r/youtube

1. DJ cook

2. Leafy is here

3. Simulator adventures

4. Ryth

5. Keemstar

I've been on YouTube for years and one thing that's always frustrated me is how much effort it takes to find creators one actually love.

Going by YouTube's New To You section often feels like a slight variation of things I've had already watched, rather than genuinely new discoveries. The most fulfilling way I have discovered content creators was through community posts on Reddit, which was better than the YouTube algorithm itself. It feels like platforms are very good at optimizing engagements, but not necessarily at helping people discover creators that align with their specific tastes, interests, or aesthetic preferences. I am exploring this idea further with an attempt to find out whether there is another better way of discovering new and personalized content creators and hear how other people experience creator discovery online.

Here are some of the things I am curious about:

1. How do you discover creators today?
2. What frustrates you most about current recommendations?
3. What's the best creator you have discovered recently?

Would genuinely love honest thoughts, even if you think this is a non-problem.

I stumbled across this guy's channel (By Ben Photography) on YouTube the other day and ended up binge-watching a bunch of his stuff.

Usually, photography tutorials are either incredibly dry or way too "influencer-bready" without actually teaching anything. This guy actually makes things make sense while keeping it pretty entertaining.

Curious if any of you have watched his stuff? Is his advice as solid as it seems, or am I just getting sucked into the editing?

Is there an extension to block member only videos? Its just plain annoying to keep seeing them recommended when im never paying for membership

So you guys know I have a streaming channel. I didn’t open it for monetary gains though a problem has arisen.

Bit of backstory, so I work 45km from where I live. That’s 2 buses and 2hrs 30 min to work. I’m supposed to be at work by 8am. So salary is 180$ pm and 80$ ends up in transport.

So my problem is here I saw an electric motorbike listed for sale for 1300$. The bike has a range of 80km and I can self charge at home. The advantage of this is that my transport cost reduces to 25$ for electricity which is boosted by the fact I can charge for free at work. Also my travel time reduces to 1hr only.

my need for advice comes in here, how can I raise my views to 650k views where I’m at a total of 270 views? also gather 3000 subs in one month before the bike is sold. Just advice on improving my niche and also gain subs, views and watchtime

I know this isn’t east coast-specific but I’m from VT originally and wanted to know your guys’ thoughts. I was up hiking by the Maroon Bells last week and you couldn’t pay me to ski that shit. Rotten snow and crazy amounts of rockfall like this mean one mistake is instant death. All over Instagram and YouTube I’ve been seeing guys underprepared mountaineering and skiing dumb stuff like this in Colorado for no reason. It doesn’t even look fun. What’s behind this new wave of idiots in the sport?? Are you guys seeing this where you’re from?

I think it started last year and progressively got worse. Half of my recommended are videos that I’ve watched already at one point or another, some of it will be genuinely boring, uninteresting videos and some will just be a tirade of one topic I watched half a video of yesterday.

Aside from the rant, are there any recommendations for long form content. Similar to Wendigoon/Fern etc. For a while PBS frontline satiated me but now half my recommended are the boring docs no matter what I do.