[fho]

That channel is great, but as with many I suspect that there is some sort of "shadow industry" that creates great YouTube channels "from scratch".

If you compare inheritance machining to e.g. this old tony, the later has years of growth with the videos getting better of the years as he refines his formula. In comparison inheritance machining just popped up with perfect content, script and video editing.

There are other examples of channels that just popped up that start at a very high quality level that I suspect some third party involved in that process.

[greedo]

I'm not quite as cynical about Inheritance Machining. Yes the quality is superb, both in video production values and subjects, but I think we're at a point where it's not that hard to create quality visual content if one cares to. High quality cameras are relatively cheap, editing software is excellent, and in many ways, a new YouTuber is standing on the shoulders of giants who created the path. Look at Marques Brownlee, arguably one of the best YTubers. He had to define what a review YTuber looks like. The next big YTuber will simply follow the same paradigm.

Compare this to someone ten years ago who was trying to do this with Super-VHS etc, with software that was very expensive, and forget about doing anything multi-camera. So the tools are just far more accessible.

Then combine that with a creator who has seen what works and doesn't work on YT/Insta. You need a good thumbnail, you need less talking heads etc etc.

And I think that Brandon at Inheritance Machining is very detail oriented, as you would expect from someone doing machining. This probably translates well into producing a quality video.

[mschuster91]

Or NileRed. The guy isolated fucking bromine in a barely ventilated and cramped with clutter garage when he started, and now he's running his own legit laboratory together with (IIRC) his brother and a friend who's running the camera.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfIZqXaR0g