Post the names of youtubers and other internet microcelebs you love with a burning passion based on more than vibes. Very preferably not large.
A good example is Cathode Ray Dude, who makes long videos on older technology. He doesn’t seem to have done anything reactionary, he’s got a personality far beyond “the algorithm”, and he doesn’t associate with any terrible people. And I enjoy his videos.
If I try to restrict to the smaller channels (some of these are quite big anyhow, but whatever):
Kaze Emanuar
Mario 64 modding focus, with coding deep dives
https://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64
Decino
Classic Doom content, with coding deep dives
https://www.youtube.com/@decino
Timbah.On.Toast
Music and culture focused video essays
https://www.youtube.com/@TimbahOnToast
José
Musings on historical sitcoms and conservative media
https://www.youtube.com/@JoseBird
Cass Eris
Scathing book reviews of pop psychology
https://www.youtube.com/@CassEris
Dr. Fatima
Astrophysics, Space, and Politics
https://www.youtube.com/@dr.fatima
Simon Roper
Linguistics and other stuff
https://www.youtube.com/@simonroper9218
Clickspring
Precision hand manufacturing
https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring
Acorn to Arabella
Wooden sailboat build, and now sailing
https://www.youtube.com/@AcornToArabella
Simon Roper is awesome
Afternoon hang with Simon and a cupa tea in the English countryside sounds so cozy
Kaze can make a 30 minute video about optimizing trig functions for the N64 hardware and I’ll watch the whole thing
How does he do it?!
Second Dr. Fatima. Great production values, and you can tell she pours herself into the work.
I’m hoping she takes off