Michael Bordenaro is the main one, a vaguely libertarian guy who walks around Florida talking about the housing market bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWSXBs8EzhQ

Since watching his videos I've started getting copycat channels popping up in my feed. They're all a white guy walking through a Floridian neighbourhood and describing the economy collapsing. If they're good like Michael they spend a fair portion of the video showing off the flora, which is the interesting part of Florida. This particular channel doesn't do extended shots of neat plants but we get some quality bad landscaping while learning about the condo market crisis. These are a great evolution of the white guy wearing sunglasses in his car and ranting about Obama genre.

Florida is super pretty. You should see the Everglades and Big Cypress National Preserve before they're gone.

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[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These videos look really low effort and easy to replicate but they're actually pretty difficult to do well. Bordenaro's vids are all around 20 minutes long with no edits so he's gotta ramble on about one topic nonstop the whole time. And he has no notes or co-hosts/guests to interact with. I guess it gets easier with practice like anything else but keeping such a large audience with such a simple formula is challenging if you aren't especially charismatic or hot.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

I wish I had the public speaking talent to do it. This format of video gets a huge amount of engagement and would be perfect for a socialist to go one level deeper than Bordenaro or Uneducated Economist go. As far as I've seen, only Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't does something similar.