We watch a *lot* of YouTube videos. We have a Premium subscription, and as much as I hate giving money to Google, it's totally worth it for us. ## Making - [Evan and Katelyn](https://www.youtube.com/@EvanAndKatelyn) - a silly couple making silly things. Includes quite a bit of resin pouring, which is always fun to watch. Making a colour-changing toilet seat, a velvet keyboard, cat toys, that sort of thing. - [Nerdforge](https://www.youtube.com/@Nerdforge) - making dioramas, fancy books, painting, and even geeky twists on decorating. - [Bobby Fingers](https://www.youtube.com/@bobbyfingers) - one of the strangest channels I follow. Makes things. Very hard to know what else to say. They're usually strange things, and narrated in a weirdly bored-sounding way, somewhat at odds with how funny a lot of it is. And each video will take you strange places you would *not* have expected going in. Not many subscribers for how good it is, but there's no hook, no fancy thumbnails - nothing to pull you in. So I think it's just something nobody would give a chance to unless someone else convinces them to try it. So here I am, convincing you. - [Half Asleep Chris](https://www.youtube.com/@HalfAsleepChris) - a bit variable on what category he fits into, but he makes things with Lego, and builds things for his cats. - [Safiya Nygaard](https://www.youtube.com/@safiya) - does quite a bit of make-up and outfit stuff that doesn't interest me, but also does some stuff that really does - mixing every Yankee candle, touring lots of restaurants, melting down all the Halloween candy together. - [Dime Store Adventures](https://www.youtube.com/@DimeStoreAdventures) is a bit of an oddity, and feels very outdated, but quite compelling. It's just a guy telling stories. Old-style 4:3 format, potato-quality camera, usually filmed out in the woods or in a graveyard, telling stories he's found from old newspaper archives. But he picks out some really great stories, and tells them with enthusiasm. Sometimes, he goes on walks, following very old guidebooks. My wife and I both have pretty short attention spans for YouTube videos, but we've fully enjoyed a video of his where one story goes on for almost two hours. ## Challenge Most of these tend to work on some variation of 'I/we tried to do *X* for 24 hours', but they're usually fairly silly, or I wouldn't enjoy them. - [Jet Lag The Game](https://www.youtube.com/@jetlagthegame) - racing or gaming across a large area, with challenges to earn travel. This would be my top pick for something almost anyone would enjoy. There's gaming, travel, challenges, silliness, and serious competition. - [Ryan Trahan](https://www.youtube.com/@ryan) - "just a guy", according to his bio, which seems pretty accurate. Does strange things like visiting places with the worst reviews, but he's generally positive and cheerful, and fun to watch. - [Max Fosh](https://www.youtube.com/@MaxFosh) - Fosh by name, posh by nature. Well, he's a bit posh, and plays it up. Mostly, though, he's silly. And does silly things. Often, things that could be described as 'pranks', but without the cruelty that's often associated with YouTube pranks. ## Documentary and Education - [Answer in Progress](https://www.youtube.com/@answerinprogress) - videos from Sabrina, Taha and Melissa, occasionally together. The general format is that they get curious about something, and make a video of them trying to learn the answer. But it's more enjoyable than that makes it sound. - [Half as Interesting](https://www.youtube.com/@halfasinteresting) - short (~5m) documentaries, with a lot of humour. They like bricks. You usually get a few laughs and learn something, all in a few minutes. - [Faultline](https://www.youtube.com/@Faultlinevideos) - "Humanity understood through geography", according to the tagline, but it's way more varied than that. Ketchup, British 'Indian' food, towns falling into the sea, recycling, all sorts of subjects, but all done well, and with a more British point of view than usual. - [fern](https://www.youtube.com/@fern-tv) makes quite varied little documentaries, with amazingly good animation to explain things clearly. - [Atomic Frontier](https://www.youtube.com/@AtomicFrontier) puts out less than one video a month, but they're really high on production values. His latest at the time of writing is eight minutes about eels, fascinating all the way through, and all done in one take, while walking around, clambering over rocks. Illustrations are added in post, perfectly locked to the landscape he's walking around. ## Sport - We don't watch any sport. I have little interest in any sport. But we do enjoy watching [Storror](https://www.youtube.com/@STORROR) doing parkour. Which is sport, so I suppose we *do* watch *some* sport. It's really the way they support and encourage each other that makes it. - Also, [Jelle's Marble Runs](https://www.youtube.com/@JellesMarbleRuns) where marbles do the sport. Athletics, racing, and Marbula 1. Taken seriously enough to be engaging, but not quite seriously enough to get annoying. It’s fun. ## Photography To come, but it'll probably include James Popsys, Micro Four Nerds, and you already know Peter McKinnon, obviously. In Your Fayes. ## Tech When I get around to adding this, there will, of course, be MKBHD and MrWhoseTheBoss. ## Food Sorted. Beryl. Joshua Wiseman. Beard Meets Food. Teeside Chef, Barry? ## Travel Downie. See also Jet Lag.