What weird and interesting things do you watch on YouTube.

[PolkaDotted]

I love TedEd, Booktube and documentaries but what else do you watch? I'm looking for something different.

At the moment I have an odd obsession with watching commercials from other countries like Nigeria and India,

Also I am fascinated by watching them make various candies on the Lofty Pursuits channel.

What do you watch?

Videos of people pressure washing things - anything from drives to cars to benches. It's very satisfying to watch.

Also cake decorating and hair colouring/styling.

I like watching Geoff Marshall's channel - all about the Underground and trains in general. I've no idea why. I can't remember the last time I went on a train!

Mama Doctor Jones is a US OB/GYN who is really interesting - again, last time I had a child was 14 years ago! But she compares TV births to real life which the BBC seems to do well, according to her.

Sorted Food are hilarious.

Love an acrylic pour too - love seeing how they turn out. Mixed Media Girl is a good one for that.

Propertyofhood ooh yes, I like unintentional ASMR - recently I watched a 45 minute cleaning demo for a hotel chain - it was so relaxing!
As an alternative to tiny houses I like Kirsten Dirksen, less twee and really interesting videos about ingenious interiors in various cities around the world.
Oh yes agree with PP about Geoff Marshall - secrets of the underground series is pure geeky perfection. Great thread OP!

Gummy I'm an acrylic paint pourer. I find it relaxing to actually do but as you said, even more relaxing to watch. She is also very smiley and fun.

Ask A Mortician, she fascinates me

Thank you all for the suggestions so far. I'll check all of them out. I love that there's such a range of topics here.

I just remembered another thing or two that I love. People showing their tea collections. It's just so soothing. Also I love Vegan food hauls(I'm not even vegan) and raw vegan what I eat in a day videos. It's so fascinating to watch someone having a salad the size of a dining table for lunch or 12 mangos for breakfast.

Another vote for Dan Bell here. My favourite series he does is called "Another dirty room". Him and his friends (Rick and Will) travel to the worst motels they can find and document the absolute squalor they encounter. These motels are off the scale awful (bed bugs, drug paraphernalia, potential crime scenes...you name it...) They use luminol and drug kits to validate what they find. A lot of the commentary is jokey, but there is often a serious side where they reflect on the dangers this poses to people.

I travel a lot for work and can definitely say I have adopted the "pillow check" each time I stay somewhere new!

I've been watching a man build a wood cabin in the woods and all his other projects for a couple of years www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMXKin1fXXCeq2UJePJEog

I love watching Japanese parents making lunch boxes, my favourite of those channels
www.youtube.com/user/obentotyu

Tiny houses and alternative channels
www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen

ASMR. I have been using it for stress relief and sleep since 2013!

Dressage tests ..

Love watching Maori Hakas(especially the funeral ones) and football crowds singing in unisonand US Military Personnel doing surprise homecomings😆

Mysteries and oddities.
Top 10/5 lists.
Whatif/what will happen type videos.
The Try Guys
Kids Try...
Zombie Survival videos
Like you OP like the mass infection/food poisoning/mild growing Forensic Files videos.

I like Maangchi Korean cooking channel.

The very lovely Martin Clunes - this video inspired me to start my business and there's a raised eyebrow about half way through that brings a lump to my throat very time I watch it...

Propertyofhood I'm an ASMR weirdo too! Also partial to manicure videos, Dr pimple popper and the guy who plays piano with the deadpan face(vinheterio)

UrbEx videos (ie, abandoned places)

Fairgrounds and fairground rides

Old films about fairs and seaside towns

911 calls
People putting their food shopping away 🤦🏻‍♀️
Poundland hauls
Claire Witt - because I want her house and she seems really down to earth.
Surprise puppies

Forgive me ... is Tiny Food real ? Like real food or is it just pretend ? (!)

Colin Furz - average bloke who builds incredible things

Good Mythical Morning - daft product and food tests, among other things

Bingeing with Babish - cooks dishes from famous films and TV shows

ASMR every night for the last 3 years
Gentlewhispering is my favourite
But cope with others

Acrylic pouring, anything surfing related but mostly cats!

Things about haunted objects. Obvious bunkum but strangely compelling....start with dybbuk boxes.

Bionerd23
She’s a Chernobyl hunter!

Refinery 29 have lots of interesting videos. It's a woman's website that also had a you tube channel, there's some thought provoking short films on there.