Examples of how astray it is: Training: (tired) cheat days, who's natty or not, YouTubers with insane incomes buying things for their own exercise needs, athletes trying other sports and failing "comically". What'd be interesting: discussions of mentality, keeping a positive attitude in spite of injury, balancing life and trying to be really good at a time consuming hobby. Video games: things you missed in Bloodborne, e-sport gamers playing games they're bad at. What'd be interesting: symbology in level design, parallels between games and politics/history. For instance, Abe's Odyssey and slavery.
What channels do you subscribe to and why?
You need to look from outside the platform in an in-scope forum. Look for climbers on Twitter or on some forums, etc. I’ve found in a new area that if look at a good book, use the author as a jump point to find Twitter people with useful info. Publishers force authors to tweet and there is good material there.
There’s also hints you can use to assess content. If you see the wide eyed YouTuber face, skip, for example.
It's frequently been asked on here before what peoples' fav channels are. One search:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I think the best channels I learnt about from HN were the magnificent Every Frame A Painting[3] and Captain Disillusion[4], god bless 'em.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMonoNeon/videos
[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/LOUISGENEVIEVE/videos
[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/ScaryPockets/videos
The problem is that their recommendation engine is a feedback loop that is really bad at showing you anything new.
I never really figured out how to find the good stuff on Youtube, so I simply don’t use it that much.
About 75% of the good stuff I have found was documentaries ripped from regular TV channels.