I love long-form videos that tell information and stories. Documentaries about most any topics, especially ones that last an hour or more, are my bread and butter. But when I’m using YouTube on my TV, I can’t tell from thumbnails what the quality of a channel is. Sometimes I find gold, but other times it’s obvious they’re using an AI voice over or AI imagery and I immediately turn it off. I’m so tired of trudging through the slop, even though it’s just beginning.
So for now, I figure I’ll check with y’all - do you have any preferred/recommended channels that make the sort of video I’m looking for, that are still human-made? I’d love to hear about them.
If you’re on a browser, I’d recommend:
https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube
And perhaps other YouTube client apps have a similar feature.
I find, for a given topic, that there are a few common channels spamming hundreds and hundreds of junk videos. Block them as you find them, and it cleans up the feed immensely.
It’s absolutely mind boggling that YT doesn’t include this as a default feature.
Also, respectfully I would not get too invested in YT.
The other day, I found my TV (with the stock app) auto skipping sponsers. That’s just one of a bazillion ways Google is crushing creators that make anything but attention slop, intentionally, so that kind of long-form content you like may not last.