#oneaday Day 1109: A channel I like that you should watch

In the interests of sharing the love a bit, I thought I'd tell you a bit about a YouTube channel that I've come to like very much indeed, and which I would encourage you to go and subscribe to — and perhaps consider supporting on Patreon, too. I think I'm going to sign up for his Patreon after I'm done writing this, as I've been really enjoying his work just recently.

I speak of RoseTintedSpectrum, a channel that's been around for a couple of years at this point, and which has been improving pretty much constantly ever since that first Dizzy video he did.

As the name suggests, RTS' channel primarily focuses on the classic home computer, Sinclair's ZX Spectrum. But the nice thing is that he doesn't let this restrict him from talking about other things if he feels like it. Sometimes he talks about things that aren't even related to retro gaming at all — he did a particularly good video a while back about anxiety, depression and his relationship with alcohol that is very much worth a watch. But he always does so with plenty of style, good humour and wit.

His videos aren't necessarily what I'd call "reviews" as such, nor are they "documentaries" in the traditional sense — but they're not gameplay videos either. Instead, they're something that is very distinctive to RTS, featuring a combination of good, representative gameplay footage, amusing use of stock photographs and footage (Internet Historian-style) and excellent use of visual aids and graphics when necessary. By the time you've finished watching a vid on a particular game, you've got a good idea about how it works, whether RTS liked it — and if you might like it, too, even if he didn't. This is really nice.

The thing I think I like the most about RTS is that although his vids have plenty of silly jokes and humour in them, he resists going down the "OMG YOUTUBER!!" route that so many people seem to take these days. You won't find crash zooms, fisheye lenses, pitch shifting and bits of text just saying what the people speaking are saying in RTS' videos; they're well-crafted, thoroughly watchable and genuinely amusing. So you should go and watch them too.

Anyway, enough of that. I said I'm going to support him on Patreon, so I'm off to go put my money where my mouth is. I hope you enjoy his stuff as much as I do! Subscribe here.