How to use Metal Detectors on You Tube?

A group of YouTubers with metal detectors and spades calling themselves LOST CIVILIZATION apparently consider themselves to be

an educational channel interested in showing some methods of detecting treasures using metal detectors. If you are interested in discovering treasures and how to use metal detectors, this channel will serve as a school to learn some basics in the field.

The methods depicted being used however by this group of self-taught "citizen archaeologists" are pretty questionable. what is so shocking are the number of comments underneath that reveal that many people on You Tube thinks this is the way that such sites should be treated. Here is an example of them disseminating bad technique:

Posted on You Tube by LOST CIVILIZATION Dec 3, 2023

They have quite a lot of subscribers. This video has had 960,565 views - nearly a million. No wonder public perceptions of archaeology are the mess they are.  Where are the archaobloggers? Where is archaeology's public outreach? Too busy patting "responsible metal detectorists" on the head. How many of this video's viewers know the difference (and why should they)? 

Hat tip to Dave Coward for the timely heads up.