So during COVID lockdowns I developed this guilty pleasure of watching YouTubers having miserable times, in the best case vanlife YouTubers.
I’m feeling the old itch, can you help me? Do you know any videos of people on travel channels having really, really bad times?
I prefer vanlife people, followed by boatlife people. But I’m open to different modes of transport. The more privileged the people and the more miserable their travels, the better.
Edit: so I will give you guys something at least, can’t find any of the random small stuff I watched years ago atm. The channel vagrant holiday maybe doesn’t quite fulfill the criteria, because the guy is doing everything consciously, but it’s a fantastic channel, and there definitely is discomfort:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphDhroSqrPWi6RbljtGPnl8xr0pmzyb_
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I assume you have heard of An idiot abroad?
It’s a comedy, I think a lot of the misery is acted, but fun nonetheless.
Yes, that might have been an early start into the genre for me! I fiercely love Karl Pilkington 🥲
That guy is such a fecker, intentionally going around being a tosser wherever he goes and trying to give us all a basld name. God, I can’t stand that pillock :-(
He’s absolutely hilarious. If you take Karl Pilkington seriously, it’s you that’s the problem.
Btw, Borat is a character.
Not so much sailing, but being miserable living on a boat while refitting it on a shoe string budget and no skills. I think this is a suitable entry point to their channel - Wildlings sailing.
Funny, I ended up going down a similar rabbit hole with minor animal attacks on hikers. I imagine there’s a mental interstice between the two, but animal attacks/stalking certainly left them less enthusiastic for the remainder of their vids.
You have won my heart with “minor animal attacks on hikers”. Hello, friend!
Wild dogs and angry magpies are the only ones that usually seemed to be a consequence of misfortune, rather than fucking around and finding out. YouTube removes most that involve actual bloodshed so “animal attack hiking” offers plenty to chew on.
Yeah, the only one of these I’ve seen has been removed from the net. It was a YouTube channel called pogobat, namely a time period called “Dan Brown 3.0”. He gave his life to the YouTube comment section and you could watch in real time as it ripped his life to shreds.
Schadenfreude is a genre, I guess
For me it’s a mixture of schadenfreude, having people receive their comeuppance (as another here said) and also sympathy. I have had some bad travel experiences, and just sort of go “Oooh boy, that’s bad, come on, you got this! … but you also deserved this!”, as I might have deserved some of mine.
Layered like tiramisu
