I've started seeing more cooking clips that are actually pretty well made and work well on the medium. If more content creators of various interests adopt it as a platform, it might be worthwhile.
YouTube and the content creator industry (and the surrounding hardware tech) excites me.
I follow a channel on YouTube called "The Best Ever Food Review Show", a super high-production values travel/food TV channel produced by a guy from Minnesota who bootstrapped the operation himself. Imagine having the camera equipment (anything from Sony RX's to BlackMagic) and computer hardware (PC/Mac) and software (Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, FCP) today that is capable of producing a show that is equal to or exceeds the quality of most network travel TV shows. (he has since hired a team, but still, I'm sure their budget is a fraction of Food Network budgets)
Same deal with MKBHD -- really high quality content and really high production values. (MKBHD uses Red cameras)
I have no interested in producing content myself, but I can't help but be fascinated by the amount of amazing independent content that's out there on YouTube, all enabled by prosumer hardware and software.
Off-topic, but I'm always looking for hour long talks/videos to put on while I'm cooking and I can't sit at a computer, or my hands are too dirt to finger a book. Thanks HN for giving me good content! I maintain a list of these and they come up sufficiently often enough that I always have something to watch when I have to cook.
Emmymade is a more general food/cooking channel though. I do enjoy it, mostly because she'll give anything a chance once and isn't dismissive of food she isn't familiar with or doesn't prefer.
Well, I just watched a video about a can opener. And while the start was a little slow, I ended up enjoying this very much—and I subscribed to the channel. Thanks.
It’s been amazing. I’ve had about 30% of people that follow me join my Discord which is 10x higher than I expected. Meme videos do the best but a loyal fan base see and enjoys my regular dev style videos too. I do the same on Reels and Shorts with less success. But I enjoy learning which videos do better on each platform.
Because of covid, I have been cooking at home a lot. The Youtube Food channels have been amazing. Here are the ones I frequent:
* Ethan Chlebowski
* Joshua Weissman
* Adam Ragusea
* J. Kenji López-Alt
* Babish Culinary Universe (Binging with Babish). This is more of an entertainment channel than a how-to channel. But I like to see how he makes certain things.
They can be useful. My feed is filled with startup advice as well as Chinese lessons. I think a big part of my Chinese vocab comes from watching reels teaching me chinese.
I clicked through fully expecting this to be a stuff made here video, that channel is definitely a pro click.
That said, I subscribed to Nick's channel just from watching this video, very fun project and good video skills. Glad he submitted it to HN, YouTube recommendations have been kinda crap in the last year and always happy to run across a new channel with interesting projects.
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