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A completely different question for all of you. You're all internet savvy and know your way around it. But which YouTube channel, or whatever it may be, has personally enriched, inspired, or otherwise helped you? I would personally include Travis Neilson and Louis Rossmann. Yes, it's possible they sometimes exaggerated or presented things in a polemical way, but still. I personally think it's right and important to hear a completely different perspective than your own. Who are yours, and what do you think?
 
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A question that is better posed to my wife, who is active on YT and follows several people.

I use YouTube to find and watch ambient music, specific game walkthroughs, some music videos, and any new/current convention videos about Jen Taylor and Steve Downes (Cortana and Master Chief in the Halo games).

Various people post some particularly cool Star Citizen walk-around/ambient videos from time to time.

I broke down about a week ago and actually followed some ambient music channel. I'd have to find it. My personal policy for years has been not to follow anyone on YT because…well, I just don't care. I'm there to find what I'm looking for at the moment. If something I'm interested in at that time comes up, I watch it. YT is not my social spot.
 
A question that is better posed to my wife, who is active on YT and follows several people.

I use YouTube to find and watch ambient music, specific game walkthroughs, some music videos, and any new/current convention videos about Jen Taylor and Steve Downes (Cortana and Master Chief in the Halo games).

Various people post some particularly cool Star Citizen walk-around/ambient videos from time to time.

I broke down about a week ago and actually followed some ambient music channel. I'd have to find it. My personal policy for years has been not to follow anyone on YT because…well, I just don't care. I'm there to find what I'm looking for at the moment. If something I'm interested in at that time comes up, I watch it. YT is not my social spot.
Thanks for your reply! Helps me.

So, I wasn't specifically asking about YouTube channels, but rather which public figure, for example, has helped you or you all in some way. I could also mention Bob Ross, for instance, who's often shown on our public broadcasting channel after 11 p.m. I find his show quite inspiring, even though I have nothing to do with painting.
 
I enjoy Technology Connections. It features detailed explanations of how both old and new pieces of technology work. For example, I'd never heard of a Selectavision CED player until I found that channel but now I know not only what it does, but how it works. I'd never seen inside a pinball machine. I didn't know that glass shatters faster than most slo-mo cameras can capture. And so on...
 
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I quite like the reports on the SRF channel from Swiss TV host Mona Vetsch “Mona Mittendrin”.

Very interesting.

Other than that don’t really follow too many YouTube channels.
 
Luke from Outdoorboys, being able to go into the Alaskan wilderness with almost zero supplies and not only survive but thrive. He largely retired his YT channel for a variety of reasons but I found what he does, how he does it, and how he teaches his kids to be awe inspiring.

As an aside, I also want to say that I find most YTers to be a bit of a flash in the pan. The ones I watch seem to start off as a part time YTers, they get some success, and then get the itch to be an influencer and go full time. Shortly after that they struggle make enough YTs to make money, so they do crazier or different things and the magic of the channel is lost.

I enjoyed another winter camping YTer, who bought himself a cabin, and spent a couple of years rebuilding it and filming that - not an issue, but he quit his job and became a full time YTer. With his cabin fairly well refurbished he bought another one to refurbish because he couldn't he had to keep pushing the envelope since he now relying on the income - I've unsubscribed because the magic was gone
 
Luke from Outdoorboys, being able to go into the Alaskan wilderness with almost zero supplies and not only survive but thrive. He largely retired his YT channel for a variety of reasons but I found what he does, how he does it, and how he teaches his kids to be awe inspiring.

As an aside, I also want to say that I find most YTers to be a bit of a flash in the pan. The ones I watch seem to start off as a part time YTers, they get some success, and then get the itch to be an influencer and go full time. Shortly after that they struggle make enough YTs to make money, so they do crazier or different things and the magic of the channel is lost.

I enjoyed another winter camping YTer, who bought himself a cabin, and spent a couple of years rebuilding it and filming that - not an issue, but he quit his job and became a full time YTer. With his cabin fairly well refurbished he bought another one to refurbish because he couldn't he had to keep pushing the envelope since he now relying on the income - I've unsubscribed because the magic was gone
I honestly can't believe the Ghost Town Living guy is still going. I started watching him in 2020.
 
A good mention for one who has inspired my morals/larger life outlook would be Dwayne Noel from Dry Creek Wrangler School / Tack Room Bible Talk. There are also fictional characters who I have learned from, such as Jean Luc Picard/Patrick Stewart.

Politically the ones who have inspired my thinking the most would be Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, and Ron Paul.

Now as for just Youtubers I like - that would be Larry's Lounge, BigBrudda, Whistlindiesel, Asmongold, Dancer, Shiey, Penguinz0, the Proper People, Vsauce.

There are many other names I can list off but those would be the main ones.

Wow, I remember him, I used to watch his videos a while ago, LOL
I watch his videos time to time - but I haven't watched them lately. I still support his project and the overall goal he has though!
 
HI there.

Perhaps you should mention who are all of these people are, because we here in Germany don't know much about these. Or is it just me?
 
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People who have also inspired me in some way.

Marlin Eller. A former Microsoft employee and, according to his book, my impression of him as "Bill Gates' right-hand man." I read his book in German translation and exchanged a few emails with him. Good man!

Michael Jackson—the King of Pop! "Our very own Michael!" As we say here. My cousin was, or still is, a huge fan and owned a lot of his stuff back then.
 
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And we Germans have the ability to download these series who were published by public broadcast. I strongly suspect that one of my neighbors was also inspired by Bob Ross.

Unfortunately, there's no German translation. So you have to translate every word and sentence piece by piece. What a shame! Because these are such great shows!
 
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From New Zealand.

Pupils are honoring their teachers. From Maori culture. Very impressing! Well, I think, this I also missed here in Germany and we have the need to this here also.

 
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George Orwell (Eric Blair). He was very conscious of the inequities in English society and colonialism and he did his best to write about their problems in a way the reading public could enjoy.

He finally hit the mark with his allegorical novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

Apple's 1984 Super Bowl XVIII ad, directed by Ridley Scott, was clearly inspired by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four:

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I think the most inspiring people are my family and friends, especially the first-year students I've gotten to know this year (I'm in my third year of college). Two first-year students in particular come to mind - they're both insanely good musicians, are involved in a lot of things on campus right off the bat, and have such amazing aspirations and goals. And, my friend group who graduated last year, who are all in different places around the country doing amazing things - one is in graduate school for School Counseling (very much a shortage area and more school counselors are desperately needed), and another is touring all over the west coast currently with several different groups.

And my family is also equally inspirational to me, because everyone has done such different things (we have teachers, college professors, school administrators, lawyers, business executives, engineers, doctors, and musicians in my family) - and everyone is happy in their roles.
 
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Okay, this might sound crazy or something, but back when we watched this show, it really motivated us. Mr. T.



And I remember so clearly that everyone wanted to be like Mr. T.! Wow! Those were exciting times!
 
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I have had people - some of my teachers at school and university, some of the incredible people who were friends with my mother, one or two people in public life, a few writers, or artists, - who have inspired me in different ways at different times in my life.

But, no, I have never been inspired by anyone on YouTube.

Entertained, and informed, perhaps, but inspired?

No, never.
 
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A very personal story just came to mind.

About 20 or 23 years ago, when I met up with a former classmate for a LAN party, I had absolutely no idea about networking or anything like that. When he sat down at my Windows PC and quickly and effectively tweaked the network settings, I was so impressed that I decided to learn it myself. You see, back then there was no internet here, and there wasn't really any need to run a network. I only know that Gordon and his brother supposedly ran a network so they could play games like Need for Speed.
 
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