We get bombarded by a lot of shit all year round, from governments, media sites to the dying old media. Under this constant barrage of sewage, it's good to have things you can escape to rather than just sit there and absorbing it all like a Liberal arts student.
So whether it's working out, taking walks in a park, gaming, anime or sneaking your trash into that annoying neighbour you have, it's the little things in life.
And although we can hate the management at the top, Youtube is still the number one in terms of content creators and podcasts so what have you enjoyed on that side that stop you looking at bulldozer sales.
I've every week enjoyed Solus Astorias comic dubs, Templin Institute when they are active (off for holidays), Count Dankula and when they drop the Kane Pixels backrooms series showing a teenager has more talent than 99% of Hollywood and media giants. And let's not forget the foriegn market though that language barrier will only last so long to keep out the leftists..
For Anime, it has been SpyXFamily for more lighthearted stuff, and Eight-Six:86 for more heavy themes.
For general Youtube channels, it has been a lot Black Pants Legion (mostly Tex, naturally), TheRussianBadger, Max0r, and GrayStillPlays, all of which are just straight gaming channels. With the last three focusing mostly on more meme-y styles. I also second OP on Solus Astoria and Templin Institute. And yes, I also watch V-Tubers because I am nothing if not a weeb.
For more serious non-political topics on Youtube, I enjoy Drachinifel, who goes over stats and designs of Age of Sail up through World Wars warships, but much like The Chieftain for tanks (which I also watch him), he takes a more serious look at the ships and their abilities, which leads to him actually looking at their abilities instead of just stats (ie: He constantly dunks on the Bismarck-class for being a hilarious inefficient design that in some cases had worse fighting ability than ships that weight 5,000-10,000 tons less than it and were years older in design).
On the gaming front, I have had absolutely no shortage of games, with my top ones for the year being 40k: Darktide, Victoria 3, Starship Troopers: Terran Command, and Elden Ring. Here on New Years Day, I was actually going to be making a thread of what people are looking forward to for upcoming, because my list is way too long (which is why I dont believe anyone who says Gaming is dying).
The last unusual but fun thing is that, with having moved into my own house now, I live on the side of town that has the trailhead for a biking path around the city, so I started riding that from the Spring to the Fall just to start working out. By the time I was at shutting it down because it was getting too cold, I was able to get through the whole 30-ish mile trail in about 40 minutes. So now I have a goal to beat come next summer.
I watched a YouTube review of the Starship Trooper game (mostly it inspired me to go watch the movie again--awesome movie). Looked fun.