I should finally post about post 10
There's a guy on YouTube called "Post 10" who unclogs culverts and drains.
You may have seen him before. If you followed me on Cohost you may have seen him when I started posting compilations of his YouTube video titles, which are often bizarre and accidentally (?) sexual.
Post 10 himself is an extremely sincere guy, so focused on culverts and water engineering and the simple joys of a good unclogging that his affect goes hard weird and then circles all the way back around to normie. He talks about OSHA a lot. He drives around in his truck with the camera pointing forward out the windshield while he talks about beavers and various state DOTs. He discusses his outfits - often thrifted, or found on the side of the road - in an embarrassed, vulnerable way. He tries to do the "youtube thumbail" thing, but his titles and thumbnails are so off-kilter and enthusiastic in his weird sincere way that they're not really youtube-thumbnailcore at all.
His videos go back and forth between grippingly ill-advised unclogging stunts and dull background noise. Sometimes, a difficult unclogging will take him nearly an hour of hard labor where nothing happens, and then the last five minutes will involve him finally opening the culvert and, perhaps, nearly injuring himself. This is "satisfying video content" at its most basic: the videos are satisfying because they are mostly boring, and then after much humble work the guy completes his boring task, makes an argument onscreen about why his labor was socially valuable, demonstrates that no real harm was done, and then he logs off.
They're also clearly satisfying for the same reason children like to watch backhoes, or like to dig in the back yard, or create sandcastles or waterworks at the beach: there is something extremely primally meaty and satisfying to the human brain about erosion and the physics of water, and something even more satisfying about watching someone manipulate those things. Watching him do this stuff sometimes feels to me like watching someone smooth all the walls of a mine tunnel in Minecraft. You're watching a guy make the environment More Regular. I think some people are just extremely susceptible to this kind of mental stimulation. We're lucky that there isn't a great way to exploit this fascination for evil, haha.
But he does more dangerous stuff as well. He knows about OSHA, but he doesn't seem to know much about best-practice wilderness survival. He sometimes camps inside culverts during the winter using elaborate and dangerous camping setups suspended over moving water. You can find people online ranting about how he's going to fucking kill himself with some of these things - in particular when he camps in a culvert using fire or gas fuel to heat or cook in the space.
He also owns a pet leech, which he feeds using his own blood.
Wow the first time I did this the leach was Tiny so there was very little blood thinner and very little bleeding it stopped in just a few hours but this time the leech is like four times as big and there was a lot of blood thinner I didn't stop bleeding for 30 hours next time I'm going to be a lot more prepared. I talked to a doctor about this and they make special bandages for people on blood thinner and clotting powder that will create a scab immediately as it has a reaction with the blood. This was messy but I estimate I only lost about a half a cup of blood which is not even close to dangerous. Thanks for watching
Anyway. This guy is a character. The cool thing about humans is that a lot of us are like this, actually, and the cool thing about the internet is that you get to experience their shenanigans without the emotional suffering or risk of actually knowing them personally or being related to them. I sincerely hope this guy dies of being old!