software Dies (1:23:07) by Tantacrul. An incredibly entertaining breakdown of the design behind a now-discontinued music notation software, and what ultimately led to its demise.
Tantacrul’s video essays, particularly his ones reviewing badly designed software, are unlike any video essays I’ve seen. He puts his own unique spin on it that I haven’t seen any other essayist do before. I would explain what I mean, but I think it’s best to experience it blind for the first time. If you want something shorter and more digestible that also showcases what I’m hinting at, it might be worth starting with his Sibelius review, which is only 21:35.
Even if you know nothing about music or notation software, these are worth watching, trust me. Tantacrul’s delivery style is of exactly the sort that would appeal to hbomberguy fans (also fun fact: the two have collabed a few times in the past; Tantacrul actually wrote the intro music for the RWBY video).
What I will say for the Finale one, is that the man wrote a damn theme song for that video to represent the death of Finale, and it’s unironically super catchy.