Bald and Bankrupt

Benjamin Rich built Bald and Bankrupt on the places most travel content ignores - the post-Soviet world, rural South Asia, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, villages along the North Korean border. There's no script and barely any planning: he shows up, spends roughly $15 a day on food and local transport, and lets whoever he meets carry the video. That improvisation is the whole appeal - 4 million subscribers come for the unfiltered version of places the mainstream news only visits in crisis footage.