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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.

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[–] bricked@feddit.org 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Even if you can't afford Nebula, I recommend browsing its explore section, because many of its high quality creators and videos are also on YouTube. The following are some of my favourite creators on YouTube.

30 minute animated documentary-style videos: LEMMiNO, melodysheep, fern, Hoog, neo, PolyMatter, Imperial, Cipher, Real Engineering, Mustard

Shorter explainer videos: Posy, Kurzgesagt, PBS Space Time, Sciencephile the AI, minutephysics, Steve Mould, Half as Interesting

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sad to see no love for one of the coolest dudes in Nebula, Grady from Practical Engineering.

If you like seeing how civil engineering projects happen, there's no better channel. It reminds me of PBS shows I watched as a kid

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I watch him on youtube, love his videos. Very straightforward and informative.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I love that he's established enough in the niche that he gets access to film civil construction projects, too. Great stuff

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

I'd be a little wary with Kurzgesagt. Tldw their funding can be traced to Bill Gates' many companies.

How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda For Billionaires

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

LEMMiNO is my favorite bi-annual creator.

Nexpo does some really good stuff too, but I think recently he's just been doing like Reddit deep dives, and that is only so interesting.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It's pretty funny that Sciencephile the AI can be recommended as a good non-AI source of info now that more capable AI is real and not just scifi.