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Mostly ASMR - it's how I get to sleep.
Also, Pitch Meeting, which I sometimes watch instead of the film.
I don't watch a ton of YouTube anymore, but when I do it's usually the likes of techtubers and gaming creators that incorporate humor with a few "I create dumb stuff for the internet" type channels mixed in.
I'll list few of my favorite channels, with Piped links of course :)
DankPods, Alpharad, Failboat, I did a thing, Bobby Duke Arts, maxmoefoePokemon, Michael Reeves
Probably missed a few but that's most of them.
I watch LBRY (I use it directly and bypass odysee btw)
For youtube I proxy it through piped
I'm still enjoying the engineering and maker channels, along with a few other educational channels.
Yeah youtube has massive amounts of good content. The only downside is that it's owned by google.
Some of my favs in alphabetical order:
Anton Fomenko
BeardMeatsFood
GeoWizard
I did a thing
Jet Lag: The Game
Joel Haver
Ludwig
Max Fosh
Modest Pelican
NFKRZ
RAINBOLT
Steve Wallis
STORROR
Tom Scott
Uri Tuchman
Xiaomanyc
Fall of Civilizations
I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but it's incomparably good (if stories about past civilizations is your thing).
I watch a few, but the first worthy one that comes to mind is TBSkyen.
I mostly watch high elo games of LoL, TFT, Chess. like @PekinWoof, @Bebe872, @Frodan and many more.
I mostly just use it to find new music.
There's a couple of cooking channels I keep an eye on, a bit of tom scott and contrapoints/shaun/etc - but mainly just music.
No, I don't have or want spotify. I like music videos, and I like being able to easily skip through and sample fragments of songs, rather than just have them on in the background.
I do yes as I also have a channel that I do videos for (my only income as I fund my own website without ads or 3rd party trackers). I do make my videos' ads skippable though. And yes my own browser blocks ads.
But the pleasantness, or lack thereof, comes down to a site's rules and moderation. The vast majority of people don't want to be aggravated, and they also don't really want to pay to use a website.
But scammers and clickbait are everywhere. I think a lot depends on whether they can game the algorithm to force their way into your home feed or not. Many news media sites also use clickbait, and the same goes for politicians wanting to get attention through fear and anger. But I agree very often clickbait crosses the line - it is really irritating when you see a thumbnail of something, and that image literally appears nowhere inside the content.
I mostly follow technology channels though.
Second Thought, First Thought, Our Changing Climate, Polymatter, Kurzgesagt, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, Democracy Now.