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?

[PJL]

A rather interesting take on Saudi Arabia from a travel channel that normally shies away from the political stuff.

[mongers]

A rather interesting take on Saudi Arabia from a travel channel that normally shies away from the political stuff.

So absolutely no money changed hands, good to know.

[Syt]

Now THIS is how you make a clickbait title.

"The Neo-Victorian Neo-N*zi Lesbian BDSM Cult That Made Video Games"

(Actually an interesting story, though)

[Josquius]

I've been enjoying this guy's videos lately. Educated analysis of topics around sci-fi and fantasy series.

[Syt]

Been on a "The Rest is History" binge over the holidays. Not sure how I never listened to it before. 

[Syt]

Since we had a bit of a wrestling chat here the other day - Kim Justice just released a video of their 50 favorite (North American) finishing moves. Some classics in there.

I also like Kim's other channel, focused on retro games retrospectives/video essays: https://www.youtube.com/kimblejustice

[frunk]

In preparation for the incoming meme based administration I've been watching Folding Ideas.

"They're sitting around a blackjack table convincing each other that there's a secret rule, that if you hit 31 then the dealer has to give you their entire tray. So hit me, hit me, hit me, hit me."