this’ll be on my videotape

alright, so here’s the deal. i wanted to put some videos on my linkroll. but they’re all hosted on youtube (video hosting is expensive so we have a monopoly run by the world’s largest advertising company), which presented two problems:

they all share the url youtube dot com, which seems rather antithetical to the purpose of the list
the ?v= codes are all very opaque

so i’m putting them here instead, divided into two groups: channels outputting constistently good content, and important videos

quality channels

🅰️ red letter media - some hack frauds talk about movies and try to make each other laugh
recommended videos: wheel of the worst #16, half in the bag: jack & jill
🧬️ ahoy - in depth documentaries about the history of video games
recommended videos: polybius, the first video game
🎭 chris and jack - comedy skits; the bloopers are almost as good as the stuff that made it in
recommended videos: the white room, groundhog daying
❔ lemmino - slickly edited videos about unsolved mysteries and, usually, their common-sense solutions
recommended videos: cicada 3301, the lost colony of roanoake
🎮 jacob geller - game design, architecture, and how it all comes back to the real world
recommended videos: museum theft, fear of depths