Youtube Recommendations

[mongers]

the bbc archive on youtube was quick a lot of videos of Fred Dibnah the steeplejack:

You could hang quite a bit of British industrial and social history onto his life story.

[HVC]

The Amazon used to flow backwards

[Barrister]

I was talking with my 11 year old on his way to taekwon do at first about the most popular songs of all time.  We mentioned Elvis, to Michael Jackson, to Taylor Swift, to The Beatles.

But then it switched to the biggest videos on Youtube of all time.

I suggested it would be Gagnam Style.

My kid thought it would be Never Going to Give you Up (aka Rick Roll).  I thought it was hilarious he'd know what a Rick Roll was because I distinctly remember that being a mid-2000s thing, nicely before he was even born.

So I searched it up.

Rick Astley didn't even make the top list that I could see.

Psy - Gagnam Style wasn't a bad guess - it was #10 (with over 5 billion views).

But the number one most watched video on Youtube?  Baby Shark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w&list=PLirAqAtl_h2r5g8xGajEwdXd3x1sZh8hC&index=1

(over 15 billion views)

[Valmy]

Makes sense. Youtube Kids is pretty huge.

[Grey Fox]

A downtown Montreal building blasts Baby shark 24/7 to keep homeless people away. Maybe they're just streaming the youtube video.

[Josquius]

Ignore the preview image. Not that well known Mitchell and Webb vid at all.
An hour long but I found this quite interesting. An apparently popular youtuber I've not ran into before but who was very much down that edge lord anti-woke obsessive rabbit hole explaining why he has nothing to do with that nonsense anymore.
There's a bit in the middle where he talks about what if Terminator 2 and Aliens had been released today....yep.

[Legbiter]

Male elephant seals fighting for dominance. 4 tons of blubber and testosterone duking it out will never stop being both majestic and funny at the same time.

[mongers]

Male elephant seals fighting for dominance. 4 tons of blubber and testosterone duking it out will never stop being both majestic and funny at the same time.

 

Your equivalent of the garden birds?