Thing is, there is a lot of extraordinary educational content on YouTube, made by people who have a knack for it and do it as a labor or love.
Thanks to some YouTube channels like 3Blue1Brown, WelchLabs and Numberphile, I'm getting the hang of Riemann Surfaces, vector spaces and higher dimensions, the importance of prime numbers and Fourier Transforms... there is an embarrassment of riches bubbling behind so much bad faith A.I.-fabricated clickbait garbage that the algorithm pushes.
There are university professors uploading semester-long courses on cosmology or particle physics. Science channels like ParallaxNick, PBS Spacetime, The History Of The Universe, Terra Physics, The Science Asylum and Ask A Spaceman... many, many others.
But this YouTube treasure may not appear at first glance, and once you select a good path to follow, you have to cultivate that unavoidable algorithm: subscribing to the proper channels, blocking a seemingly endless barrage pseudo-science and conspiracy bullshit and blocking entire topics and keywords (like Roswell, Niburu, etc).
Sometimes the algorithm will suggest new things and it will deliver gold, you can feel the power of the tool and it is awesome, but unfortunately it will also often be clickbait crap, and now more and more often it's with these god-awful A.I. images and pseudo-friendly emotionless generic narrations. Time to take out the digital machete again and hack away ruthlessly, blocking channels and erasing their videos from one's watch history.
In fact, right now if anything has so much as a synthetic scent after a minute of watching, it will be purged and blocked.
But also often, I come across content creators excitedly and clearly explaining the quantum spin of electrons in a two hour video, and it is a glorious sight to behold. Case in point - look up Highly Entropic Mind and his two videos "Understanding QFT". QFT being Quantum Field Theory.
In this case, I also check out the channels that they recommend on their account page. That's a good way of pulling the thread.
Many of these well-meaning content creators are being drowned by those gaming the algorithm and flooding feeds with crap. So I created a Patreon account and chip in, trying to be a little bit of wind beneath their wings.
For a more accurate map, erase everything south of Rome, including Sicily, as well as Corsica and Sardinia. At the northern end of things, probably also Ireland and Scotland.
Then make four new tiny islands and name them Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam and Prague.