Help me out

You can skip some filler episodes.

I barely know who he is. A popular, rich influencer. That’s the beginning and end of my knowledge.

he got famous by giving away money, now he's giving away money with extra steps (those steps being various degrees of having to "earn it" through challenges) so he's basically became a game show host
- I remember someone awhile ago described him as a rich guy giving away life changing amounts of money so long as the pesents dance for him.
- I didn't realize it before your comment. You are totally right. It's effectively a game show now.
- That's a much better description than some other cynical comments.
Same. I somehow sidestepped that entire region of YouTube.
He's zoomer game show host.
All you really need to know.
I saw some videos that criticized him. AMA
- Is he actually a literal beast?

If you leave autoplay on it will probably be the very next video.

If I got a completely new account, watch the first video showed up on the home page and leave the Autoplay on, isn't that just the algorithm jerking itself off?
- No different from how it normally works, imo. The YT algorithm is shit and it only suggests the same content over and over, sometimes figuratively as it shares content which approximates successful content or sometimes literally because it will just share the same stuff on repeat.
  If you disable all watch history for your account they will simply refuse to recommend anything on the home page, so you'll have to use the search bar and maybe start with the first video ever published like OP did with the elephants and the YT founder.
Literally what happens to Ludwig

Well, I didn't have to look far on my end.

When is the best place to start I don't want to miss any significant arcs

January of 2006. It takes a while to get going, but 2012-16 is a wild ride.
- Still quicker than starting one piece

You are the kind of guy who watches Doctor Who and starts with An Unearthly Child

No better place to start, though you might miss some plot points thanks to the episodes BBC taped over.
- I also started there in parallel to watching the new stuff and the First Doctor isn't that enjoyable. The second is cool but the episodes aren't, the third has good stories he himself isn't that cool, the fourth is perfection and that's how far I got.
  You understand many things better when watching the old stuff and you see the series grow which is quite cool.
- ehh, as someone with adhd i didn't get far into old who. I understand the constraints of the era and the budget but without something to stimulate my brain (like sound design, music, various camera shots, eccentric acting) i'd just rather read a book about it so i can imagine those myself
- It was a fire and the missing episodes have been recovered from private collections