Honest caveat up front: today's crop is heavy on Shorts and hashtag-spam uploads, so the pickings are slim. This one from USA welding is the only candidate that presents itself as a full, structured tutorial rather than a 30-second clip cut to trending audio.

Stick welding (SMAW) is the right place for most beginners to start — the equipment is cheap, the process tolerates dirty or outdoor conditions, and the fundamentals you learn carry over to every other welding process. A proper beginner's guide should cover the things newcomers most often get wrong: setting amperage to match rod diameter (a rough rule of thumb is 1 amp per 0.001" of electrode diameter), arc length control ("arc length equals rod diameter" is the classic mnemonic), travel speed and angle, and reading the puddle rather than chasing the arc.

The other thing a good intro covers is rod selection — when to reach for 6010 vs 6011 vs 6013 vs 7018, and why E7018 low-hydrogen rods need to be kept dry. If the video walks through even half of those topics with actual bead-on-plate demonstrations, it's worth the watch for anyone learning to strike an arc.