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What side of Youtube are you currently on? For example, have you been spiraling down a vortex of videos about lawn ornaments? Worst vacation hotels? Gordan Ramsey content? How it's Made videos?

What's been your current Youtube rabbit hole lately? Let us know, maybe we'll all get stuck with you!




Recently been back into some urban exploration videos. I find that stuff kind of fascinating really, especially the really, really old buildings. I haven't been watching much videos lately though, but I would like to watch some based in my town as I've seen some content floating, just haven't committed to watching yet. There's something about some of these places that I find fascinating, especially the homes some of these people visit that looks like it's just been frozen in time. The haunted ones especially I find fascinating, though I'm undecided on most of the legitimacy on some of them, but it makes for good watching anyway 🥴


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I've been revisiting Atomic Shrimp's budget food challenge videos. I initially came to his channel for the entertaining scambaiting videos (which I'm sure is completely unrelated to how I conjured up the idea of writing a story about Wakka getting into an advance fee scam!), but ended up staying for his myriad of food-related videos. Many of them consist of Mr. Shrimp finding and reviewing some strange canned products, while others are miscellaneous projects - such as crafting and firing clay pots from scratch in order to cook a meal with.

Yet my favourites continue to be videos where he sets himself a strict budget challenge. £1 for one day (3 meals). £4 for two days (6 meals) but vegan-only. £5 for 5 days, and so on and so forth. Heck, the mad lad even set a challenge where he limited himself only to £1 and could only shop at the higher end stores - such as Co-op and Marks & Spencer. Often he supplements the limited produce and goods he purchases with some good old-fashioned foraging out in the wild.

It's incredible what he near spontaneously comes up with in terms of meals. For instance, he took some Bombay mix, some basic porridge oats, lentils, tinned cooked peppers in oil, beetroot, & foraged stinging nettles and ended up accidentally making a restaurant quality soup with oat & beetroot crackers. Who knew that taking Bombay mix and mixing it with water could yield a tasty soup? Of course, I wouldn't deign to go anywhere near such a soup, because Bombay mix contains peanuts. >.>

Even better, he occasionally follows up on these challenges with recipe redemption videos. He tries to drastically improve on the improvised dishes made under challenge conditions without the self-imposed constraints and it's just fascinating to watch and listen to. That said, no radioactive seafood YouTube channel will ever convince me to be brave enough to go out foraging for fear of accidentally picking and consuming some toxic green plants!
 
I've fallen down so many weird rabbit holes.
I don't actually sit down and watch YouTube videos very often, but certain things keep jumping at me like and every now and then I fall victim to weird thumbnails and clickbait titles.

One day a few years back I clicked on a recommended video about the sinking of the Titanic. So naturally I was then bombarded with videos about the Titanic over the next couple of months and I learned lots of trivia and became an amateur Titanicologist.
Then the Titanic videos stopped coming. Why? Had the algorithm given up? No! Not quite. The algorithm had simply evolved into videos about other disasters across the world, especially videos by the Youtuber named Fascinating Horror (despite the edgy name, he seems to be very respectful as well as informative).

These days I mostly find analysis videos for shows and films that I watch. Moon Knight. Andor. The Last of Us. Avatar. Etc. Videos from people like New Rockstars who break down all of the easter eggs and references in each episode/film.

But I also have fallen down the rabbit hole of palaeontology videos from time to time. That probably started with Trey the Explainer, whose interests overlap with archaeology, anthropology and ancient history too. Weirdly though, despite my own personal interests, the algorithm does not suggest many history or mythology videos. Probably because I don't do my research for that on YouTube.

Also who is this Tom Scott guy? I guess there is an entire branch of rabbit holes dedicated to that guy alone. This guy who just popped up on everyone’s recommendations one day. He does provide very decent short informative videos, not that I've actually watched many of them yet. But I never requested it! He seems to have been all over the world, giving everything a go. Going behind the scenes at the roof of the Royal Albert Hall, playing with 1970s tank simulator which uses miniature models and a camera, and spectating a 400-year old German festival which uses robot dragons....
Also, I turned the television on one day and he was on University Challenge!

Another, weird, rabbit hole has been my whole atmospheric music phase that I listen to while trying to get work done. I've had all sorts suggested to me. Western (specifically Red Dead Redemption themed) music, chilled remixes of popular songs, classical music (which sometimes have weirdly specific headings setting up a very particular context for the soundtrack like 'this playlist will make you feel like a 19th century villain'), Greek cicada sounds (one of my favourites), and so on.
But perhaps the weirdest of all of these have been the 'magical frequencies of the angels to heal your soul, etc' category. I have no idea what that sort of thing means. Or why it found me?
For example this! Repair my DNA?! What?!

Also recently my YouTube has been sending me Jennifer Connelly videos. Specifically clips of her from the 1990s when she was in her twenties. (For example). Not at all complaining or anything. In fact, in some ways I rather welcome it. But what ever spawned this?
I don’t follow the algorithm and click all of them, obviously. But I must a few times have clicked enough of them to perpetuate this by accident.

I will report back on this in a couple of months to say whether Tom Scott or Jennifer Connelly have won the algorithm battle.
 

Not usually my type of thing, but the storytelling is so good that I keep clicking 'Next', even long after I should have gone to bed. The first 3 episodes have a bit of a sound quality issue, after that it gets much better. I'm only in the third season and I find myself believing that I'm an expert and that the other "Synapses" are completely wrong. It's great fun.
 

Hilarious bingable journey by the Epic NPC Man channel.
 
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