On YouTube, there is a wide variety of different channels for different demographics. Even with Google and YouTube doing their best to dismantle their very own platform, it's still the most used video hosting website in the world. People upload videos of various qualities - from 144p quality videos shot on 90's flip phones to high-quality production videos with sets, greenscreens and expensive camera lenses. For some, this is just a hobby, for others - main source of income.
Some channels with high production quality stand out even more, due to the fact that don't upload for a very prolonged period of time, but rather working on new content, making sure it's as superb as can be. JonTron is one of the most well-known people to do this, sometimes uploading once a year or two, but with a very high-quality video, and, in some cases, featuring some sort of well-known personality (at least in the internet/meme circles). Among those long hiatus, high quality content creators stands Stuart Brown, AKA Ahoy.
Ahoy (formerly XboxAhoy) is a channel whose history starts many years back, in 2010. He had his humble beginnings as a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer weapon guide creator:
You can really hear the nervousness in his voice. His voice stutters somewhat, making it very obvious that he's trying to read a script.
He continued with those guides for many years, doing one for each weapon from every single following installment of CoD. His videos had made such an impression on the community, that folks at Activision had hired him to create weapon guides for their (rather short-lived) social network Call of Duty Elite around 2011.
Along with doing weapon guides, he started branching out onto different topics. In 2011, he started a new short series titled "Time To Kill", describing various mechanics in CoD's multiplayer, be it how damage is calculated, how optics affect your precision, etc.
In 2013 Stuart started branching out even more, now to topics completely unrelated to CoD. 4 such videos were released in a succession - history of wielding weapons "akimbo-style"; short discussion of pros and cons of generation 7 consoles; general history of video games and 101 things to do in GTA 5. In 2014, he released "A Brief History of Gore", a video on dismemberment in video games and how the general public reacted it.
In 2014, his most currently well-known series began, titled "Iconic Arms". In "Iconic Arms", Stuart talks about various famous weapons, be it in video games or TV. A prototype of this series existed years prior - a video dedicated to FN FAL - with a replica of the weapon and various equipment and documents used during the video, giving it a drill instruction/military training/documentary video feel. "Iconic Arms" include videos on such iconic weapons as Desert Eagle, AK-47, M16, Minigun, even bow and arrow. While they do not have the same documentary feel as the prototype, they are still very well put together and informative to people who have some interest in weaponry.
By that point, he stopped making CoD guides and dedicated himself entirely to creating long, informative videos, usually on the topic of video games. Among these one could find videos about Wolfenstein: The New Order's weapon arsenal, a brief history of sea pirates in video games, the influence of the Cold War on video games, the video game crash of 1983, zombies, the failure of Amiga and a later follow-up video, taking a closer look into the topic, with more step by step dissemination.
At the moment of writing this wall of text, Ahoy's most watched video is his dive into Polybius - a mythical arcade game from the 80's. If your hobbies include video games, there is some chance you might've heard of it. Polybius was rumored to having been an FBI experiment, causing seizures, headaches and psychological changes in those who played it. In this hour-long video Stuart describes his step by step procedure of finding out the truth behind the myth, looking for facts within the sea of rumors and hearsay. The video fits more the "documentary" style of videos, similiar to FN FAL "Behind The Lines". It is a great piece of gaming journalistic work carried out within the last few years by a non-collective consciousness (by "collective consciousness" I mean sites like 4chan using their weaponised autism to reach their goal of making discoveries). If you're interested in something like this or just want some great background noise, then I recommend you check it out:
Also, Larry Bundy Jr. makes a cameo. If you're reading this, hey Harry!
Currently, his latest video is an "Iconic Arms" entry on MP40, and the next video will be on "the first video game". So we'll see where this leads us next, and I'm looking forward to it, even if it takes a long time.
Some of Ahoy's internet accounts:
Main YouTube channel
Second YouTube channel (lots of bonus footage, with Stuart answering questions; a few playthroughs, behind the scenes, etc.)
RetroAhoy (reviews of old games; currently has no videos, all videos were reuploaded onto the main channel)
DrinksAhoy (reviews of beverages, currently only has 2 videos, with more reviews on the second channel)
Twitter (mostly behind the scenes stuff, sometimes responds to a tweet or two, but usually dormant)
Patreon
Personal site (only contains email and a YouTube channel link)
Bandcamp
Email: stu@rtbrown.org
Hopefully, I caught someone's eye with this. Ahoy is one of those rare "quality over quantity" cases that pays off greatly. The visual style of his videos is very appealing and eye-catching, the voice has a very good "radio host" quality to it (years of practice do make a difference, after all), and, while quite lengthy, videos are really informative.
If you have some sort of quarry with the formatting/videos/links/etc., or want me to add something, I will try to edit OP, if possible (I'm not too savvy when it comes to using editing/formatting tools).
Some channels with high production quality stand out even more, due to the fact that don't upload for a very prolonged period of time, but rather working on new content, making sure it's as superb as can be. JonTron is one of the most well-known people to do this, sometimes uploading once a year or two, but with a very high-quality video, and, in some cases, featuring some sort of well-known personality (at least in the internet/meme circles). Among those long hiatus, high quality content creators stands Stuart Brown, AKA Ahoy.
Ahoy (formerly XboxAhoy) is a channel whose history starts many years back, in 2010. He had his humble beginnings as a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer weapon guide creator:
You can really hear the nervousness in his voice. His voice stutters somewhat, making it very obvious that he's trying to read a script.
He continued with those guides for many years, doing one for each weapon from every single following installment of CoD. His videos had made such an impression on the community, that folks at Activision had hired him to create weapon guides for their (rather short-lived) social network Call of Duty Elite around 2011.
Along with doing weapon guides, he started branching out onto different topics. In 2011, he started a new short series titled "Time To Kill", describing various mechanics in CoD's multiplayer, be it how damage is calculated, how optics affect your precision, etc.
In 2013 Stuart started branching out even more, now to topics completely unrelated to CoD. 4 such videos were released in a succession - history of wielding weapons "akimbo-style"; short discussion of pros and cons of generation 7 consoles; general history of video games and 101 things to do in GTA 5. In 2014, he released "A Brief History of Gore", a video on dismemberment in video games and how the general public reacted it.
In 2014, his most currently well-known series began, titled "Iconic Arms". In "Iconic Arms", Stuart talks about various famous weapons, be it in video games or TV. A prototype of this series existed years prior - a video dedicated to FN FAL - with a replica of the weapon and various equipment and documents used during the video, giving it a drill instruction/military training/documentary video feel. "Iconic Arms" include videos on such iconic weapons as Desert Eagle, AK-47, M16, Minigun, even bow and arrow. While they do not have the same documentary feel as the prototype, they are still very well put together and informative to people who have some interest in weaponry.
By that point, he stopped making CoD guides and dedicated himself entirely to creating long, informative videos, usually on the topic of video games. Among these one could find videos about Wolfenstein: The New Order's weapon arsenal, a brief history of sea pirates in video games, the influence of the Cold War on video games, the video game crash of 1983, zombies, the failure of Amiga and a later follow-up video, taking a closer look into the topic, with more step by step dissemination.
At the moment of writing this wall of text, Ahoy's most watched video is his dive into Polybius - a mythical arcade game from the 80's. If your hobbies include video games, there is some chance you might've heard of it. Polybius was rumored to having been an FBI experiment, causing seizures, headaches and psychological changes in those who played it. In this hour-long video Stuart describes his step by step procedure of finding out the truth behind the myth, looking for facts within the sea of rumors and hearsay. The video fits more the "documentary" style of videos, similiar to FN FAL "Behind The Lines". It is a great piece of gaming journalistic work carried out within the last few years by a non-collective consciousness (by "collective consciousness" I mean sites like 4chan using their weaponised autism to reach their goal of making discoveries). If you're interested in something like this or just want some great background noise, then I recommend you check it out:
Also, Larry Bundy Jr. makes a cameo. If you're reading this, hey Harry!
Currently, his latest video is an "Iconic Arms" entry on MP40, and the next video will be on "the first video game". So we'll see where this leads us next, and I'm looking forward to it, even if it takes a long time.
Some of Ahoy's internet accounts:
Main YouTube channel
Second YouTube channel (lots of bonus footage, with Stuart answering questions; a few playthroughs, behind the scenes, etc.)
RetroAhoy (reviews of old games; currently has no videos, all videos were reuploaded onto the main channel)
DrinksAhoy (reviews of beverages, currently only has 2 videos, with more reviews on the second channel)
Twitter (mostly behind the scenes stuff, sometimes responds to a tweet or two, but usually dormant)
Patreon
Personal site (only contains email and a YouTube channel link)
Bandcamp
Email: stu@rtbrown.org
Hopefully, I caught someone's eye with this. Ahoy is one of those rare "quality over quantity" cases that pays off greatly. The visual style of his videos is very appealing and eye-catching, the voice has a very good "radio host" quality to it (years of practice do make a difference, after all), and, while quite lengthy, videos are really informative.
If you have some sort of quarry with the formatting/videos/links/etc., or want me to add something, I will try to edit OP, if possible (I'm not too savvy when it comes to using editing/formatting tools).
