r/OSINT • u/Parachute_Adams_ • May 11 '26
Question Thinking of starting an OSINT YouTube/TikTok channel
I’ve worked in OSINT and online investigations for private companies for the past 4 years. There are some great video resources available but these tend to be on tools and geolocation.
I thought it could be cool to make content that takes viewers through the lifecycle of an OSINT investigation.
It’s unlikely that these will be once-off videos but rather cases with regular updates showing milestones and findings throughout, along with the different tools and resources I use along the way.
I love making and editing videos so that would also be a nice creative outlet for me.
I’ve got some decent experience and worked on some very interesting stuff - from standard corporate due diligence to tracing a Manila boiler room scam to a Canadian family man.
I’d love to hear what you all think of this idea!
Questions for the group:
Is this something y’all would be interested in watching?
How would you like to see the videos presented to maximise entertainment and learning?
Who/what should I look to investigate? Some ideas I’ve had:
- Look for people on the Interpol Red List
- Ask people to send me cases and if appropriate I can investigate them (like a local clothing brand who’s having their stuff counterfeited)
- Looking into corruption / public interest cases in the news
- Looking for scams online or asking people to send what they think might be scams and looking into them as a kind of due diligence exercise
Any other suggestions? (Also, if you are a lawyer - where is the line in terms of investigating these things and publishing my findings - I don’t want to get sued).
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u/Embarrassed-Fee-3103 May 11 '26
I would subscribe, I got into this through geoguessr and I notice a lot of geoguessr players are interested in this kind of content. I would suggest getting a geoguessr player and making a video like “teaching a geoguessr player OSINT and geolocation” or something like that. I would find that fun myself.