Educational and engaging

I'll be making explanatory/educational videos and am soaking in some inspiration. Wanna share some content creators you like, who are engaging, entertaining or otherwise good at explaining stuff? Bonus points for explaining advanced topics effectively, without being boring or cringy, nor dumbing things down or being a clown. The perfect example would be taking some complicated subject and making it palatable to all audiences, or at least to anyone who isn't a jackass. Does any content creator come to mind? It could be a youtuber, but also books, infographics, anything that can be educational and engaging, even if the one reading/watching is not a nerd about the subject.

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That's exactly what the worlds needs. More fuarrrking videos of some half-baked retard explaining soykaf. Seriously, you SHOULD become another face in the crowd of fǎggots going "MUH SCIENCE".

Two Minute Papers comes to mind. Can't think of many other at the moment, as there aren't a lot that are that great. Veritasium and some other big channels have good videos, but they obviously utilize a much larger budget. >6805 Retard. Let others create what they want, especially if they really want to do it better than the other mediocre examples.

>>6806 They're going to be mediocre. Those who can't do, teach. And let me tell you, the crop of teachers that utoob puts out is utter trash. They're worse than reporters with getting their facts straight.

>6807 Even if you somehow knew that for certain (you don't and you just want to stir soykaf), why do you care? Let a stranger try and learn some new skills - video editing, writing, presentation, animation, etc. When's the last time you tried to learn something new just for the sake of it?

There's already too many self-help videos out there. They're all mediocre. Make dank memes instead.

>>6802 If you have an actual personality, the style of Luke Smith has been very refreshing. He gets rambly, but on topics he's knowledgeable on or has developed a solid opinion on, so it's like listening to a buddy just talking about something he cares about.

>>6802 I can't offer some "mimic this person" style advice, but I can offer some other advice: Audio quality trumps all. Use a good mic. Mix the sound carefully. Enunciate carefully. Rehearse. Do re-takes. If you're not sure if you should do a re-take, do it anyway. Audio quality trumps all. Now technically, this is the same as #1, but I felt it important enough that I should mention it twice. Use a script. Read it out loud as you write it. If you don't have an actual script, then at least have a very detailed outline. People really don't care about your face unless your topic is makeup. They either don't want to see you, or they're focusing on a place about a foot lower than your face. Don't worry about ultimate video quality, except where it pertains to conveying important visual details about your topic. There's nothing wrong with voiceover videos. If your topic requires the camera focus to be on you, dress and groom as if you're going for a job interview.

>>6802 Good, quality instruction is the kind of content we need more of, as opposed to the soykaf that's filling places like YouTube right now. Sal Khan from Khan Academy is a good instructor, check his stuff out. >>6807 And those who can neither do nor teach, whine on imageboards. >>6810 >but on topics he's knowledgeable on or has developed a solid opinion on Not really. I've gotten pretty tired of his videos because so many of his takes are superficial and reek of "I read one book on this topic, allow me to lecture you".

OP here, I realized I should have given some examples myself. The best one coming to mind is >School of Life A yt channel that teaches some philosophy for the uninitiated. A couple more: >CZSworld Explains the lore of horror films, it's not terribly educational but my point is that it can be engaging even if you're not a horror fan. >todd in the shadows Same thing, but he explains pop music lore. >The Corbett Report This one's not exclusively on yutub. Talks about conspiracy research, without sliding into cringe paranoid speculative stuff. >unfa Nerds out about making electronic music using foss software exclusively, yet he doesn't come out as a fringe nerd locked in his basement - he's pretty cool, actually. And a honorable mention: Google's "Selfish Ledger" video. The content itself is creepy as hell, but the presentation style is in itself lovely, in my opinion. That top-down desk view, the video itself being separated in chapters, all that good stuff. >>6806 >Two Minute Papers The graphic animations are fine, but the guy reads that script so hard it sounds like espeaker. >Veritasium Yeah that one's very good, and there's some things that can be learnt even if one doesn't have a big budget, things like writing engaging scripts, and theirs are. Good one. >>6810 >Luke Smith I liked his stff, but only because I was a nerd already. I'd be interested in someone like him explaining kernel panics to your grandma or the grocery store clerk. Still, I got hooked to his videos personally, so thanks. >>6812 Good ones, thank you. >>6813 >Sal Khan Yeah he's a professional speaker, Bill Gates founding and all. I didn't think of Khan Academy, that's a good hub of stuff explainers. Thanks!

>>6810 >Luke Smith I won't lie, I looked at the thumbnails for his videos a while ago and refused to give him a chance. It feels like all the parts of ""mainstream"" imageboards I dislike and I just don't enjoy YouTubers who seek fame. t. millions of views

>>6820 >School of Life Great animation and production quality, but puts too much of the "pop" in "pop-philosophy". The founder also likes inserting his own biases. >Two Minute Papers The point is that he has a superb way of presenting complex and esoteric concepts (such as machine learning) in a very engaging, accessible and passionate way, all without being oversimplified or inaccurate. Compare with videos on similar channels to see how he does it better.

>>6807 >Those who can't do, teach. such a stupid saying, and utterly untrue. The best teachers are the ones who have an intimate and deep understanding of the subject; conversely, someone who cannot teach well probably just doesn't understand the subject very well(unless of course it is due to anxiety or other problems). If anything the phrase should be changed to "those who teach poorly do poorly". Even in the field that term was coined for, mathematics, it is utterly false: John Milnor - winner of the Abel prize, the Wolf prize, and the Fields medal. Also a famously good teacher who prioritizes his students. George Polya - revolutionized combinatorics (among other things). Also educated entire generations of mathematicians and has written some of the most popular books on how to reason mathematically. William Thurston - also had a Fields medal for revolutionizing geometry, and was the editor of a youth-focused mathematics magazine among other things. The list goes on. Someone who cannot express their ideas clearly is a hobbled genius at best, and a charlatan hiding in obfuscation at the worst. These days it is more often the latter than the former. >And let me tell you, the crop of teachers that utoob puts out is utter trash. They're worse than reporters with getting their facts straight. This is true, with some exceptions. Made-for-youtube educational videos are almost always lacking, they are forced to jockey for attention with Fortnite streamers which of course leads to stripping out lots of substance. If you want to learn something off YouTube look up lecture videos. I learned a lot from Leonard Susskind's lectures.