The Girl Internet and the Boy Internet

If you're into YouTube mini-docs... Tara Mooknee, Alice Cappelle, Lily Alexandre, Zoe Bee, and DamiLee are some of my favorites.

Philosophy Tube (Discussions of philosophy and politics)

Verilybitchie (Discussions of film and media from a feminist perspective)

Contrapoints (Started as a channel to discuss the alt-right online bubble and subsequently transformed to also talk a lot about gender and sex)

Sabine Hossenfelder (Science news channel and in-depth view on different stem topics)

Answer in Progress (Exploring random topics with a strong focus on facing procrastination, academic struggles, etc along the way)

ETA: Mexie (Talking about environmentalism, anticapitalism, liberation and veganism)

I have so many! Mostly food, some others though.

Carla Lalli Music is an entertaining chef and recipe developer who shares recipes from her books. She takes inspiration from all sorts of cuisines and blends them into delicious, adaptable recipes. Crispy gingery ground beef like lime and herbs earned an instant spot in my regular meal rotation.

Claire Saffitz and her team bring mostly baking videos with occasion forays into cocktails, dinners, and lifestyle. Expect lots of cat cameos and fun editing easter eggs.

NYT Cooking has Sohla and Ham El-Waylly, a wildly creative culinary power couple who can make a multi course tasting menu out of anything. Sohla has other solo stuff scattered around, she opts to do work with other channels rather than host her own though.

Minutefood is food science, and even if you think your food science knowledge is good, you’ll still probably learn something from Kate.

Simone Giertz and Laura Kampf are both makers (who are friends and often collaborate).

Jenny Nicholson is super knowledgeable on theme parks and online culture in general and is why I have watched four hours about a theme park I'll never visit, very funny and interesting. https://youtube.com/@JennyNicholson

Polygon have Simone who is hilarious and now Xtina who just did their first forty minute dive into vtuber culture which I'm looking forward to watching. There's back catalogue of Jenna Stoeber here which is worth watching even though the company were stupid and got rid of her. (the three other people in the video team are great too) https://youtube.com/@polygon

Jenna Stoeber has been building up her new channel, there's been some anime, horror and gaming videos so far, she's also streaming if I remember right. Usually an instant watch for me https://youtube.com/@the_jenna

It's WoW and she's pretty well known if you're in the community but Hazelnuttygames is very chill and covers some of her life stuff as well as the game at the end of her videos. https://youtube.com/@Hazelnuttygames

(edit) Bonus round: https://youtube.com/@alispagnola https://youtube.com/@HowtoADHD

https://youtube.com/@lily_lxndr Her internet sludge video was very cool https://youtu.be/OuaDbu_VBLY

Itchy Boots is usually good and interesting :-)

I can highly recommend all of these creators. Each makes entertaining and informative content frequently.

STEM communicators:

https://youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

https://youtube.com/@upandatom

https://youtube.com/@DrBecky

Maker:

https://youtube.com/@xylafoxlin

Dramatic Melee communicator:

https://youtube.com/@JillBearup

Yes me too! Thanks for asking this I'm watching the suggestions :)

Emily Hopkins is fun if you're into music and, more specifically, running a harp through guitar peddles. She comes up with some really unexpected sounds.

I would hope we don't slot neatly into boy or girl internet (altho some of our communities may be more boy/girl), but I can understand the frustration. Do you have any friends who are deeply into girl internet who can help you understand how they interact with the internet? Seeing what sites they go to and how they navigate info on those sites can help you to find yourself spending more time on girl internet than boy internet. I think platforms are a huge part of it, but you do need to train these algorithms to send you the content you like on these platforms (especially if we're talking something like tiktok or ig reels).

A lot of what's discussed in this article is about platform saturation and how people were interacting with various platforms. For example, even within the larger platforms like Reddit which are primarily a slice of boy internet, there's absolutely girl internet spaces within it - such as fashion and makeup subs (the same is true in the other direction as well- boy spaces on girl internet, a reflection of the messiness of these kinds of categorization). So if you want to stick to the platforms you're already using, you might want to ask questions on the platform to find the same answers as above if you don't have friends who are deeply in girl internet.

Me too. I felt really puzzled by this article.

I think the weird thing in this article was that they framed it to be a universally girl or boy internet. Probably an effect of the cishet privilege to always be the default option. And I can imagine that 'normal' people actually do get a more of an default experience divided into binary genders. A bit like people who just use whatever OS that is on their computer (Windows or macOS) and don't use an adblocker...