Every Frame A Painting is a show by Tony Zhou that dives into technique, history and trivia about movies and movie-making. The videos are short essays on subjects such as how movies can frame the cast to tell a story and how the same cast in a different framing tells another story. They’re very interesting and educational, and should be entertaining even for those that don’t have an interest in film-making.

https://www.youtube.com/everyframeapainting

PsychedSubstance is a harm prevention project. That means that instead of just blurting out “Drugs are bad and dangerous!” they present what the drugs do and what the effects are, both positive and negative, and how to minimize the negative effects. The idea is that since people are going to do stupid things, such as experiment with drugs, anyway we might as well give them the best chance of not putting themselves or anyone else in harms way.

This is achieved by talking about the physical and psychological effects of different substances and comparing them to others, such as LSD vs Alcohol

https://www.youtube.com/c/PsychedSubstance

And you know what: Fucking kudos to these people putting themselves out there, declaring to the world that they’re doing this, and risking all the social and professional consequences of making such statements.

I’ve mentioned Extra Credits before.

It started out as a school project and has since grown to an established entity in the world of game design, as frontmen Dave and James talk about philosophies, solutions, pitfalls, and processes.

If you’re interested in game design, whether you’re in the industry or just curious in general, these guys will give you lots to think about and help you.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz

They also have their own website that covers all the other things their doing that’s attached to Extra Credits.

http://extra-credits.net/

The guys over at Epic Rap Battles of history ask the question “What if these notable characters (both actual and fictional) where to meet in a duel of musical wits”, and then answers it. Along the way they educate their viewers with facts and trivia about the characters that they feel fit the equation.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ERB

Check out their channel to see the tackle characters such as Superman, Jack the Ripper, Michael Jordan, Gandhi, and pit them against against each other, like in this video featuring Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla

Every year about this time DJ Earworm compiles the biggest pop hits in the US into a great mash-up.

Check out his channel for more mash-ups and music:
https://www.youtube.com/user/djearworm

But some things are more likely to go viral than others, and click-bait is now a word because the marketing department still logs everything everyone does; it’s how they work, list and catalog what content gets attention, how, when and trying to figure out why.

And since this is a phenomenon we now see more and more paid content disguised as regular content, and I’m starting to wonder how much of all the viral stuff we see that seems to be regular content is actually fake. It doesn’t have to be paid content by a company looking to sell a product, but just be faked by the content creator for whatever reason.

Coby Persin does what he calls Social Experiments, which ranges from scaring kids about the dangers of meeting strangers from the Internet to this video showing how greedy people that have a lot are compared to people that have very little. Musical queues are timed accordingly.

It’s all set up with blurred faces and everything you would think is needed for a video that doesn’t have the written consent from people that appear in it. There are also other videos from many other creators that supposedly catch cheaters in the act or expose “gold diggers” and whatever other shame-based content there is.

But I’m starting to question what’s real and what’s not. There’s no disclosure that I can find about if it’s all just acting and performers, but there’s also no disclosure for the opposite.

In the case of the video above in particular, can we trust a video that is produced by no less than three title cards?