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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] hexortor@lemmy.zip 25 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think that's down to audience. Niche to the terminally online? Probably not. Niche to your average person? Yeah probably.

[–] hexortor@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Then all of youtube is niche except maybe mrbeast

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

I forgot he blew up in the last couple years. Been watching his channel since it wasn't very well known.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Dude made a 2 hours video on the "OOF" sound. (And it was glorious)

[–] Aabbcc@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

The meme is just as good without the word niche. You don't need to enforce meme accuracy on the internet. Everyone will survive if we talk about YouTubers who aren't niche

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 14 points 9 months ago

you: HBomberguy is niche
people who would not know he existed were it not for his plagiarism video: lmao no he's not

[–] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

so niche (I say as I only discovered him with the latest vid)

[–] BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He deserves it though, they're long and very well done videos

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[–] Yearly1845@reddthat.com 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Today was

"A niche YouTuber I love put out a video!"

"The cancer is inoperable and he has 3 months to live".

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

have you been getting the cancer vids too?

i was worried the algorythm had caught something i hadnt.

and it's youtubers i had never previously watched

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

Support them on Patreon, they're doing it in their own free time :)

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ahoy is like this. His videos are awesome though.

[–] ExplosiveLynx@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just put out a sweet video about the G36

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[–] AngelJamie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] WatTyler@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

Whenever LEMMiNO does post though, the quality is so high that I'm astounded he finished it as quickly as he did.

[–] swag_money@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

quality >>> quantity

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

NileRed: Six months is long?

(And they are always quality)

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 24 points 9 months ago

YouTube was so much better when this was the norm.

Sam O'Nella Academy four years ago but instead of six months it was three years.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I honestly prefer this tbh. Shows that the passion comes from making the videos they want rather than grinding to survive

[–] Cheskaz@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah, a channel I follow has grown and pivoted from "making a video when they have a topic they care about", which was still quite frequent, to "scheduled biweekly video on a topic interesting to the widest audience" and it's really killed the magic.

Like, their choice and I wish them well, but it's not for me anymore.

[–] popcap200@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A new Ahoy video dropped recently!

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[–] axefaire@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

MFW creators take the time to make better content instead of dumping out weekly garbage

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago
[–] Podo_Danderfluff@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Worthikids. Bigtop Burger is great.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

At least yours posts. I've gotten into the bad habit of subscribing to dudes weeks or months before they fuck off into the nether never to be seen again.

[–] AToM_exe@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Summoning Salt.

[–] je_skirata@lemmy.today 8 points 9 months ago

I'm sad every time I find a well-made video, want to subscribe, then discover the video is two years old and the channel never uploaded anything else.

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago

Captain Disillusion

So long waiting, but the content is absolutely top tier.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

This is why you should follow hundreds to thousands of niche, mostly-inactive YouTubers. Every day you'll get a couple new videos that only you and 17 other people will ever see, with content unlike anything anyone else is making, and if you're lucky the video might even be good too.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Bobby Fingers

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

History Oversimplified fans be like:

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

6 months would be an improvement

[–] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This was Mitten Squad. RIP you magnificent bastard

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[–] MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago

Engineer Guy went years between ~~books~~ uploads. I had to do a double take when he came up in my feed a few months ago.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I'm a fan of the video game historian. I wish it was only 6 months between videos

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

hbomberguy - releases a 6hr epic every 6 months.

[–] Adramis@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Settled went to weekly and I'm so hyped.

[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gosu-sama, who makes Minecraft tutorials. These are some of my favorite videos even though there are only like 6 of them.

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[–] hammadmajid@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

MelodySheep

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is Michael Reeves still niche?

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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Vsauce, the YT shorts he puts out aren't enough

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's been 9 months or so since contrapoints put anything out. I sometimes think the notifications aren't working and check. But alas she's just work shy.

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[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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