I’m pretty sure everyone who reads this newspaper has heard of YouTube. YouTube has over one billion users; it’s videos get over eight billion views a day; and people upload more than 400 hours of video to YouTube each minute. In short, it’s huge!
You can find almost anything on YouTube. Want to learn how to iron a shirt, fix a car, cook a biryani? It’s on YouTube. Nostalgic for the days when DD was the only TV channel around? You can watch old shows and ads on YouTube. There’s also of course the usual Bollywood content, great comedy content from young Indian groups and so much more.
Because it’s so huge there’s no way anyone could find all the crazy stuff on there. So I’ve taken it upon myself to share a few of the slightly weirder YouTube channels out there with you.
FunToyzCollector
This channel has hundreds of videos of a lady unpackging and playing with toys. You just see her hands opening up the toy box and hear her describing what she’s doing. No one knows who she is, but it’s been estimated that she earns $5 million annually from her YouTube channel. I wonder what her house looks like. It must be filled to the brim with toy boxes.
JonDrinksWater
Described as “the internet’s premier water drinking series” this channel is just under 4000 clips of Jon drinking water. Seriously. He also compares different types of bottled water.
RealAnnoyingOrange
This is one strange (and funny) channel. Basically it’s a talking orange with a human mouth and human eyes, sometimes accompanied by a talking pear. They talk about everything from how to find a job, riding a bike, using Uber to parody videos of movies people and much more. It’s not something that can be described easily. You just need to watch it for yourself.
TalkingAnimals
Funnier than weird, but still a little weird, this is a channel of animals talking about all kinds of stuff, or reacting to humans. The funniest video to check out is a bunch of pets singing the carol 12 Days of Christmas.
Webdriver Torso
The mystery surrounding this channel had the internet aflame a couple of years ago. It turns out that this was a test channel set up by Google to monitor the upload quality of videos on YouTube. Clips are of red and blue shapes accompanied by electronic beeps. Try doing a Google search for “webdriver torso” and you’ll see the logo replaced by these rectangles on the results page.
MemoryHole
This channel just collects a whole load of old amateur home movies and sticks them on YouTube. There are some very strange clips in here, like a man walking on the beach in diapers sporting the Nike logo. Go figure...
If you haven’t watched anything on YouTube yet I’d recommend taking a look at these weird and wonderful channels before you go mainstream. I guarantee they’ll keep you occupied for weeks. Enjoy!
