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Forteana & Weirdness On YouTube

OK, I'm an idiot. I have to confess that I don't watch YouTube on my laptop, only on my TV (which means I can't work out how to subscribe and I can't leave comments), but I'm happy with that as I only watch YouTube when I'm noodling about doing other stuff.

So I've been looking at this page, trying to pick up ideas for new things to watch and I've been annoyed that the little logo in the top left hand corner isn't big enough for me to tell which channel it is. Only TODAY have I found out that if I hover over it with my mouse, it shows me the name of the channel!

Someone come round and hit me with a kipper.
 
catseye said:
OK, I'm an idiot. I have to confess that I don't watch YouTube on my laptop, only on my TV (which means I can't work out how to subscribe and I can't leave comments), but I'm happy with that as I only watch YouTube when I'm noodling about doing other stuff.

So I've been looking at this page, trying to pick up ideas for new things to watch and I've been annoyed that the little logo in the top left hand corner isn't big enough for me to tell which channel it is. Only TODAY have I found out that if I hover over it with my mouse, it shows me the name of the channel!

Someone come round and hit me with a kipper.
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[Goes out to buy a kipper]
 
catseye said:
OK, I'm an idiot. I have to confess that I don't watch YouTube on my laptop, only on my TV (which means I can't work out how to subscribe and I can't leave comments), but I'm happy with that as I only watch YouTube when I'm noodling about doing other stuff.

So I've been looking at this page, trying to pick up ideas for new things to watch and I've been annoyed that the little logo in the top left hand corner isn't big enough for me to tell which channel it is. Only TODAY have I found out that if I hover over it with my mouse, it shows me the name of the channel!

Someone come round and hit me with a kipper.
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Set up an account for Youtube using your laptop.
Then, on your TV, set up the Youtube login using the password and user ID you used to set up the account.
When you subsequently go to Youtube on your TV, it should automatically log you in and show all your favourite channels. The recommendation algorithm should also recommend stuff that interests you.
 
Mythopoeika said:
Then, on your TV, set up the Youtube login using the password and user ID you used to set up the account.
When you subsequently go to Youtube on your TV, it should automatically log you in and show all your favourite channels. The recommendation algorithm should also recommend stuff that interests you.
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As far as I remember, I do use the account set up on the laptop for the TV, I just never watch on the laptop, but I ought to go in and subscribe to the channels on the laptop - is that right? It makes sense...

As to showing my favourite channels - YouTube seems very weird (on the TV). It shows me more of the same as I have been watching but it doesn't seem to be able to show much of a choice - for example, I've recently been watching lots of history documentaries. My suggested viewing is now FULL of that, and I have to struggle about to find stuff linked to (for example) ghost stories - which is what I was mostly watching a couple of months ago. Like YouTube has a teeny tiny short term memory and can't keep in its head that I leap about between history documentaries, the paranormal, the Met Office and psychogeography.

As far as it is concerned, I watch history and nothing else.
 
catseye said:
As far as I remember, I do use the account set up on the laptop for the TV, I just never watch on the laptop, but I ought to go in and subscribe to the channels on the laptop - is that right? It makes sense...

As to showing my favourite channels - YouTube seems very weird (on the TV). It shows me more of the same as I have been watching but it doesn't seem to be able to show much of a choice - for example, I've recently been watching lots of history documentaries. My suggested viewing is now FULL of that, and I have to struggle about to find stuff linked to (for example) ghost stories - which is what I was mostly watching a couple of months ago. Like YouTube has a teeny tiny short term memory and can't keep in its head that I leap about between history documentaries, the paranormal, the Met Office and psychogeography.

As far as it is concerned, I watch history and nothing else.
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Subscribe to the channels you like. This will change how the algorithm works and it will make more relevant recommendations.
 
This is probably untrue, but it is very atmospheric:

The Seven Towers of Satan: Iraq's Lovecraftian Horror
Is Iraq and the rest of the Mesopotamian region haunted? If so, then by what? And how is it connected to one of the country's oldest Kurdish communities? In the early 1900s, the french Sufi philosopher Abdul Wahid Yahya, believed that he discovered a metaphysical secret that governed the entire planet and the lives of everyone on it. Known as the Towers of Satan, could this theory explain why this part of the Middle East is paranormal?
 
Gosh, just watching Peter Laws talking about the Paranormal as the new religion.

It's actually very very good.
 
Ok. Downtune here, but not really. I'm a massive Alan Yankovic fan, and in lieu of the never to be released motion picture about his life and times, here's a pretty good yt backstory. It's very millennial, but we'll forgive it coz there's no grownups brave enough to give the man his proper due.
 
skinny said:
Ok. Downtune here, but not really. I'm a massive Alan Yankovic fan, and in lieu of the never to be released motion picture about his life and times, here's a pretty good yt backstory. It's very millennial, but we'll forgive it coz there's no grownups brave enough to give the man his proper due.
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There is a fictionalised version of his life story which I thoroughly enjoyed

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17076046/

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story​

 
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