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I generally trust Baumgartner's skill since he has a very consistent process and explains any time he diverges from it. It looks like he often has dozens of restorations in progress since there's a lot of wait time as well, which could explain how frequently he's able to upload. But he also for sure calibrates his videos toward a casual audience, especially with his calm voiceovers, classical music timelapses, etc.
It seems like there's at least some contingent of more engaged viewers though - in a recent video he posited some Questionable opinions about orientalism in 19th century European art, and rightly received pushback from a bunch of commenters.

Fascinating thank you. i always like to hear other ppl pick their brains about content mill type stuff, it makes me feel less like i'm going insane

This is weird to read because I watch Baumgartner sometimes and it sort of felt like... more of a TV show than a YouTuber? Like I never expect to make any kind of fandom connection or share strong opinions about some fluff late-night show like World's Biggest Container Ships. He's in that category for me so it's very weird to think of him as someone who's either loved or hated.

this reminds me a bit of how lockpickinglawyer memes are something you see in connection with almost any kind of lockpicking thing on the internet where there is a comment section

same as the damn "primitive construction!!" channels in terms of there's like one actually doing the thing and the rest are.... suspect :|

but yeah no art is new i've not seen That yet

there's two types of commenters ime: people talking to the author, and people who think the author doesn't get notifications and they're instead in a forum

This correlates well with events on the other site.

One of my least favourite forms of this is the "Oh good you've posted a new video! now NAME_OF_BIGGER_YOUTUBER_HERE can post a video plundering this one for source fodder!"