Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mLX2kKq7ZA
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.
Florida condo owners are always desperate. that’s how they got sold condos in Florida in the first place.
the key is to keep them contained inside the little boxes they bought and then shelling their position with artillery until you can no longer hear the sound of pornography/Benny Hinn Ministries playing over their Bluetooth speakers.
There’s an interesting couple who tours the US, going to the poorest places in the country. The main guy talks about local history, shows photos from when the towns were thriving, and visits landmarks. I didn’t get any bad vibes from him, he was pretty matter-of-fact when discussing these towns. He always points out they were reliant on specific industries, which were outsourced or moved to another state.
The videos are just him driving around in his truck, stopping to show interesting things like experimental architecture or abandoned factories. I think he’s heard gunshots in only one video. People are pretty friendly when he interviews them. He avoids doing anything at night, though.
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.
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.
I remember Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t being a good channel. A person who got really into botany in jail, wandering around showcasing local flora and often discussing the social collapse and poor urban planning in evidence.
still good. better when he sticks to botany and shouting at lizards IMO but it’s good stuff.
He’s the left’s version of this guy and does the best version of the genre as a result. There’s a proper sense of
dérive to his videos while the right-wing Floridian with sunglasses never goes into the urbanism or how that creates the botany.
I’ve been going on vacation to Florida since I was a kid and never really cared for it until I went to Sanibel Island and loved it. The flora and fauna there are simply amazing. Not sure how it’s faring since a hurricane a few years ago took out the bridge connecting it to the mainland, but the nature itself is probably doing just fine.
It’s still fucked sadly.
I’m used to the mountains where everything struggles to survive in a low-density environment. Florida’s swamps feel so alive compared to that. Half a dozen trophic levels stacked on top of each other in the same small space, each tree its own complex ecosystem. Then you get down to the lower Everglades and I’ve never seen anything like it, a literal sea of grass.
Once you get away from the strip malls and beach towns there is a lot of beautiful nature to see.
Damn this hits like crack.
I love manatees. Probably one of the coolest things in Florida.
Kayaking with them at the mouth of the Everglades was a remarkable experience.
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